Color Movie of 1955 Santa Cruz, San Lorenzo Valley, Watsonville, a Ton of old businesses
Автокөліктер мен көлік құралдары
This is a movie my wife Peggy and I found back in the 1980's We first saved it to VHS then 8MM then AVI and Now MP4 as a result, quality is So So. This is a SC chamber of commerce movie so let me know if anyone ever finds a cleaner copy, Enjoy, Wayne
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Let's be honest, you dont watch a video like this unless you live here.
@scruzguy
4 жыл бұрын
I lived in Rio Del Mar about 20 years (52-72) and in Ben Lomond for another 20. The three things I miss about SCC is 1) Riding my bicycle up and down West Cliff Drive; 2) the Flea Market that was at the Skyview drive-in on weekends, and 3) the free concerts on the beach during the summer. Good times.
@eldazambrano8293
4 жыл бұрын
Yessir, west side sc !
@themoney3935
3 жыл бұрын
Damn right
@pecc6132
3 жыл бұрын
I’m watching haha love these kind of documentaries
@kellyann3919
3 жыл бұрын
I don’t live there but I visit every chance I get I’m only 2 hours away
it’s so cool seeing this footage of santa cruz, i’ve lived here my whole life and it’s interesting seeing what it used to be
@sailingavocet
4 жыл бұрын
Hey same here!
@SouthSideScotty47
4 жыл бұрын
@@sailingavocet same here... And thats 57 years for this "whole life"
@sunburst6186
3 жыл бұрын
You are very lucky to have old footage to look back to, I’m from the south side of chicago and it’s very hard to find old footage where I’m from.
@funbomb1102
3 жыл бұрын
I love these old videos.
@nealbaker2132
Жыл бұрын
LA is warning people not to wear jewelry because, crime is so bad, you might get robbed. I used to go to Santa Cruz from San Jose but, I feel like I'm not welcome anymore.
Back when the beaches were clean and you could swim in the water.... good times.
@389383
7 ай бұрын
Could swim in the water because it wasn't being tested!
LOVE IT! pushing that "warm Pacific water" i'm sure it was about 55 degrees then, too. lol
@tommurphy220
8 жыл бұрын
+bythebay CK yeah, and they don't make newspapers out of redwood. Watching the gorgeous tree come down was sad.
@CK-831
8 жыл бұрын
+Tom Murphy such was the bliss (ignorance?) of the 50's. . .
@markketello5757
4 жыл бұрын
@@CK-831 Ah, another young one who believes people over fifty are ignorant? I'd much rather be living in the 50's than the chaotic rat race we have created today. OK, shift gears to racism.
My dad immigrated from El Salvador around this time and the way he describes it was like a paradise. Even the Santa Cruz mountains felt like his homeland. I am so blessed to have been raised in such an amazing town. What sucks is alot of us will probably never afford a home here :(
@do-hz4qb
3 жыл бұрын
And then 5 million central Americans crashed the border and the rest of the immigrants from the 80s and 90s brought 10 of their relatives. You can't afford a home because many millions of Latinos came here in the last 30 years.
@audreyj3824
3 жыл бұрын
@@do-hz4qb you say crashed the border as if you own the land. So then you mean kind of what the white people did to the native Americans then I assume.
@xe7535
3 жыл бұрын
@@do-hz4qb damn only 5 million Central Americans came ? That can’t even keep up with the Mexican population. Stay mad
@KagamoneyLen
3 жыл бұрын
@@do-hz4qb The main reasons we can’t afford homes are 1) because UCSC won’t cap the amount of students they accept so many of them have to flood into the city’s residential housing, which the landlords then inflate the prices of once those students move out after only 2-4 years due to graduating and then the incoming students have no choice but to pay these prices otherwise they’ll have no housing and have to share a 2 bedroom apartment with 5 people to cover rent, and then the cycle continues. and 2) because of the price of housing inflating to astronomical prices, but minimum wage has barely gone up over the years with no help from the city to control rent prices, you have to either have a really high paying job or like i said, have 5 people to a tiny apartment just to make rent. But yeah, blame the latino population, you racist.
