Guide to the Sticky Wicket scrapbook
M. Carey
University of California, Santa Cruz
2013
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz 95064
speccoll@library.ucsc.edu
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Sticky Wicket scrapbook
Creator:
Jowers, Vic (Victor)
Identifier/Call Number: MS.403
Physical Description:
2 Linear Feet
2 document boxes, 1 oversize flat
Date (inclusive): 1959-1964
Abstract: This scrapbook contains newspaper
articles, menus, artwork and photographs documenting the Sticky Wicket café in Aptos,
CA.
Language of Material:
English
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright for the items in this collection is owned by the creators and their heirs.
Reproduction or distribution of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair
use requires permission from the copyright owner. It is the responsibility of the user to
determine whether a use is fair use, and to obtain any necessary permissions. For more
information see UCSC Special Collections and Archives policy on Reproduction and Use.
Preferred Citation
Sticky Wicket scrapbook. MS 403. Special Collections and Archives, University Library,
University of California, Santa Cruz.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Roy Rydell.
History
The Sticky Wicket café was first opened on Cathcart Street, Santa Cruz on May 6, 1959 by
Victor and Sidney Jackson Jowers. For the first couple of years it existed as the only
bohemian coffee house in town. But due to location restrictions, the Jowers moved the Sticky
Wicket to Mar Vista Drive, Aptos in 1961 where the café thrived. They established the coffee
house as a place to have a cup of coffee, eat "exotic" foods, play a game of chess, and
listen to nightly folk music. They added frequently changing art shows, free Thursday
evening chamber music concerts and eventually a summer program of light opera at the New Vic
Theatre.
In 1963, the State Highway Department started work on the Seacliff Beach interchange to
make this section of the Cabrillo Highway a controlled access freeway. The old side roads
including Mar Vista Drive were blocked requiring patrons to drive out of the way to get to
the cafe. The results were disastrous and eventually led to the closing of the Sticky Wicket
café on September 7, 1964.
Scope and Content of Collection
This scrapbook documents the life and times of the Sticky Wicket café in Aptos, CA through
newspaper articles, menus, artwork and photographs.
Arrangement
Prior to processing, the scrapbook was disassembled and the pages cut apart with the
exception of a page or two. Subsequently the materials, clippings, artwork, photographs,
have been organized into folders by page as they would have appeared originally.
The container list is also presented as the materials would have been found if the
scrapbook pages had been left intact.
Separate PDF lists for "Clippings" & "Photographs" are attached to the finding aid
under "Additional Collection Guides".
Processing Information
Processed by M. Carey in August 2014. EAD encoded finding aid by M. Carey.
Additional Collection Guides
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Photographs list
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Clippings List
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Aptos (Calif.)
Scrapbooks
Sticky Wicket (Cafe : Aptos, Calif.)
Cabrillo Music Festival
box-folder 1:1
Pg.1 - Photographs ms0403_pho_001-015
1955-1962
box-folder 1:4
Pg. 4 - Clippings, art exhibit brohures,
1960-1961
box-folder 1:5
Pg. 5 - Clippings, "Thursday Concerts at the Sticky Wicket" flyers
(2),
1961
box-folder 1:7
Pg. 7 - Santa Cruz Civic Theatre flyers,
1960
General
"Angel Street", 2/10-25, 3/3-4/[1960]; "The Boy Friend", 5/6-28, 6/3-4/1960; "The Moon
is Blue", 11/4-26/1960
box-folder 1:7
Pg. 7 - Clippings,
1960-1961
box-folder 1:7
Pg. 7 - Artwork - cards by Lou Harrison,
1960-1961
box-folder 1:7
Pg. 7 - Photograph, ms0403_pho_016
1960
box-folder 1:8
Pg. 8 - Photographs, ms0403_pho_017-021
1959-1961
box-folder 1:8
Pg. 8 - Menu; Advertisementss,
1959-1961
box-folder 1:9
Pg. 9 - photographs, ms0403_pho_022 - 026
1960-1963
box-folder 1:9
Pg. 9 - Clipping, exhibition flyer,
1960-1963
box-folder 1:11
Pg. 11 - Clippings,
1960-1963
