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.
Santa Cruz Mayor John Maher posed with Birney safety car #23 and Mack bus #1 of the Union Traction Company. The company was changing service from streetcars to buses. Streetcar #23 had just completed the last Laveaga Park run.
Thomas W. Wright, County Surveyor from 1851-1858 and 1876-1879. He laid out many county roads and the first railways. In 1887, he made an anti-mortem donation of his fieldnotes and maps to the county, as he had "no next of kin." (Santa Cruz Surf, 4/8/1887, p. 3 col. 6.) He died November 15, 1897.
Charles Houck. A graduate of Santa Cruz High, he was admitted to the bar in 1894. He practiced law in Santa Cruz, and was a Justice of the Peace and a United States Commissioner.
View of Santa Cruz City Hall designed by C. J. Ryland in the Monterey Colonial Revival style. In 1938, the building replaced the old City Hall housed in the Frederick A. Hihn Mansion.