Good Times (newspaper) Good Times (newspaper) Good Times is a free-circulation weekly newspaper based in Santa Cruz, California. "Good Times" is distributed in Santa Cruz County, a coastal area that includes Capitola, Rio del Mar, Aptos and Watsonville. It is owned by the Northern California-based Metro Newspapers. Dan Pulcrano is the CEO and executive editor. "Good Times" was founded in 1975 by Jay Shore, who remained its owner/operator and editor for 13 years. Shore established "Good Times" amidst a proliferation in the 1970s of short-lived free counterculture newspapers in Santa Cruz County that included "The Free Spaghetti Dinner", "Sundaz!", "Santa Cruz Times", "People’s
The Illustrated London News Stamp Act that taxed newspapers), it sold 200,000 copies per week. Competitors soon began to appear: "Lloyd’s Illustrated Paper" was founded later that year, while "Reynold's Newspaper" opened in 1850; both were successful Victorian publications, albeit less successful than "The Illustrated London News". Andrew Spottiswoode's "Pictorial Times" lost £20,000 before it was sold to Ingram by Henry Vizetelly, who had left the "ILN" to found it. Ingram folded it into another purchase, "The Lady's Newspaper", which became "The Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial Times". Vizetelly was also behind a later competitor, "Illustrated Times" in 1855, which was similarly bought out by