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Santa Cruz History Articles
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Original articles by library staff and by local authors and material from historical books.
Articles on Santa Cruz County history, many with illustrations, are available here.
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is grateful to our local historians and their publishers for giving permission to include their articles. The content of the articles is the responsibility of the individual authors.
It is the library's intent to provide accurate information. However, it is not possible to completely verify the accuracy of individual articles obtained from a variety of sources. If you believe that factual statements in an article are incorrect and can provide documentation, please contact the library.
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
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Hooker, Jenn
Interviewee
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Smith, Jo Ellen
Smith, Rick
Location
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Scotts Valley Branch Library, Scotts Valley, CA
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43:18
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00:38 Interview begins
0: 44 Jo Ellen has been a Santa Cruz resident since 1974 and Rick since 1978
1:04 Jo Ellen begins recalling day-of experience as both a resident of the Santa Cruz mountains and a business owner in Scotts Valley
2:07 Describes being able to hear and feel earthquake begin
2:20 Impact on Scotts Valley sandhills and businesses. Neither longer exist
3:00 Jo Ellen and Rick's tenant with a childrens dance studio
3:50 Concern about their property in the summit
4:13 Rick describes driving a car during the earthquake on Scotts Valley Drive
4:30 Describes people checking car tires– mistaking the earthquake for flat tires
4:55 Impact on dirt quarry that used to exist near Scotts Valley Drive
5:05 Rick describes experience in his autoshop immediately after the earthquake
5:54 Rick describes Scotts Valley residents buying all the unbroken liquor from liquor stores
6: 13 Rick likens the atmosphere post-earthquake as "Mad Max"
6:25 Driving along Zayante Road/Zayante-Vergeles fault line
7:05 Describes having to walk up damaged driveway that was unable to be driven on
7:14 Rick notices that his roof has moved and bottom of the house was broken
7:43 Discusses going to neighbors half a mile away; describes everyone staying in cars because they felt unsafe being indoors
8:07 Rick, Jo Ellen and their infant start living in their car
8:36 Rick describes earthquake flattening tires in cars and other effects of gravity on infrastructure
10:33 Rick and Jo Ellen describe their ridge top house
10:43 Discusses lecture at University of California, Santa Cruz by seismologist Karen McNally
11:00 Describes structural damage and 3-year process of rebuilding their house
11:17 Jo Ellen laments on how natural disasters build community
12:28 Jo Ellen describes bad smells from piled debris weeks after earthquake
13:00 Describes how Santa Cruz County created a secondary crisis after Jo Ellen called them for help
14:24 Rick discusses re-doing house plans, per county regulations, but the county refused to grant any permits.
14:39 Scrambling to find help to get the county to release permits for their rebuild
15:20 Jo Ellen discusses charitable responses from local organizations
16:15 Describes unstable housing situation for 3 years after earthquake and their second child being born during that time
16:47 County rejecting their housing plans but offering no guidance on requirements
17:10 New foundation for their house cost $55,000 in 1991
17:17 Rick describes how $120,000 FEMA loan nearly bankrupted them
18:14 Rick discusses government failures in natural disaster response
18:37 Moving into unfinished house a month before son could walk
19:25 Rick discusses insights gained from free therapy services after earthquake/attending couples therapy
21:18 Rick and Jo Ellen describe how friends came from Sacramento and helped rebuild their house
23:08 Rick discusses the challenges of rebuilding during winter
23:35 Reasoning for rebuilding as a one-story house; original house was two-story
24:38 Rick and Jo Ellen describe new anxieties about wildfires after recent drought and County refusal to maintain land
25:00 Rick describes how Santa Cruz mountains are especially susceptible to wildfires
25:27 Jo Ellen and Rick discuss rationale behind to rebuild home in the same spot
28:28 Briefly mentions the tearing down of Cooper House
29:37 Jo Ellen describes learning how to navigate the system after a natural disaster before the internet
30:22 Jo Ellen reflects her peer group in Santa Cruz going through the earthquake
31:05 Rick describes highway 17 being closed for one month and the geographic isolation it caused.
