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2024-03-29T06:34:14ZMoore, Virginia Reid (audio interview #1 of 1)
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Moore, Virginia Reid (audio interview #1 of 1)
Moore, Virginia Reid (8/14/1915 - 12/22/2000); Andriesse, Ann, interviewer
INTERVIEW DESCRIPTION - This interview with Virginia Reid Moore was conducted in her home in Belmont Shore. The audio quality of this interview is good.
12/19/1982
SUBJECT BIO - Virginia Reid Moore was a member of a family that owned a prominent local oil company, Hancock Oil. She grew up in Long Beach and observed many changes in the local community. Moore was born and educated in Long Beach before she went to Occidental College for her bachelor's and master's degrees. She also studied library service at UC Berkeley and returned to work at the Long Beach Public Library. When she married, she quit working, but continued volunteering in community organizations. This interview was conducted as part of a project to study the impact of oil on the development of Long Beach.
TOPICS - family background; family history; childhood; schooling; college; Los Cerritos area; early work experiences; husband and marriage; 1933 Long Beach earthquake; Ellsworth Hatch and Security Bank; Will J; Reid (fatherHancock Oil Company; father's business interests; family history; Long Beach Oil Development Company; Ducks Unlimited; husband; WWII; Camp Fire Girls; children; downtown Long Beach; Pacific Coast Club; the Pike; an
2020-12-03T00:00:00ZDesmond, Virginia (audio interview #1 of 1)
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/218141
Desmond, Virginia (audio interview #1 of 1)
Desmond, Virginia (1914 - 9/19/2005); Andriesse, Ann, interviewer
INTERVIEW DESCRIPTION - This interview was conducted in Desmond's home. Desmond retired as a librarian at Long Beach Public Library and the interviewer was a former president of the Friends of the Library.
1/26/1982
SUBJECT BIO - Virginia Slater Desmond was a children's librarian at Long Beach Public Library who returned in the wake of Proposition 13. She grew up on Signal Hill during the oil boom and saw first hand what changes that brought to her immediate neighborhood. Soon, however, he family moved to a different part of town. She went to school in Long Beach and then went away to Stanford where met and married Gerald Desmond. They she accompanied him to Harvard where he went to Law School. She returned to Long Beach when he went into the service. When he came home after World War II, her husband became active in local government and served on the City Council. In 1960 he was elected City Attorney and served in that position until he died. The bridge connecting Long Beach and Terminal Island is named for him. In this interview, Desmond tells how she Desmond went back to school and became a librarian following her husband's death, . And she discovered that living in the Bluff Park neighborhood of Long Beach, she was again living in an oil field. Only this time the drilling rigs were camouflaged in offshore islands.
TOPICS - Topics on this side of tape include: family background; childhood; education; Signal Hill; farming and oil wellsTopics on this side of tape include: childhood; sailing; sports; college; WWII; Gerald Desmond and Long Beach City CouncilTopics on this side of tape include: Alamitos Bay Yacht Club; sailing; Signal Hill; oil wells; Depression and 1932 Olympics
2020-12-01T00:00:00ZWitte, Rose (audio interview #2 of 2)
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/218140
Witte, Rose (audio interview #2 of 2)
Witte, Rose (1896 - 10/14/1995); Dilley, Joan, interviewer
INTERVIEW DESCRIPTION - This is the final interview with Rose Witte. It was conducted by a CSULB student who was also a pharmacist and who worked with Witte at Long Beach Community Hospital at the time of the interview. The audio quality of this interview is good.
3/15/1984
SUBJECT BIO - Rose Witte was a nurse in the maternity ward of Long Beach Community Hospital for many years. She observed changed in the hospital and in the community around it. Witte came to Long Beach after she graduated from nurse's training and, after working briefly at the Los Angeles hospital, she came to Long Beach and found position at Community Hospital. She applied for a surgical position, but the one that was open was in the maternity ward. When she first arrived, she lived in a nurse's residence run by the hospital. Witte was interviewed by a CSULB oral history student who was also a pharmacist at Long Beach Community Hospital.
TOPICS - family history; Los Angeles County Hospital; nursing training; delivery of babies; maternity wards; medications used during childbirth; special care nursing; Fillmore Condit; nursing career; development of Long Beaabortion and birth control; nurses' training school; nursing career; WWII; nurse receptionist; and attitude towards retirement;
2020-12-01T00:00:00ZWitte, Rose (audio interview #1 of 2)
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/218139
Witte, Rose (audio interview #1 of 2)
Witte, Rose (1896 - 10/14/1995); Dilley, Joan, interviewer
INTERVIEW DESCRIPTION - This is the first of two interviews with Rose Witte. It was conducted by a CSULB student who was also a pharmacist and who worked with Witte at Long Beach Community Hospital at the time of the interview. The audio quality of this interview is good.
3/3/1984
SUBJECT BIO - Rose Witte was a nurse in the maternity ward of Long Beach Community Hospital for many years. She observed changed in the hospital and in the community around it. Witte came to Long Beach after she graduated from nurse's training and, after working briefly at the Los Angeles hospital, she came to Long Beach and found position at Community Hospital. She applied for a surgical position, but the one that was open was in the maternity ward. When she first arrived, she lived in a nurse's residence run by the hospital. Witte was interviewed by a CSULB oral history student who was also a pharmacist at Long Beach Community Hospital.
TOPICS - family background; nursing training and career; Los Angeles County Hospital; Long Beach Community Hospital; nurses' residence; the Depression; the 1933 Long Beach earthquake; nursing salary and hours; WWII; and manursing career and family history;
2020-12-01T00:00:00Z