Where was the Civic Auditorium?
Right where the Natural History Museum is now (in Balboa Park). That was built on the site of the old Civic Auditorium. The Civic Auditorium had been, I think, what they called the Southern Counties Building in the 1915 Exposition. It was a beautiful building but, of course, afterwards it was nothing but thin timbers. When did you get married and what is your wife’s name? Any children? In 1926. Roberta Ridgeway. No children. Her father was, for many years, the head of the Department of Illustration for the Department of the Interior. He was in charge of all the illustrative work for the geological surveys and so on. John Ridgeway was her father and her uncle, Robert Ridgeway, was one of the world’s most famous ornithologists. He was with the Smithsonian for many years. Also – and this gets back into early California history, he was a member of the famous 38th Parallel Expedition that surveyed the 38th parallel along about the time of the Civil War. Did you move into this house in Coron
