Interview with Viola Becker, Thomas L. Becker, November 15, 1991
Project: Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Childhood in Portland-- Louisville: 1910 (mother) 1930s (son)-- Ohio River play-- swimming-- fishing Shantyboat families-- Grocery business-- Different standards for cleanliness-- lice-- Neighborhood African-American families-- Street games 1937 flood-- Crap games and bookies (gambling)-- Mother born 1899-- son born 1928-- Boy's neighborhood thieving-- Portland's tough reputations-- Corporal punishment and detention in parochial schools-- Election bonfires-- Memorial Day river ceremony-- Boy Scout Troop 38-- Barnum and Bailey Circus-- Becker Family History.Interview Accession
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Thomas L. Becker
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Becker, Viola Interview by Louise Chawla. 15 Nov. 1991. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Becker, V. (1991, November 15). Interview by L. Chawla. Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Becker, Viola, interview by Louise Chawla. November 15, 1991, Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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