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.
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 :(
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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. 👷♀️ 🤣 😂 😎 😅 🤪 🤪 👷♂️
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.
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 . ♥️♥️♥️
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 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.
"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.
@@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....
@@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....
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.
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!
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..
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.
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.
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.
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. :)
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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. 🤣
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.
So this was filmed in the summer of 1955. I was living in our new house in Los Altos. I was 6 years old at the time. It was about 6 months later, December 22, 1955. Which chronicled one of the deadliest rain storms in California history. I believe it was worse than the January 2nd 1982 storm.
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.
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
12:10 so that's what natural bridges actually looked like... I went on a filed trip for a geography lab course. My professor told us about how people used to *drive* over the sea arch shown. Sad to see its gone. But hey, that's erosion.
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 "
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...
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!
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
Hey same here!
@@sailingavocet same here... And thats 57 years for this "whole life"
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.
I love these old videos.
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.
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 :(
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.
@@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.
@@do-hz4qb damn only 5 million Central Americans came ? That can’t even keep up with the Mexican population. Stay mad
@@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.
@@KagamoneyLen I'm confused. Where did I mention latinos?
Back when the beaches were clean and you could swim in the water.... good times.
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
+bythebay CK yeah, and they don't make newspapers out of redwood. Watching the gorgeous tree come down was sad.
+Tom Murphy such was the bliss (ignorance?) of the 50's. . .
@@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.
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.
Looking back , growing up in the 60s and 70s in Santa Cruz , was such a magical time.
"Was" is the key word in that statement.
I can relate though. 65-2000 for me and those were GREAT times.
Let's be honest, you dont watch a video like this unless you live here.
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.
Yessir, west side sc !
Damn right
I’m watching haha love these kind of documentaries
I don’t live there but I visit every chance I get I’m only 2 hours away
"Gently sloping into the warm pacific waters!" The water on the CA coast has been and always will be freezing!
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. 👷♀️ 🤣 😂 😎 😅 🤪 🤪 👷♂️
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...
Did you notice that the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk never had a bandstand at first during the entire 1960s and the entire 1970s? 🤔
Warm waters of the Pacific?? In Santa Cruz?
😂🤣🤣😆
Propaganda.
Usually cold water
Haha. I missed that! False advertising.
LIES
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.
Ya not salinas
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 . ♥️♥️♥️
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.
Techies? Ha ha ha. It was UCSC that ruined Santa cruz.
@@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.
Seeing the redwoods cut down makes me sad.
I had to skip the part where they were cutting down the tree 🥲
"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.
Huh?
@@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....
@Lorin Wilson Mexico. Puerto Vallarta. They have the cleanest beaches and warmest waters, even in the sunsets it's beautiful. You should go.
@@MaryJane-xe1ej true. That's true.
@@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....
Amazing, lived there in the 80s its paradise
our play ground growing up
thanks for wonderful memories
the good ole days
people dressed nice and weren't fatties
cheers
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.
Saying that it’s changed a lot is an understatement! (Yes, I live in Santa Cruz).
Great footage of my home town--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!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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. :)
I went to Gault School in 2006!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thats for damn sure.
Neither are you or me!
I don't live IN Santa Cruz, but in a neighboring area. Crazy to see how much it's changed, pretty sad.
Casino? Ah the good ol days...
I wish i couldve seen the inside of neptune's kingdom when it was a giant swimming pool. The old pictures are crazy enough
Notice how almost no one is 100 lbs over weight. Think about that
nobody is here now also+
There aren't many obese on the central coast counties of California.
@Виктор Певцов experiment welfare!
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!
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.
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
Sounds cool. I wish I could have experienced those days. Things seemed better back then.
1945 my siblings and I walked the boardwalk we were the only ones there aside from a person here & there.
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.
Ahhh, the good old days when you could leave a bike unlocked outside for more than 2 minutes without someone stealing it.
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.
I remember the beach boardwalk in the
1950's. It was such fun.
Excuse me but wtf
@@osirissolano6962 old people exist...
@@stutterpunk9573 nooo.... Old people are extinct....
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.
1:53 was the last time a man wore a suit to Boardwalk
We loved this Movie, our wonderful home. Virgil lived here his whole life and I have lived here since 1972. Awesome movie from 1955.
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
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
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
Sorry brother. Thats why I left over 21yrs ago, and I thought it was bad then.
Today? Fahgettaboutit!
love this. Thank you for posting. My family lived there then. Born and raised for many years. sweet to see
Amazing as yet unseen (to me anyway) footage of Santa Cruz in its heyday....
