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Oral history interview with David Swett, Jr., 2006 July 17, excerpt 05
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Oral history interview with David Swett, Jr., 2006 July 17, excerpt 05
Description
Title
Oral
history
interview
with
David
Swett
,
Jr.
,
2006
July
17
,
excerpt
05
Personal name
Swett
,
David
E.
,
1968-
--Interviews
Corporate name
Swett's Restaurant (Nashville, Tenn.)--History
Swett's Restaurant (Nashville, Tenn.)--Fire, 1988
Topical entry
Business
Enterprise
African Americans
Popular Culture
Food
Disasters
Businesspeople--Tennessee--Nashville
African American businesspeople--Tennessee--Nashville
Business enterprises--Tennessee--Nashville
Family-owned business enterprises--Tennessee--Nashville
Minority business enterprises--Tennessee--Nashville
African American business enterprises--Tennessee--Nashville
Restaurants--Tennessee--Nashville
Food service--Tennessee--Nashville
Dinners and dining--Tennessee--Nashville
Disasters--Tennessee--Nashville
Fires--Tennessee--Nashville
Geographic entry
Nashville (Tenn.)--History--Sources
Nashville (Tenn.)--Commerce
Description
An
excerpt
from an
oral
history
interview
with
Nashville
businessman
David
Swett
,
Jr.
,
conducted
on
17
July
2006
by
John
Egerton
as
part
of a
cooperative
effort
between
the
Nashville
Public
Library's
Nashville
Business
Leaders
Oral
History
Project
and the
Southern
Foodways
Alliance
.
Swett
discusses
how the
family
restaurant
recovered
from a
fire
that
occurred
in
1988
less
than
one
month
after
opening
a
new
building
. The
complete
interview
, as
well
as a
transcript
,
is
available
in the
repository
.
Creator
Swett
,
David
E.
,
1968-
(Interviewee)
;
Egerton
,
John
(Interviewer)
Publisher
Special
Collections
Division
of the
Nashville
Public
Library
,
615
Church
Street
,
Nashville
,
Tennessee
,
37219
Date
2006-07-17
Type
Sound
;
Oral
histories
Format
audio/mp3
(1
min.
,
49
sec.)
Identifier
NBLSwettD1007clip1
Source
Excerpted from: NBLSwettD digital recording converted from wav to mp3 format in 2006.
Language
English
Relation
Nashville
Business
Leaders
Oral
History
Project
Coverage
2000-2009
Rights
U.S
. and
international
copyright
laws
protect
this
digital
content
,
which
is
provided
for
educational
purposes
only
and
may
not be
downloaded
,
reproduced
, or
distributed
for any
other
purpose
without
written
permission
.
Please
contact
the
Special
Collections
Division
of the
Nashville
Public
Library
,
615
Church
Street
,
Nashville
,
Tennessee
,
37219
.
Telephone
(615)
862-5782
.
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