The Finding Aid of the Pauley Family Collection
0035
Rob Strauss and Alex Dan
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.
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Special Collections and
Archives
September 2018
3801 West Temple Avenue
Pomona, CA 91768
speccollections@cpp.edu
909-869-3775
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.
Sponsor
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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Preferred Citation
[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.
Biographical / Historical
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.
Scope and Contents
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.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into the following series: Series 1. Guasti and Italian
Vineyard Company Materials; Series 2. Pauley Family Audiovisual Materials.
Related 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.
Processing Information
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
box 1-5, 9-10
Series 1: Guasti and Italian Vineyard Company Materials
circa 1900-2006
Scope and Contents
The series contains photographs, pamphlets, historical information, wine
ephemera and other materials from Guasti Plaza; from the Italian Vineyard
Company, an historic winery that operated out of the community of Guasti in
the early 20th century; from the Joseph Filippi Winery, which operated a
tasting room in Guasti; materials about Viña Vista, an industrial community
that had been planned for the Guasti site in the 1950s; and a draft section
that Clarke Pauley wrote for a book that was originally titled
Ontario: An Illustrated History. The actual title of the
book when published was
Ontario: Gem of the Foothills.
Arrangement
The series is arranged alphabetically by folder title in the finding aid but
does not reflect physical arrangement.
box 1
Centrelake Business Park - Promotional Material
before 1992
box 1
Grape: Drinks and Desserts - Pamphlet (Digital
Copy)
1928 September 1
Physical Description: (One compact disc)
box 1
Guasti - Biographical Accounts of Grape Workers
circa 1998
box 1, box 2
Guasti - Clippings
1995-2006
box 2
Guasti - Family History Written in Daily Planner
(Photocopy)
before 1990
box 2
Guasti - Fire Truck
1998 June 28
box 9
Guasti - Photograph Album
1987 May
box 2
Guasti - Photographs
circa 1900-2005
Physical Description: (Photographic prints, negatives, and two compact discs)
Scope and Contents
The file contains digitized images, along with reproduced photographs and
printed thumbnail images of Guasti and the Italian Vineyard Company.
Some of the photographs are duplicates from the Guasti (Italian Vineyard
Company) photograph album in the Don Galleano Winery Collection,
Collection no. 0073.
box 3
Guasti - Photographs - Panoramas (Digital Copies)
1932-1937
Physical Description: (One compact disc)
box 3
Guasti - Photographs - Schenck and Schenck (Digital
Copies)
circa 1900-1945
Physical Description: (Four compact discs)
box 3
Guasti Buildings - Photographs
before 2006
Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 3
Guasti History - Clippings and Powerpoint
Presentation
circa 1969-1996
box 10
Guasti History - Photograph Album
circa 1907-1945
box 10
Guasti History, Guasti Family, Biane Family, and Pauley Family -
Photograph Album
circa 1907-1953
box 3
Guasti LLC - Legal Documents
2003-2006
box 3
Guasti Plaza - History
1897, circa 1996-2004
box 3
Guasti Plaza - Photographs (Digital Copies)
2002 February
Physical Description: (One compact disc)
box 3
Guasti Plaza - Property Files (Digital Files)
1998-2003
Physical Description: (One compact disc)
box 4
Guasti Plaza - Specific Plan
1996
box 4
Guasti, Secondo - Photograph (Photocopy)
before 1927
box 4
Guasti Site - Aerial Photographs
1999 January 28
Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 4
Guasti Site - Historical Designation and Redevelopment
Documents
1988-2001
box 4
Guasti Site - Photographs
before 2006
Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 4
The Historic Guasti District - Brochure
circa 2007
box 4
Italian Vineyard Company - Correspondence
1913 November 4
box 4
Italian Vineyard Company - Metal Tags
circa 1900-1945
box 4
Italian Vineyard Company - Pamphlet (Digital Copy)
1915
Physical Description: (One compact disc)
