From our Archives

Girl Scouts pay a visit to the Soroptimist International of Watsonville on April 23, 1956. (Sam Vestal/Pajaronian file)

These women tidy up the grounds of the Corralitos Women’s Club in preparation for an annual show on May 1, 1957. (Sam Vestal/Pajaronian file)

Watsonville Union High School students pull a prank on a fellow student on April Fool's Day, Apr. 1, 1957.

Girl Scouts lend a hand keeping book shelves tidy at the hospital on Dec. 20, 1956.

These women enjoy an evening with the Grandmother's Club in April of 1957.

Staff at Watsonville Union High School goof off during a “Faculty Rally” in 1954.

A city bus rolls along Main Street into the Watsonville Transit Square on March 23, 1954. (Sam Vestal/Pajaronian file)

Editor’s note: From Our Archives is a feature created by photojournalist Tarmo Hannula, who discovered boxes upon boxes of old photo negatives in storage. If you have any old Watsonville-centered photos you’d like to see run, email editor@pajaronian.com. _________________ Local Girl Scouts Fredora Holm (left) and...

A crowd gathers on the deck of the SS Palo Alto, colloquially known as the “Cement Ship,” on May 31, 1954. Built in 1919 as a 420-foot concrete tanker, it was eventually decommissioned and hauled to Seacliff Beach in 1929. By 1930, it was ...