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Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

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Mamie Started It, 1957

Beginning in 1957, my Grandmother Mamie started taking my brother, cousin and me to Santa Cruz each summer. Most years we would ride a Greyhound bus from Sacramento to Santa Cruz. We always...

Fun at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 1965

Our family enjoyed vacations every year at the beach. This year a reporter from Santa Cruz newspaper interviewed us and we were in the paper. Always a wonderful memory, we still go...

Mom loved the beach, 1970

My mom loved Santa Cruz. She grew up going there and took us as kids. Then took her Grandkids. Best memories ever. ❤️ When she died she wanted all her kids to go to Santa Cruz in memory of her...

Our Santa Cruz Memories

When I was little, we lived in San Jose. Every weekend, my folks would pack up the car and we would head to Santa Cruz. I love this place very much and now share it with my family. From the...

My Grandma and her friends 1941, 2021

This is a picture of my Grandma with her high school friends from 1941, she was born in 1925 and she told me it was in high school so I'm just guessing around 1941, a lot going...

My Mom at the Bordwalk, 1947

This is one of my favorite photos of my mom when she was little. She was about 2 at the time so I’m guessing it was from 1947. My grandparents and her lived in CA for as long as I could remember...

A Captured Moment on Pleasure Pier, 1953

My grandfather Polo, as we called him, and my grandmother Aida who I loved very much. My mother told me the story of a long ride from Texas to California in a slow 1938 International...

Fishing at Santa Cruz, 1969

My dad and I would come here a couple of times each summer. I could always get him on The Giant Dipper or The Wild Mouse. But I LOVED The Walking Charlie, Skee Roll, and The Greyhound Race.