Willard Hasselbacher

Interview Date: 4 May 1993

Willard Hasselbacher was invited by the Brimfield Historical Society to speak at its meeting on 4 May 1993 about his businesses that he owned and operated. He had milk trucks and a school bus business. The presentation he made that day was recorded on cassette tape.  He evidently showed a short film as well. In April 2022, Kim (Claybaugh) Hanks converted the cassette to a digital recording. 

Below is a tag and timestamp for this audio recording. The original cassette recording is not high quality. Because of this there are places of the digital recording that may not be audible or discernable. There are likely spelling issues with names and places in the timestamp. 

When searching for key words/tags, names, places, and dates use spelling variations if needed.  

00:00 Introduction by Willard Hasselbacher
00:26 Milk truck business
03:35 School bus business 
04:34 Introduction to film
04:56 Film is being shown mostly about milk truck operations. Also discussion about growing up on a farm; Willard narrates; unknown female interviews Willard; discussion about bus business. [Several names were inaudible due to poor audio quality.] The audio ends abruptly. It seems that the film ended and so did the recording.  

Willard Hasselbacher
School buses
Milk trucks
Kevin Hasselbacher
Juanita Hasselbacher
Daryl Shoop
Robert Powers
<unknown name> Karl
<inaudible name> Carroll
Roger Catton
Karen (inaudible last name)
Jack Colgan
Charlie Cox
John Dungan
Joe Blundy
Farm life
Thousand Dollar Road
Oak Hill
Norma Hasselbacher
Bacteria count
Toulon
Producers Dairy
Baker-Stooper [sp?]
<inaudible name> Ekena
Peoria Milk Producers Association
Leland <inaudible name>
Prairie Farms
Old auto sales building
William “Bill” Cinnamon
Champaign, IL
Mary Moore
Barb McKown
Brimfield Grade School 

Interviewed by: Brimfield Historical Society

Interview Format: mp3 Recording of Original Cassette Tape

Total Time : 27:40

The interview is archived at the Brimfield Public Library District in Brimfield, Illinois.

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