32:25 Jo Ellen and Rick hosted a 25th earthquake anniversary party
32:40 Rick discusses feelings during a 5.0 earthquake in July 1989
33:55 Rick reflects on the power and will of mother nature
34:37 Emergency preparedness and priorities after experiencing the earthquake
36:05 Attitudes towards material possessions changing after the earthquake
36:30 Rick discusses not having a meet-up plan with family in case of another disaster
37:24 Rick re-emphasizes anxieties around wildfires as most immediate natural disaster concern and lack of county preparation
37:50 Concern about narrow roads and poor infrastructure in event of wildfire or another natural disaster
39:00 Jo Ellen and Rick describe the feeling of reflecting on the earthquake 30 years later
41:07 Jo Ellen recalls calling the Santa Cruz Sentinel for help after having no luck with government organizations
Dublin Core
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Title
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Epicenter: A Loma Prieta Earthquake Story with Jo Ellen & Rick Smith
Subject
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Smith, Jo Ellen
Smith, Rick
Earthquake-1989
Description
An account of the resource
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 October 3, 2019.
Jo Ellen and Rick Smith are local business owners and active members of the Santa Cruz county community. Jo Ellen has been a resident since 1974, and Rick since 1978.
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Smith, Jo Ellen
Smith, Rick
Hooker, Jenn
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Date
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2019-10-03
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Video
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En
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MOVING IMAGE
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LH-LN-SMITH
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Santa Cruz (County)
1980s
2010s
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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.
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Santa Cruz History Articles
Description
An account of the resource
Original articles by library staff and by local authors and material from historical books.
Articles on Santa Cruz County history, many with illustrations, are available here.
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is grateful to our local historians and their publishers for giving permission to include their articles. The content of the articles is the responsibility of the individual authors.
It is the library's intent to provide accurate information. However, it is not possible to completely verify the accuracy of individual articles obtained from a variety of sources. If you believe that factual statements in an article are incorrect and can provide documentation, please contact the library.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview.
Hooker, Jenn
Interviewee
The person(s) being interviewed.
Gordon, Nancy
Location
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Scotts Valley Branch Library, Scotts Valley, CA
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MP4 video
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22:18
Time Summary
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0:29 interview begins
0:41 Describes moving to Santa Cruz in 1977 as a psychology student who was originally from Alabama
1:05 During the earthquake, worked as the county's emergency coordinator and 911 director
1:40 Describes experiencing the earthquake while picking 15 month old son from daycare on El Rancho Drive in Scotts Valley
3:01 Describes leaving Scotts Valley for county emergency operations center at the county building at Ocean and Water
3:51 Goes over mental list of her expectations of damage to facilities and consequences for providing emergency services
4:30 Describes turning on the radio to hear a recording of her own emergency broadcast system
5:49 Describes the conditions of downtown emergency as she headed down El Rancho from Scotts Valley
6:35 Arrives at the government center and is surprised to find it standing and finds staff already responding
7:17 Describes the 911 system and staff responding despite being newly installed that day
8:25 Describes the arrival of disaster response researchers from Johns Hopkins
9:08 Details how well county staff showed up to help
9:43 Describes her family response while she wasn't able to go home for 54 hours
10:06 Discusses the positive official reviews of Santa Cruz County disaster response
10:45 Describes emergency operation center responses to changing communications and presidential arrival
11:36 Describes work history that supported her role as emergency services coordinator
12:57 Physically experience flu-like symptoms in the aftermath as her body processed the adrenaline
13:14 Describes awareness of the significance of Loma Prieta
14:05 Describes feeling more confident, in the wake of the earthquake, in herself and her team's ability to respond
15:07 Discusses her personal responses to the earthquake
15:38 Describes how the earthquake improved individual and governmental preparedness
16:11 Talks about the financial impact of the earthquake on government budgeting
16:53 Describes her personal steps for emergency preparedness
17:48 Reflects on the value of training at the time and after the earthquake
18:28 Discusses the importance of having supportive childcare provider as an emergency responder
19:06 Describes noticing changes in disaster including effects of climate change, building codes, and fire safety
20:17 Discusses disaster representations in media, both news and fiction
21:30 Describes changing understandings of what is means to be an emergency responder
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Title
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Epicenter: A Loma Prieta Earthquake Story with Nancy Gordon
Subject
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Gordon, Nancy
Earthquake-1989
Description
An account of the resource
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 4, 2019.
Former Santa Cruz County Emergency Services Coordinator Nancy Gordon describes first experiencing the earthquake while at her son's daycare in Scotts Valley and then immediately returning to her work leading the response, as well as changing understandings and media representations of disaster in contemporary culture.
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Gordon, Nancy
Hooker, Jenn
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Date
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2019-09-04
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Video
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En
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MOVING IMAGE
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LH-LN-GORDON
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Santa Cruz (County)
1980s
2010s
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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.
