This is amazing video. I also like how the beginning of the filming hasn't been trimmed off. Seeing the Pacific Garden Mall and hearing the Cooper House mentioned as contemporary things sure is something... little did they know in just a few years it would all change again
1:56 When I worked maintenance at the Boardwalk in the 90s we had to do some repairs under the casino. All the burnt pilings were still sticking outta the sand. It was a little eerie. Not as eerie as the room under the carousel.
18:24 When I was a boy, we knew it as The Cement Boat. I guess the new people who have moved into the area call it The Cement Ship out of ignorance. Besides fishing, we would climb down into the lower section when the tide was low. We were told it was too dangerous, but try telling that to eight year old boys. The fishing: we always went home with fish. Ain't nothing better than eating fresh fish that we cleaned and that my mother would cook.
Early postcards call it the Cement Ship, not boat. The invitation to the launching, May 29, 1919, called it a "ship." Advertisements for the opening in 1930 also used the term "ship." Today there is a trend towards calling it the "Concrete Ship" rather than "Cement Ship," since technically it is made of concrete rather than just cement. The book Forever Facing South by David Heron goes into much more detail.
@@capitolahistoricalmuseum9362 I also grew up in Santa Cruz the 50's-60's calling it the Cement Boat. Local colloquialism I guess. Technically a "boat" is small enough to put on a "ship".
@@capitolahistoricalmuseum9362 I'll just add my voice. We were "summer people" in the 1950s - '60s, and as a kid I learned from the adults around me to call it the "Cement Boat." I'm not old enough to speak to when (between, say, 1930 and 1950) it was demoted from ship to boat. It was sometime in the 1970s or '80s that I noted that in common conversation it had become the "Cement Ship," though I understand that would be technically correct due to its size. "Concrete Ship" is a new one on me. Of course, a few more bad winters and this is all going to be an academic discussion.
Born 1970 and raised in Santa Cruz, for a while we lived on the cliffs of Capitola with a direct view of the "Cement BOAT", it was boat. My first job was at Marini's at the Boardwalk, and we had brochures about local interests, that included the Cement Boat. And just for old time's sake "Valley Go Home".
@@capitolahistoricalmuseum9362 I grew up with an everyday view of the cement ship played and fished almost every day I lived on the Rio del Mar Blvd across from the Aptos Beach Inn I watched it burn and get looted I had an unobstructed view before the condos were built its always been called the cement ship
Liebrant was a first family of downtown sc being my great great grandfather was the first moving company of sc and pugget family married in and was the first sears roebuck of santa cruz county!!! Also Murphy law was the first law office of sc county!!! Our family has been here now 100 + years!!!!
19:45 When I was a kid in the 70s they hadnt blocked off access yet to the Palo Alto so you were able to climb on it. Plus back then it was in 2 pieces and upright.
I was born in 1981 in Santa Cruz California I would go down to the boardwalk every weekend with my family fly kites and went around with no shoes on I was in the earthquake in 1989 earthquake during the World Series that was crazy!!!
Beautiful beautiful photos I can’t get enough
This is amazing video. I also like how the beginning of the filming hasn't been trimmed off. Seeing the Pacific Garden Mall and hearing the Cooper House mentioned as contemporary things sure is something... little did they know in just a few years it would all change again
1:56 When I worked maintenance at the Boardwalk in the 90s we had to do some repairs under the casino. All the burnt pilings were still sticking outta the sand. It was a little eerie. Not as eerie as the room under the carousel.
Thanks, I really enjoyed your quick Capitola history.
18:24 When I was a boy, we knew it as The Cement Boat. I guess the new people who have moved into the area call it The Cement Ship out of ignorance. Besides fishing, we would climb down into the lower section when the tide was low. We were told it was too dangerous, but try telling that to eight year old boys. The fishing: we always went home with fish. Ain't nothing better than eating fresh fish that we cleaned and that my mother would cook.
Early postcards call it the Cement Ship, not boat. The invitation to the launching, May 29, 1919, called it a "ship." Advertisements for the opening in 1930 also used the term "ship." Today there is a trend towards calling it the "Concrete Ship" rather than "Cement Ship," since technically it is made of concrete rather than just cement. The book Forever Facing South by David Heron goes into much more detail.
@@capitolahistoricalmuseum9362 I also grew up in Santa Cruz the 50's-60's calling it the Cement Boat. Local colloquialism I guess. Technically a "boat" is small enough to put on a "ship".
@@capitolahistoricalmuseum9362
I'll just add my voice. We were "summer people" in the 1950s - '60s, and as a kid I learned from the adults around me to call it the "Cement Boat."
I'm not old enough to speak to when (between, say, 1930 and 1950) it was demoted from ship to boat.
It was sometime in the 1970s or '80s that I noted that in common conversation it had become the "Cement Ship," though I understand that would be technically correct due to its size.
"Concrete Ship" is a new one on me. Of course, a few more bad winters and this is all going to be an academic discussion.
Born 1970 and raised in Santa Cruz, for a while we lived on the cliffs of Capitola with a direct view of the "Cement BOAT", it was boat. My first job was at Marini's at the Boardwalk, and we had brochures about local interests, that included the Cement Boat. And just for old time's sake "Valley Go Home".
@@capitolahistoricalmuseum9362 I grew up with an everyday view of the cement ship played and fished almost every day I lived on the Rio del Mar Blvd across from the Aptos Beach Inn I watched it burn and get looted I had an unobstructed view before the condos were built its always been called the cement ship
Liebrant was a first family of downtown sc being my great great grandfather was the first moving company of sc and pugget family married in and was the first sears roebuck of santa cruz county!!! Also Murphy law was the first law office of sc county!!! Our family has been here now 100 + years!!!!
I remember the original sears on pacific tiny place you would go to,to order goods
19:45 When I was a kid in the 70s they hadnt blocked off access yet to the Palo Alto so you were able to climb on it.
Plus back then it was in 2 pieces and upright.
My mother grow up in capitola all cow fields And chicken refineries and again family was her her 100+ years😘
Don't forget the apple orchards.
I was born in 1981 in Santa Cruz California I would go down to the boardwalk every weekend with my family fly kites and went around with no shoes on I was in the earthquake in 1989 earthquake during the World Series that was crazy!!!
2:20 very strange photos
Author, and historian Rick Hamman tried to bring the rail Road back😊
I knew the boy that was talking about running I went to school with him.
What is the chicken song called that’s playing at 7:30 !!!
crazy how a century ago santa cruz as a city had better public transport
Marjorie liebrant was in the movie Noah's ark created by mgm!!!
Is that Taylor's mom?
so you're telling me this guy ruined everything