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Lin Tuan-chiu (1920 – 1998) was a Taiwanese playwright, screenwriter, and director.

Life
Lin Tuan-chiu was born in 1920 to a wealthy coal-mining family in Taoyuan while Taiwan was under Japanese rule. He dropped out from Shinchiku High School in 1938 and moved to Japan to study at an affiliate high school of Nihon University, then attended Meiji University, graduating in 1942 with a degree in political economy. As a student he frequented “new theatres” in Shinjuku, which attracted many intellectuals of the time. After graduating, he was offered a job at Toho.

In 1943, he returned to Taiwan, where he became an active member of the New Drama Movement and produced four plays that explored Taiwanese consciousness and collective memory. Despite critical acclaim, his Kosei Theatre Society (厚生演劇研究會) dissolved under pressures from the Japanese colonial government and the intensified Pacific War. After a short revival in 1946, his theater career was cut short in 1947 by the February 28 incident and the political suppression that followed.

In 1957, he founded Giok Hong Scope (玉峯影業) and the Ô͘-soaⁿ Film Studio (湖山製片廠), producing and directing several Taiwanese Hokkien films. In 1965, due to factors including the more stringent censorship regime and the rise of Taiwanese television, he ceased his artistic efforts and devoted the rest of his life to a career in manufacturing. He died of a heart attack in Taipei in 1998.

He wrote 14 plays (5 extant), directed 5 films (4 extant), and wrote over ten screenplays.

Railroad
arrival from Saugus Junction.

rails entered Santa Barbara via Punta Gorda Street. flanked by Salsipuedes and Quarantina Streets. veered northward to Gutierrez Street where they turned westward, spanning the Eastside swamplands on a long trestle to cross State Street and continue westward. It then took a sharp right onto Rancheria Street, continued north as far as Mission and then curved westward across the present campus of La Cumbre Junior High School.

For over 15 years the city's railway station was located between Victoria and Anapamu Streets, until the Chapala Street depot opened in 1905.

Santa Barbara's first railway station was built, along with freight warehouses and maintenance shops, facing Salsipuedes Street between Mason and Carpinteria Streets. Cacique Street was later graded over the site of the long-forgotten depot.

Technique
Guidi drew in middle school, and learned to paint in art school. At the Advanced Course in Industrial Design in Venice, he had Luigi Veronesi as a teacher. Veronesi had started working as a photographer in the 1930s, had been very close to the Bauhaus, and had experimented extensively with colour photography during the post-war period. In one of his courses that Guidi attended, he was obsessed with obtaining white light through the subtraction of light commencing with the three basic colours, using Kodachrome film. Veronesi made his students draw colour charts based on Johannes Itten's theories, and advised them to use Tamma tempera paints, whose primary colours were exceptionally pure, on Schoelershammer card. Through these courses, Guidi learned some of the principles of vision and the preception of complementary colours, such as the fact that our eyes see green after staring at red.

When he first started photographing, Guidi worked exclusively in black and white so that he could print his photographs himself. He began shooting in colour in the late 1960s using 35mm slides, saying that he moved "very cautiously, like a cat testing the ground under its paws". He liked reversal film due to its colour saturation, but had to send the rolls to Milan to get them developed and stopped using them after a couple of postal mishaps. In the mid-1970s, he began using negative film, but did not use it much because colour films and papers were mainly aimed at the commercial market, and it was well-known that their preservation was problematic. Guidi lived in Venice at the time, where there were no processing laboratories, and he had to go to Udine until he found a laboratory in Treviso. He states that the results were "disastrous" from a technical point of view, but he couldn't afford dye-transfer prints. It wasn't until later, in the early 1980s, that he was able to work with Silvio Rossi, who had opened a new professional laboratory in Castagnole, a frazione of Paese.

Guidi's work in color during these early years is largely unpublished. He often contented himself with seeing the negative in transparency, and would only occasionally have enlargements made. He states that he was "never convinced" by the positive-to-positive Cibachrome prints that came later.

In 1983, he published a booklet with eight colour photographs from 2 1/4 square negative film taken with his Hasselblad in Preganziol. However, after that, he started to work in colour mainly with 8 x 10 cameras: initially one he'd built himself, then with a Deardorff that he still uses today. He has also published some digital work, such as the photos taken with a digital Canon in 2011 in volume 3 of In Sardegna.

