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Today's date is November 17th, 2024. And today I'm interviewing Maxine Simons, who lives in Reseda, and talking about moving to post-World War II San Fernando Valley during the population boom. So thank you for talking to us today, Maxine. You've lived in a lot of locations all over Los Angeles, but you've lived longest in Reseda. Can you tell us about your move to the San Fernando Valley?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1.82,33.89"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, it's a long story. And I lived here a long time. It's been, I think, a little over 72 years in the same house. That's a record, I think. I was coming back from Europe, from working with the Marshall Plan, with my husband, and we came home [to Los Angeles]. We lived a month with my mother and a month with his mother, and decided we needed a home and started looking. I wanted a family and I was pregnant and we needed a home. And in the Sunday real estate section, there were drawings of the plan of these houses, and the name of it was the Meadowlark Park Tract, and I fell in love with it. My husband? Not so much. We came out on a weekend to look at the models. I fell in love with them. My husband? Not so much. They were very modern with the open kitchens. That was new. Only custom homes had that-- tract homes, not that I knew of. It had all sorts of innovations that were very modern-- high beam ceilings, windows from floor to ceiling louver, window louvers, glass windows in the bathroom. A TV came with the house. The planter had plants in it. It was not a typical tract house. I'm getting excited just talking about it, remembering it. I was thrilled. Believe it or not, he [her husband] didn't want the indebtedness of a house. He was still going to school on the GI Bill. He was a musician. He had right to think that way because his income wasn't too, um, remarkable or steady. Mine was not remarkable, but it was steady. And we had the GI Bill. And if you didn't have a down payment, it was no different than paying rent. And that's what we did. I brought him out kicking and screaming on another Saturday to see these models [the Meadowlark Park model homes] and to buy the house. And the office was in a garage of one of the models, and there was a big blackboard up there with all the models that were available and where they were. And as one was sold, chalk marked it off. There were only two left of my model, and there were ten people standing in line in front of me. I don't know how many were behind me and I started to cry. I was pregnant out to here. And two models left [of the particular home design she wanted] and ten people ahead of me. Can you imagine today buying a house like that? When I got up to my place in line, there was only one model left. It was on the outside edges of the of the track. It was on White Oak Boulevard [Avenue], which was a big boulevard. It wouldn't be my first choice, but it was my last choice to get my model and I grabbed it. We moved in late 1953, in December, right at the end of the year [the move in date may have been during the summer]. It was, as I recall, 105 degrees and no air conditioning. We were trying to clean the house up to move in, and I remember a friend of mine passed out. She was helping, and I thought, oh my goodness, we've made a terrible mistake. But we got an air conditioner and took care of that, of course. The house, we understood there was no [super]market anywhere near, and we only had one car, which was typical in those days. The people didn't all have two cars because the woman stayed at home and the man took the car to work. I didn't even know how to drive. I was 30 some years old, didn't know how to drive. But they had the Meadowlark Park market up a block away, and the builders had bought that for the convenience of the tract. They knew that would it be a selling point. And they put the market in, and there it was for us. So I could walk with a stroller with my babies to the market, and there was a drugstore adjacent and a dime store on White Oak, the street that I lived. Cal State Northridge didn't exist then [San Fernando State Valley College opened in 1958], so it wasn't there. It was all orange groves. I we were very happy to have the location we had, and we soon became, I guess, modernists in terms of furniture and, and tried to lend to the house its theme.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=34.76,385.68"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e So the Meadowlark Park Meadowlark Park tract was designed by architect Edward Fickett. Had you ever heard of Mr. Fickett before?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=393.06,402.6"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Never heard of him [before I bought the house].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=402.63,404.88"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e And the land that the subdivision sits on was previously a chicken ranch?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=405.24,409.337"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e That was my understanding. And I must say, I am not a gardener. I don't tend to gardens very well, but everything grew like crazy on it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=409.59,420.91"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Due to the--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=421.6,422.374"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e The chickens, the chickens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=422.53,424.12"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Thankful for the chickens. Was there still a lot of farmland around when you moved in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=424.18,429.64"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Mostly ranches, and property with acreage. Something interesting-- we were not a diverse community. When my children went to school and we got the class picture, you wouldn't see a black face or a dark brown face. Now it's opposite. I can't find a blonde head. So there's been a radical change in the population, and it's become very citified.