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Loveless, Juanita (audio interview #3 of 3)
INTERVIEW DESCRIPTION - This last interview with Loveless, like the others, were conducted in her apartment in North Hollywood. She remained an enthusiastic participant and cooperative narrator. 9/15/1981
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- SUBJECT BIO - Juanita Loveless was barely seventeen years old when she went to work for Vega (Lockheed) as an assembler in 1942. Born in Childress, Texas, the third of eleven children, when she was only thirteen Loveless' mother took the children to Oklahoma City. They lived for a while in a community camp, until her mother farmed her out to work as a servant. She was saved from that situation by one family, and then later taken under the wings of another, with whom she came to California to pick dates. She returned to Fort Sill, Oklahoma with them briefly, and then when the was began came out to California on her own. She went to Hollywood and got a job first in a bowling alley, and then at a gas station, until she went to work at Vega (Lockheed). Loveless quit aircraft assembly work before war's end due to a skin condition that she developed and began to waitress. Married at war's end, but separated before the birth of her daughter, she realized that waitressing work provided the flexibility she needed as a single parent. She enjoyed the work and considered herself a "pro," though at the time of the interview she felt that she was becoming a victim of age discrimination. Because Loveless worked split shifts at one of the better restaurants in the San Fernando Valley, it was often difficult to schedule interviews. Ultimately, Jan Fischer conducted three interviews with Loveless in her North Hollywood apartment. She told her story with enthusiasm and was extremely candid. She had second thoughts about her candor and initially asked that a pseudonym (Norma Cantrell) be used in order to protect members of her family. However, later, she decided to attach her own name to her chapter in the book, Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War and Social Change. TOPICS - Topics in this very short interview include: work at Hartman Aircraft and photography studio; social life; and marriage
- *** File: rrrjloveless10.mp3 Audio Segments and Topics: (0:00-3:19)... After she left Vega, she went to work for Hartman Aircraft doing bench work. She thought the work was very boring and decided to quit after about three months. She also worked at a photograph studio in the evenings taking photographs of servicemen, cutting records, and making recordings. During this period of her life she "sort of got mixed up [and] started drinking and running around." She thinks that her behavior was brought on by the fact that she never got to be a teenager. She had worked for so many years and felt that it was finally time to have fun. She married a man she worked with in April 1945, which turned out to be a mistake. End of tape.
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