Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

[2] It is the home of the Santa Cruz County Symphony as well as other concerts, expos, conferences, and sporting events.

[3] In 1956, the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium was the location of a rock and roll concert that drew national attention after the local police stopped the event because of what they characterized as the dancers' "suggestive, stimulating and tantalizing motions".

[4][5] The Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium was the site of the annual Miss California beauty pageant from 1966 until 1985,[6] when the pageant left Santa Cruz after years of protests and a "Myth California" counter-pageant organized by local feminist activists led by Ann Simonton and Nikki Craft.

[7][8] In 1984, artist Guillermo Wagner Granizo donated a ceramic tile mural entitled, "A Gift of Appreciation to this Area," which featured imagery of past events at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium.

[9] The auditorium was used as a temporary shelter for displaced and homeless people following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.