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Title
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Santa Cruz History Articles
Description
An account of the resource
Original articles by library staff and by local authors and material from historical books.
Articles on Santa Cruz County history, many with illustrations, are available here.
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is grateful to our local historians and their publishers for giving permission to include their articles. The content of the articles is the responsibility of the individual authors.
It is the library's intent to provide accurate information. However, it is not possible to completely verify the accuracy of individual articles obtained from a variety of sources. If you believe that factual statements in an article are incorrect and can provide documentation, please contact the library.
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview.
Hooker, Jenn
Interviewee
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Rigler, Marilyn
Location
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Scotts Valley Branch Library, Scotts Valley, CA
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MP4 video
Duration
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38:03
Time Summary
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0:28 video starts
0:46 Collaborated on book of earthquake reflections
1:38 Begins reading her contribution, written October 23, 1989
3:45 Experiences earthquake at Natural Bridges
5:32 Slowly realizes magnitude of quake due to damage to homes and local landscape
7:50 Family home provides shelter to many nervous people
8:34 Reads deceased husband's letter to a friend in Prague, describing the earthquake
12:9 Describes the quakes' furious effect on house
13:10 Earthquake started while on the toilet, ended up experiencing the quake "with [his] pants down"
13:40 Seeks local information from radio, describes Candlestick Park broadcast and emergency broadcasting
16:20 Checking in with family in SF bay area
18:28 Checking in with family in Scotts Valley, who come over to stay
20:05 Describes local and bay area damage and loss of life
20:45 Marilyn pauses narrative to affirm the sadness of the deaths at Coffee Roasters
20:55 Marilyn returns to husband's narrative, beginning with overview of Pacific Garden Mall
22:22 Describes the days after the quake
24:15 Detailed discussion of rescue attempts at Coffee Roasters
25:47 Returns to broader discussion of community recovery in post earthquake days
27:10 Earthquake and weather
30:30 Earthquake's effects on Watsonville
30:57 Husband’s description of heroism and mutual aid, Marilyn reaffirms this
32:23 Concludes reading of earthquake memoir
32:40 Presidential visit to Santa Cruz
33:51 Psychological discomfort of aftershocks
34:24 Santa Cruz came together as a community in response to earthquake
36:00 Emergency preparedness today
37:15 Impact of reflecting on the earthquake after thirty years
Dublin Core
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Title
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Epicenter: A Loma Prieta Earthquake Story with Marilyn Rigler
Subject
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Rigler, Marilyn
Earthquake-1989
Description
An account of the resource
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 August 15, 2019.
Marilyn Rigler and her husband were computer teachers for seniors during the Loma Prieta earthquake, and in this interview she reads excerpts from the books they helped create of seniors' memories of the earthquake.
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Rigler, Marilyn
Hooker, Jenn
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Date
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2019-08-15
Format
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Video
Language
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En
Type
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MOVING IMAGE
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LH-LN-RIGLER
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.
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
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Santa Cruz History Articles
Description
An account of the resource
Original articles by library staff and by local authors and material from historical books.
Articles on Santa Cruz County history, many with illustrations, are available here.
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is grateful to our local historians and their publishers for giving permission to include their articles. The content of the articles is the responsibility of the individual authors.
It is the library's intent to provide accurate information. However, it is not possible to completely verify the accuracy of individual articles obtained from a variety of sources. If you believe that factual statements in an article are incorrect and can provide documentation, please contact the library.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview.
Hooker, Jenn
Interviewee
The person(s) being interviewed.
