[Norm Grimwood discusses her parents' experiences working at REO Motor Car Company and her career in automobile industry].

Norma Grimwood talks about her father’s experiences working at REO Motor Car Company during the years 1918 to 1961 and her childhood in a REO family. Grimwood is nostalgic about going to movies at the REO Clubhouse, the beautiful pipe organ, and belonging to a company bowling league, but she also g...

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Corporate Author: REO Memories (Project)
Other Authors: Grimwood, Norma (Interviewee), Fine, Lisa M. (Interviewer), Bradley, Shirley J. (Interviewer)
Language:English
Published: [1992]
Subjects:
Grimwood, Norma > Interviews.
Grimwood, Norma > Childhood and youth.
Grimwood, Norma > Family.
Grimwood, Norma.
Reo Motor Car Company > Interviews.
Reo Motor Car Company > Buildings.
Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews.
Industrial recreation > Michigan > Lansing.
General strikes > Michigan > Lansing.
Motor vehicles, Amphibious > Michigan > Grand River > Testing.
Automobile industry and trade.
Sex discrimination in employment.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (81 min., 19 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format: Audio Software
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Norma Grimwood talks about her father’s experiences working at REO Motor Car Company during the years 1918 to 1961 and her childhood in a REO family. Grimwood is nostalgic about going to movies at the REO Clubhouse, the beautiful pipe organ, and belonging to a company bowling league, but she also grimly recalls the 1937 strike which brought UAW representation into the plant. She also describes her mother doing piecework in the REO upholstery department, her father testing amphibious trucks on the Grand River in Lansing and her own career at the General Motors Oldsmobile plant and being forced to leave when she became engaged. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
Note:Title supplied.
Electronic resource.
Call Number:Voice 16264
Playing Time:01:21:19
System Details:Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
Event Details:
Interviewed and recorded in Lansing, MI, by Shirley J. Bradley and Lisa M. Fine, Mar. 26, 1992.