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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. 353, Cecilia Almaguer A.
Interview No. 353, Cecilia Almaguer A.
Combined Interviews
Nacida en el Rancho de Alazan cerac de Brownsville, Texas; relata como las robaban gavillas de bandidos; expliva que se tuvieron que cambiar de Brownsville debido a que la molestia de los Rangers era mucha; cuenta como a un primo de ella lo mataron los Rangers sin ser culpable de nada; vivio en el valle durante la Depression, Prohibicion, etc.; servio como trabajadora domestica; su hijo fue soldadao de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Interview No. 349, Anne Magee
Interview No. 349, Anne Magee
Combined Interviews
Recollections of her father as a Confederate soldier and Ku Klux Klan member; remembers her grandmother made Klan gowns; witnessed part of the Mexican Revolution in Brownsville, Texas; lived on a plantation where Mexicans were hired; lived on the border during Prohibition, the 1918 Flu Epidemic, and the Depression; social customs.
Interview No. 352, Julian Garcia
Interview No. 621, Mike Limon
Interview No. 621, Mike Limon
Combined Interviews
Su vida en el sur de El Paso, taxista durante la depresión, sepultero durante la
gripa del '18 y vendedor de licor "bootlegger" durante la Prohibición. Trabajó en
sitios famosos como el 98 y el 1181.]
His life in South El Paso; experiences as a taxi driver during the Depression and afterwards; the Spanish flu; the prohibition era.
Interview No. 442, Ramon Duran D.
Interview No. 442, Ramon Duran D.
Combined Interviews
La Revolucion Mexicana; trabajador migrante en Estados Unidos; experiencias durante la epoca de la Ley Seca en Estados Unidos; fue repatriado en 1929, pero regreso a Estados Unidos en 1956; experiencias como jefe de un campo de braceros.
Interview No. 344, Elbert Flannagan
Interview No. 344, Elbert Flannagan
Combined Interviews
Early life in San Angelo and El Paso, Texas in the teens and twenties; Zork Hardware Company; World War I experiences in France; Sam Dreben; S.L.A. Marshall; munitions sales and the Mexican Revolution; impressions of Francisco Villa; Otis Autman; experiences as a hardware salesman in Mexico in the 1920's; Ben and Stephen Aguirre; Ciudad Juarez during Prohibition; General George Patton (then a Capitan); Colonel Gaujot.