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[Drunk Monk]

Halloween was hard on my hood.

Actually this is neighboring Aptos, but an acquaintance of mine was at both scenes.  She had a hard week.

Here's the first one:

Woman stabbed at Cabrillo College by man with a history of mental illnessUpdated: 4:46 PM PDT Oct 31, 2018




APTOS, Calif. —
A 49-year-old man is in custody in connection with the stabbing of a 19 year-old female Cabrillo College student.
The attack took place around lunchtime near the campus cafeteria.

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A group of students and staff held the suspect, 49-year-old Steven Wooding, until Santa Cruz County Sheriff's deputies arrived.
Sgt. Brian Cleveland tells KSBW that Cabrillo College had recently taken out a restraining order against Wooding after a series of harassing phone calls.
In addition to that, Wooding reportedly stabbed a Cabrillo College instructor in 1994 and was sentenced to time in a mental hospital.
Investigators say the victim stabbed Wednesday suffered serious injuries and was taken to a Bay Area hospital.
Classes remain in session. Cabrillo College is providing counselors for faculty and staff and students.

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And the second:

Body found hanged from Aptos trestle

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Drivers on Soquel Drive in Aptos Village watched as firefighters and Sheriff’s deputies worked for hours Monday morning to remove the body of an apparent suicide hanging from the train testle. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel)

By [url=https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/author/michael-todd/]MICHAEL TODD | mtodd@santacruzsentinel.com | Santa Cruz Sentinel
PUBLISHED: October 29, 2018 at 3:54 pm | UPDATED: October 29, 2018 at 3:55 pm
APTOS — The body of a 46-year-old man was found hanged at the trestle near Soquel and Spreckels Drive on Monday morning and remained in plain view near traffic on Soquel Drive for at least three hours until it was removed, a Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office spokesman said.
The man’s identity is not being released, Sgt. Brian Cleveland said, and it is believed to be a suicide.
Firefighters had to rappel down to remove the body, which was accomplished some time before 1:30 p.m.
“Due to the safety concerns of first responders and lack of available equipment, the decedent could not be removed quickly,” Cleveland said. “A ladder truck was initially brought to the site but was unable to reach the decedent.”
The Sheriff’s Office received calls about the body at 10 a.m.
Cleveland declined to release other details about the death. The coroner is investigating the case.
About 12:30 p.m., Soquel and Spreckels Drive was shut down as increasing traffic caused delays in the area, Cleveland said.
“Our thoughts go out to the family,” Cleveland said.
The Sentinel does not report suicides unless they happen in a public space or involve a public figure.

In 2017, Santa Cruz County had 37 suicides, which was a decrease from 49 suicides in 2016, according to the coroner’s office. That total in 2016 was the highest annually from 2008 to 2017. Data from 2018 have not been released. Of the suicides in the county from 2008 to 2017, most — at least 71 percent per year — involved men, according to the coroner’s office.
Anonymous, free and confidential resources are available for people battling behavioral health conditions. Call the Family Service Agency of the Central Coast’s 24-hour Suicide Prevention Service at 877-663-5433 or 831-458-5300

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Rough

[Drunk Monk]

Yeah. My friend ran into the cafeteria to help when everyone ran out. And she saw the body hanging from the trestle. She’s pretty freaked out. Hasn't been able to sleep. Poor gal. I don’t really know her that well though. We worked a festival together for zendo. Almost carpooled but it didn’t work out. That was symbiosis.

[Drunk Monk]

Body that washed ashore at La Selva Beach identified
Body washed ashore identified as La Selva Beach woman
Updated: 3:57 PM PST Feb 11, 2019



Body found at La Selva Beach

LA SELVA BEACH, Calif. —
Santa Cruz County Coroner has released the identification of a body found on La Selva Beach last Friday.
She was 50-year-old Kelli Noel Crawford.
Investigators say she lived in the La Selva Beach community.
Her body was discovered washed up on the shoreline, near the train trestle Friday morning.
No word on the cause of death or when she died but investigators say foul play is not suspected.
Just five days earlier, another woman was found dead on Cowell Beach in Santa Cruz.
Foul plays was not suspected in that case either.