@do-hz4qb
3 жыл бұрын
@@KagamoneyLen I'm confused. Where did I mention latinos?
"Gently sloping into the warm pacific waters!" The water on the CA coast has been and always will be freezing!
@georgeshelton6281
19 күн бұрын
This educational video definitely needs to be restored. Do you ever notice just how fast downtown Santa Cruz is changing? There are fewer companies that are located in this area. If you cone to the downtown Santa Cruz area, you're going to find more of apartment complexes. Even the downtown Santa Cruz Metro Center has changed. The midtown Santa Cruz area hasn't changed much. What about Mission Street? Has Misdion Street changed much? I know that Wilkes Everett Circle has changed. They don't have a church building there anymore. Even though the Garfield Park Public Library still exists there. Knowing that it's a historical building. 👷♀️ 🤣 😂 😎 😅 🤪 🤪 👷♂️
Seeing those old-fashioned roller coaster trains is a great reminder of how old the Giant Dipper is. Also, it's a kick to see the old building that used to house the Looff carousel.
"The Santa Cruz beach is famous all over the country, it's clean white sand gently sloping into the warm Pacific waters." Hahaha, I get it. It's irony.
@kikosmith2088
4 жыл бұрын
Huh?
@Devonellah
4 жыл бұрын
@@MaryJane-xe1ej It's not Gross... and it's not sad.... There are more people that is for sure, but it's still amazingly beautiful there - hence the reason it's about 3-4 million for a house on the coast there....
@osirissolano6962
4 жыл бұрын
@Lorin Wilson Mexico. Puerto Vallarta. They have the cleanest beaches and warmest waters, even in the sunsets it's beautiful. You should go.
@osirissolano6962
4 жыл бұрын
@@MaryJane-xe1ej true. That's true.
@angelh.6367
4 жыл бұрын
@@MaryJane-xe1ej life long resident here also, we need to take back Santa Cruz from all these delusional people that are running I mean RUINING our town....
Looking back , growing up in the 60s and 70s in Santa Cruz , was such a magical time.
@paulcavigliano6388
3 жыл бұрын
"Was" is the key word in that statement. I can relate though. 65-2000 for me and those were GREAT times.
Seeing the redwoods cut down makes me sad.
@KagamoneyLen
3 жыл бұрын
I had to skip the part where they were cutting down the tree 🥲
I want to live in Santa Cruz in 1955... Vacationed with my family there in the '60s. I loved that place. Concrete Ship at Aptos... The Boardwalk...
@georgeshelton6281
19 күн бұрын
Did you notice that the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk never had a bandstand at first during the entire 1960s and the entire 1970s? 🤔
Can only imagine what my parents thought when they first moved to Felton back in the 50's. They must have thought they found paradise. 60 years later, much has changed, but the beauty and richness of this area is something I have come to cherish more and more, especially since leaving home when I was 18. I was very blessed to have grown up in the San Lorenzo Valley.
@831CROW
4 жыл бұрын
Ya not salinas
our play ground growing up thanks for wonderful memories the good ole days people dressed nice and weren't fatties cheers
@georgeshelton6281
19 күн бұрын
Did you notice that Throng was right about what he told about Lisa Simpson to the general American public? He said that the cost of freedom is really high in America today. He agreed with Lisa Simpson.
I was born at Sisters Hospital in '52. It was across from where Dream Inn is now. Seeing this really reminded me of what SC was like when I was a little kid. I can't say I like the changes SC has gone through though.
@paulcavigliano6388
3 жыл бұрын
Old Dominican Hospital for me. I DEFINITELY dont like what SC has turned into. Thats why I left 21 yrs ago. The only thing I really miss other than the redwoods and eucalyptus trees is the beach. But then thats nothin like it used to be either. I remember catching fish at the Soquel River mouth and the Capitola pier. Im talking Halibut 5lb Salmon! Now youd be lucky to catch a cold in that bay. No thanks.
