http://www.sandylydon.com/hooey-history-thumbs daily 0.75 2017-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426628071772-J1S2V2G82HHSQE4Q7K5I/image-asset.jpeg Hooey History Thumbs - The ship at Seacliff. Is this really a cement ship? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426628071772-J1S2V2G82HHSQE4Q7K5I/image-asset.jpeg Hooey History Thumbs - The ship at Seacliff. Is this really a cement ship? https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/55089b68e4b0da6f16e5801f/55089cfde4b0a308ed6aad39/1426627837869/ Hooey History Thumbs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426628258413-KPMFOI00YCOQHI3DV1I2/image-asset.jpeg Hooey History Thumbs - Destroyed for fear of Japanese invasion? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426627897334-2DU024W8FLDMFT129J7L/image-asset.jpeg Hooey History Thumbs - Did Claus Spreckels Play Polo Here? http://www.sandylydon.com/gallery daily 0.75 2017-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1511909585269-BM1LKKFT3YU4R7BFY64X/Canfield%2C+Barbara.JPG GALLERY http://www.sandylydon.com/blog daily 0.75 2020-03-22 http://www.sandylydon.com/blog/tag/test monthly 0.5 http://www.sandylydon.com/secret-history-thumbs daily 0.75 2018-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426130256155-U0OCZO122UYOMV31B27X/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - Why is Highway 17 so dangerous? It could be the Hungry Ghosts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426130256155-U0OCZO122UYOMV31B27X/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - Why is Highway 17 so dangerous? It could be the Hungry Ghosts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426105493847-Z9KLCKGXDBCKG3NIBPUE/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - The Ghost Army of the Aptos Wharf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425978604960-H3PM5SUQL332YAA86SMB/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - When Santa Cruz fought Monterey over the sunshine it was really about which had the best hotel. Who won? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425977879236-F8RGAX9YLAGS9GROYDSA/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - The Abalone Mother Lode and the Ghosts on the Seventeenth Green https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425977046726-4H4W2TSRU5NCISFF1GFK/sec12_01.jpg Secret History Thumbs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426135903052-6R2HLYJF7D93XE730PCL/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - Region Drought History Part I - Beyond the Rain Gauges https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426138760825-T0J13V5ZDS4DZG9VZPH9/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - Drought History Part II - The 1850s and the Double D's https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425977146919-I01E4DCZXQYAOV0N3HTQ/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - The Abalone Mother Lode and the Ghosts on the Seventeenth Green The Abalone Mother Lode and the Ghosts on the Seventeenth Green https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426147503796-PAK1P3AUU7FXJ2FT7DRT/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - 1863-1864 –The Drought of Fat, Waddling Buzzards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425978366038-39EGNZYDL90AT30SJ2T6/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - Santa Cruz's West Cliff Drive Wave Motor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425980193842-F3D28CZDSK6VTEENHS0U/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - The Bone Pickers: Appeasing the Hungry Ghosts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425981633027-U90WMHVA7UOSLFGS0DKN/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - The Mysterious Ramparts on Santa Cruz County'sNorth Coast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425982397737-JT124AV9K4UL8LQY7337/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - What the Heck is That? A Yogi Temple? Or? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426102292217-Y4C35O9HWA856A4P5OCI/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - Dead Whales Make Good Tourist Bait https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426063569162-NIW0PRW21EUXLYBS6SG4/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - The History of Racism and the KKK in Santa Cruz County https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426067822465-6SGF72YPQNFBEPTWKY8W/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - The Chinese Fishermen in the Monterey Bay Region https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426064899167-69ZEKZDS48GQ2XS6VXU6/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - Early Shore Whaling in Monterey Bay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426115399524-O3ZPI3FDR3BPUWQIR54I/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - Acorns Falling on our Heads (to the tune of "Raindrops") https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426116915687-PHSR42CEST064Q4P9YTQ/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - The Secrets of Two Loch Lomonds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426120492332-VLOGQ9XFR808CKHO1FBS/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - The Mystery of the Santa Cruz County Flag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426121376448-RRPU18PC6IX2PAIXVOKM/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - What the frack? Chasing the temptation of oil in the Santa Cruz Mountains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426122599920-JVCIC79RZGFKEPE3G0C0/image-asset.jpeg Secret History Thumbs - Croatians immigrants revolutionized regional agriculture http://www.sandylydon.com/classes-events daily 0.75 2015-08-03 http://www.sandylydon.com/classes-events/2015/9/11/history-25b-the-one-and-only-regional-history-class monthly 0.5 2015-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1436002779181-FTS4ZKBY59XEA5AGZYKR/image-asset.jpeg Classes Events - History 25B: The One and Only Regional History Class http://www.sandylydon.com/classes-events/2015/8/23/walkin-the-lines-monterey-bay-railwalks monthly 0.5 2015-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1435998396906-3TQFTHS7YCZXO8NU08P9/image-asset.jpeg Classes Events - Walkin' The Lines: Monterey Bay Railwalks A winter flood in February, 1881 broke not only the railroad's trestle across the San Lorenzo River, but also the company's financial back as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1435998533298-JUG909WA7CCJYHJGC0TZ/image-asset.jpeg Classes Events - Walkin' The Lines: Monterey Bay Railwalks Trestle crossing Soquel Creek at present day Capitola. The creek is in the foreground, and the train is headed toward Santa Cruz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1435996447404-VMQSTLKRNMZSWTKO2PI6/adv_rail001.jpg Classes Events - Walkin' The Lines: Monterey Bay Railwalks Looking south as railroad line crosses the trestle-rampart across San Vicente Beach, near Davenport. http://www.sandylydon.com/travel-gallery daily 0.75 2019-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516686682292-RF60HXTRV98J7OVEPPDY/castle+outdoor+with+group.jpg Travel Gallery - Christmas in Cambria 2019 Christmas in Cambria Now Open! Our most popular adventure has “Re-Opened” At the 20% discounted price! Only a few spaces! A railroad adventure to California’s new Christmas capital Our most popular adventure! Has sold out 8 years in a row. Includes Hearst Castle all gussied up in her Christmas finery And the astonishing lights of Cambria’s Christmas Market More info & to register – click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516686682292-RF60HXTRV98J7OVEPPDY/castle+outdoor+with+group.jpg Travel Gallery - Christmas in Cambria 2019 Christmas in Cambria Now Open! Our most popular adventure has “Re-Opened” At the 20% discounted price! Only a few spaces! A railroad adventure to California’s new Christmas capital Our most popular adventure! Has sold out 8 years in a row. Includes Hearst Castle all gussied up in her Christmas finery And the astonishing lights of Cambria’s Christmas Market More info & to register – click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1568448831949-T3U839IJ4H4RFB3A1HDN/Cherry+blossoms+Omura+Park+Nagasaki.jpg Travel Gallery - New Itinerary! New Price! Springtime in Japan! April 4 - 19 with oprtional extensions available Smaller Group For Full Itinerary and Trip costs click here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539767026956-GRIITNT4EN24IFHG610I/McQuaide%232edited+camp+looking++++north.JPG