OHB 0068 | Oral History

OHB 0068

Operator of grocery store, repair shop, and rental cottages, Mountain Home, Texas. Family background; education in Arkansas and Texas; training as auto mechanic; employment as ranch hand near Palacios, Texas; experiences in motor pool of Air Service at Ellington Field, Texas, 1918; employment as truck mechanic with Shriner Hodges company in Junction, Texas, 1921; establishment of grocery store, auto repair shop, and filling station at Mountain Home, 1923; recovery from tuberculosis, 1926; expansion into cottage rental business; employment as Delco Light Products salesman; comments on Lyndon Johnson’s handling of REA in Central Texas, 1940; close of grocery store and filling station, 1946; close of repair shop, 1979; experiences during Depression in Mountain Home; history of Mountain Home; description of hunting businesses near Mountain Home; comments on religious tape service and “cowboy tabernacle” near Mountain Home; comments on religious values.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 156 pp.
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Floyd Jenkins
Date of Interview June 8, 1982

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