"On Dec. 8, 1941, all students and teachers were ushered into the Santa Cruz High School auditorium at 9:30 a.m., to hear President Franklin D. Roosevelt speak live over the radio. In his address to the joint session of Congress, FDR announcing that Dec. 7, 1941 was 'a day which will live in infamy,' as an unprovoked Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurred while a state of peace existed between the two nations," writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson.
"California's Anti-Chinese Workingmen's Party was founded in San Francisco in 1877, resulting in the national Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882," writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson. "Bigots did everything they could to make it hard for Chinese to make a living in America. Yet out of their meager wages, Chinese workers often sent back money to help their loved ones in China."
Older Boardwalk visitors may notice the blue ceiling girders inside Neptune’s Kingdom and fondly recall swimming in the Plunge. My own memories start in the late 1950s and early 1960s. I remember ducking into the Plunge through the colonnade entrance (where Laffing Sal is now), walking past the attendant and climbing the stairs to the spectators’ […]