Marjorie Koehler discusses her career at REO Motor Car Company and Diamond REO Trucks, Inc.
Marjorie Koehler talks about her career at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc., in Lansing, MI, from 1947 to 1975. She says that her grandfather and father were working at REO when she came on board, after working for the State of Michigan, the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) and the Works Projects Administration (WPA). She describes working in the payroll and catalog departments at REO, shares stories of the REO Clubhouse, employee picnics and the annual employee fair and says that working at REO was much better than Oldsmobile, where her husband was worked. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of REO Memories oral history project.
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- In Collections
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Lansing Auto Town
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 1992-06-16
- Interviewees
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Koehler, Marjorie
- Interviewers
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Fine, Lisa M.
Bradley, Shirley J.
- Contributors
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REO Memories (Project)
- Subjects
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Koehler, Marjorie
Reo Motor Car Company
Diamond REO Trucks, Inc
Automobile industry workers
Buildings
Families
Industrial recreation
Quality of work life
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:59:54
- Venue Note
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Interviewed and recorded in Dimondale, MI, by Shirley J. Bradley and Lisa M. Fine, June 16, 1992.
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 16268
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b8663558