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Castle on Seabright Beach, also known as Castle Beach
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Scholl-Mar Castle
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Castle Beach (Seabright Beach) with Scholl-Mar Castle
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Note on back: This lighthouse stands as the dividing point between Monterey Bay and the Pacific Ocean...The Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse offers visitors a sweeping view of the Pacific Ocean coastline.
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Circa 1960s
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Laura J. F. Hecox
By Frank Perry
From 1869 to 1941 the federal government maintained a white, twostory lighthouse at Santa Cruz. Located near the site of the present
beacon, it was built to aid the many schooners and steamers that
came to Santa Cruz then to pick up lime, lumber, and hides. Through
the years three different people served there as keepers. The longest
to stay at the post was Laura Hecox. She faithfully tended the light
each night for 33 years.
Miss Hecox was born in Santa Cruz in 1854. She was the daughter of
Adna and Margaret Hecox, who had come to California by wagon
train in 1846. Adna Hecox was appointed first keeper of the Santa
Cruz light in December of 1869. Laura aided her father with his duties
until he died in 1883, after which she was appointed keeper.
The old-fashioned oil lamp and lens then used in the light- house
required several hours of maintenance daily. She had to regularly
polish the lens, which on clear nights directed the light 14 miles out to
sea. Miss Hecox was a particularly tidy lightkeeper, and was always
praised at the quarterly inspections for her spotless lighthouse.
When not cleaning, painting, or repairing the lighthouse, she devoted Photograph of Miss Hecox
time to her collection of marine life, minerals, Indian baskets, and
other curios. She turned one room of the lighthouse into a small museum for the enjoyment of visitors. In 1904 she
donated her collections to the City of Santa Cruz. From these collections grew the present Santa Cruz City Museum in
Seabright.
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Copyright 1984 Frank Perry. Reproduced with the permission of the author.
Photograph courtesy of the Santa Cruz City Museum.
For more information about Laura Hecox and the lighthouse, read Mr. Perry's book, which is available at the
Library: "The Lighthouse Point: Reflections on Monterey Bay History". Soquel, CA., GBH Publishing, 1982.
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Laura J.F. Hecox
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1984-
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Santa Cruz’s Town Clock
By Carmen Morones and Rechs Ann Pedersen
The First Town Clock
The Town Clock, which towers over the convergence of Pacific Avenue and Water and Front Streets, is actually Santa
Cruz’s second town clock. The first town clock was built as part of the original IOOF building, constructed in 1873.
"It had four faces and was similar, yet a little different from the present clock. The first one escaped the great fire of
1894 which leveled almost everything in the block from Cooper Street north, and which took the brick courthouse. Then
another devastating fire struck the down town May of 1899, and the town clock was so badly damaged it was practically
destroyed. It had cost $1000 and was built by public subscription. "[1]
The Second and Current Town Clock
The IOOF building was re-built that same year or early 1900, along with a new clock
tower, also atop the building. [1, 2] A brass plate on the clockworks dates the clock at
January 22, 1900. [3]
The bell tolled every hour and every half hour for fifty years. [21] In 1929, hotel
managers at the St. George and the Palomar complained to the City that the nightly
tolling was preventing their guests from sleeping at night. The hour bell was allowed to
run down and was not rewound. [4] Many citizens protested the silencing of the Clock
and in July 1933, the Odd Fellows found a satisfactory solution. The Clock once again
tolled the hours, but only during the hours between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. [22,23]
The Town Clock on Pacific Ave., ca
1916. Photo from the Library's
collection.
In July 1964, the IOOF building was remodeled. The Town Clock was removed with no
plans to put it back in its original location. The "Santa Cruz County Supervisors offered
$1 for it, but directors of IOOF lodge refused. They sold it to the City of Santa Cruz for
$1.01 because city councilmen promised to 'display it in an appropriate place'" [5]
When the clock was dismantled, the suggested plan was to move the Clock to the
Santa Cruz Museum. However, this plan did not materialize. The Clock, in pieces, was
stored away in various places and finally at Harvey West Park. [6]
A New Location
The Clock stayed in storage until the 1970's when it's restoration became the City's United States Bicentennial project.
