| Title |
Virginia Kristic, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, February 10, 2003: Saving the legacy tape no. 629 |
| Alternative Title |
Virginia Kristic, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Kristic, Virginia, 1922-2008 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2003-02-10 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Seattle, King County, Washington, United States; Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana |
| Subject |
Kristic, Virginia, 1922-2008--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States--Biography; United States--Naval Reserve--Women's Reserve |
| Keywords |
WAVEs |
| Description |
Transcript (29 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Virginia Kristic on February 10, 2003. This is from tape number 629 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Kristic (b. 1922) recalls her childhood in Butte, Montana, and her marriage to her fiance of six months the day before he was shipped overseas. She joined the WAVES and went to boot camp at Hunter College in the Bronx. She was stationed in Seattle, where she served as a storekeeper from 1942 to 1945. 29 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
29 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s67100p0 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025387 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67100p0 |
| Title |
Page 17 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025373 |
| OCR Text |
Show VIRGI I KRI TIC FEBR AR 10 2003 BEC: Right and Marion did too? VIR: Yes Marion did too, because she was from California. She was anxious to get away-oh, I shouldn't say this-from her doting parents in California. She thought Seattle would be just right. Then they moved to Seattle. BEC: Oh, no. To be near her? VIR: Yes. She had two brothers in the Navy, too. One was a Navy pilot. I don't know what the other one was. They were stationed in Seattle. Well, it was nice for us to have somebody there, but she didn't have the freedom she thought she was going to have. BEC: I can see how that would put a damper on that. VIR: When you think about it, she joined when she was twenty, so really she's the youngest that you could be in the Navy back then. She'll be eighty. Anybody that joined right away would be at least eighty now, unless they were officers. Officers had to be thirty-something, I believe. So they would be much older. We bunked with two girls in Seattle. We couldn't figure out how they could ever be in the service because they were so old. They were both thirty (laughs). We thought all the marching and physical work, how could they handle that? We laugh about that now thinking about how old we thought they were. BEC: So you both went out to Seattle. Were you roommates there? VIR: Yes, in fact when we first went to Seattle, our base wasn't ready for us and we went to a men's shelter for maybe two days or something. Then we were sent up to Pier 90 in Seattle. It was just a new area they'd built for the WAVES and it was wonderful, a beautiful building. They had ships' store in there and a beauty parlor and nice rooms. I think that there were four to a room there, with bunk beds. That's where we met our 16 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67100p0/1025373 |
