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SECTION for Decades, Woodside Home Has Been a Gathering Place SECTION STORIESSTORIES ABOUTABOUT PEOPLEPEO PLE AND EVENTSEVENTS IN THE COMMUNITYCOMMUNITY Wagner family photo A 1920s gathering at the Woodside homestead. For decades, Woodside home has been a gathering place for family and friends By Marie Wagner Krenz WOODSIDE MEMORIES open-sided touring car), she said randfather bought our to him, “Give me a call, Will, Woodside property over and high-spirited, and Grand- and let me know you’re among G96 years ago, and his mother’s best friend and neigh- the living.” My brothers and I foresight has provided a gather- bor complained that after her thought she was pushy. ing place for five generations son’s rough-housing visits with The family spent the entire of our family and the friends my uncles she had to resew the summer in Woodside, and each of all of us. Until recent years buttons of his pajamas. of us four children was allowed Wagner family photo our Woodside home on Kings Mother’s girlfriends never to invite a city friend for a week. The Poetsch Wagner family home in Woodside in 1919. The Mountain Road has always been complained about the lack of It was a joyous time filled with house burned down in 1934, and a new home was built there. filled with people. indoor plumbing, but Grand- hiking, swimming at Searsville, Mother and our uncles often mother did until Grandfather cherry plum wars, and Kick the spoke of early days in Wood- fulfilled her wish for a major Can. side when their San Francisco remodel. The old wood-frame On Thursday nights we some- friends cherished weekend invi- house burned one winter’s night times went to the Fox Shoppe in tations. They were all young in 1934, and a new building took Redwood City, where there were its place. toasters on each table. The poor My childhood memories were waitress had to keep bringing principally of a long dining more bread to meet our toasting room table filled with people appetites. After dinner we went and food. The Sunday tally was to a double feature at the Sequoia always 12 and the count went Theater, and then to Borden’s up from there as San Francisco for chocolate-dipped ice cream drop-ins usually stayed for din- cones. It was all such fun. ner. The 1940s meant war years as Grandfather said that if people well as college, somewhat inter- drove this far to see us they rupted for my brothers as they should be invited. Besides, our went off to the Army and Navy. good-natured housekeeper said A prime factor in my happy Wagner family photo that the roast would stretch. adjustment to campus life was Marie Wagner Krenz, right, the author of this story, came in We children watched the the presence of our family sum- costume to celebrate the family’s 50 years in Woodside in 1968. She’s adults with interest, especially mer house in Woodside. with her sisters-in-law, Marie Jo Wagner, left, and Eileen Wagner. our uncles. They were three Only 10 miles from the Stan- nice-looking bachelors, and the ford campus, it became a wel- My friends seemed to crave a mine our grades. As always, young ladies who visited prob- come destination for me and my homelike atmosphere for study many people waited until the Wagner family photo ably considered them a treasure fellow students. Someone with and frivolity. day before to put notes in final Grandfather Herman Poetsch and trove of marital possibilities. I a car and enough gasoline cou- A giant hurdle for first-quar- form. Six or seven of us drove to Marie Wagner (the author of this remember one with her eye on pons would collect a few of us, ter frosh was the English term story) in 1926. Uncle Will. 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