HomeMy WebLinkAboutNorthgate Panel 7Mediator: Peggy Calliham
TRANSCRIPT OF MEETING
MEMORY LANES - NORTHGATE
July 27, 1994
Attendees: Jack Zubik
Mary Lou Opersteny Kelly
Charles J. Opersteny
Note: First part of tape inaudible.
Mr. Zubik: Our first business was in the vicinity of... about where Duddley's
Draw is now.
Ms. Calliham: Right.
Mr. Zubik:
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That same building was moved to what's now College Main, down
in... that... where it makes that dip going to Junction 505, or
something like that. Alright, then, later we moved into the back end
of what was the Aggieland. Sparks and Casey building. They had
a little place back there. Then again later, we moved, I think that
was about 1936, across the street, which Mr. Mitchell, who was a
professor, built those buildings. And that's next to Northgate Barber
Shop. That's where we were, 'til 1979.
Ms. Calliham:
Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Calliham:
Mr. Zubik:
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Next to Northgate Barber Shop. Is that across from the -
Across from Holik's and up in there.
Well, you told me how you came to locate Northgate, you said Mr.
Boyett owned the first business place.
Most of that property along University Drive all the way to Campus
Theater, in fact, where Campus Theater was; that was the old, big
Boyett house. Ya'II remember that? And that was all mostly the
Boyett's property. On this other side again, was the Tauber family.
Remember them? Boyetts on one side, Tauber on the other side.
They owned a lot of that land there.
Ms. Calliham: Yes, (pause) what are some of your favorite memories of working in
and around Northgate?
Mr. Zubik: Well -
Ms. Calliham: -Or funny stories or whatever.
Mr. Zubik: Well, Northgate, really at that time... the military officers, at that
time kind of acquainted it as being part of the campus. And they
would come down and ask us if we had any trouble with the boys,
anything like that. Colonel Moore, especially, George F. Moore,
and, let's see, he was one of the mainstays, I believe, Corrigador
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Island or so during World War II. President Roosevelt visited the
campus and they put on a review for him, and they brought us an
official flag and gosh, I think forty feet by something. It had some
tears in it. They brought it in and... if we would repair it. Before, of
course, the flag was shipped in here from somewhere, but
whatever the size of the official flag is, see, the flags that you see
are not official. I think it flies at Fort Knox. At one time I think it
used to. So if ya'll find out what the size of the official flag was-
Ms. Calliham: You had one.
Mr. Zubik: Well, we had to repair it for them.
Ms. Calliham: Oh, okay. Well, did you make uniforms for the students?
Mr. Zubik: Sure did. The military students. At that time, it was, of course, all
military. During the early years.
Ms. Calliham: And you made them from scratch? I mean, you didn't have uniforms
that came in mass and you just took up hems.
Mr. Zubik: That came later, they started issuing uniforms. No, we made them.
Ms. Calliham: I see. Did you do any other kind of tailoring?
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Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Calliham: How many members of you family worked in this business?
Mr. Zubik:
Mr. Zubik:
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Well, we had customers that came to us from Bryan. All creations,
and repairs, and stuff like that. Yeah, we had other customers, but
primarily it was for the corps; for the students.
Those who had better sense! I was the youngest and I got out of
high school in the Depression. And college students were walking
streets, so I started working with my daddy.
Ms. Calliham: So you had a ready made job ready for you?
That's right. I worked around awhile in grocery stores in Bryan, but
I knew that wasn't going to be a future. So I started working with
him, then when he retired, of course, I carried on 'til 1979.
Ms. Calliham: Did your family live in the College Station area?
Mr. Zubik: No, we always lived in Bryan.
Ms. Calliham: In Bryan. What were the hours that you worked?
Mr. Zubik: Well, in September, when school started from say, 5 or 6 in the
morning 'til 11 or 12 at night, because the student commanders
demanded their students to be in uniform in three days. I don't
know, did you go to A & M? Alright, were you in the Corp?
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Ms. Kelly:
Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Calliham:
Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Calliham: But how many uniforms would you do in three days?
Mr. Zubik:
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You had to be in those days.
In three days. So we worked.
How many?
Well, of course my dad, and my mother and I; brothers, sisters and
then we had some other help.
Well, we did, that mostly for the freshman. See, the sophomores,
and juniors, and seniors already had theirs, but that was mostly for
freshman. They had to be in uniform in three days. So we worked.
Ms. Calliham: So mostly it was military uniforms, though. Most of your business.
Mr. Zubik: Yeah.
Ms. Calliham: How did... how were they paid for? I mean, back in those days.
Mr. Zubik: Momma and Daddy.
Ms. Calliham: Momma and Daddy.
Mr. Zubik: That's right.
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Ms. Calliham: Cash.
Mr. Zubik: Yeah, but, gosh, uniforms those days... thirty; forty dollars.
Ms. Calliham: Wow, I wonder how much they cost today? I wonder how much
Mr. Zubik:
those uniforms cost today?
Well, I remember Holik's used to sell those boots for $29.95 and
now somebody told me they were six hundred dollars and some-
thing dollars. Did you buy some?
(Unidentified): Oh, no sir, but that hurt.
Ms. Calliham: Where did you get the fabric from? Where did that come from?
Mr. Zubik: We had to order it from the mills. One mill was known as
Hamburger (inaudible) Mills. I guess there was a guy by the name
of Hamburger. And then, I don't remember, each (inaudible) and
I'd swap. There were mills coming out of New York. We had to
order it by the bolts; by the yards. We'd have like eighty or ninety
yards on it.
Ms. Calliham: Describe what would have been a good work day.
Mr. Zubik: Well, I just got through telling you: from about 5 or 6 o' clock in the
morning 'til about 10; 11 o' clock at night.
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Ms. Calliham: Some people would call that a bad work day but that was lots of.. .
was good money.
Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Calliham: Did you ever have any bad work days?
Mr. Zubik: Well, no I just had to go there and work.
Ms. Calliham: There was just work.
Mr. Zubik: That's right.
Ms. Calliham: Well, where did you eat lunch?
Mr. Zubik: Oh, brown bag it.
Ms. Calliham: Where? Brown bag it. I see.
