 in the Davis media access studio for another episode of the city considers. My name is Autumn Lab-A-Reno and I'm your host and I'm very pleased to have with me two of the city of Davis's finest today. We have Bob Bowen who is the city's public relations manager and we have Stacey Winton who is the media and communications officer and I'd like to welcome you both. Thanks for coming in today. Thank you for inviting us. So we're capping off quite a big year. I think this this centennial celebration has probably for city staff has probably added a new dimension to your workloads and everything. It's been a year full of activities, new logos. We even have the new logo here. So we're looking forward to kind of hearing some of the milestones from the year ahead. I think we're going to start with some slides you sent and we'll have you just kind of walk us through those. So if Diane you'll bring up the first one. You tell us what we're looking at. Well that picture right there is Davis 1945 so it's looking up north on G Street which basically shows that city of Davis is about two blocks long. You see all the trees starting there right next to the train station but we want to shout out to UC Davis Library special collections who really helped us put together a historic slideshow that we've been able to take all over the town over the last eight, nine months. Which is great. We had one more historic one here too. What are we looking at here? Well the 4th of July they used to have a parade. This is now C Street. That's the old fraternity house across from now Central Park. So everybody would gather at the old grammar school where the bike hall of fame is in Central Park and they would decorate their bikes and then parade around the downtown because they would say on that side of B Street because B Street at that point was still Lincoln Highway. People were going coast to coast on what is now B Street. 4th of July parade and then they'd end up in the sunken Sycamore area in the shade because as we all know 4th of July is pretty hot. Yeah and that's so that was 1958. Okay and moving on. This is the Davis 100 photo shoot. We had 233 city employees and current and former council members come out to form the shape of 100. We had a drone flyover take our photo and then we had a great employee picnic afterwards. Nice. So no logistics to coordinate there. And that you know that becomes an iconic image. I've seen this image everywhere this year and you know it'll live on. And employees really love looking at themselves and making fun of themselves. Why was my head up? Who was I talking to? Is that you Stacey? That's me. And we're looking right into the sun that was fun. Of course everybody's squinting. Okay and the next one please. Hey I know this guy. This is Mayor Rob Davis. The city of Davis and Sudwork Brewing Company partnered to brew a Centennial beer this year. Sudwork held a release party. They had a local band and a local food truck come over. Big party. Mayor Davis poured the first beer. In a commemorative glass that we had. Yeah the city provided commemorative beer glasses. We did come up with Sway. We had the logo and t-shirts and pullovers that city staff and even the public has been able to purchase and join in the festival. And beer glasses. And beer glasses all year long. Just a few beer glasses left. We started with about 500 and I think we have about 10 left if anybody's still interested. Oh this is picnic day so in April actually the first meeting in April we recreated the first city of Davis of city council meeting and introduced some of the original ordinances including livestock on the streets. And then I was able to convince the city council to dress up in period garb and so in the 1928 city of Davis model A Ford fire truck and this is them on the streets of Davis during picnic day dressed up thinking what a city council might look like a hundred years ago. Unfortunately that was in April and not July because those outfits look warm. Yeah they were. They're very heavy. Who's this fella? That's me on a high wheel bike. I've been known to ride those around town for parades and other things. For many years Bob. Oh yeah yeah I try not to fall off too many times. This is part of a celebration that we had on September 22nd. It was national centenarians day and the city found 36 nearly centenarians in Davis. Some were past 100 too. Yeah some were past 100. So we had a luncheon for them and their families to honor them and their over 3700 years of life experience. That's an astonishing figure right? It is. So I think that was all of them. Now what are some of the reasons to celebrate a city's centennial? I mean what was what was don't tell us about some of the decision-making that went into this? Well we're a hundred. I mean that's a big birthday. How often do you turn a hundred right? Yeah not at all so far. Yeah thanks. Davisville originally was 1868 but the city's incorporated in 1917 primarily because the downtown kept burning down so they decided that yeah need to get some fire you know hoses to help put out fires and so the city March 28th 1917 and that's when the city started and you talk about putting gravel on the streets water systems and some of the services and outdoor spaces and civic facilities and so over the last and I've been fortunate I've lived in Davis for about half of that time about 50 years so I've been able to see a lot of it and impacted and working for the city but you know when you turn 100 let's have a party so in addition to our regular jobs we decided to have pretty much something every month during this past year. So were the two of you principally driving all the events and publicity related to all of this? Yes we shared we developed all of the different events there was in the spring and early summer there was maybe even like six events a month so it was very very busy. We Bob did a slideshow and highlighted the UCD special collection slideshow which is on our website and we took that around what five or six times? Yeah at the varsity at the university retirement community at Stonegate at City Hall. Got really great reviews from people people loved it some people came more than once even though it was the same slideshow pretty much you know the next time also but they loved it and it was interesting Bob has a lot of you know unique views and tidbits of information about what happened when and why it happened and funny little you know humorous things that people are just you know they just love to see yeah well it is interesting most of us you know we go about our business every day we we go to our jobs we go home we don't think a lot about the how the infrastructure of the city has changed how the culture the technology I mean all of that so yeah when the people think about the city the thing you know how did city hall come about historic city hall community park veterans memorial center even bike over crossings how those things all came about so we've tried to and then we've also had people attend those that we have streets named after you know the child's family Montgomery family those yeah so we have descendants