Bethel, Clifford, & Sheral Holmes

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Bethel Holmes

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Bethel, Clifford, & Sheral Holmes

I moved to 959 Haight Street in San Francisco with my cousin Sheral Holmes. I worked at Sears & Sheral was a secretary. I made $16 a week. We were lucky to have jobs in the Depression. We went to the Fox Theater (Marion Davies, Gloria Swanson movies), nightclubs (saw Tony Martin), the ocean, & parties down the hall at Frank Smith's. We had a speakeasy number key to get liquor delivered. Sheral's brother Clifford visited & we took the ferry to Oakland to the park.

Date & Place: November 1931

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Bethel Holmes

Bethel Nadine Holmes of the gold dredging town of Hammonton, Calif. Author of "Peeks Into Sierra Pantries" & "Wood Chips To Game Chips, History of North Lake Tahoe Casinos." Retired from Univ of Nevada Library. Grandaughter of Samuel Jackson Lewis & Martha Love Barker and John Hughes Holmes & Clarissa Angella Laine. Descendant of Wm Braden & Euphemia Jackson, Van Rensselaer Holmes & Elizabeth Ross (dau of Ignatius), Melissa Sheral, Casandra Le Sueur, and James Barker & Martha Patsie Love Emmitt.

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