Union County Oral Histories
Narrator:
Lovan, William
Record ID:
2007.1.30
Interviewer:
Smith, Eugene
Interview Place:
La Grande, OR
Transcriptionist:
Pilling, Heather
Abstract:
This interview contains memories related to a wide range of subjects, some of which include: The Great Depression, World War I, World War II, dairy farming, including Lovan's Dairy, family, hunting, fishing, various automobiles, and local businesses.

The first interview took place on February 8, 2003

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Audio:
People:
Brown, Mrs.
Choate, Virgil
Fleshman, Dorothy
Fleshman, George
Harris, Bill
Harris, Sam
Harris, Tom
Haun, Dr.
Hildebrandt, Warner
Hofmann, Emma
Hofmann, Fritz
Hofmann, John
Hofmann, Rosa
Lovan, Bill
Lovan, Earl
Lovan, Edith
Lovan, Henry
Lovan, Malinda Redman
Lovan, Margaret Bruce
Lovan, Merle
Lovan, Omar
Lovan, Oren
Lovan, Orlie
Lovan, Rosa Hofmann
Lovan, William
Machaffey, Mrs.
Rohan, Don
Rohan, Frank
Rosenbaum, Jess
Stange, August
Taylor, Ed
Turn, Max
Subjects:
Animals
Automobiles
Carnivals
Courthouses
Dairy farming
Dance halls
Dances
Families
Farming
Farms
Fishing
Golf courses
Great Depression
Greenhouses
Hospitals
Hunting
Laundry
Logging
Manure
Milk cans
Mills
Newspapers
Pianos
Reservoirs
Rivers
Road construction
Road graders
Road graders
Sawmills
Schools
Snowplows
Timber industry
Trails & paths
Trucking
World War I
World War II
Search Terms:
Ackerman School
Bib overalls
Blizzard Flat
Bohnenkamp Building
Boise Cascade
Boise Cascade Lumber Company
Boise—Payette
Boots
Buffalo Peak
Cadillac
Calf
Candy
Catalina Island
Central School
Chevrolet, 1934
Chickens
Choate's Cigar Store
Cigar
City Council
Corner Club
Cove
Cow
Decoration Day
Deer
Dry goods
Dry kilns
Earplugs
Eastern Oregon Review
Elk
Ellis Island
Flat irons
Frader
Glass Hill
Grande Ronde Hospital
Grande Ronde River
Grande Ronde Valley
Greenchain
High—rollers
Hilgard
Hofmann's Dairy
Idaho
Indiana diggings
J.C. Penney's
Joseph Branch
L.H. Russeel place
La Grande Reservoir
Lovan Ranch
Lovan's Dairy
Merchant Marine
Milton—Freewater
Morgan Lake
Mouth harp
Mowing lawns
Mt. Emily Mill
Nash, 1941
Neckties
New Year's Eve
Old bear trail
Old Beaver intake
Old Town
Ontario
Oregonian
Overalls
Paper route
Penny Ante Over
Pigs
Planer
Plymouth, 1937
Poker
Pool
Portland
Potatoes
Pump
Rainbow Mine
Red Cross Drug Store
Red Dot
Rummy
Select
Shake Switch Shop
St. Joseph's Hospital
Stagecoach barn
Starkey
Starkey Store
Still
Switzerland
Table Mountain
Tony Vey meadows
Trotter's Men's Store
Truck driver
Turn's Secondhand Furniture
Unofficial Mayor of Old Town
Utah
Veterans' Hospital
Walla Walla
Watchmaker
Waterhouse Hill
Well
Woodley
Works Progress Adminsitration
Worms
WPA
Zimmerman store
Zuber Hall
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Bill Lovan at Miners' CabinBill Lovan at Miners' Cabin
Lake for Hydraulic MiningLake for Hydraulic Mining
Lake DrainLake Drain
Camp Carson SignCamp Carson Sign
Dredge TailingsDredge Tailings
River Reclamation Sign - 1River Reclamation Sign - 1
River Reclamation Sign - 2River Reclamation Sign - 2