AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. SWIGART This report is based upon an interview with Dr. Margaret Swigart. Dr. Swigart has lived in Pacific Grove for 50 years. She came here on October 29, 1929, the day that the stock market fell in New York. She was trained to be a pediatrician, but when she came out, she knew more ob- stetrics than anyone else, so her patients were women and children. There were only two general doctors who were women - Dr. Swigart in Pacific Grove and the other in Carmel. Her office was in Monterey in the Professional Building and the hospital she used chiefly was the Carmel Community. She was on the original board that decided to build Canterbury Woods. Dr. Swigart was Woman of the Year in 1962. These are some of Dr. Swigart's reflections of the last 50 years: Pacific Grove was settled in the 1880's as a Methodist meeting ground. At that time they had blue laws, saying that people had to leave their blinds up, had to go to bed at a certain time, and there was no drinking or card playing. By the time Dr. Swigart came to Pacific Grove, people could play cards, but no liquor was sold. Pacific Grove is almost the same size today as it was fifty years ago, except that Del Monte Park and some of the areas around Pacific Grove have been taken in. There were two famous women in Pacific Grove: Julia Platt and Bertha Strong. Julia Platt helped keep Pacific Grove from becoming a large city. She became the only female mayor of Pacific Grove. When she died, she asked to be buried at sea, and to have all the councilmen come along as pallbearers. As a rule, when someone is buried at sea, they had to go out at least three miles into the water. The water was rough and all the councilmen became sick, and that was called "Julia's revenge". , OCR Text: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. SWIGART This report is based upon an interview with Dr. Margaret Swigart. Dr. Swigart has lived in Pacific Grove for 50 years. She came here on October 29, 1929, the day that the stock market fell in New York. She was trained to be a pediatrician, but when she came out, she knew more ob- stetrics than anyone else, so her patients were women and children. There were only two general doctors who were women - Dr. Swigart in Pacific Grove and the other in Carmel. Her office was in Monterey in the Professional Building and the hospital she used chiefly was the Carmel Community. She was on the original board that decided to build Canterbury Woods. Dr. Swigart was Woman of the Year in 1962. These are some of Dr. Swigart's reflections of the last 50 years: Pacific Grove was settled in the 1880's as a Methodist meeting ground. At that time they had blue laws, saying that people had to leave their blinds up, had to go to bed at a certain time, and there was no drinking or card playing. By the time Dr. Swigart came to Pacific Grove, people could play cards, but no liquor was sold. Pacific Grove is almost the same size today as it was fifty years ago, except that Del Monte Park and some of the areas around Pacific Grove have been taken in. There were two famous women in Pacific Grove: Julia Platt and Bertha Strong. Julia Platt helped keep Pacific Grove from becoming a large city. She became the only female mayor of Pacific Grove. When she died, she asked to be buried at sea, and to have all the councilmen come along as pallbearers. As a rule, when someone is buried at sea, they had to go out at least three miles into the water. The water was rough and all the councilmen became sick, and that was called "Julia's revenge". , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,S through T File names,Sweigert,SWIGART_007.pdf,SWIGART_007.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: SWIGART_007.PDF, SWIGART_007.pdf 1 Page 1