Oral History
Interviewee: Gail Irwin Gardner (b. 12/25/1892 - d. 11/23/1988)
Interviewer: Liz Woods - Gardner's Housekeeper
Audio Number: 1141
Duration: 01:30:42
Date: July 14, 1987
Acquisition Number: ACC# 2022.003
Note: The audio quality of this tape was very poor.
Topics Discussed: Gail Gardner and his housekeeper Liz Woods discuss their lives and Gardner sings some of his songs.
Oral History
Interviewee: Zoeleen "Zoe" (McLain) Blain (b. 07/16/1922 – d. 05/11/2000)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1030
Duration: 00:33:12
Date: August 29, 1994
Topics Discussed: Community Sings at the Plaza, c. 1930s; Tex Ritter; Demolition of old High School building on Gurley and the Miss Prescott & other beauty contests.
Oral History
Interviewee: Gail Irwin Gardner (b. 12/25/1892 - d. 11/23/1988)
Interviewer: Tres Moore
Audio Number: 1248
Duration: 00:18:46
Date: c. 1972
Acquisition Number: ACC# 98.109
Topics Discussed: History of the "Sierry Petes" Poem & Song, Wild Cattle Catching, Poetry, and Ranching & Cattle Business.
Oral History
Interviewee: Neil F. Blair (b. 08/25/1911 – d. 05/22/1984)
Interviewer: Glenna Sanders
Audio Number: 171
Duration: 00:21:06
Date: May 26, 1978
Acquisition Number: ACC# 2021.046
Topics Discussed: Blair discusses Jim "J.R." Williams - his life and work as a cartoonist and the K4 Ranch.
Lecture / Presentation
Title: Early Prescott Education
Presenter: Gail Irwin Gardner (b. 12/25/1892 - d. 11/23/1988)
Audio Number: 719B
Duration: 00:25:53
Date: 1961
Acquisition Number: ACC# 90.007
Topics Discussed: Prescott Schools in the 1900s; Washington School; Territorial Building; Miller Valley School; Recreation; Early Prescott High School Graduating Classes: Pastime Entertainments; July 4th Celebrations; Hose Races; Dudes, Toughs, OK’s and Hook & Ladders Fire Department Teams; Miner’s Drilling Contests; Children’s’ Sports; Bicycle Races, Bull Races; Pie Eating Contests; Jack Shull; Chinese History in Prescott: population, restaurants, laundries, and vegetable gardens; Joss House; Chinese New Year; Chinese kites; Chinese funerals and customs; 1900 gold, silver and currency; Sam Hill Hardware Store; Goldwater’s Store; Moore Insurance; Hazeltine Bank; First National Bank of Arizona & Deliveries Issues to Prescott.
Oral History
Interviewee: Charles Blanton (b. 07/24/1907 – d. 03/16/2001)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 993
Duration: 00:54:34
Date: November 18, 1993
Topics Discussed: Blanton Family History, Owl Drug & Candy Company; Chinese Gardens; Railway Mail Service; His marriage in England; Various businesses in Prescott area and Yavapai County Fairgrounds, c. 1914–1917.
Oral History
Interviewee: Gail Irwin Gardner (b. 12/25/1892 - d. 11/23/1988) & Delia (Gist) Gardner (b. 06/28/1900 - d. 04/18/1990)
Interviewer: Don van Doren
Audio Number: 714
Duration: 00:44:08
Date: October 24, 1982
Acquisition Number: ACC# 2022.003
Topics Discussed: Prescott History, Prescott's Tunnel Myths, Chinese Culture in Prescott, Gardner Family History.
Oral History
Interviewee: Elsie Blanton (b. 07/xx/1920 – d. 04/11/2015)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1295
Duration: 00:59:48
Date: July 6, 1999
Topics Discussed: Dansey/Dansy & Blanton Family History; London, England during World War II; Prescott Schools; Prescott Girl Scouts, Prescott Fine Arts Association; Yavapai Symphony Guild; Washington School PTA and Memories of Prescott businesses and people, 1940s to 1990s.
Westerners Presentation
Title: Reminiscences of Prohibition in Yavapai County
Presenter: Gail Gardner
Audio Number: 26
Duration: 01:01:55
Date of Presentation: October 4, 1968
Oral History
Interviewee: Donald Lawrence Bloom (b. 10/24/1916 – d. 10/14/2016)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 963
Duration: 00:38:11
Date: March 10, 1993
Topics Discussed: Bloom Family History; Jerome, c. 1937; Arizona Teachers College; Swedish Communities and Rohrer-Bloom Drugstore business in Prescott, 1946-1981.