DARE Interview: Garberville, California; Primary Informant CA100

Informant Data:

CA100: White; male; age: 86 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural

CA101: White; female; age: 74 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural

Media Files:

Arthur the Rat. Speaker: CA101 (4:31) [Incomplete, last two words ("for him") cut off]

Full Interview 1 (Tape 0117-S1). [Additional speakers: CA101]

Content:

00:20 Arthur the Rat (CA101)

05:30 CA100—Family comes to CA in '49 with gold rush

08:30 Working in lumber business with steam engines

12:00 Humboldt in old days—no roads, no railroad, dairy business big then

15:25 Did grammar school in two years at age 18

20:35 Learned Spanish to go to Panama, but never went

22:50 Railroad worker, first auto he ever saw

25:20 Trapping martens in Oregon, deer hunting in CA, fishing

29:00 Net fishing in Oregon, catching abalones

32:25 Tape end

Full Interview 2 (Tape 0117-S2).

00:20 Friend almost killed cutting redwoods for railroad ties

06:10 Describes redwoods he cut for Park Service at local tourist center

09:40 Fort Ross and seal hunting

11:45 Family coming to area

14:55 Floods destroying area

16:40 Trees are now all timbered out

22:15 Politics

27:20 What Informant thinks of Blacks, where his family lives

30:25 Southern California when it was all empty

31:20 Tape end