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Good job.
Wait isn't there a road between the two?
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I just saw that this morning on the local news site and tracked her last hour. Pretty brave with all the sharks and whatnot...
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She's my new hero.
Great whites have been on the rise in MoBay. Or as the locals call them - landlords.
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She only got 55 jellyfish stings
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She’s amazing.
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Sad to hear Rosie Mccann's is covidclosing. I wasn't a big fan of Rosie's, especially after I visited Ireland. Nevertheless, I'd pop in there for a beer or a shot now and again, mostly to meet up with various people. I'm not a big barfly anymore and don't really hang out in any bars in my 'hood (I used to hit up Seabright Brewery a lot when I first moved here but I don't drink beer anymore so I haven't gone in some time). Merely by coincidence, Rosie's has been one of my more frequent watering holes since I've lived in the Cruz.
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Seen this. It's spectacular. And I'm fussy about dragon art.
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Tom Ralston (center), president of Tom Ralston Concrete share a celebratory moment with Watsonville artist Kathleen Crocetti (right) and her husband and engineer, Bill Lucas, Sunday during the installation of a large mosaic dragon on the San Lorenzo footbridge on Front Street in Santa Cruz. — Tarmo Hannula/The Pajaronian
Dragon archway honors former Santa Cruz Chinatown
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[b]SANTA CRUZ[/b]—As a crane hoisted four sections of a large mosaic-covered water dragon into place Sunday atop a colorful concrete gateway at an entryway to San Lorenzo Park, new life was pumped into a forgotten chapter of Santa Cruz history.
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Renamed the Chinatown Bridge by the Santa Cruz City Council in 2019, the dragon archway, stationed at the Front Street entrance to the popular pedestrian and bike bridge that crosses the San Lorenzo River, was created to recognize and honor the final Chinatown in Santa Cruz that once thrived in what is now San Lorenzo Park.
“I think it looks fabulous,” said George Ow Jr., a major supporter of the project who said he lived in Chinatown as a young boy with his family. “I can hardly take my eyes off it. So many thanks to artist Kathleen Crocetti and concrete artist Tom Ralston. He wrote the book on artistic concrete work. This is truly a great way to show off their talents.”
Crocetti constructed the 21-foot dragon in the backyard of her Watsonville home. Ralston, over several months, built the ochre-colored archway.
“I’m ecstatic,” Ralston said Sunday as he stood back to view the freshly-installed dragon. “This is a vision come true. So much energy and special care went into this, like the bronze work of Sean Monaghan and the solar panels by Tony Amor at Day One Solar.”
The Coastal Watershed Council championed the project.
In a statement, the CWC said: “The CWC views the bridge renaming and the public art piece as a key step in realizing Santa Cruz’s vision of a healthy, welcoming and fun San Lorenzo River.”
Crocetti’s mosaics are installed in numerous locations around the county, from the massive ongoing Watsonville Billiante project in downtown Watsonville to the Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz and on area bridges and riverwalks.
“I was very nervous about the installation today,” Crocetti said. “It sure helps to be married to an engineer. It came off without a hitch thanks to this amazing crew. It looks simply beautiful. It’s an honor and a privilege to have been asked to take this project on. This is 10 steps up for me in my artistic career.”
Kathy Mintz, public arts manager of the City of Santa Cruz, was on hand Sunday for the event.
“This is the best gift to our community right now, especially in this trying time when we need something positive,” she said. “So many people don’t know of this important part of our history. Hopefully, this is the sort of thing that will invite the public to explore and learn about Chinatown and the history revolving around it.”
Ralston added that the archway will also feature poems in Chinese characters in stainless steel plaques that will be powder coated in red in addition to brass plaques that will read in Chinese script: Chinatown Santa Cruz. The lettering will be lit by solar-powered Chinese-style lanterns. Photos created in brass of Ow’s family and the story of Chinatown will also be mounted on the archway.
“These lanterns will light up every night,” Ralston said. “I think this monument is worthy of any city in the world.”
A formal ribbon-cutting ceremony will be staged in the spring.
Historians and authors Sandy Lydon and Geoffrey Dunn, Michael Corcoran of Moonshine Cabinetry, Arts Council Santa Cruz County and the Department of Economic Development also added to the project.
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[b]FELTON, Calif. —[/b]
Have you seen Bigfoot? That is the question the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office is asking the public after a Bigfoot statue was stolen from the Bigfoot Museum in Felton.
A 4-foot tall statue, weighing between 150 and 200 pounds, was taken sometime between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Monday. A wooden bear statue was also taken at the same time.
The museum has been closed due to the pandemic, said Bigfoot Discovery Museum Curator Michael Rugg. Rugg said the lock securing the Bigfoot statue had been cut.
Anyone with information about the statues or their whereabouts are asked to call the sheriff's office non-emergency dispatch at [url=tel:831-471-1121]831-471-1121.
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Gone walkabout.
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Saw that on the news last night. I don't think I've been through Felton in 30 years or so and didn't know it existed.
And they left the bigger and better statue behind.
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I've got some friends in Felton and have been there within the year (prior to the pandemic). But I didn't know about this.
Maybe when the world opens up again, we should gather there for a DOOM pilgrimage.
https://www.bigfootdiscoveryproject.com/
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I always like the trip through the forest back from the Cruz. I've been on that road many times. Didn't know about the Bigfoot shop.
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It used to be Capritaurus Music shop: https://dulcimuse.com/capritaurusdulcimers/history.html. Still the same guy, just decided to change it to a bigfoot museum. I think this was the smaller 4' statue. I wonder if it was chainsaw carved by SLV local Cliff Short https://localwiki.org/santacruz/Cliff_Short
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Bigfoot found: https://kion546.com/news/2020/11/11/bigf...eum-found/
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One of my old assistants had an uncle who was a luthier in Felton. That was maybe 5-7 years ago. I don't know his name.
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Bob (forgot last name), one of the fencers in our club Salle Santa Cruz, lived in SLV and made ukuleles among other things
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