Mr. Zubik: They had a little sandwich shop there. Mrs. Parkhill, do you
remember Mrs. Parkhill? She had a little sandwich shop. And Pop
Shaw, do you remember Pop Shaw on the campus?
Ms. Kelly: A hamburger place on campus.
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Well, that was, of course, just a school opening for maybe a couple
of weeks or so. The rest of the time we'd get there like, of course,
those days, y'know, there was no 9 to 12, and 1 to 4. We'd get
there like 7; 8 in the morning and stay 'til 6; 7 at night or so.
Mr. Zubik: That little hamburger place.
Ms. Calliham: Where was that?
Mr. Zubik: Well, Pop Shaw was on the campus with a little bitty old building
right where Sbisa mess hall was, and the exchange store used to be
there.
Ms. Kelly: I think across the street. Let's see, what was that darn name, right
next to the exchange store, in that promenade, there.
Mr. Zubik: That's right. Yes.
Ms. Calliham: I see. You say your business moved to the campus in when?
Mr. Zubik: Well, we weren't on the campus.
Ms. Calliham: Well, I mean to the Northgate. In what year?
Mr. Zubik: 1929.
Ms. Calliham: That was right about Depression.
Mr. Zubik: Well, it was... yeah, '30; '31; '33.
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Ms. Calliham: Did the Depression have any affect on people's ability to pay you or
your ability to do your business?
Mr. Zubik:
Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Calliham:
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Well, no, because those students that came- they had to come by
train. There was no bus service then, they came by train and their
parents were prepared. But it didn't take a lot of money. And, see,
the students that would come in, in September by train, they didn't
leave 'til Christmas holidays. And they pulled those train coaches.
Ya'll remember when there was 10; 12 train coaches along that
railroad track? That's the only way they got in and out. And they
would go on Corp trips to Rice, or to Houston, TCU, and SMU. And
they pulled those train coaches in there and parked them. And
that's the only way those students got in and out
Ms. Calliham: How did World War II affect what was going on with your business
and the Northgate area?
We did big business and I guess. No secret to tell, we made a lot of
money, because a lot of those former students would come through,
and they maybe had three days to report and stuff like that; a week
to report, and they'd come back in and buy stuff that we had. I
remember sometimes I would get up 1 or 2 o' clock in the morning,
where'd somebody'd call me and they wanted certain items that we
had. And I'd go down there and we'd make some money.
So those students that had you do work when they were in school,
and now were reporting for military duty, came back to you ?
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Mr. Zubik: Okay, and also the federal government moved in some students
they called ASTRP. Remember that?
Ms. Kelly: Marines and Navy. They had -
Mr. Zubik: And Air Force.
Ms. Kelly: And Air Force. ASTP, my husband was in the ASTP.
Mr. Zubik: Army Specialized Training Program.
Ms. Kelly: But they also had the first training program at A & M. Was a Navy
and Marine Corp typing and communication. It was in the old
American Legion co -op building down on the south end at the south
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g the time because the students marched, and then
they shipped out for the battle before Normandy.
Mr. Zubik: They must have shipped out in 1944. Then the student body, all
over A & M, I think, fell to 1200 students.
Ms. Kelly: There were very few.
Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Kelly:
Mr. Zubik:
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And I went to service. And so I went in service in 1944 and I left just
about the time of when they pulled everybody out. So that had to
be about 1944.
It was just before the invasion in Normandy, because they pulled
different units, sent them up on the East coast. Then they pulled
them out. A lot of them were A & M students that had been at A & M
and got their call for military. They put them in this program called
ASTP, and then sent them back here and they had more training.
And of course, naturally, they were paid monthly pay - whatever it
was for the service people. So if they wanted little better clothes
then what they were issuing, we furnished it. So we made good
money.
Ms. Calliham: Now your family's business remained there until when?
Mr. Zubik: 1979.
Ms. Calliham: 1979. And is there a business there like that now?
Mr. Zubik: No, Bernie Gester, who owns the cleaning shop, Aggie Cleaners,
wanted it so bad because he knew that we kind of had a monopoly.
They kept saying the Zubik family got a monopoly. We had a
monopoly on work. So we sold it to him and he operated it about a
year or so, and he sold it to somebody else, and then its closed out.
However, the school started issuing more and more clothes. And
the last items mostly that we made were the senior boot pads. And
about a couple of years ago I had a kid, Spanish kid, that saw me at
an organization that I belong to and he said he was a senior at
A & M. He said, "Do you remember any family that owned a tailor
shop in Northgate by the name of Zubiks." And I said, "Yeah, your
talking to him." And he said, well, he said I was still able to buy a
pair of those pants. He said, everybody said, if you get a pair, get
Zubik's, get Zubik's. We made a nice, better pair of pants than what
they're issuing now. The one they're issuing now is kind of like a
job pair. And we made a modified World War 1 uniform like World
War I officers used to wear, with the peg. So, that's it.
Ms. Calliham: Well, is there anything else that you remember? I heard you all
talking about a train? I was kind of curious.
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Mr. Zubik: A trolley.
Ms. Calliham: A trolley? Something-
Mr. Zubik: Oh, he's talking about a train that jumped the tracks.
Mr. Opersteny: Mr. Zubik mentioned that there was a little spur that brought coal to
the power plant. Which was kind of... I don't know if it's still there
now?
Mr. Zubik: No.
Ms. Calliham: No, it's not.
Mr. Opersteny: But it was kind of in the center of the north part, or kind of behind
the old post office.
Ms. Kelly: Was the power plant.
Mr. Opersteny: He says the train jumped the track several times. I'm just - I don't
know. I was probably 8; 9; 10 years old at the time and I remember
this time it had jumped the track. And I was, as a child, very
curious, of course, and someone took a picture of me standing by
the train. I asked my sister to look for the picture, but we don't know
where it is. We'll find it.
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Ms. Calliham: And that was just something else I was going to ask you, just if you
had any pictures that we could use? We'd reproduce them.
Mr. Zubik: The only ones that I would know of would be Joe Sosolik. And his
daughter still lives in Bryan. Helen Martin, do you know her?
