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View from West Cliff Drive, showing the Santa Cruz beach, cliffs and (Railroad?) wharf.
Streetcar #11 of the Santa Cruz, Capitola and Watsonville line passing the beach, bound for the Casino. The newly-built Casino and the "Electric Pier" are visible in the background.
A Union Traction Company streetcar in the beach area. On the left is the Casino, still under construction after the 1906 fire. The Electric Pier is visible in the background.
View of Capitola beach and Capitola wharf, looking towards the Esplanade. It is not known when the first wharf was built here, but one was in existence at least as early as 1856. In early years it was called Soquel Wharf.
View from West Cliff Drive, looking towards the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf and Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
The Santa Cruz City Beach, next to the Boardwalk. The Pleasure Pier (left) and Municipal Wharf (right) are in the background.
Crowds gathered on the beach by the Santa Cruz Boardwalk (for an event?). The sign on the building at the base of the pier says, "Japanese Parasols for sale or for rent." The Pleasure Pier is in the background.
The Santa Cruz Boardwalk beach, with a beach bandstand set just before the Pleasure Pier. In the background, to the left, is the Giant Dipper Rollercoaster.
The rebuilding of the Boardwalk after the 1906 fire. In the foreground is the Electric Pier, later known as the Pleasure Pier. Electric lights, mounted on the poles, ran the 400-foot length of the pier.