Museum of Ventura County Research Library 100 E. Main St. [email protected] Ventura, CA 93001 (805) 653-0323 x 320 INDEX TO ORAL HISTORY About the Index: The index represents recorded oral history interviews. Most recordings have been transcribed. Some interviews are available in the limited format indicated. For further information, contact the Librarian. Name Date Interviewer Subject of Interview Adams, Olen 4/82 Barbara Heron Oxnard, 1902-1950, Fillmore 1950 and on Aggen, Alvin E 3/92 Joyce Pederson Story of Family getting to Las Posas Valley from Germany 1886- Aguirre, Majorie 10/95 Gayle Soles Quilting Albee, Lee 5/2005 William Klope Growing up on Ventura Ave. before WWII Allen, Pat 3/1986 Guest speaker, Conejo Hist. Soc History of Jungleland Allen, Lester 5/95 Mary Johnston Bee Keeping Allen, Lester 6/95 Mary Johnston Bee Keeping Alvord, A.O. 6/77 M Johnston/G.Browning Olivas Adobe/Purchased by Alvord Family in 1899 Anderson, Andy 6/87 Murray Rickman Oil Field Worker in Ventura Co. Oil Business in CA Appling, Mary 10/95 Shirley Bertolino Quilting Armstrong, Connie 10/95 Beverly Pachard Quilting/her life and family Arneill Sisters, Ann and Lynn 12/2016 Lynn Arneill-Brown Camarillo 50- 70's, Life on Ranch Arnold, Carrie Philips 10/95 Shirley Bertolino Quilting/her life and family Ayers, Loren 7/92 Joyce Pederson Santa Paula Life/Faulkner House Baldwin, Cecelia 10/91 Not documented Bank, Ronald 5/90 Mary Johnston Owner of men's shop in Ventura Baptiste, Daniel 1/82 Thelma Pecoraro Portuguese, farming, Baptiste, Frank 1/86 Mary Johnston Portuguese, farming Baptiste, Virginia Faria 1987 Wm E Schneider Portuguese, Rincon farm family left Azores in 1901 Baptiste, Virginia Faria 5/94 Mary Johnston Life as a child on Rincon Ranch and in Ventura Name Date Interviewer Subject of Interview Bard, Dr Cephas 2/77 Dr. P Bard & Dr. Ridge Says we are not going to publish this, just for archives at museum Barker, Irene 4/88 Jaqueline Strobel Kelly About her husband, Dr. Harry E. Barker Bartel, Margaret 2/92 Ruth Wilson & Jane Rust Newbury Park Resident/family history/farming Bartels, Albert 8/90 Barbara Heron Mgr Southside Water Assn. est 1887-Santa Clara Valley Bartels, Albert 9/93 Barbara Heron Bardsdale/Family Life/School in Fillmore Basolo, Bismark 1/78 M Johnston/G.Browning Fillmore Family Dairy/Community Service/St. Francis Dam Bates, Nell 2/83 Mary Johnston Small business owner/laundry/ Baugh, Rosemary 1995 Sharon Peters Quilting, about her mother, Grace Caudill, b. 1923 Bauer, Hortense 11/87 Barbara Raker Walnut farming Bauer, Hortense 2/88 Mary Johnston Mentions flu pandemic, family reunions in Nordhoff and Ojai Baxter, Vesta 2006 Norma Fulkerson KKK, Christian Science, cafeteria work, drove trucks, food share Beem, Nelda 1995 Beverly Packard Quilting Bennett, Hoot 3/2004 Mary Johnston City Council, mayor, Ventura Bennett, Ralph 6/82 M.Johnston, G.Browning Early Santa Paula days, Insurance business in Ventura Benzien, Beatrice 1/92 Jean Bishoff Family lived in Olivas Adobe , making it M. Fleischman's Club Bertles, Bill 4/81 M Johnston/V. Patmore Oil Field Worker/Union Organizer/Vta water issues/flood Biggers, George & Banks, Harry 1982 Bill