Development of Hope Ranch
From 1888 until the early 1920s, the Pacific Improvement Company shaped the destiny of Hope Ranch. A network of curving roads was laid out, paved with limestone from the old Mission quarry on Cantera Avenue, and surfaced with red rock brought from Ontare Ranch (now the San Roque district), which the company also bought. The company also bought up land in the foothill canyons and bored a 3,021-foot horizontal well in upper San Roque Canyon, conveying the water by an eight-inch pipeline to Laguna Blanca, which became a regulated 32-acre reservoir. In 1904, they initiated a massive program of ornamental planting. Francesco Francheschi's famous nursery atop the Riviera supplied 360 palm trees to line Marina Drive and Las Palmas Drive, along with pines and cypress. Large-scale walnut groves were planted in Hope Ranch Annex, and bumper crops of hay, grain, and lima beans made the ranch's irrigated acres self-supporting for decades.

Milo M. Potter opened the 600-room luxury Potter Hotel on Santa Barbara's West Beach frontage in 1902. He established a nine-hole golf course west of Laguna Blanca, with sand greens, mowed hayfields for fairways, and a $10,000 clubhouse which is now a residence at 800 Carosam Road. The course opened for play in 1909, but closed a few years later in 1914 when the hotel failed to remain profitable.

The Potter Hotel nullified the Pacific Improvement Company's plans to build a luxury hotel on Hope Ranch, so in 1908 it surveyed 89 spacious homesites and offered them for sale through the H. G. Chase real estate office in town. But Hope Ranch was too isolated in the horse and buggy days, so the sales campaign ended in failure and the company bought back all but two of the lots, set up locked toll gates at the Modoc Road and Marina Drive entrances to Hope Ranch, and concentrated on full-scale farming operations with James Edwards as superintendent.

In 1911, the French aviator Didier Masson assembled a plane near Laguna Blanca and flew it across town for the first time. The famous aviator Lincoln Beachey chose Hope Ranch for his big Air Circus in 1914.

In 1919, Gustave Maurice Heckscher purchased both the Ontare and Hope ranches and moved into the Potter clubhouse. In March 1923 Hecksher gave an option to buy Hope Ranch to James W. Warren, the banker who had developed the El Encanto Hotel on the Riviera. Warren platted Hope Ranch into 50-foot lots and offered them for sale at a public auction at the Recreation Center, but it was a dismal failure and Heckscher withdrew his option.

Harold S. Chase, H. G. Chase's son, had bid in Warren's auction and recognized the tremendous profit potential of Hope Ranch. He incorporated the Santa Barbara Estates Company in 1924, bought 835 choice acres from Heckscher, and began promoting Hope Ranch as a suburb for upper-income people. One of his stockholders, county supervisor Sam Stanwood, caused a macadam road to be built at taxpayers' expense to link the Mesa with the eastern entrance to Hope Ranch at Marina Drive. When high maintenance costs forced the abandonment of the San Roque tunnel, a well delivering 1,000 gallons of water per minute was drilled along Modoc Road. This was shared with the Las Positas Land Company and became the La Cumbre Mutual Water Company, which also has an agreement with the Goleta Water District for Cachuma water.

In 1925, Harold S. Chase organized another corporation, La Cumbre Estates. By means of a $375,000 bond issue the company acquired Hope Ranch Annex and 1,200 acres lying west of Las Palmas and Robles Drive. The first estates in Hope Ranch, complete with mansions and formal gardens to rival the finest Montecito had to offer, included "Las Terrasas", completed in 1925 by Harold S. Chase; "Florestal", for Peter Cooper Bryce; and the elegant mansions of Milton Wilson and William R. Dickinson. These estates were designed by George Washington Smith and Reginald Johnson. In his definitive history Hope Ranch, a Rambling Record, Chase recounts that he and his wife would place themselves on the projected site and, by having a 35-foot bamboo pole with a red flag on top carried around, determine if utility poles could be screened by natural topography. If not, power and telephone lines were installed all or in part underground.

