Jan Johnston and Jackie Johnston
Recorded
August 7, 2011
39:48 minutes
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Id:
MBY008151
Description
Jan Johnston (85) talks to daughter Jackie Johnston (44) about the day that Pearl Harbor was bombed and how life changed after that - she was 15 years old. She also remembers her Japanese friend Keiko who was taken away to the Japanese concentration camps. Jan also recalls living in San Francisco on her own when she was 17 and making a living as a waitress after deciding she didn’t want to be a nurse.Subject Log / Time Code
Participants
- Jan Johnston
- Jackie Johnston
Venue / Recording Kit
Keywords
- alcohol
- Chamber of Commerce
- cocktail waitress
- Dolls
- Fidler on the roof
- Frank Sinatra
- historical events/people
- Japanese concentration camps
- Judy Garland
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- Nursing School
- Police
- Praying
- San Francisco: 1940s
- school day memories
- Waitressing
- War World II
- WW I