HomeMy WebLinkAboutSouth Side Panel Group 10SouthSide Memory Lane
March 24, 1995
Moderator: Naomi Shannon
Transcriptionist: Kym Rucker
Interview Group: Will Worley
Kitty Worley
Carl Landiss
Georgia Belle Landiss
Francis Badgett
Carl - Well, when I first came down and joined the faculty
at the A &M College of Texas and Georgia Belle, we came from
Kansas City, Missouri and she and our daughter stayed in
Kansas City because there was no place to live and I had my
name on every housing list that there was. But somewhat
later we got a house at 301 Fairview. It was a duplex we
lived down stairs you tell them about it, Georgia Belle
Georgia - 301 Fairview, we had the first home it was a
duplex and later after we lived there a while the Nelson
Dursts moved in. They were newly weds. And they moved in
upstairs in the duplex.
Naomi -Did you have nice neighbors
Georgia - Oh yes we had lovely neighbors. Fairview extended
from A &M College to Park Place. And Colonel Andy who was
the track coach had moved an old house off the campus and
they were way down on Fairview. And when we looked south
and we could see people riding bicycles going up to the
College or South Side shopping center. There were no
sidewalks, there were no street lights. Looking from the A &M
College South we could see people riding bicycles and, of
course, as you know tires were rationed, gasoline was
rationed and people rode bicycles. So when they rode the
bicycles of course, they were riding in the street. People
walked in the street and the cars coming from A &M and from
South Side would come around the corner and would turn east
on Jersey Street. The people living there were the Dowells,
the Stewart Morgans, the McGuires, the Welcome Wrights, and
the Beatty's. Joyce Patranella had a cocker spaniel that
took a nap in the middle of Jersey Street every afternoon.
I guess he liked the feel of that asphalt you know. Because
people just went around him, he slept on. Then on Fairview,
our neighbors were the W.E.G Felts, the Bill Moores, the
Frank Coulters, the Harrison Hierths, The Sam Clealands, the
Johnny Rogers. But it was interesting to know that the
Marion Pughs had a little Fox Terrier and that little fox
terrier had a litter of dogs. Helen gave one to Carolyn,
one to Ann Copeland and one to Rosemary Lenert. And so they
formed a club called the CAR Club. C stood for Carolyn,
Ann, Rosie and they had just a real good time with those
dogs. Across the street from us lived the John Rogers, and
they had Lucy Jean, Becky Jo and Shirley. Shirley was the
youngest and she'd come across the street and she'd say, "Is
Lucy Jean here" and of course she was out playing in the
back yard. "Well, is Becky Jo here, well I want a drink of
water." And she'd get her drink of water and she'd go
outside and play. That occurred almost every day. Then the
little Dowell girl, Susan, was a pre - schooler and her mother
would put her down for a nap in the afternoon so she would
take a nap. But before mama woke up, Susan would wake up
and she would stick her nose against the screen, you know
nothing was air conditioned, she'd stick her nose against
the screen and she'd call "Belle, Belle and so I would let
her in. There was an elderly couple, they were the mom and
dad of one of the professors at A &M. They lived in as
little house between the Dowells and the Stiles. Of course,
the Stiles had a little girl named Sue. But Mrs. Bill Hymer
had a portable organ and she would bring it out on the front
porch and play for the kids and they would put on a show for
everybody. They'd sell tickets and all that kind of stuff.
And one of the main things they played was at weddings.
They always had weddings and it ended up that Ann Flemming
was the bridal consultant at Neiman Marcus and she was the
bridal consultant at Carolyn's wedding and then she was
married the next weekend. I guess all that training helped.
Naomi - Will, when did you all move here?
Will - Well the last time was in 1955. And I am an Aggie, I
came here in 1939 and went into the service and came back,
we lived at College View. But in 1955 we moved out on the
last lot on Dexter Street right at the top of the hill just
before you get to the county road which is now Holleman
Drive. Our main experience had been associated with the
Billy Goat Bridge Park now known as Brison Park. At the
time we moved, there was a vacant lot or two and you could
see the remains of a green. There was a nine hole golf
course out there built back in '30's. And Carl tells me
that there was a green behind their home and they can tell
the evidence of it from the cinder block and the sand. Then
over on Park Place where Raymond Roger's house was built,
the #2 green. This is what Bill Lancaster tells me. But my
wife has experience with Billy Goat Bridge. Sorry she's not
here yet, but she had a Brownie Troop and the Brownies
become Girl Scouts as they fly up. They cross a bridge to
do this, so on the far side of Billy Goat Bridge they set up
their picnic and this sort of thing. And then all the
little brownies were allowed to go across the bridge where
they flew up and became Girl Scouts. Shortly after that,
some boys on bicycles crossed the bridge so they became girl
scouts too.