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=429.67,465.82"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e There's still a lot of fruit trees in the neighborhood. Not a. Not","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=466.6,470.373"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e a lot. They're sort of token. They're not really.????","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=470.373,473.426"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e So did the houses come with fruit trees? What sort of vegetation did you have when you moved in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=473.5,477.56"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e There was nothing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=477.59,478.61"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, I thought there were plants in the planter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=479.78,481.94"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm sorry. You're right there were. But they were just little, you know, decorative plants. We planted an orange tree in the front. Yeah, but where the college went in, it had been--that was just up the street from us on White Oak-- they were orange groves. And there was still a lot of chicken farms and ranches. It was prevalent. There was something else. I think that was interesting--???because these one car, we did not have a one car garage, by the way. We had a big garage. It was for two cars, plus a laundry room. But we only had one car. I mean, we were more like the community of people. The ex-servicemen and their wives that moved in. They were one car garages and the tracts around us. But we took care of each other. If one person was going [to the store], they'd ask their neighbor, do you need anything? And we had Helms Bakery. We had Adohr Milk. We had Fuller Brush ??? delivery we had, because, again, of the women at home keeping the house but not having any cars, the men had them to go to work. And so they had all these delivery things. In fact, do you know that some of the houses, not in the Valley necessarily, but I remember in Hollywood they had little openings built in the house with little metal doors with a latch, and the milkman could deliver the milk into the house and lock the little door, and you could go into your kitchen and open the little door. And there was your milk. It was that prevalent that they actually built it into the home, the delivery, because women were needed milk for the babies. And they hadn't any way to get it directly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=482.9,618.89"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, today we still have the ice cream man going around. Did you have ice cream man?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=618.92,622.364"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e We had ice cream men, too. Yeah, we didn't miss anything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=622.76,626.9"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e I believe in the past you've talked about-- there was an incinerator in the backyard?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=629.54,635.479"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, all the tracts and all those homes. I lived in Hollywood. And when I was little, they had an incinerator and they had a metal pole clothesline. It came with the house. If you bought a house, that was I guess it was the law, everybody had it. And I can remember taking the trash out in the wastebasket and dumping it into the incinerator, and it had a little smokestack, and you could fire it up and destroy your own trash.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=636.08,672.31"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e And cause more smog.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=672.34,674.74"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. And that [incinerator] was in this modern home, by the way. They had it, too. But that's the last I heard of it being brought into the valley. I think it stopped that that year or that ten years, I don't know. Yeah, but I don't remember it after that. And we kept it for a little while. And then at one point the trash removers came and we got one and we got rid of the incinerator.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=675.61,706.93"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e And I think that you've talked in the past that there were no fences when you moved in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=707.26,711.34"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e There were no fences. We all got to know each other better than we wanted to, and more than we wanted--each other's dogs and children. I remember one time opening up the backyard and there was a horse there. I don't know where that came from. But once the fences went up, that was not as easy to mingle and meet. The first year it was, we all got to really know each other and help each other. And then it was more selective after that. I want to mention this, not about the house, but it's about the community. There was something called a co-op nursery school. I don't know if any of you have heard of it. I had never heard of it, but somehow I heard of it. And I wanted something for my children because all schools didn't have a kindergarten in the beginning. And some of them started at first grade, some started at kindergarten, and the nursery school movement was active. I wanted something for my children, so I investigated it. There was a long waiting list, and I had a little girl who was very tall and very strong and started walking and running at nine months.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=711.37,805.94"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=805.97,806.96"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e And I needed something for her because she was physical, but not cognitive. She had no sense of when I do this, that happens. And she needed training beyond what I was available for. So we got on the waiting list. And because of her height they made an exception. She got in at something like--I don't know when it was. I think toilet training was one of the requirements because it was a co-op, meaning the mothers had to participate with the teacher and the families paid for the rent and the salary of the teacher, and the families picked the teachers and the families were part of the curriculum. So cooperative meant they participated. So every day there were four parents and one director, and it worked out to about one adult to five children. And we had about 25 children each morning. And it was a morning class. I understand this came from World War II, when the women all went to war too--I mean they took the places of the men's jobs and the children had to be put into cooperative places where the remaining parents at home could help out. And I think the first one in America was Cherry Hill in New York. But at any rate, it was not common, but it was available. And I got into it and it changed my life completely.