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Dead body found on Manresa Beach
 State Park Rangers and Santa Cruz County Sheriff's deputies are shown on Manresa State Beach early Friday morning where the body of a woman was found near the water's edge in the community of La Selva Beach. (Photo by Tarmo Hannula/Register-Pajaronian)

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By: TODD GUILD - Updated: 6 days ago
Posted Feb 8, 2019
  
LA SELVA BEACH — Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating after a woman’s body was found on Manresa Beach Friday morning.
Authorities have released few details.
"We are actively investigating," Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Sgt. Dee Baldwin said. 
It was the second time in a week that a dead body has been discovered on a beach.
In the first case, a 72-year-old woman was found dead on Cowell Beach on Monday morning.
She has been identified as Sherry Bell Conable of Santa Cruz, Baldwin said.
This story will be updated.

Bell was a former employee of WW, where Stacy works.  Stacy didn't know her - she was before her time - but we learned of it because WW set up a memorial altar.

[Drunk Monk]

So good to be home, if only for a few hours. I wanna eat this town alive but I’m tired...so tired. And I’m behind on my ST Disco, plus Stacy left me with an Oscar-nom rented. Sun is shining and I’m grateful. The seasonal affective disorder wasn’t getting to me.

I’m having some earl grey - hot - and hoping it recharges me enough for a beach stroll.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Hope you hit the beach; few things are as restorative.

[Drunk Monk]

Agreed.  It was lovely.  Got a dose of vitamin D laying out on C-brite beach.  It was very restorative.  

Now I wonder when I'll be back.

[Drunk Monk]

A brief history of movies filmed at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk
From 1987’s vampire thriller “The Lost Boys” to 2019’s “Us,” director Jordan Peele’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated neo-horror hit “Get Out,” the iconic beachside amusement park has served as the backdrop for a rarefied subcategory of film dating back at least 50 years. Let’s take a tour through the funhouse.
By Wallace Baine
March 22, 2019 4:00 a.m.