Carl - Billy Goat Bridge, Billy Goat Gruff Bridge was quite
a thing with all the kids. Cause you had the nursery rhyme
about the trolls and little kids believe it. They crossed
that bridge carefully.
Georgia Belle - I remember Ann Copeland was spending the
night with Carolyn. Well in fact, we were keeping her while
Mr. and Mrs. Copeland and at that time Mr. Copeland was with
the College of Engineering. Anyway, they had gone on a
trip and left Ann with us and she had to try to ride her
bicycle across Billy Goat Bridge and fell on into the ravine
and broke her arm. Well, you know the responsibility of
keeping somebody else's kid and having to take them to the
doctor to get their arm set. You hated to tell the parents
about it. But Billy Goat Bridge was always great. And when
the City made that Brison Park, some of the kids fixed a
sign and where it had Brison they made a big old bridge sign
you know the kids did and put it up there "Billy Goat
Bridge." But anyway, the parks department removed the sign
the kids put there much to the disappointment of many.
Carl - Georgia Belle mentioned Mr Copeland. He worked the
F &B Dairy which was A &M's feeding and breeding dairy where
they have the big old water tank there on Finfeather Road at
that intersection. The dairy was back over just behind it
and they had a herd of registered Jersey cows, of course
they were all expecting, but then they sold the milk.
That's the milk we took. They had a dairy truck and they
would deliver milk to the homes in glass bottles.
Registered dairy cows milk had cream that would be 2/3 of
the way down to the bottom. And then we thought you
couldn't get too rich a cream, you know you could whip the
top of it, it was whipping cream. But then that's the law
where you couldn't deliver unpasteurized milk in the city
limits. So that did away with that. But we had a hard time
getting used to the milk that came from a regular dairy.
Naomi - What kind of business do you remember being in the
South Side then? Were there businesses there?
Georgia Belle - South Side Grocery Store was the store
runned by Ray Oden and I remember when we first got here, I
went in to get some groceries and I wrote a check. He
didn't check that check at all. He didn't ask me any
questiones are anything, he just took it. Things were
different in those days. And then of course Mr. Madeley was
next door with his drug store where he had a soda fountain
and places where you could sit and eat sandwhiches and
drinks and sundaes. And on the left he had the magazines
and the comic books where the kids would sit down and read
them all. Also there was a stairway as you went between the
two stores upstairs and thats where the city offices were.
Phil Goode occupied one of the offices, he was a lawyer and
he had an office up there, but the city offices were above
the stores and of course a little further on was the Masonic
Lodge. Dr. Cathcart, a dentist, had his office there also.
Will - Yea, the Masonic Lodge was the old Griesser
Electric Company was there before the lodge bought it. Do
you remember that?
Carl - Yea, before the lodge bought it was a business
shop.
Will - Shoe
Carl - And an electric repair shop.
Will - And of course Lyles Cleaning and Pressing was in
there.
Georgia Belle - Yes
Will - And before thay got to buy the lodge, the Sul Ross
Lodge #1300 which was formed by Gibb Gilchrist, our
Chancellor, and so the lodge was on the top floor of the old
American Legion which was two stories plus an attic. And it
was in the attic. Now then in the Masonic Lodges, the
Master has to be up three steps. But if you did this and
had a regular step, you'd be hitting the ceiling with your
head and also he wore a hat. So what they had to do was
take some plywood, about one half inch plywood, and make
those three steps so you wouldn't hit the ceiling. I like
another story about Gibb Gilchrist the chancellor is that
when we moved there, one of the roads was named Taurus. And
the reason it was named Taurus is back in the 30's, Jack
Kemp who was a Mathematic professor in the math department,
would come out to Dexter which is the highest point and
observe meteors. Well, when we moved there the Gilchrists
had moved on to the corner of Dexter and what was then
Taurus. Well, he didn't like the name Taurus, and so he
came around and asked for us to sign a petition and change
the name to Winding Road which would then extend to where
Winding Road was. But, one of the reasons he did this was
Dr. Clark, I think had named the street. Dr. Clark was one
of the earlier developers of what we're talking about here.
During World War II the lake was there, but it felt like it
was causing a lot of mosquitos. Clark, of course, had built
the lake I guess but, Gibb Gilchrist had the dam destroyed
and the lake drained. Now this made Dr. Clark mad, he was
the head of the economics department of the College of
Agriculture, so he tried to get Dean Gilchrist fired as
chancellor but as it turned out he lost his job himself.
And it was in the papers at the time.
Carl - I went to a hearing over in Austin about that. Of
course, we were supporting Gibb Gilchrist the people that I
went with. But anyway there was a hearing in the state
senate.
Will - Because Herchel Burgess was developing Oakwood and
Clark, the other, there was a lot of animosity between the
two. And one of the reasons that Suffolk goes the way it
does, was because they needed to get an outlet to Jersey
which is now George Bush Drive.