Schneider Beekeeping Santa Paula/Ojai Area Blanchard, Elizabeth 7/92 C. Barringer/D. Burns Santa Paula Life/College History/Community Service History Blanco, Bertha & McLean 3/83 M Johnston/V. Patmore Lives and Lore of Chumash Indian Heritage/Tumamait Family Blum, Gary 3/2011 Nancy Mitchell/LIbby Atwater Petit/Baptiste/Kaufman/Donlon/Blum; Cty Historical Board Boger, Cpl, Jeanne 5/97 David Deitch Life of First Woman Police Patrol Woman in Ventura Bookman, Consuelo Peters 2/89 Jaqueline Strobel Kelly Clippings/Pictures/Genealogy/Farmed Ventura Area Bookman, Harold 4/89 Jaqueline Strobel Kelly Fillmore Family/Husband to Conseulo/WWII Borchard, Andrew 6/81 Mary Johnston Life as a Rancher-Oxnard-Borchard Family History Borchard, Franz 1985 Voelker Voelker- Maulhardt Video-recap F. Borchard's life-Conejo Valley Borchard, Margaret Jones Nobel 3/92 Ruth Wilson Her life and people growing up in Ventura County Borgstrom, Alice Arnold 6/79 MJohnston & JJ.Overby Arnold Family History/Hueneme Area Farming and Life Botke, Katherine Miller 4/2010 Carthy Barringer Her Life in America and settling in Santa Paula Boyd, Dorothy Durfee 4/92 Suzanne Lawrence Ventura "Day" Family Brant, Helen Arosteguy 1/22/18 Lynn Arneill-Brown History and Life in Port Hueneme/oldest living person from there. Brigham, Dan, Bud & Betty 1997 Bill Schneider Saticoy Family/Hardware & Farm Implements/Blacksmith 2 8/24/2018 Name Date Interviewer Subject of Interview Bright, J.R. 6/83 Ruth Wilson Early towns, Camarillo, Arneill Rd, Pleasant Valley Baptist Church Bright, Kenneth "Brick" 1986 Bill Schneider Football, playing in Japan, very short interview Bristol, Horance 2/96 Mary Johnston Noted photographer, show at Union Oil Museum, WWII Japan Brown, Charles 5/81 Barbara Heron Oil drilling, farming, Indian rock art, Mutah meadow Browne, Robert O 8/85 M.Johnston, G.Browning Standard Oil, archeological work, Ventura County Browne, Robert O 9/85 M. Johnston, G.Browning Con't Browning, Gerry 3/97 Mary Lee Greenblatt Chumash Youth Program, Bryden, Robert 02/08 Perry Johnson Santa Paula, gymnastics Busch, George & Arthur Waite 1/74 Ojai Valley Hist Society Meiners Ranch Post Office, Bunting, Gary see King, Bill - - - Busch, George 5/79 Early days in Ojai, last part of tape Arthur Waite Bushnell, Lilllian Mae Dudley 10/88 Alberta Word/B. Brewer Early days in Ventura, Dudley House, Marion Anderson Butler, James Robert 8/89 Joyce Pederson Farming in Ventura County Buzzell, Dr. John 3/88 Ruth Wilson Farm machinery manufacturing in Ventura County, Allis Chalmers Cabot, Greg 1988 Bill Schneider Geology, Ventura County oil fields, 1/2 hr program shown on TV California Constitutional Conv. - - Cannon Family, Keene 1960 - Keene's Vta, Cannon's Montalvo, late 1800's, condors, fair... Cantrell, Jack 2000 Charles Johnson Surfer "C Street Surfing Museum" Capito, James 2005 group interview Interviews with Frank Quijada and Ben Arellanes Carpenter, Monte 10/92 Barbara Heron Fillmore Citrus Protective District, entomology Carty, Roderick 4/2008 Nancy Mitchell Ranching, real estate, Oxnard politics, Channel Islands Harbor Catlin, Esther 12/81 Bill Scnheider Recalls St Frances dam disaster, early years in Saticoy Casitas Dam pt I and II 2005 Bill Scnheider Casitas Dam and Lake Chapman, Victor and Chapman, Carlos, son 2/1997 Mary Johnston Descendants of first yankees in Ventura and Guadeloup Ortega Chess, Betsy 2005 Nancy Mitchell Growing up in Santa Paula, four years with Ventura Symphony Chumash Tapes Six Tapes, Various subjects Clark, Bambi McCormick 5/92 Janet Odum McCormick Family/Camarillo/Clark Ranch Clark, Berenice, Mrs. William P. 1/85 M. Johnston/J.Overby Ojai, Hist./Family/William Clark Sect. State for Reagan Clark, Trudy 10/89 Joyce Pederson Charles Corcoran/Ventura Theater Clark, Dr. W. S. 3/85 George Appel Early Physicians & Medical Practices- Vta, WWII Clark, William Petit 10/79 Mary Johnston Father- Clark US Marshall/Ojai, Matilija/Casitas Springs Hist. 3 8/24/2018 Name Date Interviewer Subject of Interview Cloyne, Thomas, Mary 6/87 Marge Duval See Stanley Gisler-Grdfather Cloyne/Oxnard Connelly, Pearl 7/89 Pat Bell Oxnard Plain, Springville/Archie Connelly Cooper, Laura Denton 9/79 M Johnston/G Browning Oxnard, Father Principal of OUHS/Family Friends Coultas, John 9/91 Mary Johnston Springville/Coultas-Milligan families Coultas, Robert 12/2010 Libby Atwater Springville, growing up in Vta. Cty, schools, etc.WWII Corralejo, Transito R. 2/2009 Patricia Longo Moorpark History/Family, Friends Covarrubias, C. Mason 10/90 Mary Johnston Spanish Heritage/GGF owned Catalina Is/Ox/Camarillo Hist. Cowdin, Joanne Crowel 1995 Gayle Soles Quilting Craddock, Mabel 9/77 Mary Ann Benton Blackstock Descendant/Simi/Oxnard Crumrine, Myrtle Culbert, 5/84 Grant Heil Old Sta Paula Days/Warring and Crumrine Families Culbert, Bert Leroy 5/85 Robert Pfeiler Camarillo/Early Vta County Hist. Culbert, Birdie Fulkerson 5/84 Mary Bliss Somis History Cunningham, R. L. (Bob) 5/85 John L. Crain Camarillo Farming/Bull Riding/Military Curtis, Janet 1995 Shirley Bertolino Quilting Daly, Dr. J. Austin 7/89 Barbara Hamilton Daly Family/Medical Info/Career/Ventura Daugherty, Clyde 1/83 M. Johnston/M.Jennings Pacific Telephone Co/ Family Hist./Ventura Daugherty, Edna (Mrs. Clyde) 1983 M. Johnston/M.Jennings Ventura /Foster Park/Camp Comfort del Valle, Fernando & Antoinette dV Irwin 8/2002 Alberta Word/B Dupree Rancho Camulos/Del Valle Family History Delgado, Sarah 1995 Quilting Dent, Jack 5/91 Florence Temple Early days in Ventura Dickenson, Ralph 1980 Bill Schneider Aviation history, Santa Paula, Oxnard Diedrick, Milton R 12/91 Oxnard in 1900s, sugar beet industry, Hueneme beach Donlon, Clara R 5/84 Theda Barnett Ranching in Saticoy area Donlon, John 1984 Mary Johnston,Theda Barnett Farming in Ventura Donlon, Nazarene R 1/87 Jacqueline S. Kelly Irish background, farming life in El Rio, St Francis Dam disaster Doud, Laura O'Reilly R 7/86 Mary D. Johnston Irish background, life on the Oxnard plain Dowers, James R 2005 Missing Missing Dudley House, family file 1993 Possibly Lynn Weitzel "Everyday life on the farm" Dudley, Leavitt R 4/87 Mary Johnston Growing up in Ventura county, farming, career as freelance artist Dudley, Miriam Knox R 4/77 Judy Triem Life in Ventura, Dudley, Miriam Knox R 1/78 Not mentioned Growing up in Ventura county 4 8/24/2018 Name Date Interviewer