Ms. Calliham: They don't have a Martin, but we could find her. But they might
have some -
Mr. Zubik: She married a Marcie) Martin.
Ms. Kelly: She lives in Bryan.
Mr. Zubik: She's divorced.
Ms. Kelly: Her name is Helen Martin.
Mr. Zubik: He was the official photographer. Caught the pictures for what was
the Longhorns. And he had a photo shop at the campus which was
upstairs above that exchange store. But then he also had a place
on the corner, ya'll remember when all that-
Ms. Kelly:
Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Calliham:
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On Main Street.
Ya'll remember when all those buildings burned?
Campus... not Campus Photo. Aggieland Photo?
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Ms. KeIIy: Aggieland. Aggieland Studio.
Ms. Calliham: Was that Sosolik?
Mr. Zubik: Joe Sosolik.
Ms. Calliham: Joe Sosolik.
Mr. Zubik: They... he first, after they moved from the campus, but he still had
a place on the campus. On the corner there where now Loupot is.
That was wooden buildings. Do you remember when all that
burned?
Ms. KeIIy: I know when Loupot burned, but-
Mr. Zubik:
Mr. Opersteny: In that wooden building, there were actually three stores. There
was a variety, I called it (inaudible), it was a little restaurant
Ms. Kelly: Lilly Creamery.
Mr. Zubik: And Albert Opensteny had his variety
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Loupot wasn't there. Joe Sosolik had a studio there and Mrs.
Parkhill had a cafe there. And something else was there. Then
Luke and Charlie, well, ya'll had that other wooden building there.
But all that corner-
Mr. Opersteny: Then my dad had a grocery store.
Mr. Zubik: But see, there were some separate wooden buildings there.
Ms. Kelly: Little ones.
Mr. Zubik: And all of that burnt. And see, then later years, E. J. Kyle bought
that corner and built what is now Loupots. Dean Kyle bought that
building.
Ms. Calliham: That was a, when I remember, that was a Lipscomb's drug store.. .
and I was, what was originally there?
Mr. Zubik:
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I've only... when she talked about, Miss Kinbro was talking about
the drug store at the college, I don't remember. E. R. Candy had
that, where Loupots was. E.R., when Dean Kyle built that building,
E.R. Candy, Candy's Pharmacy, downtown, and he put Red Jarret
there, if you know Red Jarrett. As a manager. Alright, that was a
one story building and Doc Lipscomb, S.A. Lipscomb, was the
pharmacist at, across the street at Aggieland Pharmacy, which was
owned by Jeff Casey and Bill Sparks. And Lipscomb's father -in -law,
by the name of Webb, and that might be the connection with her, hit
some oil wells, or something in Corpus. So he bought that building
from Kyle, and of course Candy had to leave. And then Doc
Lipscomb ran that drug store.
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Ms. Kelly: See, that's all I remember, is Doc Lipscomb
Mr. Zubik:
And inside of it was another cafe, I believe it was Melcher or some-
body. But see, then Doc Lipscomb, and then put the second story
on there and they moved that cafe upstairs, ya'll remember when
that cafe was upstairs?
Ms. Kelly: That was a pool hall and a cafe.
Mr. Zubik: And a cafe. Then Lipscomb's pharmacy took the whole thing over.
And then Loupot came in later years. But that's all later years, later.
Ms. Calliham: Well, I tell you what, lets let one of the Opensteny's come on-
Mr. Zubik: Well, sure! Let me sign.
Ms. Calliham: Well, yeah, get you to sign there.
Ms. Kelly: ...they also had a lunch room. But like soda fountains.
Mr. Opersteny: Yeah, they sure did.
Ms. Calliham: Yeah, I remember the soda fountain, and if we can just get your
name and address. I remember that soda fountain, because I used
to like to go there-
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Mr. Zubik: They used to serve even cars that parked there, y'know, and order
stuff and they'd carry it out.
Ms. Kelly: Still there.
Mr. Opersteny: You go ahead, you hold the scene first.
(inaudible)
Ms. Opensteny: Charles Gorzycki.
Mr. Zubik: Yeah, Charles Gorzycki had the studio there, you're correct, on the
corner. The one that burnt.
Ms. Kelly: That was White Rose Studio.
Mr. Zubik: I didn't know, but the White Rose also was in Bryan.
Ms. Kelly: Yeah, he was in Bryan originally.
Ms. Calliham: Are you three brother... what, how are you, what is the -
Mrs. Opensteny: I'm married to him.
Ms. Calliham: And you were who? What was your married name? maiden name?
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Mrs. Opensteny: Stetz: S- T- E -T -Z.
Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Calliham: What type of business did your family have and when did it open at
Northgate?
Ms. Kelly:
Ms. Calliham: And it was called -
Ms. Kelly: Charlie's.
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Yeah, you're right, Charlie Gorzycki first had that studio lab. But
Joe was on the campus, Joe Sosolik was on the campus above that
exchange store. And then, you're correct, he bought that.
We had the grocery business but I'm not sure of the year.
Originally, dad and his partner, Luke Patronella, opened in the old
wooden building that was owned by Mr. Orren Boyett. And then they
moved, must have been '29, because it was prior to when Charles
was born. They moved on Main Street, probably close to the Zubik
place. And they were in business and in the early thirties they
separated their business. Luke ran the one in the building and my
mother and daddy went back to the wooden building and opened up
a small grocery store. And it gradually grew-
Ms. Calliham: Charlie's Grocery Store.
Mr. Opersteny: Charlie's Food Mart.
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Ms. Kelly: Charlie's Food Market.
Mr. Zubik:
But the original... ya'II had to be there before 1929, because when
we moved there in 1929, ya'll, that Luke and Charlie were already
there in business.
Ms. Kelly: Okay, that was, then that's into the -
Mr. Zubik: The first -
Ms. Kelly: You mean in the wooden building?
Mr. Zubik: Yes.
Ms. Kelly: Yes, they opened up, probably '25 or '26 in the wooden building.
And then they moved to the building on Main Street. And then they
dissolved their partnership. And Dad and Mom came back to the
wooden building on University, which at that time was called Sulfur
Road.
Mr. Zubik: I believe you're right.
Ms. Calliham: That's good to know.
