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Dennis Maloney
Mary Echels
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Dorothy Doty
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Dorothy Doty
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TRANSPORTATION
CITY OF COLLEGE STATION
Where did you go to school Ms. Eckels? Where did you go to
school and How did you get to school in College Station?
It was a small kindergarten up the street where Guion Hall - you all
don't know were Guion Hall was. But anyway, up there my
mother then taught me for the first and second grades. I stayed
home and then I went in to Bryan to school. We rode the street
cars in Bryan.
So your first school was on Campus?
On Campus
Yea, and Ms Doty?
I went the first four grades at A&M Consolidated, of course that
wasn't built `till about 1920 or `21.
1920. I think it opened in 1920.
Uh huh.
Somewhere around there, but I went to school the first four grades
at A &M Consolidated.
And since you lived on campus, you got to school by what means?
I walked.
You just walked across the street then?
No, I walked across campus.
OK, that's right, their was no streets.
No, well there were streets, but people didn't use transportation the
way they do now.
Uh huh.
And we just walked places. You didn't ride a bicycle. Most of the
kids didn't even have a bicycle.
Uh huh.
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And we just walked
And Mr. Brusse?
I was born in Brenham and, where did I go to school? I don't
remember the College Station school system.
OK. So nothing with College Station.
Nothing with College Station.
OK, all right, well how then we'll start with you, Mr. Brusse. How
then did you get around? And even in Brenham or any time you
came in to College Station or did your family ever come into
College Station?
Used to be the what is now the University Inter - scholastic league,
and we would come over here for field days when I was in school
over at the A& M Campus. And we would have to come by way of
Navasota and then up through Millican and Wellborn Road. The
Highway 6 wasn't in place at that time.
And what?
And this was in the `30's.
OK, by what means of transportation did you get to these areas?
Automobile, private automobile.
OK and Ms. Doty - How did you get around? How did your
family? I know you lived on campus and most of the activities
occurred on campus in town, but how did you get back and forth
to Bryan for instance, or when your family when shopping, or trips?
We just went once a week. People went on Saturdays to do their
shopping in town and visited people on the street and what have
you.
So is this Bryan?
In Bryan. There was nothing out here to buy groceries at all and
my grandmother went once a week also. She usually went on
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Fridays, but we went on Saturdays. So if she went late enough in
the day, or in summer I got to go twice that week.
Dennis Maloney And by what means of transportation?
Dorothy Doty Studebaker.
Dennis Maloney A Studebaker. One of my first cars. And what roads and how long
did it take you, for instance, to travel?
Dorothy Doty What we know as Wellborn Road today was Highway 6 at that
time.
Dennis Maloney Oh.
Dorothy Doty And that was before the new road was built in front of the
Administration Building.
Dennis Maloney What year might we be talking about?
Dorothy Doty That was built... it was in the '30's. We are talking about the 30's.
Dennis Maloney OK.
Dorothy Doty And it was built somewhere around 1939, '40. I don't do you
remember Ms. Echels?
Mary Echels No, I can't.
Dorothy Doty When the Administration Building was built, but I remember
Hobbs - there was nothing around it.
Dennis Moloney Uh huh.
Dorothy Doty There was nothing much across the street.
Dennis Moloney And Mrs. Echels, how did your family get around since you were
the senior resident?
Mary Echels We didn't. We used the street car. We didn't. You called in your
grocery, you called in your grocery order in the morning, and they
delivered it in the afternoon so you didn't have to go to market.
And my mother was crippled, I don't know she got around as well
as she did, because and we didn't have a horse or buggy or
anything and didn't have a car for a number of years.
Dennis Maloney So you relied on the trolley.
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Mary Echels On the trolley, yes.
Dennis Maloney What was that like? Could you tell us what was that like as a young
girl to ride the trolley?
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Mary Echels Well, the first.. .
Dennis Maloney About, of course, for instance how long it took.
Mary Echels Well, in the first place, you had to walk clear down to Snezal? Hall.
That's where you got on the trolley - sometimes it was on time,
sometimes it wasn't on time. And you... and we went into Bryan
to school along the trolley and then when we got in there, we
walked about three blocks to get to the school. So, we did a lot of
walking, first to get to the trolley and then to get to school. But,
we just called in ... My mother always called in the morning and
delivered the grocery in the afternoon.
Dennis Maloney Do any of you recall there being ... horses still being used as a
means of transportation?
Mary Echels Oh yea.
Dorothy Doty Oh yea.
Dennis Maloney Popular means of transportation?
Mary Echels Oh yea.
Dorothy Doty Oh yea.
Mary Echels People on our streets... I lived on what they called Quality Row.
On our street, there were people that had horses, but we never did.
