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    Santa Cruz Looff Carousel and Roller Coaster On The Beach Boardwalk is a National Historic Landmark composed of two parts, a Looff carousel and the Giant...
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  • Giant Dipper, a wooden roller coaster that is one of the most visible landmarks in Santa Cruz. The Dipper and the Looff Carousel, which still contains...
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    Hinds House, Mission Santa Cruz, the Neary-Rodriguez Adobe, the Octagon Building, and the Santa Cruz Looff Carousel and Roller Coaster, among others. Landmarks...
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    Giant Dipper is a historic wooden roller coaster located at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, an amusement park in Santa Cruz, California. The Giant Dipper...
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    Mission Santa Cruz (Spanish: La Misión de la Exaltación de la Santa Cruz) is a Spanish Californian mission. Located on Mission Hill, it was founded on...
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    Dipper roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. The Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome and the Santa Cruz Looff Carousel and Roller Coaster were both...
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    Francisco, California Santa Cruz Looff Carousel, California Crescent Park Looff Carousel, East Providence, Rhode Island Pawtucket Looff Carousel, Slater Park,...
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    "Albany Carousel". "Balboa Park Carousel". Balboa Park. Retrieved 24 September 2017. Seifert, Jeffrey (November 2011), "Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk's Looff Carousel...
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    The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the...
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    The Santa Cruz Wharf is a wharf in Santa Cruz, California, United States, known for fishing, boat tours, viewing sea lions, dining, nightlife and gift...
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    Santa Cruz High School is a comprehensive public school in Santa Cruz, California which originally opened in 1897 and now serves an enrollment of about...
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    D. Looff family built a Merry-go-round carousel and in 1924 the Giant Dipper roller coaster.. Both the Santa Cruz Looff Carousel and Roller Coaster are...
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    Surf City USA (category Santa Cruz, California)
    of Huntington Beach and Santa Cruz. Both cities claimed the "Surf City" nickname, but after the Huntington Beach Conference and Visitors Bureau (now...
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  • Metro Santa Cruz, a free-circulation weekly newspaper published in Santa Cruz, California, was published from 1994 to 2009 It was renamed the Santa Cruz Weekly...
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    The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum is a museum which was established in May 1986 to document the history of surfing. With collections dating back to the earliest...
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  • Santa Cruz Weekly was a free-circulation weekly newspaper published in Santa Cruz, California. It began publishing under its current name on May 6, 2009;...
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  • D. H. Morgan Manufacturing (category Roller coaster manufacturers)
    intended to build carousels, but the company's first contract was to build new trains for the Giant Dipper wooden roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk...
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    Fred Swanton (category Mayors of Santa Cruz, California)
    Park. Santa Cruz Looff Carousel and Roller Coaster Giant Dipper Edward Sanford Harrison (1892). "Biographical Sketches". History of Santa Cruz County...
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    The Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium is an event and convention venue located in downtown Santa Cruz, California. It is owned by the City of Santa Cruz and is...
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  • amusements, carousels and roller coasters around the U.S.; examples of his carousels at Santa Monica Pier Looff Hippodrome (1922) and Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk...
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    Kaiser Permanente Arena (category Santa Cruz Warriors)
    arena located in Santa Cruz, in the U.S. state of California. It has a seating capacity of 2,505 spectators. It hosts the Santa Cruz Warriors of the NBA...
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    Steamer Lane (category History of Santa Cruz County, California)
    location in Santa Cruz, California. It is just off a point on the side of cliffs in the West Cliff residential area near downtown Santa Cruz, providing...
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  • Radio Santa Cruz (FRSC) is an unlicensed radio station in Santa Cruz, California, United States. Founded by activists Skidmarkbob Bob, Phil Free and Dennis...
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    included Arthur Looff’s Bob Sled Dipper roller coaster, also known as "the Bobs" (1921), the Looff-designed Big Dipper roller coaster (1922), Shoot-the-Chutes...
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    List of National Historic Landmarks in California (category Lists of buildings and structures in California)
    under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources nationwide according to a list of...
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    Santa Cruz Breakwater Lighthouse, is a lighthouse in California, United States, in the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor in Santa Cruz, California. The lighthouse...
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    Branciforte (category History of Santa Cruz County, California)
    River, facing Mission Santa Cruz on the west side of the river, in modern-day Santa Cruz, California. The pueblo never prospered, and the area was annexed...
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    Natural Bridges State Beach (category Beaches of Santa Cruz County, California)
    California state park in Santa Cruz, California, in the United States. The park features a natural bridge across a section of the beach and a eucalyptus grove...
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    Branciforte Adobe (category History of Santa Cruz County, California)
    southwest corner of Branciforte and Goss Avenues in Santa Cruz. It is the oldest single-family dwelling in Santa Cruz. The Branciforte Adobe has 2-foot-thick...
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  • Amusement Today (category Professional and trade magazines)
    Carousel (2007-2018) Grand Carousel, Knoebels Amusement Resort Best Funhouse/Walk-Through (2008-2018) Best Indoor Roller Coaster (2007-2018) Best Seaside...
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