Back before techies overran this town and drove up the home prices. Still a beautiful town that I feel so fortunate to have grown up in. Seeing it back in the 50's is super cool. My dad used to come to the Boardwalk in the 50's.
@JamesMcComas-dr2xi
10 ай бұрын
Techies? Ha ha ha. It was UCSC that ruined Santa cruz.
@TheHenranMan
5 ай бұрын
@@JamesMcComas-dr2xi You're almost certainly wrong. UCSC has grown, but *it has been growing at the same rate it has since the university was founded.* At the same time, the university has been housing more and more students on campus. Over half of UCSC students now live on campus, which is the highest of any UC. There simply is very little correlation between the growth of UCSC and the cost of housing. You know what there is a correlation between? *Median household income in Santa Cruz and home price index in Santa Cruz.* There have been two major spikes in Santa Cruz median income: 2004-2008, and 2014-present. There have been two major spikes in home price index: 2000-2008 and 2014-present. *Which wealthy group of people started moving to Santa Cruz in the early 2000s and 2010s? Techies.* I'm not saying that UCSC has had zero effect on home prices, but this is data straight from FRED.
Sigh.....great footage ...Born and raised ......makes me happy ...and sad ..... locals can’t even afford to live here anymore , unless their parents bought them a place . ♥️♥️♥️
Warm waters of the Pacific?? In Santa Cruz?
@edwinmalachy
4 жыл бұрын
😂🤣🤣😆
@killero00
4 жыл бұрын
Propaganda.
@newnece09
4 жыл бұрын
Usually cold water
@stacyr3743
3 жыл бұрын
Haha. I missed that! False advertising.
@aztecaz547
3 жыл бұрын
LIES
Casino? Ah the good ol days...
@TheMrtanners
3 жыл бұрын
I wish i couldve seen the inside of neptune's kingdom when it was a giant swimming pool. The old pictures are crazy enough
Ahhh, the good old days when you could leave a bike unlocked outside for more than 2 minutes without someone stealing it.
@georgeshelton6281
19 күн бұрын
I've seen this motto written on a postage stamp once before. Freedom isn't free. Even though freedom is what goes along with your attitude.
Saying that it’s changed a lot is an understatement! (Yes, I live in Santa Cruz).
Visited grandma, who lived in Santa Cruz, 3-4 times a year and remember all of this very well. Thanks for posting! Before it became a bedroom community for San Jose in the 70s and 80s, Santa Cruz used to be a retirement town. My grandma would call the elderly she'd see on the sidewalks "walking historical landmarks." We finally moved to Santa Cruz in my teens - what a wonderful place it was back then - no rush hour traffic, plenty of beach without wall-to-wall people, and an old fashioned Boardwalk that was so much fun without all the plasticized garishness it has today. Wonderful memories!
Born and raised here my whole life and now its being taken away from me because new housing laws which resulted in all of my neighbors including me being evicted for literally no fault of ours.... but hey its the law :) Cant even find an affordable place here because of high rent cost and gentrification
@paulcavigliano6388
3 жыл бұрын
Sorry brother. Thats why I left over 21yrs ago, and I thought it was bad then. Today? Fahgettaboutit!
Lived in the area for a year, but lived 60 years in l.a. i miss the clean air. Its so damn clean compared to l.a. pure, clean, breathable air. Its right up there with a good meal in terms of enjoyment.
My parents moved our family to Sunnyvale in 1955, when I was a toddler. I have many memories of Santa Cruz, fishing off the pier, surfing at Steamer Lanes and the rivermouth, Working at Roaring Camp as a locomotive fireman, scuba diving there and down the coast at Monterey. I am a little surprised that they didn't mention Big Basin State Park though. The redwood trees there are majestic.
I was lucky enough to live in Santa Cruz at three different times in my life. But it is nothing like it used to be.
@paulcavigliano6388
3 жыл бұрын
Thats for damn sure.
