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- Mitch Skory recalls his life in Lansing, MI, including establishing a television sales and service business in the early days of TV, opening several other businesses, the assimilation of the Lebanese community in the Lansing area and about relations with other ethnic and racial groups, a fire which destroyed a downtown hotel, the city phone system and party lines, the establishment of the REO manufacturing company, and the city turning Washington Ave into a pedestrian mall. Skory says that he is optimistic about Lansing's future. Skory is interviewed by Rebecca Hector-Kruth and others.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- George Grof talks about his boyhood home in the Old Town section of Lansing, about his German and Polish neighbors, how the neighborhood and Old Town have changed through the years and life in Lansing during World War II. He says that there was a more concise idea of what community was when he was growing up and that neighborhoods were self contained with their own groceries, theaters, clothiers, and other necessary services. Grof is interviewed by Michigan State University Professor David Stowe and another, unidentified interviewer.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection