X-Nico

43 unusual facts about Santa Barbara


Alice Henry

Henry retired to Santa Barbara, California in 1928 after completing a lecture and investigation tour in Britain.

American Duos

When the latest incarnation of American Idol shows sets up shop in Santa Barbara, the requisite cruel British judge Nigel St. Nigel (Tim Curry) finds himself in a panic after a series of near-miss attempts on his life and hires Santa Barbara's most reliable psychic detective to protect him.

Andy Granatelli

Granatelli died from congestive heart failure, aged 90, in Santa Barbara, California.

Angel shark

In 1977, Michael Wagner, a fish processor in Santa Barbara, California, in cooperation with local commercial fisherman, developed the market for angel sharks.

Ann Taves

Ann Taves is a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Anna's Hummingbird

A single bird collected in Santa Barbara, California, was described and named Trochilus violajugulum (Jeffries, 1888), or Violet-throated Hummingbird.

Bargil Pixner

Pixner was ordained priest in 1946 in Brixen, immediately prior to leaving for missionary work in the Philippines, where he headed a leprosy center in Santa Barbara, Iloilo for the next eight years.

Bell's Vireo

Populations were confined to eight counties south of Santa Barbara, with the majority of birds occurring in San Diego County.

California Counts

In one instance, petitioners for "children with cancer" at the University of California, Santa Barbara were recorded on videotape to be gathering signatures for California Counts.

California Mathematics Project

Host Institution: UC, Santa Barbara

Clarence L. Phelps

Clarence Lucien Phelps (January 8, 1881 - May 7, 1964) was the first provost of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Clementine Deymann

He was appointed 22 July 1896, the first commissary for the newly erected Franciscan commissariat of the Pacific Coast, but died shortly after receiving this office and was buried at Santa Barbara.

Ed Castillo

After graduating in 1969, Castillo took a minority counseling position at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Edward Wadsworth Jones

As an entrepreneur, Jones was in 1886 the president of a syndicate formed to build a "first-class hotel in the style of the Arlington Hotel at Santa Barbara" on Sixth Street between Hill and Broadway, the site of Saint Vincent's College, which was planning a move to the northwest corner of Grand and Washington.

Flying Ebony

Flying Ebony was eventually sold to Californian Charles Elliot Perkins who stood him at his stud at his Alisal Ranch near Santa Barbara.

Frederick Brossy

He married Betty Higman (1904–1975), and he died in Santa Barbara, California, in 1974.

Isaac Rieman Baxley

He travelled a good deal, travelling to Europe twice, and from 1878, he lived in California, making his home in Santa Barbara.

Little Irvy

The whale was purchased in 1967 for $6,000.00 US from the Del-Monte Fishing Company, which had captured the whale off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, with plans to sell the carcass for dog food.

Lotte Lehmann

After her retirement from the recital stage in 1951, Lehmann taught master classes at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, which she helped found in 1947.

The Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara was also named in her honor.

Nahún Solís

Nahún Alberto Solís Peña (born 18 January 1989 in San Marcos, Santa Bárbara, Honduras) is a Honduran footballer, currently playing as a central defender for Platense.

Papa Susso

Susso has also been appointed as Regents' Lecturer in ethnomusicology in 1991 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, He appears alone with his kora or with his ensemble that includes singer/dancer Tapa Demba, balafonist Bala Kouyate and his son, Alhassan Susso, on second kora.

Philipp Richardsen

His formal music education includes the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna (1993-2000), where he studied under Michael Krist, and the University of California, Santa Barbara (2004-2007), where his principal teacher was Canadian pianist and Microsoft MVP Paul Berkowitz.

Ranch dressing

In 1954, with his wife Gayle, Henson used his savings to open Hidden Valley Ranch, a dude ranch near Santa Barbara, California, where he served his invention to the ranch's guests.

Rappin' Duke

The lyrics also reference The Beverly Hillbillies TV theme song "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," with the words "Santa Barbara, that is / Swimmin' pools and movie stars," while also alluding to Ronald Reagan's presidency.

Ross Macdonald Literary Award

The Ross Macdonald Literary Award is a U.S. book prize given each year by the Santa Barbara Book Council to "a California writer whose work raises the standard of literary excellence."

