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Interview no. | I-0097 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | I.2. Business History: North Carolina Business History |
Project description | Interviews, 1995-1999, with leaders of traditional and emergent North Carolina industries, such as furniture, banking, tobacco products, textiles, poultry, food and food services, tourism, pharmaceuticals, computers, and steel. Interviewees describe the origins and evolution of their companies; changes and problems they confront; the impact of businesses on the communities in which they operate; and regional, national, and global developments that will affect future prospects. |
Date | 28 January 1997 |
Interviewee | Gay, Rufus Frank. |
Interviewee occupation | Executives |
Interviewee DOB | 1911 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Darr, Dorothy, 1946- |
Abstract | Gay discusses growing up in a rural southern county in southern Georgia, his early jobs after the death of his father, his moves to find work during the Depression, what it takes to be a success in retailing and training of corporate managers, the support of family and spouse, retirement. Discusses early career in retailing for the J.C. Penney Company during the Depression and World War II, 1933-1945, in Birmingham (Ala.), Knoxville (Tenn.), and Alexandria (Va.), his post-World War II career in the central office in New York City from 1947-1952, and Gay's return to store management in Louisville (Ky.) (1951-1958) and Jacksonville (Fla.) (1959-1971). |
Subject Topical |
Business--History. Retail trade--Southern States. |
Subject Name | J.C. Penney Co. |
Citation | Interview with Rufus Frank Gay by Dorothy Darr, 28 January 1997 I-0097, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | I0097_Audio_1 |