Gilbert H. Iker, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, October 17th & 18th, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 518, 519, and 520

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Gilbert . lker Octob r 7th 2 th glorious summer up there. By the time fall rolled around my dad as abl to 1 d housing out on Yuma Street, which is about Twenty-Seventh South and Twentieth ast in Salt Lake and that was so far out that it was like being at the end of the world· the city just dropped off after that. So it was about as far south as you could get. We lived there, let's see, the first place we lived was a little place on Emerson A venue -that was about Fifteenth East and Fifteenth South. That's where I met my first friends in Utah, a wonderful girl named Barbara Wilson, whose parents became close to my parents. Then we moved to the Yuma Street place, lived there a few months til my dad found quite a nice home owned by a doctor who'd been called back to duty in the military on Thirteenth East and about Thirteenth South. I went to East High and that was very handy. In those days, of course, you either walked or you thumbed. That wasn't a lot of extra transportation, although the busses did run. There was some pretty good public transportation. Still had the street cars and so on. That was our home and it was a great place and my mother became absolutely devoted to Utah, loved Utah. My dad liked to fish during the little time off he had. I remember one of his favorite places was Utah Lake, which was in those days a clear blue -you could see the bottom of the lake. It was just gorgeous. Of course, now it's a big, muddy septic tank. But, anyway, that's another subject. WIN: I think we talked a little bit about your high school activities last time. Did you 50