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Oral history interview with Dick Bown [Sound Recording 03]
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- 1991-12-02 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:40:06
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Richard "Dick" Charles Bown was born in Gettysburg, South Dakota, in 1928. He moved to Oregon in 1941. In 1950, he and Evelyn Constance Ferguson were married; they later had three children. Bown became a race car driver and competed in NASCAR races from 1961 to 1975. All three of his children were also involved in automobile racing. He also owned a service station and an auto wrecking business, Rose Auto Wrecking, in Portland, Oregon.
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Tape 3, Side 1. This oral history interview with Dick Bown was conducted by Alex R. Toth, Jr., at Rose Auto Wrecking in North Portland, Oregon, from November 20 to December 2, 1991. The interview was conducted in two sessions. In the first interview session, conducted on November 20, 1991, Bown discusses his family background and early life, particularly relocating to the Portland, Oregon, area from South Dakota in 1941, and his early interest in cars. He talks about running a service station and a billiard supply business. He speaks at length about his life as a race car driver, including his various cars; his first races in Oregon in the early 1950s; NASCAR and Oregon Auto Racing Association races in the 1960s; and the different tracks he has raced on. He also talks about his auto-wrecking business, Rose Auto Wrecking. He then continues discussing his life as a race car driver, including his relationship with his fellow racers and his competitive spirit.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
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- eng
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- Automobile racing
- Automobile wrecking and used parts industry--Oregon
- Automobiles, Racing
- Automobile racing drivers--Oregon
- Business enterprises--Oregon--Portland
- NASCAR (Association)
- Rose Auto Wrecking (Portland, Or.)
- Bown, Chuck, Jr. (Richard Charles), 1954-
- Bown, Jim T., 1960-
- Bown, Sheri (Sharon Ann), 1951-2020
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- Toth, Alex R., Jr. (Alex Robert), 1947- (Contributor)