| Title |
Alan W. Layton, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, August 29, 2000: Saving the Legacy tape nos. 94 & 95 |
| Alternative Title |
Alan W. Layton, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Layton, Alan W., 1917-2009 |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2000-08-29 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
France; Germany; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Layton, Alan W., 1917-2009--Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy--Personal narratives, American; Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Battle of the Bulge; POWs' |
| Description |
Transcript (65 pages) of an interview by Winston Erickson with Alan W. Layton on August 29, 2000. From tape numbers 94 and 95 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Layton (b. 1917) grew up in Oakley, Idaho. He discusses his early family life, schooling, jobs, and attending the University of Utah, where he participated in ROTC. He was called up to active duty and sent to Fort Ord, California, working on a survey crew. Assigned as a gunnery instructor at Fort Skill, Oklahoma, he joined the 770th Field Artillery Battalion. He entered combat at Brest, France, in late July 1944, and moved across France, Belgium, and to the German border. Injured by an exploding mine, he was evacuated to the States and eventually to Bushnell Hospital in Brigham City, Utah. He was separated from the Army in 1945, and subsequently started the Layton Construction Company. Interviewed by Winston Erickson. 65 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
65 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/s6g182wq |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Ardennes, Battle of the (1944-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1035424 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6g182wq |
| Title |
Page 58 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1035416 |
| OCR Text |
Show LAN W. LAYTON T 29 2000 finance office . So my fir t job wa City Finance, remodeling the old Smoot Building over in Sugarhou e. There was a five-ton bread ign up on top. It wa a huge big ign up on top. Thi finance office was up on the econd floor. We had to take out a brick wall and put in a teel beam. Man, I knew just how to do that. It was a challenge. Our fir t contract was for $6500. It was kind of a peanuts job but we had all of thi brick and all of this plaster to get off the second floor and haul away. Well, I went up to Carver Sheet Metal and they had a twelve-inch diameter heavy steel pipe, sixteen feet long. We put it out the window and I bought an old dump truck for $1200. With that steel pipe out that window, bricks, plaster, two-by-fours went down into the dump truck. I made $2600 on that job. It took me about six weeks to do it. My first crew was two high priests that were seventy or seventy-five years old. That was my first crew. They were good guys. They had a lot of background. We did seventeen offices for that finance company. They didn't care what they cost. They wanted it done now, from Burley, Idaho, Mountain Home, Price, Springville, Ogden, Brigham City. WPE: You built offices all through the Intermountain area, then? AWL: I was fair. I really only made about twenty percent. But we got them in. They were anxious to get in and get set up. We did quality work. We had the millwork all custom built. I had a couple of good painters who did beautiful work. There really weren't a lot of structural things to do. They would go out and get the location and we would go out and renovate it and get them in. They were happy. The nice thing about that client, when we got through, boy, we got the check the next day. I learned that cash flow is the life flow of business. Every year the jobs just kept getting a little bigger and bigger. We started bidding schools. I guess we probably built sixty or seventy new 58 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6g182wq/1035416 |
