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Interview No. 635.2, Joe Armendariz

Combined Interviews

Recollections about El Paso streetcars.

(Another interview on street cars immediately precedes Armendariz interview on the tape.)

Interview No. 635.1, Mary Rita Crowson

Combined Interviews

Recollections about El Paso streetcars.

(Another interview on streetcars with Joe Armendariz immediately follows Crowson interview on the tape.)

Interview Nos. 520.1 -- 520.14, Norman Araki, Lucille Araki, Joe H. Araki, Mary Araki, Cruz Ito, Hatsuko Harding, Kazuko Shaffer, Sosi Nakayama, John Ohira, Hortencia Ohira, Akira Perdue, Mr. Frank Shindo, Mrs. Frank Shindo, Mr. Chiharu Tagami, Hatsuki Tahiro, Angel G. Tanaka, Toeko Yabumoto, Christine Yanagidate, Japanese Sokogakkai Festivities, 1981

Combined Interviews

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 218, Juan Hernandez

Combined Interviews

Biography; life in the Segundo Barrio (South El Paso); the Chicano movement; comparison of life in the barrio with his present living conditions.

Interview No. 197, S. L. A. Marshall

Combined Interviews

War correspondence

Interview No. 170, Carl Hertzog

Combined Interviews

Biography; job as printer in the 1920's; Ciudad Juárez during prohibition.

Interview No. 8, Carl Hertzog

Combined Interviews

Authors he has known and the printing of their books; Robert E. McKee's book about the Zia Company; J. Evetts Haley.

Interview No. 41.1, Leon C. Metz

Combined Interviews

Speech given to the Women's Auxiliary of the El Paso County Medical Society on folk medicine.

Interview No. 23, Woodrow W. Bean

Combined Interviews

Post-war development of El Paso; work with sub-committee on higher education; political campaigns; role in the building of Thomason General Hospital; the Sun Bowl, Trans-Mountain Road, and the Cordova Bridge.

Interview No. 27, Chester Chope

Combined Interviews

Early 20th Century El Paso and Ciudad Juárez; size and atmosphere of the two cities; personalities of members of the newspaper staff; political corruption; social life; Chinese population; Ciudad Juárez during Prohibition; Fort Bliss; Pancho Villa; improvements in transportation.

Interview No. 3, Henry D. Buchanan

Combined Interviews

Incidents of El Paso history, especially the period of Ku Klux Klan strength during the 1920's; career as a priest, including his experiences as a chaplain during World War II; building of churches in the El Paso area.

Interview No. 14, Vincent Ravel, M.D.

Combined Interviews

Recounts immigration of family from Lithuania to U. S.; briefly sketches history of Jewish community in El Paso; father's role in founding Congregation of Mena Zion; arranged marriage of parents; opening of pawn shop in South El Paso, City Loan and Jewelry, by father and cousin Sam Ravel; shootings in El Paso at turn of century; purchase of ammunition, guns, and pistols by Pancho Villa; Columbus Raid; Pershing Expedition to Mexico; El Paso's red light district on Ninth Street in 1930s; physical examinations of prostitutes; comments on El Paso's recognition as health center for tuberculosis patients; recounts tuberculosis sanitoriums in …

Interview No. 2, Mrs. William Shapiro

Combined Interviews

El Paso during the 1940's; social and cultural activities; El Paso Symphony Orchestra; her involvement in the Conference for Human Welfare (group to promote integration in El Paso); strikers at ASARCO and Phelps Dodge refineries after World War II.

Interview No. 10, Bob Mcnellis

Combined Interviews

Career and personality of Otis Aultman, oldtime El Paso photographer, and discussion of the Aultman Collection (especially that portion of it dealing with the Mexican Revolution).

Interview No. 1, Irene C. Lowe

Combined Interviews

Biography; incidents and personalities of El Paso during the 1930's; cultural and social activities; Ciudad Juárez during the 1930's; Prohibition; discrimination in El Paso.

Interview No. 15, George F. Simpson

Combined Interviews

Incidents and personalities of early 20th Century El Paso, including the career of Capt. Greet, the Tenderloin District, and political corruption.