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Interview No. 923, Constance N. White
Interview No. 923, Constance N. White
Combined Interviews
Biographical data; father's employment at ASARCO; the family's move to El Paso in 1927; attended Radford School for Girls and Scripps College; describes family residence in Smelter Terrace and housing for workers in smelter area; courtship, wedding, and honeymoon; activities of horsemanship clubs in El Paso; her involvement in the sport of tennis.
Interview No. 659, Helen O'Shea Keleher
Interview No. 659, Helen O'Shea Keleher
Combined Interviews
Life history of Mrs. Keleher's father, John L. O'Shea, superintendent of railroad building in the Alamoqordo area; recollections of Alamogordo and Cloudcroft in the early days; recollections of early El Paso; recollections of the Depression years; work with Rio Vista Farm, home for neglected children
Interview No. 634, W.H. Timmons
Interview No. 634, W.H. Timmons
Combined Interviews
Presentation on the Historic El Paso Region.
Interview No. 517, Anacleto Madria, Juanita Madria
Interview No. 517, Anacleto Madria, Juanita Madria
Combined Interviews
La migracion de la Sra. Madrid y su familia a Cd. Juarez y El Paso de Chihuahua durante la Revolucion Mexicana; Ciudad Juarez en los 1910s; los juegos; epoca de la Ley Seca en Estados Unidos; actividades de recreo; la Revolucion Mexicana; la Depresion.
Interview No. 366, Richard C. Vandewater
Interview No. 366, Richard C. Vandewater
Combined Interviews
Born near Dona Ana, New Mexico, in Shalam Colony (home for orphan children run by his family): family history; childhood and school recollections in El Paso (came to El Paso in 1903); experiences as a paper boy in South El Paso, later as a messenger boy for BH&SA railroad; Diaz-Taft meeting in 1909; brief comments on the Mexican Revolution; Juarez during Prohibition; experiences on railroad and as a caddy; comments on some prominent El Pasoans of the early years; Garrett; shootouts in El Paso; early voting procedures; George Ashley; former high school classmates; comments about his wife; inter-ethnic marriages; Harry …
Interview No. 726, Louise Gates
Interview No. 726, Louise Gates
Combined Interviews
Discusses her childhood in Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, with particular emphaiss on experiences during the Mexican Revolution; recalls the 1920's and 30's in El Paso, speakeasies and local distillers during the prohibition years and the Depression.
Interview No. 507, Bishop Emeritus Sidney M. Metzger
Interview No. 507, Bishop Emeritus Sidney M. Metzger
Combined Interviews
Biographical data; how he became interested in the priesthood; studies and experiences in Rome in the 1920s and 1930s; experiences as Asst. Bishop in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1941; experiences as Bishop of El Paso, including WWII era, labor issues from the 1950s to the 1970s (especially the Farah Strike), the lack of financial resources; the church and Mexican Americans (including acquiring vocations for the priesthood); discrimination; the Chicano Movement; illegal aliens; the organization of the Catholic Church; the Equal Rights Amendment; abortion; ordination of women to the priesthood; contraception; Black Catholics in El Paso; integration. **Also included are …
Interview No. 310, Mr. Al Ratner, Mrs. Al Ratner
Interview No. 310, Mr. Al Ratner, Mrs. Al Ratner
Combined Interviews
Biography; early businesses in El Paso; families who lived on Hawthorne Street in Sunset Heights; Mrs. Ratner's background; early El Paso families; school experiences; General Escobar; refugee families who moved into the Sunset Heights area during the Mexican Revolution; Anglo/Mexican relations; the word "Chicano"; Golden Years and decline of Sunset Heights; El Paso during World War II and going to Juarez to purchase rationed items; gambling and prostitution; development of El Paso's Jewish community; Italian POW camp in El Paso at Washington Park; other comments on the history of El Paso.
Interview No. 291, Frank Quartell
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
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. 309, Dr. Judson F. Williams, Mrs. Judson F. Williams
Interview No. 309, Dr. Judson F. Williams, Mrs. Judson F. Williams
Combined Interviews
Family backgrounds ; school and school activities; early employment; Sunset Heights during the 1940's; El Paso during World War II; Mr. Williams as Mayor of El Paso; respective civic involvements; changes in Sunset Heights during the 1950's; homes and occupants of Sunset Heights; impact of Sunset Heights on the development of El Paso; the future of Sunset Heights.
Interview No. 427, E W. Rheinheimer
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.)
Interview No. 252, Conrado Mendoza
Interview No. 252, Conrado Mendoza
Combined Interviews
Biografia; emigracion a los Estados Unidos y los problemas confrontados aqui; El Paso en un principio; experiencias de trabajo en California; la Depresion; I y II Guerras Mundiales; impresiones sobre los Estados Unidos; la palabra "Chicano".
