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What is summer in Santa Cruz without a pioneer potluck picnic? Thanks to the Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association, there is one – and it has been happening every year on the last Saturday in July for more than eighty years. The Soquel Pioneer and Historical Association is an organization of volunteers who preserve the […]
Walk inside the wooden walls of the Capitola Historical Museum and you’ll step back in time with an archive of the oldest seaside resort on the West Coast. Since its establishment in 1966, the museum has been a local treasure trove of artifacts and information documenting the art and history of Capitola’s busy beach area. […]
This beautiful Santa Cruz map from 1935 was a found at the recent Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Library Book Sale. The map was tucked away inside a non-descript looking Soil Survey. This certainly made my day at the book sale! Soil Survey The Santa Cruz Area California By R. EARL STORIE, in Charge, […]
Vintage Business Card E. W. TURNER PAINTING CONTRACTOR PRICES RIGHT – TRY ME Check out this 1950s vintage business card. I particularly love the old Santa Cruz phone number GArden 3-3701. Since those two bold letters were just easier-to-understand placeholders for numbers (G=4 and A=2 on your phone keypad) that number today would be (831) […]
What sets the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History apart from others of a similar nature is the opportunity visitors have to interact with every dimension the museum has to offer. The MAH’s installations, tours, educational programs, and community events are specifically designed to invite guests to explore, engage, and interpret creative expression and […]
This Post Card was sent from the Big Trees Redwood Grove via Santa Cruz to Natick Massachusetts 110 years ago this month. SANTA CRUZ, CAL. APR 3 12:30 PM 1906 And it only took 4 days to arrive! NATICK APR 7 2-PM 19 06 MASS BRITTON & REY, LITHOGRAPHERS, SAN FRANCISCO 687. General Fremont, Wife […]
There was a time when the San Lorenzo teemed with life. Travelers came to Santa Cruz from all around to vacation and fish along the river. This past June, Timerie Gordon and Charlie Prograce of Nielsen Studios Architecture and Design paid tribute to that chapter of Santa Cruz’s history by installing six fishing poles on […]
I see that girl breaking the 4th wall, staring at the camera! She really wanted to be mailed around the world!
This Post Card was sent from Santa Cruz to Salt Lake City 106 years ago this month.SANTA CRUZ CAL JUL 28 5 – PM 1909 510 – Fisherman’s Wharf, SANTA CRUZ, California.
This Post Card was sent from Seabright to San Jose 113 years ago this month.SANTA CRUZ JUN 13 8 AM SEABRIGHT S 1912 798 – Sea Beach Hotel.SantaCruz,California.
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