Texas Oral History Collection - 6 Matching Results
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- Oral History Interview with Hazen Armstrong, March 29, 1986
- Interview with farmer-rancher Hazen Armstrong. The interview includes Armstrong's personal experiences about life in Denton, Texas, from 1910 to 1930. Armstrong talks about business activities around the city square and county courthouse, city streetcar service, Oak Street residences, the Cascade Plunge swimming pool, forced removal of African Americans from the "Quakertown" section of Denton to the east side of the railroad tracks in the 1920s, early automobiles in Denton, Denton during World War I, medical practices, childhood leisure time activities, Prohibition in Denton, the Great Depression, farming practices in the 1920s and 1930s, contrasts between banking practices of the 1920s and 1930s with those of the 1980s, and the oil history.
- Oral History Interview with Ted Wilhoite
- Interview with Ted Wilhoite about the history of Grapevine, Texas.
- [Speech by Wanda Orton to the Bay Area Heritage Society]
- Speech made by Wanda Orton to the Bay Area Heritage Society discussing Texas heroes that had lived in the Baytown area dating back to the time before the Texas Revolution, such as David G. Burnet, Sam Houston, etc.
- Oral History Interview with Charles E. Smith, March 29, 1988
- Interview with Charles E. Smith, community leader and longtime resident of the Hamilton Park neighborhood, from Dallas, Texas. Smith discusses his role in the Hamilton Park Civic League, of which he was president in 1973, the Hamilton Park School, its closure, integration and its effects in Richardson ISD, and the Pacesetter program.
- Oral History Interview with Leon Brown, September 29, 1982
- Interview with Leon Brown, professor of Trombone at the School of Music at North Texas State University. Brown discusses his work with Bob Makovsky, former band director and music department head at Oklahoma A&M College.
- Oral History Interview with Marler W. Owen, September 29, 1989
- Interview with Marler W. Owen, a United States Navy veteran from Dallas, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the destroyer tender USS Dobbin.