For this Small Shacks sketch I headed to Capitola on Monterey Bay.

My subject was a small one room shack built in 1907. It was in Santa Cruz right next to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk in “Cottage City”. The Beach Cottage was used as a home away from home for summer beach visitors who were escaping the hot summer heat of Central Valley summers.

The cottage could be rented for a dollar a day and a family would enjoy their seaside vacations for weeks or months.

This cottage provided a pleasant abode to vacationers for over 30 years. In 1941, the cottage was sold to make room for a parking lot and moved to Capitola, where it remained in a backyard on Oak Avenue.

In 2004 the cottage was moved to the Capitola Museum and restored to its present condition.