Atkinson, Chuck
Rabkin, Sarah
Location
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Scotts Valley Branch Library, Scotts Valley, CA
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MP4 video
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39:36
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0:28 Interview starts
0:44 Participants describe respective relationships to Santa Cruz
1:07 Sarah describes her work at the time at UCSC
1:53 Sarah at a union meeting when the earthquake hits
2:52 Immediate actions as the quake hits
3:48 Leaving the building, and gathering information from a comrade's transistor radio
4:33 Sarah's reflections on memory fading, and preparation for this interview
5:26 Sarah's work and responsibilities as resident preceptor for UCSC students living in campus apartments
6:25 Students' experiences camping outside for the following days
7:15 Describes Crown student who photographed downtown
8:21 Chuck describes his work at the time, and experiencing the earthquake from the top of the UCSC bike path
9:44 Chuck begins reading a "documentary" poem about his experience of the events
12:24 Within poem, Chuck describes returning home
13:31 Chuck describes the writing process
14:28 Describes land rippling
15:36 Understanding of the wider significance of events at the time, and stories from San Francisco and the East Bay
17:03 Experience of power outages, and vulnerability of buildings on campus
18:03 Campus dining hall workers preparing meals for students
19:05 The shock of lost life; Bookshop Santa Cruz
19:48 Effects on Chuck's sons, and their resourcefulness
20:37 Chuck's sons memories of the quake
21:20 Community togetherness after disaster, and the efforts at Bookshop
22:59 Community coming together to envision new plans for the Pacific Garden Mall and Pacific Avenue
23:35 Sarah's reflections on her good fortune
25:4 Reflections on community rebuilding at UCSC, and UCSC's commitments to infrastructural security
25:54 Resilience of the students, and Sarah's memories of classes after the quake
28:20 Chuck's memories of class discussions of the quake, meetings with students
29:42 Chuck's dream about the World Series; reflections on trauma and psychic aspects
31:10 Chuck reads poem about his dream of the World Series
33:03 Chuck reflects on the poem
34:15 Thoughts on personal precautions
36:37 Thoughts on memory and time
37:25 Cumulative effects of multiple disasters around the world
38:30 Reflections on the project bringing in Watsonville
Dublin Core
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Title
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Epicenter: A Loma Prieta Earthquake Story with Chuck Atkinson & Sarah Rabkin
Subject
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Atkinson, Chuck
Rabkin, Sarah
Earthquake-1989
Description
An account of the resource
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 October 29, 2019.
Chuck Atkinson and Sarah Rabkin were faculty at UC Santa Cruz at the time of the quake; while Sarah was in a union meeting, Chuck saw the earthquake from a vista on campus over the bay. Their account includes two “documentary poems” from Chuck on his experience, and Sarah’s vantage point as a resident preceptor in the campus dorms.
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Atkinson, Chuck
Rabkin, Sarah
Hooker, Jenn
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Date
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2019-10-29
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Video
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En
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MOVING IMAGE
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LH-LN-ATKINSON RABKIN
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.
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Santa Cruz History Articles
Description
An account of the resource
Original articles by library staff and by local authors and material from historical books.
Articles on Santa Cruz County history, many with illustrations, are available here.
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is grateful to our local historians and their publishers for giving permission to include their articles. The content of the articles is the responsibility of the individual authors.
It is the library's intent to provide accurate information. However, it is not possible to completely verify the accuracy of individual articles obtained from a variety of sources. If you believe that factual statements in an article are incorrect and can provide documentation, please contact the library.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview.
Hooker, Jenn
Interviewee
The person(s) being interviewed.
Crouch, Chris
Location
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Scotts Valley Branch Library, Scotts Valley, CA
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MP4 video
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26:07
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0:30 interview starts
0:44 Relationship to Santa Cruz
1:03 Beginning of description of their day on day of the earthquake in Corralitos
1:40 Events leading to acquiring earthquake insurance by chance two months prior
2:36 Describes her house being built on rocks
2:50 Description of the strength and noise of quake
3:13 Everything crashing and breaking inside house
3:25 Ran out of house and met neighbors in the field
3:42 Describing how neighbors’ house fell and split open
4:05 Looking for daughter who was at volleyball tournament during the quake
4:26 Describes her daughter's experience at Santa Cruz High School during earthquake
4:50 Reunites with children and husband back at damaged home
5:03 Assesses the food inside the house; describes being prepared because the area is prone to storms
5:16 Invites neighbors to camp together in the field; adequate clean water and resources despite power outages and downed phone lines
6:18 Tsunami warning heard on portable radio
6:29 Events of the day after the earthquake
7:13 Clean up and getting contractors to fix and stabilize the house
7:48 Cell phone call to mom; realizes Santa Cruz county was epicenter
8:00 Describes growing up with earthquake drills
8:25 Describes community care weeks after event; feeling like everything was going to be okay
9:15 Feeling collective community loss and emotions
9:44 Chris' church reaches out to Red Cross. Describes Red Cross response
10:03 Uptick in official support after Santa Cruz County was realized as epicenter of earthquake
10:20 Relief response in Watsonville
11:04 Negotiated with FEMA/Red Cross via her church to rebuild home of elderly woman taken in by Chris
11:41 Planning for future after recovery; got elderly woman back into her repaired home
12:15 Describes recovery and community response in Corralitos in weeks after the earthquake
13:00 Experience of taking photographs throughout county after the earthquake. Photographs now lost.