Ms. Kelly: I wrote that down on a note.
Ms. Calliham: Sulfur Road.
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Ms. Kelly:
And they were in business. They didn't have a market at the time.
And that was during the Depression. And to keep milk cold they
brought the refrigerator from the home, but it was in the year they
was able to take it back to the house. And it grew and they were in
that wooden building until 1948 and then picked up the wooden
building and moved it to the back.
Ms. Calliham: Moved it to the back, where?
Ms. Kelly: Back on the other street.
Ms. Calliham: To face the other side?
Ms. Kelly: No, it just faced the open length because they built a new one.
Mr. Opersteny: Sort of moved it back behind the university. To the back of the
property, kind of set it at an angle. And, of course hooked it back up
to electricity and so forth, while they built the present building that is
there.
Ms. Calliham: And who occupies the present building?
Mr. Opersteny: John Raney.
Ms. Calliham: Is it a book store?
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Ms. KeIIy: It's a book store.
Ms. Calliham: It's a book store now.
Ms. KeIIy: Well, but he moved back into the present building. He moved into
the building in early '49. And then there was a restaurant owned by
Katy Arhopolous, a barber shop, and a jewelry store owned by Mr.
McCarty. And the variety store that was owned by my uncle, but at
the time, I think, then he sold it to Tom and Vesta Taylor. And
mother owned the store until 1964.
Ms. Calliham:
Ms. Kelly:
Ms. Calliham:
Ms. KeIIy:
Ms. Calliham:
Mr. Zubik:
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Did your family live in the College Station area?
No, we lived 1109 W 26th Street and Mother is still living there.
In Bryan.
In Bryan.
So a lot of people that had businesses probably did live in Bryan .
Well, there was no housing at A & M. The only housing, is, ya'll
remember, across from the street there, where those pecan trees
were, was for professors. And they let them have it for whatever it
was - 10 or 15 dollars a month.
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Mr. Opersteny:
Mr. Zubik: Yeah.
Mr. Opersteny: Okay.
In fact, my dad worked for Eden Grocery Store in Bryan. And he
used to delivery groceries out to College Station on the inner urban,
as they called it. I don't remember the inner urban, I don't know if
you-
Ms. Kelly: I don't remember the inner urban.
Mr. Zubik: I rode it when I'd have a nickel. From Bryan to College Station. I
wouldn't get off, and go back to Bryan. It was a nice little ride.
Ms. Calliham: Did your family actually own that building?
Ms. Kelly:
Ms. Calliham: And this was on Sulfur Street. Do you have any idea how that name
Ms. Kelly:
Ms. Calliham:
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No, it was owned by Mr. Orren Boyett, who is the son of the man
that had the big filling station and the big Boyett house. And he was
one of four or five sons.
came about?
Because the water was full of sulfur, I'm sure.
Oh, that's interesting!
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Mr. Zubik: It used to stink down there, remember where those water wells
Ms. Kelley:
were?
They had, they had aerated the water, where it would get rid of
some of that smell. And it was down back behind the post office.
They had these aerating ponds.
Mr. Opersteny: It was by the electrical plant.
Ms. Calliham: Yeah, what's the physical plant.
Mr. Opersteny: I don't know if it was the only water well, but the water well that used
to be up there close to the that old Ramada, or whatever motel or
hotel was called.
Ms. Kelly: It is University something now.
Ms. Calliham: University Towers.
Mr. Zubik: The student housing, those big student housing-
Mr. Opersteny: Yeah, it was in that area, and also at that time, or sometime or
another, the university or the college, at that time, was moving the
houses off the campus. And they had one little strip up there that
they moved all the houses where the professors then lived. And the
well was right by those houses.
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Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Calliham:
Ms. Kelly:
Mr. Opersteny:
Ms. Calliham: Wasn't there.
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But they used to stay... Hensel park.
How much of you family worked in the business?
We all did when it came to inventory time. Mother and Dad did, and
I worked on campus after 1940, and '42, and if they were in a bind,
when I got off from work, I would go in. But inventory time, and I'm
sure my brother stocked groceries. We... there were a few things
that we could do. But they had help. They later put in a market and
Dad cut his own meat. He bought his own meat, and had it killed,
and brought in, and he delivered groceries.
In fact, back then, that was, I guess, during World War II. The
cattle was processed by A & M. People would buy the calves, and
take it there and, then apparently, this was a teaching process for
the students, and they would slaughter the calves. I remember, it
would be very unsanitary, I remember loading up meat in the back
of a pick -up truck. We'd put sheets on it and bring it, but that was
legal then. But that sure wouldn't pass now.
Ms. Calliham: Well, that was a question, I was going to say. So, your dad could
buy some of this meat?
Mr. Opersteny: Well, he did. That was really the only way, I mean, Armoring
Company.
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Mr. Opersteny:
Well, they were here, but my dad used to buy chickens from F.. .
what was it, F &B Station, or something like that? And usually we'd
take orders for people if they wanted a fryer, or a hen-
Ms. Kelly: Or a turkey.
Mr. Opersteny: But that particular weekend -
Ms. Calliham: Was F &B Station now, is that have to do with F &B Road?
Ms. Kelly: That's where the poultry-
Mr. Zubik: It was called Feeding and Breeding Experimental Station. I don't
Ms. Calliham: Bought it from the university, from A &M, and sold chickens. What
about milk and things like that?
Ms. Kelly:
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know if it's still in operation or not.
He bought from Lilly Creamery... was one of their main sources of
milk. Now I don't remember the others, but Lilly was the main one.
When he first put in, he was one of the first to put in Bluebonnet ice
cream, they furnished the freezer for him and he had Blue Bell ice
cream. And that was many, many years ago.
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Mr. Opersteny:
Ms. Calliham: What kind of hours did your store work?
Ms. Kelly: Long.
Mr. Zubik: From can to can't.
Ms. Kelly: He left the house, Dad left the house by 6 o' clock because he
would have laborers that would be waiting to get their lunch things.
They didn't have the refrigeration and so he would slice up their
lunch meat and they would buy their bread. And then the delivery
trucks were there. He'd be opened for that. His time to close was 7.
