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Uh, we're here with the Oral History Project for the City of Keizer Points of Interest Committee. Our very first guest is Evelyn Franz, who I believe is a lifelong resident of Keizer, is that right? \n\nEvelyn Franz: True, yes. \n\nJoe Cox: Uh, why don't you tell us a little bit about, uh, When you were born and kind of the family homestead, I understand you guys had a big farm right out near River Road.\n\nEvelyn Franz: Yes, my father bought this 35 acre farm at the end of River Road and Cherry Avenue. Now where it's called Keizer Town Square. And we moved out in October of 1926. \n\nJoe Cox: So how old were you at the time? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Uh, \n\nJoe Cox: do you remember the move to Keizer at all? Oh, \n\nEvelyn Franz: yes. \n\nJoe Cox: Very nice. Um, so I understand, when you say River Road, um, was it","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=0.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"actually, it was a dirt road at the time, wasn't \n\nEvelyn Franz: it?\n\nEvelyn Franz: Not River Road. River Road was just a single patched road, however, not like it is now. And Cherry Avenue was a graveled road that intersected at River Road. \n\nJoe Cox: Now, your maiden name was Melson. Melson, yes. How long did your family own the farm there? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, they bought it in 1926 and then until 1961. \n\nJoe Cox: What did your, what did they grow there?\n\nEvelyn Franz: Just about everything. There was a prune orchard. It was the main thing. We had cherry orchard. We had wonderful gardens, all kinds of fruits. We had a swale and a pasture and then the Cleggate Creek at the east side of the property. \n\nJoe Cox: So they moved there just a few short years before the Great Depression started.\n\nEvelyn Franz: Yes. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, how did that affect your family? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, as a youngster,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=60.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it didn't affect me because here where I was on this wonderful acreage, Mm hmm. We had all these wonderful fruits and we had cows. Horses, pigs, chickens, self sufficient almost, but of course it was hard for my older brother and older sister because of entering.\n\nEvelyn Franz: They were in high school and college in those years and it was hard for them. But otherwise, um, we weathered it pretty well. So \n\nJoe Cox: describe for me the drive, um, you said you were at the, uh, River Road and, uh, kind of where they intersect. And, uh, your, the house was a bit set back from the road. Yes. What did it look like as you came in?\n\nEvelyn Franz: The house was a two story farmhouse. I think, according to my, what I found out, I think it was the original John Forrest Donation Land Claim house. And it was quite, it had a","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=120.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"barn and another house beside it, and there was a prune dryer and a rabbit tree. It was quite a farm. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, so your, uh, father, he was a farmer, was he?\n\nEvelyn Franz: No, my father was not a farmer. Um, I look back now, I would call him a gentleman farmer. My father owned the Atlas Bookstore in Salem at the time. Mm hmm. He was also a politician later, county commissioner for eight years, and a businessman. And he bought this farm, and I'm glad he did. And then he maintained his ties in Salem with everything, and then farmed on weekends and evenings.\n\nEvelyn Franz: So he wasn't exactly, quote unquote, a farmer. \n\nJoe Cox: So who was, uh, who were some of your family friends growing up? Who, who did your family spend time with? Well, our \n\nEvelyn Franz: family friends, one","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=180.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was, uh, Terry Hogue, who was a member of your, the Points of Interest Committee. Her mother, Oral Smith, was a friend. Sylvia Clagett of the Clagett family, an old Keizer family.\n\nEvelyn Franz: And, uh, the Blake family that had Willow Lake, they were friends. And the Bowden family, which is an old family, and the Frogleaf family, which is an old, first families of Keizer. Cause Keizer was just big farms when we moved out, mostly, at that time. \n\nJoe Cox: When did you, do you remember when you started to see, um, you know, obviously it's not a farm corridor anymore.\n\nEvelyn Franz: No. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, what was it? Um, when did you really remember starting to see the transition sort of? After \n\nEvelyn Franz: World War II. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, so, when did you, what were some of the businesses that started popping up that you remember? Well the \n\nEvelyn Franz: first","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=240.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one, well of course the very, well, very first business if you want to call it that was Ward Russell's.