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Today [November 11, 2024] we're interviewing Maxine Simons about living in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s. So, Maxine, thank you for allowing us to interview you. When and where were you born?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1.91,21.83"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e I was born in Pasadena, California, in 1927, just as the Depression was kicking in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=21.86,32.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e When did your family move to Hollywood? And do you know why they moved there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=34.13,38.3"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't remember when, but I did not grow up in Pasadena, and at an early age we moved. And of course, I don't remember, but we lived in little bungalows and courts and flag lots, which I don't know that they even exist anymore. But there were lots where there would be the main house in the front, and then in the back would be a little bitty house. And I think that was called a flag lot. And then they had courts, which might be 4 or 6 houses in a row, and they were little bungalows attached one to the other like a train cars. And in the middle would be cement or earth with a tree or cement with a light bulb [streetlight] in the middle. And those were courts. And then there was another kind of a lot where they had two houses with the big driveway in the center and in the back, two more [houses]. And so in the back it was all cement for the two garages, or actually it was four garages. But I lived in some let's see, there were the courts. But there was something else. What was the other thing called [duplex]? We lived in all of those things in Hollywood and Redondo Beach and Manhattan [Beach] and Santa Monica. I went to about ten schools in 12 years. I went to three junior highs. The reason? Depression. You went where the work was.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=38.33,152.16"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you know why you moved to Hollywood, though?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=152.19,153.96"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e No. My mother was a teenager. My dad was a soda fountain boy [soda jerk]. Who knows? It probably was rent. Jobs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=153.99,165.444"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Where did you live in Hollywood? What street did you live on?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=166.53,169.47"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e I lived on McCadden [Place] Street, North Las Palmas. Vine Street--or maybe it was Vine Street School, excuse me. I went to three junior highs. That's pretty good. I went to Bancroft Junior High, and then I went to Lincoln Junior High in Santa Monica. And if I remember correctly, Venice High had a middle school then, and I went, that was my third one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=169.5,203.39"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e But we're going back to Hollywood today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=203.48,205.16"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay, back to Hollywood. There were all these funny little lots. And because of the Depression, the rents were lower in those lots. And those were the houses we rented. We didn't own a home. My dad, in the beginning, did very heavy manual work. He was a mason, a house painter, things like that. But then he got into the chauffeurs--I don't know if it was a union or what, but he got into a program where he was a chauffeur for rich people. And that's when we began really moving around, because the rich people had beach homes, and in the summer they would go to the beach to live. We didn't have a freeway then and commuting was so costly to our lives, the hours and the gas. We had to move each summer and go somewhere else to be closer to my dad's work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=205.19,276.14"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e But while you were living in Hollywood, can you tell us about the stuff that you did in Hollywood? What school did you go to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=276.23,283.37"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e I went to Selma Avenue School, which I believe was 1906 when it was built and I was born in [19]27. [According to LAUSD's archivist, the Selma Avenue School was annexed in 1910 but they did not have the exact date of opening]. So probably five years later I was in the school. I don't remember if they had a kindergarten or I started in the first grade, I don't remember. I think I went to a school in Malibu called Jefferson, and the picture I have, it was probably preschool or kindergarten there. But I did go to longest to Selma Avenue School. But every summer I would leave and then come back.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=283.4,328.72"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e So did you walk to school or...? I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=328.75,331.3"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e walked to school. They had a big tunnel under Sunset Boulevard so that the children didn't have to cross the street on top. They crossed under under the street, and there were monitors to watch during the times when children would be coming in the evening school and it was a scary thing. It was that's a wide street Sunset and it was dark in there and and you'd run and scream because it echoed, you know. And little kids made scary sounds as they went through.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=331.3,367.68"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you walk with friends to school? Sometimes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=368.61,372.21"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e The school I went to was right in the middle of Hollywood, and there were two little actresses [who went to Selma Avenue Elementary]. One was Sybil Jason from I think it was Johannesburg, Africa [she was born in Cape Town, South Africa], and the other one was Cora Sue Collins. And I became a friend of Sybil Jason's. And so sometimes I would walk alone until I came to where she lived and then we'd latch up and walked together the rest of the way. It was during the German uprising, and the school was deeply affected by what was going on in Germany. And I remember an Arbor Day where we were all asked if we would be willing to bring our guns--because we had lead cap guns and rifles for cowboys and Indians--and those of us that thought war was bad volunteered, and we brought our guns. The school dug up a deep hole, and we all dropped our guns into the hole. And then they planted a tree for Arbor Day. And we were told that as the tree grew and the roots reached the metal, the metal would nourish the tree. So we were very proud of our activity. I also remember we had to come in after lunch--because we would play, we'd be red faced and sweating and we'd come in and we couldn't settle [down] to learn. You know, we were high and excited. We had army cots with the little wood crossed legs and canvas, and we had them stacked in the corner, and each of us had our own cot and army blankets that were deep, dark olive green. And they made you itch. And I remember we'd come in from being so excited from the yard [recess] and have to rest. And it was so hard because our hearts were beating and we were sweating and scratching.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=372.21,498.79"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e How many kids were in your class then?