Boat Launching, 1966

The Anthony Boy vessel was the first launching of a Monterey Clipper hull in over thirty years and occurred at the Monterey Boatworks near Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove in 1966.   (Monterey County Herald Archives)

Water Skiing in Monterey Harbor, 1958

Angelo de Maria and Bill Clapper blow some damp notes to herald next month's water ski show of the Monterey Peninsula Water Ski Club and the Monterey Jazz Festival.  They donned skin-diving suits and clutched baritone horns yesterday, Sept. 1, 1958 to pose for this shot east of Monterey Municipal Wharf No. 2.  The show will be the same weekend as the Monterey Jazz Festival, Oct. 3-5, 1958.  Both water skiers are qualified to toot these instruments on land or sea.  De Maria has a small dance combo, while Clapper is a music teacher for the Monterey Public Schools.  (Monterey Herald Archives)

Varmints Mini-Bike Club, 1971

A woman wipes mud off the face of a young mini-bike rider who is a member of the Fort Ord Varmints mini-bike club in 1971.  (Monterey Herald Archive)