"Family & Friends" Boardwalk Memories

We took a trip from our small town of Foresthill, which is up in the sticks. We drove about 4 hours to sit in the warm sand, ride the rides,

During the summer of 1947 my father Harold Blackmore, my mother, and I all worked on the Boardwalk. I worked for ?Lane’s Custards? stand. When my Dad first started he

Top Photo: Ray and Joe Sr. O’Reilly in front of the arcade at the Boardwalk. Bottom Photo: Joe Sr. & Annie (Eunice) O’Reilly with Victoria. Dipper in the background late

My parents, Harry and Agnes Hill, owned Hill’s Restaurant next to the Giant Dipper from 1947-1954. Since this was the era before any prepared foods, my parents had to start

Working at the Boardwalk was my first job. I was there for about 6 years, starting with Whitings Foods in 1989 then when I was old enough to work the

Top Photo is is the Comfort family, enjoying time with visiting relatives from Kansas at the Main Beach. My grandmother, Marguerite (Comfort) Williams is tucked in-between my great-grandparents at left.

This is a photo of Andrea and I, taken at Antique Photo in the Casino Arcade.

Top photo taken in late 1940’s of my aunt,mother and father relaxing at Casino Beach. Bottom photo taken around 1937. Jordon, Rodney and Gordon Ouse at beach in front of

These are various photos taken by my uncle Tom Squires. He and my mother Marilyn Squires Stefani and my grandparents Norman and Marcelene Squires vacationed in Santa Cruz every year

My son and I enjoying fathers day 2006 together.

This is a photo of me and my parents with my aunt and uncle at the Boardwalk in 1927. I’m the little guy on my mother’s lap, I was 6

Jean and her brother Bill at the Boardwalk in 1936 and on the porch of the Santa Cruz home where they stayed every summer.

Though my son has been to the Boardwalk several times in his short year of life, rarely has there been an opportunity for him to walk around since he is

This was a photo I found of my Father, during a time back in the day when he escorted many of the Richmond, CA Independent Newspaper’s paperboys for a well

This photo of me, my brother, and my cousin was taken in 1945 in the Boardwalk Arcade. We had many great times at the Boardwalk.

One of my classmates, the late Tommy Stears, and Gene Mazzei shine shoes of GIs during WWII on the beach-side steps of the Boardwalk in 1943.