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Scene from the film, "Lily of Poverty Flat." Beatriz Michelena is shown here in her role as "the Lily." She is standing on one of the streets of the "mining town" constructed in Boulder Creek by her film company. The mining town served as the setting…

Date: 1915
Type: PHOTO

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Scene from the film, "Lily of Poverty Flat." Jack Hamlin, Colonel Starbottle, and Culpepper are playing poker in the Jumping Frog Saloon.

Date: 1915
Type: PHOTO

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A scene from the film, "Salomy Jane." Salomy Jane, played by Beatriz Michelena, rides away from the vigilantes with a character called, "the Man."

Date: 1914
Type: PHOTO

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Scene from the "Secret Formula." It was shot in Santa Cruz county in 1916 and starred Judith Parker. The Santa Cruz Evening News commented, "The Secret Formula is a cleverly constructed story and ends happily after several very dramatic episodes.…

Date: 1916
Type: PHOTO

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Landmark Photo Project

Date: Jun-01
Source: Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Type: PHOTO

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Streetcar #17 of the Union Traction Company, traveling southbound past the Santa Cruz Theatre, on Pacific Avenue at Walnut.

Date: ca. 1920
Type: PHOTO

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The Del Mar Theatre seen through vacant lots and parking lots.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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The Grand Theatre, one of the first movie theaters in Santa Cruz, was on Pacific Avenue, across the street from Walnut. The posters in front of the theater advertise "The Eternal City" (1915), "Marriage a la Carte" (1915 and 1916), and a film…

Date: ca. 1915
Type: PHOTO

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The Unique Theatre was located on Pacific Avenue (north of the Del Mar Theater). It opened on August 8, 1904 as a seven-hundred-seat vaudeville house and was later turned into a movie theater. In 1936, it was demolished.

Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO

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The pool with bathers at Town and Country Lodge, Ben Lomond, CA.

Date: 1952
Type: POSTCARD

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