\n\nEvelyn Franz: He sold bread and candy and things by the old school. But, just before the war, there at the intersection of Cherry Avenue and River Road, there was a Union Gas Station and behind it was Smith and Ward Grocery and Hardware Store at the intersection. That must have been the late 30s. Um, yes, just before Pearl Harbor, 41.\n\nJoe Cox: What was, um, what do you remember from, who were your schoolmates at Keizer School that you remembered? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well Sylvia Claggett, Eileen Holden Johnson, Zilla Frogley Schooley, and uh, there's Lorraine's son. Her father had the peach orchard where Fred Myers is now. And Phil Blake, a lot of the old first family.\n\nEvelyn Franz: Children who are my age.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=300.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Joe Cox: So do you attend a Keizer school then? Uh, correct. \n\nEvelyn Franz: All eight years. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, who do you um, who was your favorite teacher there? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, let's see favorite. I can't really say I had we won't I had four Teachers. \n\nJoe Cox: Mm-Hmm. . Can you tell us about some of them? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Um, yes. My friends, uh, Eileen Holden Johnson, her mother was a first grade teacher.\n\nEvelyn Franz: My third and fourth grade teacher was Cora Clark Beardsley. And then in the fifth and sixth grade was Eva Kelso. And in the seventh and eighth with. Janet Kirk. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, what would, uh, so when World War II, uh, or when Pearl Harbor happened you would've been, um How old would you have been? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, let's see, was I was married in 1940, and that was in 41 I was 20?\n\nJoe Cox: Did your husband end up going? \n\nEvelyn Franz: He went to offers candidate school. He volunteered.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=360.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How do \n\nJoe Cox: you remember the, uh, What do you remember about Keizer during the war? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, let's see.\n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, I had my first child in 43. Well, things changed. It's hard to tell. Well, you didn't have things. You couldn't get a refrigerator or a washer. Rationing went into effect, and sugar, and butter, and all those things. You had little coupons. I still have those little books at home. That showed how to do it.\n\nEvelyn Franz: Things started changing, and it just changed so gradually, you really didn't, you didn't notice it, because everything was changing, \n\nJoe Cox: it seemed \n\nEvelyn Franz: like. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, So there was, uh, do you remember when the, did, did you go to school with, um, any Japanese children for the period? Oh \n\nEvelyn Franz: yes, we had, uh, quite a few Japanese children in our, uh, grades.\n\nEvelyn Franz: I have pictures of them in the classroom, pictures. The Pakudas, the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=420.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Watanabes, and, um, two girls. Yes, we had several, mm hmm. They came from Lake Lebesgue. \n\nJoe Cox: Uh huh. Um, how was, do you remember how that community was affected in the months after Pearl Harbor? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Lake Lebesh? \n\nJoe Cox: Mm hmm, the Japanese community in particular.\n\nJoe Cox: Well, \n\nEvelyn Franz: of course they were interned as you know. . \n\nJoe Cox: Mm-Hmm. . \n\nEvelyn Franz: And I'm sure, well, I was so busy raising a family then I didn't really pay too much attention to that. Sure. To tell you the truth. But they were affected. Of course. Some never did get over it. Of course. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, what businesses did your family like to go to a lot when you were a kid, a, a child, and as and as a young adult?\n\nJoe Cox: What family, what businesses did you frequent? Well, \n\nEvelyn Franz: of course it was during the depression and then like. Mother canned everything and did her own baking and cooking. So, I think about the only time Went to businesses, buy fresh meat, probably.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=480.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Because I can't remember having any canned goods, hardly, in those years.\n\nJoe Cox: Um, how did your family, um, so you were a young mother during, when the war, when the war was happening. \n\nEvelyn Franz: Yes. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, how did you manage to, did you pretty, was it, Living off the land, more or less? \n\nEvelyn Franz: No. I say, um, It was hard to explain. I hadn't thought through too much. Well, coming from the Depression, you just got what you needed, not what you wanted.\n\nEvelyn Franz: So, when the rationing came on and everything, it just was kind of an extension of not having things, so it didn't, everybody was in the same boat. So, we just all kind of weathered it. Kind of went along with it the way it was. And \n\nJoe Cox: um, one of the committee members told me You used to roller skate to school.