Arts & Culture

Frequent world-traveler Mary Altier of La Selva Beach is showing her photographs at the Aptos Branch Library.   “Around the World with Color Photography,” a 60-piece exhibition, will run through Sept. 30.  The show, which is spread out in several rooms at the library, features images taken...

The Moreland Notre Dame Brownie troop lines up for an event in Watsonville on Dec 17, 1956.

In May my wife, Sarah, and I took a nine-day, 1,250-mile road trip to southern California with a goal of checking out coastal towns big and small.  We headed south through Prunedale and caught Highway 101 south aiming for Santa Barbara where we had a...

Girl Scout leaders meet for a dinner in Watsonville in 1957.

The city of Watsonville received this new Plymouth A-1 Ambulance in 1961. (photo by Sam Vestal, Pajaronian file)

These folks practice carrying clouds in preparation for an upcoming Mardi Gras event in Watsonville on Feb. 1, 1961

A delivery truck for Brew 102 arrives at Freedom Liquors in Watsonville at the corner of Freedom Boulevard and Green Valley Road in 1961.

Field workers harvest a strawberry crop along San Andreas Road in Watsonville in 1954.

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

On a recent one-day drive through San Jose, my wife, Sarah, and I took in a wealth of rich sites, from the red salty shore of Alviso Marina County Park, the splashy shops of Santana Row, and to the north, the calm and rolling...