SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Oral Histories
The oral histories feature 51 transcribed interviews with 26 sound recordings converted to digital audio. The people interviewed include fishermen, cannery workers, fishing boat owners and captains, fishmongers, and others involved in commercial fishing, sport fishing, and boat building. Many belonged to immigrant Italian and Portuguese families that settled in San Diego from around 1910 to 1930.
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Click for complete list of San Diego Historical Society Oral Histories. They talk about the decline of the tuna fishing industry, the hardship of working on a commercial fishing boat or in a cannery, fishermen and their superstitions, equipment and supplies, boat building, life in San Diego's ethnic fishing communities and along the coastline of southern California, the effects of the Depression and World War II, diving and swimming in the ocean, and days at the beach.				Search by keyword (category list) Truncation: whal* finds whale, whales, whaling, etc. Collection All Collections ------------------------- San Diego Historical Society ---SDHS Photographs ---SDHS Oral Histories ------------------------- SIO Archives ---SIO Photographs ---SIO Letters, Logs, etc. Advanced Search

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