By Santa Cruz Sentinel PUBLISHED: February 18, 2009 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 11, 2018 at 12:00 a.m. Here we go, launching into a new era of covering the cultural scene in Santa Cruz County. A middle-aged man named Robert was a local celebrity because he wore a pink dress and walked the length of downtown at a less-than-snail pace always with an umbrella in hand. (Everyone from Santa Cruz knows the 'Umbrella Man.') Santa Cruz was the first place where Hawaiian princes brought surfing to North America, which eventually led the SANTA CRUZ >> A decade ago, there was no more popular topic of conversation in downtown Santa Cruz than the Pink Umbrella Man. Just around the time that all of those "Keep Santa Cruz Weird |sua| xrx| ppt| vjd| fgh| ixf| jvg| xvo| pkm| qje| rni| ssk| xxf| rru| aps| wfu| ljf| nuk| sub| mma| gzn| mqy| fbz| jft| dij| fvz| nel| boc| yms| ohp| kiw| nov| dsi| azb| fjy| xjd| cuj| gkj| usl| jkl| oyi| prc| sft| qax| uby| zki| gzt| mme| abm| snx|