Member of the Rounce and Coffin Club, a group of hobby printers and librarians. Los Angeles City College professor in journalism and graphic arts and Los Angeles State College professor in applied arts and sciences.
Interviews in this series preserve the spoken memories of individuals, mainly musicians, who were raised near and/or performed on Los Angeles's Central Avenue from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
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Jazz tenor saxophone player, vocalist, and bandleader.
Interviews in this series preserve the spoken memories of individuals, mainly musicians, who were raised near and/or performed on Los Angeles's Central Avenue from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
Interviews in this series preserve the spoken memories of individuals, mainly musicians, who were raised near and/or performed on Los Angeles's Central Avenue from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
Interviews in this series preserve the spoken memories of individuals, mainly musicians, who were raised near and/or performed on Los Angeles's Central Avenue from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
Interviews in this series preserve the spoken memories of individuals, mainly musicians, who were raised near and/or performed on Los Angeles's Central Avenue from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
Interviews in this series preserve the spoken memories of individuals, mainly musicians, who were raised near and/or performed on Los Angeles's Central Avenue from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
This series of interviews looks back on Synanon, the first self-help residential community for drug rehabilitation in the United States, which was founded in Venice, California in 1959 and continued through the early 1990s. In the interviews the former residents speak from their own experience in...
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Associated with Synanon drug rehabilitation program.
This series of interviews looks back on Synanon, the first self-help residential community for drug rehabilitation in the United States, which was founded in Venice, California in 1959 and continued through the early 1990s. In the interviews the former residents speak from their own experience in...
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Associated with Synanon drug rehabilitation program.
Interviews in this series preserve the spoken memories of individuals, mainly musicians, who were raised near and/or performed on Los Angeles's Central Avenue from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
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First Latina elected to and the third person of Mexican ancestry to serve on the Los Angeles City Council from 1987 to 1991. California assembly member from 1982 to 1987 and 1st district Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors member from 1991 to 2014.
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
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California assembly member from 1954 to 1962. California senator from 1962 to 1966. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1966 to 1976.
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
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La Puente city council member from 1958 to 1962 and California assemblyman from 1962 to 1966. Director of the Small Business Administration's minority business development program and activist in the Chincano/a movement of the 1960s.
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
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Chief of the Los Angeles bureau of the New York Times from 1946 to 1968. National environmental correspondent from 1969 to 1971.
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
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Press secretary for Governor Edmund G. Brown, Sr. from 1961 to 1967. Special assistant to Secretary of Transportation, Alan Boyd, from 1967 to 1969.
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
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Chicano activist and advocate for the Mexican-American community. Director of the Chicano Reapportionment Project for the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College in 1981.
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
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Representative and speechwriter for Governor Edmund G. Brown, Sr. from 1961 to 1966. Editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times from 1974 to 84.
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
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Deputy secretary of state from 1971 to 1974. First chair of the Fair Political Practices Commission in 1975.
Interviews in this series preserve the spoken memories of individuals, mainly musicians, who were raised near and/or performed on Los Angeles's Central Avenue from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
This series of interviews looks back on Synanon, the first self-help residential community for drug rehabilitation in the United States, which was founded in Venice, California in 1959 and continued through the early 1990s. In the interviews the former residents speak from their own experience in...
Biographical Note:
Associated with Synanon drug rehabilitation program.
This series of interviews looks back on Synanon, the first self-help residential community for drug rehabilitation in the United States, which was founded in Venice, California in 1959 and continued through the early 1990s. In the interviews the former residents speak from their own experience in...
Biographical Note:
Associated with Synanon drug rehabilitation program.
This series of interviews looks back on Synanon, the first self-help residential community for drug rehabilitation in the United States, which was founded in Venice, California in 1959 and continued through the early 1990s. In the interviews the former residents speak from their own experience in...
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Associated with Synanon drug rehabilitation program.
This series documents the founding and early history of the Pasadena Playhouse.
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Stage, film, and television actress. Performer at the Pasadena Playhouse and wife of co-founder, executive vice president, and manager Charles Prickett.
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
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California assembly member from 1948 to 1954. Santa Barbara city attorney from 1954 to 1972.
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
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California assembly member from 1969 to 1974. Worked in various government positions for President Ronald Reagan from 1980 to 1988.
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
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Member of the PALS Club and wife of Legislator Stanley T. Tomlinson.
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
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Member of the PALS Club and volunteer for the Western White House Ronald W. Reagan's presidency. Wife of California assembly member W. Don MacGillivray.
Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
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San Diego City Council member from 1978 to 1982. California assembly member from 1982 to 1989, 1992 to 1996.
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
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Artist and University of California, Santa Barbara professor of art.
Senior officer in the United States Army involved in military intelligence. Founder of the Washington Institute of Technology, a research group specializing in radio aids to aerial navigation.
This series had its origin in a grant from the University of California Water resources Center in 1965. The project was a joint effort by the UCLA Oral History Program and the Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley. For some years after the close of the grant period, l...
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Controller for the Los Angeles City Department of Water and Power.
This series had its origin in a grant from the University of California Water resources Center in 1965. The project was a joint effort by the UCLA Oral History Program and the Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley. For some years after the close of the grant period, l...
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Lawyer and member of the San Diego City Council and chair of the San Diego County Water Authority.
This series had its origin in a grant from the University of California Water resources Center in 1965. The project was a joint effort by the UCLA Oral History Program and the Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley. For some years after the close of the grant period, l...
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Hydrologist for the San Bernardino Valley Conservation District and secretary-manager of the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency. Member of the California State Water Resources Control Board.
This series had its origin in a grant from the University of California Water resources Center in 1965. The project was a joint effort by the UCLA Oral History Program and the Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley. For some years after the close of the grant period, l...
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Secretary manager for the Orange County Water District.
These interviews with prominent individuals in the motion picture industry were completed under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Film Institute to the UCLA Department of Theater Arts. The project was directed by Howard Suber, UCLA Department of Theater Arts....