Oral history interview with John R. Nelson by Ellen N. Yates [Transcript and Audio]

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Title Oral history interview with John R. Nelson by Ellen N. Yates [Transcript and Audio]
Creator Nelson, John R.; Yates, Ellen N.
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 2012-01-08
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-01-24
Spatial Coverage Tooele, Tooele County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5783699/tooele-county.html Grantsville, Tooele County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5775346/grantsville.html
Subject Adults; Baseball; Basketball; Bricks; Brothers; Children; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Community; Dance floors; Dances; Demolition; Entertainment events; Flashlights; Grand Opera House; Grocery stores; Legacies; Maypoles; Missionaries; Parents; Social life and customs; Sports; Stairs; Teenagers; Tennis; Theaters--Utah; Ushers;Tooele (Utah); Grantsville High School; Grantsville (Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Ellen N. Yates with John R. Nelson. Topics include: Growing up in Grantsville, What Grantsville was like when he was young, Having a brother in one of the plays at the Opera House, Attending farewells, sociables, dances, plays and movies at the Opera House, The really nice dance floor, Pot -bellied stove use to heat the building, Attending the Gold and Green Balls, How the Opera house was built in a similar style to the Salt Lake Theater, Opera House staff, That teenagers would always sit in the balcony, His graduation in was in the Opera House, How the Opera House was the center of all community activities, The building construction and appearance, Being involved in in city sports, Being disappointed when the Opera House was torn down because they lost they means of entertainment, Visiting the Bluebird next door to get a soda after a show, and being remembered at a good citizen, and nice guy who loved his family and served those around him.
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 6 leaves; 9:45
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/s6gat2d0
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2476724
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gat2d0
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