HomeMy WebLinkAboutNorthgate Panel 6Oral History "North Gate"
July 27, 1994
Interviewee - Frances James Kimbrough
James W. James, Jr.
Interviewer - Bill Lay
Video Operator - Richard Molina
Note taker - Sylvia Martinez
Bill - All we're going to do this morning is just chat. I'm
not here to, to grill you in that sense, but what I want to
do is try to ask some questions which might jog your
memories of some things which happened in the early days of
Bryan or College Station, primarily which deal with the
North Gate because we're dealing with the North Gate lane on
our interviews today. And I'm assuming that the reason
ya'll are here is because ya'll had some early contact with
the Norgh Gate through businesses or personal contacts where
you shop and things like that. We were wondering if you
might want to share some of those with us today.
Frances - Well, we just, when we were small we'd come out
here to my daddy's drugstore, and that was before 1928.
Bill - Could I stop you and ask "What was the name of your
daddy's drugstore ?"
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Frances - James Drugstore the third, he had two in Bryan and
the third one was out here at College Station and huh we'd
come out here "Oh it would be so hot. We'd ride out here on
the trolley, we were thrilled to death to go on the trolley,
and the water was just the sulfur water, the tap water, and
so we didn't like that, and we got to drink all the soda
water we wanted, and that was a drawing card coming out
here. And that's about all about the drugstore.
Bill - Mr. James, where was your father's drugstore located?
James - Well, the drugstore, right, well, the street by
Sbisa Hall going off campus use to would have run right into
it. It was a wooden duplex and one half was my daddy's
drugstore and the other half was Luke and Charlie's. Luke
Patranella, I guess who was one of the most popular
businessmen out here and Charlie was Charlie Opusteny. And
one night I remember I was a child, they called Daddy and
said "Your drugstore burned down" and Daddy told me
confidentially because of some personnel matters out there
he wasn't going to rebuild out there and then came, I think,
Mr. E. J. Kyle rebuilt a brick building down there which
became a drugstore but not my daddy's.
Bill - Do you remember what year was it your drugstore
burned?
James - No sir, it was the early 30's, though, early 30's.
But, huh, may I illustrate a little bit?
Bill - You sure can.
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James - Huh, if we go back up to Texas Avenue start north we
will go through this ethnic neighborhood down here the
Boriskis, Krenek, huh and one more that street goes right
down in front of the chicken place down here. Oh what's the
name of that street.
Bill - Oh College Avenue
James - No, no, right at Texas. It's another Czech name and
then there was also a family there by the name of Kulach and
Joe Kulach weighed about 300 and something pounds, but he
was a walker for the Exxon Company out of Houston and he
would walk the pipeline all the way from Houston up here.
And he bought him a new Chevrolet Touring car. That's the
kind four door top lifts down. So he was going to take his
daddy to town on Saturday and he got right up here to the
North Gate where the Gulf Station is. You know where I am
talking about, it's now Premiere or
Bill - Chevron
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James - Chevron, anyhow, he got up there and his daddy asked
him he said "Joe we're gonna have to turn." He said, "do
you know how to stop this thing ?" He said "no" and they
said it was just a decision all at once. The daddy went out
this side, Joe went out this side, and the car went right up
in that cotton field, there that was at the corner. But
anyhow, coming on down toward North Gate, there used to be a
traffic circle there before they had the four lights, but
this was before then. Anyhow, they called it Old Sulfur
Springs Road, and huh, you get down there towards North Gate
a little bit more and A & M Methodist Church is still right
where it was. And there was a pastore for A & M Methodist
Church who did quite a bit in developing North Gate. They
came in with College Main which runs to College Avenue from
the North Gate up there, and I remember that old man rushing
down at the road and stopping my father and I, we were in
the car. He's always blasting, blasting, "don't come in,"
well, and they were blowing up tree stumps there on side of
College Main trying to clear it all out, but huh, Mrs.
Parkell, right just beyond the Methodist Church had a
boarding house there, and her son went to school with all of
us, but Mrs. Parkell ran some kind of boarding house and so
many of us like to eat up to where there was good country
food, you know, and then we'd go a little further down. My
first memory though of coming from Main Campus over to the
North Gate in front of where the post office is now, there
was a fellow with a little four legged card table he had
folded up. Come on you good Aggies buy my books here, get
your, get your books. You know who that was
Bill - He's still selling books isn't he?
