Oral history interviews with Gary Baker. 1989.

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Oral history interviews with Gary Baker. 1989.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57401350

Baker recounts his personal history, work at Fred Meyer including information on the company's management policy, labor issues, relations with employees and unions etc.

Transcript: 286 leaves.

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7761592

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Baker, Gary E.

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Gary Baker worked in the Human Resources/Personal department at Fred Meyer. From the description of Oral history interviews with Gary Baker. 1989. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 57401350 ...

Meyer, Fred G., 1886-1978.

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Andersen, Howard A. (Howard Arne), 1916-

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Hansen, Clark

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Meyer, Eva.

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Fred Meyer, Inc.

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Fred G. Meyer was born Frederick Grubmeyer in 1886 in Brooklyn, New York. He moved West in the 1900s starting in Alaska and eventually making his way to Portland, Oregon. He married Eva Chatfield Chiles who would become his business partner and the inspiration behind Eve's Restaurants which were coffee shops attached to many Fred Meyer stores. Fred G. Meyer died in 1978 at the age of 92. His will established a charitable trust to create a philanthropic organization now known as the Meyer Memoria...