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=806.99,909.43"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Was it in someone's home? Where was it? No,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=910.06,913.075"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e we had to rent our own space. We owned it. We were the proprietors and the owners and the directors. We had board meetings and and we voted as families for this or that, or we had fundraisers. Fundraisers for this or we rented an already built little school from a church, and we had it all week long, and they wanted it on the weekend and we didn't need it on the weekend. So we rented from them and we had to maintain it. We had to clean it and repair things. And that was a movement that was in the valley. I think there were about three of them. And it was very important and vital to the community. And it didn't last too long after the war. They phased out and became Head Start-- they were advocates for Head Start. And many of the teachers of the co-ops were people that wrote grants ??? Head Start was one of them. And so reason I mentioned it, it was a strong influencer for Head Start that took its place. Mhm. And we were a part of the beginning of that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=913.075,993.11"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Was it mostly parents from this area?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=993.5,995.354"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. It had to be local for carpooling because remember that was hard for us. And I didn't have a car, so I wanted to know if I could take a taxi [to the co-op] they wouldn't allow that, and so I paid one of the mothers who had a car to be [the driver on my day] and I would ride with her. I participated and she went home. But it was a wonderful experience. That's all I can say. I learned parenting from it. I also learned a lot about me and my [childhood] when I was parented. And I remember telling the director when my children graduated, \"I don't know what it did for my children, but it did a lot for me.\" But it was a wonderful community experience, and we helped one another in many ways as parents, and they were from all walks of life. It was very interesting as a group. And I'll tell you, we wanted a child of color and we told the waiting list--the membership people--if one shows up, put him in front. We want that the children to have the experience. We never got one, we never got one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=997.01,1087.64"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, it sounds like there were a lot of families with young children in the tract. Oh,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1087.67,1093.76"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e yeah????? 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And they couldn't afford a private schools. Yeah. And maybe there weren't private schools near where they where they lived. That's another. So they grew out of the community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1095.65,1119.26"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e So this, this tract when you moved in it was mostly young families. Do you remember any older people?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1119.77,1125.03"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e I wouldn't say it was mostly young families. There was enough because of the other tracts around us, to support a school. But the people that came to this tract were artists, musicians, actors, architects, writers. It was a progressive group of people that took these houses. These were not traditional houses. My mother was never comfortable in this house. She couldn't understand why anybody would have an open kitchen to the living room where they could see your dirty dishes. She never understood-- or have a bar between the two rooms, instead of a wall [many models had a breakfast bar between the kitchen and the dining area]. You have a [separate] dining room and a kitchen. You have a [separate] living room and a kitchen and a wall. And she was never comfortable in it. I can't say the young people felt that way, but traditionally it was not the norm. The first people that bought these houses were not average. In general, they were artistic and progressive and modernists. And it was a different climate over time as, as their careers improved and they flipped the house over for something bigger or better. More people came in that were from Ohio or the Midwest. People were not as sophisticated, but they were more familiar because this sort of thing [modern homes] had been around longer. And they were a little bit more conditioned for it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1125.18,1237.81"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Were there opportunities to socialize with other adults--would neighbors get together and have dinner?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1237.84,1245.151"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Before the fences went up, yes. After the fences went up, not so much. You had the friends you had, but if new people moved in, those people you didn't get to know so well or easily, nor they you. But in the very beginning, it was pretty open. And I remember on the--I lived next to a corner house and there were musicians [who lived there] and they sold to musicians. And for years there have been musicians moving in. They don't all know each other. There was a father and son purchase, but that stayed pretty much [teh same]. And it's still a musician [living there today]. But most of them [the homeowners] have changed, and it's just a regular mix now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1245.38,1295.09"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, you've talked about the market down the street and the dime store. Did you also shop on Sherman Way?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1295.87,1302.18"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. I walked from my house to Reseda Center. I have the stroller with the baby. I didn't particularly like that part of it, but that was the price you pay for what you want, and I was willing to. And I didn't complain about it because, as I told you, my husband was kicking and screaming and he would just throw it up--well you wanted it. This is you. This is what you wanted, you know? But I just sucked it in because that was part of living there. And it was worth it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1302.51,1343.28"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Because it does seem like they have very large parking lots down there. 