Oral history interview with Vonda Angel by Janet E. Cook [Transcript and Audio]

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Title Oral history interview with Vonda Angel by Janet E. Cook [Transcript and Audio]
Creator Angel, Vonda; Cook, Janet E.
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 2012-01-16
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-01-24
Spatial Coverage Grantsville, Tooele County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5775346/grantsville.html
Subject Balconies; Boy Scouts; Candy; Children; Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Color cinematography; Community; Costume; Dance floors; Dances; Demolition; Denmark; Dresses; Flowers; Friends; Grand Opera House; Graduation (School); Wayne, John, 1907-1979; Legacies; Magicians; Marriage; Mountains; Moving, Household; Mutual Improvement Associations; Operetta; Parents; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941; Piano; Plays; Politics; Quilting; Remodeling (Architecture); Silent films; Singing; Social life and customs; Stairs; Sweeping and dusting; Talking Pictures; Tap dancing; Theaters--Utah; United States. President (1933-1945 : Roosevelt); U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; Young, Brigham, 1801-1877; Salt Lake City (Utah); Grantsville High School; Grantsville (Utah); Grantsville (Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Janet E. Cook with Vonda Angel. Topics include: Growing in up in Grantsville, Being the granddaughter of Harrison Severe, and original settler of Grantsville, High school graduation, Boys in her school class leaving for work with the CCC, Attending shows, movies and dances at the Opera house, working at the Opera House as a sweeper, Participating in traveling assemblies at the opera house, Wearing flower costumes, Attending the Senior Jinx assembly, Hearing about the attack on Pearl Harbor, Social gatherings at the Opera House, Taking tap dance lesson in the Opera House basement, Feeling sad when the Opera House was torn down, Changes in film production, and her legacy as a youth leader.
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 21 leaves; 38:50
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/s6a3htbw
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2476705
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6a3htbw
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