COLLECTION NAME:
Colorado Coal Project
Collection Name:
Colorado Coal Project
Title:
Portal party (pt. 2 of 2)
Creator:
Margolis, Eric, 1947-
Creator:
McMahan, Ronald L.
Subject:
Coal mines and mining
Subject:
Coal miners--Personal narratives
Subject:
Wurlitzer organ
Subject:
Amusements--United States
Subject:
United Mine Workers of America
Subject:
Parties
Description:
The multi-generational party continues at a saloon with live music and dancing. An older man plays a Wurlitzer organ and a younger man plays an electric guitar and sings. Striking miners are then interviewed. They feel that the past decades were the good days, though life was hard, people were more satisfied. They also stuck together more and helped each other. They continue to say that today, life is dominated by consumer goods and that back then families went into debt to survive the summer months and they had very little. Today, people have a lot but debt keeps piling up. They also talk about coal qualities, tools they needed to purchase, and drilling methods. Much of their day was spent on dead work, for which they didn't get paid, i.e., timbering, laying tracks, and picking rock out of the coal.
Description Type:
summary
Description:
00:00 Portal party at the saloon 10:00 Pause in the music, people are talking, children playing 20:00 The bar of the saloon, man denounces scabs 30:00 Miner interviews begin 40:00 Somerset was a steady mine until oil started being used 50:00 Did the kids stay in the area when they grew up? 60:00 The company weighman cheated the miners with every car 1:04:00 End
Description Type:
Segment sequence
Publisher:
University of Colorado Boulder Archives
Date:
1978-03-09
Type:
Moving image
Format:
video/mov
Identifier:
147-Portal-Party.mov
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Language:
English
Relation:
Title: Portal party (pt. 1 of 2)
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Title: Portal party after the union meeting
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Title: Westmoreland Picket Line, Paonia (pt. 2 of 2)
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Westmoreland Picket Line, Paonia (pt.1 of 2)
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Title: Striking coal miners at Paonia, Colorado in 1978 (pt. 2 of 2)
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Relation:
Striking coal miners at Paonia, Colorado in 1978 (pt. 1 of 2)
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Coverage (Spatial):
Paonia (Delta, Colorado, United States, North America) (populated place)
Coverage (Temporal):
1902/1978
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