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You know, as new tracts came in and new developers, more women were going out into the work field and needed cars and they were driving And I was just--I didn't drive until I was 30 years old, so I was pretty late in that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1348.08,1367.62"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e You also live near the Van Nuys Airport. Is the air traffic worse than it used to be?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1367.65,1374.55"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e I never had a problem with it because I wasn't in the direct pattern. I could hear planes every now and then, but they're not going over where I live. It's never been a problem for me. I think right in the beginning it was new, you know, I wasn't used to hearing it, but I adapted very quickly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1374.61,1395.1"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e And full disclosure, Maxine is a friend of mine, and I've known her for years. And I know that you wrote a letter to Edward Fickett's widow, Joycie Fickett. How did that come about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1395.91,1406.92"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e I read in the newspaper that he had died some time ago, and she was dismantling his office, his drawings, the notes, she was donating to the School of Architecture at [U]SC, and she was having a hard time doing it emotionally. So I called the newspaper and asked to have the reporter call me to find out if she'd be interested in what it was like to live in one of his homes. And she [the reporter] called me. And as I started to talk, she realized the things I were saying were some of the things that the widow of Mr. Fickett would have loved to have heard, because she [Joycie Fickett] didn't feel he'd been recognized properly in his lifetime. And so, without asking her, she just gave me her phone number and told me to call her. And so I did, and I started to tell her, and she started to cry, and she asked if I would mind writing it down in a letter because her sister was ill and also cared about her husband and would like to hear this. So I wrote a letter and I was surprised it went, I think, ten pages. I just started talking about the house I love and after reading it, it sounded like I had a very symbiotic relationship with the house. I had lived through a divorce in this house. I had lived through a marriage, a second marriage, in this house. I had brought my babies home to this house I had started working. I had started driving from this house. I had a a death in this house. The house--I always looked forward to coming home to. It always made me happy. I always felt protected. I was surprised when I wrote this, how much affection I had for the house that had kept me happy and and protected. And so I wrote the letter and sent it to her. And then she called back and she was crying again and wanted to know if she could quote some lines in it when she gave the materials to the college. I said, I don't care. So time passed and there was a realtor that was a friend of my son. He played pool with him and he raved about the house. And I said, maybe you'd like to--I had a copy of the letter and I gave it to him to read, and he called me from home and wanted to know if I would like to join a writing club of his wife's, and could they print the letter? It might make an interesting story. And I said no, it mentions my ex-husband and family and it's personal. And so that ended that. And then the next thing I know, at a yard sale that I had that was just books, I met one of the women in the tract. In fact, the woman who's doing this interview as a matter of fact, and she had one of the same houses like I do. And we talked, and I she was interested in the letter, and I let her read the letter and she shared it with somebody else. And the next thing I know, this photographer and a woman came and interviewed me, and this was the Museum of Natural History. And this letter has quite a life of its own. At any rate, long story short, I became friends with the widow of the architect, and the letter had a life of its own and is still kicking up dirt. And it's kind of an amazing thing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1406.95,1677.28"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e So I love that story because it talks about how you just happened to read in the newspaper something from Joycie. And you got in contact with the reporter, you got in touch with Joycie [Fickett], and now you've become friends with Joycie. And you're amazing--how you are constantly building your circle of people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1678.93,1703.02"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, that's kind of community stuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1703.17,1705.87"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e And have you enjoyed living in Reseda?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1706.89,1709.59"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. I had to tone down my living a lot. I was a city girl and very active in many things, but if I didn't have something, I could create it. And I became an activist, you know, with NOW [National Organization for Women] and women's rights, women's equal pay. That was when I joined the Unitarian Church. I wanted something to continue the co-op philosophy with my children. And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1711.03,1744.97"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e we are going to be talking about the Unitarian Church in the next interview that we do. 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In fact, you were getting articles in the magazines about the stay at home moms and the working moms. They were villainizing the working moms because they should stay home with their babies. You know, it was quite an interesting time. And that's probably when my activism was born-- out of being single and working, kind of defending myself. It was a hard time, but not an unhappy time, but a harder time. The house was my sanctuary. It was my happiness. And the minute I opened the door and walked in, no matter what the world was doing with my life, my home life was solid and I knew it and I was happy. I want you to know, also, without a down payment and with the oh, what was it called?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1750.49,1861.4"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e The GI Bill?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1862.39,1863.104"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e The GI Bill. The payments were only about $94 a month. And honestly, that was less than some of the rents so I could manage. I was still pretty happy I could manage that. But as time went on, I became more the single woman and and I, you know, the song \"I'll Never Go Back?