15:25 Downtown Santa Cruz before and after the earthquake
16:12 Photographing St. Patrick's church after the earthquake
16:25 More thoughts on community response in the aftermath
16:58 PTSD and aftershocks
18:01 Emergency preparedness for future disasters
20:51 Friendship with woman Chris housed after earthquake until the woman died three years later
21:19 Thoughts on reflecting on earthquake 30 years later
23:35 Corralitos earthquake cookbook and fundraiser
24:30 "Shift happens" bumper stickers
25:08 Importance of oral history
26:07 Conclusion of interview
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Title
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Epicenter: A Loma Prieta Earthquake Story with Chris Crouch
Subject
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Crouch, Chris
Earthquake-1989
Description
An account of the resource
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 October 19, 2019.
Chris Crouch was a resident of Corralitos at the time of the earthquake. Her story describes her work with her church and taking photographs across the county after the quake.
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Crouch, Chris
Hooker, Jenn
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Date
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2019-10-19
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Video
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En
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MOVING IMAGE
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LH-LN-CROUCH
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.
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
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Santa Cruz History Articles
Description
An account of the resource
Original articles by library staff and by local authors and material from historical books.
Articles on Santa Cruz County history, many with illustrations, are available here.
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is grateful to our local historians and their publishers for giving permission to include their articles. The content of the articles is the responsibility of the individual authors.
It is the library's intent to provide accurate information. However, it is not possible to completely verify the accuracy of individual articles obtained from a variety of sources. If you believe that factual statements in an article are incorrect and can provide documentation, please contact the library.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview.
Hooker, Jenn
Interviewee
The person(s) being interviewed.
O'Driscoll, Janis
Location
The location of the interview.
Scotts Valley Branch Library, Scotts Valley, CA
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MP4 video
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37:59
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0:28 Interview starts
0:40 34-year resident of Santa Cruz
0:59 Description of work at Santa Cruz Public Library, and the evening shift on the day of the earthquake
2:30 Efforts to protect children from glass
2:50 Realization of length of the shaking, and getting under tables
3:15 Following protocol with many unaccompanied children
3:48 Decisions to stay in, or leave, the building
4:06 Leaving for the parking lot next door
4:33 Discussion of library workers as emergency workers
4:57 Description of scene outside
5:51 Explanation of ground underneath the library
6:10 Discussion of daughter at Santa Cruz High School
8:13 Walking to daughter's high school
9:11 Working as emergency worker for the following days
9:41 Damages to home, and camping outside
10:22 Sleeping in back yard
10:37 Children's sensitivity to tremors, experience of aftershocks
11:30 Engineers perform checks on buildings
12:01 Return to libraries, and comments on other library branches
13:46 The library as source of information
14:34 Work taking calls from residents, connecting with emergency services
16:22 Previous experience of 8.5 magnitude earthquake in Ecuador
16:40 Description of stay and housing in Quechua village
17:36 Differences between quakes in Ecuador and in Santa Cruz
18:10 Story of Ecuador earthquake
19:37 Comparison of noise, dust, fear
20:22 Understanding of significance at the time
21:10 Impact on life, disaster preparedness
22:20 Leaving to visit San Juan Islands to calm daughter
23:38 Impact on art: use of humor, and newfound interest in tectonics
25:35 Reflections on making art about the unexpected
26:20 Trust of community members in the library and public role
27:41 Responsibility for other people's children
28:57 Comparison between feelings in the following hours, and in the following days
29:16 Reflections on wildfires, sympathy with firefighters
29:55 Impact on SC community, community care, shared vulnerability
30:59 Changes after two years
31:09 Reflections on New York after 9/11, family's experience
33:09 Reflection on experience after 30 years
34:35 Reflections on the project, reminder of disaster preparedness
35:39 Thoughts on the Cooper House
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Epicenter: A Loma Prieta Earthquake Story with Janis O'Driscoll
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O'Driscoll, Janis
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 October 14, 2019.
Janis O’Driscoll was working at the downtown branch of the Santa Cruz Public Library on the evening that the ’89 earthquake struck, and was responsible as an emergency worker for a large number of children who were at the library after school. Janis describes her experience, and compares it with an earlier experience of an earthquake in Ecuador.
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Hooker, Jenn
O'Driscoll, Janis
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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2019-10-14
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Santa Cruz (County)
1980s
2010s
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Santa Cruz History Articles
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Original articles by library staff and by local authors and material from historical books.
Articles on Santa Cruz County history, many with illustrations, are available here.
