Interview with Anthony B. Murtha
IntervieweeInterview with
Anthony B. Murtha
American, 1944 - 2013
InterviewerInterviewed by
Bruce M. Stave
American, 1937 - 2017
InterviewerInterviewed by
Sondra Astor Stave
Date2009 February 6
Mediumdigitized audio cassette tape
DimensionsDuration: 58 Minutes, 29 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
DescriptionAudio cassette tape of an interview with Anthony B. Murtha. He was interviewed on February 6, 2009 by Bruce M. Stave and Sondra Astor Stave.
Tony was born in 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut. He attended Bugbee Elementary School and Kingswood School in West Hartford. He attended College of the Holy Cross for two years before dropping out. In 1965, Tony got a job at G. Fox & Co. He attended nursery and elementary school with George Koopman and they became friends. He worked at G. Fox during Christmas in 1963 and 1964. In 1965, he became a salesman in the Men's Sportswear Department. He then started training as a service manager, who ran the selling floor. He describes his memories of Beatrice Fox Auerbach. He describes how the store changed after the sale to the May Company. After the sale, Tony left the Service Division and moved to the Security and Loss Prevention Department. He was the security manager at the Meriden store, then the Waterbury store. He then became a shortage controller. He discusses the changes in the store leadership after the sale to the May Company. He left G. Fox in 1974. He describes how training employees worked at G. Fox before the sale. He never went back to G. Fox after he was let go.
Tony was born in 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut. He attended Bugbee Elementary School and Kingswood School in West Hartford. He attended College of the Holy Cross for two years before dropping out. In 1965, Tony got a job at G. Fox & Co. He attended nursery and elementary school with George Koopman and they became friends. He worked at G. Fox during Christmas in 1963 and 1964. In 1965, he became a salesman in the Men's Sportswear Department. He then started training as a service manager, who ran the selling floor. He describes his memories of Beatrice Fox Auerbach. He describes how the store changed after the sale to the May Company. After the sale, Tony left the Service Division and moved to the Security and Loss Prevention Department. He was the security manager at the Meriden store, then the Waterbury store. He then became a shortage controller. He discusses the changes in the store leadership after the sale to the May Company. He left G. Fox in 1974. He describes how training employees worked at G. Fox before the sale. He never went back to G. Fox after he was let go.
Object number2009.85.31
NotesSubject Note: From 2006 to 2008, the Connecticut Historical Society carried out an oral history project to collect first-hand impressions of G. Fox & Co. and its long-time president, Beatrice Fox Auerbach. Over thirty former employees, as well as two of Mrs. Auerbach's grandchildren, Dorothy Brooks Koopman and Rena Koopman, contributed their memories in interviews conducted by the Stave Group, Oral History Consultants. Funding Note: In 2006, the Connecticut Historical Society received a grant from the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving to support the collection of oral histories, the cataloging of G. Fox & Co. materials and Fox and Auerbach family materials, and the creation of web pages. Additional funding for the oral histories was provided by The Prospect Fund, The Brookside Fund, and The Maple Tree Fund. The Connecticut Historical Society gratefully acknowledges these generous supporters. Without such generosity, this project would not have been possible.
Subject Terms
- Hartford (Conn.)
- Department stores
- Employees
- G. Fox & Co.
- Oral history
- Interview transcripts
- Interviews
- Oral narratives
- Retail trade
- Education
- Koopman family
- Christmas
- Sales personnel
- Fox, Beatrice, 1887-1968
- Human resources and training
- Moses Fox Club
- Security
- Interviews and Oral Histories
- G. Fox & Co. Collection
- Remembering G. Fox & Co.
Collections
- G. Fox & Co.
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