Delaplane, Kristin

Sep 28, 1997

Abstract: The early days for parks and recreation taken from an oral history with Lyston Johnson. 'My parents came here in 1917. My father worked in a grocery store down on Georgia Street. He delivered groceries seven days a week for $15 a week. "I went to Lincoln School and then the old Washington Junior High School. I was one of the last classes to graduate before Vallejo High School was in operation.