\n\nEvelyn Franz: Yes. , River Road was a combination of patches and cement, I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=540.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"guess, and tar. Mm-Hmm. , where they'd patch. Lorraine's son would come from her house, say they lived near for Fred Meyers, her roller skates. And then I'd be waiting at the end of the lane on mine. Mm-Hmm. . And then we'd roller skate. Down to Keizer school, no cars, believe it or not Because all the teachers were already there by eight o'clock And then others would come from willard park, which is now willard park They'd come from there on their roller skates and sometimes we'd just Roller skate around a while, but the tar when it was cold was so smooth and nice.\n\nEvelyn Franz: Roller skating wasn't really much fun, but it was Roller skating and of course our skates weren't like they have now. \n\nJoe Cox: Did the road ice over more in the winter then? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Mmm. I'd see I always walked to school and seemed like it was always raining more or less I can't ever remember having any problems","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=600.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with was the ice So \n\nJoe Cox: let's talk about Keizer right after World War II.\n\nJoe Cox: Um, people are coming home, and new businesses, and, uh, you said your family sold the farm in 61? \n\nEvelyn Franz: No, the, yes, I, we sold the farm in 61. My father started, um, subdividing it before that. He sold the first part off to Berg's Grocery Store, where Keizer Town Square is now. That was one of the first, in the early 1950s.\n\nJoe Cox: What did you think at the time of Sort of selling the farm off kind of well, \n\nEvelyn Franz: I was busy with my family and I that was my father's Business or whatever it was and so I didn't really get involved too much or think really think too much about it Tell you the truth. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, do you ever, when you're in that neighborhood, think this?\n\nJoe Cox: Do you ever see spots like this used to be where","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=660.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we would play, you know, or something? Oh, yes. Can you give me any examples? Well, \n\nEvelyn Franz: I go through that quite a bit. And of course, the end of the property bordered Clegg Creek, and it was on a kind of a knoll, a lot of oak trees. And afternoons, I would walk from the house or ride my horse down to to there and play in those woods and along the creek.\n\nEvelyn Franz: Because it was hot days, it was really nice down there. And I, when I go by there a lot, I think, I wonder what that looks like now. Houses. \n\nJoe Cox: Um. So, tell me a little bit about yourself. So you, we've talked about Keizer quite a bit, um, and what the area was like. You had a young family coming up right after World War II, sort of, uh, you know, what's, you know, going into the baby boom era.\n\nJoe Cox: Um, what was, Uh, what were those years like for you and your husband? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, we were busy, of course, and um,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=720.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we moved back into the big old farmhouse when my children were young. And um, when Keizer Town Square opened, it wasn't called that then, and there was a capital drugstore started, and I, my children are old enough, I, I got a part time job at the drugstore, and I could just walk out my house up the lane right into the back, through the back door of the capital drugstore, and then just I was really close to home, and my husband, of course, worked for the state of Oregon, and so we, that was our life.\n\nJoe Cox: Um, what, how long did the farmhouse stay up? Till \n\nEvelyn Franz: 1961. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, and that was when it was sold, and sort of the whole thing was subdivided? I see. It was \n\nEvelyn Franz: divided before then. My father passed away in 55, and my mother lived on until 61, and then we sold the farm, the rest of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=780.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The rest of it had been pretty much sold off and all that.\n\nEvelyn Franz: So what were you doing when you met your husband? I was in um, High school. I, I found out I met him when I was in high school. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, what about when the two of you started dating? Were you, did you meet at the, at a beach? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Uh, yeah. We met at the beach and my husband was in college. Just graduated from Willamette\n\nEvelyn Franz: in the late 30s. Um, \n\nJoe Cox: so you came back, um, what was it that kept you right here in this little area? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, my father gave us a piece of the, on the front part of the land in the, um, walnut orchard, a plot, and we built a house, which is still there. It's a white house at the end of Cherry Avenue. It's crossed from Domino's now, I believe.