"Rides & Attractions" Boardwalk Memories

As a young teenager my family and I would vacation in Santa Cruz every summer. I was in line to ride the old Cat and Mouse ride which stood approximately

I was born and rasied in Madera, in the central San Joaquin Valley. We knew summer was coming the first time a commercial for the Boardwalk televised on TV. I

I remember our family vacationing in Capitola from 1960-1973. The big treat was the one night we would go to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk for the night. Mom and

I remember the Walking Charlie attraction from when I was about eight years old. There were male manikins with something that looked like a beer can on top of their

As a child, I couldn’t get enough of the crashing waves, looking for sand dollars on the beach or the rides on the Boardwalk. I remember watching the older kids

My first time to Santa Cruz Boardwalk was 1964 when I was 6 years old. I remember seeing the wooden roller coaster for the first time and being told by

I made the record of going on Double Shot 32 times. I loved the G’s it puts on at the beginning of the ride and the air time you get

I remember going to the Boardwalk with my parents and sister at least once a year. One year we went with some friends and decided to ride the Wild Mouse.

A week of camping and playing in Santa Cruz.

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

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

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

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

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

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