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Browsing Local History Articles by "John V. Young"
The Rise and Fall of Holy City, by
John V. Young
Holy City, on the old Santa Cruz Highway a little north of the Summit, was a Johnny-come-lately to the ranks ... [Read more]
Skyland and Highland, by
John V. Young
An attempt to find a name signifying a place higher than high accounts for the present name of Skyland, an ... [Read more]
Covered Bridges, by
John V. Young
Santa Cruz County has the most covered bridges still standing of any county in the state, all of them deep ... [Read more]
Mountain Charley, by
John V. Young
Most colorful of Santa Cruz Mountain characters of the pioneer days was Mountain Charley McKiernan, one of the first white ... [Read more]
Silent Charley-- Charley Parkhurst, by
John V. Young
The stage for Santa Cruz, on Thursday last, containing eight or nine passengers, upset about a mile beyond Mountain Charley's, ... [Read more]
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Today the Miss California Pageant emphasizes its scholarship program, countering protesters who call the pageant a cotillion of debutants, wearing too much makeup and showing too much skin.
Some of those same complaints were lodged against the Miss California Pageant when it originated in Santa Cruz in 1924. It ..." [More]
Excerpted from Too Much Makeup, Too Much Skin: Pageant Protests Go Back to 1924 by Ross Eric Gibson
