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A crowd gathered around Union Traction streetcar #18, overturned at Soquel and Pacific. The conductor and most passengers had left the car after an earlier accident. The unattended car rolled backwards along Soquel Avenue until it left the tracks at…
Downtown Santa Cruz after the fire of 1894. Streetcar #7 of the Santa Cruz Electric line is passing the burned out area.
A crowd gathered around Union Traction streetcar # 18, overturned at Soquel and Pacific. The car was en route to Capitola when it collided with an automobile at the Soquel Avenue trestle. The conductor and all passengers except Mrs. Hildreth Foster…
After a storm, the Union Traction Company's streetcar tracks washed out at the curve from the Twin Lakes trestle to 12th Avenue, interrupting service to Capitola until a replacement bridge could be built.
Aftermath of the October 1, 1913 fire which destroyed the first Santa Cruz High School. Before the school was built in 1895, high school students were taught in the top floor of the Mission Hill School. Until the new school opened in 1915, temporary…
The remains of the first Santa Cruz High School, after it burned down on October 1, 1913. The high school had been dedicated in 1895. After the fire, classes were held at various locations throughout the city until the current high school opened in…
Meeting (to discuss flood issues?) in Santa Cruz City Council Chambers. The speaker is Val Peterson, Federal Director of Civil Defense. The other men are unidentified.
Gov. Goodwin J. Knight (second from the left) talking with Soquel citizens in front of Izant Hardware Store.
Federal and state officials visiting the flood-damaged Soquel Bridge. From right to left are Val Peterson, Federal Director of Civil Defense
Federal, state, and local officials examining the flood-damaged Soquel Bridge.