Many of the amenities offered to members of the Hope Ranch Home Association since the 1930s were begun during the depression. They included cabanas for a private beach club fronting the ranch, a polo field, an archery range, a skeet-shooting facility, tennis courts, and 30 miles of bridle paths. Winding streets and cul-de-sacs were paved and given Spanish names. The original Hubbard Avenue, named for a Southern Pacific official, became Las Palmas Drive; Crocker Avenue, commemorating the Big Four banker, was renamed Estrella Drive. Hundreds of acres of lemons were planted, and an extensive landscaping program involving more than 50,000 trees and shrubs was undertaken. Chase also purchased some extra acreage on which to build a new 18-hole golf course,along with a luxurious clubhouse on "la cumbre", or the summit of a hill east of Laguna Blanca. La Cumbre Country Club remains a hub of Hope Ranch social life today. The old Potter Clubhouse was temporarily taken over by the Hope Ranch Gun Club, but eventually became the home of the county supervisor Sam Stanwood and his wife Carol, which gave the name Carosam Road to their driveway.

The famous socialite Amy Elizabeth du Pont sponsored her Gold Cup steeplechases at Hope Ranch for many years, and Chase Field was the original home of the Santa Barbara National Dog Show, from 1937 until it moved to the Carpinteria Polo Field in 1962. In 1956, the Hope Ranch Riding and Trails Association was organized to maintain and promote use of Hope Ranch's system of riding trails.

In 1933, Edward Selden Spaulding established Laguna Blanca School, which later expanded its campus onto the old polo grounds, donated by the Harold S. Chases.

With the depression retarding the sales of large estates on Hope Ranch proper, Harold Chase opened the Walnut Orchard subdivision north of Vieja Drive, colloquially called Hope Ranch Annex. History was made from 1930 to 1946 by the small homes on Arboleda Acres, where each model lot had 35 assorted trees, an alfalfa lawn, and a modest house. The project won a national first prize for its sponsor, Pearl Chase, in the Better Homes in America campaign.

In 1943, Oren Sexton succeeded James Edwards as ranch manager. In 1962 he moved his headquarters out of the Hope Mansion to 695 Via Tranquila, and the historic old home was severely vandalized before it was rescued in 1967 by George and Vivian Obern, who restored and furnished it to match the splendor of the Delia Hope era.

After nearly 40 years under the dedicated stewardship of Harold Chase, his Santa Barbara Estates and La Cumbre Estates Corporation passed into the ownership of a prominent attorney from Washington DC, Howard Vesey. When Vesey was killed in a plane crash a few years later, his son John took over the former Chase interests and slowly phased them out to the present private ownerships.

The Hope Ranch Park Homes Association maintains rigid control over such matters of self-government as architectural standards, fire protection, zoning, and road maintenance.

San Roque
If you take the San Roque Canyon trail northward from Stevens Park, a half mile beyond the twin-arged Foothill Road bridge (rebuilt in 1984), you will come to a grove of ancient aoks and sycamores where Chumash Indians gathered. Along the trail you will see an outcropping of sandstone which is polka-dotted with deep, funnel-shaped mortars. Here Chumash women, using stone pestles, ground their acorn harvest to obtain a powdery meal which, when leached to rid of its lye content, produced a tasty gruel to go with their seafood and wild game diet.

When the first white men arrived in 1769 with Governor Portola, they camped at the mouth of San Roque Creek, which they named to memorialize the patron saint of invalids, Saint Roch, a Carmelite friar of the 14th century.

Following the founding of the Presidio and Mission, the King's Highway or El Camino Real linked the missions from San Diego to Sonoma. El Camino Real crossed the San Roque district from east to west on what is now State Street. All the land between Alamar Avenue westward to Kellogg Avenue was granted to the mission fathers by Charles III of Spain to be used as grain fields or vineyards. When Mexico overthrew Spain in 1822, the missions were returned to the Indians and the ex-mission lands, including San Roque, became public domain.

One of Santa Barbara's most colorful pioneers, Dixey W. Thompson, arrived in 158 and became a future owner of the Ontare Ranch which comprised the San Roque-Rutherford Park district today. Dixey was born in Maine in 1826 and went to sea as a cabin boy at twenty, winding up as a master of his own vessel by 1848, when he heard of the discovery of gold in California. Dixey joined the California Gold Rush but had scant success mining for gold, so he returned to sea and made his home port on Santa Rosa Island opposite Santa Barbara. The island belonged to his uncle, Captain Alpheus B. Thompson, one of Santa Barbara's earliest Yankee settlers. After several years of shipping sheep and cattle from Santa Rosa, Dixey made enough money to purchase two tracts of land, one in Ventura County, the other on the outskirts of Santa Barbara, the Ontare Ranch.