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J. D. Cochran's Meat Market. Next door is Johnny Beck's Grocery Store.

Date: 1893
Type: PHOTO

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Stores along Central Avenue in Boulder Creek. In the middle of the street are signs advertising a grocery and liquor store, San Lorenzo Valley Drugs, and the Forest Swimming Pool. Towards the front of the photo are a Shell gas station and a Chevron…

Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO

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Looking down Pacific Avenue. The store on the far left is Field and Cole Company's Big Curio Store. There is a streetcar half-way down the block. The Union Traction Company was converting the streetcar tracks from narrow gauge to standard gauge. The…

Date: April 1907
Type: PHOTO

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Tractors in a parade down Main Street, Watsonville.

Date: ca. 1948
Type: PHOTO

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The McHugh and Bianchi Building, on Pacific Aveune at the convergence of Pacific and Front. It was built by LeBaron R. Olive for Anson Hotaling in 1886-87 and torn down in 1974. Originally, the first floor was used for shops. The second floor was a…

Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO

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The intersection of Pacific and Walnut (on the left) Avenues. The truck in the middle of the intersection is advertising the "Marion Toaster an early electric toaster, by driving a large model of the toaster around. The town clock is visible half-way…

Date: late 1920s or early 1930s
Type: PHOTO

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Electric streetcars of the Union Traction Company, horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians at the intersection of Pacific and Soquel (on the right) Avenues. Streetcar #17, on Pacific, is bound for Vue de l'eau. The town clock is partially visible…

Date: 1904
Type: PHOTO

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Parade on Pacific Avenue, viewed from the corner of Lincoln and Pacific. The group in the front is the Alert Hose Company, a volunteer fire brigade. The building on the right with the squared off tower is the Masonic Hall. Further down the street, on…

Date: 1873--1899 (when first town clock was destroyed by fire) The 1879 Directory lists Lyman Swan as having a bakery on Pacific Avenue.
Type: PHOTO

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Destruction from the October 17, 1989 earthquake on Pacific Avenue between Church and Walnut Streets. Roberts Leathers store is in the background.

Date: 1989-10-17
Type: PHOTO

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The entrance to Roberts Leathers on Pacific Avenue, between Church and Walnut Streets, the day after the earthquake. The building was later razed.

Date: 1989-10-18
Type: PHOTO

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