Santa Barbara Police Department

The Santa Barbara Police Department is a local law enforcement agency in the city of Santa Barbara, California.

Santa Barbara Polo Club

Founded in 1911, the Santa Barbara Polo Club in Santa Barbara, California is the premiere equestrian Polo club in the Western United States.

Santa Bárbara, Cape Verde

It is about 3 kilometers to the east of the island capital of Vila Nova Sintra.

Santa Bárbara, Chile

Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Santa Bárbara is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Juan Lobos (UDI) and José Pérez (PRSD) as part of the 47th electoral district, (together with Los Ángeles, Tucapel, Antuco, Quilleco, Quilaco, Mulchén, Negrete, Nacimiento, San Rosendo, Laja and Alto Bío Bío).

Santa Barbara, Pangasinan

The heritage Santa Barbara Parish of the Holy Family Church, built in 1716, is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan, Vicariate III.

Semana Nautica 15K

The Semana Nautica 15K is held annually on July 4 in Santa Barbara, California and is one of the oldest road races in the country.

Sir Toby Clarke, 6th Baronet

Sir Charles Mansfield Tobias Clarke, 6th Baronet (born 8 September 1939 in Santa Barbara, U.S.), known as Sir Toby Clarke since 1973 after succeeding to the baronetcy upon the death of his father.

Southern California Institute of Law

Southern California Institute of Law (SCIL) is a private law school with campuses in Santa Barbara and Ventura, California.

Standish Backus

He left active service in May 1946 and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1947-1948.

The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon

He finds Edgar frantically searching for a doll's head, claiming that Santa Barbara will fall into the ocean if it isn't found in five minutes.

The Kings of Spain

The Kings of Spain is a Santa Barbara, California, rock band led by Will Loomis who is lead guitar, singer and songwriter.

The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley

The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley borders with the municipalities of Ebejico, Heliconia, Angelopolis and Amagá to the west, with the municipalities of Santa Barbara and Fredonia to the south.

TrikeBuggy Delta

The TrikeBuggy Delta, Bullet and Transformer are a family of American ultralight trikes and powered parachutes, designed and produced by TrikeBuggy of Santa Barbara, California.

Viline Vode

City authorities claimed it will be Belgrade's Santa Barbara but the idea was completely dropped and neighborhood was left as it was.

William Leon Dawson

In California, Dawson, a proponent of using bird motifs in art, maintained a studio at Los Colibris in Mission Canyon near Santa Barbara where he displayed his extensive Oology and photographic collection.

Without Seeing the Dawn

Without Seeing the Dawn was set in a small farming village called Manhayang in Santa Barbara, Iloilo.

Yang 3 in 2D

A young woman, Allison Cowley (Mena Suvari), comes into the Santa Barbara, California police station claiming to have just escaped after being kidnapped and held by the notorious serial killer Mr. Yin.


Cabañas Department

The population gathers at Sensuntepeque to celebrate their patron saints day, Santa Barbara.

Capra Press

Capra Press was a Santa Barbara, California-based independent publishing house which has produced works by authors such as Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Raymond Carver, Ray Bradbury, Gretel Ehrlich, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lawrence Clark Powell, Charles Bukowski, Michael Petracca, Tony Mendoza, Barry Gifford, José Antonio Burciaga, Ross Macdonald, and Twinka Thiebaud, who collected Henry Miller's table talk.

Chip Foose

Chip Foose (born October 13, 1963 in Santa Barbara) is an American hot rod shop owner, automotive designer and fabricator, and star of the reality TV series Overhaulin' on Velocity.

DeAnna Robbins

DeAnna Robbins is an American actress best known for her role as "Lisa" in the 1981 cult slasher film Final Exam, and for her role as "Kathleen" on the soap opera Santa Barbara, for which she appeared in 17 episodes.

Edward Sloman

Sloman quit Lubin altogether and went to the American Film Company ("Flying A") studio in Santa Barbara, where he assumed an important role in that company's expanding feature-length film output (especially in directing several films starring Mary Miles Minter) and also directed other prestige projects such as the serial The Sequel to the Diamond from the Sky (1916).

