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Interview No. 308, Estella Duran Vega

Combined Interviews

Biography; both parents of miners backgrounds; educational background; dating patterns among peers; employed as seamstress during WWII, farm worker, registered nurse; impact of Spanish flu, Prohibition, the Depression, peso devaluation; political awareness; opinion of Chicano Movement; views on the illegal alien, the Ku Klux Klan.

Interview No. 708, Zaré Gonzalez

Combined Interviews

La Revolución Mexicana; relaciones étnicas; la Ley Seca; la Depresión; constumbres sociales; relaciones fronterizas; datos biográficos.

The Mexican Revolution; ethnic relations in Del Rio; Prohibition; the Depression; social customs; border relations, biographical data.

Interview No. 340, J. A. Bonnet

Combined Interviews

Recollections of the Mexican Revolution; growing up in Eagle Pass, Texas; smuggling activities in Eagle Pass-Piedras Negras; the Prohibition years; the Depression.

Interview No. 291, Frank Quartell

Combined Interviews

Biography; his beginnings in music; the Edgewater Beach Hotel and Mr. Severo G. Gonzales of the Central Cafe in Cd. Juarez; working in Galveston, Cd. Juarez, and El Paso; prominent businessmen in El Paso in the late 1920's and early 1930's; the first radio station in El Paso; people who used to frequent the Central Cafe.

Interview No. 420, Bernardo Villegas

Combined Interviews

Biographical data; school years; College of Mines; Mexican Revolution; job experiences; the Depression; Prohibition; the word Chicano; opinions on the Chicano Movement and undocumented workers; old El Paso streetcars; the Chinese community in El Paso; entertainment in old El Paso; some old-time El Paso doctors.

Interview No. 418, Angel Oaxaca

Combined Interviews

Datos biograficos; sus primeros trabajos en la ciudad de Chihuahua; su venida a El Paso; trabajos que tuvo en El Paso, incluyendo los que fueron en muebleria; la Depresion y la epoca de la Ley Seca; la palabra 'Chicano'.

Interview No. 427, E W. Rheinheimer

Combined Interviews

El Paso Baby Sanitarium at Old Tin Mine on the east side of the Franklin Mountains in the 1920s; his medical practice in South El Paso; experiences training rum-runners during Prohibition; patients in Juarez; Stormsville; diseases prevalent in El Paso in the 1920s; delivering babies; veneral disease; changes in the medical profession. (Also included is a list of the El Paso County Medical Society, organized in 1898.)