1971
“Harold and Maude”
Hal Ashby’s beloved cult romance “Harold and Maude” is set mostly on the Peninsula, from Sutro Baths to the graves of Colma to the Dumbarton Bridge. But the film’s romantic high point takes place at the Boardwalk where Harold, in the Casino Arcade, imprints a message on a souvenir coin: “Harold loves Maude.” Later, while sitting together on a bluff near West Cliff Drive, overlooking the sparkling Boardwalk at night, Harold gives Maude his gift and she instantly hurls it into the ocean in a gesture of daffy detachment that perfectly captures her spirit. Old-school Boardwalk lovers can linger on a few great shots of the Trabant, a ride that was removed about a decade after the film’s release.
Paramount Pictures
1983
“Sudden Impact”
The fourth chapter of Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” series is most famous for giving the world the catchphrase “Go ahead, make my day.” But it also stands out as perhaps the most Santa Cruz-centric film in Hollywood history, with plenty of shots of the downtown Pacific Garden Mall, destroyed by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Still, the film’s climax finds Eastwood and his .44 Magnum side piece silhouetted under the Boardwalk’s Giant Dipper sign, and the stately carousel plays a central role as well. Boardwalk executive Marq Lipton said that the film’s heavy violence and its views on vigilante justice gave the Boardwalk pause and, as a result, the Boardwalk would become more sophisticated in rejecting scripts that might clash with the park’s family-friendly values. Among the films that the Boardwalk passed on was the 1987 hit “Dirty Dancing.”
Courtesy of Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
1983
“The Sting II”
The intricate caper movie “The Sting,” starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, was a phenomenon upon its release in 1973. Its sequel? Not so much. A decade after the original, Newman and Redford were replaced by Jackie Gleason and pop singer Mac Davis, a kind of poor man’s Tom Jones. In “The Sting II,” the Boardwalk operates as a stand-in for Coney Island. Marq Lipton, vice president of marketing and sales for the Boardwalk, was there when Karl Malden, who plays the mark, and Davis rode the Giant Dipper. Davis’ character, he said, was supposed to be afraid of the rollercoaster. Lipton could tell the singer-turned-actor was genuinely frightened. “He didn’t have to do much acting,” Lipton said. The film was set in the 1940s, and one of the appeals of the Boardwalk is the mix of architecture at the park than can allow for art directors to create period settings, if the camera is aimed just right.
Courtesy Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
1987
“The Lost Boys”
From the swooping opening shot of the Boardwalk at night to Keifer Sutherland skulking around as a menacing, white-mulleted vampire, there’s tons to love in this dreamy, campy, self-consciously goth pseudo-horror flick that has matured into a genuine cult classic. “The Lost Boys” endures partly because it gets exactly right the balance between the sunny and the dark in artificially colorful environments like the Boardwalk. Though the film recast Santa Cruz as the fictional “Santa Carla,” it remains, 30 years after its release, both a touchstone for locals and a draw for out-of-towners from all over the world. Santa Cruz’s visitors bureau has even created a map of the movie’s locations, and every summer the Boardwalk screens the movie on a giant screen on the beach.
Warner Bros.
1988
“Killer Klowns From Outer Space”
You can draw a straight line from Ed Wood’s cheesy, grade-Z schlock of the 1950s to this absurd and cheap-looking sci-fi throwaway which, by comparison, makes “The Lost Boys” look like Kurosawa. It makes sense that an alien movie in which the extraterrestrials are giant grotesque clowns whose main weapon is cotton candy would end up at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Though most of the film’s exteriors were shot in nearby Watsonville, the creepy amusement-park vibe gives the Boardwalk more prominence in this film that it really deserves. Still, to this day, a room at the park’s Fright Walk attraction is dedicated to the campy pleasures of “Killer Klowns.”
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1995
“Dangerous Minds”
The Boardwalk plays only a small role in this mid-’90s drama starring Michelle Pfeiffer as an ex-Marine teaching at-risk high school students: At one point in the movie, Pfeiffer’s character pays for an expensive day trip to the local amusement park. Like most film shoots at the Boardwalk, “Dangerous Minds” had need for lots of extras who often learn the harsh realities of filmmaking firsthand. One potential extra on the “Dangerous Minds” shoot drove to Santa Cruz all the way from Reno, then sat six hours on the Sky Glider ride, only to learn later that his scene never made it in the movie.
Hollywood Pictures
2012
“Chasing Mavericks”
This moving biopic tells the story of young surfing phenom Jay Moriarity (Jonny Weston) and his mentor Frosty Hesson (Gerard Butler), both legendary names on the Santa Cruz surfing scene. Of all the films shot in Santa Cruz, this one may be the closest to the town’s image of itself as a community tied together by surfing. The Boardwalk was a relatively minor player among the locations, though it was eager to be part of a movie with such a deep local lineage. For a shot of Jay on a date with his girlfriend (Leven Rambin), the Boardwalk closed the set for a day, which it is only able to do in the offseason. It’s more common that the Boardwalk will turn down a production company not because of the film’s content, but because of the logistics of the schedule. “Our primary purpose is to entertain the public,” said the Boardwalk’s Marq Lipton, “so we need to be open to the public.”
John P. Johnson
2018
“Bumblebee”
The latest entry in “The Transformers” franchise (the first without over-the-top director Michael Bay) is expertly tailored as a Boardwalk kind of movie. Set in 1987, “Bumblebee” stars Hailee Steinfeld as a grieving teenage girl who discovers her yellow VW Beetle can transform into an enormous robot. The 1980s setting, the coming-of-age themes, the interface between the real world and fantasy, even the renaming of Santa Cruz (this time into “Brighton Falls”) — it’s a package that promises a spot in any shot-in-Santa Cruz film festival. The film shot for three days in September 2017 and will soon take its place beside “The Lost Boys” at outdoor screenings in the shadow of the Boardwalk.
Courtesy Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Jaimie Trueblood
2019
“Us”
Of all the movies and production crews that have visited the Boardwalk over the years, none has come in with the potent pop-culture cachet of “Us,” with an Oscar-nominated director in Jordan Peele and Oscar-winning lead actress in Lupita Nyong’o. Peele and his crew arrived in Santa Cruz in September 2018 for three days of shooting in which they even burned a car on East Cliff Drive near the bluff overlooking the Boardwalk. In publicity interviews, Peele said there is a brief nod to “The Lost Boys” in the film’s opening flashback sequence, which takes place in 1986, the year before the release of “The Lost Boys.” As the young girl in “Us” walks down the Boardwalk, her mother gestures toward the carousel and says, “They’re shooting a movie over there.”
Claudette Barius / Associated Press

[thatguy]

The chase scene in Sudden Impact through the pre-earthquake Pacific Garden Mall is now a historical snapshot.



I always enjoy the final boss falling from the rollercoaster and getting impaled on the unicorn as the merry-go-round is about 1/2 mile away and has no such unicorn...