Travel Gallery - Why has Cabrillo College forgotten its true birthday of October 21, 1958? And why should the college begin to celebrate it? And why should UCSC celebrate with them? For the story of a local symbiotic relationship that changed Santa Cruz County forever, click here…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1510305630828-B3DCJST7M06Z8G9ZV8RP/JACL+Hall.png Travel Gallery - Free Japan 2018 Preview! Includiing tour of JACL museum Sunday, November 19, 2017 JACL Hall – 424 Adams St, Monterey - 7:00 PM We will be accepting Applications. Trip is filling fast! http://www.sandylydon.com/contact daily 0.75 2017-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426050437190-XW75RZ36NQRP3QGEDTVJ/image-asset.jpeg CONTACT http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page daily 0.75 2015-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425975033847-CUCL0A54T6BKEUFLACVJ/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 6 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414988958-L3IA4PPDJEYEDVOG98C9/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 6 http://www.sandylydon.com/biography daily 0.75 2015-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425194090948-H5TBQURWKFRTC1FVV953/image-asset.jpeg BIOGRAPHY The promotional posters that KCBA put up in airports and shopping malls all over Northern California. That's me on the left, Kirstie Wilde news anchor in the center, and Craig Kilbourne on the right. Kilbourne went on to Big Time TV, Kirstie went home to PG to raise a family, and I went back (voluntarily) to the Cabrillo classro http://www.sandylydon.com/secret-history-3 daily 0.75 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1424862706969-LZQKTI6FIERLTJTS0GF3/sec_ghosts17_004.jpg Secret History - 29 Jung children and shell stand along the Seventeen-Mile Drive near present-day Pescadero Point. Looking east, with Stillwater Cove in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1424946554044-V7KBSZ64NAGKDFRQJVSK/image-asset.jpeg Secret History - 29 Jung San Choy, left, and two of his older children at the shell stand near the family home along the Seventeen-Mile Drive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1424858803449-489XL17DO6IE3PFKEGRB/sec_ghosts17_001.jpg Secret History - 29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1424946854284-Y4FZI4QCVRR64UNZT4I4/image-asset.jpeg Secret History - 29 Jung family reunion, October, 1987. "Baby Bert" Jung in front row middle. Beach club is white building behind, located exactly on the site of the Jung ancestral home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1424863274831-GEFVBNE33UYLG8Y473K1/sec_ghosts17_003.jpg Secret History - 29 Jung San Choy, the Shell Seller of Pescadero. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1424863220164-6UF37097N8G29S6K3549/image-asset.jpeg Secret History - 29 Old sampans and abalone shells, Pescadero, Monterey County, c. 1880. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509415030055-UJKJJ2I805YO6N7UV7ZT/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History - 29 http://www.sandylydon.com/hooey-history-3 daily 0.75 2015-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426627003931-L4U2K3RJDKSJ0EJKTFW8/image-asset.jpeg Hooey History 3 Polo players on the infield of Claus Spreckels' old race course, Aptos, 1924. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426626853084-NRQ6AIM7UTYZ9VB4O6X4/image-asset.jpeg Hooey History 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426627082091-K0NO091ERSVJIMMYX5MZ/image-asset.jpeg Hooey History 3 An 1879 etching of Claus Spreckels' summer farm in Aptos. Famous race horse is in the foreground, and in the back on the right you can see the close end of his race course. Present-day Polo Drive follows the outlines of the race course. http://www.sandylydon.com/secret-history-26 daily 0.75 2015-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426131694835-ZM2CCLESZF3YT2WER0FJ/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 26 SERIOUS DROUGHT - HELP SAVE WATER. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426134929951-SNYSPXVJWCYZ55L8OQGW/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 26 Sandy Lydon (left), Kirstie Wilde and Craig Kilborn, KCBA Fox 35 News Anchors, August, 1990. Sandy was the Weather Anchor during a drought. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426134354161-FOXL5X4TGQZY490UFGCO/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 26 Father Junipero Serra was confronted with all manner of new climatic challenges after his arrival in the Monterey Bay Region in June of 1770. Drought was one of them https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426134601171-1QN998C5ME18D3SEC9WJ/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 26 In order to dramatize the early droughts for his TV viewers, Sandy used this skull on the nightly news to get the public's attention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426134803066-DZQD3OLL5LHIW6Y74JV3/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 26 This Joe Mora drawing captures the violence that resulted against the wild horses during a drought in the region in the early 1840s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414480449-1MEO35XJ42Z9QG0TZLU6/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 26 http://www.sandylydon.com/secret-history-27 daily 0.75 2015-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426137901715-D386HAROTIEWZEFREKKD/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 27 The Holy Cross Church that replaced the Santa Cruz Mission church in 1857. This church and the 1892 Gothic edifice that followed reflected the church (and community's) turning away from its Spanish-Mexican roots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426137425984-1J0GDF8OBIB0FCPGIEYI/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 27 The last lynching in 19th century Santa Cruz, May 3, 1877, Water Street Bridge. There was an epidemic of lynchings in the Monterey Bay Region in the mid-1850s, intensified by a drought that brought anti-Hispanic racism to the forefront. For the best analysis of this 1877 event, see Geoffrey Dunn's classic, Santa Cruz is in the Heart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426137704468-I3TNSPHGDKDD4BSVWJ7D/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 27 Tiburcio Vasquez, 1874. Vasquez's personality was developed from the late 1840s into the 1850s, and the drought of the mid-1850s contributed to the violence in the region. Vasquez was a product of that period. Photo credit: John Boesseneker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414456670-LB7GGSTUWQCLB6VHWMWX/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 27 http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page-5 daily 0.75 2018-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426105130189-2TBEVYGXTUESY9UF3VIH/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 1 The Aptos Wharf Road. The only other clue remaining about the old wharf is this short stretch of road that intersects with Soquel Drive in Aptos just west of the railroad trestle. Present-day Soquel Drive was once the main road between Santa Cruz and Watsonville. Wagons loaded with lumber or agricultural products would turn here and head directly south dropping down off the coastal terrace and bringing their cargoes out onto the Aptos wharf for shipment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426104905463-5L1JRLVMOPP1OBDUVA82/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 1 Aptos Wharf and Aptos, c. 1882. Taken during the Spreckels era looking north, this rare photograph shows the sandstone bluff that is part of today's Seacliff State Beach. The treeless hills in the distance are what we now call Aptos Village, while the buildings visible to the right of the wharf are part of Spreckels' hotel complex. The railroad tracks on the wharf were used to move cargo on small horse-drawn railcars. No railroad locomotives ever came out on the wharf. Photo Credit: Preston Sawyer Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516570964748-D38F3MN4RKBFUPYWGDY4/pilings+good.JPG Secret History 1 Here comes the wharf piling! The lump on the left is the top of one of the wharf pilings from the old Aptos wharf. As the winter goes on and the sand migrates away, the pilings will stand taller and taller. The sandstone bluff on the upper left is shaped much as it was over 100 years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414771778-0295MHHNP8C5BQ6RPRNZ/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 1 http://www.sandylydon.com/secret-history-25 daily 0.75 2015-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425943380809-XAIIOLAXTUJF1P2ETICN/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 25 Chinese bonepickers moving through the Chinese cemetery in Colma, outside San Francisco. This process came to almost every Chinese cemetery in California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509415049722-7ZIDAGLLQAN403IB8WVY/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 25 http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2015-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425980650764-STGYMBJA3BFZV7HYA29K/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 7 Drivers rarely notice the huge wall that rises up on the ocean side as Highway 1 drops down into the valley just north of Davenport. What the heck's going on here? And, isn't there a creek down in that valley somewhere? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425981238660-LPB3GRMJ503IJ761TVBE/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 7 The San Vicente Creek trestle being filled in, 1906. If you look closely you can see the fledgling cement plant in the distance on the right. So, the first thing you should remember is that inside each of those ramparts is the skeleton of the trestle that was buried almost a century ago. The trestles were built first to provide a framework for the fill material, helping to contain the materials when they were dumped as well as guiding the pile with a uniform slope on either side. Besides, imagine how difficult it would be to get the materials from each side of the canyon to the middle without the trestle from which to dump it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425981422373-P1RWVF5X00ZMAEWEN98R/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 7 The two ramparts of San Vicente Creek at Davenport. The straight line on the upper left is the Railroad Rampart, while the lower rampart of Highway 1 and its stream of cars is just below it. Imagine if the San Vicente tunnel were blocked, the resulting lake would flood the highway and all of the buildings in the center of the photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425981058621-LYCBT5LDQUV20I0FZKIY/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 7 Looking north toward Davenport across San Vicente Beach. The dam-looking structure on the right is the railroad rampart that carried Union Pacific trains to Davenport. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425980922301-2IY7YFZ5J8EIS7PQJPW7/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 7 Highway 1 looking north toward Davenport. Note the straight, flat line atop the bank on the left. That's the railroad grade atop the Rampart. Both the rampart and the fill upon which Highway 1 was built are artificial. The original grade of San Vicente Creek is well below both of them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425981315157-CFYVDSG8QPCSLW7G8YBN/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 7 The exit tunnel for San Vicente Creek at the beach. The creek flows directly into the ocean behind the photographer. Before the construction of the cement plant, and this railroad rampart/tunnel system, San Vicente Creek was considered to be the best trout-fishing stream in Santa Cruz County. What happened to the creeks? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414967641-MRV7S94UAAQ8XKUS3QEO/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 7 http://www.sandylydon.com/secret-history-23 daily 0.75 2015-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426121214572-E7CDRGPOJ5GNFC2UR7PM/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 23 One of the bitumen mine pits that still pockmark the North Coast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426121033804-0GA0JJ61HN0DYK6OSXK4/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 23 Oil drilling derrick, De Laveaga Park, Santa Cruz, c. 1926. Local subscribers funded an oil-drilling project on public lands that drilled fitfully (with each infusion of investor money) from 1924 through 1927, reaching a final depth of 3,400 feet, finding only traces of oil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414682242-LL0DHFB0E3VBMYEH73TP/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 23 http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page-3 daily 0.75 2015-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426062701409-S40128EJRI7P1L1R2S6W/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 11 In over 30 years of active researching and collecting, this is the only photograph of the KKK in Santa Cruz I've ever seen. Ben Lomond realtor Ronnie Trubek found it on e-bay and bought it from a collector in the United Kingdom. It was taken on July 4, 1927 looking north on Pacific Avenue, and very clear in the foreground is a float consisting of a mock-up school house with the slogans "One School," "One Law," and "One Flag." Walking alongside is a group of men dressed in K.K.K. regalia with the fronts of their hoods up, exposing their faces. The KKK was quite active in Santa Cruz County in the 1920s, with one of their campaigns was against the Roman Catholic Church. They opposed Catholic hospitals and parochial schools, thus the slogans on the model school house. Photo Credit: With permission of the Ronnie Trubek collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426062888273-W80JI3GBE7Y3COGP86CK/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 11 The secret charter of the Klan Klavern #105 officially founded in Watsonville on December 22, 1926. The Klan was organized throughout the Monterey Bay Region in the 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426063003114-IKYQVVDDR8R9W6ZN8Z2K/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 11 The KKK in the 1920s was very much anti-Catholic and opposed the immigration of Roman Catholic Southern Europeans. The caricature of "Rome" as a priest or monk with tonsure was a common one used by the Kl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414926794-P2L2TTH62A2GB8BB8XD5/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 11 http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page-4 daily 0.75 2015-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426066368968-P4BUMVJJMFD7IY109JPB/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 3 This is the only surviving photograph of the Chinese fishing camp located from the early 1850s to the 1880s at the base of the bluff on present-day New Brighton State Beach. Photo credit: UCSC Special Collections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426066917062-5PXCWYE58950E5DUYPKD/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 3 Chinese fish peddler on Santa Cruz Railroad wharf, c.1880s. The baskets in this photograph are empty and nested together. When full, the two baskets were suspended from the ends of the carrying pole that he is carrying over his shoulder. Photo Credit: UCSC Special Collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426067077290-F25ZGFECUBVZEPGKDX61/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 3 Dried fish destined for the Chinese markets in California and across the Pacific. Note the hat for size reference, and note the size of the mesh of the net. Photo Credit: National Archives, Washington,D.C. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426067372739-CP021MGQ4P63J3MFUZ58/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 3 Fishermen pulling boat on rollers up China Beach,1913. This remarkable photograph was taken looking west, with present-day Park Avenue in the distance on the left, and New Brighton State Beach on the right. The box used to ship the fish is on the beach just to the right of the horse. The fish were probably shipped by train from the local railroad stop nearby. Credit: Sutton Family Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426066670059-D8O57WK2QW0L3K0PJ63X/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 3 Sampans pulled up on the beach at the Point Alones village,Monterey. Photo Credit: Pat Hathaway Collection, Monterey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426067272696-FEO46AL4MRO67YHKLK0I/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 3 The anti-Chinese image from the top of a Santa Cruz County ballot, 1879. The anti-Chinese movement was extremely strong in Santa Cruz County in the 1870s and 1880s. Credit: Santa Cruz City Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426067501515-OZT6X6T3A07B0RN3K871/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 3 This photograph shows the same angle as the one the left 90 years later. Note that the bluff on the right is now covered with vegetation. The trees in the distance are the same as or descendants of those showing in the earlier photograph. Most are eucalyptus. Note that the beach is much narrower now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426066469859-M35JF5USR3RTYKI71DNS/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 3 The largest fishing village in the Monterey Bay Region was this one located at Point Alones in Pacific Grove, California. The initial focus of these fishermen was abalone, but they later shifted to drying rockfish and finally in the 1890s, squid. The village survived for so long because it was located mid-way between Pacific Grove and Monterey in a relatively isolated cove. The village existed from 1854 to 1907. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414825744-9VMM9UCIBQKWPT8FYWM5/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 3 http://www.sandylydon.com/secret-history-20 daily 0.75 2015-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426116244996-LQKRZZ2E5DZZ0ZDGHMM5/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 20 The dedication of Loch Lomond. From left to right, Margaret Browning, Anne Laurie, Sheriff's Captain Wesley Hopfer, Mrs. Jean Hopfer. Jean Hopfer was the driving force behind the naming of the reservoir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426115928654-N109EYG5G052NY806QTJ/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 20 The two Loch Lomonds have a similar appearance, but one, the original in Scotland (left) is a gazillion years old, while the other in Santa Cruz County is just shy of fifty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414727958-3WY6GOPDGD4YIV3EY8KC/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 20 http://www.sandylydon.com/hooey-history-1-1 daily 0.75 2015-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426623822242-VVTRV6B6PSV5EYHQD80D/image-asset.jpeg Hooey History 1 A concrete sculpture at Davenport, the place where they make cement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426623645199-XZTQ1QG7YI0Y7F3ZERQI/image-asset.jpeg Hooey History 1 S.S. Palo Alto, Seacliff State Beach, Aptos, California, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426624099935-2Q6WQPR7R0R1U6GJ221R/image-asset.jpeg Hooey History 1 The S.S. Palo Alto during her days as an oceanside amusement center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426623706386-ENSCUUCMPEEP9HC3ZM65/image-asset.jpeg Hooey History 1 Some sacks of cement. http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page-88 daily 0.75 2015-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426122402952-BNAE72BDLWS0TX7Z24QA/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 22 Austrian Benevolent Association Meeting, Watsonville, 19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426122270878-I3DXRK14AA2BBT78WULU/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 22 Apples wagons, Lukrich Company, Watsonville, c.1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414649821-U4DY1UE7VOZP2OLZ501Q/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 22 http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page-16 daily 0.75 2015-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426139444644-O0C6VR9NT0SWP6DUACCT/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 28 Drawing of a steer dying on the plains by Charles Russell. Note coyotes waiting in the wings. This scene was played out thousands of times in California during the drought of 1863-1864. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426139894710-ZU87W8YPCFL5DXGLC6D7/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 28 Image of Sacramento during the flood of 1862 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426140101170-REVJQVESAQR6VO8JK0KP/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 28 Henry Miller was one of a few cattle ranchers able to survive and even thrive during the 1863-1864 drought by moving his cattle to his pasturage he owned beyond the reach of the drought. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426140323085-7VIYSFH8H1JCLK74JJMU/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 28 A graphic depiction of the October earthquake in San Francisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426140006765-JT0OFQKYXO4RMUZTU2UO/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 28 The buzzards (more correctly termed turkey vultures) grew so fat during the 1863-1864 drought that they could only waddle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414392571-PWXKU5IEQXDJFPNYKLEV/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 28 http://www.sandylydon.com/secret-history-5 daily 0.75 2015-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425982155895-DD33JIVD24XN4JYAX30Y/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 5 Raymond Kitchen's handiwork at 1211 Fair Avenue. The cylindrical building was originally a fireplace, with the bulbous extension on top acting as the chimney. The windows were added later https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425982090945-TZF74M9U6LC8CCV0VL6N/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 5 Close up of the lovely brickwork and mosaic over the gate. Apparently there is no religious symbolism to the design over the gate, except the desire to avoid paying taxes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425982009663-318VBL3JY5OPC22ETHWB/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 5 Kenneth Kitchen's "temple" at 519 Fair Avenue https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425982278324-XKCLFLO3WTNHJWAQR70X/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 5 The ornate abalone shell inlay in the front gate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414947976-B7MHUURLTJ0X52PZICI8/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 5 http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page-18 daily 0.75 2015-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426129596885-LDT0XNGK8B2UU9PTB20K/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 24 Rare photograph taken c. 1885 outside the tunnel mouth. "Off-duty" Chinese railroad worker on right is wearing slippers and a queue https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426129830070-88DHJXEG51TKBUR26UOU/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 24 Artist's rendering of the May 23, 1880 accident that killed 15 passengers on the newly-completed South Pacific Coast Railroad. Some say it was part of some cosmic score-evening carried out by the hungry ghosts of the Chinese killed in the tunnels in 1879 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426129263844-32RLEN72DL20NPT7KZFL/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 24 North end of Summit Tunnel, 2012 Over 30 Chinese railroad workers were killed in explosions in 1879 caused by the seepage of oil and gas out of the walls of the tunnel as it was constructed over 6,100 feet through the mountain. Some say that the hungry ghosts of those Chinese killed in the tunnel continue to haunt these mountains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414576887-EKG1ZTLON75BUICOYIGE/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 24 http://www.sandylydon.com/secret-history-2-1 daily 0.75 2015-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426102159088-J0U48JFRJ5EGPNVA1NYP/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 2 Part of the whale bones now gathered behind the Whaler's Cabin at Point Lobos. Three species of whales are represented here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426101842670-08YFRTTF5Q571PS0HCHV/schome.jpg Secret History 2 Finback whale skeleton erected by Japanese abalone divers at Point Lobos. Photo taken circa 1906. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426102002577-CJIXGU33D0RWBJH6DDIR/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 2 Members of this Point Lobos Japanese abalone diving crew cut up the finback whale, buried the bones, and reassembled the whale skeleton.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426102081890-KWRSHB4QZ6XFQHLP55I4/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 2 The Whaler's Cabin at Point Lobos.