@389383
7 ай бұрын
Neither are you or me!
1945 my siblings and I walked the boardwalk we were the only ones there aside from a person here & there.
@georgeshelton6281
19 күн бұрын
As I listened to and watched this educational film, it had me started thinking about the Pogonip area up at UCSC. That's where you can see the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk down below.
We used to go to Santa Cruz beach boardwalk often as a kid. Now that I have children of my own, I take them there too.... Well, now with the pandemic it's been kind of impossible C'est la vie
I remember this film being shown to my class at Gault School in 1971. It lit the fuse for my love of SC history. I'm always, without pretense, nurturing an easy love for my home. :)
@miamaston
4 жыл бұрын
I went to Gault School in 2006!
I don't live IN Santa Cruz, but in a neighboring area. Crazy to see how much it's changed, pretty sad.
Great footage of my home town--Santa Cruz!
this so helllla great clip to see born and raised in watsonville 1963..i love this to see my history of my county...thank you very much i saved this..been sooooo many times at the s c boardwalk..
So missing sweet Santa Cruz!
1:53 was the last time a man wore a suit to Boardwalk
Thanks for sharing this treasure! Went to Santa Cruz when I was a kid for the 1st time in 1953 & was hooked. Moved to Ben Lomond when I grew up & raise 2 kids there in the 70's.
Thank you for preserving, and posting, this bit of nostalgia about Santa Cruz before the 1955 flood and then the 1989 earthquake remade downtown. Across America in that era local chambers of commerce commissioned such films to tout their cities, This one is notable for focusing less on industry and more on the quality of life.
Interesting how well all dressed up !the retro always elegant!
Notice how almost no one is 100 lbs over weight. Think about that
@stutterpunk9573
4 жыл бұрын
nobody is here now also+
@thisisntsergio1352
4 жыл бұрын
There aren't many obese on the central coast counties of California.
@ericunderwood1482
4 жыл бұрын
@Виктор Певцов experiment welfare!
@ericunderwood1482
4 жыл бұрын
Back then People mostly all of them Worked for a living....The Country was at it's Strongest then...all the way till we set foot in Vietnam....or should I say ...ALL THE WAY UP UNTIL VEITNAM VETERNS STARTED SETTING THEIR FEET ON THEIR HOME COUNTRY .. ONLY TO BE REJECTED BY A BEWILDERED PUBLIC.....SO SORRY...... SHOULD OF JUST BEEN ...... WELCOME HOME BUD!
@j.ps.roosta4826
4 жыл бұрын
Purr cat. Use any platform to push your narrative. they had people of all shapes, size , and ethnic groups. Just as we do today. Its common sense I don't see today.
Love it, thanks a lot for sharing!
So great!
I remember the beach boardwalk in the 1950's. It was such fun.
@osirissolano6962
4 жыл бұрын
Excuse me but wtf
@stutterpunk9573
4 жыл бұрын
@@osirissolano6962 old people exist...
@osirissolano6962
4 жыл бұрын
@@stutterpunk9573 nooo.... Old people are extinct....
Thank you for posting this video, it really is a snap shot in the past. Lovely to see Natural Bridges being recorded. remember walking past it many years ago.
OMG! This is such a great vid! I was only a little kid in '55, but everything is as I remembered it! SO MUCH I'd forgotten these last 40-50 years...my my my...tsk tsk...geez...almost a tear...for the few of us actually born & raised here this has a lot of great stuff. This is a treasure.
this makes me happy
This is a real gem! Thanks for uploading it.
Great ride back in time.
Love, Thankyou.
How wonderful.
I have some great memories in Santa Cruz.
everything looked so nice
love this. Thank you for posting. My family lived there then. Born and raised for many years. sweet to see
2 thumbs up. pure love!
santa cruz is the ultimate place of freedom and happiness. the most thriving place in california.
@tonymontana7263
6 жыл бұрын
Not anymore
@mirasawao4580
4 жыл бұрын
You’re joking right?