[7]The Town Clock was moved to the area bounded by Knight Street, Water Street and Pacific Avenue, sometimes
referred to as lower Plaza. (1) The new base was constructed over the existing Fred Morris Memorial Fountain. [8]
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�The whole project was overseen by Robert Darrow and The Citizens Committee on Community Improvement. The
restoration work was accomplished by many volunteers and was paid for, in part, by public donations. [9] Various local
businesses and unions contributed resources and labor to the reconstruction project. The final cost was $120,000. [10]
The base of the tower, built of brick, was designed by Kermit L. Darrow, Robert Darrow's brother. [11]
Although the project was not completely finished until 1977, the dedication of the new structure and the renovated
Town Clock took place on July 4, 1976. In October 1979, Santa Cruz City Council Reolution NS-13, 635 designated the
Town Clock an historic landmark. [9] On July 4, 1982, another ceremony marked the placement of permanent plaques.
[10]
Adjacent to the Town Clock is the sculpture called, "Collateral Damage." The plaque on the sculpture reads,
"Collateral Damage: a reality of war by E.A. Chase
In memory of civilians who have died in all wars.
Dedicated August 5, 1995
by Veterans of Foreign Wars. Bill Moto Post 5888
The Resource Center for Nonviolence
The City of Santa Cruz
and E.A. Chase."
The Clockworks
The Town Clock's mechanism was originally made by the Seth Thomas Company of Connecticut in 1900, one of about
500. [3] Del Williams maintained the clock until his death in 1948. His son, Stanley Williams, took over the clock's care.
He, like his father, recommended repair work. In 1951, it finally got the
recommended overhaul and was converted to electric power. [4]
The restoration of the clock mechanism was undertaken under the supervision of
Gene Corriden. He cleaned parts; found models for and had cast replacements for
missing pieces; and assembled them into a working whole. [3] The restored clock is
driven by an 80-pound pendulum and is electronically wound. [11] The Clock began
ringing the hours again in 1977, when Edwin Mabie installed an automatic rewind
device for the bell mechanism. [12]
Threats to the Town Clock
The town clock survived the October 17, 1989 earthquake, but stopped running, its
hands at 5:04 p.m. It was restarted a few weeks later. [13] During the next few
months, Pacific Gas and Electric donated the light bulbs and labor needed to outline
Town Clock, March 2002. Photo by
and courtesy of Bob Smith
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�the Clock in lights. There was a lighting ceremony on December 2, 1989, as part of holiday activities. Mayor Mardi
Wormhoudt said,
"We've lost a lot in terms of downtown landmarks like the Cooper House. But the Town Clock can be a symbol of
downtown. The lighting represents a new birth." [14]
A plaque on the clock tower base reads, "In memory of those who lost their lives in the Loma Prieta Earthquake of Oct
17, 1989. Shawn McCormick, Robin Lynn Ortiz, Catherine Trieman."
As in the past, fire again threatened the Town Clock. In August 1995, an electrical fire started in the junction box in the
inside of the tower. While not seriously damaged, smoke and soot gummed its gears and had to be cleaned up. [15, 16]
Doug Rand Peace Park
At the City Council meeting of September 26, 2000, the Council approved the idea of honoring Doug Rand, local peace
activist who died March 5, 2000. [17] The City Council Agenda Report by Christopher Krohn mentions the Town Clock as
the logical place because of the sculpture, "Collateral Damage," Rand helped to place there and because of the many
community activities which he held on that site. [18] The Council directed the Parks and Recreation Committee to
establish a committee to recommend an appropriate memorial. [17] Four months later at the February 13, 2001
meeting, the City Council accepted in concept the Committee's design proposal for a Doug Rand Peace Park at the Town
Clock site. [19, 20] As of March 2002, a Peace Park is planned for the area where the Town Clock is located. A feature of
the park would be the "Wall of Consequence" or "Debris Wall," which would include debris from war and terrorism
attacks.
March 2002
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Santa Cruz Sentinel. September 29, 1974. p.16
Ibid. July 19, 1979. p. 13.