I have known him to come to the store because somebody didn't
have a loaf of bread on Sunday, to give them a loaf of bread, but
the hours were very long. Of course, they didn't work on Sunday,
they worked on Saturday, but they were closed on Sunday.
Ms. Calliham: I mean, this may be a silly question, but what were the kinds of
things that people mostly bought then?
Ms. Kelly:
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Well, I remember there was a Sanitary Farm Dairies, I remember
their milk. Carnation and Borden's. I don't remember a Lilly milk at
that time, but I remember Sanitary.
They wanted fresh vegetables. He had a high line of party goods
that you wouldn't find in a normal drive -in because the people
entertained on campus. And he, at that time, he was the closest.
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Ms. Calliham: So, like the president's wife at A &M probably would buy a lot of her
Ms. Kelly:
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But, like olives, and stuffed olives, and things that you would use for
a party, they had all those things.
food.
Yes, yes. And they would deliver. As time went on, it got harder.
Before they sold the store they gave up the delivery, but they had
one man that was retired that lived in, I guess, College Hills on the
east, at the east gate. And he got his mail at the mailbox - they
didn't have delivery in College Station. The boy always went by and
picked up, I don't remember the man's name, mail and delivered it
to him whether he had groceries going or not. But there were a lot
of people that were here, that traded, that had been here for years.
The Ivey's. Mrs. Ivey would call her order in and if he didn't take it
home on the way home, Daddy would drop it off because it was on
the way home.
Mr. Opersteny: And he also charged groceries.
Ms. Calliham: You could call in your order and charge it. And you had a ticket that
you'd pay at the end of the month or end of the week or whatever.
(Unidentified): Can I mention something your dad used to complain about? Is
some of the strange traditions of the foreign students that would
shop there. They opened up, or want a taste-
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Ms. Kelly:
Mr. Opersteny: As well as jelly. Or anything that had a screw top, they would tend
to open it - stick there finger in it, and taste it.
Ms. Calliham: Now days, oh my goodness!
(Unidentified): I've seen people do baby food like that in the stores.
Mr. Opersteny: Now?
(Unidentified): Now.
Ms. Calliham: Oh my goodness. Describe a, what you might call a good work day,
and what might be a not so good work day. As your dad might of let
you in on-
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Yes. They, after the war, was it the Marshall plan? I believe that
was it, brought many foreign students. He also catered to them, in
that he would get them live chickens - they preferred live chickens.
And he would get them. He ordered rice in ten pound sacks you
can imagine ten pounds of rice. And, but he also had problems with
baby food. They would open it, and taste it, and put the seal back
on.
Well, I couldn't say that myself because I didn't work full time, but
there would be times in the summertime - there was no air
conditioning in that building. And you have frozen food counters;
you have a locker for meat, or you have a meat counter. And one of
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Ms. Calliham: Well, didn't most of the students, though, eat on the campus, in one
of the dining halls? But were they good customers?
Ms. Kelly: Oh, yes.
Ms. Calliham: I mean, what kinds of things were the students always wanting, that
they couldn't get at the dining hall?
Ms. Kelly:
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those go out, you're up a creek. So he did make a trip every
Sunday whether he was, he wasn't open, to check his boxes, to
make sure that they were operating. Because you would have a
great loss. One of the things in the grocery - they had a lot of fresh
vegetables because the horticulture department, what they grew
they would sell to the store. So they would have a different variety
of plum - things that were gown here. And they couldn't accept the
money or something at the time, but they would take it out and
things, little things that they needed for the store, I mean for their
work. They need paraffin to put on jellies that they had made.
Well, they would get that. Or if they needed a certain type of
cleaning thing, I don't know how they work that out, but anyway, we
always did have the advantage of the fresh vegetables and fruit.
When the Brazos berry came out, it was, sold at the store.
What a typical teenager buys now. They wanted pickles, they
wanted lunch meat, cheese. The first of school, every student had
his broom and mop. And bathroom cleaning supplies. I don't know
whether they still do that, but the variety store, the book stores, the
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grocery stores, all had a tremendous stock of brooms and mops and
cleaning supplies.
Ms. Calliham: Kind of like they raid WaI -Mart before the beginning of school now.
Ms. Kelly: Yeah.
Ms. Calliham: To get all of those things. That's interesting. I probably didn't need
to ask where they ate. Your dad probably sliced himself sandwich
meat, and made himself a sandwich. And certainly there weren't
any places that people went off to eat.
Ms. Kelly:
There was an ice cream place next door and then they... Katy
Arhopolous had a restaurant. And of course, gradually, there were
more places to eat.
Mr. Opersteny: Well, there used to be a restaurant by A.M. Waldrop - the clothing
store. There was a restaurant in that particular building.
Ms. Calliham: How'd the Depression affect-
Ms. Kelly:
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Let's see, they started out, right out, their own business in the
Depression. It was hard going, but they made a living at it. I guess,
as Jack said, they made money during the war. Mother and Daddy
had a source of candy in Houston, that they were able to get candy
bars. And we made the trip to Houston to pick them up at a
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warehouse. And we would be just, the boys, the word got along that
candy was available and the store would be full.
Ms. Calliham: What kind of candy?
Ms. Kelly:
Ms. Calliham:
Ms. Kelly:
Ms. Calliham:
Ms. Kelly:
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Hershey bars and Baby Ruth, or any type that we could get. I had
an uncle that worked for a big grocery chain and he was able to get
the candy bars for us. And it was a good source of income during
that time. Well, when they came in for a candy bar, they bought
something else.
Sort of like we can't go in for a jug of milk now days.
That's right.
What are some funny stories or anything that you remember that.. .
fond memories, or stories that you remember?
Well, I remember the Lipscomb's ice cream parlor, or snack bar.
They always had ice cream and it was a delight for me to come to
College Station. And I'd get off the bus - I went to St. Joseph's
school in Bryan and I would get on Texas now, at the corner of the
courthouse and get on the bus. Come out to College and the bus
driver let me off - I hadn't paid him a dime, and he made the rounds
through the campus, and came back, Daddy would be standing
there to pay him and he would take it, and maybe once a week I got
to come out after school. And I always got my ice cream cone. I
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Ms. Calliham: I knew Dr. Asbury too.