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James - That was Mr. Judd Loupot, but that was his first.
He had on his senior boots, now if you think that's not
going way back there, well it is. But anyhow, Lou did a lot
of good for us. But going on further down, I remember the
trolley ran, it stopped right where the campus theater is,
and that's where old Colonel Billy Boyd lived, right next to
it. He had that farm that went all the way from what's now
Wellborn Road, went north up there to about, oh, on the
other side of Albertson up there. But Colonel Billy, he had
Dolly Boyd, he had Guy Boyd, he had, I don't know all those
men were, a good bit older than I was at that time, I
imagine still are, but anyhow, he, everything you saw came
up with Boyd on it, nearly. They were good people and they
were some colorful character's in there, I tell you.
Frances - Well let me ask you who the old man was that loved
music. He was as deaf as a post.
James - Dr. Asberry
Frances - Dr. Asberry, and huh, everyone loved Dr. Asberry
and he just had all these pretty girls come over. He had
beautiful pianos and they played the piano for him.
Bill - Is that at his home?
Frances - Yes. He had a little house right at North Gate,
right where the post office, well right along there.
James - Right across the street from Albertson where they
had all these huh little small houses, most of them they
later granted permission to live there. They had to work
with building and ground or fire department something like
that to get to. But he did of course, he was a North Gate.
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Frances - He was part of A & M and he was part of North Gate
and Dr. Asberry everybody knew him and he just loved
beautiful music and he was a great influence.
Bill - Can we go back to your father's drugstore? Is it
located where, the area where the old Loupot's building is
now, about in that area?
Frances - Yes, yes.
James - It would be just a little bit on the other side of
Loupot's building.
Bill - Down College Main, or down University?
James - No, down, is that University, yea, yea.
Bill - Be about where Charlie's Grocery use to be then.
Frances - Yes.
James - Luke and Charlie had the grocery store and Daddy had
the drugstore in there.
Bill - It's located right in there.
Frances - And he loved all those people out at A & M. Oh
and when Dr. Walton was made president he called him. He
called him and he said Dr. Walton,
Bill - This is that old picture there you might remember
what it looked like back then.
Bill - How many employees did your father have in the drug
store?
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Frances - Dr. Walton, I want to congratulate A & M , not
congratulate you. I want to congratulate A & M on you being
president.
Frances - Not too many because it was a small store. Jim
how many?
James - About 3, Mr. Howell.
Frances - Yes, about 3.
Bill - Were there other drugstores in town then, or is that
the only one?
James - No that's the only one in College Station.
Frances - The only one in College Station and then
Bill - He was a first I remember there were Jones and Black
and those others in later years, but your dad was the first
one.
James - Yea, after that came
Frances - Lipscomb
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James - Doc Lipscomb, Bill Sparks, Jess Casey, Casey /Sparks
had the concession over the YMCA down in the bottom they had
a soda fountain. And that was Casey and Sparks and they
later went up to the North Gate and went in, if you were
looking down College Main it would be on your right there on
the corner, across the street, that's where Dean Kyle built
that pipe covering, and Doc Lipscomb went in there.
Bill - You say that ya'll came out here to your dad's
drugstore because you get soda water out here.
Frances - Oh we love to be in the store.
Bill - How old were you about that time when you came out
here then?
Frances - I wasn't a teenager, I don't believe, because I
know they say the 28 it was already built, and I was around
10 years old I guess.
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Bill - Your dad carried the regular live, what we think of a
drugstore now?
Frances - Yes.
Bill - Obviously it had a soda fountain back in those days.
Frances - No, now he didn't have a soda fountain.
James - My grandfather wouldn't stand for it.
Bill - I see.
Frances - He did have a prescription man that filled
prescriptions and then had all these other drugs.
Bill - Sold other over the counter drugs and things like
that then.
Frances - My daughter says don't say drugs any more, say
pharmacy.
Bill - Pharmacy.
Frances - Drugs has a different meaning.
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Bill - Huh, did the people who bought from him, were they
primarily people in the community or did the Aggies have any
hospital then?
Frances - They all come over, they didn't, did they have a
hospital then?