who are still in touch about you know the history of Davis because their families were some of the pioneers right so that slideshow and some of the other you know media produced around this will it live on will it be at the library how it will be on the city website some of it right we have a we have a website set aside just for the centennial it's davis100.cityofdavis.org and we have all of our events listed on there we have photos a historical timeline the UC Davis special collection slideshow is on there and our merchandise is on there we'll be recording the the city slideshow with all the anecdotes as well so that'll be on there too we haven't done that yet in studio but it's coming that'll become a good resource for people moving forward and you know having to do historical projects and things like that I bet the the founding fathers I think they were all fathers in those days could not have envisioned what the city would look like today what the university would look like today the relationship between the two I mean it's just a lot has happened in a hundred years well Davis would be a lot different obviously so the universe for students are 1908 so the city came a little bit after that and of course when the city's created World War one is going on so you know the enterprise has been a great about highlighting 100 years ago this week about you know conscription and getting people to volunteer and and you know help the war effort and such so all the things over the you know with the trains the university the town as it's grown because you know there were less than a thousand people for the first many years and so it was very small town and and with the you know certainly over the years with the different neighborhoods and the infrastructure and I'm just curious about what'll be a hundred years from now any thoughts any projections different yeah yeah well I mean in terms of our growth there's only so far we can go to the to the limit lines are around town but and we won't get into density and we won't we won't go there you did touch on something interesting though the the train so back then the train was transportation absolutely and I bet those founding fathers could have never imagined you know the network of freeways and bike over crossings and green belts and bike paths and all those things that that Davis is kind of known for yeah one of the ironies is that we don't have a photo of anybody riding one of these high-wheel bikes back in those days well yeah but it's kind of you know they were popular in the 1880s and the turn of the century so but yeah the the founding fathers you know and they were all men and it wasn't until the 60s when we had some women on the city council and so but the train you know Davis is not Davis without the train and the university and we kind of highlighted that with the impact and you know the pressures for growth and demands for services that the city has been able to you know support people in this town and so it's always been a challenge and we're looking for the next 100 years as well as documenting what we're doing this year and we're hoping to do a time capsule so 100 years from now all of us will be long gone but somebody what did they do way back in 2017 so we're we're collecting ideas to put into that and would you bury that at city hall we're going to bury it at Centennial Plaza which is going to be at second and g second and g was one of our first intersections in town it was right by the railroad tracks so from the railroad tracks down to the intersection we're going to redesign the entire area landscape hardscape put in a public plaza do some artwork and have a time capsule yeah yeah so we're talking about the that intersection as you uh right there by uh village bakery and there's a big piece of artwork there and yeah in that area and that's basically where Davis was coming west yeah yeah okay so we'll have some signage about you know how the city has evolved over the years anything surprised you in this year you don't have to talk about the bad I was surprised how many centenarians we had yeah yeah happily surprised you know and they're they're such great people that they're you know alert they have history they want to talk they want to visit they you know we're excited to come out for lunch and just meet everybody and have lunch with us and models for aging yeah they have stories to tell as well as I gotta go to my yoga class you know you know some of them teach yoga they're a hundred years old and they teach yoga okay now that's really it's it's pretty amazing yeah it's pretty amazing so they you know great you know shared history uh and then we had some fun you know people suggested why don't you put in some uh you know some marijuana seeds in the time capsule because that's what we're talking about in 2017 uh well yeah okay put an iPhone in there don't take the battery yet uh so yeah who knows what'll be important a hundred years from now but you know there are some time capsules from back in the past and and to see what's in there and you know hopefully paper doesn't dissolve and you know whatever kind of medium people use in terms of images so we'll have fun with that well we're down to our last couple of minutes so tell us what is yet to come in this year because it's only October late October but we've still got a little time anything on the horizon that that you want the community to know about well um I would like them to come and look at our website you know and if they have any historical that again Davis 100.cityofdavis.org okay and if they have historical photos or stories anything that they would like to share with us we would like to incorporate that onto our website we received such great information from ucd library but we know everybody in town they have old photos they have interesting documentation about what happened at certain points you know in Davis's history and we would like to show that all on our website in addition to what's there already people will be fabulous photos of the different decades throughout our history well I want to thank you both for coming in and I'm going to hold up this this shirt just for a minute so people can see and this was just released this design um that was in the summer that was and the one you're wearing the one I'm wearing the baseball tee is one that we just got today yeah get a nice shot of that anyway go down to city hall and pick one up or go to that go to the davis 100 at cityofdavis.org yes okay I want to thank you both for taking time out of your busy schedule and for all you've done to you know make this something special for the community and here's to the next 100 thank you it's been a lot of fun this year it'll be fun we'll see you in the next hundred years oh okay I'll be there I've been chatting with bob bowen and stacy winton from the city of davis kind of putting a cap on the city's centennial celebration in 2017 you can catch this on dc tv in november at 6 15 on tuesday evenings right before council meetings and of course it'll be online in our archive and on our social media as well and thanks for tuning in