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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEastgate Panel 9Group 9: Willie Leighton Nita Smith Jose Montemayor Grou p 9 Willie Leighton Jose Montemayor Nita Smith Moderator: Marge Hai Marge: First of all, II will model how we will introduce ourselves, and if you will do the same, then we will get into questions. First of all, primarily of historical fact; where you lived, and if you had a business, and the kind of things you did, and then, later we will get into some of the more unusual experiences that we may have had which, as Bill Lancaster says, always has zest. Ms. Leighton, you have to leave at 11:30, is that correct? Willie: Margaret said I did. Marge: Well, we want to make sure that we give you a chance to leave, if you need to leave early. I am Marge Haislet. H- A- I- S- L -E -T. And my husband and I moved to College Station in 1960, f rom Jacksonville, Florida. Willie: I am Willie Leighton. L- E- I- G- H- T -O -N. And, I started out not too far away from here, just acro�s the Navasota River, on Old San Antonio Road. I was born about four miles this side of Normangee. And since I married a Civil Engineer from A &M, about the first ten years of our lives were spent all over the place. He, right off the graduating list, got empl meat with the Highway Department, building Highway 66. And of course, I followed along. Marge: And when did you move to College Station Ms. Leighton? Wilde: Dr. J.T.L. McNew, one of my husband's favorite professors, prevailed upon him to come back to A &M and that was in 1940, January of 1940. And we have been here ever since. Nita: My name is Mrs. Manning Smith. M- A- N- N- 1 -N -G. My name is Nita. I came to College Station � 1939 as a bride. Of course, that was a very happy time. My husband was working on his masters and coaching football. That was the year Texas A &M was the #I team of the nation. So, we had a wonderful time! Willie: I remember� Jose: My name i� Jose Montemayor. M- O- N- T- E- M- A -Y -O -R And I moved to College Station in April of 1971. When I moved here, I took over the old Zarape Restaurant. Marge: Did you live in College Station, Jose? Jose: I do live in ( ,College Station, but I moved here from Houston. Marge: Nita, on what street did you and Manning live? Nita: From the viery beginning? Marge: Yes, was its in EastGate? Nita: No, we liv e I d on Park Place in Southgate. We lived there for just two years I in an apartment. In 1940-41, the houses began to be sold off of the A &M campus. Manning and I decided that we'd take what little money we had out of the bank and make a bid on one of those hou es. And, much to our surprise, we got one. Then we moved our house into College Hills. We bought two acres, and we still live in that house. It's on the corner of Francis and Ashburn in College Hills. Marge: So you have, more or less, seen that area developed? Nita: Oh, yes, we were one of the first there. Willie: And may I add something, if you haven't seen Nita's home, it's worth driving by. It is charm w�a capital C. Marge: It is lovely. Willie: There is a little creek in the back, and it slopes down in the landscape, right on down to that little creek. Marge: Well, you�ve seen a lot of changes in your neighborhood. Who were your original neighbors? Nita: I didn't have many neighbors. The closest one was about a block away. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Culpepper and Mr. and Mrs. Reeves were two couples I remember. When we moved the house, in 1941, we lived in it just as it was, and then when we would get a little bit of extra money, we'd add a little bit on. Manning would have the summers off, and he'd work all summer on the house. About 12 years ago, we came home to stay, and we hired an architect, and completed the house as it is today. And we are very, very proud of it, because it is a historic house, according to the city of College Station. And I invite all of you to come see the inside, including you, you just won't believe how attractive it is. Marge: Well, houses are more interesting when you add on to them. Well, I know you and your husband also had a business in addition to his coaching business. Do you want to talk a little about ... is that later, out of our time period for today? Nita: Well, it was a little later than that, but it was right after the war, when everybody came home. Manning left the coaching staff and went into business for himself at EastGate. I love the pe�ple who remember Luke's Grocery! Luke had passed away, and Manning and I bought 'i his grocery store. Marge: Now, exactly where was that grocery store? Nita: Well, it's, I don't even know what's in that building right now, Marge. Willie: I believe, it's a travel agency, isn't it? Nita: I really do 't know. Marge: Well, you can add that later. Nita: So we di 't do as well with it as Luke did, and we didn't last very long, but then we went into the I " surance business. The insurance business was at EastGate, until we went into the dance business. We were recreational dance instructors, then, for the rest of our lives. That brought us very much pleasure and we feel like we did quite a lot of good for the youth of College Station. Marge: Well, not only community, but internationally, because