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414796934-12L2OGAMGSYY88171S7J/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 2 http://www.sandylydon.com/secret-history-12 daily 0.75 2015-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425974256190-ARNBQ3HAOUDBCREDL3WC/sec12_02.jpg Secret History 12 The Hotel Del Monte, Santa Cruz tourism's nemesis. This long-lived hotel (1880-WWII) set the tone for Monterey tourism and lifestyle and by default that of Santa Cruz. The hotel and grounds are now the Naval Postgraduate School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425974569643-CC167DZC3SCQVZ7NDSJE/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 12 The Casa Blanca is on the site of the Sea Beach Hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425974645863-IXK763TE0FL7AJF7JUQR/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 12 The stone wall at the corner of Beach and Main is all that remains from the era of the Sea Beach Hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425974446795-YKHZAGBYZQAA20YL4DO1/sec12_03.jpg Secret History 12 The Sea Beach Hotel in all of its glory. The stone wall along Main Street is in the lower right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425973879327-OQ4W84H97PCL0XW65CZT/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509415006927-BL5MEFPKJ6AI5EM5PUDP/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 12 http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page-99 daily 0.75 2017-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426115089113-3109TWNXDT9TKRW0MXUV/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 14 Coast Live Oak acorns, Aptos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414751750-X5DLCZXR9CP8VEYKYNVC/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 14 http://www.sandylydon.com/secret-history-15 daily 0.75 2015-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426120051126-RTJVJ0FV9V24OP0KCGL2/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 15 Santa Cruz County Flag, during BayWalk. South of Salinas River, Monterey County, date. Madelyn Choi and Kim Steinhardt in background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426120127334-8LAHXESDLXSZA52P277L/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 15 The Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgendered FlagThe Ensuing Confusion – The LGBT pride flag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414705258-AELQJTA2H2I6IG16I28N/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 15 http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page-53 daily 0.75 2015-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426625387673-14IGFYHCDHHYH3EZ1A1K/image-asset.jpeg Hooey History 2 The northern or Wright's end of the Summit Tunnel and one of the Chinese laborers that helped build it, c. 1890. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426625605534-KK9HV2P7TIBR5PMVK24J/image-asset.jpeg Hooey History 2 The Wright's end of the Summit Tunnel, 1973. The US Army collapsed this end of the tunnel on April 4, 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426625536306-BQ06OJU0VM6WDTARHR12/image-asset.jpeg Hooey History 2 The Wright's end of the Summit Tunnel, 1973. The photograph was taken while standing on the rubble created by the Army's explosions in 1942. http://www.sandylydon.com/secret-history-4 daily 0.75 2015-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426064558535-1E9M8F1P533CEDDLTQWY/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 4 Moss Landing today, looking north. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute building are on the left, and the boulders that marked the ocean end of the whale station slipway are in the distance on the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426064406955-01RYT8SQ0UX8ICAVQUXT/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 4 The only remnant of the Moss Landing whaling station is this pile of boulders that was placed here in 1917 to anchor the end of the whaling station slipway. During low tides, they emerge to remind us of the whaling history on this spot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426064248632-7J4CRD7CRUQ8512TQ8L7/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 4 Captain Frederick Dedrick. Born in Norway and trained in the Norwegian whaling industry, Captain Dedrick was the manager of the Moss Landing factory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426064127850-472YML2CNKGU0LK7U16A/image-asset.jpeg Secret History 4 The Moss Landing Whaling Station's First Whale, January 1919. A crowd has gathered to watch the first whale, a sperm, be hauled up the slipway. The whale is visible floating in the left foreground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509414905728-0Q5OPK0RVLN0NCGNZVR6/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg Secret History 4 http://www.sandylydon.com/secret-history-1-1 daily 0.75 2015-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1425185518647-9DWBM8L50JVM1XFZ06HK/sec_ghosts17_001.jpg SECRET HISTORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509183575982-0UBLK2WXEX06Y482RXA0/ccs_topgraphic9.jpg SECRET HISTORY http://www.sandylydon.com/hooey-history-1 daily 0.75 2015-03-18 http://www.sandylydon.com/history-25a daily 0.75 2015-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426586827936-4LX6QFBFHBHM2XG4TDPX/image-asset.jpeg History 25A For local creds, here is Sandy Lydon on the Santa Cruz Main Beach in 1941. Check out the tan! That's a local's tan! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426586757460-X3JRCRQUOCOHOB3LYFTR/image-asset.jpeg History 25A This photo of Soquel looks like New England! What happened to all the Spanish-Mexican-Catholic stuff? When and how did the Protestants take over? What the hell happened? http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2018-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509011903710-0041POG7PK8EGKTQOQZZ/5LunchBuddhist.jpg JAPAN 2018 It is customary to remove one’s shoes not only in private homes, but also in museums, temples and shrines. This photo was taken outside a restaurant, and we advise group members to find some slip-on shoes that do not have laces, because it can get very tiresome to untie and tie your shoes a dozen times a day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509042809201-L7M9GU76U0IF1UU0WN3B/SanjaMatsuri.jpg JAPAN 2018 Sanja Matsuri participant. The Sanja Matsuri also provides a great opportunity to take some very personal photographs, always with permission. Annie got the little girl’s mother’s permission to take the photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509702977676-KYWVBZISON91H4RCYAW3/JapanMap_2018.png JAPAN 2018 click to enlarge map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509047944717-2XDBZ54J874CQNGM8FY8/1KyotoGinkakujigarden1.jpg JAPAN 2018 - Return to Japan, including the Far North May 6 to May 20, 2018 ( With optional extension to Kyoto-Nara-Osaka – May 20 – 24) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1508996806265-UGLMT5CTZ69UHXMX9IVH/tra_ja009.jpg JAPAN 2018 We plan to visit these rice paddies in Maniboso. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509043038112-PE3HDCL1AYSRT6GWGIY7/8TheLeadersTokyo.jpg JAPAN 2018 The Leadership team - with Tokyo Tower behind: Left, Yoshie-sensei, Middle Kaori Mizoguchi, and right The History Dude. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509011670962-VPZFLSP70NRYQCG3ZSQU/4FoodHiroshimaOkomomi.jpg JAPAN 2018 Japanese food is not just “little things in little dishes.” This dish, sometimes called a Japanese pancake, and actually named okonomiyaki was a huge hit in May 2017 and we will be seeking regional variations of this dish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509042647496-6VWSARP5D5U1XM07GLMM/6anjaMatsuri.jpg JAPAN 2018 Sanja Matsuri, Tokyo, May 2017. We plan our trips to conclude with Japan’s largest annual festival. Groups carry Shinto altars through the streets and they work hard. And EVERYBODY is out to see it. An amazing, exuberant, exciting event. http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page-49 daily 0.75 2019-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516672385883-3KHRXZDDKAZMPMPKBG48/nursery-shopping.jpg Christmastime in Cambria 2018 Annie Lydon grazing in one of the most extensive Christmas stores at the Cambria Christmas Market. