Guest Commentary | Is downtown Santa Cruz the new Mystery Spot?

Guest Commentary | Is downtown Santa Cruz the new Mystery Spot?

By Paul Cocking Not sure the Mystery Spot still exists … great hoot 30 years ago on my only visit … two old guys in high waisted pleated pants they’d kept from the ‘40s … very serious about their hoax … chiding folks at the back to stop talking. “We’re trying to have a tour here!” (Ed. note: The Mystery Spot, first opened in 1939, is still there, at 465 Mystery Spot Road, Santa Cruz.) We could now call our downtown the Mystery Spot with its cont…