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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSouth Side Panel Group 09My name is Bill Lancaster. Today is March 24, 1995. I am interviewing for the second time Mr. Clint Matcek and Mrs. Locke. Uh this interview is taking place in room 103 of the Conference Center at 1300 George Bush Drive, College Station, Texas. This interview is sponsored by the Historic Preservation Committee and the Conference Center Advisory Committee of College Station. It is part of the Memory Lane Oral History Project. Each person, have each person introduced themselves with the voices identifiable on the tape recorder. All right, so will you introduce yourself Ms. Locke. Ms. Locke - I'm Georgia Shaw Locke and I'm talking about some North Gate Business. Bill - will so is Clift This is good Ms. Locke - first of all I'll start with my father. He was George B. Shaw and he operated what was then called the Campus Sandwich shop and it was located behind Hall. He began his operation in 1933. The sandwich shop was started in 1923, I believe. And it was under the directorship of the Athletic Department. And all the rent from the shop went to the Athletic Department. The business was very prosperous. He had it from 1933 to 1949. That's the year he died in 1949. All during the war years, and this picture I have, oh, I think it was, it must have been April fools day. The way the boy has one of his pant legs cut off and he has what is suppose to be a sword and he is holding him up for a hamburger. So definitely dad is holding his hands up and he has the hamburger. So he loved the business it was something that he and the boys enjoyed and the commendation that he received from the mayor of College Station, Ernest Langford in 1949 and he said Mr. Langford said we wish to congratulate you on the showing you made at the inspection on November 19 1948. The grade that you received on that inspection was 92 and the average grade for this community was 90.6. You no doubt have heard that this is the first time any town in the state of Texas has had an average grade of 90 or over. So this community is justifying in taking pride in that showing in which you contributed so much. We know you will continued your cooperative efforts to serve this community and we wish to express our appreciation of the effective efforts you have in showing in our city endeavors. Sign by Ernest Langford, Mayor of College Station and H. L. Boegner, Colonel, Chairman of the Sanitary Board. And this was dated the fourth of January 1949. Bill - That's wonderful Ms. Locke - So that's what I had on my father. They called him Pop Shaw and nice little guy. I got from his scrap book. And then I have another story, I don't know how much time I have. Bill - We've got till noon, you go right ahead. Ms. Locke - In 1947, my father built a building, it was then called Sulphur Springs Road, now it is called University Drive. And it was located behind the old Shulman Theatre and that was the only building there for a long time and then someone built a barber shop out next to it. They called it Don's Barbershop. I don't know if it is still there or not, but any way in 1947, my sister started the Aggieland Flower Shop and this is one of the early pictures. I don't know what year this was, but I can tell that it was a long time back because of the way that they are all dress and it looks so old too. Bill - Now that's not Ruth's picture. Ms. Locke - Yes it is Bill - OH is it MS. Locke - I think that was sometime in the late 40's after 1947 Bill - I can tell who the boys are Ms. Locke - You can tell who the boys are Bill - This is George Rogers over here Ms. Locke - Really Bill - Now I don't know who this is, this is George Rogers Ms. Locke - Was that Raymond Rogers son Bill - No its oh what's her name, she's still living, uh, my minds blank. She lives on Bolton Street Ms. Locke - Now she tells a funny story about a boy coming in to buy flowers for his girlfriend and she always ask the color of the dress the girl was wearing. You know they had a senior ring dance in all the falls and the spring but then there was Mother's Day and all the occasions like Valentine's Day and graduation. And they were very big occasions. I would come up from Houston, we were living in Houston at that time and I would come to help. Sometimes we'd stay up all night getting ready for the next day and the boys would just line up up in front. This was the only flower shop out there at that time. And Bill - Now when was it open Ms. Locke - It was open in 1947 Bill - 47 Ms. Locke - She sold it to the present owners in 1971. She was there almost twenty five years. She decided to put in gift shop instead and this is a picture of some of the students leaving the shop. This was in the 60's about 1961. And then this one Bill - And that Ruth this looks more like her. Ms. Locke - Looks more like her. People change over the years. Bill - Yea they do I'm afraid so. Ms. Locke - Here she is, kinda looks like her Bill - That's the Ruth I remember. This has got the 40, 41 all college calendar, no 60, 61 all college calendar. Maybe we can get copies of those pictures Ms. Locke - They'd be nice for a scrapbook Bill - It would indeed Ms. Locke - Anyway