Ibid. October 24, 1976. p. 1.
Ibid. June 28, 1964. p.8.
San Jose Mercury News. July 28, 1964. n.p.
Santa Cruz Sentinel. July 2, 1978. p. 12
Ibid. October 24, 1979. p. 46.
Ibid. November 18, 1975. p. 13.
Ibid. October 24, 1979. p. 46.
Ibid. July 6, 1982. p.17.
Ibid. Aug 3, 1977. n.p.
Ibid. December 11, 1977. n.p.
San Jose Mercury News. Aug 8, 1995. p. 1B.
Santa Cruz Sentinel. December 3, 1989. p. A-22.
Ibid. August 7, 1995. n.p.
Ibid. August 8, 1995. n.p.
City of Santa Cruz. City Council Minutes for September 26, 2000.
City of Santa Cruz. City Council Agenda Report for September 26, 2000. Subject: Doug Rand Peace Park.
City of Santa Cruz. City Council Minutes for February 13, 2001.
City Council Agenda Report for February 13, 2002. Subject: Town Clock/ Peace Park Project.
Santa Cruz Sentinel. July 17, 1929. p.7.
Ibid. July 14, 1933 p. 9.
Ibid. July 28, 1933 p. 3.
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however, have yet to be researched. In other cases, we were not granted permission to use articles. The content of the articles is the
responsibility of the individual author. It is the Library's intent to provide accurate local history information. However, it is not
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Santa Cruz's Town Clock
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Morones, Carmen
Pedersen, Rechs Ann
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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2002-03
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West Cliff—Millionaires’ Row
By Ross Eric Gibson
Large Estates Once Lined Water's Edge
At the turn of the century, Santa Cruz was called the "Newport of the Pacific," because the row of mansions along West
Cliff Drive resembled Newport, R.I.
West Cliff Drive between the 1893 railroad depot and the lighthouse was once known as Millionaires' Row. Each block
was a private estate stretching to the cliff. Cliff Drive was only a footpath in the 1880s, with Lighthouse Avenue serving
as the main road.
For a walking tour of Millionaires' Row, start at the Ramada Inn, on the hill above the old depot. This was Blackburn
Terrace, purchased in 1893 by widow Eleanor S. Jarboe of San Francisco. She built a large home with rambling porches
and named it Concha Del Mar, or Shell of the Sea. She stayed there with son Paul, a San Francisco attorney, and
daughter Kate Eleanor, who wrote several books in Santa Cruz. Paul established Jarboe Links as the county's first golf
course; it was bounded by Lighthouse, Bay, and National streets.
Heading south, across Howe Strut Bridge, is a two-story villa built by contractor and wharf builder Sedgewick Lynch in
1877. His $12,000 mansion was designed locally by John Morrow and features four enameled cast iron mantels.
The first construction on West Cliff was the 1849 wharf at the end of Bay Street, which became the Limeworks Wharf in
1853. The limeworks warehouse stretched along Bay Street to the cliff, blocking direct access to West Cliff Drive. In
1940, the warehouse was shortened, and West Cliff was extended. Today the limeworks site is occupied by an elegant
Queen Anne/Shingle Style apartment complex.
The block between Gharkey and Santa Cruz streets was the 1887 estate of Henry Warren, a Methodist bishop whose
wife, Elizabeth Iliff, was heir to a Colorado cattle fortune. Bishop Warren saw this as a summer home capable of hosting
church conferences, socials, and youth retreats.
He named the estate "Epworth-By-The-Sea," after the birthplace of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. The house
was fashioned after Hotel Del Monte, with grounds by the Del Monte's renowned landscape architect, Rudolph Ulrich.
The estate was divided between Warren's two children in 1905, and son William built a solid concrete Mission Revival
Style home, designed by William Weeks, next door. It is known today as the Darling House.
