Antonio “Tony” Landino

Lived on the family ranch on Back Ranch Road. He was the youngest son of Italian immigrants who brought their families to this ranch property in Santa Cruz in the early 30’s from Los Angeles. Fern and Tony married a few years later and so in lies the family ties. Tony Landino founded Landino Well Drilling in 1957 with a self-designed and built, cable-tool drilling machine. He later founded Landino Oil Company with oil production in San Ardo and King City, California. His water well operations were focused on domestic and agricultural wells and pumps. He combined the two with Landino Construction and Well Drilling, running multiple crews and rigs. Tony’s son, Dave, by the age of 18 was running a crew and drilling water wells throughout the Monterey Bay area.