Juanita Eggers was born in St. Helens, Oregon in 1926 and grew up working on her family’s ranches in Goodrich, Idaho and later Ontario, Oregon. She worked as a welder in a shipyard in Portland for a few months in 1944 and 1945, until the influx of men returning from the war led to a series of layoffs at the yard. Following her firing, she went to work as a riveter for Boeing in Seattle, Washington. After another series of layoffs led to the end of her job at Boeing, Eggers moved to Los Angeles and began working for a Hollywood phone company. After California, she returned to Oregon and married her second husband, before moving to Coos Bay, Oregon, where her husband worked for Weyerhaeuser. In this interview, Eggers talks about her childhood on the farm, working at the shipyards and at Boeing during World War II, social life during the war, postwar layoffs, and her later career and volunteer work.