The block between Santa Cruz and Monterey streets was purchased by Phoebe Apperson Hearst, the mother of
newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, after her husband's death in 1891. Phoebe Hearst was well known as an
international patron of the arts, as the founder of the Parent Teachers Association, and a benefactor of the University of
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�California. Her planned villa never developed beyond a "Hearst Grove" of Monterey pines. After her death in 1919, two
plans for a Spanish-style luxury hotel were pursued without success.
Three blocks on both sides of Manor Street once made up William Dingee's Cliff Manor estate. He was the "Cement
King" who in 1905 established the plant in Davenport. Greenhouses and gardener's quarters were built along Lighthouse
Avenue, and he brought mature plantings from his San Mateo estate to turn the site into a park. His Moorish manor was
never built, but the Spanish Little Villa is at the corner of Monterey and Manor streets.
South of the park is the 1893 Queen Anne mansion designed by Edward Van Cleeck for trolley car magnate James
McNeil. Its name, Rutherglen Terrace, means roaring cliff in Scottish, and Scottish motifs are found throughout the
mansion's design.
Next to it once stood the 1887 J.A. McGuire Victorian, where Dingee lived while waiting for Cliff Manor to be built. When
Francis Davis bought the house in 1912, he had it moved to the corner of Gharkey and Lighthouse Avenue. In its place he
built a Mediterranean style villa designed by Chester Miller.
Next is the shrine for the Oblates of Saint Joseph, which also owns Villa Davis and Rutherglen Terrace.
In 1887, Lighthouse Field was Phelan Park, with Eastlake cottages scattered throughout its forested grounds amid
grazing deer. James Duval Phelan ran his estate as a bohemian retreat for California artists and writers such as Jack
London, Ambrose Bierce, Gertrude Atherton, Joaquin Miller and Isadora Duncan. Phelan was called the "California
Medici" for his support of the arts.
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Skyland and Highland
By John V. Young
An attempt to find a name signifying a place higher than high accounts for the present name of Skyland, an isolated
community well up on the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains, off Soquel Road in the Highland district.
Highland Hill was the original center of things here, the home of a man named Dodge, who in 1867 leased a tract of land
from Lyman J. Burrell to establish a vineyard and winery. Later, as families moved into the district to join in the growing
wine-grape industry that spread through the hills in the late 1860s and 1870s, a colony adjoining Highland Center, as it
came to be known, was labeled Skyland, although the two places are virtually identical.
Booming with the rest of the region, the town benefited principally from grape-and fruit-raising, and to a lesser extent
from the lumber industry which went on around it in the canyons below. But as it benefited, so it suffered. The close of
the lumber mills on the Soquel, Amaya, and Laurel Creeks as the big timber was cut off, the coming of the automobile
that doomed the summer resort trade of railroad and stagecoach days, and the competition from the Valley with the
mountain fruit crops all took their toll from Skyland, along with many another mountain town.
Phylloxera, the dreaded grape disease from France, wiped out large acreage in 1906 and 1907, just after the great
earthquake had played such havoc with much of the region which lies directly over the San Andreas fault line. Erosion on
the steep hillside ranches, where forest cover had been removed for planting, had set in after forty years of cultivation
and was stripping the upper ridges of topsoil and filling the lower lands with its spoil. Springs were sealed over and many
creeks had stopped running.
With nothing much left but a surprisingly mild climate and an unsurpassed view to offer in competition with more
accessible towns, Skyland began to fade early in this century, although the advent of good roads aided somewhat in its
tenuous grasp on departed glories of the 1880's and 1890's.
Travelers, residents, and visitors alike found ready ingress and egress down the ridge to Hall's bridge and Soquel Road,
over the hill to Redwood Lodge and Hester Creek, or down less-traveled routes into Asbury Gulch and across to Highland
Way.
Here it was that Don Beadel, Pacific coast shipping magnate, came to purchase a large tract of land from F.A. Hihn and to
establish The Willows ranch, above the site of the old McEwen-Adams lumber mill of the 1880s.
The Willows
Beadel's son, Alec, one of the three brothers who operated the Beadel Brothers shipping concern, started in about 1904
to build up the estate to a stage of affluence which makes it even today (1934) one of the showplaces of the entire
mountain region.
