Oral History Archives: Moses Lake, Washington

The Oral History Archives includes audio clips and partial transcripts.

Listen to Oral History Audio Clips

Marge and Ed Ebel 
Concrete work on Grand Coulee Dam

The dam’s effect on Moses Lake community

Yadira Garcia 
Life as a high school student in Moses Lake

Don Goodwin 
The closure of the U & I Sugar Refinery

Remina Jorgensen: Mormon resident of Moses Lake since 1940s 
Increasing population and changing ethnicity in Moses Lake

The Columbia Basin Project, technology, transportation, and modern agriculture 

Changes in sprinkler systems 

The effect on Moses Lake of the Mt. St. Helens eruption in 1980

Frank Koba 
Personal account of being relocated to Moses Lake 

Frank Koba discusses Moses Lake after 1943

Barbara and Ted Osborne 
Preparing for irrigation

Clyde Owen: Air Force colonel, commanded Larson Air Force Base in 1960s 
On moving to Moses Lake, and the closing of Larson Air Force Base 
Japan Airlines buys Grant County Airport for training of 747 pilots

Andrea Stucki: Mormon high school student 
The shooting at Moses Lake High School

Joe Tokunaga 
Internment at Minidoka and coming to Moses Lake

Lillian Tokunaga 
Living in Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II

Harry Yamamoto 
Farming in Moses Lake after 1943

View Partial Oral History Transcripts

Carrie “Kitty” Blakes – African American resident of Moses Lake

Deane, Dick – Moses Lake community member since 1945

Garcia, Yadira – Mexican American high school student

Goodwin, Don – County Commissioner for sixteen years

Hanson, Wanda – Farm wife and State Senator for one year

Jorgenson, Remina – Mormon resident of Moses Lake since 1940s

Koba, Frank and Mrs. – WWII Internment – Minidoka/small business owners in Moses Lake

Schiffner, George and Margaret – Building the big dams, and electricity

Tokunaga, Fudge, Joe, and Lillian – Japanese Internment/Farming in Moses Lake

Yamamoto, Harry, Jr. – Japanese American who came to Moses Lake with his parents on work release status from a World War II internment campInterviews were conducted and are housed at the Adam East Art Center and Museum in Moses Lake, Washington.

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