Carl - Another thing that might be of interest, this
doesn't tie in with anything else except the early
developement of that area out there we have on Dexter Drive.
When we built the house we started in 1950, we had to have a
septic tank. We didn't have a sewer line to connect to so
we built a septic tank.
Will - When did they build the bridge across the creek
there?
Carl - It was in the early spring of 1950, because we had
looked at those two lots down there. And Georgia Belle said
but Dexter Drive stops at the creek, there wasn't a culvert.
and Georgia Belle said if they ever open up this street and
I think we had 2 lots right down there. Well, shortly
thereafter they opened it up, put in a culvert and we had a
road, a gravel road. So we bought those two lots.
Will - They extended Dexter.
Carl - Yes, they extended Dexter
Will - Because in 1955 when we moved there we still had a
septic tank. It was just about that time when they bypassed
the septic tank because they did connect us to the sewage
lines of the city. Of course, it was a black top road then,
and a few years after that they did curb and gutter it and
we got a paved street.
Naomi - Well, where did you shop then? Were there places
to shop out here, or did you have to go to Bryan?
Georgia Belle - We went to Bryan, we went to Lester's in
Bryan, we went to Edges in Bryan. Of coure we had a grocery
store out here. We had a drug store out here. But we went
into Bryan to do our main shopping if you didn't go to
Houston. You'd go to Foley's in downtown Houston, you'd
always see at least five people from College Station before
you got out. There really wasn't anything out here.
Will - Or a supermarket. We went into Weingarten's which
is no longer there where Wyatt's is no longer there either.
But there's where the main market was. Of course, you had
May's Supermarket over on the corner of Texas Avenue and
University Drive.
Georgia Belle - Oh, we had Charlie's over at the North
Gate. They would always deliver your groceries. You'd call
on the phone and tell them what you wanted. Of course,
Hershey bars and bubble gum were very much a premium.
Usually the regular customer, when they got a box of
Hersey's, they would kind of put them out among the families
that they knew had kids.
Will - Who owned South Side Market then?
Georgia Belle - At that time, Ray Oden, and he was
followed by Mr. Reass.
Carl - There was a grocery store, the Oden Grocery store,
and the stairs went through to the second floor Madeley's
Drug Store, and then the barbershop. A one barber,
barbershop.
Georgia Belle - And then the cleaners.
Naomi - Well, did they run a trolly or a bus to Bryan
then?
Georgia Belle - The trolly had stopped running when we
came in 1943. They did run busses to bring workers from
Bryan to work in the homes of the people there and we had a
bus that stopped right at the corner of Park Place and
Dexter. Which made it very convenient for us to get help
when they would come out on that bus. They'd usually get
there shortly after 8 in the morning and they would leave
around 2 in the afternoon. Then they discontinued that so
that made it difficult to get help in the afternoon.
Naomi - Who did you buy your land from, who was developing
out there?
Georgia Belle - Dr. Clark
Carl - Dr. Clark, of course, developed that area out
there. But when you came down Dexter Drive and when you got
to the creek the people who lived right to the left side
were the Frankies. Her brother had bought those two lots
across, so we actually bought those two lots that we had
from her brother that lived out in Odessa. The Frankies
moved away so her brother no longer had a need for those
lots.
Will - This map of 1939 shows there were no homes on the
far side of Park Place and that was Hrdlika's property.
Then, up here was David Dobrovolny where the Anderson Park
is now and we came here in '55. The only house on that side
was the Dobrovolny's house up there where Anderson park is
now.
Naomi - Who was the person responsible for the construction
and design of your house when you built it?
Georgia Belle - We bought the materials from Marion Pugh
Lumber company. It was over on Welborn Road and I guess
Jersey went over the rail road tracks. Lets see, the people
who built the house. Who was that?
Carl - Mr. R.C. Cloud and Son. When we bulit our house in
1950, our back fence was the city limits. There were
cattle, there was the Swartz Farm back there, a working
farm. He let us fence off little space to keep a horse for
our daughter to ride. And she'd ride all over. Later on,
there wasn't anything that could keep her from riding. Just
a gravel road so she had a good place to ride.
Naomi - Why were your steets named Dexter and Park Place?
Carl - Well, Dexter was already name when we moved in, it
came down to the creek. That's where it stopped.
Will - Well is Dexter a cow? I heard it was a cow.
Kitty - All of College Park was named for cattle.
Naomi - College Park?
Carl - That's the area on the west side of the lake.
Georgia Belle - When we first came here, Dexter had some
gorgeous trees in the middle of the street. They didn't
want to cut those trees down and they just made the street
go around them. As traffic got heavier and heavier, then of
course the trees died and they had to take them out.
Kitty - They still had trees on Lee when we came.
Carl - They did?
