Reprise of First Santa Cruz Local History Question/Article

Mission Street Safeway, Santa Cruz, CA.

    Here's the question I asked in Update #81 of the 1957 Santa Cruz High School Grads Mailing List on 26 May 2005.
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    Santa Cruz History. What were the original names of Front Street and Pacific Avenue? (Extra-Credit Question: What was the previous name of Bay Street?) [Answers follow.]

    Answers to Santa Cruz History Questions (from Margaret Koch's Yesterday -- and the Day Before, c1964).

    "On July 7, 1846, Commodore John Sloat raised the American flag at Monterey. Santa Cruz County, originally named Branciforte County, was renamed in 1850 shortly after being designated one of the original counties by the first state legislature.
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    "Pacific Avenue was Willow Street and Front Street was Main Street in the old days. When the center of business moved down from Holy Cross Plaza, it went to Main Street which even had (a few years later) real plank sidewalks. Then the big Bernheim Company store moved from Main to Willow and that was the end of Main as the main drag.
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    "For 30 years the voice of the bull whacker and the sound of the axe were music for the Santa Cruz County's greatest industry: lumber. The fine virgin redwood trees fell, tree by tree, acre by acre, to make posts, poles, pickets, grapestakes, and boards for building homes. All this to the whining tune of the steel saws.
    "Loma Prieta, one of the county's largest mills, also had one of the greatest lumbering tragedies. The great earthquake of 1906 buried the cook shack, a bunk house and 13 men alive under tones of rock and dirt."
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    A photo of Bay View Elementary, apparently taken in winter or early spring, in the Schools Section of the Santa Cruz Library's Local History web site, shows the large multi-story bldg at the corner of Mission Street and a muddy Lime Kiln Road.
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    Am currently having the RV Service Center of Santa Cruz replace the weaker tie-downs for my camper with stronger Tork-Lift tie-downs as well as check the water pump for total functioning.
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    While I'm currently staying at the McAlpine Lake & Park near San Juan Bautista each night, may try a couple of other RV Parks/Campgrounds in the area. And, if I can ever catch Watsonville's Pinto Lake RV Park open, will try it as well.