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"On March 11, 1975, the City Council unanimously designated the Town Clock as the city's official Bicentennial project to be completed by July 4, 1976, donating $27,000 toward the project's estimated $89,000 cost," writes Local History columnist Ross Eric Gibson.
"The first Santa Cruz city landmarks list was compiled in 1950 by the Chamber of Commerce, citing 20 buildings that had promotional appeal in drawing tourists to Santa Cruz County," writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson. "Elsewhere development pressures were sweeping away buildings, neighborhoods and farms to favor freeways, urban renewal, slum clearance and suburban sprawl."
"The Pacific Garden Mall opened in 1969 as a National Trust Downtown Historic District, with umbrella protections for its landmarks," writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson. "Yet it appears Santa Cruz didn't know how to use these protections, as the Cooper Street courthouse almost became a parking lot, until Max Walden bought it in 1972, creating the Cooper House."
Witnesses have described the moment an SUV ploughed into a group of diners at a busy Daylesford beer garden on Sunday, killing five people, including a young boy and teenage girl.
The five victims who were killed in a car crash were part of two Victorian families visiting Daylesford together before tragedy struck, with a young boy and teenage girl among the dead.