\" I was never, even in the second marriage, I wasn't the type of wife that I was with the first husband. I had one foot out the door doing my thing and being my person. And so I was even happier then. But the valley had changed. Two car garages were coming in and women were going off to work, and activism was rising and the diverse world had come here and it was all good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1866.41,1922.58"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e How much did you pay for the house? Do you remember?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1923.66,1926.6"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Does it make sense to say $19,000?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1929.63,1931.405"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Maybe.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1932.21,1932.617"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, I think that's what it was. I look at it now and it doesn't seem believable. I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1933.05,1939.68"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e know, it doesn't.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1939.68,1940.82"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e Is that possible? But that's what my memory tells me. And I'm 97 now. My memory could be off. But let me tell you, as long as I've hit 97--about the community. Now I remember when this--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1941.21,1959.267"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm sorry. The mailman arrived and I put it on pause. But now we're back. And Maxine was telling us about growing older in Reseda.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1961.95,1968.97"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaxine Simons:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm not doing well today. I remember when One Generation, our senior center [in Reseda] opened and I went to the opening. I was a senior. I was in my 70s I believe. I didn't identify with being a senior, but I wanted to see what it was all about and support it if it was something good. And I went to one lunch there, I went to one Christmas program of tap dancers, senior tap dancers, and I went to a yard sale and it was all good, and I became a member to support it. And then I never went back. Not for a while. I became quite ill, had to have surgery, had cancer, and I was.???? It was just before my 80th birthday. I joined [because]??? I needed Meals on Wheels. When I came back from surgery, I lived alone. I was a widow, and I was still in my happy, happy house. But I couldn't manage it all by myself. And One Generation has been my right hand since I was 80. I am now 97. They've not missed one day of bringing me food. They call me every day to see if I'm all right and if I need anything. They've seen to it that I got an alarm for emergencies. They got me a walker. They got me a seat for the bathtub. They bring me Christmas gifts, of all things. They look out for me and I can't thank them enough. And the community should thank them all the time because they do good work. That's just one of the things, the library is another. I've been to their programs where they have dramatizations of authors and and famous people. They come to churches, they come to the libraries. They're wonderful programs. They have children's groups that are helping hospitals, sending little cards and little gifts and treats to the patients. There's a lot of community going on now that didn't exist when I was young. It's important because the people who have stayed in the community definitely need the help, because they aren't producing like they were when they were young. My house is paid for. I don't know what I'd do today if I hadn't paid the house off. Now, the rents are so high. Imagine being single without a home now I wouldn't be.???? I'd be either. I would have either lost my house from borrowing on it, or I'd have moved away. I couldn't, I couldn't live here. I would, I would, the circumstances would have changed so much. But the community is right here. Even the Cal State Northridge has programs that are helpful. I went to one not too long ago. It was staying healthy with improv. Things like that. ???Um, it's I don't because of transportation and living alone. I don't get to go to all the programs, so I don't pay attention to them, but there's an awful lot of them. I laughed at One Generation's tap dancing, but good for them. And they're still doing it. But they have other things besides tap dancing. I was even in one of their programs. It was research with Cal State Northridge on aging and theater as a bridge for generations of old and young [with] theater as the bridge. And it was research, and it was done at at One Generation. But the research was done at Cal State Northridge. So a lot is going on and a lot I don't know about because I don't even try anymore because of the transportation. It's a good community. It's changed. It's very citified. You can hardly find a ranch anymore. Very diverse. That's good for the experience, for everybody. I miss the children and the animals more than anything, but they're there if I could get to them. I understand Moorpark has a zoo--and it's not really a zoo. It's an animal training program. It's a course, and I understand if I feel up to it, people will take me there to see the animals, and I'm looking forward to that. But I do miss animals and little children and ??? the experience of living in the valley. I wouldn't have wanted to live anywhere else. Everybody I love was here until recently. My son couldn't afford to live here, to buy a house, so he moved to Arizona. And my daughter was burned out of Paradise [due to the Camp Fire] and she's up in Santa Barbara with her children. So I'm really kind of alone now, but not really. I have my home, which is friendly, and I have a community that is more than friendly, and I'm very thankful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751#t=1971.94,2340.35"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/142505/file/263751/transcript/76638/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTiffney Sanford:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, Maxine, I want to thank you. I'm tearing up. I want to thank you for sharing your life in Reseda with us. And next up, we'll talk about going to the [Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society's] Onion church and building the Onion church. 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