Richard Rodgers' Oral History #1

Richard Rodgers' Oral History #1

Richard Rodgers
Betty Turnell
oral history
recording
interview
childhood
Pugh School
Roosevelt Junior High School
Stephen Decatur High School
Millikin University
street cars
unpaved streets
early Decatur
telephone
Mr. Van Pragg
city commissioner
puppet show
automobiles
Blue Book
trains
World War I
John Philip Sousa's band
Great Lakes Training Center
downtown
transfer house
Lincoln Square
interurban
electricity
coal mines
cook stove
out houses
vaudeville theatre
Empress Theatre
Bijoux Theatre
Lincoln Theatre
shopping
salt water taffy
shoes
air conditioning
radio
Gushard Building
WJBL station
First Methodist Church broadcast
radio programming
"The Anvil Chorus"
music
triangle
zylophone
marimba
family orchestra
chimes
oboe
Swarthout Brothers
School of Music
vitaphone programs
Decatur Civic Orchestra
Millikin Orchestra
Charles Lindbergh
newspapers
baseball
shoe business
shoe repair
Feltman and Curm
Northwestern University
Great Depression
Federal Home Loan Act
pasteurization of milk
refrigeration
homogenization of milk
Linn and Scruggs
Gushard store
Mrs. H.I. Baldwin
Mrs. Guy Scovill
delivery

This is the first oral history of Richard Rodgers. He was interviewed by Betty Turnell on February 8 and 15, 1984. The interview includes his childhood, Decatur around World War I, and his work with Linn and Scruggs.

Interviewee: Richard Rodgers
Interviewer: Betty Turnell

Richard Rodgers

Decatur Public Library, Decatur, IL

February 8 and 15, 1984

Betty Turnell

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Linn and Scruggs

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English

oral history

OH75

oral history, recording, Richard Rodgers, Betty Turnell

Betty Turnell

Richard Rodgers

Decatur Public Library, Decatur, IL

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