GRIFFIN, Doyle (b. 1916) | Oral History

GRIFFIN, Doyle (b. 1916)

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Owner and operator, R & R Motor Supply, Inc., Denton, Texas. Family background; comments concerning work on Will Evers’s pecan farm and hiring out to pick cotton, Denton; employment in Bailey Mullins’s machine shop and auto parts store, 1935; description of merchandise and prices; employment with Public Construction Company building defense installations in Texas and Oklahoma, 1942; purchase interest in R & R Motor Supply, 1944; comments on location of store suppliers; interactions between machine shop and parts shop; description of sales volume and distribution area; comments on personnel and financing of business; views on incorporation and expansion into Lewisville and McKinney; discussion of insurance requirements and experiences with OSHA regulators; comments on trade associations; civic activities; description of typical working day; factors in building a successful business; comments on Denton competitors; views on providing credit business; business relationship with brother, Owen; comments on raising quarter horses, Argyle; discussion of involvement in power boat racing and winning national championship, 1940s; comments on percentage of large accounts in business.
Date of Interview: December 11, 1982

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