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=498.82,501.07"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e There were probably somewhere between 20 and 25. And I remember the teachers were mostly older ladies. They weren't young women just out of college. They were mostly older ladies. And our principal was a very elderly lady, Miss Floyd and a formidable [woman], very formidable. We were called experimental education at the time-- I remember the term. And I remember one of the experiments, I guess, was we made [cheese, with] I guess it was cream. We had a milk bottle, and we had the rows of little desks, and we started. I think we counted to 50, shaking the bottle, and at 50 it went to the person behind you all the way around the room. And then it came back again all day. And in the late afternoon we spread cheese on crackers that we had made and things like that. In a way, I guess it's physics. Matter remains matter, you know. I remember jello was one of the experiments that sort of science to watch it change form. And I still remember it. You know, it was like magic. And she made us [pay attention to what we were doing]. We could smell it [the jello]. We could see the color change, the grains changed to liquid, then the liquid changed to firm. And and it was really--we didn't call it science and we didn't call it physics or anything, but it was experimental and it was fun. And I loved the school, I loved it, and that's another story, a very personal story of not being able to graduate and then graduating there [from Selma Avenue Elementary] because I moved away and it was very sad and very happy. But they were wonderful teachers, wonderful school. I also remember one other thing. We we didn't have censorship when I was little, not in the movies and not on the news. And we didn't have television, of course. And I remember going to the Saturday matinees on Sunset Boulevard, the Pantages Theater [the address is 6233 Hollywood Blvd], and for one dime--that was the price of a movie for a child was a dime--you got two movies, a serial, a cartoon, coming attractions, the news, and there was a piano on the stage. And sometimes there would be raffles and giveaways. All of that for a dime on Saturday matinee. I used to walk up with [my friends]. I was the only girl in a boy's club in my neighborhood because I was the only girl, and they were all boys, and they let me tag along and I would go up [to the Pantages] with them. And then all week we would have dramatic play from the movie [we watched]. But that was common. You went to the movie all day. I mean, you went after lunch and didn't come back until dinner time almost.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=501.16,708.531"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e What else would you do with the boys club when you were playing? Well,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=710.2,713.08"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e the boys club, it was all about the boys. There were no exceptions for me. I played football and baseball and had a hard time getting in because then they'd let me play when they were short a person, you know. But I wanted to be a member [of the boys club] and I had finally--my dad taught me a lot of poker games and I used that as clout because they all wanted to learn them. And they said yes, but there'd be a big initiation. And the initiation was to climb a telephone pole up to the wires, to climb the Vendome which was on Sunset Boulevard [6666 Sunset]. I think it was a nightclub or a big eatery [it was a restaurant owned by The Hollywood Reporter founder Billy Wilkerson], and I was to go on the roof and look through the skylight and report what I saw. And then the chimney of the Writers Club on Sunset Boulevard [6700 Sunset]. So I did it. I did all three of them, and it was scary, but I did it. Looking through the skylight, I saw cooks very busy in the kitchen, and I was very careful climbing the telephone poles around the wires and [at] the Writers Club I got into the chimney, but the--is it called the flue?-- was closed. So it's like a cone. You can't stand flat. And I couldn't get through it. It was a very big chimney, by the way, bigger than the home chimneys. And they had to get the fire department to get me out. I remember that, but when I joined and they had to take me because I did the three things, they didn't think I was going to do them. I guess it was a freeze out and I got in and then discovered none of the other boys had ever done those things [climbed a telephone pole, looked through the skylight at the Vendome, or been in the Writers Club chimney]. They didn't think I'd do it because they didn't want me in. But I got in, and I got in with a little prestige, and I was a stalwart member until I left [Hollywood] in the sixth grade.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=713.2,833.39"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e So tell me about the [Hollywood] Writers Club. I know you spent more time at the Writers Club. The","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=833.9,837.596"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Writers Club, in looking back, it was apparently pretty political. I remember John Garfield was there and they were writing. One play was Pins and Needles, and I think it was politically oriented, and I was little--I didn't read the plays. I mean, I didn't know what was going on. I just knew it was exciting. And I used to go backstage. They had a big theater in a ballroom in it, as well as a big kitchen and a big chimney, and they would let me hold the mirror for the ladies that were putting makeup on. Or they taught me the sound effects--crinkling up cellophane was for fire, and BB [gun] shot pellets in a metal pan rolled up and down slowly was rain, and a piece of metal bent made thunder, and they let me do the sound effects for some of their shows. And I was there all-- my mother and dad said, don't ever go over there across the street on Sunset. But I was there all the time because they were working and and I think they went bankrupt or something, because when they left, everybody was taking dishes and furniture and just taking them home. And they told me to help myself. So I got tablecloths and I still have a couple of them actually. But they were very good to me. Nobody did anything my folks would have disapproved of. I was sort of like a little mascot or something, and I saw all the plays being rehearsed. And I remember I saw Afternoon of a --not swan. I think it had to do with a deer. But it was a male dance ballet, and I cried. It was so beautiful. I sorry, I don't remember the actual [title]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=837.596,967.421"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, I can look it up. I might be able to look.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=968.49,970.2"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Maybe you could help me find it. But I think Nijinsky or somebody like that, that name did it. It made it famous--Afternoon of a Faun. And it was just, oh, I cried. It was so beautiful. But I spent a lot of time there, yes. And there was always some action. And I think the writers would write and put them [their plays] on to test them with an audience, and then where they laughed or didn't laugh or where a communication didn't make it, they'd rewrite it. And then they would send it to New York to get published. But they was testing them out at the Writers Club, and it was very interesting. I loved the place, but it folded and that was that, and I don't know where they went.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=970.32,1025.81"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, well, I mean, I have to ask, do you remember going to the Hollywood library that was on the corner of Hollywood and Ivar?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1026.109,1035.319"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I did go there, not consistently, but I did go there sometimes for a special project or something in school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1036.13,1045.97"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you remember there being an art gallery in the library? 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It was a large library for that area.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1051.72,1057.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e In Hollywood itself. I know there was a-- Oh, this is kind of interesting. I think there was a park. I think it was called Cherokee Park [DeLongpre Park]. It was small. It was one block big in the middle--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1059.64,1075.935"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Was it on the delongpre there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1075.99,1077.237"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. And I was on North Las Palmas and I could walk over to it easily. And in the center of it was a fountain, and it had asphalt around the fountain on the ground. And then there were foliage and greens. And I remember there was a section of bamboo, and we used to play Tarzan among the bamboo. And then there was this pond in the middle that had fish and lily pads. And in the center was this beautiful figure of Rudolph Valentino, but Art Deco style. And it was very modern. And he was coming out of the water and looking up, and it was very beautiful. And you never hear about it or see it, but I imagine it's still there. And that's a long time ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1077.7,1133.89"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, I believe it is still there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1133.92,1135.15"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e And we used to incorporate it in our dramatic play, our adventures, you know, but that little park, we got a lot of good use out of it as kids and we used--all the neighborhood was our theater. I mean, some yards had one thing and some yards had another. Depending on if we were playing Dick Tracy or Flash Gordon, And we would play until dinnertime. We'd play until it got dark on the streets. Kick the can and Olly olly oxen free. And I had a tire and a string on a pepper tree I remember that in the front yard. But it was a little house in the back. One of those little houses. But there was a big front yard and then a little house, and then our little house. And that was all depression stuff because we couldn't afford better. And there was a lot of that make do. I remember one house we had a screen porch and that was my bedroom. In the back. But the thing is, we didn't know we were poor because we didn't have televisions to tell us about how small our life was. We thought it was great. You know, the kids, the kids. The parents probably worried themselves sick trying to pay the bills, but the kids didn't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1135.18,1227.35"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, I mean, full disclosure, I've known Maxine for years. Maxine is a friend of mine, and I recall you telling me a story about your mom, she used to work at Crossroads of the World?