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Tapestry of Time From the Friends of Balboa Park Updated November 2010 Table of Authors Letter from Our Founder, Betty Peabody 4, 5 Allen, Grace Bentley 93 Amos, Martha f. 28 Anderson, Phyllis D. 91 Atherton, Debra 105 Atherton, May 17 Bennett, Kay Mason 77 Benton, Mariella 30 Borthwick, Georgia 11 Brown, Margaret 70 Butler, Ardith Lundy 47 Butler, Colornel Richard D. 45 Butorac, Kathryn 84 Cardua, Harney M. Jr. 38 Cash, John C. 9 Conlee, Roger 108 Cooper, Barbara 99 Davies, Darlene G. 96 Davies, Vince 66 Dose, Betty Curtis 69 Dr. Rufus Anton Schneiders 56 Earnest, Sue Ph.D 20 Echis, Ellen Renelle 33 Ehrich, Nano Chamblin 75 Engle, Mrs. Margaret 86 Evenson, Bea 106 Faulconer, Thomas P. 13 Fisk, Linda L. 23 Fry, Lewis W. 58 Giddings, Annie & Donald 18 Green, Don 87 Hankins, Thelma Larsen 53 Herms, Bruce F. 63 Hertzman, Sylvia Luce 78 Howard, RADM J.L. 43 Johnson, Cecelia cox 98 Jones, Barbara S. 40 Kenward, Frances Wright 34, 51 Kirk, Sandra Jackson 104 Klauber, Jean R. 6 Klauber, Phil 14, 36 Klees, Bob 89 Kooperman, Evelyn Roy 102 Lathrop, Chester A. 88 Lee, CDR Evelyn L. Schrader 100 Logue, Camille Woods 72 Marston, Hamilton 25 McFall, Gene 31 McKewen, Barbara Davis 90 Meads, Betty 95 Menke, Pat & Bob 94 Minchin, Mrs. Paul 68 Minskall, Jane 35 Mitchell, Alfred R. 29 Moore, Floyd R. 101 Neill, Clarence T. “Chan” 67 Oberg, Cy 74 Pabst, Dick 42 Pabst, Katherine 50 Phair, Patti 92 Porter, Francis J. Jr. 85 Pyle, Cynthia Harris 97 Richardson, Joe 79 Roche, Francis 82 Roche, Merna Phillips 60 Sadler, Mary M. 27 Safford, Chuck 83 Sharp, Bob 62 Shields, Phyllis 32 Shortt, Andy 12 Southwick, James F. 59 Steffgen, Mary Scheniders 54 Stockton, Joyce (Mrs. Clarence) 37 Sullivan, Letty 71 Thompson, Aubrey 61 Thompson, Betty 81 Thompson, Jean Stooke 80 Thompson, Ralph 26 Thornton, Sally Bullard 21 Tragauze, Amorita 7 Tyson, Rose 24 Waldem, Alice H. 46 Wallace, Ginger 107 Ward, Phill & Rusty 73 White, Eleanore Smith 48 Williams, Dorothy A. 19 Wilson, Kitty (Kitty Clark Wilson) 8 Wurtz, Jack & Betty 76 Yanagihara, Tom 22 “A Tapestry of Time” Balboa Park 1997 I Remember Balboa Park Please tell us what you remember about Balboa Park: Do you have childhood memories of going to the park? Did the midgets Invite you to tea? Did you know that Sally and her girls were dancing? Did you see the Indian Village? Were you at the expositions? 1915 or 1935? Did you dance at the collegiate Club? Did you become engaged in the park? Married? Please share any reminiscences for a published collection of memories by the Balboa Park Millennium Society. The Society wants to let future generations know of your role in building the rich heritage of Balboa Park. Please mail to: Betty Peabody Balboa Park Millennium Society % Balboa Park Administration 2125 Park Blvd. San Diego, CA 92101 To celebrate the 1997 reopening of the House of Hospitality, scores of folks have sent in their recollections of Balboa Park. Many hours of fun, entertainment, cultural events, and relaxation that our park has provided generations of san Diegans, are recounted. For memories of the excitement of the expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36, WW I and II, the pinning’s, weddings, and happiness the park has meant to our community and be- yond, we offer “A Tapestry Of Time” for your enjoyment. -Betty Peabody Highlights That I Remember as a Child at the 1915 Exposition 1.) My father gave a palm tree to the park which used to be at the corner of 6th Avenue and Laurel Street. 2.) Going to the 1915 Expo to hear Teddy Roosevelt speak, with my father. 3.) Going to hear Madame Schumann Heink sing at the 1915 and 1935 Expos. 4.) I was married then (1935 Expo) and back in San Diego after being away for quite a few years. My husband had a concession in the food building for Klauber Wangenheim and Allied Food Stores so we went over to the Park almost every night to check on how the booth was doing. And also to get a scone at the concession across from ours to eat on the way home! They were good. We walked from 6th and Redwood Street. 