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SCANTLIN, Clarence (b. 1900) and Nona (b. ca. 1902)

Oral Histories

OHB 0100

Owners and operators of grocery and furniture refinishing businesses, Fort Worth, Texas. Clarence’s family background; employment at grocery store, Kansas City, 1917; work for Sandegaard’s grocery store, Fort Worth, 1919; employment with A&P tea Company, 1927-37; opening of grocery stores in Fort Worth; description of equipment and food products at grocery stores in Kansas City and Fort Worth; prices of goods during Depression; reasons for leaving grocery business, 1941; employment with Texas hotel as furniture refinisher; establishment of refinishing business, Fort Worth; description of refinishing process; comments on