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516658548454-KSYGBFRTDIQLBPT4VS3U/castle+outdoor+with+group.jpg Christmastime in Cambria 2018 Hearst Castle is truly enchanted on our evening Christmastime tour. Photo Credit: Bill Bishoff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516671183598-J52UZIRCK1FD6UMUT1D2/group+cpl.jpg Christmastime in Cambria 2018 Out group fresh back from visiting Mr. Hearst poses in front of the Cambria Pines Lodge before venturing inside for a lovely buffet dinner in our private decorated dining room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516672338686-9NUCAP34K9JC3C6MXNY4/Christmas-Market-stuff.jpg Christmastime in Cambria 2018 Did we mention that there are many booths at the Christmas Market where you can buy LOTS of Christmas stuff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516672260994-WABU349H4NMKFPDA8L4V/finalists.jpg Christmastime in Cambria 2018 Using only the most scientific methods, the History Dude solicits applause for the contestants. Actually, the woman dressed in red, Pat Enright, won best female costume and went on to win best in show. She was delighted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1568447461207-SB43O0MVCC22RRLVHYHJ/Sonny+and+Cher+June+2018+Castro+Adobe+cropped.jpg Christmastime in Cambria 2018 Sandy (Sonny) and Annie (Cher) – The 60s make-over – it was so good that nobody recognized us. Or wanted to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516660813957-100NC5CHBIBNTYRLKYDH/castle-group-outdoors-2.jpg Christmastime in Cambria 2018 Dressed in their finest, our group gets prepared to meet Mr. Hearst. Well, not actually, but we felt like it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1510912966819-UYBGJ5MNNE2HJ6DSWISV/adv_cambria001_new.jpg Christmastime in Cambria 2018 The Coast Starlight as it rolls alongside Elkhorn Slough. You’ll see the Central Coast in an entirely new way from the train. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516661704704-CKA84V1P2PTW6QDPZ5FW/Cambria+lights+tunnel.JPG Christmastime in Cambria 2018 The entrance to the Cambria Christmas Market is a gentle beginning to a lighted wonderland. http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page-89 daily 0.75 2017-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1510305932897-8VG3DMO0DP25HKW5QLJL/JACL+Hall.png Japan 2018 Preview The Japanese American Citizens League Hall where we will hold our Nov. 19 preview. The building is 90 years old and has a Heritage exhibit in its basement. We’ll have a tour of the exhibit after the preview. http://www.sandylydon.com/home-1 daily 0.75 2018-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1508965751167-7A3E3URDYMPAG1F0C7KL/%235+Fat+Man.jpg Copy of HOME “Fat Man” – Life-size model of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. The plutonium for this bomb was made in a nuclear reactor at the Hanfor Engineering Works, Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1508964995937-DILO194H3RRMPBXYMY7I/%232+Schematic.jpg Copy of HOME Schematic of the Japanese fire balloon. The entire outfit measured 100 feet from the top of the balloon to the bottom of the gondola. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1508963961898-ASH7FRNK2X86GPF02ZO8/Photo+%231+Middle+section.JPG Copy of HOME Fire Balloon display, Tokyo National Museum. The balloon is one-third the size of the actual 1944 balloons. The original balloons were 2 times this size. If you are ever in Tokyo, this museum (also known as the Edo Museum) is one of the best museums in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1508965461066-RMZ870WRYD5XWIO0VK80/%234+bomb+map.jpg Copy of HOME This map shows the general track of the balloons and the locations of the 350 balloons that survived. It was not until after the war that the Japanese who participated in the campaign knew that any of the balloons had reached North America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1508965215646-DFPG9XXTJLAFO3WYUDXS/%233+Grimes.jpg Copy of HOME Downed fire balloon found outside the town of Grimes, California in the Sacramento Valley west of Yuba City. It was found on March 14, 1945, and you can get a feeling for the size of the balloons – gondola is hanging in air to the right. Several ballast sandbags and bombs were intact. http://www.sandylydon.com/new-secret-history-old-home daily 0.75 2018-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516516594406-RT2ID6VMNMWDL9L127OG/Flu+2018009.jpg new secret history - old home The flu arrived in 1918 to a populace that was already mobilized, so passing ordinances about masks and prohibiting public gatherings and closing schools was done without much if any public debate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516517396489-L0H9C831MVD1J35VI9B1/Dec.+2017+SoCal.jpg new secret history - old home Photo taken in late December, 2017 during the 2017-2018 flu epidemic in Los Angeles. Photo Credit: Los Angeles Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516517279702-NMF632THFG64EBKQPITH/Flu+2018007.jpg new secret history - old home Photo captures Santa Cruz polic officer wearing mandatory flu mask while directing traffic on Water Street beside the Post Office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516517093165-21K8I61MBX63S97HH49F/Flu+2018001.jpg new secret history - old home The two cities in Santa Cruz County, Watsonville and Santa Cruz passed mask ordinances, and then the County passed this one regarding the unincorporated parts of the county. At first, some residents tried to comply by just hanging the mask on their ears, but the law said that the mask had to cover the mouth and nose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516516316149-V9SZ7L6HC9N7B5RR27X2/Flu+Photos001.jpg new secret history - old home This photograph from the McLean family collection shows Hulda Hoover and her sister Louise roller skating in Palo Alto during the 1918-1919 pandemic. When I asked Hulda (we knew her as Hulda Hoover McLean) about this photograph she remembered the masks as being "scratchy" and "uncomfortable". Photo credit: McLean family collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516517844382-16J2IP70VC8BR7QBXO59/Flu-2018005.jpg new secret history - old home Santa Cruz Post Office, November 11, 1919. When the crowds came out to celebrate the end of the World War, they were still wearing the flu masks. If you examine the photograph closely you can see the masks. CLICK TO ENLARGE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516516831909-0ODKIVJDTQQUUMSL5TPI/Flu+2018008.jpg new secret history - old home Even children were recruited into the war effort. Those who were not actively supportive of these efforts were considered unpatriotic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1516517451181-Y9DJ2P2HBREEGDOIDC5R/chris_banner_paradise_grande.jpg new secret history - old home One can make a fashion statement while wearing a flu mask. http://www.sandylydon.com/japan-preview-2020 daily 0.75 2019-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1568882208476-UWOWZFY8XAOTTWSQ2SFS/Ginkakuji-copy.png Japan Preview 2020 Ginkakuji, Kyoto. We will prepare you for your visit to some of the grandest temples in all of Japan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1568882106033-IOH66S2Q0KJUMBHZCGI5/Tateyama-fishiing-bots-copy.png Japan Preview 2020 Tateyama is on a bay that faces Tokyo Bay, and the sea is very much a part of their history and culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539139155143-593AD1OVABBTXN61NUAO/Tateyama+party+dancing.JPG Japan Preview 2020 Group leader thinking too hard trying to do the “Coal Miner’s Dance” We will learn some folks songs and dances in preparation this time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539138505142-P3IATJSDQ1KYL6BYN1RU/Tateyama+Chikura+Nakajiros+grave+cropped.jpg Japan Preview 2020 May ?, 2018, Chicura Buddhist Cemetery Reverend Takanashi leading brief memorial at the grave of Nakajiro Kodani, a major player in the transpacific story that united Minamiboso and the Monterey Bay Region. http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page-39 daily 0.75 2023-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539766556434-APWMHEYGTCQRL311C37K/Cabrillo+bonds.JPG Happy 60th Birthday Cabrillo Cabrillo students help the campaign by putting up signs promoting the bond issue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539766104238-EP1S7HMGF2UZ0DUK5L6W/Sentinel+headline+jc+is+beaten+May%2C+++1954.JPG Happy 60th Birthday Cabrillo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539766480807-4MD686B3VGD9KH5DRV54/Cabrillo+Watsonville001.JPG Happy 60th Birthday Cabrillo The old (contemned) Watsonville High School building was not safe for high school students, but was for Cabrillo’s first three years of instruction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539765969995-TIG4LFQ0M02JIT3NVTHD/McQuaide+cropped+cropped+++lighter.jpg Happy 60th Birthday Cabrillo The Camp McQuaide property was eventually sold to the Seventh Day Adventist church that established Monterey Bay Academy, a boarding high school attracting students from all over the world https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539766368140-PCF03E5ANIVZ4IGU3UOQ/First+Board+of+Trustees.jpg Happy 60th Birthday Cabrillo The Founding Cabrillo Trustees from left: Bud Rice, Art Hubbard, Keith Shaffer, Hal Hyde, Joe Chamberlain, Carl Conelly, Marguerite Blaisdell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539766211986-CCGHP5ZD42A27DTQ9V9K/Headline+Oct+21%2C+1958.JPG Happy 60th Birthday Cabrillo The Santa Cruz Sentinel declared the 1958 election victory for the junior college a “landslide.