Category Archives: Weekly Articles

LIBERACE’S BROTHER GEORGE AT SANTA’S VILLAGE. May 9, 1959.  Not a genuine holiday photo but neither was Santa’s Village very genuine. That’s Hocus Pocus passing as Santa. Hocus was a local magician and showman with one million friends.                                                     photo … Continue reading →

PACIFIC AND COOPER STREETS. 7:50 am WINTER 1957. That’s of course the Cooper House on the right and Leask’s Department Store on the far left.  Also on the right had side as we’re looking at it….Santa Cruz County Bank, Montgomery … Continue reading →

SNOW ON PACIFIC AVENUE 1957. 7:46 am. A long time tradition of printing snow and Christmas scene photos this month. As you can almost see this is Church street and Pacific Avenue. It’s about in front of the Regal’s Cinema … Continue reading →

SANTA CRUZ WHARF AND RAILROAD WHARF 1913. The railroad wharf shown here was gone by 1922. Wharves were a necessity back then for shipping and receiving goods and products by sea. It’s all part of our rich Santa Cruz History … Continue reading →

SANTA CRUZ MUNICIPAL WHARF. Taken about 1910, this great photo shows just how much our wharf was used and needed by our early Italian residents. It’s only part of the wharf’s history that would be erased forever if our City … Continue reading →

TIM EAGAN’S PROFOUND STATEMENT. Tim Eagan has been drawing cartoons for over 30 years. His Deep Cover cartoon SUCH AS THIS ONE  (see above) have ripped our politics apart since 1994. This “Slinkin’ Monument” (my title) is one of his … Continue reading →

A PRESIDENT VISITS SANTA CRUZ!!! Teddy Roosevelt came here on May 11, 1903. He  gave a speech on Pacific Avenue and went up to Big Trees to declare it our first California State Park. This is about where The Regal … Continue reading →

ALMOST WORLD FAMOUS “PORNOGRAPHIC” STATUE ON HIP POCKET BOOKSTORE. The Hip Pocket Bookstore preceeded Bookshop Santa Cruz and was in about the same location as Bookshop is now. This statue by Ron Boise was erected September 10, 1964. There are … Continue reading →

MAIN STREET (now Pacific Avenue) and the intersection of Mission and Willow Streets. Circa 1880. Pacific Avenue now goes right up north through those buildings behind the trolley car. Nowadays on the left side we have Bank of The West, … Continue reading →

PRO VIET NAM VIGIL SANTA CRUZ POST OFFICE November 27, 1965. Note the poster messages, “Quarantine those Pacifists!!! They all got yellow fever!!” and others state an appeal for Peace in Viet Nam. The tee-shirted gut on the left is … Continue reading →