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HomeMy Public PortalAboutA 1987-10-19 COMMUNITY ACCESS BOARDIRICEIV CITY OF LYNWOOD I CITY CLERKS OFFICE OCT 16 1987 AM PM 7 i 8 1 9 1 1 01111121112 1 3 1 4 i 3,6 I.I Ql /L COMMUNITY ACCESS ADVISORY BOARD October 19, 1987 City Hall Council Chambers 5:30 p.m. AGENDA I. ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS A. CALL TO ORDER B. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE C. ROLL CALL D. MINUTES - September 21, 1987 II. SCHEDULED MATTERS A. "History of Lynwood" Video Comments: Representatives from Hintz & Balvin will be on hand to discuss the status of the project and collect additional information. III. PUBLIC ORALS IV. ADJOURNMENT 0 0 COMMUNITY ACCESS ADVISORY BOARD Minutes for the Meeting of September 21, 1987 Chairperson Mary Wright called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. Members in attendance were Mary Wright, Rev. C.C. Coleman, Randy Williams, Ann Fields and Bill Cunningham. Staff present were Don Fraser, Debbie Coulter and Carol de Jesus. It was moved, seconded and carried to approve the Community Affairs Commission minutes of July 20 & August 17, 1987. SCHEDULED MATTERS A. History of Lynwood Video The board was shown tapes from two consultant firms for the purpose of review and selection of the firm to produce a video on the history of Lynwood. Hintz & Balvin (H &B) showed 3 video tapes they have done which are as ff: 1. San Mateo County "Welcome Home" Housing Home Sharing 2. Changes in Half -Moon Bay 3. The Raiser Organization Commissioner Wright inquired about a ballpark figure for a separate short video (3 - 5 minutes presentation) for promotional purposes. H & B cannot determine the cost as yet because a whole new script has to be written and shooting days will have to be considered. Ms. Debbie Coulter then showed the tapes done by the Video Dimensions on: 1. The Department of Water and Power 2. Fair Housing in Redondo Beach Commissioner Cunningham finds the Hintz & Balvin's tape more professional and has more flow. He is impressed that the staff of H & B showed a caring attitude by coming out to show their project. Commissioner Fields wanted to hear from the City of Lynwood staff as to their preference. Mr. Don Fraser stated that he has met with both firms, both of them are professional, and both can do the work. Hintz & Balvin has a lower bid but either way, the City will be willing to work with either firm. The motion was made by Commissioner Williams and seconded by Commissioner Cunningham to select the firm of Hintz & Balvin to produce a video of the history of Lynwood. All in favor. Motion passed. The board instructed the staff to issue the contract with the firm but not to give them the go signal to start the shooting. Ms. Coulter will invite the H &B firm for the next meeting so the board members can give them direction on how they wanted the video done. In the meanwhile, the board can provide them with telephone numbers and contact persons for a starter. 1 0 B. Graffiti Tape: 0 The graffiti tape produced by Rogers Cablesystems was shown to the board. Next board meeting is set for October 19. The meeting adjourned at 7:00 p.m. 2 • DATE: October 19, 1987 TO: Honorable Chairman & Members of the Board FROM: Deborah Coulter, Adm. Analyst�� SUBJECT: HISTORY OF LYNWOOD VIDEO DISCUSSION Attached you will find a status report on the research work done by Hintz and Balvin for the History of Lynwood video. Also included is a scripting idea for the first few minutes of the tape. Lynn Weiss and Barbara Walter will be visiting Lynwood on Monday, October 19, 1987 to seek out resource people and historical artifacts. They will be attending your meeting in the evening of October 19th. If you have additional information you wish to share, please bring it to your meeting. E 671 SOUTH CATALINA AVE. PASADENA. CALIFORNIA 91106 Community Acces Advisory Board City of Lynwood C/0 Deborah Coulter Administrative Analyst 11330 Bullis Road Lynwood, California 90262 Dear Board Members: 0 Hintz ct Balvin First of all, we want to thank you for the package of material regarding Lynwood's history and also for the names of resource people in the community We have begun the process of creating the video on Lynwood's history You will find attached a Status Report on what we have done so far. We have begun doing research and creating a chronology of the historical events that effected Lynwood since the time of the Spaniards and even before We have put together scripting Ideas for the first few minutes What you have attached to this letter is only to give an idea of the direction we are taking. These ideas will be developed, refined and checked with historians and yourselves before they become our final shooting script. We already have a good idea what visuals we can use in certain Instances - of course, many more will be found We have discovered some wonderful material in the Southwest Museum. Before we meet with the Board on Monday, we are planning a day of location scouting and speaking to resource people in Lynwood. I am sure that we will have interesting things to report. And we may have questions to ask you, as well. It appears that we will probably be ready to start videotaping at the end of November or early