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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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
A quick peek across 80 or so years of Santa Cruz history via short and fun postcards. Santa Cruz Casino, Santa Cruz, Cal. SANTA CRUZ CAL JAN 23 12 30 PM 1901 Bro, Happy New Year SANTA CRUZ CAL JAN 2 4 – PM 1909 WEST SPRINGFIELD, PA REC’D. JAN 7 8 AM 1909 A […]
Christmas and the holidays are a time to be with family and showing a connection to those you love at the darkest time of the year. For those who can’t spend the holidays at home with us, we have a long tradition of sending cards, probably as long as the post office itself, For those […]
Various readers may know mathematician/UCSC professor Ralph Abraham through his pioneering efforts in chaos theory, his association with the late Terence McKenna and/or his comments in the movie DMT: The Spirit Molecule. Ralph’s latest book, “Hip Santa Cruz,” examines the roots of local hip culture—a subject that he also explores at length on his website, […]
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