Georgia Belle - Dexter was a very pretty winding street.
The reason it wound like it did was because of the trees.
Carl - There were some trees right in front of the
Lancaster house.
Georgia Belle - The Jack Miller's. Jack Miller lived
there and that was the end of the line of Dexter.
Naomi - Kitty, do you have some early memories of College
Station?
Kitty - Well, we came in '55, 1955, so it's not so early.
But since they were talking about Billy Goat's Bridge. I
wrote down that I taught the second grade from 1955 to 1962.
And I had Barbara, one semester there when I closed out
school seven times and that would mean seven pictures now.
Now, we took the children to Billy Goat Bridge, we took them
to the Kling's, you know where the Kling's live there on
Pershing. We took them to the other side of county road all
the way back to that pasture, nobody would walk those
children that far any more, they're not used to it. Where
did you go on picnics, Georgia Belle in the spring?
Georgia Belle - We went to the Grove on A &M campus and if
it rained we'd have picnics under the stadium. There wasn't
anything built under the stadium at that time.
Will - That's a long walk.
Kitty - Well, I don't think that it's any further than
going on the other side of Hollemann. But we stopped at the
place where the Owens lived on Park Place. You know its one
of those that has a historical marker. We stopped there and
did stories there and had water. Naomi, you must have taken
yours for a long walk. When did you start teaching in that
school?
Naomi - About '62.
Kitty - Oh and then one other story I think Gracie wanted us
to tell. Did you already tell it about the Girl Scouts?
Will - About the Girl Scouts flying up? Yes, I did.
Kitty - Well, we don't.
Will - That was Brownies, was Callihan in there then?
Kitty - No, that was Barbara's group.
Will - No, that was Barbara.
Kitty - We came for Peggy Callihan when she was in the
fourth grade. And they were doing it in the fourth grade.
That would have been '55. And the little Workman girl-- -
immediately Kathleen came to see me. I don't think we'd been
in this town 20 hours when Kathleen came and asked me about
the girl scout troop. Oh, and Caroline Mitchell's choir...
It was wonderful! So maybe they can go and interview
Caroline. Sometime's it is good, and sometimes it isn't.
Naomi - Where did you do your shopping? Did you shop at the
little grocery store down here?
Kitty - You mean the one that used to be here by the school?
Holick's..
Frances - It was Holick's store, and they had snack food,
but it was good enough to get by on. We moved into our
house on Halloween night in 1956. So, it was great.
Naomi - So, where was Holick's store?
Kitty - It was below the school here, at the corner of
Jersey and Holick.
Naomi - Oh, really.
Kitty - Don't you remember right on the .. It was just a
little barn of a building. Who was your close friend? Vera
Dowell, the counselor. She always called that Holick's
store and she aways kept candy when she counseled. That was
in like '62, right in the 60's. But she used that
building... Did you tell them where we shopped?
Will - Yeah, We talked about shopping some.
Kitty - At the May's grocery store. This was when we were
here in '47. In all the way downtown.
Naomi - When you were going to eat lunch, and if you were
going to eat out, where would you go? Or, was there a place
to go out?
Kitty - Where did we eat out..
Georgia Belle - We ate at the A &M cafeteria - Sbisa Dining
Hall.
Will - Sometimes we would eat at the. .
Georgia Belle - Hotards cafeteria
Will - Yeah, but before
- And good food too
Will - Yes
Kitty - Yes and good food. All the way down in Bryan, Later
they moved.
- No, it was Townshire area.
Will - Well
Kitty - At that time it was. Remember before Townshire?
Will - You see, Hotard was in charge of the food service.
Kitty - At A &M and we...
Will - The only place to eat out here was at A &M.
Kitty - But the Landisses wouldn't eat at the White Way Cafe
Will - Oh, no
Carl - I was fixin' to say that was the old Aggieland Inn,
but also there was the boarding house right behind the
grocery store, run by a family. One daughter married Tom
Cherry who was the vice president at A &M for a while for
financial affairs and he retired, of course, a long time
ago.
Will - What was his name, do you remember?
Francis - St. Clair.
Will - St. Clair.
Kitty - Did you ever go there to the boarding house?
Francis - Big white house. Hrdlicka store.
Will - Yeah, that was down on the Wellborn road.
Kitty - And they served family style, and of course the food
was very good. Mrs. St. Clair moved her boarding house from
the North Gate to the Oden home on Montclair after Mr. Oden
sold the SouthSide grocery store to Mr. Reasso.
Francis- An old Aggie asked me not long ago if it was still
in business and I told him it was there, but a different
business.
Naomi - Is it still there, the building?
Francis- I don't know if it there or not.
Will - I don't know the name. Of course, she was Mrs. Jack
Fugate, and they owned a print shop at South Side.
Francis - Well, it used to be a beer joint.
