SLHC interview of Thomas V. Berne, Silver Lake, 2015
Creator
Berne, Thomas V., interviewee
Contributor
Silver Lake Neighborhood Council. Silver Lake Historical Committee. Silver Lake History Collective Masterson, Michael, interviewer Revkin, Cheryl, interviewer Larsen, Marco, camera
All requests for permission to publish or quote from the collection must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Doheny Memorial Library 206, 3550 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, California, 90089-0189 Silver Lake Neighborhood Council; Berne, Thomas V. USC Libraries. Special Collections. Bob Herzog Memorial Archives specol@usc.edu
Description
Oral history interview of Dr. Thomas V. Berne, Silver Lake Library, 2411 Glendale Boulevard, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, 2015 January 21 by the Silver Lake History Collective (SLHC). Dr. Berne is a Los Angeles native born at Good Samaritan Hospital and raised at the family home on Redcliff on “Pill Hill” in Silver Lake. HIs father Clarence Berne was also a surgeon at Los Angeles County Hospital and USC where Dr. Berne is a longtime professor of surgery. The senior Dr. Berne was the model for the character of Dr. Kildare. Tom attended Ivanhoe Elementary and has childhood memories of his neighbor Aimee Semple McPherson baptizing people in her swimming pool. Part of a series of oral histories "The people of Silver Lake". Available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/cpSnm_p6qqo
Type
moving image
Format
1 video (00:50:17) oral histories (document genres)
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