Guide to the Bud Bottoms GOO! files SBHC Mss 124
Finding aid prepared by Zachary Liebhaber, 2019.
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara 93106-9010
special@library.ucsb.edu
2019 July 5
Title: Bud Bottoms GOO! files
Identifier/Call Number: SBHC Mss 124
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3.8 linear feet
(1 document box, 1 half size document box, 2 flat boxes)
Creator:
Bottoms, James
Date (inclusive): circa 1969-2010
Abstract: Materials collected by Bud Bottoms over the course of his involvement with GOO! (Get Oil Out!), an organziation formed in
the aftermath of the 1969 oil spill in the Santa Barbara Channel, in order to prevent further oil development. Files contain
correspondence, oil-related research, clippings, artwork, slides, ephemera, and artifacts.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], Bud Bottoms GOO! files, SBHC Mss 124. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Biographical Note
Californian James Alfred "Bud" Bottoms (1928-2018) was a founding member of GOO! (Get Oil Out!) in Santa Barbara, California
in the aftermath of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. In addition to his activities as an environmental activist, Bottoms
worked as an art instructor at Santa Barbara High School for a time, and turned to sculpting, specializing in statues of marine
mammals that now adorn the waterfronts of such cities as Santa Barbara, California and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
All of Bottoms' four sons (Timothy, Joseph, Sam, and Ben Bottoms) acted in Hollywood films, including
Apocalypse Now! (Joseph Bottoms) and
The Last Picture Show (Timothy Bottoms). Bud Bottoms appeared in the 1978 film
The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II.
Scope and Content
Materials collected by Bud Bottoms over the course of his involvement with GOO! (Get Oil Out!). Files contain oil-related
clippings and graphics by Bottoms and artist Don Freeman, as well as correspondence, ephemera, and issue files maintained
by Bottoms over the years. The collection also contains a small selection of slides of the Santa Barbara Channel and beaches
in the aftermath of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill.
In addition to the smaller clippings and sketches, the collection contains larger drawings for posters about the 1969 oil
spill and GOO!-related events, including a number by Don Freeman, as well as larger GOO!-related artifacts.
Related Archival Material
Get Oil Out! (GOO!) collection, SBHC Mss 10, Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Environmentalism -- California -- Santa Barbara
Oil spills -- California -- Santa Barbara Channel
Political activists -- California -- Santa Barbara
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence
Drawings (visual works)
Ephemera (general object genre)
Slides (photographs)
Bottoms, James -- Archives
Freeman, Don, 1908-1978
Get Oil Out! -- Archives
box 1-2
Correspondence, slides, ephemera, clippings and drawings
flat-box 3-4
Artifacts and ephemera, posters, and drawings by D. Freeman and Bud Bottoms
item V11685/VHS
Ocean Sanctuary presents coastal crisis: A presentation of the impacts of offshore oil development on the coast of California
1987
item V11686/VHS
Janet Russell: California crude
item V11687/DVD
Environmental history round table (UCSB Special Research Collections)
2017 January
item V11688/DVD
Stories of the spill: how Santa Barbara's beach catastrophe become a lesson in democracy
