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Call Number OH2090Date 2017Contents single recording; 49 minutes, 10 secondsDescription Ninety-eight-year-old, lifelong Boulder resident Rose Shepherd talks about her childhood, World War II era experiences, and the ways in which she has seen the area change. She describes playing and working on her family’s vegetable farm (which was on Arapahoe Avenue, between Cherryvale and 55th Street) and also describes attending a two-room school as well as Casey Junior High. She describes experiences during the Great Depression, her work during WWII at the Remington Arms Plant, and relays anecdotes from her career as an operator at Mountain Bell. She recalls the burning of the courthouse in Boulder in 1932. Rose recites several poems she wrote about various topics, and her daughter Jane Braley occasionally prompts her and provides photographs. Note: Rose Shepherd died shortly after this interview, on October 21, 2017, at the age of 98.
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Call Number OH2091Date 2017Contents single recording; 58 minutes, 04 secondsDescription Ollie Shepherd has lived in Boulder for most of his life. Born in Oklahoma in 1918, Mr. Shepherd moved to Boulder with his family (which ultimately contained twelve children) in the 1920s. He describes earning money as a child and teenager during The Depression by delivering newspapers, mowing lawns, cleaning ashpits, and building furniture for the school district. After high school, he ran a service station at the corner of Broadway and Arapahoe for five years. He later ran a Conoco service station on 14th Street. During World War II, he added a second job of working at the Remington ammunition factory, until he enlisted in the military. Mr. Shepherd spent two years in France as a machine-gunner. The interview concludes with stories about his time there.
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Call Number OH2092Date 2018Contents single recording; 26 minutes, 45 secondsDescription This interview with Nina Meyers centers around the issue of the increasingly high cost of living in Boulder, particularly for housing. Meyers moved to Boulder in 1975 and has lived in the Vista Village mobile home park since the 1990s. She discusses her experience as a senior citizen dealing with the rising costs of basic necessities such as rent, food, and home repairs. She briefly discusses her employment situation as a home health care provider and playing music for seniors in memory care residences.
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Call Number OH2093Date 2018Contents single recording; 1 hour, 11 min., 4 sec.Description Cary Wolfson, former host of the blues radio show Blues from the Red Rooster Lounge, talks about his three-decade-plus career in local and syndicated radio. Wolfson speaks about adventures in San Francisco in 1970; coming to Boulder from Baltimore, Maryland, in the 1970s; the start of KGNU Independent Community Radio; how The Red Rooster Lounge came to be; the beginning and end of Blues Access Magazine; the battle to keep radio station KGNU alive on a shoestring budget; early KGNU pledge drives; and the 1970s and 1980s processes of syndicating a radio show. Additionally, Wolfson touches on KGNU’s Grateful Dead Marathons; KJAC, The Colorado Sound; Radio Free Amsterdam; and how his involvement in photography has impacted his later life.
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Call Number OH2094Date 2018Contents single recording; 1 hour, 22 minutes, 56 secondsDescription An interview with Jonathan Hough who joined the Rocky Mountain Rescue Group (RMRG) in 1954 at the age of 18, about seven years after the group was founded. He recounts rescue missions of varying difficulties in Colorado, Wyoming, and Arizona, from the 1950s through the 1970s. He touches on how rescue operations have changed from the 1950s to now due to, for example, the advent of cell phones, radio technology, and the general skill and savviness of the average hiker and mountain climber. He talks about the relationship between the RMRG and local authorities, the training the all-volunteer group received from fire departments, recruitment techniques, and the importance of honoring the work done by each member of the group and the trust between group members.
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Call Number OH2095Date 2018Contents single recording; 63 minutes, 38 secondsDescription Artist Frank Sampson describes happiness and hardships on a small farm in Edmore, North Dakota, where he grew up during the Great Depression; his military service during WWII; his art education; his long career teaching art at the University of Colorado, Boulder; and his even longer career as a painter. Details of his art education include studying at Concordia College in Minnesota, earning an MFA at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, and studying for three additional years under Mauricio Lasansky at Iowa before attaining a Fulbright scholarship. Sampson discusses his career teaching at the University of Colorado in Boulder, having gallery representation, and how he moved from still life painting to glazes to collages and eventually to exploring abstract expressionism and focusing on exploring the mystery of life via painting.
