"Family & Friends" Boardwalk Memories

Every summer my mother and I take my two boys (age 11 and 14) to Santa Cruz for a week. My parents brought me when I was a girl and

I was 8 and my grandmother had just died. My aunt, who lives 30 minutes away from the Boardwalk, took me and her daughter to the Boardwalk. She said it

Thirteen years of smiling faces stained with pink cotton candy, tiny footprints imbedded in the sand, my now 13 year old son riding the Dipper for the 12th time today,

My earliest memories of the Boardwalk are rooted in my youth. As a child, there was no place I’d rather be than boarding the Red Baron, the Cave Train, or

Most of the girls in our class who worked at the ‘walk had jobs at one of the food concessions; my first job was at Ruth’s Hamburger Stand. My mother

It all started when I was a kid at Playland at the Beach in San Francisco. Laughing Sal scared the living daylights out of me, but of course I was

In 2001 my Aunt Samantha and I decided to head to the Boardwalk. We rode lots of fun rides and I was having a good time until I heard the

The memory that stands out the most about the boardwalk was Report Card Day. You would take your report card to the ticket booth and with an A grade you

My fondest memories of growing up are the times I spent at the beach with my mother Dorothy, and her best friend Marlowe. Every summer my mother, my sister Chris

In the 1950s my brother and I would ride our bikes from King Street to the beach and spend the entire day there…summer after summer and even during the winter,

I have lived in Santa Cruz County for 38 years. My son, who is developmentally delayed, was seven years old when I first allowed him to go on a ride.

My great grandfather built a place in Seabright back in the 20 or 30s, and we used to come down when I was a kid back in the 60s. I