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Rowboaters on Soquel Creek. In the background are three bridges. The closest one is for wagon and pedestrian traffic and next to it, is the streetcar bridge built by the Union Traction Company. In the background is the Southern Pacific railroad…
Men fishing in the San Lorenzo River near the Riverside Avenue Bridge.
The Soquel Avenue Bridge was built in 1874 and was one of the three major crossings over the San Lorenzo River. In 1921, it was dismantled and replaced with a concrete bridge.
Taken from the east bank of the San Lorenzo River. View is where the Boardwalk and Beach Flats are today. ca. 1890's
Work motor No. 100 crossing the Water Street Bridge. It is carrying materials and track laborers to the construction site of Union Traction's Laveaga Park branch.
Along the Capitola line, a Santa Cruz bound Union Traction streetcar heads westward, across the Twin Lakes trestle over Schwan Lake.
Soquel Bridge, built in 1912. The span across Soquel Creek was constructed by Nelson Mosher who had submitted a bid of $4,865.
View of Capitola, showing Soquel Cove, with the bridge over the Soquel Creek to the upper right.