you spread out. Do you remember the year in which you began the dancing group? Nita: I really can't remember. It was the idea of the families in the community that wanted us to do this. The first lesson/class we had was in Bill Lancaster's home. Bill Lancaster's mother, Irma, ( opened her home to the 6th and 7th grade, Bill's grades. In later years, we taught at a Lodge Hall in Bryan. We had at least 200 children in our classes each year for the next 15 or 20 years. Marge: Did you have an official name? Nita: It was the Manning Smith, we called it, Recreational Dance, Because we taught square dancing, and folk dancing, and simple ballroom dances, and social etiquette, which was very important, I could just go on and on about all of this, but I do feel that it was a help to the childrem They all loved it. Marge: I remembei one specific eighth grade graduation party in which you and 4 Manning had about 150 youngsters dancing together. It was a wonderful experience. Nita: We were a ways pleased that the principals of the schools would have school parties and the c ' en who had lessons under Manning were the ones who behaved themselves. They knew what to do with themselves at a party. That was nice for us to hear. Marge: Were the social graces that perhal Nita: Mostly, have this dance, please" Sometimes I'd take the supper if he was really ] little girls down, and th ® at all of the dance any things, specifically, that you taught them in the line of we don't teach children now? ,t the "little niceties" that are not popular anymore, like, "May I ad don't run or misbehave on any body's dance floor, or party. ird Coke away from some little boy, offering to go buy his . We would remind them to thank their hostesses, to sit the was no kicking or pulling. It was a complete party atmosphere I think that we taught them how to behave, and, I guess I should say, we gave them self-assurance. The reason a lot of them misbehave is that they do not know what they are supposed to do. Marge: Do you re ember how many lessons were included in one session, and what the price was? Histo 'cally, that would be interesting. Nita: The classes started in September and went through until May, once a week. The children were allowed] to wear what they really wanted to wear, but they had to wear shoes, not tennis shoes. Most of them, interestingly enough, wore Sunday School clothes. And that was very good, because the clothes made them want to behave. About a dollar was the charge. Marge: Well, th you for sharing that. Ms. Leighton, when you first moved to the College Hills area, did you move to the house which you are living in now? Willie: We built it Marge: Tell us a li le bit about your neighborhood, and who lived beside you, and all. Willie: Well, wh we first moved here, housing was not available on campus. And, we rented a house om Mr. T.B. Wood. On Old College Road, at the intersection of Lake Street. Willie: We came called Texas Avenue. I b turned down Jersey Stree Dairy. This is where all i as far as you could see w and way over the hill, the Catholic Church, over th Bush Drive. And, it was Schools which was coral t Highway 6, of course, which was then called, well, it wasn't ieve it was just called the Road to College Station. And we drove in front of what, at that time, was the Dobrovolney the development is now, Culpepper Manor, clear on back, and e beautiful dairy stock. And beautiful trees, chiefly Mesquites, ;, the old Dobrovolney home. And the most picturesque little first kind of hill, from what was then Jersey Street, but now, picturesque and beautiful, right on up to College Station 1, at that time, the elementary section, was just row after row, about four rows of little individual classrooms that had an intersecting door that you I could raise. And it was a tastically competent way to teach, because you could divide, have space for big classes, whatever you wanted. And, then to the left, this building, right here, was not this elegant, it was sort of a little frame building, almost on the style of a "shotgun" house: two or tree of them put together. This was the high school and the upper grades. Anyway, w$ lived in the house in Bryan, on Old College Road, until Culpepper started the development, which is now College Hills, it was nothing but a rock farm. It got too impoverished to grow cotton, and that is all they ever thought would grow there. It was just a rock prairie. I remember when they surveyed and built Walton Drive. Down on the corner, was the, Waltons and on the right, the big cracker box type, red brick house, Dr. Lindsay, of the Physics department built that house. He had four sons. Two of whom I to t. I loved that neighborhood, I kept my eye on it. And as it developed, I picked out my lots, that I wanted. Having something of a bulldog nature, I stayed with it until I got it. I don't know where the wisdom came from at that time, but it didn't have a big yard, and'I certainly couldn't handle it now. So, we built our home there in early, must have been, about mid 1940's, I think. I watched the development, all over the place. Marge: Who were our first neighbors? Willie: At that time, the Horseley's, two houses down. Later, the Fourweilers, Pruitts, Drapers, Lindsays� Waltons and the Greers. Well, right around