Storyteller: Million, Joel Don (Veteran)

Interviewer: Bertalot, Lorretta

Date: 02/27/2019

Language: English

Initiative: Tulsans Talk

Description: Joel Don Million tells about growing up in West Tulsa and deciding to go into the military after graduation from Webster High School in 1959 due to being classified as IA so not many jobs were available to him. After 18 months in Germany, he came back to Tulsa and soon got a job on the railroad. He worked for the railroad for 39 years and is now retired. He worked on the Rt 66 Village.

Subjects: 1967 Webster HS graduate, Classified 1A, Ft. Knox, Germany, Cold War, War Games, travel, Unit Rig, railroad, switchman, brakeman, engineer, conductor, foreman, Union man, yardmaster, clerical department, car department, transportation department, signal department, moved from steam engines to diesel/electric engines, 2007 refurbished WWII steam engine, Mohawk Park, Rt. 66 Historic Village, Webster High School, Mike Massey, Burl Ford, David Yawill, Roy Hyme, Frisco RR, Sunbelt, Tulsa airport runway lights, Houseboat on Keystone Lake, Brotherhood of Railroad.