Category Archives: Weekly Articles
January 19 – February 2, 2015
LEASKS DEPARTMENT STORE AT PACIFIC AND CHURCH STREETS January 1952 at 11:10 am. This is now Urban Outfitters and Regal Cinema 9. This grand and traditional Department store went through many iterations from 1892 when Samuel Leask from Scotland opened … Continue reading
January 12 – 18, 2015
OUR “MOVABLE” EAST SIDE POST OFFICE. How soon we forget that our East Side postoffice never was where it used to be!!!! Here we can see the Official Dedication on February 3 1951 on Seabright Avenue just about where Hart’s … Continue reading
December 15 – 28, 2014
THE WAX LORD’S LAST SUPPER. That’s probably Katherine Sturbergh and her daughter also named Katherine brushing up himself’s hair on this 3/4 size wax sculpture they made in 1950. We can only see this creation the week before Easter at … Continue reading
December 1 – 14
HOLIDAY SPIRIT DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ @2 p.m. DECEMBER 1946. The great and grand original St. George Hotel. Then nest door there’s one of our early “not shop local” businesses Montgomery Ward’s Catalog Store. Down the street we had Woolworth’s, J.C. … Continue reading
November 25 – December 2, 2014
ORIGINAL STICKY WICKET, Oct. 25, 1953. This car accident happened on Mar Vista Drive in Aptos, near those four radio station antennas and the Aptos Grange. The Sticky Wicket was our local coffee house of the late 50’s and early … Continue reading
November 13 – 26, 2014
The Always Lovely Environmentally Sensitive Davenport Cement Plant in 1967. Once it was the Portland Cement Company Plant (1906), and a few other owners ran it for decedes,then Cemex, a Mexico Corporation operated it (2005) and shut it down in … Continue reading
November 7 – 12, 2014
PACIFIC AVENUE NEAR COOPER STREET 1880. That’s our Town Clock on top of the Odd Fellows Hall (its original location). The building on the far left is our County Courthouse 1866-1894. All of this before the Cooper House was built. … Continue reading
October 27 – November 3, 2014
POLITICS IN SANTA CRUZ, April 26, 1962. Yes, that’s the estimable Eleanor Roosevelt shaking hands with our then Mayor Bert B. Snyder jr., while Erva Bowen looks on. They are all at the Deer Park Restaurant out in Aptos. Erva … Continue reading
October 22 – 28, 2014
EARTHQUAKES?? HOW ABOUT FIRES???? This is Pacific Avenue and Cooper Street on April 14, 1894 and because the water happened to be turned off that day, the fire consumed almost the entire block between Pacific and Front Street. That funny … Continue reading
October 7 – 20, 2014
THE FAMED AND DOOMED SWANTON HOUSE. You could drive your horse and buggy right off the “street” and inside through the center door. This great structure stood about where our present post office is today. Albion Swanton built it and, … Continue reading