the corner three or four houses were built at 1 owned by the late Dr. Pat them the Parkers built, an along there, except for the married Mr. Williamson. Marge: Did you ei know, have any social ev Willie: Occasions: same time. But the great big house, right on the corner, was Anyway, right across was the Lowys and across from around the corner, there, I don't recall the houses that were Blacks, Jean, who is in the meeting here, today, and later were a scattering of my neighbors. meet together and do things in the neighborhood? You or celebrate holidays, or anything? Marge: What kind of things would you do together? Willie: Oh! Well, the afternoons, what else is there but bridge. Nita: She taught all the time. She had so many activities at school. Willie: That's true. I was so busy, I had so much going on, I didn't do much else but teach, and of course, arlie, my husband, being a young professional, was just as busy as he could be, wor ' g into this new department that they were creating at the time. We were pretty busy but, we got together occasionally. The Drapers were our neighbors across the street, Hazel Pruitt, lived right across the street from me. And then, of course, they kept building in there,l It was a popular residential area. It built up fast. Marge: Jose, you s y that you bought up the old Zarapes. Could you describe a little bit: where it was, anti who owned it first, and what it was like when you first got it? Jose: Yes ma'am The way I got here: I used to work for Felix's Mexican Restaurant in Houston. And the person that owned the property where the old Zarapes �r was, was a customer of F lix's where I used to work. One time he came in and he started talking, and asking a lot of questions about restaurant operations and the different things that we did, and then, he left. After he paid his bill and left, he came right back and said, "Jose, can I visit with you some more ?" And I said, "Yea, Pm not that busy." And he continued to ask more questions about the operation of the restaurant. I was curious, but I didn't ask anything. So, finally, he said, "Do you know anybody who is interested in taking over a restaurant ?" And I said, "Well, I have a friend which is interested." So, I asked him for the address of the restaurant and he said, "It's in College Station." And I said, "Where is College S ation ?" Not being so much of a sportsman, myself, I didn't know anything about foo ball, and no connections to College Station. So, he gave me the address, and I tried to come the first day off that I had after we talked. So, my first adventure into College S ation: I was in Prairie View. I turned too soon. Because, they I saw the sign, said, Well, it' where Te as A &M is. So Prairie View A &M, so, I turned there. And I kept going, d there was some road people working on the road, so I asked them, "Where is Texas A M?" They said, "Well, you have to go back to 290, and turn right and keep going and turn on Highway 6." So, finally, I got to College Station, I • El- found the restaurant. And it was, let's see, University Drive was not there yet. They were tearing down trees, and op - g the right way, and I got to the restaurant. It was closed, but I looked through the windows. I got excited, because, I always wanted to do something on my own. So, anyway, I went back, and I called, his name was Charles Gregory. I understand that he was a AirForce Commandant? Nita: I don't kno . Jose: So, anywa , he was the owner of the property where the Old Zarapes was. I called him, and I said, "My friend said this, and asked him for information, because he knew my employer and I didn't want her to know anything until I was ready to make the move. So, anyway, he ga I ve me the information that I wanted, and he asked me for more information. So, finally, we went back and forth, "My friend said this," and, "Tell your friend that." So, finally h said, "Jose, I would like to meet your friend." And I said, "Well, you are looking at ,. He said, "I thought it was, but I wasn't sure." So, anyway, we continued, thlen and the owner, the first owner of Zarape Restaurant was a person by the name of Lupe Esquivel. And I understand that he operated the restaurant for several years, I don't know how many. After him, there was another person by the name of, they used to cal. him Blackie Cardenas. And then the person that I bought it from was Mr. Becerra. He used to work at the mess hall at the University. The dining hall. Marge: So he was a local person. Jose: He is a Bryan person. They also had a tortilla factory on Beck Street. And tamales, they'd make tamj es. So, this was in 1971 when I took it over. And I still remember that University Drive was not there when we first operated the restaurant. And then, there was the little street, which was in the middle of University Drive, there was a little store, a grocery store I cannot remember the name of that ... he was a very nice man. Marge: Well, what as the exact address of Old Zarapes? Jose: OK, the ad ess at that time was 311 McArthur. It was not right on the comer of McArthur and University. It was an old house that was turned into a restaurant in the middle of a field with that creek, back there, which is now, is it 505 University where The Fox and Hound is now? In the exact