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Oscar Thomas "O.T." Jackson, by
Phil Reader
As a young man, he had cut hair for a number of years at a small barber shop in the ... [Read more]
On the 1500 block of Pacific Avenue sits a bronze sculpture of an elderly man wearing a Derby hat and ... [Read more]
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The National Guard training site for the 250th Coast Artillery Regiment was established in Capitola in 1926. The camp was located near the Santa Cruz-Capitola Airport (now occupied by Capitola and New Brighton Middle Schools) and basically used as a summer camp by the 250th for a two week manuever ..." [More]
Excerpted from National Guard Training Site--Camp McQuaide by Carmen Morones
