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Oral history interview with Harold H. Cake [Session 01, Recording 02]
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- 1982-09-02 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:25:32
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Harold Haseltine Cake was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1897. In 1918, he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon, and in 1922, he earned a degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1923, he and Edna Naomi Howd were married; they later had two children. Cake worked as an electrical engineer for GE in Los Angeles, California, for 11 years. In 1935, he returned to Portland and worked for the Haseltine Company, a mill supply business, for the next 19 years. After Edna Cake's death, he remarried to Alice Ruth Stafft in 1955. In the mid-1950s, Cake began working for Equitable Savings and Loan, continuing until his retirement in 1971. Cake died in 1997.
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Tape 1, Side 2. In the first interview session, conducted on September 2, 1982, Cake discusses his family background and early life in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, then talks about his college experiences at the University of Oregon and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He discusses his work as an electrical engineer for GE in Los Angeles, California, during the Depression, then talks about his return to Portland in 1935 to work for the Haseltine Company. He briefly speaks about his marriage history and his children. He shares his reasons for leaving the Haseltine Company to join Equitable Savings and Loan as a director. He talks about the careers of his brothers, Ralph Cake and William Cake. He speaks at length about the history of Equitable Savings and Loan and about its business practices, including its activities during the Depression, the buildings it occupied, and its operations in other states. He discusses how the inflation of the 1970s affected savings and loan institutions.
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Joint copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society and the estate of Harold H. Cake. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/
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- Dodds, Linda S. (Contributor)