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 Times Weekly Newspaper The Illustrated Times Weekly Newspaper The Illustrated Times Weekly Newspaper was an English newspaper and rival to "The Illustrated London News" published between 1855 and 1862. The publisher was the Fleet Street bookseller David Bogue and the editor was Henry Vizetelly. Henry Vizetelly had been part of the campaign in the 1850s for the repeal of the Stamp Act. Believing that success was imminent, he conceived of the idea of bringing out a cheap popular illustrated paper to compete with the near monopoly of Herbert Ingram's "Illustrated London News" with himself as editor. All the plans were laid accordingly; but