Oral history interview with LaVell Brown by Patti Johnson [Video]

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Title Oral history interview with LaVell Brown by Patti Johnson [Video]
Creator Brown, LaVell; Johnson, Patti
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 2012-02-05
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-01-24
Spatial Coverage Bothwell, Box Elder County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5771802/bothwell.html Grantsville, Tooele County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5775346/grantsville.html
Subject Brothers; Children; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Confetti; Dance floors; Dances; Dance teachers; Daughters; Demolition; Family; Fathers; Friends; Grand Opera House; Jukeboxes; Legacies; Log cabins; Missionaries; Moving, Household; Neighbors; Newspapers; New Year's Eve; Parents; Social life and customs; Stairs; Theaters--Utah; United States. President (1933-1945 : Roosevelt); University of Utah; World War II; Works Progress Administration (U.S.);Tooele Army Depot (Utah); Bothwell (Utah); Grantsville High School; Grantsville (Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Patti Johnson with LaVell Brown. Topics include: Growing up in Bothwell, Moving to Grantsville when her father was employed at the Army Depot, Living in a log cabin temporarily, Liking President Roosevelt; Her father's employment with Works Progress, Attending dances at the Opera House, Visiting the Blue Bird Candy store to dance and listen to the jukebox, Her husband's missionary service when they had a young baby, Living with her parents again, Getting a job, Getting dirty from newspaper confetti at a New Year's Eve dance at the Opera House, and feeling bad when the Opera House was torn down because it had such a good dance floor.
Collection Number and Name Mss B 1954 The Grand Opera House Oral History Collection, 2011-2012
Type Image/MovingImage
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format video/mp4
Extent 8:34
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/s6sq5ekg
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2476712
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sq5ekg
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