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(SIDE 1) MAYNE, Virginia M. 1810 Coffin Road, Santa Clara, 296-4409. Miss Mayne was a teacher in both the Washington and the Fremont Schools for a number of years. August 5, 1974. Education (1900s): Santa Clara High School, community attitudes towards school. Teaching (Twenties): the Fremont and Washington schools, the school superintendent. The Earthquake: its effecs on the brick intermediate school. Trips into town: farmers shopping for goods, other reasons for the trip, shopping beyond Santa Clara and into San Jose (reasons for doing so). Transportation: arrival of the automobile (1915), the bicycle, horse and buggy. Social life: the Rebecca’s Lodge, the Portuguese fiesta. The public library. Local merchants. The Depression. Small town atmosphere. Length—20 minutes. (SIDE 2) SAPENA, Frank. Police Department, Santa Clara Civic Center, 984-3144. Mr. Sapena is chief of police, a post he has held since 1955. He is a native of Santa Clara. August 6, 1974. Santa Clara (Twenties). Housing patterns. Spanishtown: its inhabitants, their migration from Spain, no conception of what “minority” meant. The other neighborhoods: ethnic groups and community harmony. Comment on police role in communities today. Harvest and Spanishtown: harvest time jobs, credit system in local stores, effectiveness of this credit system, the people of Spanishtown, winter jobs. Education: the schools, college opportunities, low level of local enrollment at the university, after-school work. Jobs for specific ethnic groups: Portuguese children at the dairies, Spanish children on the farms, Italians in the produce markets, Irish in white collar jobs. The 3 a.m. bicycle caravan to Gilroy. Recreation. Prohibition: the “bicycle bootlegger”, feigned ignorance in front of Prohibition Bureau agents. The Portuguese fiesta: its importance to the city, huge attendance. The Depression: breadlines in the city, fallback on agriculture, farm labor wages in the Depression. Joining the fire department. Joining the police department. The police department in 1947: its personnel, dispersion of police personnel, change in crime pattern (1950 on), growth of city, city jail population (late Forties and today), comment on present police relation with community, an average police patrol (late Forties), informal police activities (late Forties). Length—64 minutes.
Type
sound
Format
Master 1/4 inch audio tape
Extent
1 Tape of 1
Identifier
C979.473 C18 Case Tape #10; 462460 cstcl_000007
Language
English
Subject
Oral histories Santa Clara (Calif.)--History Santa Clara (Calif.)--Social life and customs
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Santa Clara City Library California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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