\n\nJoe Cox: I see. And \n\nEvelyn Franz: we built that house. \n\nJoe Cox: And, uh, do you still live there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=840.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Evelyn Franz: No, no. I moved, we moved just around the corner. \n\nJoe Cox: So, uh, my understanding is when you moved to Keizer, there was yet, there wasn't electricity yet. \n\nEvelyn Franz: Oh, yes. In the house, or there was? Oh, yes. \n\nJoe Cox: Um. \n\nEvelyn Franz: Yeah, there was electricity. \n\nJoe Cox: Oh, okay, but it was the street lights, then, that weren't there yet.\n\nEvelyn Franz: Oh, no street lights. Oh, no. When you left Salem, it was dark. There weren't any lights in Keizer. Cherry Avenue didn't have anything on it until it got cleared down to the end where the Reifus Farm was. I mean, there weren't lights like it is now. It was kind of scary at times. No lights in Keizer because Farm houses were back off the road, seemed like, and might be a little light here and there on a house, and that was all.\n\nJoe Cox: Uh, what was it like when, what do you remember thinking when they got the street lights strung up? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, everything came on so gradual, I can't really, you know, can't really say, oh, wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=900.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Joe Cox: We're looking. It just kind \n\nEvelyn Franz: of changed and grew with what came along. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, so what did you, what did you do for fun when you were a kid?\n\nJoe Cox: You mentioned playing, uh, \n\nEvelyn Franz: on the farm. Well, I, I loved the farm. And I just enjoyed the creek. I, my father got me a beautiful mare, Morgan Black Horse, when I was twelve. And that, That was my life. I could get on her and explore Keizer every afternoon, which I did. And there was a lot of exploring to be done then, and you could get around.\n\nEvelyn Franz: I mean, you could go into the woods and things like that, there and down by the river and watch the paddle boats, the paddle ships, ships, not ships, paddle steam, stern wheelers go by. It was fun. That's what I did. I had a good childhood. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, tell me about the trips into town you would take","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=960.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with your dad.\n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, my dad, um, owned a restaurant in town called Peter Pan. And sometimes on Fridays I'd go in with him because he had a room in the Oregon Hotel. And then I'd stay all night and work in the restaurant. Work. I'd fold napkins. Then go to Mickey Mouse Club at the Elsinore Theatre on Saturday afternoons.\n\nEvelyn Franz: And then come home with him the next day. So \n\nJoe Cox: do you remember when River Road was widened to four lanes? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, in a way I do, but I really can't say that I do. Uh \n\nJoe Cox: huh. Um, at what point, what, what did you think when the idea of incorporating this, you know, the, the idea of a city of Keizer, of course, had been around for a long time?\n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, I'm not very political. And, um It was fine with me. You know, \n\nJoe Cox:","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=1020.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"um, it's gotta be wild kind of looking at this, at this area that you grew up your whole life. It transformed, but it \n\nEvelyn Franz: has, it's \n\nJoe Cox: sort of a poco a poco, little by little. \n\nEvelyn Franz: That's right. It's hard for people to realize what, from what it used to be, what I remember to what it is now, it's hard for like, for you to even realize \n\nJoe Cox: a \n\nEvelyn Franz: lot of this wasn't here, you \n\nJoe Cox: know?\n\nJoe Cox: Sure. Do you remember, um, what was a moment that you remember sort of seeing, uh, thinking, wow, what, how much things have changed? Was there, was there a, oh, wow moment or just? \n\nEvelyn Franz: No, because, um, I've lived here most of my life and it just kind of, you grow with it. And if things, you know, change, just change. And that was part of it.\n\nJoe Cox:","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=1080.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Um, so did you end up going to high school? Where'd you go to high? Salem \n\nEvelyn Franz: High School. Salem High \n\nJoe Cox: School. Um, what was the and that would have been sort of coming into When abouts would that have been? The high school? graduate high school? \n\nEvelyn Franz: When did I graduate? 1938. And we, um, went to two years where Myron Franks was.\n\nEvelyn Franz: That's where the old Salem High School was. Mm hmm. And then the one year in the new Salem High School. Of course it changed to North Salem High School in 1954, when the South Salem High School was built. \n\nJoe Cox: Uh, what did you and your friends do for fun in high school? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, I Rode the school, we had a school bus that took us in and we had to come home every afternoon, of course, so it couldn't take part in any after school things.