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1227.38,1236.487"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh yeah. She got a little job. This was this interesting about the law--Crossroads [of the World], we watched it--the kids watched it being built, and they made this sort of Eiffel Tower structure with a globe on the top, and then all these little buildings again, kind of like the court. They were all attached, two rows, and then cement in the center and plants. And each little building was a different country, a different store. There might be a Indian rug store, or there might be a Mexican pinata store, you know. But each each little country and culture had its own store. And one of the stores was an English tea room, and it belonged to a woman named Bebe Daniels. And she and her husband were in the film industry. They could have been producers or writers, I don't know. I don't think they were actors, but they were in the industry. And so they had the tea room and they wanted to tell fortunes with the tea, but that's against the law. And then my mother had a little costume that had pointed shoes and a bolero [jacket] with beads and long puff sleeves, and wore her hair back with big bangles and large round earrings. And she was supposed to be, I guess, a little Turkish lady or an Indian lady. I don't know what she was, but maybe just a little gypsy. And the way they got around the law, because it was absolutely not legal. And it was they had on their menu tea and complimentary fortunes, and you had to request it yourself. You didn't pay for it. And mother would sit down and read the tea leaves. And one day she did. Mrs. Shirley Temple's mother. And mom had a little autograph book for her, because Bebe Daniels had all these friends that were in the industry that would come. So that was kind of fun and different. So it was. 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If the person asks for it and didn't pay for it, it's on them, you know? She got a salary, of course, for it, but not from a person who she was telling the fortune. And she had some interesting people, and it was a short term job, but it was fun. And that was on my way to Selma Avenue School. I had to cross Sunset Boulevard. There was a big Catholic church--Blessed Sacrament. And a little walk through between Crossroads of the World and the church I walked through to get up to Selma Avenue every day excepting the weekend. And there was a lot of activity there. Hollywood was very diversive in terms of not so much race as it was skills and everything from magicians to cooks to writers to artists. I mean, all kinds of diverse talent. And it was all around you all the time. I don't know that it's that way now so much, but it was then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1379.58,1468.51"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you remember walking Hollywood Boulevard when you were a kid and seeing Grauman's Chinese Theatre?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1468.54,1474.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e I remember some things. I couldn't afford to buy the books, but I'd go into Pickwick Bookstore, I think it was on Hollywood Boulevard. And I remember I was reading [about] the life of Oscar Wilde, and I could I couldn't buy the book. Now, Pickwick knew I was reading because I'd be standing there reading with tears running down my face. They knew I was reading and I'd come in the next day, go to the same booth. You know where the books were. But I kind of used Pickwick as a library in a way. And they didn't mind. As long as I was reading, they were happy. So I have a fond memory of Pickwick's. I don't remember exactly where it was, but it was on a big boulevard. I think it was Hollywood Boulevard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1474.03,1524.12"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e I think it was Hollywood. So you're talking about a time where at some point, your family moved away while you were in elementary school, but you returned to Hollywood and worked for a movie studio. Can you tell us about your job at the movie studio and where you lived at that time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1524.15,1537.59"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, the the movie studio was not the main point of my working there. I saw a movie called Stage Door (1937) when I was around 11, I think. I'm guessing. I was in elementary school and I was in the latter end of elementary school when I saw it, and it was about a boarding house for wannabe actresses or women in the entertainment business, and I didn't know there was such a place. And it was for women that didn't have any money or jobs, and they were trying to get jobs. So I snooped around and found out we had something called the Studio Club in Hollywood for the very same reasons to give wannabes a very cheap economy living but decent living, safe living, protected living, chaperoned living, actually, while they were trying to break into the industry. So when I was in junior high, the beginning of junior middle school--the library played a role here, but it was a school library. I remember with a friend making a plan and this was my plan. I would leave home as soon as I graduated from high school, which would be I would graduate at 17. I would go to the Studio Club to live, and in order to live there, I had to have a job in the entertainment world. That was one of the qualifications. You also had to have three letters from people in the industry to vouch for you, that you were worthy and you had to be 18. No minors. Those were the three requirements. So the closest thing to the club because I didn't have a car was RKO. The Studio Club was on Lodi Place. And I could walk to the studio and I applied and I got a job as a messenger guide. I would take people on tours and tell them how the industry worked. How they made movies. And that would give me my entrance into the Studio Club and I would live there--the maximum you could live was three years, because they figured if you hadn't gotten a break or hadn't moved forward, you had to move out and let somebody else have a chance. So I would live there three years and then go to New York, where I would start from scratch and try to learn the [acting] craft. And I was interested in theater, not the movies, but theater.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1538.7,1721.47"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e And this was all a plan that you had when you were in junior high. This","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1721.8,1724.964"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e was my plan, and by the way, I made it all the way and on time, excepting when I was in New York about a year, I got a call from Paris, a proposal of marriage of a boy I had a crush on in high school, and I just threw it all to the winds and went off and got married in Paris, but I did it. As far as my plan went, I did it. So that's how I happened to be at the studio and at the Studio Club was this plan of mine.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1724.964,1757.4"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e So you got the job at RKO?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1757.43,1759.83"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e I was there about three years. The length of time of the Studio Club.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1760.16,1763.861"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e So who did you get your three letters of recommendation from?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1764.57,1767.75"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, I had an uncle who was in special effects, and then my dad was a chauffeur for Sam Wood, the director, and he had a two daughters that were in the industry. And K.T. Stevens was one of them. And she wrote me a letter. And then I had a little actress friend and she wrote me a letter. So those were my three letters.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1768.14,1794.03"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Was your actress friend Robert Mitchum's sister by chance?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1795.38,1798.77"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I met her at--She was a messenger guide [at RKO], that's how I met her. We became very close. It was a wonderful storybook time. I couldn't have written a fairy story any better. But I met lots of. Oh, there was one thing--while I was at the studio--I didn't know anything about unions. And at the time I was there, the longest strike in history of movies was there then. And there were divorces. People lost their homes. I think there was a suicide, if I remember. It was horrible. It was a horrible strike. We had to spend the night on the lot because there were goon squads. I remember the actresses were serving the staff, the grips, because they'd worked in restaurants and cafes as they were going into their careers and they and the restaurant people wouldn't cross the lines. So the commissary had the food there, but nobody to work it. So here were the actresses serving up the food for the hard working staff crew. And they had on the lot-- they had gyms, they had cots, they had food, they had movies. So we'd spend the night for safety and we were well taken care of. I wasn't a member of the union because the day I got my job. The night before? No, the night that I reported for work, they voted to strike. And I wasn't a member yet. I hadn't joined, and I didn't know anything about unions. And I had to have the job to stay living where I was. And later I became much more involved in unions and was in a teachers union strike where I marched. But then I didn't know what was going on, and it was a little scary. A lot of studio people lived in the little homes that not just the actors, but the crews and the industry was kind of the dominant social class with studio people because there were so many, and they lived near the studio.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1798.8,1960.08"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Can you tell us a little bit about what it was like to live in the Studio Club?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1961.07,1964.43"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e It was sheer joy and happiness, but you were locked out after midnight and it was chaperoned. And if you were out too many nights, unless you had a job that required it, like in a club, you might not get home until after midnight if you entertained in a club. You could be asked to leave. They had an office that was open all night, and if you rang the bell, it rang in the little office and they'd get up and unlock the door, but they'd write it down and give it to the director. You came in at 1:00 in the morning or whatever it was. And I remember I started dating the boy from high school that I told you about, and he was a musician, so he would play a job. And of course, they don't leave until they stopped serving alcohol at whatever time that is. And of course, I'd be home late. And after three times, I was called in by the director and it was kind of interesting. She said, \"Maxine, I'm worried about you.\" And I said, \"Why?\" And she said, \"You're not getting enough sleep.\" And that's how she told me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=1965.66,2045.15"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Well that was subtle.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2045.18,2046.487"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e No, they were wonderful. And I remember when I had my 18th birthday, I graduated from high school in June. I left home in June. I was 17. Yeah, I got into the club I had August hadn't come yet. I went right in. I told you I was on time with everything, and I got a call to go in to see the director, and she said, \"Okay, Maxine, you're legal now.\" She knew I was under age.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2047.46,2076.92"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Can you remember her name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2077.67,2079.199"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, Mrs. Wilson, I think. [Marjorie Williams] Lovely lady. There was a change just after I got there, so I got the ladies mixed up a little bit. And the dining room. I'll never forget it. It was a large room with wood round tables. Shined very high. Natural wood in the center was always fresh flowers and candles. At night they were lit. And they served you. And it was nicer than anything I'd ever had at home. You know. Ever. And then the room you had to have a roommate you didn't get to pick. And over the room [door] there was a little plaque that might say Mary Pickford or a Douglas Fairbanks. The people that had donated money to create this club for young girls to help them have a decent environment when when they were down and out. And my room had a Mary Pickford over it, if I remember correctly. And I took a picture looking out my window. Lexington and Lodi. The corner is where I lived, and they had two floors and no men were allowed on the second floor. That's where all the bedrooms were. But on the bottom floor they had a library with a fireplace and couch, overstuffed couches and chairs and lamps and cozy. And then they had a living room, which was really a big ballroom with a stage at one end, but the velvet drapes covered it, so you didn't know it was a stage. And then they had a ping pong room. They had rehearsing rooms. They had a phone on the stairs at the first stop, and then they had a phone upstairs at the second stop. We didn't have phones like we do now, and those were the only phones that the girls could use. They had the office by the door that you came in, and there was a on the wall, a big bulletin board, and it would tell you about interviews, trips, contests, all kinds of possibilities for work. And you know how the post office has mailboxes? Well, we there was a row, a section where you got your messages in a locked box like that, you could see in and see if there was anything in it and then unlock it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2079.35,2247.83"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you ever put on any plays? Did the girls put on plays at the Studio Club? 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But they did fundraisers, they did parties, they did bits and comedy and rehearsal things. And it was it was lovely. It was just lovely. And somebody was always leaving. There was always a party to say goodbye to somebody. And there were tears. They had a utility room. This was so lovely. They had a utility room that had a sink, a two burner stove with a tea kettle, an ironing board and an iron. And then there was a table-- baked enamel table top. And if you were leaving or downsizing, you could put things like gloves or jewelry or a dress. You'd leave it on the table. You never knew who got it. You never cared. You were giving it to whoever could use it. And of course, there were interesting things because girls were going on interviews all the time and auditions, so they had to wear different things. I still have, honest to God, I have a pair of gloves. They're black with no fingers in them. I was so fascinated, but I never used them in all the years. It was just a trophy, kind of. But it was a nice idea to give back, recycle, you know, and help one another. And especially if one was moving out and they got a break. But there were even even secretaries to important people that could live there. I remember Hoagy Carmichael's secretary was there and she wanted to be a writer. And so your reason for being there was not all being in show business. It was creative, entertainment, it could be anything. We had musicians and singers and dancers and actresses and of course, you get a crowd like that together and it's a lot of fun. Now I had a lovely time and never had a hard, miserable moment the whole time I was there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2254.37,2429.82"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, you mentioned your musician boyfriend and you would be out late sometimes with him as he performed. What clubs were you going to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2430.06,2438.52"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e The Palladium was one. He wasn't playing there, but we'd go and and we didn't dance. So we'd go up to the bandstand and listen. And my mother had a cousin who worked there in the office, so she would go to work early, set me up at a table and then go to work. And I could I could hear music all night, you know, I didn't even know how to dance, so it was a treat for me. I also remember graduation from high school. We went to Earl Carroll's, and that was a big nightclub in those days. And that was a you had dinner there as well as dance. And it was lovely. And I remember a charity I was working on, there was a big [nightclub] the Morocco, I think it was called, on Sunset Boulevard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2439.33,2493.14"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Mocambo, maybe?