Hitchcock poked around Santa Cruz a lot (had a house in Scotts Valley, I believe). "Welcome to Buzzsaw" with Matthew Broderick and John C Reily was being filmed in Boulder Creek when I first moved to Santa Cruz. De Laveaga park used to be a silent movie production house and zoo (what else do you do with your exotic movie animals). Remnants of the zoo grounds remain. Zasu Pitts house is next door to the Nick, downtown.

Not shot in Santa Cruz: "Ten Inch Hero" with John Doe from X.

"Piper moves to Santa Cruz, California to go to the Institute of Art. When she was 15 she gave birth to a daughter, but had to put her up for adoption because she was too young to raise her. Years later she sees an article about a girl she thinks is her daughter, who lives in Santa Cruz, and applies for a job in a sandwich shop."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Inch_Hero

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[Drunk Monk]

The chase scene in Sudden Impact through the pre-earthquake Pacific Garden Mall is now a historical snapshot.

Stacy saw the mall scene being filmed. I keep thinking I should revisit that movie.

[thatguy]

https://www.kron4.com/news/california/pe...1875197823

"Okay, I just saw Us. I'm shook. Never going to Santa Cruz boardwalk again. Thanks, @JordanPeele," @Edwin_D_Rios tweeted. People are seeing the Santa Cruz Boardwalk a lot differently after Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Alexa Mae Asperin

SANTA CRUZ (KRON) - Jordan Peele's "Us" debuted over the weekend with $70.3 million in ticket sales, taking over the top spot at the box office from "Captain Marvel."

“Us” stars Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke as vacationing parents whose family is faced with eerie doppelgangers of themselves. 

Primarily based in Santa Cruz, the film shows the city's popular boardwalk as a huge component of the story's plot. 

Many people, from natives to UC Santa Cruz students, took to Twitter to voice their newfound fear of the landmark. 

"i saw the movie 'us' last night and let's just say i'm never going to the santa cruz beach boardwalk at night again," @Ben28x tweeted. 

"Okay, I just saw Us. I'm shook. Never going to Santa Cruz boardwalk again. Thanks, @JordanPeele," @Edwin_D_Rios tweeted. 

"I can never look at santa cruz beach boardwalk the same again," @shilohhcruz tweeted.

"So Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is officially cancelled, and my childhood is ruined thanks to #UsMovie," @Jordi_Rene tweeted. 

"Being a kid that grew up in Santa Cruz where @usmovie was filmed. Just saw it and now I have second thoughts going to the Boardwalk, going to East Cliff Drive, the Santa Cruz Mountains, and finally my porch. #JordanPeeleyougotmethinkin ," Cam Jones tweeted. 

"Watching US in Santa Cruz and having worked at the boardwalk is a whole new level of oh my god! I've never felt more proud to be where I'm from," Elizabeth Gomez tweeted. 

"I live in Santa Cruz, and that actually kinda made the movie even better for me. Seeing all that scary shit happening at the boardwalk, a place I've been to more times than anyone can count, was just surreal," @AceKiddoInReal tweeted. 

"The admission-free Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is open daily!," @tashcoug tweeted along with a still image from the movie. 

Twitter user @wilkentv posted photos showing a "throwback to when we saw them filming 'Us'" at the boardwalk. 

"Us" now has the largest weekend for an original horror movie, surpassing "A Quiet Place," plus the biggest launch for an original R-rated film behind "Ted," according to Variety. 

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[Greg]

It was a movie, not a documentary.

[Drunk Monk]

People are seeing the Santa Cruz Boardwalk a lot differently after Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Saw that.  I have mixed feelings on it.  Obviously we need the tourist economy so if this really does impact summer sales, that sux.  On the flip side, locals only.

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It was a movie, not a documentary.

Doc or mock?

Or Crock?  

Schlock?

[Greg]

I must be messed up. I love seeing locations I see in the flickers. I was watching The Longest Yard last night for just that reason, only in the reverse order of visiting and seeing in the film.

I should just go with messed up full stop.

[Drunk Monk]

Once you live back in SC for a while you are going to get used to it and never be able to leave.

Greg’s 6-year old prophesy rings true. Despite a few hiccups, I have a weekend at home - just enough to remember how much I luv this town. So beautiful now with the superbloom. Cruzians (and tourists) are enjoying the first taste of summer 2019. Just another day in paradise.