Bill Favaro, Favaro’s Rod & Reel Repair Shop. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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America Works

Library of Congress

25 episodes

5 months ago

Features the voices of contemporary workers from throughout the United States talking about their lives, their workplaces, and their on-the-job experiences. Drawn from hundreds of longer oral history interviews collected by fieldworkers for the American Folklife Center's Occupational Folklife Project (OFP), America Works is a testament to the wisdom, wit, knowledge, and dedication of today's working Americans. These engaging oral histories, which have are preserved in the American Folklife Center's archive, are enriching and expanding America's historical record.

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Bill Favaro, Favaro’s Rod & Reel Repair Shop. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

America Works

5 minutes 53 seconds

5 months ago

Bill Favaro, Favaro’s Rod & Reel Repair Shop. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Bill Favaro, who, with his brother Sam is the owner and proprietor of Favaro’s Rod & Reel Repair Shop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, talks with folklorist Douglas Manger about how his business developed during the 1940s when Mr. Favaros’ father–(Hypolite Favaro, Sr.) –sold fishing rods and other fishing related items at his Esso gas station. He was interviewed for the Occupational Folklife Project Baton Rouge Small Businesses and Trades.