Albert "Bruce" Washington - Getting started (clip)
Interviewed by Yvonne Cleveland and Priya Sreenivasan on March 11, 2023
Albert “Bruce” Washington (ABW): Actually, I took it in high school, in Chatham County, Horton High School. And they used to interview us and say, “Who’s going to college?” If you weren’t going to college, they would teach you a trade – carpentry, brick masonry, all that, and it just went on from there.
ABW: When we graduated, they sent us to Burlington to work for a man named Richard Ross, and then I came to Chapel Hill and started working for D.B. Rankins – he stays over in Northside, too, him and Roland Harris. And I went to work for William E. Smith, he’s from Chapel Hill. Me and my partner, Barry Kelly, we were in business for 30 – I think it was 37 years – and we started working in the Triangle area. And that’s what we did.