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539765388468-6X8ZKELUK1WKDNLFNVLO/McQuaide%232edited+camp+looking++++north.JPG Happy 60th Birthday Cabrillo One of the earliest promising efforts to establish a county-wide junior college in Santa Cruz County was in 1948 when the Federal government offered Camp McQuaide as war surplus property for…$1.00. The State Department of Education nixed the idea saying it was too remote from most of the county’s population. http://www.sandylydon.com/japan-2019 daily 0.75 2018-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1538646845105-MFIGXIIC070ETOUIH2Q7/Japan-2019-map.png JAPAN 2019 click to enlarge map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509042809201-L7M9GU76U0IF1UU0WN3B/SanjaMatsuri.jpg JAPAN 2019 Sanja Matsuri participant. The Sanja Matsuri also provides a great opportunity to take some very personal photographs, always with permission. Annie got the little girl’s mother’s permission to take the photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509043038112-PE3HDCL1AYSRT6GWGIY7/8TheLeadersTokyo.jpg JAPAN 2019 The Leadership team - with Tokyo Tower behind: Left, Yoshie-sensei, Middle Kaori Mizoguchi, and right The History Dude. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509042647496-6VWSARP5D5U1XM07GLMM/6anjaMatsuri.jpg JAPAN 2019 Sanja Matsuri, Tokyo, May 2017. We plan our trips to conclude with Japan’s largest annual festival. Groups carry Shinto altars through the streets and they work hard. And EVERYBODY is out to see it. An amazing, exuberant, exciting event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1508996806265-UGLMT5CTZ69UHXMX9IVH/tra_ja009.jpg JAPAN 2019 We plan to visit these rice paddies in Maniboso. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509011670962-VPZFLSP70NRYQCG3ZSQU/4FoodHiroshimaOkomomi.jpg JAPAN 2019 Japanese food is not just “little things in little dishes.” This dish, sometimes called a Japanese pancake, and actually named okonomiyaki was a huge hit in May 2017 and we will be seeking regional variations of this dish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509011903710-0041POG7PK8EGKTQOQZZ/5LunchBuddhist.jpg JAPAN 2019 It is customary to remove one’s shoes not only in private homes, but also in museums, temples and shrines. This photo was taken outside a restaurant, and we advise group members to find some slip-on shoes that do not have laces, because it can get very tiresome to untie and tie your shoes a dozen times a day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1538646895010-OY08AWKUMVDJSLM01MV0/Web+%231+Gink.JPG JAPAN 2019 - An Intimate and Personal Journey into Japan including Hokkaido. Sun. May 5, 2019 to Sun. May 19, 2019 http://www.sandylydon.com/dave-stamey daily 0.75 2018-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1544558248906-G30NZD5VQ2QOYVYTNPII/Dave+Stamey+color.JPG Dave Stamey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1544558826622-84NCVD9XXY7X500D1SF8/Dave+book001+cropped.jpg Dave Stamey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1544558556451-PS8298SJI18UJGEM6QYZ/Mavericks+better+1+edited.jpg Dave Stamey Singing together at Mavericks, Altadena, CA. You might think that’s a locomotive creeping up behind them, but it’s a coffee roasting machine. Mavericks is a coffee shop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1544558062633-7TWWXE6EFLKD5BD6VSYU/IMG_6592.jpeg Dave Stamey Dave and Annie singing with a band! Raymond, California Old West Fest, Sept 29, 2018. That’s Hall of Fame fiddler Richard Chong (Sons of the San Joaquin) working behind them. Photo Credit: Charlie Kieffer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1544558413989-UGI1AN73BWQVFG3Y9LEV/Promo+photo+2016.jpg Dave Stamey http://www.sandylydon.com/japan-2020-1 daily 0.75 2019-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509042809201-L7M9GU76U0IF1UU0WN3B/SanjaMatsuri.jpg Japan 2020 Japanese children learn to give the V-sign at a very early age. The V-sign is ubiquitous. We will explore the origin of the V-sign in Japan, and its origins in 1972. It had nothing to do with Winston Churchill or Richard Nixon. You'll see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1567628050427-63HNYFEK25PWLV12T8KX/Nagasaki+fat+man+kids.JPG Japan 2020 A full-size replica of “Fat Man,” the atomic bomb dropped over Nagasaki August 9, 1945. This replica hangs in the Nagasaki Peace Museum, and the students are completing a homework assignment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1567849004653-ANK46HQM83RO8D6UC6AR/Tateyama+Chikura+Nakajiros+grave+++cropped.JPG Japan 2020 - An Intimate and Personal Journey into Japan including Okinawa. Sat. April 4, 2020 to Sun. April 19, 2020 Extensions Possible https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1567625340997-9UJAYZ1VRIDUXB7CF5HE/Cherry+Blossoms+Omura+Park+2+++Nagasaki.jpg Japan 2020 Cherry blossoms in Nagasaki https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509011670962-VPZFLSP70NRYQCG3ZSQU/4FoodHiroshimaOkomomi.jpg Japan 2020 Japanese food is not just “little things in little dishes.” This dish, sometimes called a Japanese pancake, and actually named okonomiyaki was a huge hit in May 2017 and we will be seeking regional variations of this dish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509011903710-0041POG7PK8EGKTQOQZZ/5LunchBuddhist.jpg Japan 2020 It is customary to remove one’s shoes not only in private homes, but also in museums, temples and shrines. This photo was taken outside a restaurant, and we advise group members to find some slip-on shoes that do not have laces, because it can get very tiresome to untie and tie your shoes a dozen times a day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1574580692852-14DEWJHFH4906F3BX841/japanmap2020NEW.png Japan 2020 click to enlarge map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509043038112-PE3HDCL1AYSRT6GWGIY7/8TheLeadersTokyo.jpg Japan 2020 The Leadership team - with Tokyo Tower behind: Left, Yoshie-sensei, Middle Kaori Mizoguchi, and right The History Dude. http://www.sandylydon.com/new-home daily 0.75 2019-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1574494762457-EOM4NQ6QMIZV32H6K3KR/Tateyyama-tunnel-outside-copy.jpg HOME A Lydon-Mizoguchi entering the Akayama Tunnels in May of 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1574494182208-XNLOXFGLV5LW3WLLWZ9T/flags.jpg HOME https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1574494649796-871TWPG5D8XS4D81XFNQ/Tateyama-tunnel-copy.jpg HOME The Akayama Wartime tunnel complex. Opened to the public in 1995. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1574494549279-LZI184BIQ7JPM3P3BLAS/Summit.jpg HOME This is the north end of the Summit Tunnel that connected Santa Cruz and the Bay Area by rail from 1880 to 1940. It was collapsed by the US Army on April 4, 1942, leading to the story that it was done to prevent a Japanese invasion. http://www.sandylydon.com/home daily 0.75 2023-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509042809201-L7M9GU76U0IF1UU0WN3B/SanjaMatsuri.jpg HOME Japanese children learn to give the V-sign at a very early age. The V-sign is ubiquitous. We will explore the origin of the V-sign in Japan, and its origins in 1972. It had nothing to do with Winston Churchill or Richard Nixon. You'll see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1567849004653-ANK46HQM83RO8D6UC6AR/Tateyama+Chikura+Nakajiros+grave+++cropped.JPG HOME - Dave Stamey & Annie Lydon In an Outdoor Concert! Hallcrest Vineyards Felton Sunday, August 27 4:00 PM Tickets: $25 advance/$30 @ door Put link to Hallcrestvinegards.