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The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on California's Central Coast on October 17 at 5:04 p.m. local time. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, approximately 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
983. The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalkis an oceanfront amusement parkin Santa Cruz, California. Founded in 1907, it is California's oldest surviving amusement park[1]and one of the few seaside parks on the West Coast of the United States. Description. [edit] The boardwalk extends along the coast of the Monterey Bay, from just east of the Santa ...
Giant Dipper at RCDB. The Giant Dipper is a historic wooden roller coaster located at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, an amusement park in Santa Cruz, California. The Giant Dipper, which replaced the Thompson's Scenic Railway, took 47 days to build and opened on May 17, 1924, at a cost of $50,000. With a height of 70 feet (21 m) and a speed of ...
Serrano, 53, was charged after an incident about 2:45 p.m. Dec. 18, 2021, in which Santa Cruz police said he and his wife were involved in a scuffle with a security guard south of a large parking ...
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February 24, 1987 [2] Santa Cruz Looff Carousel and Roller Coaster On The Beach Boardwalk is a National Historic Landmark composed of two parts, a Looff carousel and the Giant Dipper wooden roller coaster, at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California, United States. They are among the oldest surviving beachfront amusement park ...
Santa Cruz leaders say downtown high-rises would ease housing costs. Activists call the plan 'out of character' for the laid-back beach town and are fighting new construction.
Santa Cruz. The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, opened in 1907, is the oldest amusement park in California and the home to two national historic landmarks: the Looff Carousel and the Giant Dipper roller coaster. The Santa Cruz boardwalk no longer actually has any wooden boardwalks.