What makes something historic? feat. City Beautiful in San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, or SLO for short, is a small city near and dear to my heart, not only because it's one of my hometowns, but because I've done so much work on the history here. After all, my dissertation has a chapter on it and my entire masters thesis is about the place. And it goes much deeper than that, for my father was a museum director here. You could say SLO's history is in my veins. So I've got a question to ask from all this: what makes something historic? It's it simply that it's old? Does it have a good story behind it? Is it important to promoting the area? Or is it something deeper? Well I'm here to argue that it's none of that.
Check out City Beautiful's video here: • How NIMBYs weaponize historic districts
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Bibliography
City of San Luis Obispo Citywide Historic Context Statement, November 2013, https://www.slocity.org/home/showpubl...
Myron Angel, History of San Luis Obispo County, California, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Oakland, Cal.: Thompson & West, 1883). https://archive.org/details/historyof...
Daniel Krieger, San Luis Obispo County: Looking Backward into the Middle Kingdom (Northridge, Cal.: Windsor Publications, 1988). https://amzn.to/42VF6qE
Mark Hall-Patton, Memories of the Land: Placenames of San Luis Obispo (Los Osos, Cal.: EZ Nature Books, 1994). https://amzn.to/3lVoI8J
Joseph Hall-Patton, “Pacifying Paradise: Violence and Vigilantism in San Luis Obispo,” California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo, thesis, 2016. http://www.digitalcommons.calpoly.edu...
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Chapters
0:00 intro
2:08 brief history of SLO
7:44 historic districting
10:30 Myron Angel
12:00 things going well
14:15 historical issues
20:28 conclusion
22:30 thanks and outtakes
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