the boy, she ask him the color of his girlfriends dress and he said "Oh she told me in a letter I just don't remember, I am going to go out and get the letter and see. Just as he got to the door he turned around and said "I remember, he said it was the color of organdy ". Organdy is a material. I don't know what she said, but she told that story a lot Bill - I bet in her very patient way she smiled Ms. Locke - I bet she did Bill - Will that all right Ms. Locke - And she was telling about the first customer they had when they opened the shop. She said he didn't know he was the first customer. He walked in there like it had been there always and just ordered his flowers like he was professional at it. Then she said I don't know whether he ever found out that he was the first customer she ever had. Bill - Did she keep his dollar Ms. Locke - I am sure she did. Bill - You usually keep that first dollar. Ms. Locke - First dollar. She has an old dollar that is framed there but it's from the gift shop. There are a lot of things that she saved memorabilia and things like that and I thought these would be Bill - Oh yes,Those are wonderful, maybe we can get copies of those and put them in the scrapbook. Will all right we've got some more questions to ask in a little bit let's let Clift Matcek. Clint - I'm not Clift, Clint Bill - Clint, I'm sorry Clint - That's no problem Bill - Ok Clint - I'm Clinton Matcek, some people pronounce it Motcek. Bill - I'm sorry Clint - Ok, Uh I haven't been in this area all that long. I came here in 1948 uh and I worked 2 years for the Dr. Pepper Bottling Company here until, I took an exam and got on at the North Gate Post Office in 1950. Uh basically what I have is, It's a historical survey of the Post Office of College Station and most of the things in here parts of it is rather lengthily but it gives dates the first post office when it was established and the post master. Uh the first post office by this was at Old Main Drive and Well -born Road Bill - Old Main and Well -born Road Clint - I don't know how they got Old Main cause old main I thought was there right across from the post office which is there now. That was Old Main, right? Bill - Now there's some confusion on that and I ran into this just a couple of days ago. There is a College Station Main Street which is the street the one you are talking about and then on campus there is an old main. Clint - Will I think that's probably what they Bill - The one that goes by the Albritton Tower Clint - yes Bill - And then goes to the Academic Building, I think all old Main, Oh I know what it was just recently when the water line broke, you know, this paper it said there was a problem at Old Main and Wellborn Road and I think that was what they were talking about . Now that my interpretation, I maybe wrong I think Clint - I believe that's correct from what I've heard I Bill - but the street goes north toward Bryan from the post office there I think it call College Main technically. Is that right? Clint - Right Bill - Ok Clint - It saids here that the first post office was started in 1877, his name was H. T. Parsons, The second one was A. B Pugh which served from 1878 to 1883 and the third one was Johnny Smith evidently A B Pugh didn't stay but a few year in 1883 to 1884 was John B Smith and then from 1884 to 1887 seemed like they change quite often was a Samuel Hoffman. And the fifth one from 1887 to 1992 which was a lengthily stay was W. C. Boyett. And from 1922 to 34 was a Ms. Florence Guyer from 1934 to 44 was Mrs. Analee Smith now she was the post master just before I started with the post office. The next one was a post master from 1945 to 53 which was Dr. T L Logan Sr., he was the post master when I started after that we had N. L. McCalla from 53 to 55, he was acting post master after that we had Homer B Adams in 1955 to 1961 which was a acting post master job. After that we had Ernest Greg took over from 1961 to 1972, from 1972 to 73 we had an officer in charge which was Stan Sartain who was just there when the post office change from US Post Office to Postal Service they had. In 1971 I came in and worked with him as an Officer in Charge you might say and then I got the Post Master ship in 1973 , I stayed aboard until 1989, and retired in 89. We have a lot of things in here Bill - Is it possible to get a copy of all that Clint - Sure there's some pictures here. We've had some old photographs of when the post office at North Gate was built. It then it was started in 1936, it was finish in 37, uh for some reason those photographs have disappeared. I went to the post master to try and get him to help me find them because they were there in some folders at the post office when I left now I don't know what they did with them. I have a feeling that the people in Dallas that keep up with a lot of this stuff if they find out that they were there, they probably took them. But I can remember some of the pictures of the construction site that by University Drive, there were still tracts of the trolley Bill - I'll tell you about that Clint - But huh evidently I don't when they were taken out but, the only pictures they show Bill - Those tracks, it wasn't the trolley tracks there was a railroad a regular railroad loop