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Oral History of Betsy Andresen |
Collection |
Oral History |
Scope & Content |
Betsy Andresen, nee Betsy Anne Brown, begins her oral history with the story of her parents meeting and recounts her family uprooting and sailing from Seattle to San Francisco in 1918, one year after her birth. Betsy describes a move in 1924 to San Anselmo, and fondly recalls how during the family's three-year stint in Marin they would take the electric train from San Anselmo's Lansdale Station to Sausalito, and then the ferry into "The City." The family moved back to San Francisco in 1927, and Betsy later graduated with an elementary teaching credential from San Francisco State College. Betty describes meeting her future husband, Bob Andresen, while he was at Hasting Law School. The two were married in 1940. After living in San Francisco, the Andresens moved to Seattle, where Bob was in Army Intelligence for the duration of World War II. They moved to Mill Valley after the war ended, finding a lot on Magee Avenue where they built a house. Betty describes the process of finding the builders and materials for the house, and then the work they themselves did on it. She also discusses their subsequent move to a house "in the flats," and later to another house in the Strawberry area. She recalls neighbors that lived around them in all three locations, and then goes on to discuss a busy life in Mill Valley with her husband and two children. Betsy became active in the PTA, Tennis Club, Outdoor Art Club (as president in 1977), Community Church and Rotary Auxiliary, and once again became a teacher. Finally, Betty discusses the changes she has seen over the years since she moved to Mill Valley in 1946. |
Audio and Transcript |
Click here to hear recording. Click here to read the transcript. |
Dates of Creation |
2003-06-12 |
Interviewee |
Andresen, Betsy |
Interviewer |
Staiger, Carol |
Extent and Medium |
Transcript: 25pp Recording: 01:22:18 |
Search Terms |
Andresen, Bob Andresen, Eric Andresen, Margaret Rose Breeze, Richard Canepa, Frank Community Church Falley, Will Ferries Ford, Onslow Green Frog Food Center Ing, Elsie Jenkins, Bob McWaters, Thomas Mill Valley changes Mill Valley Lumber Yard Mill Valley Market Mill Valley Rotary Club Mill Valley Tennis Club MV history - Baby boom years (1950s and early 1960s) Oral history - Volunteerism, activism Organizations Organizations & Clubs Outdoor Art Club Parent-Teacher Association Semsen, Aubra Stilton, Virginia Teachers World War II Zisser, Bea |
Object ID |
2016.072.001 |
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Copyrights |
Transcript and recording copyright Mill Valley Public Library, 2003. Materials are made available for research purposes only; all rights are reserved to the Mill Valley Public Library. Requests for permission to quote for publication or for any other usage must be obtained from the Library. |