Posted on 09/01/2016 2:58:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk will begin a ten-month, $12 million improvement project scheduled to begin just after Labor Day.
Drawings released this week reveal a new main entrance and look for a section of the Boardwalk between Neptune’s Kingdom and Undertow roller coaster.
The project will replace a narrow walkway near Neptune’s Kingdom, include a state-of-the-art ticketing windows, and fresh looks for several games, concessions and attractions including Fright Walk and Lazer Maze, Boardwalk officials said.
"The unique character of the Boardwalk will be maintained and improved because nostalgia and history are such an important part of our story,” Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk president Karl Rice said in a statement.
Bay Area contractors including William S. Bagnall Architects, Slatter Construction and Nielsen Studios are working on the project. Roto, an Ohio design firm specializing in plans for some of the world’s largest theme parks, worked with Boardwalk staff to design the project which will connect the classic Moorish-style of the Cocoanut Grove building with the more colorful, eclectic style of the Boardwalk, according to Boardwalk statement.
The project is scheduled for completion by summer 2017. For more information and a look at the project design, click here.
If you have never been to the Boardwalk you have truly missed something
The Boardwalk brings tourism and tax dollars to an otherwise depressed area
Heck great whites come in when the fishing boats are chumming
I assume you know some of the winery people? They always struck me as a bunch of hippies in the Santa Cruz mountains who happened to make some decent wines.
The catalyst....lived going to hear John Lee Hooker and Ribert Cray
Great little town
I was there in 1993 when my stepson graduated from basket weaving college at Santa Cruz. Nice liberal place.
Isn’t that where “The Lost Boys” Mother worked? What a great movie!
I was looking for lost girls, and didn’t see that one.
Snear all you want. That is not all there is to Samta Cruz
Santa Cruz is a wonderful town with a nice mission, redwood trees, freezing ocean water, sweet waves at the lighthouse and super bright people at the university. William Everson taught poetry at UCSC and lived in Scotts Valley. Way beautiful area with honest ranchers and spoiled flower children.
I went to the funeral of William Everson in Berkeley in the 1990’s and his four wives all sat in the front row. The church was full of genuine hippies from the 60’s. Spoiled brats all of them.
The catalyst ... spent a week there one night ...
UCSC is where NLP was developed by Bandler and Grinder.
And many retired military in and around
My grand parents and my mom are buried there
My daughter and I spent many a weekend there
Indeed
Happy Anniversary!
Thank You, God has been good to us.
Didn’t think I was sneering at your beloved village in my post. I enjoyed my stay there in 1993. Very comfortable. Was 118 fah here in Riverside that day in June, so it was a nice break for us by the seashore. Long drive, but worth it.
I saw some bluesmen there myself (in ‘86) — Buddy Guy, Jr. Wells, and Taj Majal.
Mahal, that is.
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