Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State
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Hughes: Emmett Watson, who became one <strong>of</strong> Seattle’s most popular writers, was there as a<br />
young reporter and columnist.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Oh yeah, but I didn’t know any <strong>of</strong> those people.<br />
Hughes: Emmett had been at the Seattle Star during the war and then became a star at the<br />
P-I.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: I knew Emmett many years later when I was in the Prosecutor’s Office.<br />
Hughes: But, let’s take you back to your childhood: You’re a girl growing up in the<br />
Depression in the 1930s. What was that like? Did your dad still have a job, or were those<br />
pretty tough times?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: That’s when he got that mail contract and we went up to Alaska when I was about<br />
five years old. He needed a job.<br />
Hughes: What was Juneau like?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Very small town. But they had a swimming pool. We were able to use it twice in<br />
one year because the weather was always so bad.<br />
Hughes: Or alternatively it was an ice rink!<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: And Mendenhall Glacier was huge. It is now shrunk down to the size <strong>of</strong> ice cube<br />
comparatively. And I can remember we had May Day and we would dance around the May<br />
poles. Stuff that they don’t do down here.<br />
Hughes: There’s probably some reason that you can’t do that now. It would be politically<br />
incorrect.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: I don’t know. And I know for some reason we were dressed up in Hawaiian<br />
outfits and my dad made us all little, I don’t know what they called them but they were little<br />
Hawaiian tools and he made them on a lathe. So that was kind <strong>of</strong> fun. I have a picture <strong>of</strong> that<br />
somewhere.<br />
Hughes: So when you were in Juneau you got to see dad more?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Yes. He would be gone three or four days. We had a big mansion there and my<br />
mother took in boarders from the Juneau Gold Mine. So we had four boarders there who<br />
became long-term friends <strong>of</strong> my folks.<br />
Hughes: Boarders. That must have been an interesting thing in a household with kids.<br />
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