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Interview no. | I-0092 |
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 | 17 October 1997 |
Interviewee | Abrams, Steve, 1946- |
Interviewee occupation | Sales personnel |
Interviewee DOB | 1946 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Darr, Dorothy, 1946- |
Abstract | Family background [migration from Chicago to Texas], development of family furniture manufacturing company in Ennis, Texas, early career in furniture sales, description of the Dallas, Texas and Tupelo, Mississippi furniture markets, the decline of the Dallas market and the rise of the Tupelo market in the last twenty years, furniture manufacturing in Mexico, 1985-1995, comments on High Point's International Home Furnishings Market, the largest furniture market in the world. |
Subject Topical |
Furniture industry and trade--North Carolina. Furniture industry and trade--Texas. Furniture industry and trade--Mississippi. Furniture industry and trade--Mexico. |
Citation | Interview with Steve Abrams by Dorothy Darr, 17 October 1997 I-0092, 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. | I0092_Audio_1 |