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In this oral history, Mill Valley native and fifth-generation Californian Carol Wilson recounts her life in Mill Valley and her family's history in Marin. Carol tells the story of her great-grandfather who bought land in Larkspur around 1850, and of her maternal grandparents who moved to Mill Valley as refugees from San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. Born in 1931, Carol was baptized at Mt. Carmel, attended Park School and Tamalpais High School, and then continued on to College of Marin and U.C. Berkeley. She describes the terrifying air raid drills at Park School during World War II, and the wonderful time she had at Tam High, where she wrote for the student newspaper. Carol nostalgically recalls the Mill Valley of her youth, which had "everything, everything": grocery, clothing, and hardware stores, pharmacies, bakeries, lunch counters, dime stores, gas stations, a movie theater, and much else besides. She recounts the enthusiasm for golf she developed as a teenager and which continued unabated at the time this oral history interview was conducted. And she discusses her deceased husband Frank Wilson, the three children they raised together, and her several grandchildren.
Identifier
BFF8AC33-10D3-4BE3-8C65-749453957206 2016.070.001
Subject
2AM Club Air raid drills Aitchison, Stanley Albert's Department Store Bickerstaff, Jonathan Bickerstaff, Joseph Bickerstaff, Minnie Business - Mill Valley Business - Mill Valley - History Cavali, Alice Bickerstaff Cavali, Glen Cavali, Hugh Cavali, Joseph Cavali, Maude Earthquakes Golf Homestead Grocery Joe's Place Johnson, Aimee Rose Kavanagh, Pat Maguire, Edna Marin City Mayer's Department Store Mill Valley changes Mill Valley Market Morello, Joe MV history - Interwar years MV history - WWI and WWII Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church Park School Reed, John Sequoia Theater Tamalpais Hardware Tamalpais High School Varney's Hardware Wilson, Alan Joseph Wilson, Anne-Marie Wilson, Colin Hugh Wilson, Frank Wilsonn, Nicholas Joseph World War II
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