Links to Generations Before

[Peggy Moretti]

Do you, like me, find yourself spotting cool architectural flourishes wherever you go? On vacation last week with my kids at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in California, we wandered into the arcade. Deco on the outside, sort of Victorian in the inside, it was built in the 20s but is packed with all the latest whirling, flashing games. I happened to glance down at the floor and there was an amazing historic tile design...

then up at the ceiling with its wonderful decorative columns...

and I immediately thought how many other families through the years had played and laughed and eaten salt water taffy and stuck their toes in the sand and gone home happy, tired, and sunburned.