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JoJo Urbancic 80th Birthday Party and additional oral history interview - November 6, 2024. Begins with oral history interview by Geoffrey Dunn. Filmed and edited by Kathy D'Angelo.

See the Capitola Historical Museum’s float in action during the 2023 Capitola Beach Festival lighted float parade and competition! This festival originated in 2018, filling the space left by the discontinuation of our historic Begonia Festivals which ran for 65 years from 1952-2017 This year’s theme was “Beauty and the Beach.” This float features two views of the Hotel Capitola: on one side is ...

History of the wharf at Capitola, California, on Monterey Bay.

This presentation celebrates the 65th and final Begonia Festival which took place in 2017.

This is a 12 minute, 52 second silent preview of the 2022 Capitola Historical Museum exhibition entitled, "Perspectives - Capitola in the Eye of the Beholder". The exhibition will run through December 2022. The exhibition explores the different perspectives of Capitola through both the art and words of its beholders, past and present. It features perspectives from The Pioneers, The Promoters, T...

The retiring curator of the Capitola Historical Museum reflects on his fifty years of working in museums and shares tips on creating exhibits. He discusses research, lighting, design, colors, graphics, etc. This interview is part of the "Capitola Memories Project" and is for non-profit educational use. It was recorded June 10, 2021.

Ole Ravnos was a professional photographer in Santa Cruz County, California, in the early 1900s. This lecture was presented in 2016 in conjunction with an exhibition of his work at the Capitola Historical Museum titled "Photos by Ravnos: Capitola in the early 1900s." For this video, audio from this lecture by Museum Curator Frank Perry was combined with the slides used in the talk. For some pic...

This walking tour of Capitola, California, explores the changes made to the town in 1919-1920 by owner Henry Rispin and his architect, George McCrea. McCrea was assisted in the project by Helen Benbow. This tour was conducted by the Capitola Historical Museum in May, 2021, near the end of the pandemic and includes many historical photographs of the town.

This celebration of the Capitola Theater was done in 1990 by Holly Keenan, who worked at the theater, and includes interviews with owner Audrey Jacobs, employees, and patrons. It beautifully captures the spirit of this beloved Capitola, California, theater at that time. Built in 1948, the theater closed in in 1996, and the building was demolished in 2010. The documentary was found on an old vid...

Diane Porter Cooley

This historic lime manufacturing site is on the campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Lime from here was used to build San Francisco in the decades just after the Gold Rush and was later shipped up and down the West Coast. The tour guides explain what lime is, why it is important, and the steps in manufacturing lime in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

The Testing Block is a 1920 movie western shot in Capitola, Ben Lomond, and Felton (Santa Cruz County, California); and in the Santa Clarita Valley (Los Angeles County, California). It stars William S. Hart, Eva Novak, and J. Gordon Russell. It was directed by Lambert Hillyer. This version was digitized from an original (on six reels) in the collection of the Library of Congress. It is presente...

Former Soquel, California, resident Sylvia Prescott Forsyth tells about growing up in the area, her family's inn during the 1920s and 1930s, and connections to Capitola. 0:56 Grandparents from England, coming to Soquel 2:31 Children work at Stafford’s Inn then buy it. 5:14 Activities at Prescott’s Inn 5:46 Parents met at Inn 8:16 Harlamoff family 9:27 Grandfather, George Prescott, dies 13:22 To...

Eddie Ray Garcia shares his experiences as a 30-year employee of the Capitola, California, Public Works Department, including dealing with floods, wind storms, big waves, and an earthquake. He explains how he came to work for the department and tells about the daily routine, civic pride, and his experiences with the mysterious Rispin Mansion. 0:45 Growing up in Carlsbad, California 2:00 Coming ...

Patrick McCormick

Interview with Bruce Arthur

Nutter Family History, Part 2

Nutter Family History (Part 1)

Capitola Begonia Festival Documentary

Loma Prieta 30: A Lecture on the Loma Prieta Earthquake

Beth Porter

Carin Hanna

Earthquake Memories from 1989

Worth Brown

Jim Hobbs

Capitola in the 1950s

Diane Porter Cooley

Bob Garcia

Mel Bowen