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1929 Fire |
Number of Archive records |
20 |
Number of Library records |
0 |
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Oral History of Alice Cavalli - Oral History
Alice Cavalli was born in San Francisco; the youngest of seven children. She grew up in Mill Valley and attended Summit School, Park School, and Tamalpais High. Alice and her sister worked for their father's popular tavern in Muir Woods, Joe's Place. Alice met her husband, Hugh Cavalli, through her work at the tavern, and the couple married on July 6, 1925. After high school, she went to work for the National Bank of San Francisco, commuting by f...
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Oral History of Beryl Jean Symmes - Oral History
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Oral History of Bob Canepa - Oral History
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Oral History of Colin Menzies, Jr. - Oral History
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Oral History of David Harker - Oral History
Longtime Mill Valley resident David Harker was born in San Francisco on October 19th, 1906. His earliest memories are of living in Mill Valley as a young child and attending a German kindergarten on Summit Avenue. David graduated with honors from UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry in 1928, and later earned his PhD from the California Institute of Technology. In 1975, David met and married Deborah Harker. He would go on to become an internationa...
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Oral History of Doris Bloom - Oral History
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Oral History of Elizabeth Muller Mielenz - Oral History
Elizabeth Muller was born in San Francisco on August 30, 1912 and brought directly to the family home at Buena Vista and Oakdale. Her father was William Muller (no middle name), a German immigrant, and her mother was Elizabeth Haste Muller. Her brother was William Haste Muller. She recalls Mill Valley as being "rugged," with muddy streets, and going to Kentfield by train on May Day to celebrate by dancing around a Maypole. She went to Old Mil...
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Oral History of Frederick LeRoy Martin - Oral History
In this oral history interview, old-timer Fred Martin brims with memories of daily life in Mill Valley - from school, to groceries, to regular hikes down to Muir Beach - during the first half of the twentieth century. Fred describes living in Tam Valley when there were maybe "ten automobiles" and still people travelling by horse and buggy. Without wheels, he and his brothers walked into town from Tam Valley every day of the 1929 fire to help figh...
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Oral History of Jean Barnard - Oral History
Jean Barnard was born in New York on October 30th, 1918 and graduated from Vassar College in 1940. Jean was a summer visitor in Mill Valley from 1919 to 1930, her family traveling from the East Coast by train to visit her Aunt Ruth Boericke and Ruth's husband, Ralston White, at their "Garden of Allah" estate. During her visits to Mill Valley, Jean's family would take the train up the winding mountain railroad and enjoy Mill Valley's scenic outdoo...
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Oral History of John and Virginia George - Oral History
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Oral History of Louis Ferrario - Oral History
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Oral History of Lynda Crain - Oral History
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Oral History of Margaret Dowd - Oral History
Margaret Dowd was born Margaret Lee Wosser on January 10, 1906 at Duncan's Mills in Sonoma County, California. A third-generation Californian, Margaret came to Mill Valley at the age of three, when her mother purchased a home in Blithedale Canyon. Margaret married Jack McGinnis, with whom she had two daughters. Margaret and Jack divorced after six years, and Margaret married Charles Irvine "Irv" Dowd in 1948. Margaret eventually moved to the Redw...
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Oral History of Norman Ortman - Oral History
Longtime Mill Valley resident Norman "Bud" Ortman recounts how his family first came to Mill Valley after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. When a fire destroyed the family wood and steel business, Bud's grandfather moved his family to Mill Valley and built the house in which Bud would eventually be born. In this oral history, Bud describes daily life as a kid in Mill Valley, attending school and goofing around; sledding down Mill Valley's grass...
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Oral History of Richard Dillon - Oral History
Born on January 16, 1924 in Sausalito, Richard "Dick" Dillon attended Central School in Sausalito and Tamalpais High School. He was drafted right after Pearl Harbor and sent to Europe where he was wounded, hospitalized, sent back to the front, and wounded a second time. Richard earned his master's degree from UC Berkeley, taught at several universities, and eventually became the Sutro Librarian. In 1950, he married Barbara Allester, with whom he ...
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Oral History of Ruth White Bowie - Oral History
Ruth White Bowie was one of Mill Valley's grande dames in the true sense, though she would have deplored the use of the term. Ruth was born in San Francisco, and she and her twin sister were educated at Miss West's private school in the city, then at the Waltham School for Girls near Boston and Briarcliff Manor on the Hudson. In 1910, Ruth married Ralston L. White, a member of one of Mill Valley's most influential families. In this oral history, ...
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Oral History of Thomas Frederick Bagshaw - Oral History
Thomas Frederick (Fred) Bagshaw was born in 1899 in Cardiff, Wales and came to Mill Valley as a small boy with his parents. Fred's uncle, Frederick W. Bagshaw, had come to Mill Valley a few years earlier and sent for his brother to join him in the building business. In his oral history, Fred recounts his early days in Mill Valley, including the role of baseball games, his experience with the 1929 fire, and his attempt to enlist during World War I...
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Oral History of William Provines - Oral History
William "Bill" Provines was born on July 4th, 1908 in Willits, California. His father was a locomotive engineer on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad operating from Sausalito to Willits. In 1916, they moved to Mill Valley to provide more advantages for the family. Bill attended Summit School and Old Mill School and was part of the first eighth grade graduating class from Old Mill School in 1921. He then attended Tamalpais High School and Marin Jun...
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