Monthly Archives: September 2011
September 27 – October 3, 2011
McHugh Bianchi Building circa 1972, corner of Pacific and Mission streets. This grand old building set Santa Cruz aside as a City that cared and greeted everyone way back as the Hotaling Building then as Hinkle’s Cash Store. We fought … Continue reading
September 20 – 26, 2011
DREAM INN SITE 1960. In the lower right you can just see the Municipal Wharf and the Ideal Fish Restaurant. The large dark spot in the center is where the Dream Inn was built. You can also see the original … Continue reading
September 12 – 18, 2011
FISHING ON THE SAN LORENZO, December 8, 1940. This was back in the day before the Santa Cruz City Council’s let pollutants and developers kill off our fish. This was the opening of the steelhead season, by Murray Street on … Continue reading
September 5 – 11, 2011
PACIFIC AVENUE DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ AUGUST 29, 1957. Reeve’s Shoes is now The Gap and F.W. Woolworth Co. is now Graphfix and the World Market. Is this progress? Nope, all in all we just swapped some chain stores over the … Continue reading
August 30 – September 5, 2011
THE HIHN MANSION. The “only full Italian Villa style residence ever built in Santa Cruz” (Chase.” Santa Cruz Architecture”) The 1872 residence of Frederick Augustus Hihn,. Designed by Charles A. Davis. It’s on the site of our present City Hall … Continue reading
