Oral History
Interviewee: Daniel Torgerson (b. 06/11/1958 - d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer: James "Jim" McCarver - SHM Volunteer
Audio Number: 1635
Duration: 01:11:48
Date: June 30, 2022
Topics Discussed: Torgerson discusses meeting, "hanging out" and his youth experiences with Hollywood star and actor Steve McQueen during the filming of Junior Bonner in Prescott, 1971. Torgerson family history; Parents Lewlyn Telford Torgerson and Irene Delores Gangelhoff; Senator Highway; Granite Dells; Erickson’s Road House; “Timber”; Dr. Scholl’s orthopedic shoes; Torgerson Boot and Shoe Service; Rodeo grounds; Siblings; Riding the rails; Whipple Hospital: Dexter School; Taylor Hicks School; Miller Valley School; Prescott Downs racetrack; Shoeshine boy; Whiskey Row; Steve McQueen; Sam Peckinpah;”Bad Boy”; “Junior Bonner” movie; Frontier Days Rodeo; Horse racing season; “Lucky Leprechaun” and “Mark T-Bar”; Yavapai Indian Reservation; “Adventureland”; Simpson’s Market; Ida Lupino; Silent Giant Aquarium Pump factory; Racing on Highway 89A; Slaughterhouse Motocross track; Senator Drive-In; Chad McQueen; Arnold Cox; Bob Cox; Freddy Fender; Rod Hart; Studio Theater; “On Any Given Sunday”; Joe Don Baker; Big Brothers and Big Sisters Organization;
Hiking through New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Grand Canyon; Hard Banning Drill Pipe Company; American Freedom Train; GED; Granite Lake, City Dump; Watson and Willow Lakes; Iron Springs; Stuart Rosebrook; Robert Preston; Stanley Kramer; “Bless the Beasts and the Children” film; “Gumball Rally” “Wanda Nevada”; Spirit Walk; US Navy; NASA; Tactical Support Center; Bermuda; Cordova, Alaska; Inventions; “The Pretender” television program; Fred Wandos; Datalink II; Stuart Rosebrook’s book.
Oral History
Interviewee: Pauline "Polly" Gerhardt (Rosenblatt) Tovrea (b. 04/01/1905 – d. 06/10/1994)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 771-772
Duration: 01:02:46, 00:47:54
Date: January 3, 1991; January 10, 1991
Topics Discussed: Rosenblatt family history, Prescott history 1905-1930s, businesses in Prescott during World War II, United States Park Service 1930s
Oral History
Interviewee: Frederick John Towne (b. 10/24/1927 – d. 01/10/2003)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 789
Duration: 01:11:13
Date: February 14, 1991
Topics Discussed: Yavapai County 1930-1950s; Arizona history 1900-1950s; Yarnell Store and Tavern 1930s; childhood memories; Navy experience 1945; Peeples Valley's grocery store and trailer park; Bellemont 1951; Wickenburg, Arizona; trucking and hauling fuel and oil, hunting and fishing in Yavapai County
Oral History
Interviewee: George Elbert Travis (b. 04/29/1918 – d. 01/29/2005)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 798-800
Duration: 01:00:10, 00:32:23, 00:29:55
Date: January 25, 1991, February 15, 1991
Topics Discussed: Pioneer Dr. Warren E. Day family history, Yavapai County mining 1930s, Prescott history 1870-1970s, Bozarth family
Oral History
Interviewee: Raymond "Ray" Kenyon Trengove (b. 08/07/1929 – d. 03/10/2017)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1321
Duration: 01:01:51
Date: August 2, 2000
Topics Discussed: Trengove family history, Prescott schools, Coca-Cola Bottling Company, ice plant, Park Avenue
Oral History
Interviewee: Marshall Trimble (b. 01/16/1939 – d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1322
Duration: 00:59:27
Date: June 26, 2000
Topics Discussed: Personal and family history; Ash Fork, Arizona 1946-1954; Harvey House in Ash Fork
Oral History
Interviewee: Carolyn (Walker) Tufts (b. 11/08/1924 – d. 12/22/2009)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1009-1010
Duration: 01:07:26
Date: April 16, 1994
Topics Discussed: Charles G. Walker, Alma Mine, Empire Mine, George Scholey
Oral History
Interviewee: Ethel Elizabeth (Buckley) Tyson (b. 10/19/1919 – d. 08/22/2008)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 830
Duration: 00:51:11
Date: April 19, 1991
Topics Discussed: Family history, ranching, Walnut Grove, Lillian Savage, teaching career in Prescott, Buckley family, Shull family, David Biles, time in Washington, D.C.
Oral History
Interviewee: Bill Vallely (b. 03/01/1926 – d.06/10/2004)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 975A
Duration: 00:27:50
Date: June 1, 1993
Topics Discussed: Family history, depression years in Prescott, American Legion sports
Oral History
Interviewee: Joan Carol (Hall) Vallely (b. 01/15/1929 – d. 05/07/2007)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 975B
Duration: 00:14:44
Date: June 1, 1993
Topics Discussed: Personal history and Mercy Hospital fire