Finding Aid for the Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe records
1975-1979
LSC.2137
Finding aid prepared by Kimberlee Granholm; updated by Sabrina Ponce, 2017; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline
Cubé.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
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Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1575
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Online finding aid last updated 7 August 2017
Title: Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe records
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2137
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.4 linear feet
(1 document box)
Date (inclusive): 1975-1979
Abstract: In the fall of 1975, a group of women opened Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe in Eugene, Oregon with the idea of supporting
a Women's Center. The restaurant functioned as a collective without designating a manager or hierarchical structure and food
was purposely priced inexpensively. This collection contains correspondence, publicity materials, notebooks, and other materials
related to the general history, operation, finances, and eventual dissolution of Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe.
Language of Materials: Materials are in English.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button
located on this page.
Creator:
Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe.
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. All requests to access special collections material must be made in
advance using the request button located on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe records (Collection 2137). UCLA Library Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Provenance unknown. This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L. Mazer Lesbian
Archives, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW), and the UCLA Library.
Processing History
Processed by Kimberlee Granholm, 2012. Description enhanced and further physical processing completed by Sabrina Ponce in
2017.
Sponsor
The
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA is an outreach and collection-building partnership between the
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the
UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) , and the
UCLA Library . These collections expand the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and to the community at large. This
partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory, organize,
preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography/History
In the fall of 1975, a group of women opened Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe in Eugene, Oregon with the idea of supporting
a Women's Center. The restaurant functioned as a collective without designating a manager or boss and food was purposely priced
inexpensively. Gertrude's Cafe often offered activities in the visual and performing arts, including music performances, poetry
readings, and art exhibitions. In 1976, a radical left group was invited to buy the building where Gertrude's rented, but
the two groups never reached a lease agreement and Gertrude's was evicted. Approximately a year later, a group containing
original supporters and new supporters opened a second restaurant. It did not survive financially and a year later was sold,
becoming The Wild Iris Cafe (also defunct).
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence, publicity materials, notebooks, and other materials related to the general history,
operation, finances, and eventual dissolution of Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe.
Organization and Arrangement
Folders arranged by type and approximate chronological order.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe. -- Archives
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA.
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Feminism--Oregon--Eugene.
Restaurants--Oregon--Eugene--Archives.
Women-owned business enterprises--Oregon--Eugene--Archives.
Box 1, Folder 1
General history
circa 1975-1984
Scope and Contents note
Contains volunteer lists, news clippings about Gertrude's cafe, information sheets.
Box 1, Folder 2
Fundraising and financial information
1975 September - 1978 February
Scope and Contents note
Contains financial proposals, balance statements and grant work.
Box 1, Folder 3
Publicity materials
1975 December - 1977 December
Scope and Contents note
Contains flyers, posters, press releases and calendars of events.
Box 1, Folder 4
Communications notebook 1
1975 October-December
Scope and Contents note
Contains notebook pages logging events, concerns, plans, announcements and other related information specific to Gertrude's
Cafe.
Box 1, Folder 5
Communications notebook 2
1975 February - 1978 January
Box 1, Folder 6
Communications notebook 3
1976
Box 1, Folder 7
Communications notebook 4
1977
Box 1, Folder 8
Communications notebook 5
1977
Box 1, Folder 9
Communications notebook 6
1977
Box 1, Folder 10
Communications notebook 7
1977
Box 1, Folder 11
Communications notebook 8
1978
Box 1, Folder 12
Communications notebook 9
1978-1979
Box 1, Folder 13
Communications notebook 10
undated
Box 1, Folder 14
Eugene Women's Building
1976
Scope and Contents note
Contains a Eugene Women's Building contact list, Women's Building meeting minutes, proposed bylaws and correspondences.
Box 1, Folder 15
Eviction documents
1975-1976
Scope and Contents note
Contains information related to Gertrude Cafe's eviction, including community letters of support and news clippings.
Box 1, Folder 16
"Rima Oddessa: A Story from the Seventies"
1979
Scope and Contents note
Contains "Rima Oddessa: A Story From The Seventies," by Tymess Seagull dedicated to Adrienne Lauby, one of the founders of
Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe.
Box 1, Folder 17
Closure materials
1979-1980
Scope and Contents note
Contains materials related to Gertrude's Cafe closure, including dissolution documents and legal correspondence.
