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Helen Babington describes her involvement in Gaston County community efforts to preserve the county's history. She discusses her role as trustee and vice-president of the[...]
1979-05-25 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Brenda Beam recounts her father-in-law's ice delivery business in the 1920s and her life in the Charlotte area. Topics discussed include the transition from ice delivery [...]
1979-10-23 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Beverly Bergeson discusses growing up in Jamestown, New York during the Great Depression and how the decades prior to World War II impacted her life. Topics discussed inc[...]
1979-10-23 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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John Black discusses his thirty-seven years as a asbestos company worker in Charlotte, North Carolina and how it affected his health. Other topics discussed include life [...]
1979-05-22 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Joseph C. Boyarsky discusses his service as a fighter pilot during World War I and how he became the postmaster of Charlotte. Other topics discussed include how he moved [...]
1979-05-22 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Marion W. Boyd discusses her experiences teaching throughout North Carolina and the challenges she faced as a result of graduating college during the Great Depression. Ot[...]
1979-05-25 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Stanford R. Brookshire shares his memories of his early years in Charlotte, North Carolina and his time as mayor of Charlotte from 1961 to 1969. He compares the city's si[...]
1979-05-22 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Joseph Camp discusses his education in America and the twenty-five years he spent working in Europe and Africa after World War II. Topics examined include his brief time [...]
1979-05-25 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Jessie Cherry shares details of her family life living and working on a farm before moving to Charlotte in the late 1930s. She discusses her first time trying to slaughte[...]
1979-05-25 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Rosa Lee Coleman recounts her early life in Fayetteville, North Carolina, as well as her employment as a domestic service worker. As an African American, Mrs. Coleman dis[...]
1979-05-25 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Dr. Allen Ledyard Decamp discusses his career as an obstetrician in post-World War II Charlotte, North Carolina. Topics discussed include technological advancements in me[...]
1979-05-24 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Kate DeCamp briefly discusses her thirty-four years of living in Charlotte, North Carolina, and describes Charlotte as a very lively community and a nice place to live. S[...]
1979-05-24 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Ben Douglas discusses his tenure as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina from 1935 to 1941. He discusses the structure of city government in the 1920s and explains that he [...]
1979-05-23 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Mary Farr discusses her Christian faith and her memories of life during World War II. Other topics include her first history course and her belief that Americans were tur[...]
1979-10-23 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Marta Garelik describes her experiences as a young Jewish attorney in Vienna, Austria after the close of the First World War, her immigration to Belfast, Ireland just pri[...]
1979-05-23 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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In this second interview for the WSOC project, Blanche Leak Gluyas shares her extensive knowledge about the development of Charlotte since the late 1800s, this time focus[...]
1979-05-25 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Blanche Leak Gluyas describes her work as a stenographer for Southern Bell in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1900s and 1910s and as a secretary with the State Depar[...]
1979-05-23 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Martin Grossman recounts his long career as an engineer beginning in the early twentieth century and his experiences in Charlotte, North Carolina, after moving there in 1[...]
1979-05-24 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Pearl E. Grossman recounts her move to Charlotte, North Carolina around the mid-1950s and the changes she witnessed in Charlotte during her time of residence. Topics disc[...]
1979-05-24 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Winslow H. Hartford describes his experiences growing up in Newton, Massachusetts and attending Boston University during the time of the Great Depression. Other topics di[...]
1979-05-24 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Elizabeth R. Herbert recounts her childhood in Sumter, South Carolina during the early twentieth century and her memories of married life in Charlotte, North Carolina as [...]
1979-05-23 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Marie V. Hicks shares tales from her life growing up on her family's farm in Kansas near Hutchinson and the various locations she lived in as an adult. Topics discussed i[...]
1979-10-23 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Susan Hicks gives a brief history of the American Red Cross, particularly how it was organized and functioned in Charlotte, North Carolina during and after World War I. T[...]
1979-05-25 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Roland R. Hinrichs recounts his childhood in West Virginia during the early twentieth century and societal changes that took place throughout his adult life. Topics inclu[...]
1979-05-29 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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Will Hollisby recounts his fifty-seven years living in Charlotte, North Carolina. Topics include working as a landscaper for Charlotte Pipe and Foundry and for private ho[...]
1979-05-22 | Audio | Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte |
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In 1979, UNC Charlotte history professor Dr. Edward Perzel and a handful of dedicated volunteers conducted oral history interviews with elderly citizens from across Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. The project was sponsored by WSOC, a local media company, and initial interviews took place between May 21 and May 25 at the main branch of the Charlotte Public Library as part of Older Americans Month. The interviews capture an eclectic range of reminiscences on local history from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century.