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South Pacific Coast by Bruce A MacGregor & Richard Truesdale Centennial w/ DJ
South Pacific Coast by Bruce A MacGregor & Richard Truesdale A centennial
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket Reflections from the lights on some photos.
350 pages Indexed
Copyright 1982
CONTENTS
Foreword v
San Francisco xii
I Down The Bay 7
Alameda 14
East Bay 40
Newark 48
Centerville 64
Carter Brothers 70
Drawbridge 104
Alviso 110
Agnew 116
Santa Clara 124
San Jose 128
Campbell 142
Los Gatos 152
II Over the Range 165
Wildcat Canyon 170
Wrights 186
Laurel 202
Glenwood 210
Boulder Creek 224
Santa Cruz & Felton 248
Big Trees 264
San Lorenzo River Gorge 272
Santa Cruz 294
Santa Cruz Railroad 324
Castroville, 1937 344
Index 349
DUST JACKET INTRODCUTION
California, one hundred years ago: The booming west coast frontier, the dominion of the Southern Pacific, one of the most powerful railroad monopolies in the nation, the birthplace of its narrow gauge competitor- South Pacific Coast.
Fiesty and independent, the South Pacific Coast seized a piece of the monopoly's home ground and held on. By spending eight million dollars on its construction, two Comstock millionaires created the shortest, fastest route between San Francisco and Santa Cruz. For the first time, the 80-mile rail expanse between the two cities-punctuated with tidal bogs and steep mountains-could be traveled in a little under four hours. It was a revolution in speed. Pounding down the bay at the blinding speed of 45 mph, the narrow gauge trains made the city of Santa Cruz a day trip from the City, and, for the first time, the tourists and timber of the Santa Cruz coast were no longer the captives of the mighty Southern Pacific.
Suddenly the South Pacific Coast put dozens of obscure California places on the map: Wrights, Glenwood, Agnew, Newark, Drawbridge, College Park, Boulder Creek. They were places where freight rates were driven down because competition was lively, and they were places that would measure the growth of northern California's expansion towards urbanization.
All but obliterated by the concrete urban sprawl that has followed, the South Pacific Coast and the places it connected have become a part of the California Myth, and are visited once again by Bruce MacGregor and Richard Truesdale in South Pacific Coast-A Centennial.
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