| 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 89 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
893058 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI E&G Aguayo 3-12-85 sS:40 there. Thosebig - 150 ton t r ucks . A lot of service-equipment. There's alot of - antying froma ton to 2, ton trucks . A lot of those trucks runningaround. In fact, all foremen run - they give them all one-ton trucks. You know, they must be oh 100 of those one-ton trucks running around the hill. But and maybe a n o t her-- well, at least that many ,if you count all the other - the other types of trucks. The lube trucks, repair trucks, and --all that other type. That's mostly the end that I worked 01. Mostly service trucks. Repairing ... Then I went to rebuild them. And there, you fix the components. Actually, you rebuild the engines. You rebuild the transmissions. Rebuild alot of little tings. Pumps. Alternators. Carburators. Thingslike that. That's where I ended up as-- L Finally? GA Yeah. L Howbig was the wholemachine area. Shop wise-in terms of GA people-- oh, I think alike the size of a large gymnasium. Ah, you know, maybe 100 yards, 150 years, you know square building. But then there was a lot of them up there. That was th the machine shop at Dry Fork that we'd . Dry Forks. And then there was a - uptown, up in Bingham, it's -- there's a shop up there. And you know (laughs) The machine shop was the biggest one. And that's where they had - they had the most people working. But there were other - other shops all |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60w0kgs/893058 |
