Monthly Archives: July 2017

Highlights this week: Betsy Herbert resigns from Sempervirens Funds leaving serious questions… Dream On at Cliff and Bay doubts..UC Campus’ new clear cut ??…Logos Wine Collection…No 3D at Regal 9… Greensite on Wharf Master Plan updates..Krohn about 5-2 council vote … Continue reading →

BEACH BOARDWALK AND TRAIN MEETS BUS. This happened back on August 16, 1954. I never noticed before but permanently painted on the side of both buses it says “Oakland- Santa Cruz Beach”.                                                          photo credit: Covello & Covello Historical photo … Continue reading →

LIGHTHOUSE POINT 1961. Exactly 6 years before the Chuck Abbott Lighthouse went up. And years before all the Westside development took over.                                                    photo credit: Covello & Covello Historical photo collection. Additional information always welcome: email bratton@cruzio.com DATELINE July 10, … Continue reading →

SANTA CRUZ’S VENETIAN WATER CARNIVAL (1895-1927). Every one of those years, they’d dam up the San Lorenzo River and stage these great spectacles.  It became a very big deal and according to Sheila O’Hare’s Santa Cruz book even Ambrose Bierce … Continue reading →