Davenport Beach this morning. High tide and lots of water. #davenportca #davenportbeach #santacruzcounty #highwayone #westcoast #westcoastbestcoast #california #ocean #pacific #pacificocean | Leslie Ann Eyre

MISSISSIPPI HOTEL — Davenport, Iowa, 1931. Restoration Time New Neon One of downtown’s last great Art Deco hotels. She opened her doors on November 24th, 1931 with 200 rooms, 50 apartments, and a movie palace attached — the old RKO Orpheum, now the Adler Theatre. She saw the Depression… the riverboats… big-band nights… and the slow fade of the downtown hotel era. By the early ’80s the hotel closed, but the building survived — reborn as the Mississippi Lofts, with the theatre still lighting up th

On April 14, 1967, Iowa news station WMT-TV executed a famous and rare live television moment by transitioning from black-and-white to color broadcasts during a newscast. The station manager flipped a switch that instantly changed the camera feed, providing a striking visual demonstration of the technological shift for local viewers. Credit: Sinclair Broadcast Group | History In Pictures

Davenport Pier. #davenportca #santacruzcounty #highwayone #westcoast #westcoastbestcoast #pacific #pacificocean #ocean #oceanview #davenportpier | Leslie Ann Eyre