James - Huh, yea, I don't know whether the Quack Shack
operated like it does now about handing out pills and so
forth, but mostly his good customers, that's how come they
came out here. Dean Fryly, Dr. Walton, Mr. D. W. Williams
at that time, let's see who else, Dr. Ball who was head of
science.
Frances - Oh they had fine people you got to know them and
you knew their background.
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James - Yea, most of those folk, see, lived on campus and
they moved them off when they put the student center there,
they started moving them off there and some behind dining
hall. But most of them over there from the student center
all through there clear over to Wellborn Road, and then they
started getting them off campus, they needed dormitory
space, classroom space.
Frances - Oh right across from the drugstore and all they
had nice homes the professors lived and I had friends I know
who had birthday parties there and then right back on the
other street I remember the Cofers lived there. Different
college people lived all along there just across the street
from the drugstore.
Bill - Your father was a pharmacist?
Frances - Yes.
Bill - And back in those days did the pharmacist kind of act
as the doctor too or
Frances - I don't know.
James - Yea I think they did. There wasn't anything hidden
about it because my daddy furnished offices to five doctors
see, free of charge because he wanted prescription bid. But
a lot of them called him "doc" when they came in there.
There wouldn't be anything big, you know, was wrong. Take
care of a hang nail or something, you know.
Bill - Sure.
James - And they did a lot of that but not really any
professional prescribing. In fact,
Frances - That's a picture of his downtown store and a map
of doctors he had. The best doctors in town.
Bill - The pictures you have here show 1928.
Frances - That's right.
Bill - The drugstore at 26 and Bryan.
Frances - That's right.
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Bill - I'm trying to think of where 26 and Bryan is. I have
to stop and think but I know about where it is.
James - It's where the Vicks Brothers had theirs later on.
Bill - Oh, o.k., I remember Vick Brothers, that was my era.
Frances - And they were still up there on that building, my
grandfather built the building.
Bill - Did ya'll ever work in the drugstore?
James - I did.
Frances - He did.
Bill - What did you do Mr. James?
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James - Anything they wanted I just wanted on front, mostly
downtown, wait on front, made a few deliveries, sat in the
back and watched my daddy make prescription, pour castor oil
into small bottles. That was one of the worst jobs I had
ever had. Put that old funnel in there you know, have a
gallon and pour it in there. Oh that's powerful stuff. My
folks would never make me take a dose of castor oil because
they knew how I hated it.
Bill - Did they , where did they get their supplies from,
out of Houston?
Frances - Yes.
Bill - Did your dad, did they run a credit thing back in
those days for all the people?
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Frances - Well, cosmetics was my interest I love to go in
there whenever they got a new shipment in I had to have some
of it.
James - Houston, Waco, but that building up at North Gate, I
see this quite famous picture around that area with snow
everywhere and I still think that that was a picture of Luke
and Charlie's and my daddy's store there, it was just 2, it
was a duplex sort of thing, only it's a business see... snow
I saw that in some office around here and I never did run it
down. I tell you old Bear Bryant lived, he had a bunch of
apartment houses up there in North Gate. And every night
after a game he didn't want to be messed with as you put it.
So he would slip out the back down here and walk through the
back way of North Gate and go into his office home, I guess
you'd call it, and he would avoid everything going on by
doing that.
Frances - Yes, that was the best man that ever lived. He
never did, he would let these poor people have medicine and
I know this one family that had a big farm, they'd buy from
him all the time and at the end of the year they would pay.
Well their farm went under and they couldn't pay this huge
amount. But he was so good about letting people have
medicine because he said, "they need it, they have to have
it." But no, his kindness is his downfall.
Bill - You were mentioning something earlier in our
conversation, Ms. Kimbrough, about the relationship of the
people who lived in Bryan and College Station at that time.
Do you want to tell us some more about some of the things
ya'll use to do... how ya'll worked together?
James - That Bailey that she's talking about, no that was
Sara Horn wasn't it?
Frances - Oh yes.
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Frances - Oh yes, it was all one big family and huh, the
girls my age, we just grew up together and I notice Allen
Calloway was here he was one of the boys that was at one of
the parties that they gave and huh with Christy Bailey.
