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Fortuna B. Hargrave 3-9-87 Tape I interviewed by Stephen Thordarson SIDE I 0-20 20-62 63-95 96-126 127-162 163-210 211-242 243-278 279-291 292-312 313-325 326-360 361 372 373-413 414-454 455-483 She talks about her name and age. The history of her family and Safardic Jewish heitage including the Lavine language. Her Father-s move to the U.S. in 1909 from Turkey. She tells of Mother and Brother coming to live in the Central Area Jewish Community of Seattle. Memories of first house as a family and the birth of her younger brother. Her favorite candy container and the happiness of her Dad coming to Seattle where she-s glad to live~ and her Dad-s occupation as a caretaker in the synagogue. Her Mother coming over in steerage and Father-s wages as a caretaker. What she did for entertainment as a young girl. Perils of Pauline Movie Serial at a theater she went to. Leschi Park picnics while listening to bands in her early teens. Discusses how the Synague is set up to favor males through its architecture. Buying ice cream and riding trikes as a kid and other anecdotes of early Seattle. Amazement at what Mom ~lowed~ and her developement as an individual while~~i peers still haven-t changed. Deciding to keep busy so that time is useful and she feels useful. Her educational background and attitudes at school as a .. time waster" who couldn-t go on to college after graduating from Garfield in 1932 because of a lack of funds. Learning power sewing and describing what she does as an embroiderer and her first job at unfair wages. Passage of NRA and how she wrote an anonymous letter to her boss to get the shop-s pay raised to NRA standards. 484-502 503-529 530-546 SIDE II 1-41 42-55 55-79 80-87 88-100 101-143 144-156 157-175 176-186 187-227 228-292 293-329 330-346 347-384 345-401 Her pride in voting in every general election as an independent. She also talks of her belief in liberal causes. Asking her boss for a raise and her sympathy for the union organization which made her quit rather than get fired. Finding her next job through an as in the paper, and the boss who she did not get along with. Why she wasn~t called back because the chemistry between her and the boss was wrong. How the unemployment office sent her to another sweatshop. Going to New York for a couple of months for "schooling.'' Finding work at the Bell and Pendant Shop. Going to work for Boeing and meeting her husband. Ending up at Overall Laundry services after working again after the war at the Bell and Pendant Shop. B-mechanic at shop 307 at Boeing making a Sl.Ol an hour. Being a Jr. Hostess at the USO. Meeting husband at a Xmas dance then getting married the following saturday and spendinng four years in Fairbanks. There her children were born. Growth of Seattle and the World~s Fair. As a child spending time at the fieldhouse playing games and participating in supervised activities such as putting on plays. Her volunteer work at a neighborhood elementary school after she retired when she was 66. Why she likes the West which has open spaces. She loves the water, rain, and houses with yards. She wants breathing space. The pride of owning her own home and what it took to pay for it. How she raised her children as a single working mother through paying people to be live ins and the Seattle Day Nursery. She also worried her about what they were doing so she called home every couple hours. D One day when &avid was home sick he burned the drapes 402-428 429-452 453-483 484-524 SIDE III 0-185 186-200 201-244 245-277 278-310 311-355 356-388 389-421 422-470 471-592 partially but, cut off the burnt pieces with aAscissors. What she would like to see in job opportunites for women and other social reforms. How much she enjoyed her job and her present volunteer work. Some comments on the Jewish community and how many of it-s members worked at the Pike Place Market. Her father selling yogurt, here she would also buy ice cream. She also discusses how her father salvaged blemished produce to save money on food. Why it was so hard to find adequate day care and peole as live ins. She discussed some of the "characters"' who were live ins. She discusses the mistakes she made in remarrying her husband. The children were on their own once in elementary school. How she spent what little spare time she had with her children such as reading going on outings and the Independent Order of Foresters. Why she drifted away from the synagogue because she did not like being second class because of Orthodox thinking toward women. Her trip in 1983 to Israel where she stayed on a kibbutz. Her atuneness to ethnic and racial slurs. Her pride in how things are more intergrated as things were at Garfield when she went to school. Facing antagonism from people for being Jewish as a child. Saying "niger'' as a four year old not knowing what it meant to a friend of her older brother and seeing his reaction. It-s not one particular reason that she lives in Seattle or is a ''Western Women" its just a basic feeling of belonging and ~ling "great." I Discussed how at Boeing she confronted the shop steward and got him to leave the blacks on her shift alone.
