Julia Child(!) was in the OSS during World War 2

[steve2470]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services

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[wryter2000]

1. That totally sounds like Julia

I bet she had a flask stashed somewhere. I miss her so much.

[Boxerfan]

2. She a bit of alright that one....Personal JC story.

Just a quick moment but I did get her attention once.

As a aging teenager living in Sausalito Ca. I also rode a single cylinder trail bike that easily did "wheelies".

I was heading up a long hill to a friends house & I did a nice (for me ) extended wheelie up the street. Not fast just brap-brap brap playing with the balance point.
I saw a lady in her yard doing some watering. I thought oh bleep I've made one of the neighbors angry.
Nope- She was smiling & waving encouragement!. And then I realized who it was.

Julia Child circa 1982

[steve2470]

3. cool story ! :) nt

[Brother Buzz]

5. Are you sure it wasn't her sister, Dorothy?

Dorothy Cousins was two inches taller then Julia, and lived in Sausalito. I knew Dorothy Cousins years before Julia splashed on TV. They are spitting images of each other. I grew up in Mill Valley and it was common to see Dorothy Cousins tooling around in her cool Checker car, ferrying the Sausalito kids to Tam.

[Boxerfan]

7. It was her sisters house. But it was Julia.

I knew of her through my Mother who had worked at the local Culinary carnival & always hounded her for charity work.

I knew the neighborhood fairly well and had seen her sister often.

[Brother Buzz]

8. Cool Beans. Currey Ave, right?

We used to live up on San Carlos Ave before moving to Mill Valley. Her son, Sam was two years behind me in school, but I knew him well.


Ivan and Dorothy were members of a gourmet club with my parents.

[elleng]

6. Nice!

[frazzled]

4. That's where she met her husband

He was in the OSS too and later became a diplomat with the State Department.