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Santa Cruz History Articles
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Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Oral History
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Interviewer
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Hooker, Jenn
Interviewee
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Feinman, Ilene
Welcher, Kenneth
Location
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Scotts Valley Branch Library, Scotts Valley, CA
Original Format
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MP4 video
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41:04
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0:28 Interview starts; Ilene and Kenny describe their occupations then and now
1:07 Ilene and Kenny's relationship to Santa Cruz, and their respective homes in Florida and Los Angeles
1:50 Ilene describes experiencing the earthquake in a UCSC graduate seminar in Kresge college
4:04 Earthquake stops.
4:20 Leaving building, considerations for Ilene’s mother and son
4:56 Observing smoke from downtown, and heading home
5:29 Crossing the bridge and getting home to house in Seabright
5:49 Ilene's mother, son, son's best friend camping out at the house
6:03 Ilene's mother's experience at after school program
6:50 Ilene's father’s experience
7:40 Kenny describes experiencing the earthquake at the Credit Union, and the length of the shaking
8:43 Objects flying around the room
9:12 Kenny leaves out the back door onto the river levee
9:33 Describes seeing scene outside
10:04 Kenny gets home; the cat's reaction
10:44 Scene inside the house
11:23 Kenny describes waiting for Ilene and her father, communication difficulties
11:52 Kenny's mother calls from LA, describes seeing scene from the San Francisco Marina on the news
12:47 Description of oven, now in the MAH
13:52 Lost record collection and ceramics
14:29 Effects on son and son's friend
15:10 Gas leak and being forced to leave the house
16:19 Ilene's parents' experience
16:49 Understanding of significance of earthquake when it hit, and impressions of downtown
17:13 Learning about impacts through radio
17:57 Seeing downtown in the following days
18:17 People returning to businesses in the following days
18:41 Kenny's mom relaying updated information about effects on the wider region
19:08 Memories of George H.W. Bush's visit
19:24 Kenny discusses the Credit Union building
20:20 Kenny returns to work in the next week
20:38 Kenny gets access to clothing store in downtown area
22:08 Describe "tent city" of businesses, and the Palomar restaurant's outdoor kitchen
23:52 Ilene reflects on impacts on graduate student community at UCSC
24:30 Ilene reflects on gratefulness
25:11 Describes Patrice Vecchione and the Gault school children's "Fault Lines" poetry collection
26:04 Couple consider history of local businesses in Santa Cruz
26:59 Conversations upon returning to classes at UCSC, and discussion of ways in which information was received and circulated
28:01 Kenny reflects on the devastation of the earthquake, and the rebuilding effort over the following decade
29:05 Ilene compares experience growing up with hurricanes in Florida and the earthquake
30:08 Discussion of personal precautions
32:50 Reflections on passage of time, and changes to downtown
34:10 Difficulty of rebuilding downtown, and people's hesitancy to return to downtown over the following decade
35:02 Silicon Valley context and the local economy
35:22 Togetherness following the quake, and later dissipation of community cohesion
36:22 Hiking to the quake's epicenter, and comparison of Nisene Marks with memories of downtown after the quake
37:08 Precarity of infrastructure
37:58 Comparison of housing that did and didn't collapse
38:43 Meaning-making and the passage of time
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Epicenter: A Loma Prieta Earthquake Story with Ilene Feinman & Kenneth Welcher
Subject
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Feinman, Ilene
Welcher, Kenneth
Earthquake-1989
Description
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Epicenter: The Loma Prieta Earthquake 30th Anniversary Oral Histories Project
Interview conducted and produced by Jenn Hooker.
Recorded at Scotts Valley Branch Library, Scotts Valley, CA on September 14, 2019.
Ilene Feinman was a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz when the earthquake struck, while Kenny Welcher was working at the Credit Union. Their account includes details of receiving information from people on the outside, and hiking years later to the epicenter of the quake.
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Creator
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Hooker, Jenn
Feinman, Ilene
Welcher, Kenneth
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Date
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2019-09-14
Format
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Video
Language
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En
Type
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MOVING IMAGE
Identifier
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LH-LP-FEINMAN WELCHER
Coverage
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Santa Cruz (County)
1980s
2010s
Rights
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Permission must be obtained before using this interview in exhibition or publication. Researchers or others who want to make further use of this interview should contact Santa Cruz Public Libraries.