Author Description

"Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Santa Cruz buzzed with excitement in the 1870s and 1880s. Italian fishermen ran boats from the Railroad Wharf. Politicians, celebrities, and circuses spent their summers at the beach. Trains ran to the station every day, bringing news of wonder and amazement. And Ernest F. Otto, Surf and Sentinel reporter, was there to record it all. Our Old Santa Cruz... is a multi-volume collection of hundreds of short histories, recollections, and reminisces written by Ernest Otto for the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Sentinel-News between 1936 and 1957. These stories are paired with hundreds of photographs depicting the everyday life of Santa Cruzans at the turn of the twentieth century"--