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Title: Pauley Family Collection
Creator: Pauley, Clarke
Identifier/Call Number: 0035
Contributing Institution: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Special
Collections and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 6.33 Linear
Feet(11 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1900-2007
Abstract: The Pauley
family is known for its ties to the oil business and the University of California,
Los Angeles. The family also has a decades-long involvement with plans to redevelop
the site of the historic winery in Guasti, California and the surrounding area near
the Ontario International Airport. Clarke Pauley, grandson of oil magnate Edwin W.
Pauley, served as general manager for Guasti Plaza, managing operations of tenants
in converted buildings at the site. Guasti Plaza was also the name of the
redevelopment effort that Clarke Pauley oversaw at the site. The collection contains
photograph albums, brochures, clippings, business records from Guasti Plaza; and
historic wine ephemera and digitized pamphlets and photographs from the Italian
Vineyard Company. There are also photographs and audio recordings of Edwin W. Pauley
and other members of the Pauley family.
The processing of this collection and the creation of this finding aid was funded by the generous support of the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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[Box/folder# or item name], Pauley Family Collection, Collection no. 0035, Southern
California Wine and Wine Industry Collection, Special Collections and Archives,
University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Materials in the collection were donated to California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona by Clarke Pauley in 2008 and 2011, by Maria Gonzalez in 2007 (Gonzalez worked
with Pauley at Guasti Plaza), and gathered from Special Collections' Southern
California Wine and Wine Industry Collection files.
Edwin W. Pauley was born on January 7, 1903 in Indianapolis, Indiana to Elbert
(1874-1950) and Ellen (1874-1949) Pauley. His father, Elbert, worked in the oil
business and formed the Pauley Oil Company, a firm that Edwin Pauley also worked at
until it was sold in 1927.
Edwin Pauley first attended Occidental College before transferring to the University
of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a bachelor's degree in business
administration. In 1928, he founded the Petrol Corporation and served as its
president.
Edwin Pauley married his first wife, Norma Barrett in 1924. They had one son, Edwin
Pauley, Jr. (1925-2001). The circumstances of his first marriage are unclear. In
1937, Edwin Pauley married his second wife, Barbara "Bobette" Jean McHenry
(1914-2002), a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Edwin and Barbara Pauley had a daughter, Susan, and two sons, Robert and Stephen. In
1946, Edwin Pauley, his brother, and two other men purchased an island off the coast
of Oahu called "Coconut Island." The Pauley family would use it for family vacations
in the following decades. Edwin Pauley also helped establish a marine lab on the
island, which eventually became known as the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.
Stephen Pauley and his wife have remained involved with the island, which now fully
belongs to the state of Hawaii.
In 1958, Edwin Pauley incorporated Pauley Petroleum. In addition to working in the
oil business, he was an adviser to several presidents, including Harry S. Truman,
and served as a University of California Regent from 1940 to 1972. Edwin Pauley
donated one million dollars for the sports arena at the University of California,
Los Angeles that would end up bearing his name: The Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion.
In the 1950s, the Pauley family started its involvement with the land at Guasti,
California, which was home to the Italian Vineyard Company winery from 1900 to 1945
and, later, Garrett & Company. Pauley joined with two partners to form Viña
Vista Venture, with the intent of building a planned industrial community near the
Ontario airport. Viña Vista bought 31 acres of land at Guasti from Garrett &
Company. Winemakers Philo and Frank Biane later bought 13 acres of land in Guasti
that was not included in Viña Vista's original purchase from Garrett & Company,
including the buildings used for wine production. The Bianes operated the winery as
the Brookside Vineyard Company. The Pauley family eventually bought the remaining
land in the early 1980s and began an effort to redevelop the site as Guasti
Plaza.
Edwin Pauley died in 1981. His grandson, Clarke Pauley (son of Stephen Pauley),
served as executive director of Guasti Plaza from 1996 to 2008. However, the
redevelopment plan did not happen and the Pauley family sold the land to San Diego
real estate firm Oliver McMillan in 2006.
Edwin Pauley's son, Robert Pauley, was a businessman who co-founded Sonoma National
Bank and also founded an exports company. He died in 2005.
The collection contains photograph albums, brochures, clippings, and business
records from Guasti Plaza and historic wine ephemera and digitized pamphlets and
photographs from the Italian Vineyard Company, which operated at the Guasti site in
the early 20th century. The wine ephemera includes metal tags from the Italian
Vineyard Company.
There are also photographs, films, and recordings featuring Edwin W. Pauley and the
Pauley family. The recordings include an audiotape of the dedication of the Edwin W.
Pauley Pavilion at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1965.
The collection is organized into the following series: Series 1. Guasti and Italian
Vineyard Company Materials; Series 2. Pauley Family Audiovisual Materials.
Joseph Filippi Winery Collection, Collection no. 0028, Southern California Wine and
Wine Industry Collection, Special Collections and Archives, University Library,
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Donald Galleano Collection, Collection no. 0073, Southern California Wine and Wine
Industry Collection, Special Collections and Archives, University Library,
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Rounds, Michael.
Ontario: The Gem of the Foothills. Carlsbad, CA:
Heritage Media Corp., 1999.
Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Ephemera Collection no. 0013, Southern
California Wine and Wine Industry Collection, Special Collections and Archives,
University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Oral History Collection, Collection no.
0024, Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Collection, Special Collections and
Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
The collection was processed by Rob Strauss in September 2018.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Guasti (Calif.) -- History
Italian Vineyard Co.
Ontario (Calif.)
Pauley, Edwin W. (Edwin Wendell), 1903-1981
photographs