location of the restaurant is Dr. John Sears' office. Because they took the old house which was where we had the kitchen, and a little back room, so they took that away. Where the main dining room was, it was a concrete slab, so they tore that down, and that's where this building where Dr. Sears is now. That's the exact location of the restaurant. Marge: Well, back to the Old Zarapes. Were there any houses around it? Jose: Yes, Ma'a I cannot remember the name of the lady. In fact, I think her son was one of the Vietnam Veterans. Do you remember her name? Nita: I just can' remember any of this! Pm sorry. Jose: OK, you know where Cenare's is. Nita: Oh, yes. Jose: OK, that street across the street. They filled all that in when... Marge: Well, it was all dirt road. Nita: Well, I know where you're talking about. Jose: Well, there was only one house on the comer that I remember. And, I cannot remember the name of the lady. She was a real nice lady. And, I guess, well, we were the only neighbors she had, because there was nothing. . to live at the end of that street. Nita: Yes, I know where that was. Jose: And there ere scattered houses... Well, Mr. Anderson used Marge: Well, Jane Street is close in there too. Jose: Yes, ma'am{ I think it is McArthur, and Nimitz and Jane and those streets. Nita: They run palrallel to University, right? i Jose: No, they cross. Nita: Cross, yes. Marge: But they were all dirt at that time. Jose: Yes ma'am. Nita: All of them, Marge. Marge: Do you remember when they were paved? Nita: No. Marge: But, I mean any special activities? Jose: Well, even fter I left when he sold that property, I moved Zarape Restaurant to downtown Bryan. That was in 1980 and McArthur Street was not paved. Nita: Oh, my children were almost grown when it was paved. Marge: So I bet they enjoyed playing ball in the road. Nita: Yes. I tho�ght it might be fun to mention that the grass was so tall over all the area that my little son, who was five years old, could go hide in the grass. He would take matches out into that tall grass and build fires. One time he set the grass on fire and it spread over several acres. The fire engine came out to extinguish it. Marge: From the niversity? Nita: I don't remember, but it must have the College Station Fire Truck, if they had one! Before this area began to build, both of the children felt they lived in the country. When Dee was in high school, he and his buddies would go to the back of this area, and shoot crows. There was a farmer back there that had a corn patch. He said to the boys, "rll give you a collar for every crow you can kill." Well, they didn't know that the crows were smarter than they were, and they never made much money killing crows, but it does show you just ow "Country" the whole area was. And when they did begin to build, I would say that m son, at that time, was twelve. And he would come in, very unhappy, in the Spring, because they were building houses on his dewberry patches, which grew over the area. Marge: That would be the area east of Walton Drive. Nita: Yes, actuall y, North, East, all the way around us. Willie: I do remember Dee Boy. Nita: That was may Dee Boy! She lived up on the hill above us, you see. The street that I'm now on, Ashburn, was not developed as early as the others on Walton. We lived on an unpaved street ,for lots of years, and we really lived in the country for a long time. We loved every minute of it. Marge: Can you to us exactly where Manning's Insurance office was? Nita: Well, it was in the middle of that set of buildings, there on Walton. Jose: Where Executive Travel is now? Nita: Yes, where you sort of just branch off of Walton. It isn't on Highway 6. It kind of curves, but that is still Walton. And we were just about in the middle of that. After we went out of the insurance business and into the dance business we had a factory that developed right there,j next door. Marge: What do you mean? The square dance clubs? Willie: Caldwell Blanking Real Estate, now is just right around the curve where it begins to straighten out. Nita: Mr. Culpef iper was in their biggest section. When I first married in'39, I can remember that Edna Pruitt had a beauty shop in that area. Mrs. Josie McCutcheon, had a dress shop and that' where Manning bought my first dress after we were married. Willie: The McGI ss Pharmacy was right around there. Marge: Well, do you remember how much you had to pay for a shampoo and set, and a haircut? Nita: We paid 50 cents for a shampoo and set. If I took a friend, we could get permanent waves two for $5.00. She didn't cut men's hair then because the barber's ♦r- Marge: No, especially not compared to today. Well, you mentioned something complained! about that you, that your neighborhood did get together, some. Nita: Mrs. Culpepper was a very gracious woman. She was very wonderful to invite all of us to her home) for coffee, and some very delicious food, so that we could get to know one another. Willie: She did that for the teachers, also. She would introduce the new teachers to the old teachers. Jose: I wish she did that, now. Nita: I wish she did that, too. Marge: Could you ell us a little bit about how you would be dressed, and what kinds of things would be s rved at coffee. We're talking about 1940? Nita: Yes. Theo