Ainsworth, Vernon

2007.1.31

Ainsworth, Merrill

Santa Barbara, CA (home of son)

Pilling, Heather

This interview begins with an introduction by Vernon Ainsworth's son, Merrill Ainsworth. It contains memories related to a number of various subjects, some of which include: The railroad industry, the Great Depression, cherry orchards, canning, and several Union County locations.

Several interviews were conductued between 1972 and 1976.

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Ainsworth, Don
Ainsworth, Jim
Ainsworth, Joseph
Ainsworth, Merrill
Ainsworth, Vernon
Bouvey, Dr.
Bramwell, Franklin S.
Gerber, Otto
Giles, Mr.
Johnson, W. C.
Kerr, Jess
King, Senator
Lovan, Bill
Lovan, Rosa
Lovan, William
Palmer, George
Wagoner, Warren

Animals
Apples
Automobiles
Babies
Bathtubs & showers
Beds
Blacksmith shops
Boardwalks
Bodies
Boots
Box cars
Buckets
Camps
Canning & preserving
Carbines
Cherries
Coal
Dead persons
Derailments
Engineers
Engines
Families
Fishing
Great Depression
Guns
Hamburgers
Hunting
Ice
Locomotives
Logging
Lumber industry
Native Americans
Orchards
Pools
Railroad accidents
Railroad employees
Railroads
Rifles
Roundhouses
Sawmills
Shovels
Trails & paths
Trains
Wagon trains

Acetylene torch
Adams Avenue
Altitude
Angleworms
Arthritis
Bait
Bobcat
Boiler washers
Boilermakers
Boots
Braces
Brakeman
Brakes
Bread and jelly
Brush
Brushy Creek
Bull trout
Bums
Burner
Caboose cushions
Cam
Cantrell
Car decking
Carey, ID
Chevrolet, 1923
Coal burner
Coffee
Columbia River
Cords
Coupling
Crew
Cutting torch
Does
Dolly Varden
Donkey engine
Donkey operator
Dow
Elgin
Engine maintenance crew
Engineman
England
Europe
Fawns
Fishing tackle
Flat car
France
Fried onions
Furniture
Gasoline speeder
Germany
Gold piece
Grassroots
Great Britain
Handbrakes
Heavy clothes
Homestead
Hotshot special
Icy tracks
Indians
Injectors
Joseph
Kamela
La Grande
Lard
Latter—day Saints
Lead carman
Light—spring wagon
Log chute
Long johns
Lookingglass River
Maintenance operation
May Park
Mechanic
Mice
Mud
Muskrat
Ohio
Oil
Oily waste
Palmer Lumber Company
Pauline
Pears
Pendleton
Phone box
Pig feed
Portland Rose
Potatoes
Promontory Point
Pump
Railroad spur
Rainbow trout
Rattlesnake Junction
Red fusee
Regulations
Reith
Rip track
Rules
Saddle horse
Salt Lake
Scavengers
Schoolhouse
Shay engine
Sheepskin coat
Spinner valves
Steam line
Steam locomotive
Steam piston
Superintendent
Tanker cars
Thawing
Torch
Trout
Twelve—hour shifts
Union Pacific
Vincent
Wallowa River
Wallowa
Wallowa Canyon
White pine
Woodgreen
Wool pants
Wrecker
Y Avenue