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| Call Number | TS806.C3S86 |
| Title | The Loma Prieta Lumber Company and Santa Cruz in the early twentieth century; an interview [with Albretto Stoodley] conducted by Elizabeth Spedding Calciano |
| Series Title | Santa Cruz History |
| Creator |
Stoodley, Albretto, 1873-1970, narrator Calciano, Elizabeth Spedding, 1939- , interviewer |
| Date of Publication | 1964 |
| Description/Abstract | Mr. Stoodley moved to California in 1902 and shortly thereafter began what proved to be a fifty-five year career with the Loma Prieta Lumber Company, first as a clerk, later as bookkeeper, and finally as secretary of the company. For a number of years he also owned his own retail lumberyard. Mr. Stoodley's long and varied lumbering experience is evident in the manuscript. He talks about logging, bucking, sawing, and wholesaling. He describes the old-style ox-teams and their successors, the powerful donkey engines; he gives a detailed account of the making of "split stuff" (hand-split items such as pickets, posts, and shakes) and also discusses mule packing, narrow-gauge railroads, the old Loma Prieta Village, and the effects of the 1906 earthquake on Santa Cruz County. The latter part of the manuscript is devoted to Santa Cruz life in the early twentieth century. Stoodley describes the ethnic composition of the county, monetary practices, the coming of gas and electricity, the trolley system, early highways, entertainment, newspapers, the library and education. |
| Subject.LCSH |
Lumbering Santa Cruz County (Calif.) California -- History |
| Geographic Location.TGN |
Santa Cruz (county) California United States |
| Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Original Size | v, 142 l. illus. 29cm |
| Notes | Edited transcript of the taped interview, which was conducted between July and Sept. 1963 in the Stoodley study as part of the Regional History Project of the University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz. |
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| Title | stoodley_Part1 |
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