The Kitchen Brothers epitomized the popular saying “Keep Santa Cruz Weird” through their strange architectural designs and mystical leanings more than 50 years before the...
Located near the west entrance to UC Santa Cruz, Cave Gulch has many charms. The majestic redwoods are the most obvious one and they set the stage. Their thick tall trunk...
San Francisco today is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California, but in 1769 to a crew of weary, scurvy-ridden Spaniards who had been travers...
In the late 1800s you could take a street car to Santa Cruz’s West Cliff Drive and then gamble, dance and stay in a hotel—all right there! The station was built in...
Many thanks to Barry Blanchard for permission to use this video. Women in bloomers and children in search of treasure once flocked to Pebble Beach to spend hours hunting...
In Santa Cruz from the mid-1850s to 1940, the general vision was to be a “Great Seaport.” Use and development of all available resources was the default think...
Most of the ice plant you see in California is all the same species: Highway ice plant (Carpobrotus edulis). As the common name indicates, it has been widely planted in C...
The Creamer Hotel in Felton, California (now known as the Cremer House) is rumored to have harbored both prostitutes and contraband liquor within its sturdy walls. As the...
Many thanks to Archer Koch of MultiRotorCam.com for permission to use of this video. Concrete Ships: Early Days The oldest known concrete ship was a dingy built in southe...
Lake Arrowhead gets its name from the huge arrow shape emblazoned on the face of one of the mountains in the San Bernadinos in Southern California. As a child, I had alwa...