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2493.47,2494.357"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Something like that. I remember Orson Welles came rushing in looking for his girlfriend. I had a little card table in my little charity thing there in the lobby one night, and I saw him rush in, and that was a big deal. But it was filled with people in the industry and and the crews, everywhere. And it wasn't just Beverly Hills, it was the little bungalows too, you know. And then my grammar school, everybody seemed to be working around the industry. Not so much now, but that's how it was then. I used to go to Venice quite a bit for entertainment. And I remember two things that don't exist anymore. One was Currie's ice cream. Great big ice cream parlor. You ate it there in little funny little wooden white booths. And [there was] a big plunge, the Venice Plunge was right next to the pier as you went into the amusement pier. There was also a Currie's ice cream across from Hollywood High and the kids at lunchtime would run over and get ice cream you know, it's right across the street. I loved Hollywood then. But I also didn't know any better, so it may have been harder and rougher than I remember it. I don't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2494.73,2590.314"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e You mentioned it a little bit about your charity maybe, in the Mocambo. The Hollywood community supported service people with various organizations such as the Hollywood USO and the Hollywood Canteen. Did you go to either of those or did you participate in other World War II support organizations? 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Susies, we would take automobile trips up the coast and bring them coffee and donuts at the little places where they were, just horrible little places with some radar equipment. It would be late at night and they'd be bored and cold and, you know, we'd come by and just give a little cheer. We also would, like the thing in the valley [240th Battalion Battery C] it was over somewhere near-- what's the high school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2610.78,2688.61"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Birmingham?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2688.64,2689.316"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Birmingham. And I was told underground there was a lot of military supplies and equipment stored there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2689.42,2698.425"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e I believe it was a military hospital too at a certain time [Birmingham General Hospital]. Something,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2698.48,2701.609"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e yeah. And that was part of what I was involved in. And the men and women that were attached to that. We would try to see what they needed in their barracks. If they needed a pool table, we'd have a fundraiser to get them a pool table. We'd go and have lunch [with them], there officers would invite us, but we'd eat with the enlisted men. We had Christmas parties for them. That's why we were called hostesses. We tried to bring them, I guess, fun and joy and things they needed, like toothpaste and shoelaces and stuff. You know, we'd have little duffel bags for them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2701.609,2742.84"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Who was behind the G.I. Susies? The","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2743.41,2745.636"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e only person that I know of was a Mrs. [Maude] Rittmaster and her husband [Oscar Rittmaster]. And she was not the leader--but like, if you were a Campfire Girl, she would have been the guide. And she was responsible. I don't know the organization part of it--if this was a satellite and there were others, or if it was just the one. But she was out of Venice Beach and I met her because I was working in a dime store, and she was buying, you know, 25 combs and 25 shoelaces and then a size 40 bra, you know. And I couldn't make the connection at all, you know. And I finally asked her what it was for. And then when she told it was Christmas gifts for the duffel bag, I said, that's going to be quite a job wrapping it all. I volunteered to help wrap, and that's how I got involved. And then it turned out I was too young. I was a minor, I was 17, so she took me on anyway because she said she would be my chaperone. And she was with me all the time. You know, she was in the room with me all the time. But we saw the young men before they went abroad, and when they came back. And some of them came back at the Pasadena hospital for servicemen [McCornack US Army Hospital], and we'd go and see them after they had been injured. And it was very hard. It was very sad. That was because we got to know them too well, you know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2747.1,2852.33"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you write to any of them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2852.36,2853.89"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I wrote to about half a dozen. That was part of what we all, not just me, all of us did that. And actually later on, when some of them came back, I dated a couple of them. I was older then. I dated a couple of them, [including] a New Jersey boy. And some of them came back here to live, they saw opportunity and and a building boom. And they came back, and and as I said, at the same time, the USO-- the studio [RKO] was very involved in that. And as I became of age, I joined that. I remember Andre Previn was there when I was there. He was the band that was playing mostly. And they would give certain days a week to it, you know, and, and whatever day you went you saw the same people kind of they signed up for it. And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2853.98,2916.46"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e where was he playing?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2916.46,2917.455"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e At the USO--I mean at the [Hollywood] Canteen. I'm sorry, at the canteen.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2917.48,2923.15"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e So did you stay a guide your whole time at RKO?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2923.87,2927.89"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Pretty much. I didn't get promoted. I mean, I wasn't skilled for office work and I wasn't trained, and it was really a job to keep me in the Studio Club. That's why I got it, you know? Not because I wanted to be a guide. But it was a fun job, I wouldn't have quit it for anything but to go to New York.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2928.37,2953.21"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e You must have met a lot of actors and writers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2953.24,2955.76"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e I did. People who have lived there [at the Studio Club]. Not necessarily at the same time I was, but Marilyn Monroe lived there for a while when she was up and coming. There was one woman, Suzanne Cloutier, I think her name was. She married a very, very important person. I've forgotten their name, I'm sorry [Cloutier married Peter Ustinov]. She was an actress, and I saw her in Paris when I was there, and that was kind of fun. I met some long standing friends there that stayed with me through the years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2955.79,2997.42"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, and at RKO, you made a lot of friends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=2997.45,3000.09"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e My best friend was Carol Worth, and that was [Robert] Bob Mitchum's kid sister. And of course, through her, I got to know the family. It was a really lovely time for a young girl to be exposed to talent and the mind skill of some of those people was wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3000.12,3024.86"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Didn't you get your modeling photos taken at the studio [RKO]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3026.72,3030.085"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, the famous [Ernest] Ernie Bachrach took pictures of me. He said to save me money because they would really rip me off in New York. And so I had my pictures all ready to roll when I went to get a job as a model. And I did become a Conover model, which was a--I didn't want to be a model, but it was to pay my way so I could study theater. And it was like my job at RKO, it was a job I never meant to have, but it enabled me to be at the Studio Club. The modeling job enabled me to study theater. That was what I wanted, but I couldn't afford it. I just I barely made it, you know, paying my way there. And I had several jobs. I mean, I worked for the Refugee Economic Corporation as well, and I worked at the Doctors Hospital on the Hudson. But I was starting to get the interviews, starting to get to meet the right people. And I was very happy about that. And then I got my phone call to marry the young man in Paris, and I went for that. But getting back to Hollywood and Venice--I say Venice because I spent entertainment time there quite a bit. All the kids did. There was one thing that happened in high school that I don't think would happen today, that I think speaks very well. It was Santa Monica High. Are you interested in Santa Monica?