Those. Were the good ole days😢
Watsonville my home town
everything looked so nice
Watching that old redwood fall was heartbreaking
I have some great memories in Santa Cruz.
2 thumbs up. pure love!
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.
This is a real gem! Thanks for uploading it.
Insane not seeing any hippies or tie dye shirts.
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.
Might be called the dolphin now
This was in my recommended and it’s so cool but like how do they know I just moved to Santa Cruz...
Location services. They're how they target ads at you and they're scary.
Hey Sophie
Do you know why they know it’s because your phone is listening to you look it up
They're watching Sophie! they have all our info in the cloud. What do you think about that ?
Love, Thankyou.
this makes me happy
If I can live back in the 50’s I would soooo fast. 🤍
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......
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.
Born in Watsonville, moved to soquel now living in Oregon
Related to Lalo?(rip)
@@hekterr6677 unfortunately no. I did however get head from Lalo’s daughter, Britney. Hopefully, the Lalo I know, is still alive. Been a while.
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.
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.
Great ride back in time.
I was waiting for this to turn into one of those found footage clips from the movie Sinister.
Santa Cruz used to be my favorite
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.
Yeah it’s not the same with out twaked out people
And driftwood it you know him
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 LIVE THERE!!!! I LIVE RIGHT BY THE BOARDWALK
whats yoour address
Excuse me you think I’m gonna say my address
@@stutterpunk9573 oh sorry idk, why not
So what? Why the fuck ya screamin?
@@paulcavigliano6388 because I'm excited lol
Wow, history miss Watsonville representing miss California. She really was from santa cruz, but still santa cruz county representing Watsonville
Yep.. it was a great thing do you have here in our County before it got ran out by the Feminists!!
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.
This tripped me out brookdale lodge looks so different
How wonderful.
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Watsonville City Santa Cruz
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.
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. 🤣
Love from boulder creek
TOM Vlogs same 👍
US blast from the past I’ve lived here my whole life as well
I still mis boulder creek it was beautiful
santa cruz is the ultimate place of freedom and happiness. the most thriving place in california.
Not anymore
You’re joking right?
@@tonymontana7263 its no worse than it used to be.
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@@stutterpunk9573 it aint nuthin like it used to be... But aint much is i suppose!!
Wow santa cruz hasent changed lived there my whole 11 years still live there!
"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.
Love it, thanks a lot for sharing!
With my time machine I gone back to 1955, no some notice me in background (waving/holding a cell phone)
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
Yea I’m right behind you in my 51 chevy
They're out there having fun in that warm California sun
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.
Awesome! Except for that whole logging part....
There is nothing wrong with logging. Trees are replaceable. Maybe you want a plastic house.
@@humelakecabin 2000 year old old growth trees aren't exactly replaceable in a timely manner......
So great!
So this was filmed in the summer of 1955. I was living in our new house in Los Altos. I was 6 years old at the time. It was about 6 months later, December 22, 1955. Which chronicled one of the deadliest rain storms in California history. I believe it was worse than the January 2nd 1982 storm.
The storms of 81/82 gave it a challenge tho.
Love It😍
How cool is this! 👍
I always wondered why my family moved from Italy and Oklahoma to here lol
Why all immigrants come here.
If they moved from OK in the 30s it was from the Dust Bowl
Let’s be honest Geotracking recommendations are kinda sus
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.
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
Where exactly is that?
@@WayneOverbeck on hwy 9 the roaf infront of Henry Cowell entrance takes it all the way up to the quary
@@WayneOverbeck where did you get the amazing 1930's footage?
12:10 so that's what natural bridges actually looked like... I went on a filed trip for a geography lab course. My professor told us about how people used to *drive* over the sea arch shown. Sad to see its gone. But hey, that's erosion.
Wow. That is cool to see. I would imagine it is pretty soft stone?
I drove over natural bridges, what is your address?
@@andresrosado-ubando5421 I live in Live Oak
@@thisisntsergio1352 what street
Man they’re really pushing the warm pacific water even tho the hottest it gets is 62 degrees
A little white lie to bring in the tourist.
Who remembers the salt water swimming pool on the boardwalk ?
Think it was called, "The Plunge."
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 "
So nice too see this part of California before it went to crap. Kind of depressing actually.
woah WOAH!!!ITS STILL FUCKING AWESOME HERE
Santa Cruz is still great, but like every city, we have our problems
What do you mean by crap?
@@Cali_Man If you weren't there back in the day (before 1968) you couldn't possibly understand.
My Dad Worked at Salz Tannery!! 1950's
Well he sure has a pipping hot daughter
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...
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!