\n\nEvelyn Franz: And in those days, you just didn't run into town like, oh, like an evening or something like that. You didn't have","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=1140.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cars to do that or the gas or whatever. So my fun, I say I had a good childhood, was coming home and riding my horse. That was, and I didn't care about, I didn't know anybody in Salem until I went to high school there.\n\nEvelyn Franz: And all, so my, my life was on, on the, Old farmhouse around the farmhouse and all around Keizer. And I was perfectly happy. \n\nJoe Cox: Now, when did you get your first car? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, when we got married, I guess, \n\nJoe Cox: what kind of car was it? \n\nEvelyn Franz: It was a 96 Ford coupe, \n\nJoe Cox: um, black. Um, so where, where did you and your husband take trips around the area?\n\nJoe Cox: Did you ever go on car rides? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Oh yes. \n\nJoe Cox: Where were some of the places you like to go? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, we like to take off for the beach. Yeah. Quite often. Mm-Hmm. went to the World's Fair in San Francisco.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=1200.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We'd go to Reno. Just around You guys \n\nJoe Cox: got all, all over, huh? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Yeah. . \n\nJoe Cox: Um, what do you think of, what did you think of, uh, you mentioned you weren't political, but just from a philosophical standpoint, what did you think of this agrarian?\n\nJoe Cox: Sort of rural transition to urban. Did you think that was? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, I didn't tell you the truth You know, it didn't really dawn on me that that was happening. \n\nJoe Cox: Mm hmm\n\nJoe Cox: So how many children did you have? Three. What were their names? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Stanley, Alan, and Janice. \n\nJoe Cox: And they were raised right there in that More or \n\nEvelyn Franz: less, mm hmm, mm hmm. They have fond memories of the old house. \n\nJoe Cox: Well, we went \n\nEvelyn Franz: Camping a lot. We'd go to Silver Creek Falls a lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=1260.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Just a little, and to the beach. We'd take them on trips to California.\n\nEvelyn Franz: Went to Disneyland with them. Went to Disneyland the first year they opened. \n\nJoe Cox: Oh wow. \n\nEvelyn Franz: Yeah. \n\nJoe Cox: Do you have the ears still? No. \n\nEvelyn Franz: No, wish I did. \n\nJoe Cox: But we \n\nEvelyn Franz: were, when we were there that, Ty, you wanna hear about it? \n\nJoe Cox: What's that? \n\nEvelyn Franz: You wanna hear about a trip to Disneyland? 55? \n\nJoe Cox: Let's hear about it. Yeah. \n\nEvelyn Franz: We went, um, we just had my daughter, um, the boys had stayed, they were in school, so they had to stay home with the grandparents.\n\nEvelyn Franz: She was about four or five, and so we went to Disneyland. And we're walking around and some men kept following us, and finally my husband went in and asked them why. He said, well, they chose us as the family of the day. \n\nJoe Cox: Uh huh. \n\nEvelyn Franz: And then they had a program in the evening over at, uh, show house or something where you answered questions.\n\nEvelyn Franz: And I know that I answered the question right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=1320.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Another woman, we won prizes and I have a recording of that. And there was a wall of commuting called Wally somebody and he had my daughter come up and I have a picture of it. And then he shot a gun and it scared my daughter so much. She started crying, of course, but and she hasn't like guns ever since.\n\nEvelyn Franz: But it was a fun trip. It was I have pictures of Disneyland in the in 55. It looks a lot different now. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, do you remember? \n\nEvelyn Franz: I'm sorry. We got keys to the kingdom. Oh, \n\nJoe Cox: cool. Did they did they unlock anything? \n\nEvelyn Franz: No, they did. \n\nJoe Cox: Um, so the do you remember some of the bigger this area as you know, um, has had its share of floods over the years.\n\nJoe Cox: Oh, yeah. Um, was the family, were you far enough from the river and the creek that you and right? \n\nEvelyn Franz: I understand where our house is situated in the big flood of 18 61. That was so devastating. The","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=1380.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"water just came around here and didn't get into the house. But every year when it rained, you knew it was going to be, there were going to be places in River Road and Cherry Avenue where their water would go.