Uncommonplace American Town Oral History Collection
Content Description
The Uncommonplace American Town Oral History Collection contains oral histories conducted by Sheila Lodge during development of her publication, Santa Barbara: An Uncommonplace American Town — How Thoughtful Planning Shaped a City, published in 2020. The people interviewed were involved in the urban planning of the City of Santa Barbara, California, during the last half of the 20th century. The collection contains forty (40) interviews on audio cassette tape, one (1) flash drive containing electronic transcriptions and notes, and one (1) folder of release forms and informant biographical data.
Dates
- 2003 - 2018
Creator
- Lodge, Sheila, Mayor (Interviewer, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head Archivist of the Gledhill Library.
Biographical / Historical
Sheila Lodge was born at home on her parents’ dairy in Arcadia, California. She is a life-long Californian except for 2 1/2 years in Annapolis, Maryland, where she taught school and did social work. She returned to California in 1950 and came to Santa Barbara in 1952. She served on the Santa Barbara City Planning Commission from 1973-1975, the City Council from 1975-1981, and as the first woman, and longest serving Mayor, from 1981-1993. An incurable public policy wonk, she’s been back on the Planning Commission since 2009, where she started her civic life.
Extent
38 Cassettes
214 Electronic files (flash drive)
1 Folder(s)
1 Volumes (“Santa Barbara: An Uncommonplace American Town — How Thoughtful Planning Shaped a City,” by Sheila Lodge)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The City of Santa Barbara, California, became the community that it is through planning. In her book, Santa Barbara: An Uncommonplace American Town, former Mayor Sheila Lodge documents the many battles it sometimes took, the unanticipated events, and the process that was developed to make the critical decisions necessary to guide development of Santa Barbara over the course of 170 years.
The Uncommonplace American Town Oral History Collection contains oral histories conducted by Sheila Lodge during development of her publication, Santa Barbara: An Uncommonplace American Town — How Thoughtful Planning Shaped a City, published in 2020. The people interviewed were involved in the urban planning of Santa Barbara during the last half of the 20th century.
Arrangement
The Uncommonplace American Town Oral History Collection is arranged in three series:
1) Interview audio tapes, 2003-2018
2) Digital transcripts, 2003-2018
3) Release forms and biographical data, 2003-2018
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The materials were acquired from Sheila Lodge.
Separated Materials
The monograph Santa Barbara: An Uncommonplace American Town — How Thoughtful Planning Shaped a City was added to book catalog and shelved in the Library.
Bibliography
Lodge, Sheila. 2020. Santa Barbara: An Uncommonplace American Town — How Thoughtful Planning Shaped a City. Santa Barbara, Calif: Olympus Press.
Processing Information
The Uncommonplace American Town Oral History Collection was processed by Chris S. Ervin CA in February 2021.
Creator
- Lodge, Sheila, Mayor (Interviewer, Person)
Source
- Appelbaum, Richard P., 1942- (Interviewee, Person)
- Boucher, Louise, 1930-2013 (Interviewee, Person)
- Busch, Estelle (Estelle Andrews), 1933-2009 (Interviewee, Person)
- Cappello, Barry (A. Barry), 1942- (Interviewee, Person)
- Davies, Terence, 1934-2019 (Interviewee, Person)
- Davies, Penelope, 1934- (Interviewee, Person)
- Davis, David, Jr., 1948- (Interviewee, Person)
- Days, Mary Louise, 1939- (Interviewee, Person)
- DeWitt, Gerry, 1952- (Interviewee, Person)
- Dodson, Edward N., Dr. (Edward Ney), 1933- (Interviewee, Person)
- Dodson, Phyllis (Phyllis Rannacher), 1935- (Interviewee, Person)
- Eschenroeder, Alan, 1933-2014 (Interviewee, Person)
- Flacks, Richard, 1938- (Interviewee, Person)
- Flacks, Miriam Hartman, 1940-2020 (Interviewee, Person)
- Francisco, Dale, 1953- (Interviewee, Person)
- Hone, Donna (Donna O.), 1937- (Interviewee, Person)
- Hubbell, Jan (Janice Marie), 1952- (Interviewee, Person)
- Jostes, John, 1948- (Interviewee, Person)
- Klausner, Robert, 1926-2016 (Interviewee, Person)
- Landecker, David J., 1951- (Interviewee, Person)
- Madsen, Claudia, 1921-2007 (Interviewee, Person)
- Martinez, Leo, 1942- (Interviewee, Person)
- McGinnes, J. Marc, 1941- (Interviewee, Person)
- Miller, Joanne (Joanne Maureen), 1928-2014 (Interviewee, Person)
- Molotch, Harvey Luskin, 1940- (Interviewee, Person)
- Olson, Donald D. (Donald Dean), 1946- (Interviewee, Person)
- Orias, Judy (Judith Dodge), 1935- (Interviewee, Person)
- Perry, Jim (James McKinley), 1925-2008 (Interviewee, Person)
- Relis, Paul, 1946- (Interviewee, Person)
- Rubin, Selma, 1915-2012 (Interviewee, Person)
- Saley, Pat, 1953- (Interviewee, Person)
- Schwartz, Naomi L., 1934-2012 (Interviewee, Person)
- Sjovold, Arve R., 1935-2018 (Interviewee, Person)
- Sochel, June C., 1933- (Interviewee, Person)
- Thompson, Bruce N. (Bruce Noel), 1930-2004 (Interviewee, Person)
- Towbes, Michael, 1929-2017 (Interviewee, Person)
- Utterback, Nyle, 1931-2003 (Nyle Gene) (Interviewee, Person)
- Weinheimer, Kathleen (Kathleen Mary), 1952- (Interviewee, Person)
- Weiss, Bettie, 1959- (Interviewee, Person)
- White, Stephan A., 1937- (Interviewee, Person)
- Lodge, Sheila, Mayor (Donor, Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Uncommonplace American Town Oral History Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Chris S. Ervin CA
- Date
- 2021-02-16
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Edition statement
- First edition
Repository Details
Part of the Gledhill Library Repository