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JOJo has a brother, Joe Ghio.

Not every town is as scenic or beautiful as Capitola -- buy every small to mid size town has a couple Jo'Jo's....and they deserve the respect and accolades this video has in spades.

Wonderful. Spent a lot of time in Capitola and seeing JoJo there always made the trip complete.

We have 35mm slides of the Begonia festival in the 50's and 60's.

blast from the great past i love it thank you

Wow, I remember that like it was yesterday. When the quake hit I was working at Opal Cliffs Auto Center at 41st and Portola. I was working out in front of the business when it hit. Seeing Portola rolling like waves in the see was unbelievable. The way everyone came together that night was incredible. Everyone was camped out in their front yards, nobody wanted to go indoors. CPD made sure the only gas station open on 41st wasnt selling beer. Lame. That whole week was very surreal. All the damage was unbelievable. No power for 3 days. The only other disaster I remember as vividly was the storms of 81 and 82 where the Esplanade was knee deep in sea water. Cant remember the exact date but my mother made it on the front page of The Sentinel after she was deluged by a hugh wave that made its way onto the Esplanade. Ahhhhh....Before Tola was completely gentrified, overpacked and over priced. I lived in Capitola Shores near Jade Street Park. At the time we were paying $400 mo for a 2 bedroom condo. Now those units go for $2500 mo!!! My father bought a house in Live Oak in 67. He paid $11,500 for that house. Now that same glorified shed is worth 700k!! And its a dilapidated 75yr old shoebox! Im digressing, sorry.

Love old videos like this one.

In the mid 70's I lived in the Hopcroft Adobe (School Street Adobe). Cornelia Hopcroft lived across the hall from my apt. Every Saturday she would crank up the TV and listen to Lawrence Welk and the lovely Lennon sisters. Ah Onea and Ah Twoa She was 106 years old when I met her. There was a care taker that would come in during the day, fix meals, clean up the place. But overall Cornelia was pretty much self sufficient.

Audrey mentions “the original Airplane” movie. And says that it starred Bettie Davis. That appears to be incorrect. It did include Ethel Merman an actress from the same era.

Wish the Castros never got their land swindled from them. This region would still be immaculate costal range land.

In this presentation, I have just discovered the "first" Capitola theater--a silent film house! From 1975 to about 1997, I was a frequent patron of the later Capitola theater, built in the 1940s. I first became interested in vintage movie theatre buildings in about 1981, and long thought I knew of all the ones that have existed in Santa Cruz County. Just yesterday, I discovered the one mentioned and shown in this video. My friend, theatre historian Jack Tillmany, did a little research, and found that that it lasted for the rest of the 1920s, being repurposed in 1931 as a dance hall called Chinese Gardens, run by Frank Blake. The operator of this first Capitola Theatre also ran the Cameo Theatre, on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz, which I've long known was in a building immediately to the right of where the Del Mar Theatre would open in 1936. The Cameo had closed by the time the Del Mar opened, and the building which held the Cameo went down after the Loma Prieta Quake, due to structural damage.

Is that Taylor's mom?

What is the chicken song called that’s playing at 7:30 !!!

2:20 very strange photos

Very impressive and informative thank you 🙏 for sharing this gem 💎

Beautiful beautiful photos I can’t get enough

Author, and historian Rick Hamman tried to bring the rail Road back😊

Tom was a dear family friend for my entire life. Miss you sweet friend.

Thanx y’all early 1900 capitola wharf rats 135 salmon a day they know about , thanx YALL now we ain’t allowed to catch one fish mataye mia 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇹

Awesome I grew up down there 1990s best time best fishing

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing!

Hi, Jo Jo. I'm one of the guys that worked the para-sailing business with James in '79. I encourage you to share your memories of that time.