@stutterpunk9573
4 жыл бұрын
@@tonymontana7263 its no worse than it used to be.
@edge2sharp538
4 жыл бұрын
😂
@SouthSideScotty47
4 жыл бұрын
@@stutterpunk9573 it aint nuthin like it used to be... But aint much is i suppose!!
How cool is this! 👍
Wow! Thanks! so much for posting 1955, is the year I was born! So much fun to see what was going on back then!, David From Ca.
Reminds me of when our family moved to Felton from the Bay Area in 1957. It was a wonderful place to raise kids. My brother and I had a large (to us) area around our property to explore. Lots of big redwoods and a huge blackberry thicket across the fence. Lots of raccoons and different kinds of birds which we fed, including valley quail. A great place to grow up! Our roots.
We loved this Movie, our wonderful home. Virgil lived here his whole life and I have lived here since 1972. Awesome movie from 1955.
If I can live back in the 50’s I would soooo fast. 🤍
Born in Watsonville, moved to soquel now living in Oregon
Amazing as yet unseen (to me anyway) footage of Santa Cruz in its heyday....
This was the time when my parents brought us to Santa Cruz to go fishing on the pier. One time we even went onto one of the Stagnero boats for salmon fishing. My mother caught the biggest salmon of the day. There was a small cafe at the end of the pier. It had the best hamburgers I have ever tasted even to this day, so many years later.
@warrenberes4117
4 жыл бұрын
Might be called the dolphin now
Watching that old redwood fall was heartbreaking
Love It😍
WOW ! What memories. I was there in 1959 during the Miss California pagent. I chose to ignore it and rode the Dipper instead. The 1955 Plymouth used in this movie was just like my first car except mine was red and black. Bought mine in 1962. Thanx for posting this. Chuck Cochren
@tonymontana7263
6 жыл бұрын
Sounds cool. I wish I could have experienced those days. Things seemed better back then.
Awh this makes me miss home. I was born and raised in Santa Cruz until I got married and moved onto a sailboat in Southern California. Now we are planning on sailing around the world! Santa Cruz will always be home though, I get to visit my parents often
This makes me think of my parents, who moved to the Santa Clara Valley from Detroit in 1954. This is what they saw the first times they went to SC. No wonder why they were enchanted.
US blast from the past I’ve lived here my whole life as well
This tripped me out brookdale lodge looks so different
Santa Cruz used to be my favorite
Nice and Creative Videos, This is really my favorite channle.:). I really glad to see your post and your world was so brilliant. 🌴🌴🌴 excellent and Much appreciated!!🌴🌴🌴 🌴🌴🌴 🌴🌴🌴 🌴🌴🌴 from: Watsonville City Santa Cruz
Wow santa cruz hasent changed lived there my whole 11 years still live there!
@paulcavigliano6388
3 жыл бұрын
"Santa Cruz hasnt changed"? Thats your statement? You need to qualify your comments and stick to things you know about, cause this aint one of em.
Insane not seeing any hippies or tie dye shirts.
Wow, history miss Watsonville representing miss California. She really was from santa cruz, but still santa cruz county representing Watsonville
@SouthSideScotty47
4 жыл бұрын
Yep.. it was a great thing do you have here in our County before it got ran out by the Feminists!!
@davidmoore2851
3 жыл бұрын
My sister was Miss SC County in '69 or '70. Our family from Watsonville. Won bathing suit comp in Miss California (Miss America circuit)pageant held in SC. Went on to win Miss Virginia in '71 in Miss USA circuit when in college. As for strawberries, Watsonville and PV had a lot more apples in the day.
Love from boulder creek
@Fokkleman
4 жыл бұрын
TOM Vlogs same 👍
This was in my recommended and it’s so cool but like how do they know I just moved to Santa Cruz...
@killero00
4 жыл бұрын
Location services. They're how they target ads at you and they're scary.
@mikep8182
3 жыл бұрын
Hey Sophie Do you know why they know it’s because your phone is listening to you look it up
@pablonava7367
3 жыл бұрын
They're watching Sophie! they have all our info in the cloud. What do you think about that ?
