Saville Sisters & Bland Oral History
Item
Title
Saville Sisters & Bland Oral History
Identifier
2024.021.010
Type
Oral History
Description
The Saville sisters and Robert Bland describe growing up in the Valley Truck Farms community in the 1930s and 40s. The Saville sisters describe their parents' 5 acre property filled with fruit trees and gardens, and the rural landscape of the Valley where they could collect watercress from the creeks and where Robert Bland remembers swimming in the irrigation canals. They tell stories of going to Mill School before Dorothy Inghram taught there, and share memories of neighborhood businesses. Robert Bland describes his time growing up between Kansas and San Bernardino, and how Barbara Saville met and married Robert Bland after WWII. They describe how Norton Air Base changed the community, Barbara Bland’s work at the base, and how the area changed over time.
Subject
African American History
Farming
Community Life in San Bernardino
Businesses
Santa Ana River
Education
Excel All Club
Norton Air Base
Mill School
Family
Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church
Anna Garner Women’s Political Study Club
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Norton Air Force Base
Spatial Coverage
Valley Truck Farms, San Bernardino (Calif.)
Temporal Coverage
1930’s-2023
Creator
Alice Saville Winchester
Barbara Ann Saville Bland
Robert Bland
Jennifer Tilton
Date
Nov 6, 2023
Contributor
A People's History of the I.E.
Format
.mp4
Language
English
Rights
Duration
01:25:47