| Title |
Ann Sharp, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, August 10, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 406 |
| Alternative Title |
Ann Sharp, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Sharp, Ann, 1932- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-08-10 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Netherlands; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Sharp, Ann, 1932- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Dutch; World War, 1939-1945--Netherlands; Dutch Americans--Utah--Biography |
| Description |
Transcript (44 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Ann Sharp on August 10, 2001. This is from tape number xxx in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Ann Sharp (b. 1932) talks about her childhood in Holland under German occupation. She lived in Rotterdam but was sent to Arnhem for a time. Sharp emigrated to the United States with her husband in 1953, settling in Salt Lake City to be near her sister, who had joined the LDS Church. 44 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
44 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s64t8hmb |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Dutch Americans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026595 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64t8hmb |
| Title |
Page 39 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026588 |
| OCR Text |
Show ANN HARP 1 2 ANN: Yeah. I started working there. And I had a bi h p wh personnel man for Grand Central. And he came to visit me one day and h ay H would you like to have a job where you could earn a little bit more money and n t hav to work on Sundays?" 'cause I had to work Sundays. And I said 'Oh that'd be great. And he knew, had a friend that ran the place, Warshaws, you know where Warshaws on VanWinkle used to be? BEC: ANN: don't know. BEC: ANN: BEC: ANN: Yeah. Now I don't even know what it is now, Food-for-Less or something, I Food-for-Less. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, later on I went over on into Smith's. So I says, "Yeah. I would love that." So I went in to an interview and they hired me to work in the deli. And I didn't have to work on Sundays. And it was funny, he had said you didn't have to work on Sundays but when I came to the personnel department, they says, "Well, how can they promise you that?" And I said, "Well that's what he said. I really don't want to work on Sundays." And so they-and I was making three dollars more an hour there, too, as what I was doing at Gibson's. So that helped when you have to support four kids. BEC: That's right. Yeah. ANN: So I worked there, and then they were going to open up a Smith's Food King where Ross's in Fashion Place Mall is now. And one of the managers, or the supervisors, came around one day and he said, "We're going to open up a new store 38 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64t8hmb/1026588 |