box 4
It's Time for Wine - Brochure (Digital
Copy)
before 1950
Physical Description: (One compact disc)
box 4
Joseph Filippi Winery - Materials and Labels
1984-1996
box 9
Los Angeles Department of Airports - Brochure
circa 1972
box 5
Ontario: An Illustrated History - Documents and
Draft Pages
1997
box 9
Ontario Motor Speedway - Press Folder for
Groundbreaking
1968 September 24
box 9
Ontario Motor Stadium - Design Blueprints
1968 July
box 5
Pauley, Clarke - Documents (Digital Files)
circa 1996-2002
Physical Description: (One compact disc)
box 5
Strength of Fruit Industries (Digital Copy and
Photocopies)
after 1929
Physical Description: (One compact disc and photocopies of pages from the book)
box 5
Treasured Flavors Cookbook (1st Edition) - Front and
Back Covers (Digital Copies)
circa 1920-1929
Physical Description: (One compact disc)
Scope and Contents
Physical copy in Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Ephemera
Collection no. 0013, Special Collections and Archives, University
Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
box 5
Viña Vista - Promotional Materials
circa 1957
box 5
Wine Label - Deux Mondes
2003
box 5
Wines of America - Brochure (Gold Cover) (Digital
Copy)
1934
Physical Description: (One compact disc)
box 5
Wines of America - Brochure (Red Cover) (Digital
Copy)
1934
Physical Description: (One compact disc)
box 5-8, 11
Series 2: Pauley Family Audiovisual Materials
circa 1957-1981
Scope and Contents
The series contains photographs, 16mm films, and audio recordings of Edwin W.
Pauley and other members of the Pauley family. The recordings include an
audiotape of a speech that Edwin W. Pauley delivered at the University of
Santa Clara's graduation ceremony in 1960 and an audiotape of the dedication
of the Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion at the University of California, Los Angeles
in 1965. The photographs contain images of Pauley family members and Coconut
Island, an island off the eastern coast of Oahu that was bought by Edwin W.
Pauley and a group of investors in the 1940s.
Arrangement
The series is arranged alphabetically by folder title in the finding aid but
does not reflect physical arrangement.
box 5
Airport Jets
circa 1966
Physical Description: (One 16mm film)
box 11
Amman, Jordan
circa 1957
Physical Description: (One 16mm film)
box 5
Boat Landing and Boat Trip
circa 1966
Physical Description: (One 16mm film)
box 6
Daily Recording
1992 November 14-16
Physical Description: (One videocassette)
box 11
Drilling in the Holy Land
circa 1957
Physical Description: (One 16mm film)
box 6
Ducks
circa 1966
Physical Description: (One 16mm film)
box 6
Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion Dedication - University of California,
Los Angeles Graduation Part I
1965 June 11
Physical Description: (One 1/4 inch audio tape)
box 6
Food and Packing Labels
circa 1968
Physical Description: (One 16mm film)
box 6
Grauman's Chinese Theater Premiere of
The
Carpetbaggers
1964
Physical Description: (One 16mm film)
box 11
The Holy Land
1957
Physical Description: (One 16mm film)
box 6
Lodge - Interior and Exterior
circa 1962
Physical Description: (One 16mm film)
box 11
King Hussein of Jordan
circa 1957
Physical Description: (One 16mm film)
box 11
Mexico `
circa 1957
Physical Description: (One 16mm film)
box 7
Owl's Nest Camp - Bohemian Grove Campground (Monte Rio,
California) - Photographs
before 1981
Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 7
Pauley, Bobbie - Photographs
circa 1960-1980
Physical Description: (Photographic slides)
box 7
Pauley, Edwin W. - Speech at University of Santa Clara Graduation
Ceremonies
1960 June 4
Physical Description: (One 1/4 inch audio tape)
box 7
Pauley Family Christmas Photographs
circa 1960-1980
Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7
Pauley Family - Coconut Island - Photographs
circa 1960-1980
Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 7
Pauley Family - Photographs
circa 1960-1980
Physical Description: (Photographic negatives and slides)
box 8
Rose Bowl Bus Trip - Photographs
circa 1971
Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 8
Unidentified Film Reel
circa 1960-1970
Physical Description: (One 16mm film)
box 8
Venice
circa 1966-1967
Physical Description: (Four 16mm films)
