🛣️ Driving back to Santa Cruz this weekend after spring break? Check out this old photograph from the Highway 17 opening ceremony in 1939. To see more historical Santa Cruz County photographs, visit buff.ly/OMYBhTs
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🏖️ Happy spring break slugs! The warm weather means that the Santa Cruz Boardwalk will be a popular spot this weekend. In this photo from the 1960s, you can see just how crowded the beach could get! To see more historical photographs of Santa Cruz, visit buff.ly/ZlznbS7 #yoursantacruz #ucsclibrary

☕ College students have always craved coffee! Check out this old photograph from the 1930s of College Daze Coffee Shop. Although this shop no longer exists, there are lots of coffee shops still in Santa Cruz to feed your coffee kick!
Happy studying!
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Explore a glimpse of history with this circa 1900 photo of Henry L. Middleton's home in Boulder Creek. He was a lumberman. Those depicted in the carriage are his family, and he is stood on the porch.
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A view of Pacific Ave N from Locust St, likely sometime between 1935 and 1939. Nowadays, the Sock Shop is right there on the corner. If you stand there and line up the tower near Zoccoli's, you'll enjoy the same view through a modern lens!
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This photo from approx. 1935-1950 shows us the Venetian Court Apartments in Capitola. The apartments are still standing down by the Capitola Wharf. Have you been there before? What's the best part?
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This 1880-1900 photo brings us to Glenwood Magnetic Springs, a 210 acre resort established in 1877. The resort closed in the early 1910s, though it is unknown exactly when. Would you soak in a magnetic hot spring? Maybe not after a hip replacement!
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