around the whole campus there. Those tracks would take railroad cars took coal to the power plant back over there and also there was a branch off of that that backed up besides Sebesta hall and they'd unload carloads of supplies for the dining hall on campus. That's how it would get, you know the railroad cars run next to Wellborn Road but there was a branch off of that that veer around and came between the building you were talking about and University Drive that went clear on around to where the power plant is now and huh that was what that was for. It would bring coal to the power plant in the early days you see it converted to gas back there somewhere and it didn't need coal any longer but they left the line there because it did carry food supplies to the dining hall. There use to be a set of tracks just up against the dining hall on the north side there at Sebesta Hall where they would back in box cars and they would unload all the food took up but that's where those tracks. It would be interesting to have pictures. Clint - I don't know where they have disappeared to but they did. When that office was remodeled in it was built 36, 37 in 1961 this was some time when I started in 50 and in 1960, 61 it was finished in 62 we moved out of the office and moved into a building that was right back of Loupot I don't know who own that building but we were in that for about a year or more until we move back and they remodeled the North Gate Post Office and added more boxes Bill - What year was that? Clint - In 1962 some stories in here I think of the opening after the remodeling they had Senator Ralph Yarbrough came. I can remember that but I don't know too much about it. I have an invitation, a copy of an invitation that was sent out. They only had about 30 people working for the post office. At that time Mr. Greg was the post master and Mr. McCalla was the assistant and the superintendent mail was M C Hogg and then we had an assistant Roger Jackson . And hub Mr. Edmonds was Station Superintendent which was at MSC. Back then we only have 30 employees. Actually until 1953 up until 1953 they had no city delivery therefore Bill - I was wondering when that was 53 is when the city delivered Clint - yes and they had as far as I can remember they had two carriers one on the east side of 6 Bill - good nite. Two carriers,that was all the carriers Clint - yes and that was it and they had I think they had a parcel post truck that took parcel and naturally he carried those with him but huh then huh it started growing through the sixties and seventies it grew like wild fire Bill - You retired in 1989 then Clint - yes Bill - How many workers in the post office then Clint - probably about 100, well it went from two carriers to 34, 35. Actually the post office in College Station, because they had no rural delivery, we actually had a 2 cent postage for local mail. As far as I know it was the only city in the United States that had that. And that was for like Bryan /College Station and huh. When I look back on that it makes you wonder Bill - It sure does. You got done overnight too. Clint - Oh yeah Bill - No problem Clint - But now I think they have, when I left there they had for rural routes that were transferred from Bryan Bill - then up to 50 was all the rural route done out of Bryan Clint - Yes it was and that was the thing when people would ask where does so and so live or they give their location. We live south of College Station on highway 6 or you know there abouts. Bill - Their address is Bryan Clint - How come your address is Rt 4 Bryan and so they corrected that in 79 Bill - Well that's amazing, Huh now, I remember when the house delivery started most everybody had boxes on campus. I expect it was a slow process to convert from the on campus box to having your mail delivery at home. It was for us. It was a slow process we had # 5316 wound up at the MSC well Clint - I remember dropping mail to you Bill - Oh that's terrible. I remember that number, 5316 Clint - The funny thing about it. The Battalions use to come out and be delivered to the post office each day late in the afternoon, usually it was around 3:30, 4:00 and huh I was a part time clerk so when they needed help they would call you and they could call you up for 15 or 20 minutes and they called me down to Aggie Land Station to box the Battalion which would take me about 20 minutes. Bill - Oh me I tell you. Well now you came to College Station from where? Clint - Basically from Houston huh I finished high school in Snook, went to Houston when I was 16. Work for use tool company for a couple of years went into the military. I was in the Air Force for two years served in the Allusion Islands, came back and worked for the Dr. Pepper Bottling Company Bill - But your a native of Burleson County Clint - I lived in Burleson County yes Bill - Were you a Snook Bluejay Clint - Well yea we use to call them the Jay birds Bill - The Jay birds ok all right ok good. Now back to you Ms. Locke, your father started this in 1933. Ok when did he, did he come to this area then. Ms. Locke - He was a native of Brazos County. He was born, grew up in Steephollow Bill - ok Ms. Locke - and huh he had business in Bryan, five different places before he left for