OHB 0053 | Oral History

OHB 0053

Owner and operator, Brook-Mays Music Company and C. & S. Music Company, Dallas, Texas. Family background; comments on Depression in Comanche, Texas; experiences playing trombone with North Texas State’s Aces of Collegeland band; duty as radar technician and infantryman during World War II; experiences in postwar Austria; teaching music in Dallas public schools and managing band department of Brook-Mays Music Company; election as president of company, 1954; history of Brook-Mays Music Company; interest in C. & S. Music Company, Fort Worth, 1960; buyout of company, 1974; locations of Brook-Mays and C. & S. Stores; growth of market; employment of band clinician; increase in musical instrument prices; personnel requirements for music stores; comments on competition in Dallas-Fort Worth market; views on government regulations; advertising approach; views on service to customers and community; development of music listening test.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 122 pp.
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Floyd Jenkins
Date of Interview February 6, 1981

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