Ms. Kelly:
think another thing that sticks in my mind is the campus housing
that was across the street. People walked over for their groceries.
Behind the post office, Dr. Asbury lived.
Dr. Asbury had roses that were taller then the house. And I
happened to play the piano with a friend. He loved music. And
Tony was a student of a Mrs. Ferguson, I believe. Anyway, we'd go
on maybe Saturday afternoon and play, he had two pianos. And
pictures all over the walls. But his hobby was seeing how tall
climbing roses could grow. He had trellises way up there.
Mr. Zubik: He also used to broadcast which was the original WTAW started
there. You remember -
Ms. Kelly: I remember the WTAW, but I didn't realize he started it.
Mr. Zubik: Out of there.
Ms. Calliham: Where was it?
Ms. Kelly: His building, his house was the first street behind the post office.
The corner... and there was houses along there.
Ms. Calliham: Is that what's called Asbury now? Isn't there an Asbury Street?
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Mr. Zubik: Could be. I believe there's a corner there called Asbury.
Ms. Kelly: Okay, that's where he lives.
Mr. Opersteny: Sort of across from that old bank.
Ms. Calliham: Well what did Dr. Asbury teach?
Mr. Zubik: Well, he was on campus, but I don't know.
Mr. Opersteny: He was a history professor and, in fact, if I'm not mistaken, he may
have been quite an authority on Texas.
Ms. Kelly: I really don't know what, except that he collected paintings and
wanted to see how tall roses would grow.
Ms. Calliham:
Ms. Kelly:
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My dad... he used to come to the bus station and I played
Northgate when I was a little girl. And he would come and cut paper
dolls with me. I remember because I didn't have anybody to play
with, and he would play with me. So I have fond memories.
And he rode the bicycle and every year in the fall. Daddy ordered a
crate of Arkansas black apples. There was no apple but the
Arkansas, and that's what he had. And he would buy him a whole
crate of them.
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Ms. Calliham: Would you, do you have some things you might want to add to all of
this? Why don't we switch places-
Mr. Opersteny:
Ms. Calliham: We'II videotape you, yeah.
Mr. Opersteny:
No, this is fine.
(inaudible)
You were asking what was considered a good day, and of course, to
show you some of the differences back then and now, I remember
my father being real elated when he rang up a hundred dollars on
the cash register. For one day's business, he was thrilled to death,
that was a big event. So, groceries were quite cheap. Apparently,
back then.
Ms. Calliham: What do you remember about the price of things back then?
Mr. Opersteny: Well, I do remember there was peanut patties. They used to come
two per package per nickel.
Ms. Calliham: Peanuts are worth more than that. Candy bars, like a Hershey bar?
Mr. Opersteny: They probably were a nickel. They were a pretty nice size bar.
Mr. Zubik: Big old bar!
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Mr. Opersteny:
Mr. Zubik:
I'd remember peppermint sticks were about a foot long and about
the size of a nice big rope. Maybe an inch, almost, in diameter, and
those were a nickel too.
You remember when Knee High Bottling Company came out with
that big bottle like that? They showed a lady with her empty knee.
Ya'II remember that?
Ms. Kelly: I don't remember it coming out like that, but I remember Knee High
was bottled in Waco.
Ms. Calliham: Well, I certainly never knew that about Knee High. I wondered
where they got that name.
Mr. Zubik: They'd show a nice young lady, (inaudible), something like that,
boy, they ought to come around there and see!
Ms. Calliham: What are some of the funny... or the memories that you have as a
little boy around the store? Just what took place?
Mr. Opersteny: Well, this was basically, I guess you could say, to a degree, was
where I was raised. Because my mother worked in the store, she
brought me to the store. She would catch a ride with my uncle or
many times we caught the bus and rode out there. I played with the
Anderson, Reverend Anderson, and his daughter is here today. So,
there was a son-
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Ms. Kelly: Sonny and Freddy.
Mr. Opersteny:
Ms. Kelly:
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Sonny was about my age, and who was a physician, but I think he
died. Fred is still living. Mother used to come out about Fred, or as
we called him, Freddy. He used to kneel down in front of the candy
counter, and just, just. ..and she would give him a sucker. And then
he would leave. But he never said a word, he'd just kneel down in
front of candy counter. Of course, back then also, I remember
Nabisco. There was no such thing as packaged cookies. They
came in a square box and Nabisco had made a little thing to fit on
them, kind of like a glass door. You used to sell cookies that way.
Ms. Calliham: Just one at a time?
You could sell, buy them, I think they were by the pound or by the
piece. You could buy what you wanted to. It was square and had a
glass top on it. And you could reach in. Fig Newtons... there was
a chocolate with the cream in it, and a vanilla with the cream, and
then the short bread. And Daddy'd usually have about five or six
varieties.
And then somewhere they begin to package things, and so it made
it much easier. In fact, I remember sacking sugar because it came in
a hundred pound bag, and all of the grocery stores would package it
up. Pinto beans came in a bag, and they were packaged up.
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Ms. Calliham: Did your daddy sell Cokes back then? Coca -Cola? Was there a lot
of Coca - Cola's bought back then?
Ms. Kelly: The smaller 6 ounce.
Mr. Opersteny: 6 ounce. And the Dr. Pepper. He didn't particularly specialize in
selling it, like individually. It usually was, I guess, per six pack.
Ms. Kelly:
Ms. Kelly:
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And the bottles - you had to worry with the, the bottles were
refundable and people would come in and they'd get knocked over
in the back, and you lost a lot for breakage there.
Ms. Calliham: What about milk? I remember milk bottles, you had your milk
bottles.
You had your milk bottles and the dairy people would come and
count how many cases of glass they took, and you got credit on
that. But you had a lot of hand work to do. Your soda water bottles,
your milk bottles, cream, everything came in glass.
(Unidentified): Ya'll talked about the milk being cream on the top. Wasn't it in a
little bubble or something?
Carnation's had a glass bottle that had a little bubble on it, and then
along with that, they would sell you a little thing that had a rubber, I
guess, on it that you'd push down in the bottle. That created a
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Ms. Calliham: And everybody fought over the cream for their cereal, or they didn't
fight over the cream.
