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Oral History of Carol Wilson |
Collection |
Oral History |
Scope & Content |
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. |
Audio and Transcript |
Click here to hear recording. Click here to read the transcript. |
Dates of Creation |
2013-09-12 2013-09-23 |
Interviewee |
Wilson, Carol Green |
Interviewer |
Perone, Stella |
Extent and Medium |
Transcript: 11pp Recording: 00:46:26 |
Search Terms |
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Object ID |
2016.070.001 |
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Copyrights |
Transcript and recording copyright Mill Valley Public Library, 2013. 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. |