I was waiting for this to turn into one of those found footage clips from the movie Sinister.
I moved to Santa Cruz 10 months ago. Living here has been the best decision I have ever made. I plan on living here and building my own family here.
@georgeshelton6281
19 күн бұрын
What's something that I haven't seen just as yet? That's these past educational films about Eureka, CA. The most memorable place I've ever seen in Eureka, CA? It's the Willit Carson mansion. It's definitely a historical monument. Since this place reminds me so much of Bewitched, the Munsters, and the Addams Family. It's those classic macabre-like comedy shows. 🤣
I'm really after a certain family video that shows what the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk used to look like back in 1955. My father George D. Shelton should've avoided dropping out of high school back then on April 9th, 1954.
Back when the country was Strong! Before my trip me didn't come along till 63.... Have always Love Santa Cruz....and still do...and always will......
It's the only decent sunbathing beach near San Francisco Bay Area but still 70 miles away. you have to usually wait till noon before the fog burns off most summer days. then you get like 4-5 hours of decent weather. Late September and early October probably are the best times. it's warm most of the day closer to the fall. It's so packed these days there is hardly any parking. lots of people walking around. it's free to hang out on the boardwalk and its cool because you can pay for one ride or get an all-day pass for all the rides. there are some decent rides there. The Giant Dipper is that 100-year-old roller coaster you see at the start
I use to live down the road of this shot 6:14. great memories. I would use it as a public road even though it was private. The construction workers never cared
@WayneOverbeck
2 жыл бұрын
Where exactly is that?
@danielhalberstadt9984
2 жыл бұрын
@@WayneOverbeck on hwy 9 the roaf infront of Henry Cowell entrance takes it all the way up to the quary
@danielhalberstadt9984
2 жыл бұрын
@@WayneOverbeck where did you get the amazing 1930's footage?
Beaches sure weren't like nowadays...and the "crowds"...my dad would tie me to the car bumper so I wouldn't fall off the wharf when we fished off it...I swear it even smells different nowadays...used to find great shells on Cowell Beach, that's gone...everyone drove bulgemobiles like in an R Crumb drawing...used to be lots of swell cafes & tiny eating places all over...actual bars existed back then & my dad owned one, a really dark, dank place "fer workin' men who just wanted a drink", as he described it...my mom said it was a "shithole"...clean though...nuthin' like hearin' some old guy reminisce about stuff you know nuthin' about, huh? Have sumthin' better to do? Thought so...
@andresrosado-ubando5421
4 жыл бұрын
I love it keith! I wish I could experience the cruz from back then, i'd love to hear more, especially about what fish you were able to catch back then!
They're out there having fun in that warm California sun
Watsonville my home town
Oh, this is hell, I know where these places are... I live in Santa Cruz, and the place gives me the creeps already, so it's very strange to see it a long time ago.
@themoney3935
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah it’s not the same with out twaked out people And driftwood it you know him
Thanks Wayne! I was 4 and living on California Street in SC, I recognized Big Boy in a couple of the scenes. A time of 1-piece bathing suits and real suits at the beach. The University changed that town. Sad.
I actually did , scotts valley ( Santa's village ") to Los Gatos in 14 min ! Twice " I know could of done it in 9 min in my quattro Audi " it was 1:30 am & didn't have to trip on traffic "
Awesome! Except for that whole logging part....
@humelakecabin
4 жыл бұрын
There is nothing wrong with logging. Trees are replaceable. Maybe you want a plastic house.
@mollypatton5316
4 жыл бұрын
@@humelakecabin 2000 year old old growth trees aren't exactly replaceable in a timely manner......
I LIVE THERE!!!! I LIVE RIGHT BY THE BOARDWALK
@andresrosado-ubando5421
4 жыл бұрын
whats yoour address
@stutterpunk9573
4 жыл бұрын
Excuse me you think I’m gonna say my address
@andresrosado-ubando5421
4 жыл бұрын
@@stutterpunk9573 oh sorry idk, why not
@paulcavigliano6388
3 жыл бұрын
So what? Why the fuck ya screamin?