Will - You'd go down to Uncle Ed's and drink your troubles
away. That's when you got stood up by your date or
something. Well also, do you remember the BlueTop Courts on
Highway 6 and Texas Avenue. And that building is still there
where there was a restaurant. It was right next to Black's
Pharmacy where it was just north of what is now the Texaco
service station. And I was a freshman and I was a room
orderly for my company commander who was a senior. I cleaned
his room up my entire freshman year and as a reward he and
his roomate would take me to the BlueTop courts, where they
bought my dinner. Hundreds of hours of work. It so happens
he's here this weekend at the Sul Ross Class Reunion, fifty
five years since he's graduated. This weekend I want to go
over and see if I can find him.
Frances - Did you say you ate at that Blue Top Cafe place?
I do remember that Nan Ingram's parents owned the Blue Top
Courts. I didn't remember about the restaurant.
Will - I know, I ate there.
Frances - You probably didn't eat out your children were
still little.
Carl - We didn't eat out very much.
Georgia Belle - Nobody ate out then.
Kitty - I certainly didn't eat out when I was growing up.
Will - This is in the Aggieland Inn.
Carl - Yea, we ate there.
Will - Right across from the Sbisa, they had rooms and a
good place to eat.
Georgia Belle - Oh, and we had a receptions. We'd go to
Sbisa and we'd have oatmeal cookies about the size of a
saucer, and orange kool -ade. But when we had faculty
dinners, they'd serve us steaks. The whole faculty would go
to Christmas dinner, and they'd serve us steaks. And bring
'em out . . . When did you come?
Carl - The spring semester of '43.
Frances - That was during World War II.
Georgia Belle - Yes, early in the 1940's, the World War II
years. In fact, Consolidated School, at that time, all of
the classrooms everything was bordered on the north side by
Jersey street, west by Timber street, Anna street down and
Holik. And first through 12th grade was there and recently
they had moved off the A &M campus in 1940. Everything was
very new was very nice, I thought, but all of the men went
to war. So the women did the teaching and we had Mr. W.D.
Bunting as the superintendent, and he had a helper Dean Beal
from Wellborn. Every time the school was open for any
reason, those two men were there and they'd stay until they
closed. They really had a lot of responsibility. And the
mother's and dad's club did a great deal for the school
because we didn't have anything to tax in those days. There
just wasn't any money. And the mother's and dad's club
would have a community supper, once a year. And of course
everybody brought food and everybody paid to go eat it. But
anyway, it did raise funds and a lot of money to buy things
for the school that they wouldn't have had otherwise. And
then on weekends the dads would come up and build sidewalks
and do repairs, anything they couldn't afford to pay to have
done, it was really a community school. The business men and
the mother's and dad's club really supported the schools.
Kitty - When I came in '55, Frank Coulter had organized the
people to paint it and I had some say in what colors. I
had, but Frank also had to approve I had bright orange, and
bright green and yellow. Yellow is my favorite color. And
I think those school classrooms there right behind what is
now the one on the corner of Timber and George Bush. I had
the first classroom facing Timber and that was the most
wonderful classroom - your classroom was a little different,
wasn't it? Yours didn't have toilets in it?
Georgia Belle - Oh, yes, each room had a bathroom.
Kitty - Yours had a toilet. Then you were in the classroom.
Georgia Belle - All those buildings, each one of those
buildings had places for their coats, places for their
things, there was a ledge under the windows with drawers in
them. There were closets for teachers to have things.
Kitty - Best rooms I ever had.
Georgia Belle - And then the restrooms were back there, it
really was the most conducive to teaching of any place I've
ever taught.
Kitty - That's right. You could do all your water coloring
right there under those windows. Well, Frances, you ought
to tell us something about moving into your neighborhood.
Frances - Well, the Gays built the first house in that
neighborhood, then the house next to it. We moved in there
on Halloween night and my husband designed our house. He
was an architect engineer. It also made the Architectural
Forum, a national magazine. It was selected as one of the
500 small houses, 2 bedroom houses, so we had a lot of
publicity on that house. It was a lot of fun, of course we
sold a few plans at five dollars a plan and we thought that
was a lot of money. And every time we felt like we were
broke, here would come another check for another plan, so we
felt very fortunate. And then John Benny built the house
next door to us. He sold it; it's changed hands many times.
Louise and Nat Edmundson, he worked in the math department,
and I think he's still living somewhere, they left during
war time. And then, of course, we were gone for six years
during war time.
Naomi - Where did you all build your house?
Frances - 208 Pershing. Now, I thought Oakwood Addition was
named for generals.
Kitty - I didn't know Suffolk was a General. I'll have to
look him up.
Naomi - Do you remember who you bought you land from?
Frances - Yes, Hershell Burgess and Mr. Angel and Bill
Sparks were the owners of the land. They opened up the
addition. None of those gentlemen are living any longer.
