This is an autobiographical telling of Mr. Foster's experiences of Santa Cruz in the 1930s as a boy. It is split into: general experience/introduction, footbridges & parades, the movies, the news media, the San Lorenzo River, fireworks & Chinatown, schools & fights, athletics, beachcombing, Miss Costello the counselor, "Blackie" the casino owner, the pie shop, the "Mighty Bosco", the big bands, tourists, the Giant Dipper ride, groceries & whore houses, the night scene, the apple box & the church, and the "happy day's end".

Notables: Santa Cruz Boardwalk, Unique Theatre / Unique Theater, Cameo Theatre / Cameo Theater, Del Mar Theater, Jimmy Delporto / James Delporto, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, boxing, Portuguese Society IES, Pleasure Pier, Gault grammar school, Winnie's Turnover Pie Shop, Penny Arcade, Plunge, Malio Stagnaro, Warren Littlefield / Skip Littlefield, Saturday night Santa Cruz Water Carnival, Don Patterson, The Slide for Life, Coconut Grove Ballroom, Capitola Esplanade, Capitola Dance Hall, Passarino's, Irma Passarino, Henry Cowell, NASA Ames Research Center, Pioneer Jupiter, Pioneer Venus