December. This assumes that a completed and approved shooting script will be done in mid November. We are looking forward to meeting with you next Monday at 5 30 PM. Cordially, Barbara Boyer Walter Video Producer Encl. PUBLIC RELATIONS PUBLICITY (818) 792 -6463 671 SOUTH CATALINA AVE. PASADENA. CALIFORNIA 91106 PROJECT: LYNWOOD VIDEO 0 Hintz cf'c7 Balvin STATUS REPORT 10/15/87 - 'Materials received from Debbie Coulter 10/8 and 10/13. - Contacts made at • Chamber: Bernie Lake Meeting set for 10/19 • Library: Lena Sparks Meeting set for 10/19 • Lynwood Press Doris Cleland Meeting to occur in near future - Calls made to various university libraries for historical consultant. - Call made to LA Main Public Library, historian. - List from Mary Wright of individuals to contact received 10/13. More detail needed on some names. Checking out contact with some individuals now. - Visits to SouthWest Museum. • Checking out photographing artifacts. • Researching library materials. - Intended scouting trip for Monday, October 19. • Check out city boundaries and key geographical features. • Check out historical buildings accessible. • Check out key community businesses where time, e.g. St. Francis Hospital. - Meeting with City Council, Monday, October 19, 5:30 p.m. L.V. Weiss PUBLIC RELATIONS PUBLICITY (818) 792 -6463 A History of Lynwood Draft Script Ideas and Event Chronology NARRATOR: (VO)They were here first. but no one knows precisely where they came from. Speculation has it some wandered down from Asia across the Bering strait and through Alaska fallowing the caribou, musk oxen and mammoths during the breaks between glaciers in the ice age up to 36,000 years ago Other Indians, it is believed, meandered out of Mexico. By the time the first Europeans made their way here, there were probably over 150.000 Indians in California. They were hunters and gatherers and fishermen. Peaceful, living in communities of around 1000 where ever food was available. It wasn't until 1542, 50 years after Columbas' momentous voyage, that the Portuguese explorer, Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo, claimed for Spain the land as far north as Monterey and now 1 2 known as California 37 years later, in 1597. Sir Francis Drake explored the San Francisco Bay Area and claimed it for England's Queen Elizabeth. The first European settlement in California was in 1769. It was headed by the Spaniard Galvez and included military men and mission- aries from Mexico These were a racial and cultural mixture of people with heritages from Spain, Mexico and to a lesser extent Africa By 1771 the Franciscans had founded the missions of San Gabriel and San Antanio It was at this mission in 1775 that a man whose name was destined to be linked with Lynwood was born -- Don Antonio Maria Lugo He received one of the 25 rancho grants awarded by the Spanish crown for service rendered. It was 29,000 acres of willlows and marshland! 0 0 3 It is on the South West corner of this rancho that most of today's Lynwood stands. What was life like there? It was certainly very simple. Even though it was only a mere 10 miles from the early Pueblo of Los Angeles ..it was far from the coastline routes traveled by the padres and the soldiers during the times of the missions and early conquests Don Antonio and his family lived mainly in the Pueblo de Los Angeles but he also had a home on the Rancho so that he could supervise his cattle and servants The ranch did large trade in hides for leather goods and tallow for making soap and candles During this period many settlers began to drift into the area from other parts of the United States Life was changing for the Ranchos. The Mexican American War of1846 -48, ended with the Treaty of 0 0 Guadelupe Hidalgo which ceded Calif- ornia to the United States for 15 million dollars. It obligated the United States to honor the Spanish land grants but soon other forces were to break up the huge Rancho. The Gold Rush of 1849 -57 was a profitable time for the Rancho but beef prices fell in 1857 That was followed by drought. Herds dwindled and the cattle era was closed. California achieved Statehood in in 1850 and soon after, Governor Peter Burnett initiated a land tax of 10 cents an acre in a move to force the breakup of the Ranchos and open them up to settlers. When Don Antonio Maria Lugo died in 1860, the year the Civil War began, he divided the Rancho between his five children. The part that was to become Lynwood was deeded to his daughter, Guadalupe Lugo. She sold it to Mr Heldman. It was in turn sold to: 4 Mrs. M.A. Shields, then Mr. Slauson C 0 & On May 10, 1869 something happened at Promontory Point, Utah that was bound to have an effect on Lynwood as it did on all of California... the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railways were ,joined with a golden spike. This ,joined the East and the West coasts and transformed the course of California's history - bringing an influx of people to the state and ending twenty years of isolation. In 1885 Charles Sessions bought about 400 acres of the former Rancho and ran a dairy there. He named it Lynwood Dairy after his wife's maiden name Lynne Wood. The dairy barn was located very near where the Security Bank stands today, on Sanborn Avenue and Long Beach Boulevard. 5