I had the pleasure of working for a short lived para-sailing outfit during the summer of '79. We built a floating platform on the short beach and towed and anchored it a little way from the end of the wharf, where tickets to ride were sold. A skiff brought customers from the wharf to the platform. We pulled parachutes from the platform and occasionally landed them safely back on deck, but often dropped the riders in the ocean. Fortunately, no one was hurt. I always volunteered for trolling duty, flying around in a figure eight pattern to attract customers. At the end of each day I got to fly back from Capitola to Santa Cruz. I could see the roof line of the Capitola Mall and more. The ride was about 45 minutes. That was high adventure for a 16 year old. I wouldn't trade the memories for the world.

Jojo helped my family fish from the Capitola Ward, great guy! Niels, you helped me in John Showers’ Biology class at Soquel High, never would have passed it without your help ✌️

My family, The Parrish's, were good friends with the Nutter family. Lizzie was Aunt Lizzie.

Thank you so much for posting this. I can see my house in this clip! I’m always wondering the the history and this warms my heart! 😍

Born and raised in Capitola. Im old enough to have experienced Santas Village in the late 60s. Left in 2000 and never looked back. Only thing i miss is the ocean.

He and my brother Mike fished on the bank of the lagoon for trout summer of '69. Known him since I was 4 years old and my parents would put me in a trailered boat as a play pen while they fished on the pier, 1960.

Proud bottledigger here.

My two Nephews recently worked at Shadowbrook

My mother for many years did the newspaper artwork for Leasks, l am sure you saw her work.l have the flood book and the earthquake book

I was a "Rio rat" We would ride canvas Matt's

I went many times as a teenager, in the 60s and70s did not know its gone,brings a tear to my eye. We all knew a couple of old ladies owned it and ran it .an institution.

I kept saying to myself " Don't forget the free cookie"and I will never forget the starter bread,l used to race my slot cars behind the blacksmith shop.And l was at the Soquelorama parades.where l met Charles Schultz and Mr Crenshaw who wrote the Belvedere cartoons.My sister worked at the Soquel cinema, so l got to see a lot of movies for free.l remember when Disco showed up and it was a big deal ,new construction ,a big grand opening ,l only used it for sporting goods ,fishing and bbs for my spitting image

My mother was also a teacher at the academy of art. Aptos Beach Inn is the restraunt that burned down, l watched it,we lived across the street from it!

I'm sure you knew Eva Fosselious,l knew them since the early 1960s.l used to ride my bike in the area that would become the university. I moved to Rio del Mar in 1958.l owned property in Niscene Marks ,and knew the Mangles

Got hit pretty hard in Jan.

crazy how a century ago santa cruz as a city had better public transport

In 1959 or 1960 there is a picture in the Santa Cruz Sentinal of a new float design tieing 4 steel 55 gallon drums together as float based. And surprised there are no pictures of the Begonia Festival Parade no boats but cars up by 41st and portola

I wanna go back!

Very nice video. The ‘50s weren’t completely ideal but pretty good after the mess in Korea was over…over there.

My parents were friends with the Bruces, they had property at the top of 41 ave where they had cattle. That's where Safeway is. Her first name was Chris, They developed Chrystal Terrace. She was my piano teacher.

If one remembers back in the I believe early sixties right up until 1978 there was a guy that once owned the bait shop and he charge two bits for fishing on the wharf and that man was none other than Tom Shanahan .

not worth watching

Holy Capitola

Believe me this is one of my favorite places on the planet!

Lived across the street (127 Monterey Ave.) for a few years in the 80s. Saw every movie they showed. Miss the Tola mightily.

My dad and his brother used to boat the river.

Wow this is great! I’m blown away that the soquel creek was ever clean and deep enough to jump off a bridge into! Also that they used to pull the Begonia floats with a swimmer. I live here now and this is a nice little time capsule, thank you for posting.😊

Went to the wharf many times in the 50s, 60s and 70s. My main remembrance is of JoJo who seemed to always be on the wharf. Looking forward to the rebuilding and strengthening of the wharf.