Oral history interview of Dr. Thomas V. Berne, Silver Lake Library, 2411 Glendale Boulevard, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, 2015 January 21 by the Silver Lake History Collective (SLHC). Dr. Berne is a Los Angeles native born at Good Samaritan Hospital and raised at the family home on Redcliff on “Pill Hill” in Silver Lake. HIs father Clarence Berne was also a surgeon at Los Angeles County Hospital and USC where Dr. Berne is a longtime professor of surgery. The senior Dr. Berne was the model for the character of Dr. Kildare. Tom attended Ivanhoe Elementary and has childhood memories of his neighbor Aimee Semple McPherson baptizing people in her swimming pool. Part of a series of oral histories "The people of Silver Lake". Available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/cpSnm_p6qqo
