Marilyn Shadduck discusses her career at REO Motor Car Company and Diamond REO Trucks, Inc
Marilyn Shadduck talks about her career at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc., in Lansing, MI, from 1942 to 1975. Shadduck describes her youth, going to weekly free movies at the REO Clubhouse, working at REO through the war years, being selected as "Miss REO", raising a family, and being part of the "REO family" until the plant closed. She talks about the dissolution of the company, the loss of the pension fund, and the start of Spartan Motors by former REO workers. She says that REO "was a great place to work". The interviewer is Shirley Bradley. Recorded as part of the commemoration of REO Motor Car Company’s 100th Anniversary.
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- In Collections
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2004-06-08
- Interviewees
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Shadduck, Marilyn
- Interviewers
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Bradley, Shirley J.
- Contributors
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REO Centennial (Project)
- Subjects
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Shadduck, Marilyn
Reo Motor Car Company
Diamond REO Trucks, Inc
Spartan Motors, Inc
Automobile industry workers
Bankruptcy
Families
Industrial recreation
Pension trusts--Termination
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:44:11
- Venue Note
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Interviewed and recorded by Shirley J. Bradley, June 8, 2004.
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 16316
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b8663809
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