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A shovel on a bulldozer cleans up the remains of demolished buildings in downtown Santa Cruz near the Del Mar Theatre. The building housing Pretty Mama is still standing, boarded up.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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Photo taken possibly more than a year after the earthquake, when the Del Mar reopened; it does not show earthquake damage or closed streets.

Date: Unknown
Type: PHOTO

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The Del Mar Theatre from the rear; like the rest of Pacific Avenue, it is closed off.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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Actors and actresses from the film, "Don't Marry" which was filmed at the Santa Cruz Golf and Country Club (Pogonip). They posed here with carrier pigeon containers from Sperry Air Service. "The members of the company sent messages via the pigeons to…

Date: 1920's or 1930's
Type: PHOTO

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Norma Talmadge (?) holding a pigeon from Sperry Air Service. The sign in front is advertising "The Dove," a silent film which was released in late 1927.

Date: ca. 1927
Type: PHOTO

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Pacific Avenue looking towards the mountains. The Del Mar movie theater is on the right. The street is being repaired because of the damage from the 1989 earthquake.

Date: 1990
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 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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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 which was based on a story by Bret Harte. In this scene "Old Man" Clay argues with Colonel Starbottle. Beatriz Michelena as "the Lily" looks on.

Date: 1915
Type: PHOTO

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