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3030.29,3137.2"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, I mean, we're focusing on Hollywood but we can talk about it, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3137.23,3141.9"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e It's a public school. It was situated in Santa Monica, right between Brentwood and Ocean Park, two extremely different communities. It's the only time in my life where the middle class was the minority. And you were either very poor or very rich, and the very rich would have cashmere sweaters and things, naturally, and coiffured hair and manicures and you name it. And the kids from Ocean Park barely had warmth, you know. And I was somewhere in the middle. I could pass kind of. It was so bad, though, that even I would take an F [grade] rather than stand up and give a book report where everybody would be looking at me, because then you could see all the shabbiness and oldness of the clothes. When you're moving around and doing things, people don't know it, but when you're just standing there, that's all they're looking at. And the poor kids from Ocean Park had it worse than me. And so we weren't participating. We were. We wanted to be invisible. The GAA I don't know if they still have it, but it was Girls Athletic Association. It was the elite athletes of the school. And every school had GAA, by the way. And they met with their advisor. The rich girls met and they wanted uniform dress. And it was such a beautiful gesture because they had friends that were poor and they knew what was going on. And the teachers, if they knew there was nothing they could do about it. So the girls did something. They asked if they could have uniform dress. It's a public school. It was not a private school--Santa Monica High. And the kids voted it in and it was changed. And all the time I was there, the four years we had uniform dress, navy blue skirts and white blouses. And on Friday it was called Free Dress Day because that was football day, and usually there were parties and things. I was so proud of my school. I felt it was such a mature, loving, giving thing and it came out of the kids, the kids to help the kids. And I just want to share that because I don't think it would happen today. I really don't think and I think and I don't know how long they did it or if they're still doing it I have no idea. But I know it lasted for years while I was there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3142.98,3314.92"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, I know you loved Selma Avenue School, and it closed recently.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3316.3,3321.16"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, I tried very hard. I couldn't get through to anybody, I tried. The principal never called me back. I called many times, and and LA city school [LAUSD] numbers I had. I just wanted to share a couple of things about the school that I remembered and thought somebody might want to put it in a book or something on the school, you know, the history, but I never got through to anybody.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3321.19,3349.12"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, you shared some stories today. Is there any other story you want to share now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3349.15,3352.624"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e No. That was that was some of it. There was one personal thing that was kind of funny that my first graduation I ever saw, I had to go through that tunnel, and I came home, and I was crying. And you know how when a child's face is dirty and they cry and they're their big streaks. You can see where they've been trying the paths of dirt on their face. And I came home with this red, dirty, tired face and I said, \"Oh, it's terrible, it's awful.\" And my mother thought of that tunnel [under Sunset Blvd] and she was scared to death.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3352.84,3387.84"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, gosh. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3387.87,3388.77"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e And I said, \"Oh, no, it's just the worst thing.\" And she said, \"What happened?\" I said, \"Oh, mom, you won't believe this.\" And she said, \"What?\" She was frantic because she couldn't get it out of me. And I said, \"They're granulating. And we were losing some of our best boys,\" because it was my first one [graduation ceremony], I didn't know that happened in school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3388.8,3409.32"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e But you meant they were graduating. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3409.71,3412.02"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e And that that school was very dear to me, though. And it's awful that at 97, I still have this warm, connected feeling to that school. So there must have been some good people. I do know in looking at the pictures of the teachers, they were all older women. They were not like today with cute little women right out of college. There were none of those. It was all an older lady's profession then. And the principal was quite old. They they were different. It was not as wild and woolly as it is now. And they kind of had dress codes. You know, not uniform dress, but they had a code of how a little girl should be and should not be that type of thing, you know? But, the community was very much a built around the industry of entertainment, and I include everything writing everything, every other house had somebody that was employed [in the industry], you know. I went to a lot of schools. As I said, I went to three junior highs. I didn't have many friends because I wasn't there long enough to trust, you know, and and to build [a relationship]. I did become a Campfire Girl, and that was in junior high. And there was a family named Mosier, and I think they were in the newspaper business, and they lived in Malibou Lake off of an island. And I remember the Campfire Girls spent the night on the island and that was a lovely experience being a Campfire Girl, I loved it. But we were more home oriented and yard oriented and neighborhood oriented than the kids are today. And there was a depression, but we didn't--the kids didn't feel it because everybody was poor. We thought rich--when we went to the movies [and saw rich people portrayed], it was make believe. We didn't feel anybody was that rich, you know? It didn't seem real to us. And we didn't have TV telling us what we weren't. So we didn't feel the sting of it, our parents probably did because they had the worry of the payments. But the kids were very happy and thriving. I will say, I started to say it earlier we didn't have censorship. And so the kids knew some horror things that they didn't in later generations, Because, for example, I go to the Saturday matinee and I'd see what was going on with Germany, and it was horrible and it was scary. I'd have nightmares of New York being bombed and things like that. We were not protected from any of that as little children, and that may have been part of why we-- that generation was so involved in USO and the [Hollywood] Canteen and trying to help, because we knew the horrors. We saw them. And we were not protected at all. I remember RKO Pathé News and boom, it was right in your face. Then, when I got older, it was censored. But when I was younger, it wasn't. I can't think of anything. I mean, lots of personal stories, but I can't think of anything else that I--Oh, this was something I remember vividly. We got milk delivered. We got Fuller Brush delivered. We got Helms Bakery delivered because we weren't two car homes. Usually the man or the working one [with] the income got the car, and the mother stayed home with the kids and kept house. And so the shopping was done on the weekend when the car was home. And so these delivery people had an industry all their own then. And I even remember houses that were built and they don't do it now, I'm sure. But there'd be a little hole in the wall--a little door with a latch and the milkman could stick a bottle of milk in there. And in your kitchen you could have the other side of it and unlock it and bring the milk in without ever going outside. And it was a big business but no more, although we're getting back to home delivery. Come to think about it, it's a whole new thing now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3412.05,3737.77"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Now they don't just drive down the street and drop it off at multiple houses, it's straight to your door.