Recollections of a singing shipbuilder
By: Lewis Van Hook ; an interview conducted by Judith K. Dunning in 1983.
Contributors: Dunning, Judith.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Online Archive of California.
Publisher: Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California
Published: 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Kaiser Shipyards (Richmond, Calif.); Richmond (Calif.) -- History.
Other titles: On the waterfront : an oral history of Richmond, California.
Description: Van Hook discusses his Arkansas childhood; move to Richmond, 1943; Kaiser Shipyard worker, 1943-1945; Singing Shipbuilders gospel quartet, 1943-1946; postwar changes in Richmond; advice to younger generations.