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University of Texas at El Paso

Prohibition

1978

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Interview No. 726, Louise Gates Dec 1978

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. Oct 1978

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 Oct 1978

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 Oct 1978

Interview No. 352, Julian Garcia

Combined Interviews

No abstract provided.


Interview No. 621, Mike Limon Jul 1978

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. Jul 1978

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 Jan 1978

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.