| Interviewee | GRIFFIN, Owen (b. 1903) |
| Professions | Owner of auto repair business |
| Interview ID # | OHB 0075 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | Owner of auto repair business, Denton, Texas. Family background; experiences moving from Georgia to Texas, 1919; description of work and education near Homer and Royston, Georgia; description of Denton, 1919; employment with Acme Brick; part-time work as auto mechanic and work in will Evers’s pecan Orchard, 1922; full-time employment as auto mechanic for Sid Smith, 1924; description of auto dealerships and repair shops in Denton; experiences working for Hopper and Blackburn, 1935-38; comments about North Texas State president William Bruce; comments about W. R. Lakey’s concrete company; opens auto repair business, 1938; comments on personnel; experiences teaching industrial arts courses at North Texas Lab School and with out of school youth (OSY) program at Denton High School; description of effects of Depression in Denton; work for Harris and Koenig Hardware store, 1920s; experiences demonstrating farm equipment; credit practices for auto repair business; comments on cooperation among auto mechanics in Denton; description of auto repair equipment improvements; sale of business, 1968; civic activities; changes in Denton since 1920s. |
| Interviewer(s) | Floyd Jenkins |
| Physical Description | 139 pp. |
| Terms of Use | Open |