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�Al Beadel married the daughter of a Mrs. Hold, who had acquired the land from Don Beadel, and brought the property
back into the family. Cottages and a beautiful rambling central home on the style of English farm houses sprinkled the
landscape, crowned with what was said to be the largest privately owned indoor swimming pool in the United States.
Under a huge canopy of glass, the great double pool of concrete and tile brought the curious from miles around and
occupied columns of space in Eastern newspapers of the period.
Exotic garden plants from all quarters of the globe were planted in profusion; grassy terraces, fountains, and rock
gardens transformed the forest into a paradise. Acquired recently by a Fresno rancher, J.B. Enloe, the estate is now
(1934) being renovated for eventual opening as a resort.
Skyland Notables
Skyland post office ceased to exist in 1910 after rural free delivery came to the mountains at the end of a long, hard fight
by the ranchers of the region for the service. The post office then had been in operation over two different periods:
1884 to 1886, and 1893 to 1910.
In 1887 the pious people of the community erected a church, planting in the front yard a separate bell tower under a
spreading oak tree. (Author's note: The church is still in use today making it probably the oldest church in continuous
use in the Santa Cruz Mountains.)
Skyland was also the home for nearly twenty years of Joseph James Bamber, one of the region's more colorful
characters, whose death was marked by an obscurity no less remarkable than his career.
An "unidentified itinerant" knocked down by a car near the county alms house where he spent his last days brought only
the briefest of notices in the newspapers at the time, March 19, 1930, when Bamber died in the county hospital from a
fractured skull. He was later identified as Joseph J. Bamber of Los Gatos, a former newspaperman, and that was that.
Bamber had been the publisher of an unusual newspaper, called The Mountain Realty, which enjoyed a more or less
continuous existence at Skyland for two decades, from 1901 until 1922 when it was absorbed by Hi Baggerly's Los Gatos
Mail-News. Under a Skyland dateline, the paper was devoted to mountain news and real estate notes, circulating
throughout the central Santa Cruz Mountains. At first, it was printed by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, later in Los Gatos.
Advancing years finally forced Bamber to give up the paper.
Born in Illinois, Bamber had come to the West Coast as a young man and settled in the Bay region, where he engaged in
a wide variety of enterprises.
An original cover in the philatelic collection of E. E. Place of Los Gatos bears the heading "Bamber & McLeod Express," a
pony service running from Oakland to Centerville. Bamber at one time amassed a considerable fortune in the business,
but lost it later.
The Pacific Coast Business Directory of 1872 lists the American House at Centerville, operated by Bamber, as one of the
principal hostelries of Alameda County. In 1872 Bamber married Miss Virginia Hill of Oakland, said to be the first white
child born in Oakland (in 1853). She died in 1917. The couple operated a laundry in Alameda for a time, then the famous
old Newport baths near Neptune Beach, also in Alameda, then moved to the mountains in 1893, settling about where
Holy City now stands. In 1895 the family moved to Skyland where they ran a small hotel, a ranch or two, and finally the
newspaper which was Bamber's last enterprise.
Skyland in the early 1930s was also the home of James B. King, a pioneer of the 1880s with a lively sense of humor and a
keen recollection of days gone by.
King was prouder of his one-time title of "Champion plowman of the world," than he would have been of Jack
Dempsey's fame, he said. (King had won the championship plowman's title in an international competition in Chicago in
1880. He had previously won third place twice.) Indeed, Dempsey was a frequent visitor to the region, King declared. At
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�one time, according to King, Dempsey was thinking of buying the Willows, but gave up the idea after his car got stuck in
the mud several times in one winter.
One of his liveliest recollections was of an ill-fated trip to the Klondike in 1898. Following the story of an old prospector
about a claim where all they had to do was to shovel out the gold, King and a group of friends bought an old tub on the
San Francisco Bay mudflats, for $1500, and somehow managed to get it to Resurrection Bay in Alaska.