Just all of them, we were all friends, we didn't know Bryan,
I mean there was no division as far as I am concerned,
there's not today with me.
James - Tell them, that's interesting, go ahead.
Frances - Sarah Horn was a beautiful girl. She was a
swimmer and her daddy was head of the architectural
department.
James - Physics, I believe.
Frances - Well, anyway.
James - Go ahead, that's not important.
Frances - She married a cadet colonial out here, she was
just you know.
James - James Ashton who later became City Manager of
Dallas.
Frances - And but we were all friends.
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James - What was so interesting I recall about this woman if
you drive up to the Systems building here and get out and
look at the building, there's a woman's profile all the way
around and it's her.
Frances - That was Sara
James - There's an artist that copied it and sculptured it
and then the contractor copied it you know and cast it all
the way around. She was a pretty girl.
Bill - She's preserved in posterity.
Frances - But she's been quite ill for some years.
Bill - You indicated, that you thought that the building
burned in the early 30's and then your dad did not reopen a
store out here.
James - No, he said that it wasn't making any money anyhow.
Frances - Well did Patranella's and all those burn?
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James - Now when the championship team was 1939 they liked
to hang out at Doc Lipscomb place, it was, you know what I
mean, right there with us all the time we were in school,
and huh, they loved to go up there you know what I mean, cut
up and everything. But regardless of how much rough stuff
went out there you let a lady get out of her car and walk
down that sidewalk every one of the members of that team
were out in that street right away getting out of the way.
They didn't interfere with business, there was a good
relationship there between that football team and Doc
James - And huh, we didn't pay any attention to that part,
all we knew was whether there was any box cars on there so
we wouldn't have to crawl over, under or somewhere like
that. That was the old railroad, I don't remember whether
it was ICN, SNP or what.
Bill - But huh, Mr. Loupot got his start right there across
the street from where the old Post Office.
James - Yes, right there on the railroad.
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Lipscomb. But huh, that road, that railroad came right up
University Drive there from the lines down there at Wellborn
and huh University and it came up so he could take... coal
over there see, and huh, that thing ran right along beside
what is now the post office there on up to where they could
dump off the coals for the power plant right behind there
and huh that's what I was talking about that fella selling
those books, he was right on the railroad track, the spurs.
Bill - I didn't realize that was the spurs. The spurs of
the railroad came off the main track of University Drive up
to where the power plant is, I guess it's always been there,
and he dumped the coal there. I had never heard that story
before.
Frances - Oh and he was "King Cotton" at one time, we were
all in a cotton pageant, the girls in Bryan were always
invited to be duchesses, princesses, something. I don't
know but anyway. Judd was the king one year.
Bill - I guess that has to be his Senior year, I suppose?
Frances - I think it was.
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Bill - Are there some other things that ya'll can think of
that would be of interest to people that happened back in
those times either in relations to your dad's business or to
the community as a whole?
James - I remember on April Fools they stopped that Southern
Pacific Train it wasn't that fast one, it made a stop here
and all that freshmen got on there boy they had the brooms
and mops and they gave that train the darndest scouring all
the way to Bryan and the train men waited for them to get
off in Bryan. And they hitchhiked back to school.
Bill - Do you remember what year that was ?
James - That was about 38.
Bill - About 38, it was April Fools anyway.
Frances - Oh every April Fools everybody got...
Bill - One of the things that you showed us already is a
picture of your father's drugstore there do ya'll have any
other memorabilia or old drawings or photographs that you
would like to share with Historic Committee?
Frances - I'll look.
Bill - They didn't make it real plain this morning, we are
not asking necessarily to give them but if you have
photographs that we can copy to put into an archives or
something like that would be very helpful also.
Frances - I sure will look and see. I have a closet just
full of different things. But huh
Bill - Well things that pertain to early College Station as
you clear out things over the years we sure would like to
have those rather that being thrown away obviously you may
have children or grandchildren or whatever that would want
them but certainly we would want to have copies of them so
we can put into early history.
Frances - Mother use to love to come to the balls, out here
that's what they called them , the balls, and huh, all the
girls from Bryan. Was it here or in Bryan, the place where
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they had the balls? That was College Station, yea. I was
just thinking about in my mother's time.
Frances - Well the one...
