And Richmond is just a stoned throw across The Bay.
Alas, I doubt that my aunt wrote much of her experiences (though she was a teacher and wrote well). I'd add her to the list, but cannot recreate the stories with any accuracy, and there is enough BS 24/7 already, so I won't fake it - that side of the family was unlikely to have thought of anything like an "oral history" from this magnificent gal of yore. (I have no excuse, either)
It's an appropriate locale, too - not far from Mare Island (the famous throwaway Victory ships designed by Henry J. Kaiser) - he of Kaiser Permanente, the first HMO -- before that idea became a Enron-style profit-center for suits / middle-men / drones.
Odd to think this is the first?? monument to Rosie in the whole fscking USA! THAT's how much these events have been sublimated since.. by the male movers/shakers, movin and shakin in them boots.
Thanks,
Ashton