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Oral History
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Interviewer
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Aston, Kathleen
Interviewee
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Savage, Beth
Location
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Santa Cruz Community Television, Santa Cruz, CA
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1:07:57
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0:28 Interview starts
0:47 Describes relationship to Santa Cruz, where she was from 1983-1998
1:18 Being unable to live in Santa Cruz due to high cost of living
1:38 Describes experiencing earthquake from Saturn Cafe on Mission; was about to go see folk singer, "Frank", at the Catalyst
2:18 First vibrations and understanding – people running out of the building
2:47 Understanding it was bigger than before, and the scene outside, telephone poles bouncing
3:25 Slow day at the shop, and immediate damage to shop
4:03 Making the customer feel okay
4:19 Boss leaving to take care of pregnant wife
4:42 Leaving, understanding of extent of quake, and aftershocks
5:27 “Carpet of glass” from businesses on the ground; walking bike back to home on Rigg Street
6:38 Seeing fires round Spruce Street area from Laurel and Mission
7:30 Traffic, power outages
7:59 Getting home, finding the cats, listening to news by radio; state of the house
9:05 Concern for roommate; hearing about fires in Berkeley
9:36 Considering still going to the Catalyst that night
10:15 Roommate, whose lover worked at the Coffee Roasters, had gone down to the Coffee Roasting company
10:57 Seeing someone she knows walking around, and waiting out on the porch
11:56 Around 10:30, goes to find roommate – had just signed lease on new house
12:47 Others sleep in yard – Beth goes downtown; describes scene there
14:04 Describes scene walking down Walnut Street, power lines in street
15:37 Gets to Coffee Roasting company – pile of rubble
16:18 Looking for roommate; discovers that roommate's lover, Robin Ortiz, is trapped – waiting for Robin to be found
17:38 Comparing her own memory, that Shawn McCormick's girlfriend was found in the rubble, against media reports which told a different story
18:23 Waiting, and workers stopping looking for their safety
19:55 Going to new house with roommate
20:41 Driving to friends' houses to see if they were okay
21:20 Length of power outage, and restoration of power; communication problems
21:58 Returning to Coffee Roasters, and sitting with Robin's friends, Shawn McCormick's girlfriend
22:43 Shawn McCormick found dead, and the media circus
23:51 Robin's friends and family
24:21 Young group dealing with grief, and discussion of hesitancy to do this interview
25:33 Decision to stop looking, protest and arrests
26:30 Going back to the Saturn to get food
27:45 Understanding of destruction in the rest of Santa Cruz, the mall; chain link around downtown
28:46 Emotional impact and difficulties talking about Robin; remembering Robin and Shawn
29:42 Describes Robin, and their relationship, and a memento from Robin
31:21 Beth's roommate at the Coffee Roasters before 5
31:47 Queer politics at the time, and Robin's role as an out lesbian and community work
32:20 Robin's love of life, and Beth's lack of love for life at the time
33:21 Protecting her from becoming a soundbite
33:38 Crowds in evening days later; Robin's body found, and spectacle of Robin's body being taken out
35:56 Escaping the cameras with her roommate, who had fainted
36:36 Difficulty talking about seeing her body, and reflections on seeing footage of the mayor now
37:29 People in the community describe seeing Beth on TV
38:04 Seeing news footage of herself on the 20th anniversary, and incorrect statement that they were running during the quake
39:01 Being gay, and the gay community being your family
39:50 Love for Santa Cruz
40:07 The funeral, Robin's mom staying with them, and grief v media spectacle
41:07 Devastation of losing Santa Cruz, and love for mall
41:39 Confusion at state of destruction, and state of destruction a while after quake, businesses in tents
42:35 Decade-long rebuild, and redefinition of town – “never been the same”
43:29 Memories of the Cooper House
44:04 Power coming back on, and not going back to work for grief, going back Saturday
44:51 People wanting to talk, and not being able to talk about experiences
45:20 Aftershock on the six month anniversary
45:37 People leaving, and not wanting to leave
45:55 Family in Vermont watching baseball game when quake hit, and impossibility of communicating
47:29 Sister wrote a paper about what happened
48:06 Desire for involvement in rebuilding
48:20 Frank the folk singer coming back a year later
49:11 People coming together after the quake, and businesses that were destroyed
50:07 Different perspectives, business owners, community
50:30 Returning to buildings on Pacific Garden Mall
51:19 Changes to everyday life through destruction of establishments
53:26 Precautions, or lack of, and inability to be truly ready
57:44 On reflecting after thirty years, and grief
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Epicenter: A Loma Prieta Earthquake Story with Beth Savage
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Earthquake-1989
Savage, Beth
Description
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Epicenter: The Loma Prieta Earthquake 30th Anniversary Oral Histories Project
Interview conducted by Kathleen Aston and produced by Jenn Hooker.