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James - I tell you a lot of these children you kept asking
about the relationship between people your age who lived in
College and those that lived in Bryan. Most of them went to
Bryan High School, I was just thinking back, and they lived
right over there on these people, who's daddy was head of Ag
Education Department. They lived on Wellborn Road, facing
Wellborn Road, part of campus housing, and there were just
several more, most of them, a lot of them, Professor Porter
he taught Math, head of Math Department, but he lived in
Bryan and all of his children went to school in Bryan and so
there really wasn't that big a deal between the two places
and huh I don't know when Mr. Ernest Langford was mayor of
College Station he huh he was also head of the Architectural
Department out here at school , very nice man. And he had a
son our age and he ran around just like the rest of them
see. But I was just trying to think back to some of those
families who had young kids you know when that was.
James - His brother was mayor of Bryan. Mr. Ernest was
mayor out here. He was the first mayor and his brother Ivan
you remember that.
Frances - Yes.
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James - Was mayor in town.
Bill - Were they mayors at the same time?
James - Yes, they happen to overlap just one term I think it
was.
Frances - But the most important thing to me was the
Methodist Church out here the start of it ,it was an old
tabernacle...
Bill - I remember that.
Frances - And huh, they would have parties for the boys
freshmen one week, and sophomore and they would invite the
Bryan girls out and oh that was just wonderful. It was
wonderful to them because they didn't have any cars they
didn't have any way to get around, but that was the start of
the Methodist Church out here, so, and lets see they had the
church, was that big wooden building, was that the Church at
first?
James - Huh, I don't know. I remember the big blue
building.
Bill - That was the tabernacle , I think.
Frances - Well, anyway, that was the start of the Methodist
Church was right there and that's at North Gate.
Bill - Was the Methodist Church the first church to be built
on that plank on church road there.
James - I think so then came the Baptist and Presbyterian
and then the Catholic I believe. But the first preacher
over there was who?
Frances - Thomsen I believe.
James - Norman Thompson.
Frances - Brother Thomsen and he and his wife were so
gracious and they'd entertain the boys and they'd ask us
out. All the different Methodists who had, well they would
take turns about having the boys for dinner over at their
homes.
James - I am trying to think what's there now where that
sporting good store is there on North Gate. Just north of
the Methodist Church there, anyhow, the building, the
original building there was sold by Ford Medlin to R. B.
Butler and a bunch of these directors of Community Savings
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and Loan in other words the Savings and Loan Company. I
don't know which and there a little what we call a one
bedroom pre- fabricated house and the only thing that was put
there besides the foundation was the big safe that was
poured down there concrete safe, then they put this little
one room bedroom up against that and joined it and that was
the bank. By George, I believe that was the Old University
Bank.
Bill - It was, it was the Old University Bank.
James - Yea, I believe it was, cause Mr. Mundlin and I were
in business at that time selling these pre- fabricated houses
and huh, that was before I came in with Hershel Burgess was
in on the deal but Hershel didn't like the looks of it, he
got out and huh this little one bedroom house kitchen and so
forth was sold to the bank for that. I'm afraid we're
taking up too much time.
Bill - Your not taking up any time, we've got plenty of time
as far as that goes. I just want to let you share whatever
you want to share with us.
Frances - We didn't discuss about my great grandfather
starting.
Bill - Well tell us about that.
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Frances - To get the permit. Well he was in Galveston with
the University then there and they had yellow fever so he
moved his family to Bryan and he saw a need for a school
here, now he was a medical doctor, but he, it was Texas
Agriculture and Mech, no and he knew what the need was and
he went to get it. He and three other men got the permit to
start A & M in 1870's.
Bill - Who was your great grandfather?
Frances - Dr. John H. Webb and he was a medical doctor here
for years.
Bill - That was in 1875 when he started working on that.
Frances - 1870's, huh, what year , what does your ring have
on it?
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Bill - 1876 is when it was founded. He was one of the early
movers to get it started. It's interesting. He settled in
in Bryan when he came up here?
Frances - Oh yes.
Bill - He was a medical doctor here in Bryan - one of the
early medical doctors in Bryan?
Frances - Yes and his son -in -law came with him from
Galveston. He's a doctor and huh his name is Dr. Howell and
so in Bryan, my grandmother and aunt and all the families
just had homes around there and this Dr. Webb was their
father and so
Bill - And your grandfather, what did he do?
