Boardwalk Dude
by Theresa Ramos-DuVon
Title
Boardwalk Dude
Artist
Theresa Ramos-DuVon
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Meet the Boardwalk Dude ! You will meet him when you ride the Sky Glider in the Santa Cruz Boardwalk :) He welcomes everyone to this Happy Place ...Guaranteed to put a smile on your face :)
The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is an oceanfront amusement park in Santa Cruz, California. Founded in 1907, it is California's oldest surviving amusement park and one of the few seaside parks on the West Coast of the United States.
The Boardwalk extends along the coast of the Monterey Bay, from just east of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf to the mouth of the San Lorenzo River. At the western edge of the park lies a large building originally known as the Neptune Casino (which does not offer gambling), which contains a video arcade, an indoor miniature golf course, a laser tag arena and the Cocoanut Grove banquet room and conference center. A Laffing Sal automated character, from San Francisco's Playland, is viewable near the miniature golf course.
East of the Casino, the boardwalk portion of the park stretches along a wide, sandy beach visitors can access easily from the park. The eastern end of the boardwalk is dominated by the Giant Dipper roller coaster, one of the best-known wooden coasters in the world and one of the most visible landmarks in Santa Cruz. The Dipper and the Looff Carousel, which still contains its original 342-pipe organ built in 1894, are both on the US National Register of Historic Places. They were, together, declared to be a National Historic Landmark in 1987[2] and the park is California Historical Landmark number 983.[3]
Old-fashioned carnival games and snack booths can be found throughout the 24-acre (9.7 ha) park. It is located at 400 Beach Street in Santa Cruz,
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December 18th, 2012
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