@stutterpunk9573
3 жыл бұрын
@@paulcavigliano6388 because I'm excited lol
Rip brookdale lodge
When the main industries ended, the only ones who could live in Santa Cruz were the ones who had enough money to stay and create leisure and tourism business
@SouthSideScotty47
4 жыл бұрын
Or where willing to drive over the hill and through the woods.. To silicone valley they go!!
NICE!!!! Santa Cruz with no hippies loafing around smelling the place up. Probably no druggies either. Wish I could have lived back then!
@CrissaKentavr
8 жыл бұрын
+wjb4341 That's ignorant, at best. Crime in Santa Cruz - including racial biased crime - was higher. That you could ignore it or have police beat people up isn't a better place.
@WayneOverbeck
8 жыл бұрын
+Crissa Kentavr Where do you get your "facts"?
@wjb4341
7 жыл бұрын
Like I said ... Wish I could have lived there back then!
@icyboy9776
7 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@mkinsella8592
6 жыл бұрын
Also this was before the rich priced the majority of the local population to other cities.. mostly up north. .com brought me to Canada.. although I still love my hometown before greed killed it.
Back when Santa Cruz was UCSC free. And apparently before the flood.
The man in the grey flannel suit.
Man they’re really pushing the warm pacific water even tho the hottest it gets is 62 degrees
@omarsilvaavila3806
3 жыл бұрын
A little white lie to bring in the tourist.
My Dad Worked at Salz Tannery!! 1950's
@xChromerSatanasx
4 жыл бұрын
Well he sure has a pipping hot daughter
So nice too see this part of California before it went to crap. Kind of depressing actually.
@elijahf111
6 жыл бұрын
woah WOAH!!!ITS STILL FUCKING AWESOME HERE
@MillionsOfRaindropsStitch
6 жыл бұрын
Santa Cruz is still great, but like every city, we have our problems
@Cali_Man
5 жыл бұрын
What do you mean by crap?
@Bhakti-rider
4 жыл бұрын
@@Cali_Man If you weren't there back in the day (before 1968) you couldn't possibly understand.
Santa Cruz born and raised
The natural bridges collapsed on Jan 10, 1980, the day I arrived in Santa Cruz. For the 25 years I lived there I claimed responsibility for it so people could blame me. In fact, during the first sixteen years I lived there, Santa Cruz county was declared a federal disaster area three times. The flood of 1982, the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 and the storm that collapsed the levies in Watsonville, (I forget if it was 1995 or 1996). I suppose Santa Cruz is fortunate that I no longer live there. LOL P.S. Some folks who read this might remember me as Max, the Yellow Cab driver.
@sailingavocet
4 жыл бұрын
Oh my god... thank you for moving lol It has been quite nice! bahaha cheers, friend
@maj.d.sasterhikes9884
4 жыл бұрын
@@sailingavocet Ironically, I settled in a small, rural town in New Hampshire. We had a huge winter storm in the winter of 2008 - 2009 and lost power for over a week with a total of 152 inches of snow that year. Later got a great job opportunity that brought me to Key West, FL and then got hit by Hurricane Irma in 2017. Starting to wonder if someone is trying to tell me something.
@sailingavocet
4 жыл бұрын
@@maj.d.sasterhikes9884 oh man... I would look into that
Who remembers the salt water swimming pool on the boardwalk ?
@patriciaedwards91
3 жыл бұрын
Think it was called, "The Plunge."
With my time machine I gone back to 1955, no some notice me in background (waving/holding a cell phone)
@xChromerSatanasx
4 жыл бұрын
You mean you were staring into phone like a zombie not even knowing you were at the beach 1955. You were to busy twitting back in 2019
@dondressel452
4 жыл бұрын
Yea I’m right behind you in my 51 chevy