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Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the West CoastÕs answer to Coney Island, in Santa Cruz, Calif., April 8, 2026. Once, Santa Cruz was a sleepy, somewhat conservative beach town Ñ that changed in 1965 when the University of California flicked on the lights of its ninth campus in a redwood forest overlooking Monterey Bay. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times/Fotoarena)
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