Interview: Groethe Family

Five members of the Groethe family are interviewed by Bev Pechan. The family had many memories of living in Rapid City, SD. They took turns speaking about what they could remember, and also spent some time discussing what one sibling remembered compared to another sibling. Topics included in the interview are World War II, historic buildings, one family member's time working at Rapid City Public Library, the Flood of 1972, and more.

1972 Flood, ballrooms, Black Hills, City Auditorium, construction, Dinosaur Park, Duhamel Building, Duhamel Saddle Makers, Esquire Club, farming, Great Depression, Green Acres, gun collecting, horses, Hotel Alex Johnson, Mills Drugstore, Mount Rushmore, photography, ranching, Rapid City, Rapid City Public Library, restaurants, Roosevelts, South Dakota, South Dakota Laws, Terry Peak, theatres, USO, Warren Lamb Lumber, World War II

Rapid City Oral History Project

2014-08-13

Rapid City Public Library

Historic Rapid City

Rapid City Library Foundation

Dorothy A. Miller

Jean E. Diggins

William "Bill" Groethe

Robert Jackson Groethe

Joan Groethe-Solon

Bev Pechan

Rapid City