Summer Fun, 2005
A week of camping and playing in Santa Cruz.
Boardwalk and Playland Memories, 2012
I finally got down to the Boardwalk this past July and re-visited two of my family’s treasures of the past. My relatives owned Playland in San Francisco and seeing Laffing
The Singer, 1960
Almost every summer my family made the trip from San Jose for a mini-vacation in Santa Cruz. Often we would stay at the Casa del Rey or one of the
Great Times, 1968
My earliest recollection of the Boardwalk is the wooden slide, the Merry-go-Round and the recording booth. On a cold rainy morning in 1968, my mother and I recorded “Rain Drops
Amazing!, 1968
My brother and I would go to Santa Cruz every summer and stay for a week with our parents, we were 5 or younger at the time. I can remember
Fun House Memories, 1947
Sixty years later, I can still vividly remember my friend Jim Brick and I being dropped off by one of our moms at the entrance to the Boardwalk. We raced
Marionette Show, 1970
I started coming to Santa Cruz with my parents when I was about 5. My folks were friends with Jack and Sandy who ran the puppet show right next to
Riding the Giant Dipper, 1969
My family used to go to the boardwalk every summer and spend the day. We lived a couple hours away. We would get there early and go on rides all
Santa Cruz, 1959
I was 10 years old in 1959 and living in Hayward. I was looking forward to our summer visit to Santa Cruz. I had saved up $5 for the rides
The Giant Dipper, 1984
I was 14 and had never ridden the Giant Dipper. I was nervous, but was going to go through with it. That was the best choice I had made in
Easter at the Boardwalk, 1980
The Saturday before Easter the Boardwalk would hold a huge Easter Egg Hunt in the sand by the bandstand. The tractors would bury thousands of plastic eggs in roped-off areas
Remembering the Boardwalk, 1950
My first trip to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk was in 1962. I was 2 years old and was allowed my first ride on the Giant Dipper. It seems you
4th of July, 1950
I was born in Santa Cruz and all through my childhood I can remember going to the Boardwalk to watch the fireworks on the 4th of July. My Father, Mother,
Buried Treasure, 1963
My folks bought a summer home in Scott’s Valley in 1958. Every summer we would pile as many kids into our station wagon as possible and head to the beach/boardwalk.
Bandstand, 1944
When I was a very small child, my father played in the Coast Guard Reserve Band on the old Boardwalk bandstand. My family spent almost every weekend during the summers
Every Weekend, 1933
Every weekend during the summer my parents would take us to visit my Aunt and Uncle in San Jose. It was the same routine every Saturday. My Uncle would ask