College Station. He began in 1916 with a place on Main Street and he had locations in different places, there were two that I can remember at different times. On 26th street there was on then 25th and they changed the name and it was over there just across the street I guess you'd say it was across the street from where the parking area is for the Court house and tax office. There was a building there a large building that's the last one he had in Bryan before he went to College Station and he loved the work. Bill - I remember that, I'd been in there lots of times. Ms. Locke - Oh have you Bill - Oh yes indeed it wasn't as big as this table Ms. Locke - yea a small place Bill - Yes sir I remember I bought nickel hamburgers in there lots of times Ms. Locke - They didn't cost must. That was the only fast food place. They didn't have fast food places Bill - Ok no Ms. Locke - he was the only one that I know of Bill - They didn't have any slow food places either. It was either Pop Shaw's or the Aggieland Inn. That was about it. yes sir ree bob. Ms. Locke - And he enjoyed it very much. But he had started in Bryan in 1916. Bill - So you grew up in Bryan Ms. Locke - Yes. I am too. I'm a fifth generation Brazos County person not on dad's side but on my mothers side. Bill - Well that's wonderful. Now your husband is Lonnie? Ms. Locke - No it's Jessie Garden Locke. He was from Houston. I met him in Houston Bill - Now is he kin to Lonnie? Ms. Locke - Kin to nobody here except myself. His father came from Tennessee and I met him when I went to Houston to go to Business College after I graduated and we were married in 1935. Soon be sixty years. Bill - Oh my goodness that's right it sure is That's wonderful, that's great. Well you've seen a lot of changes then in this part of the world Ms. Locke - I really have. Daddy wouldn't believe all this about the university. Bill - He died in 49? Ms. Locke - 49. Bill - my father died in 1950. Ms. Locke - I suppose they were well acquainted then. Bill - they were indeed yes sir. Ms. Locke - Daddy knew everyone out here. Bill - I can remember your father quite well in that white building. Ms. Locke - I'm glad. Bill - All the nickel cokes, nickel hamburgers. Ms. Locke - I think the hamburgers were a dime I'm not sure. Bill - Probably so, they were good. Ms. Locke - He said he had a secret recipe. Bill - Well, whatever it was I can attest to the fact. Ms. Locke - The buns weren't as large as they are now, they were about that big around, I guess Bill - Well at my age back in 1933, I was 5 years old so lets see someone who's 6,7,8, years old, they were big then. Ms. Locke - I know. when your a child that gives me one year older than you are they're big people. My sister was two years older than I, I thought she was big because she was larger than I was. Bill - I knew Ruth very well. When did you come back to Bryan then? Ms. Locke - We came back when my husband retired. He retired in 72 and we moved back in 73. Bill - Ok so you've been here quite awhile. Ms. Locke - I have been here soon be twenty -two years in June since we came back. I left when I was 18 to attend business college in Houston and then after we were married I went to the University of Houston, majored in music. I'd had piano all my life, my mother started me when I was six. Bill - Oh my. Ms. Locke - So I went and studied piano and major in piano. I taught piano for 38 years. Bill - In Houston? Ms. Locke - Most of the time there, after we moved here I taught for 9 years before I retired. Bill - My mother taught, well my wife did too, taught music it would be before that. My mother died in 75. Ms. Locke - I remember your mother. She gave a good talk to the music teachers association. Bill - Did she? Ms. Locke - It was either music teachers of the DAR. I believe it was the DAR it would be our Christmas program and she had such a wonderful program. Bill - She loved it. Ms. Locke - Oh we enjoyed it so much and I know your wife too from DAR and from visiting out at the church with my sister. Bill - Right, right oh we knew Ruth real well, of course she played out at the church. Ms. Locke - They started her when she was about 8 years old and got the piano and they didn't intend to start me until I was about 8, but I started playing by ear. The teacher told them it would be a good idea for me to start. Bill - Get this child harnessed in the right direction. Ms. Locke - I still play by ear. Bill - Well that's wonderful that you can. Ms. Locke - You just can't help it if you can play by ear you just gonna do it. Bill - It's a gift. Well Clint, what are you doing in retirement? Clint - Well kind of taking it easy really Bill - Good, ok. Clint - I retired in Jan. of 89. I took care of honey do's and did a lot of fishing for 9 months. In November of 89 I was lucky enough to go back to work part -time for the City of College Station and I am still doing what I use to do in the post office every morning and pick up the mail. I distribute to every office in City Hall and the outlying area. Bill - And I bet they get a lot of it. Clint - Yes the do, they sure do. That I really enjoy I get to see people that I worked with and I get to meet people that are with the city. Bill - Do you live in College Station? Clint - Actually, I live in Bryan , but just barely. Bill - Barely, ok. Clint - Barely, I feel like I should live here because I've worked in College Station since 1950 and I've always lived in Bryan, but it just happened to be that I guess. Bill - When the property is available, of course if you lived in College Station you'd of worked in Bryan and vice - versa. This has been most enlightening, if you all have anything else you think historians would like to hear or be a part of there's an awful lot I think that you've contributed your families through the years to be included here in this. It seems strange to reach back in these times to try to recall what all there has been and what all has been done. You know both of you have seen so much change here in this town. You know how many students were here in 1950, 6000's, 7000's Clint - They did good to have around 6000's. Bill - And now this is the 3rd largest university in the United States with 42,000 students. You know that's hard to believe when you remember back, when mail, local mail was 2 cents. And knew everybody, you probably knew all the names in College Station and what not. Clint - You may not have known them, you knew them by the names in their box number, really. Bill - That's right. Clint - You give someone a hand full of mail they knew exactly who they were. Even though some people they may not even have a box # on it. 20 or 30 thousands. Bill - Well, I should think so. Clint - After the students and basically North Gate is in the station now and basically that's what it's for is the student. Now there's still a lot of the old timers that still kept their box they were use to having that address and they don't care to change. Bill - That's right . Well of course the boxes, if you're in a hurry for mail it gets put up quicker. If you don't mind going to the post office and getting it. Clint - I can remember back then when huh University no it wasn't University National Bank it was College Station State Bank . When it started it was in a and then they built the concrete slab that has just been remodeled. Bill - Pizza Parlor Clint - No it's been a pizza parlor and that's been remodeled and I think it's now an Aggie Credit Union. Bill - I guess, I don't know but that was a fancy building. Clint - Yes it certainly was. My wife worked there at the time they went into the new building and you talk about a bunch of proud people, hey Bill - It didn't have a nickel's worth of parking but it was a nice building. It was a beautiful place. Yes I remember that little wooden building right next to the Red Gardens Coop store. It was really once you got inside you couldn't turn around, it wasn't much more than 8' or 10' wide at the most. Clint - Mr. Burgess had a hand in that and in the Community Savings and Loan. Bill - He sure did. Clint - He was something else he was. I thought the world of that man. Bill - Mr. Burgess and Bill Fitch have done remarkable things to make this community grow in the right direction and they need to be remembered for that. Bill Fitch of course has had a hand in all the development you know all the street things laid out properly, utility all this kind of stuff. If somebody back there hadn't had a hand you know guiding the stuff it can get out of caliber in a hurry. Clint - You know Bill Fitch was the one that put in the, what I am trying to say, South Oak Wood. I mean off of 2818 all that area. In fact he was the one that owned the lot that the post office got from him to build a new office. Bill - Well I don't have anything else. If you all can think of something. Now I'll tell you what we'll do, this will be typed up, written up and you will be given a copy of it and you can all review it to make sure you didn't say anything you didn't intend to say. I don't think we had any of that today and then if you think of something in the meantime that can be added to it just write it on the back and to it, will be real helpful if somehow we can some how get copies of some of the pertinent stuff you listed all those post master back in the 1890's that pretty well does away if they had post master back then I don't see how in the world this group could ever have gotten anything. Clint - Well maybe that was huh some side stories. Bill - Well it was an interesting story I know that. Bill Scoates was out here he might remember something about that. That fact they had official post masters back in his time. The building I remember in fact I've got a picture of it here doesn't quite show. You know the street Joe Route Blvd. in front of G. Rollie White going west, you cross Wellborn Rd. and just across if you drive down there at night going west on that street, lights would shine on a little building that I remember as a post office will be bit south as that says as Old Main Drive. The railroad station is where Old Main Drive you know where the bell tower is now, you cross the tracks there and there's 2 rail way stations sitting there. This building was south of that, as I say, just across from Joe Route Boulevard is the building I remember as the post office and I am wondering if that's what they are saying. Clint - Most of this was put together I think I'm not real sure. It's got some names in here who had written to