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History Articles: Community Arts Association

History Articles:
Community Arts Association

Eight Articles by Verne Linderman

Used with permission, © SBNP

Santa Barbara News-Press
January – February, 1947
Sunday articles tracing the development and growth of the Community Arts Association, which was largely responsible for Santa Barbara’s “Golden Age” from about 1920 to 1930.
By Verne Linderman

Sunday, January 5, 1947
Sunday, January 12, 1947
Sunday, January 19, 1947
Sunday, January 26, 1947
Sunday, February 2, 1947
Sunday, February 9, 1947
Sunday, February 16, 1947


CAMA in Wikipedia

The Community Arts Association was one of the agencies most responsible for Santa Barbara’s recognition of the beauty of its old adobes and before the earthquake used adobes as its branch headquarters. It dreamed of restoring the adobe, frame and brick theater (shown above), built by José Lobero on the corner of Anacapa and Canon Perdido Streets, but when this was found architecturally inadvisable, erected the handsome new Lobero Theater on the site of the old. The following year the earthquake came and the theater still stood, proving the wisdom of the decision.

The Community Arts Association was one of the agencies most responsible for Santa Barbara’s recognition of the beauty of its old adobes and before the earthquake used adobes as its branch headquarters. It dreamed of restoring the adobe, frame and brick theater (shown above), built by José Lobero on the corner of Anacapa and Canon Perdido Streets, but when this was found architecturally inadvisable, erected the handsome new Lobero Theater on the site of the old. The following year the earthquake came and the theater still stood, proving the wisdom of the decision.