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1574580692852-14DEWJHFH4906F3BX841/japanmap2020NEW.png HOME click to enlarge map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509011903710-0041POG7PK8EGKTQOQZZ/5LunchBuddhist.jpg HOME It is customary to remove one’s shoes not only in private homes, but also in museums, temples and shrines. This photo was taken outside a restaurant, and we advise group members to find some slip-on shoes that do not have laces, because it can get very tiresome to untie and tie your shoes a dozen times a day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509043038112-PE3HDCL1AYSRT6GWGIY7/8TheLeadersTokyo.jpg HOME The Leadership team - with Tokyo Tower behind: Left, Yoshie-sensei, Middle Kaori Mizoguchi, and right The History Dude. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1567625340997-9UJAYZ1VRIDUXB7CF5HE/Cherry+Blossoms+Omura+Park+2+++Nagasaki.jpg HOME Cherry blossoms in Nagasaki https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1509011670962-VPZFLSP70NRYQCG3ZSQU/4FoodHiroshimaOkomomi.jpg HOME Japanese food is not just “little things in little dishes.” This dish, sometimes called a Japanese pancake, and actually named okonomiyaki was a huge hit in May 2017 and we will be seeking regional variations of this dish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1567628050427-63HNYFEK25PWLV12T8KX/Nagasaki+fat+man+kids.JPG HOME A full-size replica of “Fat Man,” the atomic bomb dropped over Nagasaki August 9, 1945. This replica hangs in the Nagasaki Peace Museum, and the students are completing a homework assignment. http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page-47 daily 0.75 2020-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1588909981046-GNQO1ILZVPXJO685X6IO/Photo+%231+Nixon+Augusut+30.jpg Cambodia On Thurs., April 30, President Richard Nixon explained to the nation his invasion of Cambodia, the resumption of the bombping of North Vietnam, and that he was not going to follow-through with his promised de-escalation of the war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1588910312521-LGQ22T0D52A8Y9YJX421/%2314+Swenson.JPG Cambodia Dr. Robert Swenson, founding president of Cabrillo College in 1959. He retired in 1976 and then served as the Executive Direcctor of the Community College Accrediation Comission a position he held until 1986. He died in 2007 at age 89. http://www.sandylydon.com/happy-60th-birthday-cabrillo-copy daily 0.75 2023-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539766211986-CCGHP5ZD42A27DTQ9V9K/Headline+Oct+21%2C+1958.JPG Happy 60th Birthday Cabrillo (Copy) The Santa Cruz Sentinel declared the 1958 election victory for the junior college a “landslide.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539765388468-6X8ZKELUK1WKDNLFNVLO/McQuaide%232edited+camp+looking++++north.JPG Happy 60th Birthday Cabrillo (Copy) One of the earliest promising efforts to establish a county-wide junior college in Santa Cruz County was in 1948 when the Federal government offered Camp McQuaide as war surplus property for…$1.00. The State Department of Education nixed the idea saying it was too remote from most of the county’s population. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539766368140-PCF03E5ANIVZ4IGU3UOQ/First+Board+of+Trustees.jpg Happy 60th Birthday Cabrillo (Copy) The Founding Cabrillo Trustees from left: Bud Rice, Art Hubbard, Keith Shaffer, Hal Hyde, Joe Chamberlain, Carl Conelly, Marguerite Blaisdell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539766480807-4MD686B3VGD9KH5DRV54/Cabrillo+Watsonville001.JPG Happy 60th Birthday Cabrillo (Copy) The old (contemned) Watsonville High School building was not safe for high school students, but was for Cabrillo’s first three years of instruction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539766556434-APWMHEYGTCQRL311C37K/Cabrillo+bonds.JPG Happy 60th Birthday Cabrillo (Copy) Cabrillo students help the campaign by putting up signs promoting the bond issue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539765969995-TIG4LFQ0M02JIT3NVTHD/McQuaide+cropped+cropped+++lighter.jpg Happy 60th Birthday Cabrillo (Copy) The Camp McQuaide property was eventually sold to the Seventh Day Adventist church that established Monterey Bay Academy, a boarding high school attracting students from all over the world https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1539766104238-EP1S7HMGF2UZ0DUK5L6W/Sentinel+headline+jc+is+beaten+May%2C+++1954.JPG Happy 60th Birthday Cabrillo (Copy) http://www.sandylydon.com/happy-60th-birthday-cabrillo-copy-1 daily 1.0 2023-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/66fe8122-cab1-4823-8679-3a48c15f74b3/PG+May+13+1.jpg History Injection! http://www.sandylydon.com/gallery-five daily 0.75 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256573397-W356C5RVH3XBOB3SCL06/67_expanded_gallery7.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256573376-ICK8R6QCYOG97IBMRY8R/67_expanded_gallery9.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256573483-1QMM84OGXHVLOW9GZBD7/67_expanded_gallery11.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256573398-8JJVDY085LVDK538B2G4/67_expanded_gallery6.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256573803-7786EE677BG4L1F189J8/TILLY+MINT+-++Master+Cabin.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256573837-X8QOYPR366Z1BMFEE10U/67_expanded_gallery8.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256573392-P27I2IPNTEG5EB7ZFZKS/67_expanded_gallery10.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256573518-3TRTIH6VJF0EXFHK6A5I/TILLY+MINT+-++Forward+Port+Stateroom.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256498078-WCV2QE4LJ3F154189GQB/designed_by_expanded_gallery4.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256498189-X6EI3ZSZCXX8F2659523/designed_by_expanded_gallery2.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256498021-J1PYSC7S0XD4NHNTVVEC/67_expanded_gallery1.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256493750-P3M8VT2OSRWK878UC1VI/designed_by_expanded_gallery3.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256498054-58Z6MZ3GGRYBGT2P9WMM/67_expanded_gallery4.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256493575-KIDZSA7BUR9ODHCDMR5U/designed_by_expanded_gallery5.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256498349-61KJCT7LUBBNAYAV80QF/67_expanded_gallery5.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1405471430322-0OIDLH3KJR6F2GH2C1T2/4089180923_312c50fc50_o.jpg Gallery http://www.sandylydon.com/testimonials-five daily 0.75 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367258704177-SMDMM0KB99AZ9RHAVZHC/2034160967_01a6f7d5fa_o.jpg Testimonials http://www.sandylydon.com/overview-five daily 0.75 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256295503-GYWE4L3BJHM8K1RFA9H0/67_expanded_gallery2.jpg The Yacht https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367256279280-Y2J8GT9FWOF2A4Y0FCET/67_expanded_gallery3.jpg The Yacht https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1405471384544-R7GSC370LBKJELE0UJ20/4089180923_312c50fc50_o.jpg The Yacht http://www.sandylydon.com/home-five daily 0.75 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1378396575576-WWVC5LANBM46L7K383I0/designed_by_expanded_gallery2.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1378396455304-F60B5S8EZCPQ1LLLUP3W/ventotene.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1378396536086-5BRLY4GBP2MVGO7ISYON/6999613744_d33c3828ed_o.jpg Home Photo Credit: ms.akr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367253773714-6NVU4334MGX2B40TBI21/5209625883_4f8813122b_o.jpg Home http://www.sandylydon.com/read-me-five daily 0.75 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1376581849029-XMY0369BNE3M724R2LNA/51b7353be4b049e6ffb2caaf.png Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1378827958933-4PFZPMQ2B5002HIZNKCA/BeeHive+%2820130910%29.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1376581850041-71T9N2T854LTY451D3G4/51b75f4be4b0b1ab92015ea0.png Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1376686207692-LRO3OMT4KGTOS9Q8WIRN/gBO0wXUBOBY-QkPZm8Lvg-I-ifill_2048.jpg Read Me http://www.sandylydon.com/charter-packages daily 0.75 2013-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5016d42984ae3ecc9e018d91/1367257698666-OM2IOS6OLWN98U79DSRI/5886151541_301b3d579c_o.jpg Charter Packages http://www.sandylydon.com/books daily 0.75 2015-03-11 http://www.sandylydon.com/books/chinese-gold monthly 0.5 2015-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e9b4efe4b068927b0f13ed/1426051474906-6UFGH7VDUTXY4UVQJEX5/ChineseGoldCover.jpg Books - Chinese Gold