get this information. Bill - Tell me this. Clint - If it would help ya'll are welcome to take this and copy it and make anything out of it that can be useful and copied. Bill - Well yea I'd like to just take it to a copier if you don't mind. Clint - No don't mind at all just don't lose it I kept a copy of this for my own. Bill - was there a building at the North Gate? In fact I know there was a building at the North Gate because it's on all the pictures of the City of College Station if you are standing in front of the current post office looking North through Old North Gates there's a building that says US Post Office. Is that mentioned here in this list of places? Do you know what I'm talking about? You've seen the picture I know, it's got snow on the ground the gates are swung open wide, the real North Gate was there and there's a building in that picture that's called the US Post Office off to the left. In fact it's probably sitting out here in the hall some of the pictures out here we can go look at it in a minute and see if. Clint - That I don't know, I don't know how up to date, how authentic this is. Bill - I'm wondering if there was a building where that current building is there a post office there. That was the first time the post office was there did it mention that I guess. Clint - It didn't say all right I'm not sure it could have been. Bill - I remember that building being built but I can't remember what was there before that time. And I don't remember the building I'm talking about in the North Gate Area but I've seen it a bunch of times in pictures setting there. I bet in the cases out here there are probably some pictures of the one I'm talking about. I know it's in the pictures just recently painted and given to George Bush, what not, of all the College Station scenes in that. Here's a picture taken in 1929 that's just crept off it doesn't even show the rail way stations. It just crept off there maybe it does it's pretty hard to tell. Bill - Well listen, Thank You much you all have done well here. you get an A+ on this. Go out and get some more goodies here. 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The City of College Station, Texas Memory Lanes Ora/ History Project INTERVIEW AGREEMENT The purpose of The Historic Preservation Committee is to gather and preserve historical documents by means of the tape - recorded interview. Tape recordings and transcripts resulting from such interviews become part of the archives of The City of College Station Historic Preservation Committee and Conference Center Advisory Committee to be used for whatever purposes may determined, y I have read the above and voluntarily offer my portion of the interviews with _I i jr / /4 r_e_El< . / !? S: Een/ /A (Name of Interviewee) In view of the scholarly value of this research material, I hereby assign rights, title, and interest pertaining to it to The City of College Station Historic Preservation Committee and Conference to visory Co mittee. 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Such indemnity shall apply where the claims, losses damages, causes of action, suits or liability arise in whole or in part from the negligence of city. 3- a v--11-- HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE City of College Station, Texas ORAL HISTORY DATA SHEET �7g40 hereby ereby give and grant to the HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE, St o this oral history i purposes may be determined, the tape recordings, t Cransccy ipti t College original nterview. Also, permission is hereby t r ons, and photos, documents, maps, etc. useful to the histo hereby given for any CITY, its officers, agents y duplications of claims, demands, r 3 project t be returned , o unharmed. Interviewee releases, relinquishes and di all 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 any person, whether that person be a third e parties hereto, and any loss of or damage to p rson' Interviewee or an employee c of d e'the e of the h h of third a g property, whether the same be that either of the parties hereto e Interviewee third on parties, of ,caused informatiod to be caused b y, arising out of action in whole or in part are covered by insurance. whether or not said claims demands and causestof, E I /A SH frk 1,0 ai'l � Interviewee (Please pr4.._t Signature of Interviewe ki 64 r4 a 4-fr rot_ Interviewer (Please Print) Signature of Inte 4, rviewer r/t Ni rV Place of Interview List of photos. documents. mans Name Address Telephone _ '74 a 9 Date of Birth 97/Sy 5,s Place of Birth � yQ � a Date Initial INTERVIEW STATUS: Completed x � O In progress P, f �t Interviewee agrees to and shall indemnify and hold harmless CITY, its officers, agents and employees, from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, causes of action, suits and liability of every kind, attorney's fees, for injury to or death of any person, or for damage to any property, arising out of or in connection with the use of the items and information referenced aboved by CITY, its agents, representatives, assigns, invitees, and participants under this grant. Such indemnity shall apply where the claims, losses damages, causes of action, suits or liability arise in whole or in part from the negligence of city.