| Interviewee | LONG, Clifton (b. 1919) |
| Professions | Vice-president and general sales manager |
| Employers | Tex Tan Western Leather Company |
| Interview ID # | OHB 0043 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | Vice-president and general sales manager, Tex Tan Western Leather Company, Yoakum, Texas. Family background; comments on Depression in Yoakum; experiences in Army and as prisoner-of-war of Germans during World War II; employment as assistant personnel manager and salesman for Tex Tan; product line; sale of business to Charles Tandy and company split; hiring sales personnel; description of sales territory; comments on Charles Tandy; views of Yoakum as “leather capital of Southwest”; description of changes in saddle product line; comments on competitors; training sales personnel; advertising products; civic activities. |
| Interviewer(s) | Floyd Jenkins |
| Physical Description | 108 pp. plus documents (16 pp.) |
| Terms of Use | Open |
