William M. Sanderlin, Layton, Utah: an interview by Winston Erickson, 27 June 2002: Saving the Legacy tape no. 457

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WILLIAM M. ANDERLIN 27 June 2002 WE: Did you give any to your parents? Did you give any of the m n y y u arn d t your parents, to help keep them going? WS: No. Heck no, he had a good job, a good-paying job all during the Depression. WE: So the railroad employment was good? WS: Oh yes. I think he put in about forty years. WE: Well, after high school ... ? WS: I moved to California. My mother and her second husband were splitting up. So my brother and my mother and myself and a friend of mine-another boy that graduated from school the same time I did-we headed for California. WE: Just packed up and left? WS: Yes, my mother had three or four sisters out there, and so there were no problems there with finding a place to stay. WE: Did this friend of yours who graduated with you just tag along with you? Leave his family? WS: Oh, at that time I didn't drive a car, and he did. So he drove half the time and my mother drove about half the time. And my mother had just--oh maybe a month of so before that-bought a brand new Oldsmobile, nineteen thirty-eight, thirty-nine, or something like that. WE: And you graduated in thirty-eight or thirty-nine? WS: I graduated in forty-one. WE: Forty-one? From high school? When you were twenty? WS: I don't know, I believe it was. Well, in the first place, I couldn't start the school. Out here you can go to grammar school, you can go to pre-school. They didn't have any 8