Emmet & Anna Utt, 1975-11-14, Interview #5 - MP3 Recording

Segment Synopsis: Their meeting and her years of teaching.

Segment Synopsis: Run-ins with gas rationing during the Second World War.

Segment Synopsis: Anna bet with a very forward girl that she couldn't steal Emmett from her. Emmett
decided to forget about women and bought a motorcycle instead.

Segment Synopsis: Anna's first and last ride on his motorcycle. A motorcycle ride for a tramp. Motorcycle
sidecars.

Segment Synopsis: Driving to Woodfell to get Anna in the winter snow.

Segment Synopsis: Entertainment for dating couples. Getting around a long string of stopped cars.

Segment Synopsis: Emmett raised cain with his Velie at Harvard, so the people up there didn't like him
but Anna's father did.

Segment Synopsis: Getting married and setting up house. Anna was a crack rifle shot. Shivaree and bridal
showers. Emmett almost shot during a shivaree.

Segment Synopsis: Working in the mill in the early years. The few whites used to tease the Greeks for
speaking in Greek among themselves. Rumor that foreigners kicked-back to their bosses
to get promoted. A Greek sawmiller who became a millionaire in business.

Segment Synopsis: A Japanese janitor sent to concentration camp during war, suspected of being an agent.
A Japanese worker who told Emmett Japan was going to lick the U.S. Gus Demus gave
much of his money to the poor in Greece. Dago Mikers yellow Ford.

Segment Synopsis: Emmett turned the water hose on full blast, surprising men in the mill. Town kids
feared country kids.

Segment Synopsis: Anna worked as a "servant girl" on Nob Hill in return for board and room so she could
go to high school in Potlatch.

Segment Synopsis: Making "Eskimo pies" with their inventor, the Potlatch pool hall owner. Country kids
went to high school by living in Potlatch. Working for the rich was a hardship. Anna
was promised but never given a dollar a week. A boss's car was drained of gas when
he didn't pay his bill. Anna got in trouble because her girl friend ate candy at the
house she was working at. Her "employer" bragged on her. Smoke bombs at a dance for
the "upper class." Working for a doctor's wife who was kind but tight. Speaking when
spoken to.

Segment Synopsis: Anna worked for Emmett's aunt, who later had to accept her into the family. How aunt
was spoiled.

Segment Synopsis: Millionaires can be like common people; difference between them and the "two-bit millionaires."
A local boy who became rich.

Segment Synopsis: Forced retirement and getting ahead at Potlatch. Poor people walked to work, they
didn't use cars. Repossessing cars at Potlatch during the Depression. More concern
with possessions in Potlatch than in the country. Country people working in Potlatch.

Segment Synopsis: Emmett moved out of Potlatch when he was forced to pay electricity costs for people
who weren't working. Getting by in their country place during the Depression. Beans
for the neighbor. Swapping among the farmers.

Segment Synopsis: Emmett's land purchases. As a boy he had to return five dollars to a lumberjack who'd
given it to him while drunk. Dances at halls around the country. Drinking at dances
- young people didn't very much. Decline of old entertainments, Early movies.

Segment Synopsis: More about working for the well-to-do on Nob Hill.

Segment Synopsis: Her family wanted her to go home and care for them during the flu, but she didn't
want to give up school. Father helped her through school as much as he could. Emmett
was led upstairs to see Anna in her Lewiston boarding house by mistake. Boarding in
Lewiston while going to Lewiston Normal.

Segment Synopsis: During the Depression, a young married wife starved to death. Shooting deer and leaving
much of the meat. Popularity of Roosevelt. Boomdays of the twenties. Opposition to
Truman election among mill management.