A 1976 article dissecting the eerily peaceful nature of Santa Cruz in the aftermath of multiple heinous murders, beginning and ending with details of these crimes, and split in half by a chronological history examining how the contemporary 1976 Santa Cruz came to be.

Notables: Pacific Garden Mall, Randall Kane, Catalyst, John Pascal, John Linley Frazier, Dr Victor Ohta, Jim Houston, United Cigar, Herb Mullin, Gordon Sinclair, Ed Kemper / Edmund Emil Kemper III, Clarnell Strandberg, Karen Percifield, Vicki Bezore, Mary Gorman, Virginia Ohta, Herbert William Mullin, Miss California Pageant, Ku Klux Klan, Santa Cruz Venetian Water Festival, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Casa Del Rey Hotel, Cocoanut Grove, St George Hotel, Palomar Hotel, Suntan Special, Wrigley's, San Lorenzo River Flood, Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Rader's Jewelry and Loan Company, Western Auto, Bill Joslin, Jon Sumida, People's Park sympathy strike, Ronald Reagan, Max Rafferty, UTE, Undesirable Transient Element, Children's Crusade, Peter Chang, Jim Liteky, Hip Pocket Bookstore, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Santa Cruz Community Congress, Santa Cruz Association of Churches, Women Against Rape, Grey Bears, Ecology Action, human priorities, Merry Pranksters, Ken Kesey, Mystery Spot, Curly Bill, Page Smith, David Marlowe, Ron Lau, Bookshop Santa Cruz, street theater, Richard Anthony Sommerhalder / Richard Sommerhalder