"Beach Fun" Boardwalk Memories

As a young musician, the Cocoanut Grove was such an exciting venue to perform, the 60s at its best! Our group, the Caveliers, took 2nd place to a local band

Top Photo: Ray O’Reilly’s girlfriend, Victoria Bottom Photo: Ray O’Reilly 1929, standing on the train tracks with the Giant Dipper in the background.

Top Photo: Raymond O’Reilly on the beach in front of what would now be walkway #4. Bottom Photo: Joe O’Reilly Jr. and Blanche Santa Cruz. The Giant Dipper is in

This is a p photograph of my mother Helen Tuttle (Fargo) and aunt Elizabeth Tuttle (Smoot) taken at the Boardwalk in approximately 1937. They lived in Colusa in the Sacramento

This is my brother (age 2) sitting in front of our mother and aunt. Note the fur collar on the coat, Casino in the background.

Me with souveniers we bought at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk the day before, in about 1947

My father grew up in the Menlo Park, and brought his family up there. His favorite thing in the world was swimming in the ocean – the colder the water,

I had my fourteenth birthday party at the Boardwalk in 1976. Some of us had our photo taken. We hung out on the beach, had a picnic, and enjoyed the

I was a model for the Boardwalk in 1956. My photograph was used on billboards promoting the beach, the billboards could be seen up and down the state for a

This is picture of my Mom and Dad with my sister and brother at the boardwalk in 1949. I especially like the shirt and tie on my Dad!

My earliest remembrances of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk are of my family’s annual summer vacations in the mid 1950s. My mother and little French grandmother would rent connecting rooms

My grandparents were regular visitors to Santa Cruz thoughout their lives. They took the train at least once a year from downtown San Jose through the Santa Cruz Mountains to

My mother and her older sister pose for the camera at a Boardwalk photo concession in 1925.

My grandmother, Marie Murnane (right), at age 4 in Santa Cruz.

They say i wanted my picture taken like that!