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All Aboard, Santa Cruz!
Hop on for a ride to the 1970’s and 1900’s, from the forests of Felton, down to the Boardwalk. Oakland, Calif. PM 28 SEP 1970 Santa Cruz, Calif. SEP 2 3:30 PM 1909
Santa Cruz: Before They Invented #TBT… Or Cars
This week’s postcard is from 1902 , and it is one of my favorite postcards even though I have no idea what it says. 115 years ago this postcard was purchased, scribbled on and dropped in a mailbox somewhere in Santa Cruz. Ever since this card was mailed it has settled, unnoticed, quietly crawling through […]
A 1906 Staycation Complete With Bathing Boots
Don’t Forget to Wear Your Knee High Boots! Sent From Santa Cruz, to Santa Cruz 111 years ago today! These ladies really missed their friend while she was out on her Santa Cruz staycation at the Big Creek Inn. ha! ha! Don’t you think the likeness very great? Dessie. Mayme. Fay. Dear Gertrude, We miss […]
Memories of Summer in Santa Cruz
Postcards from Santa Cruz’s past. From the sounds of Seal Rock, to the speed of 630 horsepower racing from the Santa Cruz Pleasure Pier, Santa Cruz has always had great Augusts. These three cards capture tiny glimpses from summers long past, all the way back to 1906. Santa Cruz, Calif. Aug 17 6 – PM […]
Five Summer Adventures in Santa Cruz
Summer in Santa Cruz What is Summer like in Santa Cruz? Has it always been this hot, have we always had traffic, tourists, fog and waves? Starting in 1903 these five postcard snapshots from Santa Cruz history take you back to see a Santa Cruz not so different from today. With bathers in the surf, […]
Shady in Santa Cruz
Someone was playing favorites when they sent this Santa Cruz postcard. There are so many things going on in this postcard. From the Sombrero on the right, the wonky hand-painted and foggy horizon on the left and Goldilocks prancing in the surf while her jilted friends stand on the beach wondering why they even came […]
Dreadfully Sunburned in Capitola
This Post Card was sent from Capitola all the way to Los Gatos 109 years ago today! Since this is the final year of the Capitola Begonia Festival, this postcard is particularly poetic. And although this card was sent about 34 years before the first begonia festival, I like to think that I can spot […]
All Aboard the Seabright Trolley!
The front of this card shows a trolley pulling up to the Seabright Hotel and Station. The Seabright Station was used and advertised as an Aquatic Getaway to folks in San Francisco and San Jose, mostly between the 1890’s and 1910’s. Really, not an uncommon story in the history of Santa Cruz’s neighborhoods. Santa Cruz, […]
Writing Home: $100,000 Post Office and a Tub Bath
The Santa Cruz Post Office in 1914 At the corners of Pacific Ave, Mission Street and some other street. This gem of a card was sent from Santa Cruz to Alameda in 1914, and the sender was excited enough about the Santa Cruz post office and its $100,000.00 price tag to write home, with the […]