Hershell, of course Ethal still lives in the house on Lee,
his widow, and the Sparks' was the two story house across
the street, right on the corner, and then across the street
was the Angel building, a small ranch type house. I don't
know, a lot of hands changed that building.
Kitty - In the Angel house now is the Rodney Hill family.
He is the architect that did the carved doors in the MSC.
And then next door to the Angels were the Boltons.
Frances - Yes, Dr. Bolton. And then that two story one on
the other side of it was Bonners. And the Gabbards were
next door.
Kitty - Gabbard was in there when we came.
Frances - And I don't know if any of ya °11 remember Alvin
Zeller? Alvin Zeller was a bachelor. His hobby was
miniature railroads and he had the whole attic full of
miniature trains, and every Sunday he would open it up to
the neighborhood kids and they would enjoy running the
trains, and if he had a wreck, he would be dismissed from
that. He couldn't run it anymore.
Kitty - He was a bachelor.
Frances - That's right
Kitty - He used to walk all the time with Dr. Klipple.
Frances - Yes, they were very, very good friends.
Kitty - Klipple must have built in there early, or did he?
Frances - Well, they didn't build the house. I cannot think
of their name right now because as I said, we left for six
years and there were many changes that took place over that
period.
Naomi - What other types of activities were there for your
children as they were growing up?
Frances - Going to the Grove, to the movies at Guion Hall,
and they were fifteen cents to get in or if you sacked the
popcorn you could get in free. During summer we had a lot
of plays and the local people would be in the plays at the
Grove. Did ya'll attend any of those?
Georgia Belle - Oh, yes. Alice Jean Butler was a soloist.
Frances - And our neighbor, Harry Gooding was a soloist, and
so we always enjoyed it because Harry would always have a
leading part, a singing part.
Kitty - How is Adelle, is she sick?
Frances - Oh, Adelle? Well, she's recovering. She's in
remission right now.
Kitty - Somebody might talk to her.
Francis - Our next door neighbor.
Naomi - Where did you all go to Church?
Frances - YMCA was the Presbyterian church and the Y had a
swimming pool down in the basement. Now, did you know that?
Georgia Belle - Did you ever swim in it?
Frances - No, I didn't because I'd be scared to.
- Do you remember the boys swimming in that pool?
Frances - Oh, yes.
- Because when I came here in '39, they had put a
bowling alley over that swimming pool.
Frances - They did?
- They had opened L.P. Pinky Downs natatorium by then.
Frances - Yeah, they had a swimming pool there, and then
Casey had a cold drink stand or something in the Y. They
always served the biggest milkshakes and ice cream things,
you know. Mr. Sullivan also was part owner of that. Mrs.
Sullivan, the one that is still living, you know?
Kitty - Right
Frances - And, let me see what else . . Oh, it was fun, it
was different. They also had on the campus what they called
Hollywood Shacks because they didn't have enough dorm space,
so they'd build these little houses and call them Hollywood
Shacks. They were heated with wood and the boys liked to
live in those even though they were not as comfortable or
convenient. But going back to the churches, the
Presbyterians, then the Baptists had a church, and The
Church of Christ.
- The Church of Christ had one with big white columns
out front, it was right across the street, north of the
Baptist church.
Frances - Oh, I see. I remember now. Then the
Presbyterians during war time met in the theater.
Kitty - Campus theater?
Frances - It was very good.
Kitty - In the campus theater?
Frances - I came home one weekend and attended church there.
Kitty - The Methodist church was at the Northgate.
Frances - Yes, they had the Northgate one.
Kitty - You forgot that church right there on the corner,
too.
Frances - That's the new one, the one there is a fairly new
one.
Frances - And St. Joseph, they built pretty soon, too. My
husband was influential in getting our Presbyterian church
an army chapel from Victoria, Texas. He and Mr. Anderson
bought it. We still worship in there, but we remodeled and
refinished it many times over and over again and it serves
well.
Kitty - It does
Catholic Church,
taken away, that
we came in '47,
Drive and Nagle.
. I'm surprised that they tore down the
you know the Catholic Church that had to be
it was a church, but still was there when
it was still on that corner of University
Remember that building?
Frances - Well, they wanted a new structure, a new one.
Kitty - But that other one almost looked like a mission, so
it looked like something that could have been a historic
landmark.
Frances - Well, the young people wanted something new you
know.
Kitty - Yes, I can understand that
Naomi - Was there any special entertainment, or special
interests that went on in this area? Festivals, or . . .
Frances - The Catholic Church had dances and weddings.
Parties were held in the YMCA building before the churches
were built.