Recorded at Santa Cruz Community Television, Santa Cruz, CA on October 14, 2019.
Beth Savage worked at the old Saturn Café and experienced the quake from there; her story describes her experience there, and the tragedy of her roommate's lover, Robin Ortiz, who died in the collapse of the Coffee Roasting Company. In doing so, she gives insight into the effects on the queer community, of which she and Robin were part.
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Savage, Beth
Aston, Kathleen
Hooker, Jenn
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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2019-10-14
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En
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MOVING IMAGE
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LH-LN-SAVAGE
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1980s
2010s
Santa Cruz (County)
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Santa Cruz History Articles
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Original articles by library staff and by local authors and material from historical books.
Articles on Santa Cruz County history, many with illustrations, are available here.
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is grateful to our local historians and their publishers for giving permission to include their articles. The content of the articles is the responsibility of the individual authors.
It is the library's intent to provide accurate information. However, it is not possible to completely verify the accuracy of individual articles obtained from a variety of sources. If you believe that factual statements in an article are incorrect and can provide documentation, please contact the library.
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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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Pearson, Larry
Location
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Scotts Valley Branch Library, Scotts Valley, CA
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27:30
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0:27 Interview starts
0:41 Relationship to California, his home state, and Santa Cruz, his home for 47 years
0:58 Work as associate planner with the City of Santa Cruz, and as public information officer
1:13 Leaving City Hall by car
1:36 Experience of earthquake at River Street/ Highway 9 intersection; returns to City Hall
2:00 Describes scene around Pacific Avenue
2:16 Setting up emergency operations center
2:40 Potential for major flood, and involvement of city departments in the following days
3:17 Description of aftershocks
3:52 Describes demolition process
4:17 Business owners' efforts to return to their businesses
5:02 Taking business owners to observe the situation on Pacific
6:38 Assessment of damage and fatalities; effect of residents watching the World Series
7:37 Start of planning processes for rebuilding
8:00 Visit to San Francisco a week after, and comparison of damage
8:30 Description of unique smell
9:05 Discusses building codes
9:50 Reflection on his particular role in unique situation, and limited fatalities
10:13 Story of person killed by a horse in Watsonville
10:23 Focus in national coverage on San Francisco and the Bay Area
11:37 Further explanation of public information officer role and training in Anaheim and Coalinga
12:45 City of Santa Cruz's approach to emergency response
14:18 Description of outside support
16:00 Search and relief effort temporarily halted; frustrations voiced by citizens holding vigil
17:17 Interactions with local TV stations during this event
18:39 Personal experience with previous earthquakes
19:01 City's expectations of a destructive earthquake
19:44 Reflections on personal impact
20:36 Limited damage to house in Aptos
20:48 Impact on Santa Cruz community
21:01 Effects to downtown, collapse of Pacific Garden Mall
21:37 Reflections on new downtown plan
21:54 Use of recovery money from FEMA on new utilities infrastructure
22:39 Discovery of hundred-year old redwood box in water line under Pacific
23:40 Decision to demolish Cooper House
25:28 Personal precautions, confidence in wood-framed building
25:51 Differences between twenty-year and thirty-year anniversaries
27:08 Reflections on the project
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Epicenter: A Loma Prieta Earthquake Story with Larry Pearson
Subject
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Pearson, Larry
Earthquake-1989
Description
An account of the resource
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 October 10, 2019.
Larry Pearson worked for the City of Santa Cruz when the earthquake struck, and performed a public role in emergency response in the hours, days and weeks following. His account describes the setting up of an emergency operations center and gives his vantage point of the processes of rebuilding.
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Pearson, Larry
Hooker, Jenn
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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2019-10-10
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Video
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En
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LH-LP-PEARSON
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Santa Cruz (County)
1980s
2010s
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Santa Cruz History Articles
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An account of the resource
Original articles by library staff and by local authors and material from historical books.
Articles on Santa Cruz County history, many with illustrations, are available here.
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is grateful to our local historians and their publishers for giving permission to include their articles. The content of the articles is the responsibility of the individual authors.
It is the library's intent to provide accurate information. However, it is not possible to completely verify the accuracy of individual articles obtained from a variety of sources. If you believe that factual statements in an article are incorrect and can provide documentation, please contact the library.
