Posts Tagged: grandview

Bye bye, hippies and tofu pie

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The Grandview Street farmhouse is no more. The owner finally got a permit to build condos. We had a reunion and told stories of our co-op days and cried and wished we could torch the place instead of watching it get torn down. The last garlic and lemons I carted away were delicious.

How I came to Santa Cruz

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I first arrived in beautiful Santa Cruz, California in 1984, intending to get an undergraduate degree at UCSC. I had been more or less miserable up to this time, due to poor health and depression. I wasn’t able to handle university courses, but by the time I dropped out I was double-digging garden beds with… Read more »