Interview No. 268, Juan Garcia
Interview No. 268, Juan Garcia
Combined Interviews
Biografia; su vida en El Paso, Texas; experiencias en el ejercito; la Prohibicion; devaluacion de el peso; opiniones sobre los Chicanos en El Paso; extranjeros ilegales.
Interview No. 273, Gloria Martinez
Interview No. 273, Gloria Martinez
Combined Interviews
Biography; World War II; El Paso in the 1940's and 1950's; the word "Chicano"; illegal aliens.
Interview No. 278, Felipe Rodriguez
Interview No. 278, Felipe Rodriguez
Combined Interviews
Biografia; El Paso y Cd. Juarez antiguos; experiencias del trabajo; la palabra "Chicano". Nota: Esta es una fiel rendicion del habla del narrador, incluyendo algunos terminos dialecticos usados en el Norte de Mexico y el suroeste de los Estados Unidos.
Interview No. 334, Ramona Gonzalez
Interview No. 334, Ramona Gonzalez
Combined Interviews
Biografia; sus empleos diferentes en El Paso; discriminacion en empleos de El Paso; la decada de los 1920's; el matrimonio entre angloamericanos y mexicanas en El Paso; problemas etnicas entre la iglesia mormona en El Paso.
Interview No. 183, Aurelia Phillips
Interview No. 183, Aurelia Phillips
Combined Interviews
Biography; educational experiences; Anglo/Mexican relations in El Paso, attitudes toward Chicanos; Diaz-Taft meeting; Mexican Revolution, including Madero, Villa, and "refugiados"; Depression; Prohibition; impressions of El Paso today.
Interview No. 171, Héctor Bencomo
Interview No. 171, Héctor Bencomo
Combined Interviews
Biography; El Paso and Los Angeles from the 1930's to the 1950's; news media's role in politics; attitudes toward the Bicentennial.
Interview No. 177, Judge George Rodríguez, Sr.
Interview No. 177, Judge George Rodríguez, Sr.
Combined Interviews
Biography; El Paso in the 1920's and 1930's; Mexican Americans in El Paso; Mexican American politicians in Texas; prominent Mexican Americans in El Paso, past and present.
Interview No. 133, Walter D. Thomas
Interview No. 133, Walter D. Thomas
Combined Interviews
Experiences with the Pershing Expedition; Dean Eugene Thomas of the College of Mines (his brother); early El Paso and Fort Bliss.
Interview No. 148, Guillermo Balderas
Interview No. 148, Guillermo Balderas
Combined Interviews
Biografia; experiencias personales desde los 1920's, inclusive las que tuvo en Mexico, El Paso, Texas, y Nuevo Mexico.
Interview No. 124, E. W. Rheinheimer
Interview No. 124, E. W. Rheinheimer
Combined Interviews
El Paso History; Prohibition; the medical community in El Paso.
Interview No. 121, Florence C. Melby
Interview No. 121, Florence C. Melby
Combined Interviews
Biography; social customs in early El Paso; ethnic relations; founding of the Pan American Round Table; the Mexican Revolution; the Diaz-Taft meeting in 1909; career of her father.
Interview No. 118, Homer Hirsch
Interview No. 118, Homer Hirsch
Combined Interviews
Mining industry in the Southwest during the early part of the 20th Century; early El Paso.
Interview No. 143, José Cruz-Burciaga
Interview No. 143, José Cruz-Burciaga
Combined Interviews
Experiencias de su infancia en Colorado y en Cd. Juarez; condiciones economicas y sociales en el area Cd. Juarez-El Paso a principios del siglo; influenza de 1918; racismo en Texas; la depresion en los años '30; la Mafia en Chicago; Mexicanos deportados durante la depresion.
Interview No. 117, Jacob Rodge
Interview No. 117, Jacob Rodge
Combined Interviews
Experiences as ASARCO company physician during the Mexican Revolution; topics of El Paso history.
Interview No. 109, Francisco Noriega
Interview No. 109, Francisco Noriega
Combined Interviews
La Revolucion Mexicana; Mexico en los ultimos anos del siglo XIX; El Paso en los principios del siglo XX.
Interview No. 95, Mrs. Frank Bowers
Interview No. 95, Mrs. Frank Bowers
Combined Interviews
20th Century El Paso, including the Mexican Revolution, social customs, and the Depression.
Interview No. 80, Madeline M. Gehring
Interview No. 80, Madeline M. Gehring
Combined Interviews
Early El Paso; life around Las Vegas, New Mexico at the turn of the century.