Flag of the Department of Valle del Cauca

The flag was used on June 6, 1811 by the confederate cities of Anserma, Buga, Cali, Caloto, Cartago, Iscuandé, Popayán and Toro when these declared independence from the rest of the country.

Francis Thomas Evans, Sr.

Evans took actions after the 29 June 1925 earthquake in Santa Barbara, California, to help save the city from fire, for which he received a letter of commendation from the United States Secretary of the Navy and a resolution from the City of Santa Barbara.

Frederick Monhoff

He served as a design architect for the Los Angeles County Architectural Divisions and designed numerous public buildings and private residences in Southern California in the Los Angeles area, Malibu, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Orange County, and in Northern California in the Napa Valley.

Gabriela Mistral

Like many Latin American artists and intellectuals, Mistral served as a consul from 1932 until her death, working in Naples, Madrid, Lisbon, Nice, Petrópolis, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Veracruz, Rapallo, and New York.

George Greenough

George Greenough is an innovative surfer and cinematographer from Santa Barbara, California who now resides in Byron Bay in New South Wales, Australia.

Glasspar

Bill Tritt had a keen interest in boats and cars before World War II, when he studied marine architecture and boat-building at California State Teacher's College in Santa Barbara, California.

ICES – International Cultural Exchange Services

John had previously worked in Youth Exchange Executive Roles for over 10 years in the United States, based in San Francisco and Santa Barbara, California and internationally in Brighton, Madrid and Stockholm.

Jack Canfield

Canfield is the founder of "Self Esteem Seminars" in Santa Barbara, and "The Foundation for Self Esteem" in Culver City, California.

Joan McCall

A prolific screenwriter, she wrote the original screenplay Heart Like a Wheel and 250 scripts for Days of Our Lives, Another World, Santa Barbara, Divorce Court and Search For Tomorrow.

José Onuchic

After postdoctoral studies in Santa Barbara, California, and a brief faculty position returning to the University of São Paulo, he moved to the University of California, San Diego in 1990.

LA84 Foundation

The Foundation makes grants in the eight southernmost counties of California (Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura).

Lesson Planet

Education Planet dba Lesson Planet, is a for-profit education company based in Santa Barbara, California.

Loughead F-1

Formerly with the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company in 1916, the Loughead brothers (Allan and Malcolm) started the Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company in Santa Barbara, California to build the F-1 flying boat for their aerial sightseeing business.

Mulchén

Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Mulchén is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Juan Lobos (UDI) and José Pérez (PRSD) as part of the 47th electoral district, (together with Los Ángeles, Tucapel, Antuco, Quilleco, Santa Bárbara, Quilaco, Negrete, Nacimiento, San Rosendo, Laja and Alto Bío Bío).

Robin Mattson

Replacing Linda Gibboney on Santa Barbara, she received additional Emmy Nominations for her role of Gina Blake Lockridge, a role which lasted from December, 1985 through the final episode in January, 1993.

Sidney W. Bijou

Bijou died at age 100 on June 11, 2009, after collapsing at his home in Santa Barbara, California, having moved there to live with his daughter Jude Bijou following his wife's death.

Sierran Arc

In addition, thick sequences (accumulations) of Mesozoic-age sedimentary rocks, mostly marine shales and sandstone of Jurassic and Cretaceous age, are locally preserved along the western side of the Peninsular Ranges and throughout the western Transverse Ranges in parts of the Santa Monica Mountains and mountainous Los Padres National Forest region north of Santa Barbara, California.

Subaru BRAT

President Ronald Reagan owned a 1978 BRAT until 1998, which he kept at his ranch near Santa Barbara, California.

The Way To Cook

The book was published by Knopf, the firm that published almost all of Child's work from the beginning to the end of her career; the video series was produced with and marketed by the WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston but was shot at Child's home in Santa Barbara, California.

Thomas Elsaesser

Since 1976 Elsaesser regularly teaches as a visiting professor at American universities notably at the University of Iowa, University of California (Los Angeles, San Diego, Berkeley, Irvine, Santa Barbara), New York University and Yale University.

Vicente N. Mendoza

By this time he had developed self-taught qualities of a lawyer and therefore held several positions as Judge in different towns of the state, namely: Batopilas, Camargo, Parral, Cusihuiriachic and Santa Bárbara.