Union County Oral Histories
Narrator:
Bean, Ariel
Record ID:
2007.1.36
Interviewer:
Clemens, Vanessa & 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 Mormon church, family, genealogy, Armistice Day, apple orchards, cemeteries, the Great Depression, and numerous Union County locations.

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People:
Andrew, June
Baker, Trace
Bean, Barbara
Bean, Ethel
Bean, George Ariel
Bean, Jean
Bean, Jeff
Bean, Vern
Bean, Victor E.
Bean, Walt
Beck, Jack
Borkgren, Royal
Burke, Chief Clarence
Caroll, Mike
Carter, Harvey
Exley, Cliff
Garity, Toots
Geddes, Waldo
Grant, Uncle
Hamann, Willie
Hoyt, Harold
Huff, Marion
Hug, Russel
Ingle, Dr. J. L.
Ingram, Bud
Jenkins, Jack
Jones, Polly
Lyman, George R.
Marshal, Peewee
McCoy, George
Metcalf, Glen
Niederer, Mrs.
Peck, Luana
Perry, Elmer
Ragsdale, Betty
Rasmussen, Sylvan
Sherwood, Cecil
Shinsel, Ruth
Stange, August
Stoddard, David
Storey, Ellen
Storey, Sam
Wilson, Lyle
Woodard, Ernest
Subjects:
Airports
Animals
Apple orchards
Automobiles
Barbers
Barbershops
Barns
Baseball
Basketball
Beauty parlors
Bicycles & tricycles
Bishops
Box cars
Bus drivers
Camps
Canneries
Cemeteries
Cherries
Cherry trees
Coaching (Athletics)
Coal
Combines (Agricultural machinery)
Correctional facilities
Courthouses
Crimes
Depots
Diving
Doctors
Drainage
Dressing rooms
Education
Engineers
Engines
Family
Fields
Floods
Flu
Football
Gambling
Games
Grains
Great Depression
Greenhouses
Gymnasiums
Hamburgers
Harvesting
Hay
Health care
Highways
History
Hitching posts
Hotels
Insurance
Irrigation
Labor
Languages
Laundry
Lawsuits
Lifesaving
Livestock
Locomotives
Log buildings
Logging
Lumber industry
Mail
Maintenance & repair
Migrant laborers
Military service
Milk
Mills
Mormon churches
Motorcycles
Native Americans
Neighborhoods
Newspapers
Orchards
Overpasses
Photographs
Picnics
Pitchforks
Politics & government
Post offices
Postal delivery
Presidents
Prisons
Prostitution
Railroad employees
Railroad yards
Railroads
Referees
Religion
Roads
Roundhouses
Rural life
Salaries
Saloons
Sawmills
Schools
Sewers
Showers
Stockyards
Stores & shops
Storms
Superintendents, School
Surveying instruments
Swimming pools
Taverns
Teachers
Theaters
Threshers
Towers
Track
Training
Trials
Wages
Wagons
Walkways
Warehouses
Water
Welfare
World War II
Search Terms:
4th of July
4th Street Grocery
Ackerman School
Adams Avenue
Air Corps
Armistice Day
Artesian well
Asbestos
Auto camp
Bachelor's degree
Baker City
Baker High School
Barbecue stands
Barber's clippers
Bear Creek
Bing cherries
Bishop's storehouse
Blackhawk Trail
Blue Mountains
Boise
Boise Cascade
Boss system 31
Boulder
Bowman—Hicks mill
Boy Scouts
Buchanan Lane
Buggy
Bull prick
Camp Elkhana
Car toads
Carman
Cars
Catch basins
Catherine Creek
Catholic cemetery
Cattle
Central School
Chandler Lane
Changing rooms
Cherry Street
Chickens
Chief
China Mary's noodles
Chinook jargon
Chinook jargon
Chlorine
Christmas
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter—day Saints
City Engineer
Clat—a—wa
Clinic
Conley warehouse
Conley warehouse
Cord of wood
Cove
Cove swimming pool
Crystal Plunge
Dayton
Deal Canyon
DeBord's
Denver mud
Directory
Dirt
Ditch
Diving tower
Division point
Dutch windmill
Eastern Oregon College
Eastern Oregon University
Education Association
Elgin
Elgin Stake Center
Enterprise
Escalante
Family Heritage Center
Family History Center
Farewell Bend
Federal Credit Union
Feed and bulb store
Five Acres
Five Points Creek
Flathead Lake
Floor joists
Foley Hotel
Foothill Road
Freight car repair
Frogs
Fruit fly
Fruit smudging
Fruitdale Lane
Ft. Worth
Gangloff Park
Garbage disposal office
Geneaology
Gethsemane
Globe Furniture
Goss's
Graham's Drug Store
Granada Theater
Grande Ronde River
Grande Ronde Valley
Grandview Cemetery
Grass seed
Grass seed cleaners
Green Parrot Grill
Greenwood School
Groceries
Grounds
Gumosis
Gutters
Haircut
Halfbacks
Halfway
Harrison
High ball
High school
Highway Grocery
Hillcrest Cemetery
Hinkle
Horses
Hot brick
Ice cream store
Idaho
Imbler
Indians
Ingrams
Island City
J.C. Penney's
Joel's Grocery
Johnson orchards
Journal
Ketchup
Kiddles
Kinzels
La Grande
Ladd Canyon
Lambert
Lavender Lunch
LDS tabernacle
Leffel Corners
Liberty School
Liberty Theater
Linebackers
Linesman
Little leaf
Log Cabin Grocery
Log chute
Lumber Company
Management
Mangers
Manholes
Master's degree
May Park
McGlasson's
Meacham
Meadow Creek
Medical Springs
Melanie Square
Menage a trois
Merit badges
Mexicans
Mill Canyon
Miller's orchard
Minor family
Model A pickup
Model T
Mormons
Mosaic
Mt. Emily Lumber Co.
Mt. Emily Mill
Mustard
Nampa
Nibley
Noodle parlor
North Ogden
North Powder
Ogden
Old river channel
Ontario
Oregonian
Overalls
Parker House rolls
Pat's Alley
Paul Bunyan
Pea cannery
Pears
Pedigree sheet
Pendleton
Peppermint oil
Pepsi—Cola bottling place
Perry
Persimmon
Piggly Wiggly
Pilot Rock
Pine Cone
Plasters
Pleasant Valley
Pondosa
Portland
Potato poultice
Pumpkin Ridge
Purdy's Dutch Windmill
Quarterback
R.L. Polk and Company
Railroad spur
Railway Express
Recreational Hall
Richfield
Rip track
Riveria School
Rivets
Roseburg
Round—Up
Royal Anne
Safety
Safeway
Salt Lake City
Salvation Army
Second ward
Shiplap
Shot—hole borer
Siding track
Sinden's
Sleigh bells
Sommer Hotel Building
Soot
Spider
Sportsmanship
St. Joseph Hospital
Stange Manor
Starkey store
Steam
Steam locomotives
Stockton
Sugar Addition
Sugar beets
Swearing
Team spirit
Teeter—totters
The Dalles
The Observer
Trucks
U.S. History
Umatilla County
Umatilla, OR
Union County
Union Creamery
Union Stake
University of Oregon
UPS
Utah
Vanilla
Viaducts
Vinegar works
Wade Hall
Wallowa
Willamette Valley
Willow Grocery
Willow School
Windows, stained glass
Witch hazel
Yakima
Yard sale
Yellow Dog
Zimmerman's
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