Dennis Maloney And did you, Mr. Brusse, for instance, living out in Brenham... did
you have any experiences of anyone using a horse and Buggy for
instance, to get into town or by then the cars was much too popular
to come into College Station? Or do you recall the streets having
horses and Buggies?
Joe Brusse Oh yea.
Dennis Maloney Do you really. . .
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Joe Brusse Yea yea, I do. Well, all of the cotton was hauled to the gins in
wagons. We lived outside of Brenham, a little ways, right on the
outskirts now. And that was about the only way they had to get cotton
to the gin.
Dennis Maloney Team of Horses.
Joe Brusse Families that raised cotton, well they would haul their cotton to the
gin with teams of horses.
Dennis Maloney Wow.
Joe Brusse Very f e w trucks. We didn't have ... and we didn't use horses in my
live time, oh well, with in the bound of my memory we had a
car, I guess.
Dennis Maloney What... how do you remember what your first family car was and
how much it cost, and what a gallon of gasoline cost when you
were a young man?
Joe Brusse Well, when I was buying, it was about thirteen cents a gallon
Dennis Maloney Uh huh.
Joe Brusse And.. .
Dennis Maloney And a car.. .
Joe Brusse I had a 1928 Whippet.
Dennis Maloney A whippet.
Joe Brusse A whippet.
Dennis Maloney Sounds like a rock singer.
Joe Brusse It was an Overland Whippet. (Whippet,- named for racing dogs.)
Dennis Maloney Is that right?
Mary Echels I have a better one then that.
<laughter>
Joe Brusse Wooden spoked wheels. I guess my first car was an old junky
T- model.
Dennis Maloney But your first family car - do you recall what it might have cost?
Joe Brusse No
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No idea. And Ms. Echels, you got a better one then that you say?
We had a Saxon.
You had a what?
A Saxon.
A Saxon. Now this isn't the people that came and beat up on
England?
No.
No.
This is a car.
A car. This is a car.
And do you remember what it cost the family?
No, I have no idea.
No Idea. And gasoline, since you're the senior member?
Well, we had... my father had a tank in the garage because it was
cheaper to have your own.
To buy in volume, do you recall at all what it might have cost?
No.
No idea at all?
Years ago.
Ms. Doty?
Years age people didn't discuss money matters in front of their
children.
Uh huh.
Just, you know, what something cost was the parent's business and
nobody else's.
OK but Ms Echels said that Dad bought his gasoline by volume.
Now, when your family bought gasoline for their car, did you
remember them going to a pump somewhere?
Oh yea.
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Dennis Maloney Do you have any recollection what it might have cost at the pump?
Dorothy Doty Probably 12 or 13 cents a gallon.
Dennis Maloney OK. But pretty much they used to buy it from a pump, but this gets
into who it was owned by.
Dorothy Doty Dr. Spregs who was one of the 1st county western singers to ever
sing on radio. And he sang on WTAW. He owed a service station
on College Avenue, a Sinclair's Station. (Sinclair was a brand of
gasoline.)
Dennis Maloney Uh huh.
Dorothy Doty And, he has a room dedicated to him in Nashville.
Dennis Maloney Is that right? Is this the Spregs that lived on Welsh?
Dorothy Doty Yea.
Dennis Maloney And Ms. Spregs recently died.
Dorothy Doty No.
Dennis Maloney She is still alive? Really?
Mary Echels She is still alive.
Dennis Maloney No.
Mary Echels She is in a nursing home.
Dennis Maloney She was in Crestview.
Dorothy Doty Yes, she is in Crestview.
Dennis Maloney She is still there?
Dorothy Doty She is in Crestview in the infirmary part.
Dennis Maloney Oh OK.
Dorothy Doty But now she's not really in the infirmary. They have private rooms
over there.
Dennis Maloney I understand. I'm familiar with the area.
Mary Echels There was a filling station on campus and you just... and you got
your... our... we didn't know it then, there was a place that
people on campus could get their gas because at that time, at the
beginning their wasn't any filling station.
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Dennis Maloney So, Ms. Echels says that at the very beginning there were no filling
stations. So your father had to, Ms. Eckels, to purchase his
gasoline in bulk.
Mary Echels Well, I don't... I just about... I think he was the only one I knew
in the neighborhood that did. But he was just trying to save money.
But there was a place along on campus where you could get your
gas.
Dennis Maloney Is that right? Where on campus did you buy your gas, do you
remember about.. .
Mary Echels Well, I think it was over there where that... where the horse barn
and things were.
Dennis Maloney And where would that be in relation to the buildings today? Do you
know?
Mary Echels Yes, it was where the Administration Building is, and it was over
there.
Dennis Maloney The Systems Building.
Mary Echels Yea.
