Leibbrandt brothers

The Leibbrandt brothers, John and (Jacob?), built the Dolphin Bath House adjacent to Main Beach - one of the first year-round tourist-oriented businesses on the beach, a predecessor of today’s Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. There's disagreement among sources about when the structure shown in the photo was built, but my guess is that it was soon after the SCR rails were laid in 1875 (it was right next to the tracks). The brothers (and the route of the streetcar line) are remembered in the area by today’s Leibrandt Street which, in another of those curious local spelling mishaps, dropped one “b”.