Why Nobody Wants to Visit Capitola, California Anymore

Capitola, California bills itself as the oldest seaside resort on the Pacific Coast, yet this colorful little beach village lost almost everything that ever made it famous: its begonias, its 65-year Begonia Festival, its legendary downhill skateboard race, and even its credit for inspiring Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. This is the full history of Capitola, from a wharf that caught no whales and a failed dream of building a second Venice, to the storms that keep tearing the town apart and the people who keep rebuilding it. Sources: https://www.cityofcapitola.gov/180/Hi... https://cityofcapitola.org/node/1392 https://www.cityofcapitola.gov/184/Ho... https://library.ucsc.edu/speccoll/hih... https://www.capitolavenetian.com/history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rispin_... https://www.history.com/articles/hitc... https://www.salon.com/2023/02/19/the-... https://tpgonlinedaily.com/begonias-i... https://localsantacruz.com/art/capito... https://capitolaclassic.blogspot.com https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/... https://pajaronian.com/capitola-wharf... https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka... https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=2351 #Capitola #CapitolaCalifornia #California #BeachTown #LocalHistory #Santacruz #MontereyBay #TheBirds #Hitchcock #VenetianCourt #BegoniaFestival #CaliforniaHistory #Nostalgia #SeasideResort #Documentary