THREE MEMBERS of the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps were honored Saturday at the Mountain Theater on Mount Tamalpais, the stone amphitheater the corps built in the 1930s.
“We’ve outlived all the rest of them,” said 88-year-old Arnold Blumhardt, who joined the corps when he was a 17-year-old North Dakota farm boy. “We’re all going fast. Down the road we’ll all be gone.”
The occasion was a California State Parks “remembrance day” salute to the corps – a revolutionary federal work project created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933 – on its 75th anniversary.