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Title | Hargrave, Fortuna Oral History Interview, 1987 |
Interviewer | Thordarson, Stephen |
Date | 1987-05-06 |
Description | 136 minute oral history with Fortuna Hargrave, conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398) course at Washington State University. Discusses working in many jobs including working in a sweat shop in New York, during World War II as a B-welder, and working in laundry services. She talks about raising her children, and childcare while she worked. Discusses the difficulties of being Jewish while growing up, working, and during World War II, addressing unions, wage increases, and discrimination by foremen. |
Subject | Employment; Cultural relations; Working mothers |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Washington--King County--Seattle; North and Central America--United States--New York--New York County--New York; North and Central America--United States--Alaska--Fairbanks North Star County--Fairbanks. |
Type | Sound |
Genre | Interviews |
Publisher | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Rights Notes | In copyright. Item is in copyright until 95 years after 2011 publication date. |
Identifier | ua220b01f08 |
Source | Is found in Archives 220, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua220.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Holding Institution | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries |
Contributors | Digitization and description funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities We the People grant for Washington Womens History to the Washington Womens History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society. |
Language | English |
Digitization | Original audio cassettes were converted to wav files using Audacity and a USBPre interface. Mp3 files were then created from the wav files for online access. Film clips were created as mpeg-4 files using Adobe Premiere Elements 9 to add selected images to the wav audio files, and then converted to flv files for online display. Print documents were scanned to 300dpi pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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Title | ua220b01f08_Abstract |
Full Text | Fortuna B. Hargrave 3-9-87 Tape I interviewed by Stephen Thordarson SIDE I 0-20 20-62 63-95 96-126 127-162 163-210 211-242 243-278 279-291 292-312 313-325 326-360 361 372 373-413 414-454 455-483 She talks about her name and age. The history of her family and Safardic Jewish heitage including the Lavine language. Her Father-s move to the U.S. in 1909 from Turkey. She tells of Mother and Brother coming to live in the Central Area Jewish Community of Seattle. Memories of first house as a family and the birth of her younger brother. Her favorite candy container and the happiness of her Dad coming to Seattle where she-s glad to live~ and her Dad-s occupation as a caretaker in the synagogue. Her Mother coming over in steerage and Father-s wages as a caretaker. What she did for entertainment as a young girl. Perils of Pauline Movie Serial at a theater she went to. Leschi Park picnics while listening to bands in her early teens. Discusses how the Synague is set up to favor males through its architecture. Buying ice cream and riding trikes as a kid and other anecdotes of early Seattle. Amazement at what Mom ~lowed~ and her developement as an individual while~~i peers still haven-t changed. Deciding to keep busy so that time is useful and she feels useful. Her educational background and attitudes at school as a .. time waster" who couldn-t go on to college after graduating from Garfield in 1932 because of a lack of funds. Learning power sewing and describing what she does as an embroiderer and her first job at unfair wages. Passage of NRA and how she wrote an anonymous letter to her boss to get the shop-s pay raised to NRA standards. 484-502 503-529 530-546 SIDE II 1-41 42-55 55-79 80-87 88-100 101-143 144-156 157-175 176-186 187-227 228-292 293-329 330-346 347-384 345-401 Her pride in voting in every general election as an independent. She also talks of her belief in liberal causes. Asking her boss for a raise and her sympathy for the union organization which made her quit rather than get fired. Finding her next job through an as in the paper, and the boss who she did not get along with. Why she wasn~t called back because the chemistry between her and the boss was wrong. How the unemployment office sent her to another sweatshop. Going to New York for a couple of months for "schooling.'' Finding work at the Bell and Pendant Shop. Going to work for Boeing and meeting her husband. Ending up at Overall Laundry services after working again after the war at the Bell and Pendant Shop. B-mechanic at shop 307 at Boeing making a Sl.Ol an hour. Being a Jr. Hostess at the USO. Meeting husband at a Xmas dance then getting married the following saturday and spendinng four years in Fairbanks. There her children were born. Growth of Seattle and the World~s Fair. As a child spending time at the fieldhouse playing games and participating in supervised activities such as putting on plays. Her volunteer work at a neighborhood elementary school after she retired when she was 66. Why she likes the West which has open spaces. She loves the water, rain, and houses with yards. She wants breathing space. The pride of owning her own home and what it took to pay for it. How she raised her children as a single working mother through paying people to be live ins and the Seattle Day Nursery. She also worried her about what they were doing so she called home every couple hours. D One day when &avid was home sick he burned the drapes 402-428 429-452 453-483 484-524 SIDE III 0-185 186-200 201-244 245-277 278-310 311-355 356-388 389-421 422-470 471-592 partially but, cut off the burnt pieces with aAscissors. What she would like to see in job opportunites for women and other social reforms. How much she enjoyed her job and her present volunteer work. Some comments on the Jewish community and how many of it-s members worked at the Pike Place Market. Her father selling yogurt, here she would also buy ice cream. She also discusses how her father salvaged blemished produce to save money on food. Why it was so hard to find adequate day care and peole as live ins. She discussed some of the "characters"' who were live ins. She discusses the mistakes she made in remarrying her husband. The children were on their own once in elementary school. How she spent what little spare time she had with her children such as reading going on outings and the Independent Order of Foresters. Why she drifted away from the synagogue because she did not like being second class because of Orthodox thinking toward women. Her trip in 1983 to Israel where she stayed on a kibbutz. Her atuneness to ethnic and racial slurs. Her pride in how things are more intergrated as things were at Garfield when she went to school. Facing antagonism from people for being Jewish as a child. Saying "niger'' as a four year old not knowing what it meant to a friend of her older brother and seeing his reaction. It-s not one particular reason that she lives in Seattle or is a ''Western Women" its just a basic feeling of belonging and ~ling "great." I Discussed how at Boeing she confronted the shop steward and got him to leave the blacks on her shift alone. |
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