Georgia Belle - People had entertainment at home. They
played board games, they played, what was that game where
you'd all try and get in the closet? Canned sardines, and
people had dinner parties. We loved dinner parties. And
Halloween was a lot of fun here, then. There usually wasn't
anything to be afraid of in those days. And people would
invite the kids in their houses and all that sort of thing.
So Halloween was quite an occasion in College Station. I
remember one year Dickie Birdwell put a prosthesis, it was
one of his daddy's wooden legs right at the opening of the
Dowell's garage, so that when people came around the corner
to turn on to Jersey Street, there was this leg. But of
course, they found out what it was, but it was kind of scary
to come around that corner and there was that leg in the
driveway or the garage.
Kitty - Even in the 50's, you had wonderful things for
Halloween.
Frances - In the 50's, we had Town Hall that brought in
musicals from out of town that traveled, and they were very
good. That's why a civic auditorium was built in Bryan, but
they didn't keep using it for very long. But, that's what
we had, then our children went to the movies and they were
swimming all the time in the Adamson pool. And so there
were plenty of activities for children.
Kitty - Everyone took swimming lessons.
Frances - They sure did.
Will - Art Adamson.
Georgia Belle - Oh, and I remember the children just
couldn't wait 'till they could stand up in the shallow end
of the pool, and their shoulders were out of the water,
'cause then they could take swimming lessons.
Will - I know this Sylvia, the youngsters in this part used
to take swimming lessons out in College Station. Sylvia was
out at the university gym's swimming pool.
Frances - Had their own campus.
Kitty - They drove.
Kitty - Fred, Fred always liked it when people moved because
then he went up there with some kind of sack and got all
kinds of belts out of the dorm or out of the trash when
they'd leave. he was in the second grade when we moved here
in '55. So I think when he was in fourth and fifth grade he
must have lived on that campus for what somebody might throw
away.
Will - He played ping pong?
Kitty - They played ping pong, yea. They did a lot there.
Will - Over in the MSC.
Kitty - I remember the Bill Moores had a Dalmation dog.
They lived at the corner where you turn from Jersey onto
Fairview. And at that time they had not built the additions
onto Kyle Field. And that dog jumped off the highest part
of that park of course everybody was surprised that it
didn't kill him. It kind of lamed him some. Anyway, that
was quite an occasion when the Dalmation jumped off the
stadium.
Will - Dalmation
Kitty - Before they had made the stadium so big.
Frances - Do any of ya'll remember the fish fir, I mean the
Billy Goat Bridge?
Will - Yea
Frances - Well, during that time Mrs. Scoates and Ms. Clark
decided, well, the health department decided to drain it and
they didn't want it to be drained so they go their chairs
and sat there and protested. That was our first sit in.
Kitty - (laughing) Sit In!
Frances - Yea, so they protested for a long time but they
didn't win. Then we had the fish pond that everybody used
to go and take picnics.
Kitty - That's where we'd go.
Frances - Did ya °11 ever go there for picnics?
Kitty - Fish Lake you mean?
Frances - Well, we called it Fish Pond.
Kitty - Well, maybe.
Frances - Where the fire department has their practicing,
that's where it used to be. And you'd go over there and
there would be couples, families all around that lake. We
had a lot of entertainment.
- There was a lot to do
Naomi - Where did you go for the doctors, where did you have
to go to get a doctor?
Kitty - Dr. Andre had a clinic on down from the Masonic
Lodge there was a filling station and then there was Dr.
Andre's clinic. It's now a drive -in grocery and a liquor
store.
Frances - A liquor store is there now.
Will - Liquor store.
Kitty - Yes, yes.
Will - Yes, over by that grocery store.
Kitty - There is now, but anyway, he had a clinic there and
he took in another doctor.
Frances - Dr. Holt was there.
Kitty - Yes, Dr. Holt.
Georgia Belle - And we had good doctors in Bryan, very good,
and two hospitals. Dr. T.O. Walton had a clinic across from
East Gate.
Frances - You had a bus too. I took the kids on the bus
lots of times. I remember the bus, don't you remember a
bus? I don't remember where it went, but where we went was
that Bryan Library.
Kitty - Oh yes, they had the children's hour.
- They had a trolley
Will - Well, in '47 why of T.O. Walton had a clinic right
across the at the East Gate and we were expecting our second
child and we were living in College View in '47. So Dr.
Walton was your doctor but you changed over to Dr. Holt.
Kitty - That's right.
Will - And he delivered Fred.
Kitty - Fred
Will - Yea
Kitty - And then I went back there again to have Barbara,
which was how many years later?
Will - '57, 1957.
Kitty - Dr. Holt was ready to go off and study radiology, so
I'd had to go to Dr. Smith.
Will - So there are no doctors here in College Station
really. Walton is closed, that's a problem.
Frances - What about that one off Holleman?
Will - All of that down there, but there's none around the
campus anymore.
Kitty - Right close like there used to be.
Will - That moved into big clinics.
