Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe records, 1975-1979

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Summary

Title:
Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe records
Dates:
1975-1979
Creators:
Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe.
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.
Extent:
0.4 linear feet (1 document box)
Language:
and Materials are in English.
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.

Background

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.

Biographical / historical:

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).

Acquisition information:
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 information:

Processed by Kimberlee Granholm, 2012. Description enhanced and further physical processing completed by Sabrina Ponce in 2017.

Arrangement:

Folders arranged by type and approximate chronological order.

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.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Kimberlee Granholm; updated by Sabrina Ponce, 2017; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
Date Prepared:
Online finding aid last updated 7 August 2017
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2017-08-07T10:23-0700

Access and use

Restrictions:

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.

Terms of access:

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.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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