Dennis Maloney What we call the Systems Building, the first one.
Dorothy Doty No, No. It's the one with the columns that face Highway 6.
Dennis Maloney Right. The old Systems Building. The first building you have
coming from east gate.
Mary Echels (inaudible)
Dennis Maloney I see.
Mary Echels Yea.
Dennis Maloney I see.
Dorothy Doty Now, the 1st service station I remember on campus was Boyett's
Corner by the .. .
Mary Echels Urn.. .
Dorothy Doty Corner of University and Welborn Rd., but it was Highway 6 at that
time. The street wasn't called University then. <laughter>
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Dennis Maloney Right Right. So the NorthGate area.
Dorothy Doty The NorthGate area.
Dennis Maloney What we call the NorthGate area, now.
Dorothy Doty Yea. Boyett's Corner.
Dennis Maloney Boyett's Corner. Boyett's family still owns all that.
<laughter>
Mary Echels It was always that.. .
Dennis Maloney Mr. Brusse, do you recall being a young man and coming into
College Station. Or anything in particular that struck you in terms
of our roads or filling stations or shopping?
Joe Brusse No, we.. .
Dennis Maloney There wasn't any shopping.
<laughter>
Joe Brusse There wasn't anything to shop.
Dennis Maloney No stores.
Joe Brusse Even when I came over here as a student in what 1939 I guess.
Dennis Maloney So you were in the class of'43?
Joe Brusse '44.
Dennis Maloney '44.
Joe Brusse So, it must have been 1940 I guess.
Dennis Maloney So you can give us.. .
Joe Brusse 1940.
Dennis Maloney So you can give us a very good perspective, Mr. Brusse, on what it
was like for a young Aggie to come into the 1940 campus. What
transportation was like in particular and .. .
Joe Brusse Well, I had spent 2 years at Blinn, and for those of our listening
audience that don't recognize it, Blinn was really started in Brenham,
not in Bryan.
Dorothy Doty <Laughter> Bryan.
Dennis Maloney Uh huh.
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Let's see. I didn't have a car.
Was it common for students not to have a car?
It was common for students not to have cars.
Not huh.
When we traveled, it was mostly hitchhiking, and because of not having
enough money to ride the train.
Uh huh.
Usually, most of the cars, it seems to me, that the students
owned were seniors; people that were on their way to getting a job.
Even in those days things were pretty uncertain because
automobiles were cheap - you could by a Ford for less then $1000.
A new Ford for less then $1000 in 1940.
Well, earlier than that.
At 1938?
My recollection. . .1 mean a $1000 was something I could only
dream of.
Right. A lot of money back then.
A lot of money.
Now, speaking of hitchhikers this is interesting. I would like to
know, Ms. Echels, if there were enough cars around or another
other means of transportation. Did people hitchhike or get rides
with other people? Was that common to car pool in effect?
Always you lined up on the side of the road. My brother who is 5
years younger then I am. He was a golfer and he had gone all over
the state playing golf. That's the way he used his transportation -
he hitchhiked.
Uh huh.
Is that right, and how ... what was the method in which people
Hitchhiked?
You just stood by the road and asked them to pick you up.
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DennisMaloney Just put out your thumb.
Dorothy Doty Yea.
Mary Echels Yea. Just ask them to pick you up.
Dorothy Doty Actually, what they did.. .
DennisMaloney Ms. Doty?
Dorothy Doty When big groups of them were going to go, the first fellow would
get to the corner and he would put his suitcase out there and either
Waco, Dallas, Austin or what have you.. .
Mary Echels They had a sign on there, and if others came, they put their
suitcases in line.
Dennis Maloney Uh huh.
Dorothy Doty And they all stood back except one - the first guy. Every body
stood back and when somebody come up to
Dennis Maloney Spot.
Dorothy Doty Stop and see who they can take. It's, "Where are you going, sir ?"
It was always 'sir.'
DennisMaloney Uh huh.
Dorothy Doty "Where are you going, sir, and how many can you take ?" And then
the ones that were going to Austin - the first ones in line got in that
car very politely. Aggies were known all over the United States for
their Hitchhiking and if they were in uniform - in which they had to
be in those days, they were picked up.
DennisMaloney They were in uniform?
Dorothy Doty They were in uniform.
DennisMaloney The cadet uniform?
Dorothy Doty Yes, they were in uniform and one time, maybe Mr. Brusse
remembers this: An Aggie left A&M when the Thanksgiving
holidays began with a live turkey and Hitchhiked to Washington
D.C. to put it one the President's table for Thanksgiving. Do you
remember that?
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Joe Brusse No.
Dorothy Doty I do.
DennisMaloney What President was that?
Dorothy Doty Had to have been Roosevelt.