\n\nEvelyn Franz: We come through the draws be water and water. And I know I couldn't get to the pasture because there'd be water back there in a certain place there. But, um, none of the big floods even later on came around this area where we lived. Fortunately, \n\nJoe Cox: uh, do you remember, um, What did it look like on, you know, if you were to drive down River Road in the middle of, say, um, one of the, a big flood during the 60s, um, what would it have looked like?\n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, okay, if, uh, if you went down River Road, you know, before you got to, um, Sunset, you knew there'd be water going through there. That was the natural place for it to go. Of course, and then it went across behind and through, uh,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=1440.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"past Cherry Avenue and on back down to the creek. And then you'd go up to where Burger King is now.\n\nEvelyn Franz: There were two ponds. They'd be pretty full. And if we did have really cold weather and freeze, we could ice skate on them. Two or three winters, it got cold enough, they could ice skate on those little ponds. But that's, you just knew there were certain places. And then Where Keizer times is now The house on your right past The orangey house I call it.\n\nEvelyn Franz: That's where I a friend of mine eileen holden johnson That there was a draw there and that was always full of water We knew whenever the river before they put dykes in and the river rose you never nobody ever even thought of building along the river until the Dykes were put in And you knew the water, there are certain places, that's where the water would","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=1500.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"go.\n\nEvelyn Franz: And unless they had a devastating flood, those were the main ones that would fill, though, every year. We knew it, you could generally get through them, \n\nJoe Cox: though. Did you have any family friends who, um, lost part of their houses or livestock or anything during that? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Now, a friend who lives off of Windsor Island Road, Barbara Baldwin Knighton, can tell you more about that.\n\nEvelyn Franz: They had trouble with getting their cows, sometimes through certain places where the water, because that's closer to the river where it would flood. But where we lived, and where this house was, wasn't affected so much. \n\nJoe Cox: So, you ended up, um, did you learn, uh, you learned Spanish, didn't you? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, I, I didn't really learn it.\n\nEvelyn Franz: I worked for the foreign language department, did their typing and everything. And I could type it and all that, but I never had a chance to really get","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=1560.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"into learning it. But, uh, I absorbed enough to get by. \n\nJoe Cox: Can you give me your best Spanish? \n\nEvelyn Franz: No, just, como esta, how are you? And adios. \n\nJoe Cox: So, when you think about, um, so you've spent close to some, Gosh, 80 years here in Pardon?\n\nJoe Cox: You spent something close to 80 years here in this area. Um, when you think back, uh, what's, uh, what's maybe your pre end of World War II, what's like your most pleasant memory of the area? \n\nEvelyn Franz: Well, let's see. That's kind of hard to say. I'd say everything kind of changed so gradually. You got used to not having it, and then you got used to doing it.\n\nEvelyn Franz: I think the main, I don't know if there's anything special I can really say. I can't tell you about it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=1620.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A lot has changed, of course. I've seen a lot of changes. And I have had to accept a lot of changes. \n\nJoe Cox: What was, when you say accept, what was the, what's the one thing that comes to mind that was kind of hard to swallow?\n\nJoe Cox: Well, one \n\nEvelyn Franz: thing was the dress code at the workplace. \n\nJoe Cox: Oh yeah? \n\nEvelyn Franz: It went from where you took pride in what you wore because you always worked better when you wore it. To where they could come in raggedy jeans and skirts up, you know, to where, hmm. And that kind of, it was sad and just the whole demeanor and you started calling everybody for the first names, which I was brought up in the era where you're respected.\n\nEvelyn Franz: Did things a little different, so it was hard to see that change, so I'm hoping that someday it'll go kind of back to it, but maybe it won't. I should \n\nJoe Cox: have worn my tie. No. Well, um, this has been the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=1680.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639/transcript/72004/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"first installment of our oral history project. Hope you enjoyed it. And, uh, Ms. Franz, thank you so much for sitting down with us and sharing some memories with us.\n\nJoe Cox: A \n\nEvelyn Franz: pleasure to do that. It was a pleasure. \n\nJoe Cox: All right, um, and that's it for today. Take care.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://keizerheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3092/collection_resources/137385/file/254639#t=1740.0,1753.552"}]}]}]}