Oral history interview with Lola Sutton and Claude Sutton by Patti Johnson [Transcript and Audio]

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Title Oral history interview with Lola Sutton and Claude Sutton by Patti Johnson [Transcript and Audio]
Creator Sutton, Lola; Sutton, Claude; Johnson, Patti
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 2012-01-25
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-01-24
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5780993/salt-lake-city.html; Grantsville, Tooele County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5775346/grantsville.html
Subject Brigham Young University; Candy; Community; Dances; Demolition; Flashlights; Furnaces; Graduation (School); Grand Opera House; Grantsville High School (Grantsville, Utah); Ice cream, ices, etc.; Legacies; Maypoles; Merrymakers; Mothers; Motion pictures; Pageants; Parents; Piano; Remodeling (Architecture); Silent films; Social life and customs; Stairs; Talking Pictures; Ten commandments; Theaters--Utah; Ushers; Grantsville (Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Patti Johnson with Lola Sutton and Claude Sutton. Topics include: Growing up in Grantsville and living their entire lives there with the exception for the year Claude was attending BYU, loving their community, Being sad when the Opera House was torn down, A remodel job on the Opera House when they were kids including a new ceiling and furnace, Attending a school pageant - The Ten Commandments, Attending dances in the basement, Maypole dances, Having High School Graduation at the Opera House, Getting pictures taken on the front steps, Claude's mother playing the piano for silent movies, Loving going to the dances, Buying candy at the Bluebird next door to take to the movies, How the Opera House was the center of community events, Loving their community and people of Grantsville, Renovating the cemetery, and the ushers trying to keep order with flashlights.
Collection Number and Name Mss B 1954 The Grand Opera House Oral History Collection, 2011-2012
Type Text; Sound
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Extent 7 leaves; 19:58
Language eng
Rights
Source Mss B 1954 The Grand Opera House Oral History Collection, 2011-2012
Scanning Technician Michelle Gollehon
Metadata Cataloger Amy Green Larsen
ARK ark:/87278/s66efy9h
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2476727
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66efy9h