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Local News Index
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An index to newspaper and periodical articles from a variety of Santa Cruz publications.
It is a collection of over 87,000 articles, primarily from the <em>Santa Cruz Sentinel</em>, that have been clipped and filed in subject folders. While these articles of local interest range in date from the early 1900's to the present, most of the collection and clipped articles are after roughly 1960. There is an ongoing project to scan the complete articles and include them in this collection.<br /><br />Also included are more than 350 full-text local newspaper articles on films and movie-making and on the Japanese-American internment.<br /><br /> In addition, this is an online index for births, deaths, and personal names from <em>The Mountain Echo.</em> The complete print index is available at the library. For more information see <a href="https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/134957#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0">The Mountain Echo</a>.
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While there is some overlap between this index and <a href="https://www.santacruzpl.org/historic_newspaper_index/">the Historic Newspaper Index</a><a> (approximately 1856-1960), they are different databases and are searched separately.</a>
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Tree Circus
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Tree Circus
Erlandson, Axel
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Dunn, Geoffrey
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Photograph Collection
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Axel Erlandson Next to Emblem Tree
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Tree Circus
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Erlandson Family
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Scotts Valley Historical Society
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Circa 1950
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Photographs from the 1860's to the 2000's, documenting the history of Santa Cruz County.
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Axel Erlandson Standing Under Four-Legged Giant Tree
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Tree Circus
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Axel Erlandson created the collection of trees in Scotts Valley known as the Tree Circus
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Scotts Valley Historical Society
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Tree Circus Heart Tree with Daughter
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Tree Circus
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Tree Circus Heart Tree with Axel Erlandson's daughter
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Erlandson Family
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Scotts Valley Historical Society
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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En
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Tree Circus Poplar Archway
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Tree Circus
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Axel Erlandson with daughter in Turlock (Calif.) before moving to Scotts Valley
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Erlandson Family
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Scotts Valley Historical Society
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Entrance to the Tree Circus
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Tree Circus
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The Tree Circus
By Sharon Yamanaka
The Tree Circus started as a tourist attraction in Scotts Valley in 1947. It featured sculpted trees, their
trunks shaped into curlicues, hearts, diamonds, squares and zigzags. The trees had names that
included the Oliver Twist Tree, Needle and Thread Tree, Double Corkscrew, and Cathedral Window.
Axel Erlandson was the creator of these tree trunk topiaries. He was born in 1884, the son of Swedish
immigrants. In the early 1900s his family moved from Minnesota to a farm in central California. In the
mid-1920s, Erlandson started grafting and shaping tree trunks as a hobby. He primarily used
sycamore and box elder for his sculpture but also included willow, poplar, ash, birch, alder, loquat
and apple.
Erlandson crafted about 28 sculptured trees at his farm near Turlock, California. By the mid-1940s,
Erlandson was ready to retire from farming and concentrate his efforts on his trees. He purchased a
parcel on Scotts Valley Drive and transplanted about a dozen of his living trees, some were over 20
years old. In 1947, the Tree Circus opened for business with a 25-cent admission fee. The Tree Circus
appeared often in Ripley's "Believe It or Not!" during the late 1940s and 1950s. It also appeared in
Life Magazine and other national and international publications.
Photo of one of the original
In the early 1960s, Erlandson tried unsuccessfully to have the state parks take over the management trees
of his enterprise. In 1963, due to poor health, he sold the property along with the trees. Axel
Erlandson died in 1964. At that time, about 74 of his arboreal sculptures remained. During next twenty years the
property changed hands and the trees suffered from neglect.
Mark Primack, a Santa Cruz architect became a knowledgeable authority on the Tree Circus and the life of Axel
Erlandson. Through his efforts many of the trees were saved. His campaign to save the trees caught the attention of
Michael Bonfante, a nurseryman, tree lover and owner of Nob Hill Foods. In 1984, he purchased the collection of 25
circus trees.
By the mid-1970s, Bonfante had created a park for Nob Hill employees in the Gilroy Area. He envisioned expanding it
into a garden theme park open to the public. After selling Nob Hill Foods to Raley's in 1998, Bonfante turned his
complete attention to creating the Bonfante Gardens Theme Park on the Hecker Pass Highway. The Park opened in 2001
with the living sculpted trees as one of the attractions. In March 2007 the Park reopened with a new name: Gilroy
Gardens Family Theme Park. Gilroy Gardens is "a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational institution whose mission is to
educate and inspire families, especially children, to appreciate horticulture and the importance of trees in our lives." The
legacy of Axel Erlandson lives on.
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Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park Website (gilroygardens.org) visited Feb 1, 2009
Hilgers, Laura. "Out on a Limb" Via. March–April, 2001. pp. 46-49.
Reames, Richard. How to Grow a Chair. Williams, OR: Arborsmith Studios, 1995.
The photograph is the property of the Santa Cruz City Museum of Natural History. It is used here with
permission.
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information. However, it is not possible for the Library to completely verify the accuracy of individual articles obtained from a
variety of sources. If you believe that factual statements in a local history article are incorrect and can provide documentation,
please contact the Webmaster.
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The Tree Circus
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Yamanaka, Sharon
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Tree Circus
Erlandson, Axel
Bonfante Gardens
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Scotts Valley
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Tourist Attractions