DELIGHTFUL DRIVE

From a City Stables advertisement - Author's Personal Collection

"Santa Cruz has become famous for its excursion parties. Many carriages have been built on purpose for this business, some carrying four persons, and some eight or ten. The drivers are experienced and careful men, and take parties along the sea side, or out into the mountains and back, with safety. At mid-day, on the beach, or under the trees in the mountains, they know how to make a cup of coffee and cook a beefsteak, and spread a lunch that the appetite, sharpened by the morning ride, finds to be delicious. The excursion up the San Lorenzo, climbing the mountain grade, following that stream, takes a party through scenery rarely picturesque and beautiful. It is a most delightful drive of six or seven miles, and brings a party to the ‘Big Trees’ in time for lunch." 

“Summer Recreation in the Open Air,” Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel, January 15, 1876.