Comments on: Castles in the Moving Sand /santacruz/castles-in-the-moving-sand/ Connecting People to Places Fri, 22 Apr 2016 01:24:56 +0000 hourly 1 .org/?v=7.0.2 By: Ranger Gaudinski /santacruz/castles-in-the-moving-sand/#comment-85987 Fri, 22 Apr 2016 01:24:56 +0000 /?p=1085#comment-85987 In reply to Larry Dunham.

Larry – Fantastic informations and memories. Thank you so much for writing them down here. If you would be willing to share any of your photos we would love to update the post with them and some of the stories you shared. If so please e-mail me at julia@mobileranger.com. Thanks again.
Julia

]]> By: Larry Dunham /santacruz/castles-in-the-moving-sand/#comment-85981 Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:17:46 +0000 /?p=1085#comment-85981 I have lived across the street from where the Castle was, 2nd house up since 1950, and my family has been on the 1st block of Mott since 1885 full-time. It was Pilkington’s Seabright Saltwater Bathhouse from 1899 on. (I have photos) In 1929 owners Louie & Conrad Scholl rebuilt the bathhouse into the Castle. It never looked like or was called Castle until Scholls rebuilt it into one, and it has been Seabright Beach since the 1800s. It was referred to as Castle Beach by locals etc., but always was officially Seabright Beach.Scholls still had the bathhouse, with water heated by winter driftwood. When Fred Russell bought it in the 40s, they made the Castle Smorgasbord buffet restaurant upstairs, and summer snack bar downstairs, next to the living quarters/apartment. When Dr. John Ritchey bought the Castle in 1964, it was made into the Castle Art Gallery upstairs, and still had the summer snack bar and apartment. I worked starting in summer of ’64 running the cash register, and taking orders in the snack bar at age 13. The only severe damage to the Castle was winter of ’64. and they replaced the east wall with wood, and it never looked the same. After a big party (I was there, and a guy passed out with a lit cigarette in another room) , and fire, it was condemned and torn down in May 1967. Mom took photos of that, and I have photos of all incarnations of the property. The bathhouse was structurally changed many times.

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