box-folder 1:11
Pg. 11 - Photograph, ms0403_pho_027
1961
box-folder 1:12
Pg. 12 - Clipping for "Orpheus and Euridice",
1960-1961
box-folder 1:12
Pg. 12 - Announcement for Sticky Wicket Summer Theater with Joyce West in
"Amore",
1960-1961
box-folder 1:12
Pg. 12 - 1 folded announcement for 1st season Sticky Wicket Summer Theater with
"A Soldier's Tale, "Aria Da Capo"; "Orpheus and Euridice",
1960-1961
box-folder 1:12
Pg. 12 - 2 sheets of a brochure for "Summer Theatre at the Sticky Wicket,
Aptos",
1960-1961
box-folder 1:13
Pg. 13 - Photographs, ms0403_pho_028-029
1960-1961
Scope and Contents
Photography by Vestal 65 Bronson, Watsonville, CA
box-folder 1:14
pg. 14 - Photographs, ms0403_pho_030-031
1960-1961
Scope and Contents
Photography by Vestal 65 Bronson, Watsonville, CA
box-folder 1:15
pg. 15 - Photographs, ms0403_pho_032-034
1960-1961
box-folder 1:16
Pg. 16 - Photographs, ms0403_pho_035-043
1960-1961
box-folder 1:17-
Pg. 17 - Photographs - "Orpheus & Euridice", ms0403_pho_044-046
August 1961
box-folder 1:18
Pg. 18 - Photographs - "Orpheus & Euridice", ms0403_pho_047-055
August 1961
box-folder 1:18
Pg. 18 - Clipping "Praise for 'New Vic' ",
September 9, 1961
box-folder 1:20
Pg. 20 - Clippings,
July - August 1961
box-folder 1:21
Pg. 21 - "A Winter Season at the Sticky Wicket" - 3 brochures,
November 5, 1961 - December 3,
1962
box-folder 1:22
Pg. 22 - Clippings,
1961-1962
box-folder 1:25
Pg. 23 - Art exhibit announcements - Madge Elliott, Betty Taylor,
1962
box-folder 1:30
Pg. 30 - Correspondence: To Board of Supervisors SC County from: C. Easton
Rothwell,
March 13, 1962
box-folder 1:30
Pg. 30 - "Komy Komments Editorial Number I: Subject Discontuance of the Wicket
Theatre",
February 20, 1962
box-folder 1:31
Pg. 31 - 7 letters in support of Sticky Wicket,
February 21, 1961 - March 17,
1962
Scope and Contents
Correspondents: David McFadden, Albert Lepawsky, Melvin L, Hawley, Robert H. Townley,
James B. Fenton, Bates Elliott, Paul H. Pfeiffer, Roy Rydell
box-folder 1:32
Pg. 32 - Photo of Victor Jowers, ms0403_pho_056
1962
box-folder 1:32
Pg. 32 - Wine list of the Sticky Wicket,
1962
box-folder 1:37
Pg. 37 - Photographs - "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme", Moliere, ms0403_pho_057-063
1962
box-folder 1:38
Pg. 38 - 2 Prospectuses for "The New Vic Theater",
July-August 1962
box-folder 1:38
Pg. 38 - Photographs, ms0403_pho_064-065
1962
box-folder 1:38
Pg. 38 - Clippings,
`1961-1962
box-folder 1:39
Pg. 39 - 8 Part of announcement,
1962
box-folder 1:39
Pg. 39 - Photographs, ms0403_pho_066-073
1962
box-folder 1:40
Pg. 40 - Photographs, ms0403_pho_075-076
1962
box-folder 1:42
Pg. 42 - Photographs, ms0403_pho_077-080
1962
box-folder 2:2
Pg. 44 - Advertisements, clippings, announcements,
September 1962
box-folder 2:2
Pg. 44 - Program for "Hello Out There", "Back to Methuselah" & ticket for
"Shaw and Saroyan" sponsored by the AAUW,
October 1962
box-folder 2:3
Pg. 48 - Clippings,
March 1963
box-folder 2:4
Pg. 49 - Clippings,
March 1963
box-folder 2:6
Pg. 51 - Menu for "The Room Below",
1963
box-folder 2:8
Pg. 53 - Art and Architecture article "Cabrillo Music Festival At Aptos" by
Peter Yates,
January 1964
box-folder 2:9
Pg. 54 - Clippings,
1963-1964
box-folder 2:10
Pg. 55 - Clippings,
1963-1964
box-folder 3:1
Pg. 10 - Poster - "Summer Theatre at the Sticky Wicket "[Soldier's Tale, Aria
Da Capo, Orpheus & Euridice],
July 11, 1961 - August 31, 1961
box-folder 3:1
Pg. 23 - 24 " Spring Music at the Sticky Wicket" 2 pages program,
February-April 1962
box-folder 3:1
Pg. 34 - Poster "New Vic Theatre Outdoors at Sticky Wicket" [Le Bourgeois
Gentilhomme, Waiting for Godot …],
1962
box-folder 3:1
Pg. 36 - Full page "The New Vic Theater" [front & back]
prospectus,
July-August 1962
box-folder 3:2
Pg. 43 - Poster "George Bernhard Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Act. I - "In the
Beginning - Adam and Eve in the Garden" & William Saroyan's Hello Out There" - AAUW
Sponsor,
September 1962
box-folder 3:2
Pg. 45 - "Music at the Sticky Wicket, 1962-1963 - side 1 of
program,
November 1962 - January 6,1963
box-folder 3:2
Pg. 46 - "Music at the Sticky Wicket, 1962-1963 - side 2 of
program,
January 1963 - May 1963
box-folder 3:2
Pg. 46 - Clippings,
January - February 1963