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3739.06,3744.31"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, you do it by internet. We didn't have skateboards then. We had a lot of roller skating. I can remember roller skating up and down Sunset Boulevard because the sidewalk was wider there. I'd never been on an airplane or any of those things until I was past 20. Now, the kids are so sophisticated, they've been and done everything by the time they were 20. I hadn't seen snow. We had pretty limited activities. They were all homegrown type of activities.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3744.34,3795.03"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, I want to thank you for talking to us about Hollywood in the 30s and 40s. We really appreciate it. And next up, we're going to talk about you moving into the San Fernando Valley after the war and buying a house. So that'll be our next one. Is there anything else that about Hollywood that you haven't covered that you want to say?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3797.91,3820.92"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Probably the minute you leave, I'll go a whole lot of things. It doesn't usually works that way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3821.7,3827.13"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, we can certainly tack it on the next time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3827.16,3829.44"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e It was a happy time as a child, I don't know [if as an adult, it was as happy as. They had the burden of everything. As a child, I was not aware I was deprived of anything that I wanted. Partly because my dad worked for rich people and there were perks. I remember I had a Shirley Temple doll, a Deanna Durbin doll, a Charlie McCarthy doll. And they were lovely. I mean, when the boss got them for his children, they got one for me for Christmas. So I normally would not have had that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3829.53,3872.93"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you still have any of those dolls? My","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3872.96,3874.97"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e mother gave them to relatives in Canada. I was furious because I wanted them for my own children. But she thought, no, but they were in a box and she just assumed I didn't want them, I guess.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3874.97,3887.57"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, mom.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3887.6,3888.68"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e And of course, again, it that was built around the industry. You know, the dolls? They were very popular. And the thing is, you'd run into stars and starlets right in your neighborhood. Coming see a friend or something. They were kind of walking around like everybody else. And I think the car thing was made it very different culturally. The woman had to build her life around her home because she couldn't get away, frankly. And the kids did the same thing. They weren't running off to all over and play airplanes and stuff, you know? They were pretty much home centered. Halloween was very different in those days than today. Many kids don't go to door to door. It's not safe.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3891.5,3953.34"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e What was Halloween like in Hollywood?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3953.37,3955.5"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, it was a big deal. Costume and makeup wise. Huge. And big groups of kids moving together from house to house and everybody knowing everybody.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3956.01,3969.39"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Was it candy or was it peanuts?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3969.42,3971.4"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e It was candy. Candy and cookies. Candy, mostly. And then you'd sit on the floor of your living room and sort it all out and put the ones you liked the best over here, you know? There were big parks, and they had activities for kids in the park. They do that now, too. And Hollywood Boulevard was decorated. I remember the Christmas parade in Hollywood. They still do it, but not like they used to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=3971.43,4007.19"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Because they used to decorate the lampposts [in Hollywood]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4008.96,4011.919"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, and I would be up--not on the street, but up on the roofs. I'd climb the roofs and watch the parade from the roofs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4013.03,4021.28"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Was this you with the boys club or--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4022.6,4024.49"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e With or without. All you need was a telephone pole. And I knew how to climb up the telephone poles. And if you could get a pole next to a building, you had it made. And I could see everything I wanted to see up there. But parents weren't [concerned]. You see, we didn't have a drug problem,for one thing. It was there, but it was kind of isolated-- doctors and nurses and that field had access to drugs and musicians did, and there wasn't much else going around. So you didn't live in fear of that at all. And kids had nothing to do with it, you know. And they weren't targets of it. Parents didn't have the worries. They may have had other worries about feeding you, but they didn't have worries about some something bad happening to you and I don't remember. I never grew up with an incident of a man pushing me beyond where I wanted to be, or frightening me in any way. To this day, maybe I wasn't appealing, I don't know, but I just never ran into it. And so it was a very friendly world I grew up in. And so I have a lot of trust. And I'm an optimist. It makes sense. Sense because I didn't run into that. And here I was in the middle of Sin City in a way. You know, but it never it just wasn't in the open or they didn't catch him, I don't know. It wasn't the topic of conversation. Gambling was a big thing. There were gangsters. Oh, there was one thing. There was a boat off the coast of. This is interesting. There was a boat off the coast of Malibu called the Rex","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4025.09,4134.466"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e S.S. Rex. And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4135.39,4136.35"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e it was a gambling ship because now if you went far enough out, it was beyond the law, and they could do it legally. But bootlegging was a big deal. So it had to be. A long time ago, I was little, I lived in Malibu, and I don't think I was in school yet, but one night it was raided. I don't know if if there was somebody on it they were trying to get or what.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4136.35,4164.79"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e His name is Tony Cornero.