Oil Well Drilling at DeLaveaga Park #3
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DeLaveaga Park oil derrick
Greater Santa Cruz Oil Corporation drilled an exploratory oil well in the late 1920's.
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Gift of Xenia Totten
From the family album of Frances Lausen Totten
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circa 1929
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The Santa Cruz Evening News had articles about the drilling by the Greater Santa Cruz Oil Corporation on these dates: 10/21/1929, 10/26/1929, 4/16/1930.
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Oil Well Drilling at DeLaveaga Park #2
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DeLaveaga Park oil derrick with several automobiles
Greater Santa Cruz Oil Corporation drilled an exploratory well in the late 1920's.
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Gift of Xenia Totten
From the family album of Frances Lausen Totten
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
circa 1929
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The Santa Cruz Evening News had articles about the drilling by the Greater Santa Cruz Oil Corporation on these dates: 10/21/1929, 10/26/1929, 4/16/1930.
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Oil Well Drilling at DeLaveaga Park #1
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DeLaveaga Park oil derrick
Greater Santa Cruz Oil Corporation drilled an exploratory oil well in the late 1920's
Unknown
Gift of Xenia Totten
From the family album of Frances Lausen Totten
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
circa 1929
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The Santa Cruz Evening News had articles about the drilling by the Greater Santa Cruz Oil Corporation on these dates: 10/21/1929, 10/26/1929, 4/16/1930.
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Picnic at DeLaveaga Park
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Several automobiles at DeLaveaga Park, described as being at a "picnic at the oil derrick."
In the 1920's Greater Santa Cruz Oil Corporation explored for oil in DeLaveaga Park.
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Gift of Xenia Totten
From the family album of Frances Lausen Totten
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
late-1920's
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1920s
Early Film Studios in Santa Cruz County
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Young, Ann
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
1998
Text copyright 1998 Santa Cruz Public Libraries.
Full text of some of the cited articles are in the <a href="https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/collections/show/3/">Local News Index.</a>
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DeLaveaga Left His Fortune for Parks and for Charity
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Gibson, Ross Eric
<i>San Jose Mercury News</i>, November 1, 1994, p. 1B.
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11/1/1994
Copyright 1994 Ross Eric Gibson. Reprinted by permission of Ross Eric Gibson.
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Zoo in Santa Cruz
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A zoo was once a feature of the Pacheco area of DeLaveaga Park beginning around 1912. Some of the animals included in the zoo were buffalo, elk, deer and a bear. It was closed by the Parks and Recreation Commission in 1933.
Santa Cruz Sentinel, Oct. 23, 1966
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For more information on the origin of the Park, see also the article "DeLaveaga Left His Fortune for Parks and for Charity."
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Union Traction streetcar No. 30
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Passengers boarding Union Traction streetcar #30 at the Pacheco Avenue entrance to DeLaveaga Park.
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February 1913
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DeLaveaga Park, Pergola 3
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De Laveaga Park, Pergola 3.
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