Dennis Maloney It has to be, he was forever.
Dorothy Doty Because he was there so may years.
DennisMaloney Was any kind of repayment expected of the Hitchhikers?
Dorothy Doty No No No.
Dennis Maloney This was simply, "I will do you a favor and give you a ride."
Dorothy Doty Yes. "I'm going there anyway, so I might as well help someone
out." That's the way we lived in those days.
Dennis Maloney Uh huh.
Dorothy Doty If my mother had lived next door to her mother and someone was
sick, my mother would make soup and take it over.
Dennis Maloney Uh huh.
Dorothy Doty And everyone did that.
Dennis Maloney And Mr. Brusse, was there ever... since you were a later period,
was there ever stories about here in violence like the type of stories
we read about today in our paper?
Dorothy Doty Oh no no.
Joe Brusse No.
Dorothy Doty No.
Mary Echels No.
Joe Brusse No. Never heard of such a thing.
Dorothy Doty No.
Dennis Maloney Never.
Joe Brusse Speaking to the uniform idea, that was the only clothing most of the
Aggies had.
Dorothy Doty Uh huh.
Joe Brusse While they were.. .
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Dennis Maloney On campus.
Joe Brusse On campus the uniform it was official but there wasn't any
after 5:00.
Dennis Maloney Oh, is that right?
Dorothy Doty Uh huh.
Joe Brusse Uniform all the time. And as you said, as Ms. Doty said, the people
were very generous.
Dennis Maloney With their transportation.
Dorothy Doty Uh huh.
Dennis Maloney Was it common to see, in the thirties and forties, to see horses in
College Station?
Mary Echels No no.
Dennis Maloney Ms. Echels?
Mary Echels Not likely.
Dennis Maloney So when would you say, Ms. Echels, that we discontinued horses as
means of transportation?
Mary Echels Well, .. .
Dennis Maloney In College Station?
Mary Echels I think it was only by the twenties I'd say they had horses.
Dennis Maloney So it was more common to see horses before 1920 then after?
Mary Echels Yes.
Dennis Maloney And that was taken over by the.. .
Mary Echels People bought their own cars.
Dennis Maloney Automobiles and the trolley.
Mary Echels Well, we still had the trolleys, that was what we used.
Dorothy Doty Do you remember what it cost? No idea?
Mary Echels No.
Dorothy Doty I think it was a nickel.
Mary Echels That's what I was going to say.
Dorothy Doty I think it was a nickel.
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Dorothy Doty
That's what I was going to say.
Ms. Doty?
That was what I was thinking, but I wasn't that sure.
My aunt complained that she had to catch the trolley to Bryan for
two years to go to school before they built Consolidated. That's
how I knew about when it was built.
Ms. Doty, do you remember about how long it took to come and
go from College Station to Bryan on the trolley?
No, I didn't ride the trolley.
You never did?
No. My parents rode it when they were first married. They lived in
Bryan and worked at A&M.
Uh huh.
It would take 20 or 30 minutes.
Oh, at least 30 minutes.
Ms. Eckles, about.. .
I'd say 30 minutes, and sometimes you didn't make it.
Sometimes you didn't. What does that mean?
Sometimes you stopped on the side of the road and you didn't get
there.
Oh my goodness. OK, can you Ms. Echels, being the senior
resident here, can you remember the first paved roads in this area?
I guess it was the was the road to Bryan which is now the Wellborn
Road that was our.. .
First paved road. Did you remember how wide that might have
been?
It wasn't very wide. I guess it was two cars.
Two ca, s just to get by.
Just barely got by.
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Dennis Maloney And Ms. Doty, do you recall the first roads, or were they already in
there by the time you were around on campus?
Dorothy Doty They were already there.
Dennis Maloney Uh huh.
Dorothy Doty They haven't been there too long though. But back to the horses
for awhiie. But of course, we had mounded cavalry and on the
A &M campus, so we had horses there and there were horse barns
up on the campus were Mr. Garigan was in charge of that.
Mary Echels All those horses were owned by the government.
Dorothy Doty They were A &M's, but up on Mr. Garigan's, those were different.
Mary Echels Yes, he had his.
Dorothy Doty He had hug ses up there that belonged to A &M, plus Jackie
Gleason's horses was boarded up there for a good while.
Dennis Maloney And when were the horses boarded again on campus?
Dorothy Doty On campus. a little flat building up there. It had blue tile around it,
and if you look at it you could tell it was horses.
Dennis Maloney Do you kiiow where in relation to today's campus might we find
that stable')
Dorothy Doty Yea, it's ou the south side close to the old time Engineering
building, i believe.
Mary Echels Maybe the golf course is on some of that.
Dorothy Doty Well, no. the souther over than the golf course.
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