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4164.819,4166.77"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e You know all about it. You know better than I. But I remember a whole lot of activity that night, and all the people that lived on the Malibu coast were out looking for gunnysacks of alcohol floating in because they threw the stuff over the boat Because they didn't want to be caught with it. I guess there was some ruse to get on the ship other than the alcohol. Apparently, whatever the ruse was to go on that ship, the ship got wind of it, and they were throwing these bottles of alcohol over off the ship so they wouldn't be caught with them. Well, guess what was happening. The residents got word through the sheriff and the radio, and they're all up and down the coast looking for the. Well, my mother and dad were out there in their clothes and and they were they brought in a bag and some of them were broken and some of them weren't. And this was bootleg. And of course it was [the] Depression and it was worth something. And of course, nobody along Malibu told anybody if they got some. right? But I remember that night. I also remember a big thing was collecting moon stones. Now you can hardly find them. And shells the same way. I don't know if they've disappeared, but in Malibu, in the tide pools and different places, you see these beautiful moon stones. And my folks collected them. And as a little kid, I helped them find them. And I remember we were all dressed to go somewhere, and I was dressed early, and I went outside. And as the tide went back, I saw this big stone rolling, and it was the biggest one I'd ever seen. And it looked like a moonstone with my little Mary Jane shoes I went-- had to take a risk and I went for it, and I got it. And it was a bigger than a baseball. It's the biggest moonstone in our whole lives we ever found. And I didn't even get scolded for ruining my clothes. But these were the kind of activities families had. They were home bound things, and it was more family oriented than it is today, I think. Yeah, at least what I see. Yeah, maybe. Maybe things are going on I don't know about. But what I see, the whole family is scattered because they're so mobile. Even the kids have cars. Yeah. You know, everybody's got a car. Yeah. And everybody has their own interest. And then they've got all these techie things that separate them. So they're not doing the. Oh, I remember another thing. The earthquake. The Long Beach earthquake. It hit in Hollywood. It was that strong. And I remember we were in one of those flag lots where there were four of them, two in front and two in back, and we were doing a jigsaw puzzle at a card table. Mother and dad and me and I was little. And, you know, the little radios that were shaped like an upside U with a little orange dial. We were listening to the report on the Long Beach earthquake, and it was terrible, the damage and the loss and the problems. So my dad decided, because he was a young man then, that he would go down to help. He would volunteer, and he felt mother and I were fine if we just stayed close, you know? So he left us. The woman went in the other back house was hysterical. She thought it was the end of the world. So my mother told me to stay with the jigsaw puzzle, take care of the jigsaw. And she was going to go next door and calm the lady down. Because the lady didn't know what an earthquake. She was foreign and she was hysterical. And it hit again really hard. And when it hit, the puzzle shifted on the table. It didn't go off the table, but it moved and came apart. And my mother tells the story that she looked. She ran from the woman to see if I was okay, if I was scared, or if I was okay, and I was saying, she's going to kill me because I thought my mother would think I messed up the the jigsaw. But jigsaw puzzles were a big, big activity in my day, a family activity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4166.8,4454.03"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, do you remember miniature golf in Hollywood?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4454.06,4456.19"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I don't remember that when I got older. I remembered it when I was a teenager. But I don't know. I do not remember it as a family thing. I remember pony rides where you go around a little tiny corral. Little kids on ponies. And I remember the beach stuff, because that must have been what my parents did for me. [They'd] get me to the beach, to those activities because they were a safe and fun. I remember Ocean Park Pier was an entertainment pier and it had a fun house and all kinds of rides and things. And there was one horrible thing that was half man, half animal. And I was so frightened. I got into the passage of it and he was in a cage and I couldn't cross in front of him. And I couldn't go back because you couldn't get out once you were [in there], you had to keep going forward, and they finally had to stop the thing and send somebody and get me out because I was just frozen with terror. Never went back to that again, but they had quite an amusement park. And I get Venice Pier and Ocean Park [confused]. Oh, there's a racist thing I remember.--terrible, terrible racist [thing]. Between Santa Monica and Ocean Park or Venice-- I get that mixed up a little bit. There was a black beach. It was segregated just for blacks. It wasn't very big. And they had these cabanas built next to the sidewalk in the sand, and they had palm thatched roofs, so it would look like a native hut. It was so embarrassing and humiliating and disgusting. And blacks would be there as if they were natives. I mean, it was just awful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4456.73,4594.14"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e So that's not Bruce's Beach that was just in the news where the family owned a resort there. [It may have been the beach known as the Inkwell.]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4594.17,4602.06"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't know. There was the sidewalks [that were] very wid, and there are living places up to the sidewalk, and then these huts. And I remember you'd have to pass through it to get to the other beach if you were walking. And I remember I would never look left or right. I never had eye contact with anyone. I just felt so embarrassed for the people because it was, to me, it was looking down on them. I didn't like it. I'd rather have them on the beach with me, you know, and and of course, in school there were a lot of black kids at Venice High. And in sports and music. Boy, they were right up there and they were just like anybody else as far as I could see. Better. I remember the night that they took the Asians, the Japanese away, I had Japanese friends and the next day they were gone. You know, it was awful. And you didn't even have an address or anything to reach. You didn't know how to reach them, no phone number, nothing. Some of them had celery farms up the coast. They lost them. It was that again was a terrible, to me, embarrassment of how we handled it. But [there was] a lot of history between the Depression and when I graduated from high school. I remember graduating from high school, and that night I think I went to see The Wizard of Oz at the Grauman's Chinese. And I had my diploma, and Red Skelton and his wife were there, and I had them sign my diploma.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4602.06,4720.66"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you still have your diploma?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4721.71,4722.7"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e That's all I had. That's all there on my diploma. But you bumped into the people all the time that you don't anymore because they live away. They're not in the center of it, like Beverly Hills so much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4722.73,4737.85"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e So thank you. Maxine, I want to thank you for taking the time to talk to us about living in Hollywood in the 30s and 40s, and we even got some bonus around to the rest of Southern California, so I appreciate it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4748.71,4761.22"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, I hope it helps.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4761.4,4762.72"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e It does.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4762.75,4763.68"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4763.71,4764.37"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/transcript/77775/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=4764.4,4765.45"}]},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/index/88601","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Auto-generated Index (2024-11-13 01:10:33) [Index]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/index/88601/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Early Life and Birthplace","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792#t=0.0,38.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/145698/file/268792/index/88601/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The speaker was born in Pasadena, California, in 1927, during the onset of the Great Depression. 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