Mr. Opersteny:
Ms. Kelly:
Ms. Kelly:
Mr. Opersteny: Trimble.
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suction and, of course, it would only go down as far as the cream,
so you would take the cream off the top of the milk bottle.
There was no such thing as homogenized milk. In fact, I can recall
first homogenized milk came out. I thought it taste horrible, but then
after you got to drinking homogenized milk, then the other taste
horrible.
Ms. Calliham: What was the atmosphere, this is, I guess a question for all of you,
at Northgate among the merchants?
Community, community. You knew the people, of course Jack
would know more, but the lady that ran that building that they
showed that was blue, it used to be an apartment house, and the
lady that managed that - she would walk to the store; to the post
office. Everybody was friendly, everybody was ready to help.
Mr. Zubik: You had a problem, well-
They worked it out. At one time, Daddy had two students that lived
in the back of the store, because they had a lot of burglary. One of
them happened to be a football player-
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Ms. Kelly: This was in the thirties - Stumble.
Mr. Opersteny: Stumble, that's right.
Ms. Kelly: But I don't remember. He was big, and that's all I know, but they
lived there as protection because we had... it wasn't the students
that were breaking in; it was people coming from the outside. I
guess at that time College Station didn't have a police force.
Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Calliham:
Ms. Kelly:
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Well, there was no College Station.
There was no College Station until '38. And it had one policeman.
Okay, then this was prior to that, and I know in the storeroom, they
had a little kitchen in the store anyway. Then they had built this
room and there were two, typical, dormitory bunk beds in there.
And those boys stayed there as night watchmen, I guess.
Ms. Calliham: Do you remember any particular problems that the merchants at
Northgate, or had as a group?
Ms. Kelly: I can't remember.
Ms. Calliham: Not really?
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Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Kelly: When I worked on campus-
Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Kelly:
Ms. Calliham:
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But you asked earlier, both of us about depression. Alright, the
faculty and Profs., of course the state of Texas was broke too. So,
they gave them a voucher.
They had numbers, it wasn't good 'til that number came up. So
what the Bryan banks did do, I don't know whether they charged
them or not, but they could leave that voucher there and they'd
advance them some money. And when that voucher came due, that
number came due and they got the money, well then they'd give
them the rest of the money. But they would help the Profs. and the
faculty members by advancing them some money.
Ms. Calliham: So, when they got paid by the state, sometimes the money wasn't
there, and they had to wait.
Mr. Zubik: Well, it wasn't there for a couple of months.
I went to work in 1942. On campus. I'm sure it was four years
before we could say that it wasn't delayed payment on it. But the
Bryan banks honored those.
So, that had to have helped.
Well, then, after that, by that time, the war was over and the
students were coming and things seemed to be a little better.
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Ms. Calliham: You had something you wanted to say.
Mrs. Opensteny: Yes, I wanted to tell you something that your mother told me last
week. Incidentally, she is still living and she could help a lot.
Anyway, she was telling me about an Easter egg hunt-
(inaudible)
Ms. Kelly: Luke and Charlie sponsored an Easter egg hunt.
Mrs. Opensteny: Charlie, my husband was just a baby at the time. And she was
given, I think, two crates of eggs that she had to dye. She was
telling me the difficulty that she had.
Ms. Calliham: Who was the Easter Egg hunt for?
Ms. Kelly: For the children of the professors. And it was held on campus.
Mr. Zubik: Well, isn't it now where the pool, where the golf club is now.
Ms. Kelly: Well, back in that area where the road, I don't know how the road
goes now. It used to go around Kyle Field, and then to where the
project houses used to be. Back in there, and there was a park-
Mr. Zubik: Well, was it called - not Hensel park, College park, wasn't it called?
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Ms. Kelly: Well, I don't know, but I can remember she and Mrs. Patronella
doing three or four cases of eggs - dying them.
Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Calliham: Is that like Dexter park, or Bryson park?
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See, that College park was really the first housing project that
people could kind of buy and own their own homes, remember? And
it had a little water pond, or something down through there. It would
be across from that Clayton, William J. Clayton-
(inaudible)
Ms. Kelly: It was on campus.
Ms. Calliham: That was a part of campus?
Mr. Zubik: Bryson park, I believe you are correct.
Ms. Calliham: It's changed, then.
(Unidentified): Yeah, there's no lake there anymore.
Ms. Calliham: Yeah, that's true.
Mr. Zubik: Well, that was called College Park, and I think Herschel Burgess
and Bill Sparks did the subdivision. Mrs. Burgess is still living.
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Ms. Kelly: No, no, but this one was on campus, when they had the Easter Egg
hunt, it was on campus.
Mr. Zubik: It was on campus.
(Unidentified): She said it was on, I think, Easter Saturday, and it was for the
students and maybe the children and the professor's wives, and the
professor's children.
Ms. Kelly: I don't remember how many crates she said she would have.
(Unidentified): Oh yeah, she has a colander that's about like this and she'd put the
eggs in and boil them. And then while the next batch is boiling,
she's dying these eggs.
Ms. Calliham: I can't imagine doing four crates of eggs. Do you all have anything
else that you would like to add to this?
Mr. Opersteny:
Mr. Zubik:
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Of course, as a child, and being down at the store I used to get
quite a thrill out of the Corp with their campaign hats and also their
cannons marching in front of the store. Pulling them in front of the
store and going down to the, I guess the area of Hensel park, to
have their little maneuvers, or whatever, at that particular time. So,
don't know how old I was; 4 or 5; 6 years of age.
The students that was in the calvary, y'know, they used to come by,
riding their horses. Had a certain way to get on and off of those
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saddles. And they performed mostly where. ..well, it's a parking lot
there I guess. You know that area further down? Well, I think they
play polo down in there now, in that area now. The Calvary there,
had those horses.
Ms. Calliham: Kind of like seeing a parade every day when the students-
Mr. Opersteny: Well, it was a big thrill for me as a child. Of course, at that time,
they all wore the campaign hat. The patches were on the pocket.
Mr. Zubik: We had to cross - stitch those on.