5.) I also remember the wonderful Book Reviews Bea Edmonds Bea Edmonds Breneman gave in the audito- rium at the House of Hospitality. They were great. -Jean R. Klauber In 1915 when I was 3 years old, my mother brought me from Sal Lake City, Utah by train to the, then new Santa Fe Station and thence by horse and buggy to my grandparents home on Kermpf Street in Lemon Grove. My only memory of the Great Worlds Exposition in Balboa Park was feeding the pigeons I treasure the photograph, in my family album of my beautiful mother in her puffed sleeve, high necked dress as she and my grandmother did the pigeon homers. In 1935, having the privilege of being a friend of the Donae Hords I visited their home several times as he was working on his masterpieces for the House of Charm (Hospitality). The Old Globe was top on my list as a drama teacher and it later became my home under the tutelage of Luther Kennet and Craig Cloel… The Floral Bldg. … the Spanish Village and the surprised look on my friends faces when they found me – very 8 ½ months pregnant- enjoying the reandalous Cludist Colony and Sally Rand and her family. -Amorita Tregauze At age four (in 1915) I came from Texas to Encinitas with my family with four siblings and my parents. As I progressed rapidly from grade to grade in the one-room schoolhouse. By age six when we moved to San diego I was temporarily in grade 4, bur shortly moved back to grade 2 and then in a few weeks to grade 3 as I read or had read all of the books my older sister brought home from school. Of course that little kid, and I was little, couldn’t cope with those huge characters socially! In 1918 in Encinitas we walked barefooted to school about a mile on the sandy buy stickery paths, always picking stickers out of our toes. There another child, a boy my age, and I were put into the ancient form of ac- celerated class, as we shared spaces at the back chalkboard where we worked independently ahead at will. To carry on, our Overland “touring car” took us to San Diego and back, but we walked the beaches to the open gateway spots. My father got back into the wholesale grocery business when we moved to San Diego in 1917. My San Diego library card dates back to 1918, when I was seven. Dad got back into the wholesale grocery business as President of the firm, and I as a freshman at San Diego State began to date Harlan Wilson who was then either a Junior or Senior, I’m uncertain which. We married in April 1931 before I had finished college, but I did so afterwards. There is so much to relate, but it would make a book, not possible right now. These are pictures of my early youth in San Diego. To do more would take several volumes. I was married in 1931 at age 20 to Harlan Wilson, one of a wonderful large family, but wound up with only one son, Dr. Harlan Wilson, head of Politics at Oberlin College, Ohio. At age 86, I’m still active, playing golf, not well but adequately, and consider my future is not over, yet. -Kitty Wilson (Kitty Clark Wilson) July 12, 1997 Re: Request for info on “Remembering Balboa Park” requested on the Roger Hedgecock, program on KOGO on July 11, 1997. From: John C. Cash, Bio info: Born in Oceanside, CA., on Sept. 20, 1919. Raised in San Diego graduating from San Diego High School in June 1938. At that time lived in North Park on Pershing Drive. I Remember Balboa Park Balboa Park has played an important part in my life and others who were raised in San Diego. 1.) My first rememberance of going to something in Balboa Park was when I was about 4 or 5 years old. My father took me to a speech given by William Jennings Bryan in 1915 Expo. Building, “Southern California Counties” which was located at the now location of the Natural History Museum. It was in the evening and after the speech my father took me down and I was able to shake Mr. Bryan’s hand. Later, on November 25, 1925, that building burned down the evening of the firemans ball. The building was also called the Civic Auditorium. 2.) While in grammar school I remember being taken to Zoo in Balboa Park by our teachers. This was an ex- citing experience for us kids in the 4th or 5th grades. 3.) Another vivid memory took place in 1935 just before I graduated from Jr. high School, Memorial. At time I was 15 years old. They had been constructing building for the 1935-36, The California Pacific International Exposition. The Expo was scheduled to open on May 29, 1935. The word got out the day before that they needed people to do last minute cleaning and other work before the opening. Well I got permission from my mother to go to park and try to get a job helping out. I arrived at the Park Service Yard gate, where a lot of other boys were milling around, about 5 pm.