DARE Interview : Lompoc, California; Primary Informant CA021

Fieldworker

VanDyke, Patt

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• CA021: White; female; age: 82 (old); education: grade school; community type: village
• CA023: White; male; age: 88 (old); education: grade school; community type: village
• Media File:
• Full Interview (Tape 0097-S1). [Additional speakers: CA023]
• Content:
• 00:15 Herbal remedies (no names for plants)
• 00:55 Local history: place names, local people
• 02:20 Grocery and meat stores in the past
• 04:20 Dairy cows and dairy products, making cottage cheese
• 06:25 Grocery and meat stores in the past
• 07:25 Cooking, stoves, oil lamps, bathing (in the past)
• 09:00 Changes in the town from military base, blimp base in wartime, missile testing
• 14:40 Space program, going to the moon
• 15:15 Father's farm, homestead, land, beekeeping
• 16:05 Early days in Lompoc Colony, temperance, boats from San Francisco
• 17:00 Buying groceries in very early days from San Francisco, land
• 17:45 Cooking with bacon grease
• 19:35 Tape end