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Debris, a bicycle, and a dumpster outside the St. George Hotel after the 1989 earthquake. The Sock Shop sign and door are visible.
The Palomar was one of the few very old buildings to survive the 1989 earthquake. The new owners had just completed a retrofit at the time of the Loma Prieta earthquake. A new style of adhesive was used to glue the cracks caused by the quake.
Two workers in the cleanup and reconstruction effort--in front of the Hotel Metropole, later demolished.
This building used to be the livery stable of the Hotel d'Italia.
View of the beach, waves and cliffs near 17th Avenue. The three-story building in the background is the Santa Maria del Mar Hotel, later known as Villa Maria del Mar. In April 1891, James Corcoran, Patrick Moran and Henry Johans donated land to the…
The Southern Pacific Railroad station at Seabright. The sign on the roof reads, "To San Francisco." with what appear to be departure times underneath. Next to the depot is the Seabright Hotel. The 1906-7 city directory lists the hotel at the corner…
Hotel Hagemann on Pacific Avenue. The 1896 book, Santa Cruz County, remarked, "No better table is set at the high-priced hotels than the table at the Hagemann, and yet the charge is but twenty-five cents, or two bits, as the Californian almost…
Crowd waiting for the trolley at Capitola Beach. The large building in the background is the Capitola Hotel.
View of Capitola. In the distance to the right is the Capitola Hotel. A little below it, to the right, is a building with a sign identifying it as a "Bath House."
View of the Hotel Capitola. Built by F. A. Hihn, the main part of the hotel was completed in 1895. The 160-room resort was destroyed by fire, December 16, 1929.