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Oral History
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Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview.
Hooker, Jenn
Interviewee
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Trent, Kathy
Location
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Scotts Valley Branch Library, Scotts Valley, CA
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MP4 video
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10:44
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0:27 Interview starts
0:43 Relationship to Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley
1:00 Experience of beginning of earthquake from workplace at World Savings on Pacific
2:06 Immediate response to earthquake
2:36 Earthquake stops, leaves the building
3:05 Impressions upon leaving the building
3:50 Leaves by car; impressions of Highways 1 and 17
4:45 Damage to home and power outages
5:15 Growing understanding of significance and scale of the earthquake
5:57 Life impacts, and moving out of Santa Cruz office
6:34 Changes in the downtown landscape
7:14 Aftershocks, fear of another big earthquake
7:47 Impacts on community, fear, and collective community efforts
8:28 Personal precautions before and after earthquake
8:53 Reflections thirty years later
9:24 Reflections on the "return" of downtown, and the old Coffee Roasters building
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Epicenter: A Loma Prieta Earthquake Story with Kathy Trent
Subject
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Trent, Kathy
Earthquake-1989
Description
An account of the resource
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 October 9, 2019.
Kathy Trent is a 70-year resident of Santa Cruz County, and was working on Pacific Avenue at the time of the earthquake. She describes the scene from the downtown area, and reflects on the “return” of downtown.
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Trent, Kathy
Hooker, Jenn
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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2019-10-09
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Video
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En
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MOVING IMAGE
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LH-LN-TRENT
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Santa Cruz (County)
1980s
2010s
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Santa Cruz History Articles
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An account of the resource
Original articles by library staff and by local authors and material from historical books.
Articles on Santa Cruz County history, many with illustrations, are available here.
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is grateful to our local historians and their publishers for giving permission to include their articles. The content of the articles is the responsibility of the individual authors.
It is the library's intent to provide accurate information. However, it is not possible to completely verify the accuracy of individual articles obtained from a variety of sources. If you believe that factual statements in an article are incorrect and can provide documentation, please contact the library.
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Oral History
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Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview.
Hooker, Jenn
Interviewee
The person(s) being interviewed.
Bavalee, Clio
Location
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Scotts Valley Branch Library, Scotts Valley, CA
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16:28
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0:28 Interview starts
0:43 Describes lifelong relationship to California
1:04 Experiences earthquake outdoors, close to the epicenter in Nisene Marks
1:39 Emphasizes the sensory experiences of the earthquake, especially sound and sight
2:58 Describes diving into a ditch near her domed tent home
3:33 Talks about how one of her children thought their sibling was causing surroundings to shake
4:07 Describes gratitude at having experienced the earthquake as if before buildings
4:28 Unending aftershocks continue to cause emotional trauma and physical damage
5:24 Describes neighborhood of people sleeping outside together and sharing defrosting food
6:17 Goes into town, surprised at level to which things are shut down
6:44 Radio around, but didn't really listen
7:08 Experience more scary after being in buildings for aftershocks
8:08 Treasures the memory of experiencing earthquake in nature
8:47 Aftershocks made people hyped up, unsettled, insecure
9:14 Wonders how long it took her to feel secure on the ground
9:50 Santa Cruz's identity, and café deaths
10:29 Regrets the demolition of the Cooper House and associated cultural loss
11:34 The physical experience of the earthquake still fresh in her body
12:05 Thinks the earthquake solidified Santa Cruz around emergency preparedness
12:38 The possibility of another big earthquake seems so unreal
13:05 Family takes home precautions in case of emergency
13:39 Important to know one's neighbors in order to be prepared
14:11 Earthquake really brought people together
14:26 Wants Santa Cruz to have an earthquake simulator exhibit like she has experienced elsewhere
15:16 Emphasizes that she participated in this interview because she feels she was in a very unique circumstances when she experienced the earthquake
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Epicenter: A Loma Prieta Earthquake Story with Clio Bavalee
Subject
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Bavalee, Clio
Earthquake-1989
Description
An account of the resource
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 October 9, 2019.
Lifelong Santa Cruz resident Clio Bavalee describes her experience of the earthquake near her home in the forest of Nisene Marks, emphasizing the sensory and emotional importance of experiencing the earthquake outdoors and in the forest.
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Bavalee, Clio
Hooker, Jenn
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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2019-10-09
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Video
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En
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MOVING IMAGE
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LH-LP-BAVALEE
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Santa Cruz (County)
1980s
2010s
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