| Title |
Esperanza and Gavino Aguayo, No. 2, Hispanic Oral Histories, Accn 1369 |
| Creator |
Aguayo, Esperanza, 1932-; Aguayo, Gavino |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Date |
1985-02-06 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-02 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Bingham, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans--Utah--Interviews; Aguayo, Esperanza, 1932- --Interviews; Aguayo, Gavnio--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Kennecott Copper Corporation; Emigration and immigration--Social aspects |
| Access Rights |
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| Keywords |
WWII; World War II |
| Description |
Transcript (102 pages) of part 2 of 2 of interviews by Leslie Kelen with Esperanza and Gavnio Aguayo, on February 6, 1985 and February 25, 1985. |
| Collection Number and Name |
ACCN 1369, Hispanic Oral Histories, 1984-1987 |
| Abstract |
The interview continues with Gavino's being drafted in 1943 at the age of eighteen and sent to New Zealand. He talks about combat in New Guinea and the Philippines, the behavior of conquered Japanese during occupation, and the condition of Japanese cities. Other topics covered include women working for Kennecott, postwar working conditions at the mine, unions and strikes, being evicted from company houses to make room for mine expansion, employment practices at Kennecott, Father Miersman, accidents and safety, family marriage customs, and Mormon religion and culture. |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
123 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv46923 |
| 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/s60w0kgs |
| Topic |
Mexican Americans; World War (1939-1945); Kennecott Copper Corporation; Emigration and immigration--Social aspects |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
893095 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60w0kgs |
| Title |
Page 40 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
893009 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI E&G Aguayo 3-4-85 sS:38 EA Carp, Huge carp. They brought to your home. I remember wnother putting them in the tub. These big -- and we'd go over and watch - thre's no way we weEe going to eat that. L You mean they were alive. GA CArp satays alive for a long time. I think bey got some of these old fishermen to go down to Utah LAke. EA They were huge. GA Oh, yeah, carp grows 20-30 pounds.They're big fish. EA And they'd giveyou 5 or 6 of them andyou'd have big old carp-- I remember in the middle of the night, my Dad was throwing them away. There was no way we wre going to eat them. And I remember they also gave us butter.And My Dad said only rish people ate butter. And we were not rich people. We didn't eat much butter then. We had no occasion to eat butter. Very little butter. But I remember they gave us bbtter. That's theonly thing that sticks in rnymind. Thebig fish and the bntter becuase my Dad said we were not rich and we did ·_not eat butter. Only rich people ate butter. So, now, every time I buy a pound of butter every other day, I think, Rich people eat butter. (laughs) L What was it like being out on the strike foryou. When you had just come back. GA Actually, I always kickedmyself becuase it was dumb. I waited. I was here in December and I knew they were talking about strike. And if I hadn't corn eback to work, I could have gone on unemployment. You know, I was mt of the service. But I waited and I said, - finai°ly, they decided,well, they'renot goingout. So I come back to work. |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60w0kgs/893009 |
