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Hides were stacked after being removed from the salt pits. They could be stored for months in salt. Hides were brine cured and dosed with rock salt to preserve them in transit.
The installation of the Salz fountain in 1975 required an enormous crane to move the sculpture from River Street down into the courtyard. Its placement was further complicated by the presence of a mature oak tree that once filled in the courtyard…
Jeremy Lezin, right, is the new president of Salz Leathers. His father, Norman, left, remains chairman and chief executive officer. Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel
Joe Bellas, plant superintendent at the Salz Tannery during the 1950's holds the finished leather product. Bellas was Yugoslavian, and according to the Lezin family "tough and fair".
Salz president, Norman Lezin graduated from Reed College and originally wanted to pursue a career as a government worker. His marriage to Ansley Salz's daughter, Margaret brought him to Santa Cruz. He fell in love with the business and decided to…
Salz owner and president, Norman Lezin inspects tanoak bark. This was used to "vegetable" tan the leather. Tanoak was used as the primary tanning source until the early 1960's. After that leather was tanned by using a chrome process.
Norman Lezin, chairman of Salz Leathers Inc., walks through the company's River Street plant Friday, hours after the announcement the 145-year-old company will cease operations. Schmuel Thaler/Sentinel photos.
The oldest building at Salz was probably built around 1861. It was the original "beam house", that housed the wet operations at Salz. The photo is taken from Highway 9. A horse and wagon used to move bark to the tannery from the drying sheds paused…
Papa Anecito used horse and wagon to transport the tanoak bark from the drying sheds across Highway 9 to the main Salz Tannery buildings. On the very rare days when he was sick and couldn't make it to Salz, other employees had a very hard time…