Orson Clark-11/23/81 - Pg 24

Interviewer: You know the thing about cows that I used to hate was when I had a date, I milked the cows and had to clean out the barn a little bit and then I would come in there and try to get all that smell off me. Oh, that used to bother me.

Ruth Knowlton: Did you have much opportunity to date while you were in high school with all of your chores?

Orson Clark: Oh, I don't know. I just didn't care to. I took this girl out a time or two.

Lucille Clark: He took me to a sophomore dance. That was my first year up to high school. I had my first year down at Bountiful.

Interviewer: Did the parents permit dating when you all were young, say in your teens? Could a boy take a girl out by himself or would parents frown on that?

Orson Clark: They never said anything about it when I was growing up.

Interviewer: Where would you take girls to?

Lucille Clark: For a buggy ride.

Orson Clark: Yes, and occasionally to Salt Lake.

Interviewer: Was there much couple dating or did the young people go in crowds at that time, four or five couples together.

Orson Clark: There were some who were couples.

Interviewer: At least two couples. Including the one seated by me.

Orson Clark: There used to be several of them that had to get together in the hall, in the corner someplace.

Interviewer: What would you do for recreation when you were 15, 16, 17, and 18, here in Farmington.

Orson Clark: Lagoon was the big thing. We used to go swimming there and boating and all the other things.

Lucille Clark: Roller skating.

Orson Clark: Yeah they had roller skating, we used to go to that quite a bit.

Lucille Clark: Dancing. 

Interviewer: Were there many events at the church or the school