Dennis Johnson, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, November 30, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 416 and 417

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DENNIS JOHNSON NOVEMBER 30, 2001 BEC: DEN: BEC: Depression? DEN: That's something. Yeah. So I was wondering how your family was affected by the Great Oh, not really much. They didn't, Dad didn't get paid much but he got commissions on the trucks and things they sold. So they survived. His salary, I think, was only $100 a month at the time. But he got commissions on the trucks. BEC: DEN: sufficient. BEC: I was just wondering, sales must have dropped, certainly during­It was tough. Yeah, the farmers had a tough time, too. But it was So you don't remember really struggling, then? DEN: I remember my mom used to make him put all his change on the table every night. She kept track of all his money because he smoked, he smoked two packs a day from the time he was fifteen he told us. It eventually killed him at seventy-six. But he was a good father. He provided a good living and I was able to go to school because I worked three jobs at the "U", then on Fridays, Saturdays, I worked at the Safeway store down by the old prison, down in Sugarhouse. You wouldn't remember that because you weren't born. BEC: I don't remember it. I've heard of it. I know where you're talking about. DEN: Big old stone prison down there at Twenty-first South and they had a theater in Sugarhouse then, and a drugstore in a little kind of a- there were several stores 6