Category Archives: Weekly Articles

PACIFIC AVENUE AUGUST 29, 1957. That’s Pacific and Walnut streets. Now we have The Gap, Synergy, and World Market Bazaar plus new light poles. It’s all about progress. photo credit: Covello & Covello Historical photo collection. DATELINE July 7, 2014 … Continue reading →

EARLY, EARLY PHOTO OF DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ, ca. 1860. This is one of a rare and few photos of very early Santa Cruz. It shows the intersection of what we now know as Pacific, Front and Mission Streets. Back then … Continue reading →

COMMERCIAL FISHING ON THE SANTA CRUZ WHARF 1906. That’s Steve Ghio with the cap holding a 50 pound deep sea bass. And that is Steve Canepa holding the fish basket. The structures on the right are davits or hoists that … Continue reading →

Good old Greyhound bus Depot by the railroad tracks in 1964. photo credit: Covello & Covello Historical photo collection. DATELINE June 2, 2014 TWO WEEK VACATION ISSUE I’m taking a two week vacation and visiting my sister and her large … Continue reading →

SANTA CRUZ BEACH FRONTAGE 1960. Lots for sale, and it’s hard to believe that development hadn’t hit harder along West Cliff Drive by 1960. This is long before The Dream Inn and the Sea and Sand Inn and what seems … Continue reading →

SEA BEACH HOTEL. This gorgeous hotel was built in the 1870’s and had 170 rooms. Rumor has it that Presidents Benjamin Harrison and Teddy Roosevelt stayed there. It burned down and up on June 12, 1912. photo credit: Covello & … Continue reading →

ABUILDING THE DREAM INN. This architectural disaster happened before local environmental groups were organized. It was 1962. That’s the Lynch House standing alone on the right, built in 1877. This was also before the beach was polluted. photo credit: Covello … Continue reading →

Santa Cruz Beach and Wharves circa 1888. This shows two of our very early wharves. It’s near where the Sea Beach Hotel was built later. photo credit: Covello & Covello Historical photo collection. DATELINE April 28, 2014 SANTA CRUZ BUSINESS … Continue reading →

OUR HISTORICAL SANTA CRUZ FISHERMAN’S WHARF. Taken in 1961, this photo clearly shows the unique bend in the ocean end. That bend that faces almost exactly into the oncoming wave action is what has saved our wharf over all these … Continue reading →

THE SANTA CRUZ RAILROAD WHARF & THE FISHERMAN’S WHARF. This dates about 1914 the WW1 year. photo credit: Covello & Covello Historical photo collection. FOUNTAINS OF CHAIN. I found this science mystery in the N.Y. Times. GREAT AD. Wait for … Continue reading →