Mr. Opersteny:
Ms. Calliham: Was the train, when I remember it, was there still a hump you drove
over to get over?
Mr. Opersteny: Yes.
Mr. Zubik: Where the underpass was.
Mr. Opersteny: But that's the main track. This was the spur.
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Now, of course, they're all shoulder patches. And I mentioned
earlier, of course, I don't know how old I was about the train, when it
jumped the track, or derailed. Of course, it really got stuck down in
(inaudible). It was there for several days. Hopefully, I can look
through some of the pictures that maybe my mother has, or either
we have, of my standing by it.
Ms. Calliham: And where did the spur go?
Mr. Opersteny: Well, it went to the power plant. They had to have coal.
Ms. Kelly: It came behind those dormitories and what was known as the Triple
A building. Was right here, and the main railroad was there. And it
came, this would be Sulfur Road, where this track came right along
the way-
Ms. Calliham: And it came down beside the road, or along the road?
Mr. Opersteny:
Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Kelly:
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Well, right there, you see, it was a spur, so as my sister pointed, it
ran behind the old Triple A building, then came up Sulfur Road for a
little ways, and then curved in behind the post office.
Ms. Calliham: And I think that was still in that parking lot, or it may still be in that
parking lot, parts of that, or did they-
The post office, the Northgate post office is built a little bit, they left
room for that train to come by. It's set back a little bit off the side of
that road. But see, there were houses there, and that little old spur
came right in front of those houses. Pecan trees and houses all
along there. Profs. lived there.
One other thing that we didn't bring up. There were boarding
houses. Over the Sparks - Casey Pharmacy. Mrs. Wright had a
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boarding house. I don't know whether the boys had rooms
somewhere, but they ate their meals with these people. Mrs.
Parkhill was another one that had a boarding house.
Mr. Zubik: Mrs. Siegert, you remember.
Ms. Kelly: Anna Siegert had a boarding house where she fed them. Now Mrs.
Siegert also had rooms.
Ms. Calliham: I wonder which students ate at a boarding house and which
students ate on campus? Or what made the difference?
Ms. Kelly: I don't know. And this was prior to World War II. I know when my
husband was there, he had to eat on campus. When he first went.
They marched to meals.
Ms. Kelly:
Mr. Zubik:
Ms. Kelly:
Mr. Zubik:
Mr. Zubik: Well, she still had that thing there when we moved there in 1929,
upstairs.
But that was prior to World War II.
Prior to World War II, that's right.
But I know a Mrs. Wright had it, and Ms. Parkhill had one.
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And Sergeant Siegert's wife, but he was on the campus though.
Ms. Siegert was a Boyett.
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Ms. Kelly: Well, her first husband was a Boyett.
Mr. Zubik: Well, she was kin to the Boyett's.
Ms. Calliham: You all pronounce it "Boyt." Don't they call it "Boyett ?" But I
remember it being called "Boyt."
Ms. Kelly: They say Boyett now?
Ms. Calliham: I think.
Mr. Opersteny: I think you're right.
Ms. Calliham: But it probably really is Boyett.
Mr. Opersteny: Then... everyone... because Mr. Zubik been around, and we all
Mr. Zubik:
Mr. Opersteny: It was an old humble service station.
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referred to them as the Boyts.
And, see, if you remember way back there on the corner of
Wellborn Road and that Sulfur Road, there was what they called
Boyett's Corner. There was a guy, Alton Boyett, that had a service
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Mr. Zubik: That's the way you came in from Bryan, you had to come in that
way.
Mr. Opersteny: That was the old Highway 6.
Ms. Calliham: Wellborn Road now.
Ms. Kelly: I think in that position is where the Boyett grocery store was, and
that' when paddy worked before he and Luke opened their store-
Mr. Zubik: ... Boyett and somebody else worked there. A Kinby, Kinby-
Ms. Calliham: Okay, Kinby had a store in Bryan too.
Mr. Zubik: Yeah, but they first started working in that little store there -
Ms. Kelly: On campus.
Mr. Zubik: On campus, right across from the exchange store. But see, then
they closed it and went.
Mr. Opersteny:
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(inaudible)
Another thing, of course, talking about my dad's grocery store, when
they moved the building back, of course, every summer I worked in
the store, so when they moved the store to the back, I told my dad
that I didn't want to work in the store that summer. So, he got me a
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job building the present store. I laugh because of the work ethic at
that time compared to now. I remember, of course, we would build
the forms, and then they would pour the concrete. My job is, of
course, peon, was to take the forms and tear them apart. And you
reuse that (inaudible) lumber again, and we would put it up on the
roof, and I remember-
Mr. Zubik: Well, did your uncle build that store? Martinsen?
Mr. Opersteny: No.
Mr. Zubik: He didn't do it?
Mr. Opersteny: No, I don't think it was him.
Ms. Kelly: I don't think so. I don't know who the contractor was.
Mr. Opersteny: But anyway, I was up on the roof, nailing some of those boards
down, and I had put one down and nailed it and of course, the
foreman said,
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Mr. Zubik: J.B. Lauterstein
Ms. Kelly: Lauderstein. I thought it was Vaseline.
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is. You'll, this will probably stimulate
your memories and you'll probably think of all sorts of stories you
wish you had told us. And if you think of some other things you'd
like us to know, well, we'd love to-
Ms. Kelly: I'm going to ask Mr. Zubik. What was the man's name that had the
cleaners next door to the Holik's? It started with a-
Mr. Opersteny: No, no, Lauderstein. And he always had a cigar in his mouth -
Ms. Calliham: Just chewed.
Mr. Opersteny: He always chewed a cigar.
Ms. Kelly: I asked Mother the other day, and she couldn't remember-
Mr. Zubik: J.B. Lauderstein, he's dead, and his wife is dead, but his daughter
lives in San Antonio somewhere. But they sold those buildings, I
think.
Ms. Calliham: Well, I need to get, Mary Lou, I need to get you and Charles both, to
fill out one of-
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claims, demands, and causes of action of every kind and character, including the cost of defense
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parties hereto, and any loss of or damage to property, whether the same be that either of the parties
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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,
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parties hereto, and any loss of or damage to property, whether the same be that either of the parties
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