Interview of Lansing resident Mitch Skory
Mitch Skory recalls his life in Lansing, MI, including establishing a television sales and service business in the early days of TV, opening several other businesses, the assimilation of the Lebanese community in the Lansing area and about relations with other ethnic and racial groups, a fire which destroyed a downtown hotel, the city phone system and party lines, the establishment of the REO manufacturing company, and the city turning Washington Ave into a pedestrian mall. Skory says that he is optimistic about Lansing's future. Skory is interviewed by Rebecca Hector-Kruth and others.
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- In Collections
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2009-03-10
- Interviewees
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Skory, Mitchell M.
- Interviewers
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Hector-Kruth, Rebecca
- Subjects
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Reo Motor Car Company
City and town life
Hotels--Fires and fire prevention
Lebanese
Pedestrian areas
Race relations
Telephone
Television broadcasting
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:39:59
- Venue Note
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Recorded 2009 March 10
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 37305
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b12538904
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