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Call Number OH2096Date 2018Contents Single recording; 66 minutesDescription Michael Barnsley shares memories of his mother, Jeannette Barnsley, who was a realist landscape painter in Boulder County. Michael talks about the circumstances that prompted his mother to become an artist. According to the interview, Jeannette Barnsley worked primarily with watercolors as well as with pen and ink, but she also dabbled in oil painting. Michael discusses other creative endeavors that Jeannette Barnsley pursued over the course of her life such as millinery, singing, playing the piano, and sewing. In addition to recalling his mother’s artistic pursuits, Michael Barnsley discusses other dimensions of his family’s history: the death of his older brother, his father’s service in London during World War II, his parent’s move from Longmont to Allenspark, and the assisted-living homes in which his parents resided during the final years of their lives. Also on the recording is the voice of Michael’s son, Sam Barnsley.
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Call Number OH2097Date 2017Contents single recording; 69 minutes, 40 secondsDescription This interview mainly deals with Delta Vacation Homes, a company started by the narrator’s father, Lawrence “Bud” Stoecker, that built more than 600 homes, mostly A-frames, in Colorado. Headquartered off the Denver-Boulder Turnpike on Industrial Lane, near Broomfield (now within the Broomfield city limits), the company started selling do-it-yourself-kits in 1959, then began to build the homes for people starting in 1964. A Delta a-frame house could be built by four people in seven days. The interview contains discussion of the process of building Delta homes, the locations of the homes across Colorado, the kinds of people who purchased the homes, and their cost. Delta Vacation Homes was in business until 1983 before shutting down during an economic downturn.
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Call Number OH2098Date 2018Contents single recording; 59 minutes, 55 secondsDescription Charissa and Kim Poteet talk about living in the Ponderosa Mobile Home Park in Boulder, financial and regulatory uncertainties due to new ownership of the park by the City of Boulder, the need for affordable housing options in Boulder, and the difficulties of living in Boulder with a modest income. They also talk about their relationship, the work they have done, the reasons that they do enjoy living in Boulder, and ham radio operation.
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Call Number OH2099Date 2018Contents single recording; 32 minutes, 30 secondsDescription Janice Zelazo is retired and lives in the prestigious Newlands Neighborhood in Boulder. She owns her home, bought for only $65,000 in 1979, and in order to help with the need for affordable housing in Boulder, she started the Legacy Housing Program, which allows people to donate their houses at the time of their deaths to the city’s affordable housing program. Her house has become the first one in the Legacy Housing Program. She moved to Boulder in 1973, and she discusses why she chose Boulder, why she likes living in Boulder, and some of the changes she has experienced in the Newlands Neighborhood that make it increasingly unaffordable. She discusses the need for economic diversity in Boulder. She also talks about the simplicity of her chosen lifestyle and how it has helped with her own economic independence.
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Call Number OH3000Date 2017Contents single recording; 45 minutes, 03 secondsDescription Ray Crowder has owned his small home in Raymond, Colorado, for decades, buying it to join his sister next door during the summer months. Crowder talks about his long history in Raymond, on Highway 7 between Lyons and Estes Park. His parents bought a cabin there in 1948 when Ray was in high school, and they spent as much time there as they could over the years, at first during summers and then full-time. Ray bought the cabin next door to theirs in 1969, and he and his wife remodeled the cabin extensively. They view Raymond as a retreat and love getting away from ordinary life, fishing, sitting by the firepit, and sipping wine on the deck while listening to the river. He reminisces about the time when people would make and receive calls at the Raymond Store and conduct handshake deals over the ditch water usage. Ray also talks about the changes to the town of Raymond over the years, including population growth; more wildlife than in the past as the animals have been squeezed out of other areas; changing rules for using water from the ditch; rebuilding after the 2013 flood, which has changed the look of the small town; and the possibility of the Forest Service opening a shooting range nearby.
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Call Number OH3001Date 2018Contents single recording; 90 minutes, 10 secondsDescription Radio personality, entrepreneur, and former University of Colorado station manager Bob Skutelsky speaks about moving to Boulder in the late 1970s; his time at Brillig Works Bookstore; the small town feel of the Pearl Street Mall in the 1980s; and the appearance of Eastern religions in Boulder as embodied by hippies, New Age culture, and Naropa University. Skutelsky also discusses being a founding volunteer for community radio station KGNU and his work on programs such as “In the Moment” and the “Howard Beale Radio Hour,” while also managing side projects such as a Boulder midnight movie series and Nexus magazine.