California History articles from September 2006

California History archives from September 2006

Dear to me.
September 22, 2006... Taking a glance at the Contents of this issue, it looks as if we concocted a combo of essays related to California's musical pedigree. Titles include "Mexican Musicians," "Woody Guthrie," and "Comic Operas," but looks deceive. Our lead article...

J. S. Holliday, a remembrance.(Biography)
September 22, 2006... In 1972, I attended an evening reception at El Molino Viejo, then the southern California headquarters of the California Historical Society. I shall never forget that evening as I was drawn by the presence of one man, J. S. Holliday, the...

Pretty pasters.(California Historical Society Ephemera Collection)
September 22, 2006... These printed stickers from popular California roller rinks of the 1940s and 1950s are an unusual recent acquisition by the Research Collections of the California Historical Society from the National Museum of Roller Skating in Lincoln,...

Mexican musicians in California and the United States, 1910-50.
September 22, 2006... Mexican musicians have continuously crossed the United States-Mexico international border in both directions in search of professional opportunities. The period from the time of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 to approximately the middle of the...

"Woody Sez": Woody Guthrie, the People's Daily World, and Indigenous Radicalism.
September 22, 2006... Bound for Glory, director Hal Ashby's 1976 cinematic tribute to Woody Guthrie, concludes with the folksinger departing California for the greener pastures of New York City in early 1940. As he rides a freight train, Guthrie, portrayed by David...

On comic opera revolutions: maneuver theory and the art of war in Mexican California, 1821-45.
September 22, 2006... "Like the tribes of the Stone Age ever preparing for war but rarely fighting, the Californios cultivated a state of perpetual excitement which culminated in anti-climactic decrees or minor skirmishes; three casualties in one of these fights...

After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... AFTER THE RUINS, 1906 AND 2006: REPHOTOGRAPHING THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE. By Mark Klett with Michael Lundgren, essays by Philip L. Fradkin and Rebecca Solnit and an interview with the photographer by Karin Breuer (Berkeley:...

The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories from Old San Francisco.(Dangerous Strangers: Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the Urban West, 1850-2000)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... THE TOUGHEST GANG IN TOWN: POLICE STORIES FROM OLD SAN FRANCISCO By Kevin J. Mullen (Novato, CA: Noir Publications, 2005, 266 pp., $16.95, paper) DANGEROUS STRANGERS: MINORITY NEWCOMERS AND CRIMINAL VIOLENCE IN THE URBAN WEST,...

Gold Rush Saints: California Mormons and the Great Rush for Riches.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... GOLD RUSH SAINTS: CALIFORNIA MORMONS AND THE GREAT RUSH FOR RICHES By Kenneth N. Owens (Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2004, 398 pp., $39.50 cloth, $19.95 paper) This important volume produced by Kenneth N. Owens,...

Individuals.(donations)
September 22, 2006... The California Historical Society is deeply grateful to the following individual donors for their contributions received between June 1, 2005 and June 1, 2006: $10,000 AND ABOVE Mr. Darius Anderson, San Francisco Mr. Ted...

Corporate foundation & government support.(Brief article)
September 22, 2006... The California Historical Society is deeply grateful to the following organizations for their contributions received between June 1, 2005 and June 1, 2006: $10,000 AND ABOVE Barkley Fund, Corona Del Mar Boston Private Financial...

Walled off.(Philip Adam's photography)(Brief article)
September 22, 2006... Uniformly boxy houses in a new development in Solano County face inward, walled off against the rolling hills above them and the disturbed terrain around them. Although this enclave appears isolated in what might once have been farmland, since...