Hey fellow Santa Cruzians. Found this 1974 production about Santa Cruz. Some great footage of the 20 or so years I was there plus history.

I moved there about the time this film was made. Santa Cruz was pretty awesome back then. I moved away 20 or so years ago,but great memories I have.

I was 12 when this video was made and was always running around unsupervised downtown, and on the wharf and Boardwalk. I vividly remember the Flying Karamzov Brothers juggling. They were super talented and witty and would go on to become somewhat famous, even today.... I loved it when they were in town. What a great place to grow up. Believe it or not, there were quite a few homeless panhandlers then, a lot of drugs, cult members hitting up on young people, and no shortage of jerks of every flavor. I had eyes on the back of my head in the 70's as a teenager, roaming the streets, beaches and rivers.

Moved to Boulder creek in 1984 bought my cabin for 39k lived there until. 1993 best times in my life great county!

I was born in Santa Cruz in 1961:)

My mother was friends with.Al Johnsen and would throw pottery at his studio,we moved to Rio Del Mar in 1959 she was a professional artist and knew all the artist in Santa Cruz my father worked for Sylvania and Plantronics ll worked at AR Wood and many other business. My mother was the artist for Leasks and Fords l built and remodeled many of the buildings in Santa Cruz and SLV l went through the 89 earthquake and 82 flood

The older man with the pinchon horse and pulling tank bark ,is a ansel Adams photo , his last name was anecito , there is a reprint of it on the tannery history wall , he was my wife’s grandfather , there last name is anecito , his son and the grandsons all worked at the tannery through the later years it is at minute 5:03

Very Interesting Documentary on Santa Cruz Great Find

Nice I love Santa Cruz got there in 1995 beautiful energy namaste

wow such a treasure. these memories are something else.

Thank you so much for posting this. So much rich history! At 16:21…the brick building on the corner of Pacific and Soquel Avenue made me gasp, seeing it after all these years. I loved that building so much…the windows and architecture. So sad when it came down after the earthquake.

A very very nice video congratulations

My home town! I miss it! It was an awesome place to live!

Thanks for sharing. My family moved there in 1975 (when I was 5) and I left in 1991(@ 21). Much of what the filmed showed reminded me of my elementary years.

There was even clips of the Cooper House courtyard!!!

God, no wonder my parents moved here back then!

Still here. Thanks for posting

This is a really amazing video. Thank you for posting it!

I loved this video. Thanks so much for posting it .I was just saying yesterday how much I loved walking on the pacific garden mall and going to the Cooper house. This was amazing.!!

I wasn't even alive then and looking at it...my mom was born around this year and this is just crazy.

I liked this video grew up in aptos and remember going to Santa Cruz to the boardwalk

Wow! What A Great Film!, David From Ca.

This is fabulous!

Great video I wanna see more

This is so rad. Thank You!!!

Never a true moment. I love Santa Cruz, both my adult kids were born here. IT'S TO BAD THE 89 EARTHQUAKE DIDN'T SMASH THE MISSION.

I love these recollections... especially the lady with the fantastic hat at 13:15

Alice Earl Wilder at minute 15 - great stuff!

Very Cool!

Fantastic!

I was going to Loma Pieta Jr. High when they made this show while living in a Group Home.

A great oral history of SC given by notable old timers

Great stuff...notice the only beggers are the sea lions. Too bad SC went downhill shortly after this was shot. Note the use of the wireless mics which were a new thing back then. Pretty nice production values for this piece too. This production was not cheap by any means.

Very interesting.

Great video! Thank you!

The area was "discovered" way before 1602. The earliest Californians were adventurous Asians who made their way across the Bering Straits to Alaska thousands of years ago.

Wow this is awesome ❤

did you see the haunted house!! omg!! wow I miss this place!

Back when you didn’t have to make 1.9 million a year to live in a studio in Santa Cruz.

Thanks for sharing! This is awesome :)

5:45 isnt that where that outdoor theater area is at UCSC?

Nice

Slugs!!!

Amazing video. I remember the 60s and what Santa Cruz looked like then. The people that built Santa Cruz worked to the bone. Nowadays nobody wants to work people have become so slack as to working from home on a computer. Remembering the parties and Roach rock, or the White Lady on Graham Hill Rd. Odd Fellows Cemetery Crematorium, Had some scary night's at 1am. Great Video Thanks..

I would love to have a cabin

I swear I saw puppies there too! 17:00

Tell those people to get out from under Natural Bridges! Did it finally fall in, what, 1980?

California was literally paradise until the early '70s. It's been downhill ever since

New Year's Island?

8:19

So sad to see what Santa Cruz has become I moved to Santa Cruz in 1874 Had to move out due to the city allowing a huge violent homeless camp to move in to the San Lorenzo park 1/2 block from my apartment The drug use and violence just got too dangerous and the city of Santa Cruz would not protect the seniors living near the park I took my tax dollars elsewhere

The did not teach the Native Americans, they enslaved them to build the missions

So they cut those GIANT trees with surgical precision with nothing but a handsaw? 😂

Fantastic!