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OHB 0051

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeELLIS, Ernest L. (b. 1897)
ProfessionsOwner and operator
EmployersFrank Ellis Dealer in Everything

About this oral history

Interview ID #OHB 0051
Date(s) of interview
DescriptionOwner and operator, Frank Ellis Dealer in Everything, New Hope, Texas. Family background; employment with father, Frank Ellis, in general store; description of New Hope, 1920s; effects of Depression on New Hope businesses; comments on operation of credit business; food market opening; business operations during World War II; sale of business, 1946; employment as feed salesman; general store advertising; father’s use of peddling wagon; comments on Dallas fair and Mesquite trade day; comments on retirement.
Interviewer(s)Floyd Jenkins
Physical Description45 pp.
Terms of UseOpen