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Interview No. 777, Jose I. Oaxaca
Interview No. 777, Jose I. Oaxaca
Combined Interviews
Tells of childhood in Juarez and El Paso barrio, recalls experience as engineering student in the 1980s, how scholarship helped him, his job after graduation at Bell Helicoptor.
Interview No. 660, Antonio Gonzalez
Interview No. 660, Antonio Gonzalez
Combined Interviews
Description of life on the south side durinq a period of marked antihispanic feelinq in El Paso, from approximately 1917 to 1940.
Interview No. 755, Anonymous
Interview No. 755, Anonymous
Combined Interviews
Childhood in Mexico and in South El Paso; his father's death during the Mexican Revolution; early employment as shoeshine boy, news carrier, and Western Union messenger; dances during teenage years; marriage; and some experiences of 40 years as a taxicab driver in El Paso.
Note: Partial transcript only. Two tapes not transcribed.
Tape II- (not transcribed) Effects of prohibition, the Depression, and World War II on his life in El Paso.
Tape III- (not transcribed) Married life, retirement, comments on illegal aliens and additional information on early El Paso.
Interview No. 724, Anonymous
Interview No. 724, Anonymous
Combined Interviews
He describes zoot suits; tells what life was like in south El Paso in the 1930s and 1940s; talks about gang fights, local jails, and boxing in the Golden Gloves.