Oral History Interview with Leon F. Painter, June 8, 1974 Page: 2
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Painter
2just turned . . . I believe it was eighteen,
nineteen probably. I had just turned nineteen.
I spent six years in the United States Marine
Corps.
Going back just a little bit, why did you decide
to enter the service?
The reason probably is that it was back in really
hard times, and being in the part of Texas I was
in, I'll tell you, a dollar was really a dollar
in those days. I had served a portion of an
apprenticeship in sheet metal work in Denison,
Texas, and I had a friend in Pueblo, Colorado,
that had a business. So I went out there, and I
got into some furnace work to finish out on this
apprenticeship. I left there and came back, but
I came to Dallas instead of Denison. I finally got
a job in a sheet metal shop and was pretty secure.
It was a non-union shop. Of course, in those days
there were very few unions.
Especially in Dallas.
Especially in Dallas (chuckle). This is true. There
was a termite company there that had called me and
said that they were putting in a sheet metal shop.
I really didn't understand what their purpose wasMarcello:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Painter, Leon F. Oral History Interview with Leon F. Painter, June 8, 1974, book, June 8, 1974; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1923891/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.