Of the party, only four were experienced sailors, although all signed on as able-bodied seamen in order to obtain
clearance under a Captain Edwards. Besides King, the party included M. R. Morse of San Jose; Julius Josefat and Clayton
Jones of Skyland; John Rankan, Wayne Rudey and F. LaSalle of Soquel; Bill Peakes, Bob Baxter, Bob Anderson, Albert
Wright, A. G. Imlay, Chauncey Lease, and A. W. Bryant.
The party spent eight months looking in vain for gold. The old prospector who was to lead them to the lode had
inconsiderately died the day before the party left San Francisco. However, it was not all loss. On their return, they leased
the boat to some missionaries for a year, and then sold it for $3000 just before it went to pieces on the beach.
Skyland was a residential section of note in the 1880s and 1890s, numbering among its well-known residents Charles H.
Allen, principal at San Jose State Normal School, and Professor Norton of the same school.
While several fine homes are still to be found in the community, the principal attraction at the present (1934) is the New
Jerusalem colony of Mr. Ernest Benninghoven, a religious cult which has struggled along for the last fifteen or twenty
years with a handful of converts. Its center is the "Mt. Sinai Shrine," a memorial to the memory of Benninghoven, who
departed this earth a few years ago.
The Hihn Empire
The story of Skyland would not be complete without the story of the man who owned most the forests around the town
and provided it with much of its livelihood, who paid at one time a reputed one-tenth of all the taxes in the county—
Frederick A. Hihn.
Born in Germany in 1829, he landed in Santa Cruz with a pack on his back in 1851, after a series of business ventures and
a mining attempt or two. In his pack were all his earthly possessions, plus some trinkets to sell as a roaming peddler.
According to Herbert Martin of Glenwood, who recalled his father's stories about Hihn and his pack, Hihn set up
business in a crude store constructed of packing boxes. Between tending his store and making long trading forays into
the mountains, he was a busy man.
How he managed to acquire an enormous fortune in real estate, including thousands of acres of prime redwood timber,
is one of the legends of the county. Among his holdings was a mill site at Laurel, where the Hihn company operated in
1892 with his sons, Louis W., August C., and Fred 0. Hihn, and son-in-law, W. T. Cope.
Hotels, railroads, concessions, forests, mills, manufacturing plants and shipping lines—there was little in the line of
business in Santa Cruz County that the Hihn company did not own or was actively involved in during this period. One
Santa Cruz County history published in 1892 credits him with founding Capitola, along with a couple of banks.
The upper portion of his holdings in Soquel canyon, bordering on Skyland and Spanish Ranch, is still known as the Hihn
forest.
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The Rise and Fall of Holy City
By John V. Young
Holy City, on the old Santa Cruz Highway a little north of the Summit, was a Johnny-come-lately to the ranks of ghost
towns of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and is the only one that still looks like a movie version of a ghost town, lacking only
tumbleweeds and a deserted saloon. Saloons it never had.
Here the perambulating post office of Patchen came to rest under a new name—after being resurrected in 1927. The
town was flourishing when the "Ghost Towns" series was published, but died a few years later when another highway
realignment left it high and dry .
Holy City was founded in 1918 by William E. "Father" Riker, a persistent candidate for governor, who advocated, among
other things, white supremacy, communal living, and total abstinence. He gathered about him a small colony of
followers, mostly elderly, who shared his views and were willing to share their meager savings as well.
Soon a gaggle of flimsy wooden structures embellished with garish signs sprang up on both sides of the highway to lure
passing tourists to buy gasoline, food, souvenirs and the like. It was a welcome resting place for motorists with boiling
radiators stuck in the bumper-to-bumper traffic that often jammed the highway on a weekend.
Proclaiming that it was "headquarters for the world's most perfect government" (namely, Father Riker in person), Holy
City soon acquired a weekly newspaper, a radio station, a restaurant, a service station, and rest rooms. Riker also ran a
mineral water business on the side.
But when Highway 17 by-passed Holy City in 1940, it declined rapidly. A few tumbledown buildings on one side of the
old highway face the still-active post office in an abandoned store on the other side, but that is all that remains of the
once-thriving highway stop today.
According to Historic Spots in California, Riker stayed on into the 1960s and surprised everyone by joining the Catholic
Church at the age of 93.
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