Frances - That's right.
Georgia Belle - Well, it was very fashionable in those days
to have your appendix out. Who was the doctor that bought
all that land that we used to hunt on?
Carl - Old doc Marsh
Will - Dr. Marsh
Georgia Belle - It was Dr. Marsh, oh yea.
Carl - The campus physician
Georgia Belle - He invested his money in land out where the
racetrack is now.
Carl - Racetrack. In Turkey Creek.
Georgia Belle - Carl used to go down there and deer hunt.
He could go and get back for a nine o'clock class but
couldn't make an eight o'clock class.
Carl - Don't tell that story.
(LAUGHTER)
Carl - I retired.
Georgia Belle - Well that's all right, the head of the
department would hunt there also.
Carl - That was a wonderful place to deer hunt.
Naomi - Who were some of the old citizens then that were
colorful in the community?
Will - Screaming Al Nelson in the History department.
Frances - But, I'm reminded of that math teacher over there,
you know, Slide Rule somebody.
Carl - Square root Jackson
Kitty - Right
Will - Yea
Frances - Square Root Jackson, not slide rule?
Carl - Oh yea, Square Root Jackson was a professor in the
math department at A &M.
Will - he lived on Fairview
- What did they call Caroline Mitchell's father?
Frances - They called him Cokie. Did she know that?
Kitty - I think he'd ride a bicycle back and forth to A &M.
He rode that bicycle so slowly that I don't know how he ever
kept the peddles going. And then there was another guy,
that wasn't Square Root Jackson, that the kids thought that
he was a spy.
Will - Yea, that was him.
Kitty - Was that Square Root Jackson? Well yes, that was on
Fairview. Because the kids would look in his windows after
dark and it was really scary.
Will - Every one of 'em.
Kitty - Would go and peer in his windows and see all of this
electronic stuff that he had and they just knew that he was
a spy. That year they would just be scared to death of him.
Carl - Well he lived alone, I understand that he was dead a
couple of days before anyone discovered him.
Naomi - Well, what were your sources of support then? You
worked at the university and Georgia Belle taught. How did
you support yourselves?
Carl - That was the question I needed to hear. That was a
good question. I was at the University, department of
Health and Physical education, that's when I started -
during the spring semester of '43. I went into the navy
after the spring semester of '44.
Georgia Belle - I have to tell you about - I went up to the
school to apply for a job, Mr. Bunting was the
superintendent and he said well, he'd give me an application
to fill out, but they had their home economics teacher under
a three year contract because they were so hard to find. So
anyway, about the end of the summer I took the application
back and he invited me in and told me the job was mine. And
I said, "Well, I thought you had some home economics teacher
under a three year contract." He said "Well we did, but
since we had another home economics teacher available, we
let her go with her husband who was going to take a better
job at another place." But he hadn't bothered to call me
and tell me that I had the job.
Frances - You had to get ready in a hurry - didn't you?
Georgia Belle - Oh my goodness! But it was fun teaching home
economics there I tell you. It was all right. Oh, and I
also did the lunch room. I did the menus, saw that the
groceries were there when the salesman would come and I'd
give him the orders. Of course we got fresh things from the
Oden's and Luke's grocery. The worst thing that happened
that I know the kids would remember who were in school at
that time - We had the lunch room in the gymnasium and of
course at that time, to begin with we didn't have any
sidewalks to move the kids from these buildings down to the
lunchroom, so the first thing the Mother and Dad's club did
was made gravel walks and they found out that they couldn't
do that, so then they put in sidewalks. Well, one day we
all ate at the cafeteria and about what - 2:00 in the
afternoon people started getting sick. And I mean there
were people all over the yard who were ill. And they had
eaten at the cafeteria. It took a week to find out why they
were sick. And do you remember these can openers that
fastened onto the wall, and they would turn the little
handle and open the cans? Well they tested everything in
the kitchen. Everything they could think of and finally
they found that the little thing that goes down into the can
to cut had some bacteria on it and it was enough to make us
all sick. But I mean we were so sick we had to get home and
go to the doctor and all that sort of thing. Ask Knox
Walter, I know he has never forgotten it. The cafeteria
women were so clean and careful about the food, and they
could not figure anything in the world that could have
happened.
Frances - Well, people don't clean the can openers like they
should.
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City of College Station
Memory Lanes Oral History Project
Oral History Stage Sheet
Name
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Interview Place
Special sources of informatio
Date tape received in office
Original Photographs Yes
Describe Photos
Interview Agreement and tape dis • sal
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Date Signed 3 1 ' L'/ 9i
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Memory Lanes Oral History Project
Special sources of inform :lion
Date tape received in office ,s/.2,y/9r
Original Photographs Yes No
Describe Photos
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Memory Lanes Oral History Project
Oral History Stage Sheet
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