Frances - Well, my grandfather James was in the drugstore
business.
Bill - So he started the drugstore and your father took it
over then?
Frances - Right, and huh, see, my grandmother was the Webb,
she was doctor Webb's daughter and married James, married
James.
Bill - Your family goes a way back here.
Frances - And we have been here five generations on both
sides, Mother's family and my daddy's family.
Bill - Anything else you want to share with us, and you'll
get home and you'll think, "I wish I had told them about
this or that."
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Frances - I didn't know I was going to be interviewed or I
would have, but I believe that covers it.
Bill - You went to Bryan High School at that time and is
Bryan High School, where was it located then?
Frances - It was right, you know where Fannin is now?
Bill - Ay huh
Frances - Well, that was Bryan High School and on the back
lot of that school of course they tore it all down, Mother
went to school there, that was Bryan High, then I went to
school there, Jim, did you finish at Bryan High?
James - Ah huh.
Frances - But it was just a block from our house, it was
just great, but I was always late getting , kinda getting
there.
Bill - You live the closest one and you were always the
latest one to get there.
Frances - Yes.
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James - Dominics were the other ethnic group down here.
Bill - Right, Dominics, o.k.
James - Dominics, yes.
Frances - Well its been a pleasure to have you all
interviews us.
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Bill - I understand how that is. We want to thank you for
sharing your ideas or your remembrances, huh, with us this
morning. As you didn't hear, James, but they said they
would type these up and give them back to you. You can
correct them, the thing, because it's hard to pick up on the
recorder sometimes. Huh, and if you think of other things
that you want to share with us that can be added through
some notes that you might want to give us. And again we'd
like to have any memorabilia you'd like to share with us
and, huh, if there's specific things that you wanted to
donate to the archives section, I'm sure that they'd be glad
to have it or they'll make copies, whatever.
Bill - We certainly thank ya'll for taking your time to come
out and visit with us and , huh. We're excited about the
project and again if you will, huh, look over the list and
if you want to do it while your here, if you've got time,
that will be fine, if you'll like to take it with you and
give it back to us. Either way it will not make a
difference. We would try to get other people that we can
find out about the early days of College Station too. We
thank you very much for coming.
James - Thank you.
Frances - Thank you.
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Interviewee agrees to and shall indemnify and hold harmless CITY, its officers, agents and
employees, from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, causes of action, suits and liability
of every kind, attorney's fees, for injury to or death of any person, or for damage to any property,
arising out of or in connection with the use of the items and information referenced aboved by
CITY, its agents, representatives, assigns, invitees, and participants under this grant. Such
indemnity shall apply where the claims, losses damages, causes of action, suits or liability arise in
whole or in part from the negligence of city.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE
City of College Station, Texas 77840
ORAL HISTORY DATA SHEET
I hereby give and grant to the HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE, City of College
Station, Texas, for whatever purposes may be determined, the tape recordings, transcriptions, and
contents of this oral history interview. Also, permission is hereby given for any duplications of
original photos, documents, maps, etc. useful to the history project to be returned unharmed.
Interviewee releases, relinquishes and discharges CITY, its officers, agents and employees, from all
claims, demands, and causes of action of every kind and character, including the cost of defense
thereof, for any injury to, including the cost of defense thereof for any injury to, including death of,
any person, whether that person be a third person, Interviewee, or an employee of either of the
parties hereto, and any loss of or damage to property, whether the same be that either of the parties
hereto or of third parties, caused by or alleged to be caused by, arising out of, or in connection with
Interviewee provision of historical information, whether or not said claims, demands and causes of
action in whole or in part are covered by insurance. ,C �
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INTERVIEW STATUS: Completed
Interviewee agrees to and shall indemnify and hold harmless CITY, its officers, agents and
employees, from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, causes of action, suits and liability
of every kind, attorney's fees, for injury to or death of any person, or for damage to any property,
arising out of or in connection with the use of the items and information referenced aboved by
CITY, its agents, representatives, assigns, invitees, and participants under this grant. Such
indemnity shall apply where the claims, losses damages, causes of action, suits or liability arise in
whole or in part from the negligence of city.
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