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"Hold their head up high and live below forty mile skies,
The way that it can be in ocean towns"
-Eric Johnson, "Forty Mile Town"
35 years ago, the summer coastal fog formed off of the California coast, and made its way to the UC Santa Cruz campus. As that fog burned off, I loved listening to Eric Johnson's "Forty Mile Town."
UCSC's Kresge residential college was recently rebuilt. So, I'm not sure if these old apartments (Kresge did not have dorms) still exist.
During that Spring 1990 quarter, my friends Maureen and Rebecca lived in this Kresge apartment. Becasue they lived in an apartment (not a dorm), they did have a small living room, enough space for a mass-market receiver and speakers. They didn't really have any music, which sounded quite like EJ.
We went to UCSC's McHenry Library, and discovered that Forty Mile was a town in Yukon Territory. Nevertheless, the song, "Forty Mile Town," made it feel as though Santa Cruz were our forty mile town.
In this photo above, you can barely make out a guy pushing a cart, and selling frozen treats. And a gull photobombed the scene, at Main Beach.
in 2014, EJ would explain, "It's about any kind of small town that's 40 miles outside of a bigger town. I kind of wrote it about Galveston, Texas."
-Lummy The Loch Monster
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Topic - Eric Johnson, "Forty Mile Town" - Luminator 07:31:56 04/11/25 (0)
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