one thing that stands out in my mind was that she had a lady who made the most wonderful olls that you could ever imagine. She would put just a little bit of whiskey on them, just enough to flavor the sugar that she would cover the rolls with. And she would have those hot out of the oven, which she would serve them with coffee, I or tea. Marge: Did you wear a hat? Nita: No, she ne Study Club we wore glov wore our regular clothes to be a dressy party, beca they would want to dress with hats, and gloves. EN wanted it to be a fancy party. No, but when we went to and hats and dressed up. But in the neighborhood, we just we would wear maybe to church. But, she never wanted it she didn't know the neighbors well enough to know whether or not. But we did dress quite nice to go to church, always high heels to the football games. I can remember we always dressed up to go to the fo all games. I came to Texas A &M before I got married, and we never went to a footba game unless we were dressed up from head to toe! I � 1`• remember all of that very well as far as how the dress was concerned, because it was the Big Band era when big bands played for the dances at A &M. We went to every affair in evening dresses. It was just a glorious time in my life! Marge: But, there as no air conditioning. Nita: We didn't need it. Never worried about it. I don't ever remember worrying about the weather, but tha was our age, wasn't it? Willie: That's youth. Marge: Well, do you remember any special activities, like special celebrations, Ms. Leighton, do you, pertaining to the school, because you taught in A &M Consolidated Schools. When did you b gin as a teacher? Willie: 1943. Marge: And you w re in the 3rd grade. Willie: 3rd grade. I had been substituting, though, in the high school in English. And dabbled a little bit in the Senior play, and about two years, it wasn't long before I was into school, up to my ears.!, Marge: And who was your principal, then? Willie: Mrs. Sloop She taught first grade, and also was principal. Marge: Ms. Creswald was the principal? Willie: Yes, she w s the principal, following Mrs. Sloop. Our elementary school on Timber St. had grown so much, that we knew we had to do something. So they decided on the 17 acres or more over there, at the corner of Gilchrist and Williams Sts. Marge: And that was in the 1960's, right? Willie: It opened in 1961. And would you like to hear about the opening day? Marge: Well, we Would love to, but that's a little bit further than we're supposed to be. (aw Willie: Oh, we're ot up to that yet. I Marge: Only to 190. Willie: I can tell you about Dan Rather. He comes in on our opening day. And it was a storm ooh! Carla bl�w in. Marge: That was 160? Willie: 1961. And about, it was in September. You, know, We usually started in the first week of September, started school that is. And, about, I think it would come out to be about the 7th of September, 1961. But, let's wait until you get ready for that. It's quite a story. Marge: It sounds great. I hope they get around to doing the next time period. Willie: I makes quite a story. But before we get away from this antique part of development, let's go back. I dare say, you haven't heard of Tooner Ville Trolley? Have you? Nita: Yes, I have. Marge: Well, tell u about Tooner Ville Trolley. Willie: Tooner V e Trolley looked like an old, elongated street car. It was electric, I think. They had an electric line going from College Station to Bryan. And, at that time, there was no bu�es, nothing, to get transportation between the two little towns. And, I know it was my husband's first time at A &M which would be about 1924 to about 1928. I believe that woulI be about the years. I don't know how long the trolley had been running. It goes back fiuther than'24. It began to phase out about'28. And, it ran up what is now Old Eckle Sheet, all the way. It came out of College Station into about the NorthGate area. And the , the Old Eckle Street had to go over a bit. That's the route into Bryan. And believe me, there was a scarcity of pavement between the two little towns. We did not have Highway 6 at that time. That was just grazing parry. We went and came Old College Road, which went up to almost touching the railroad, this is the best way I can put it, turn (left, of course, toward Wellborn, and the main entrance to the ` University was where the �ailroad station was. You came in from that, you remember that. You came in, and it was the most beautiful drive. It looked live oak trees, both sides, well developed live ¢ak trees, all the way into the campus. And it was a number of years later that EastGate was developed, and this side of the campus. But the kids, if they wanted to go into Bryan, and there was a scarcity of pretty girls out here, nobody lived out here except the campus. By the time a good looking Aggie got here, he had already met that girl. And didn't leave any for the others. So, this is where I come in. This gave just a lot of chances to the girls who lived in the small towns around here. And I lived just across the Navasota River on the Old San Antonio Road. And the first time that I think that I was growing up, my mother let me come to a dance on the campus at A &M. And that's where I found him, over six feet tall, and in his tall, red boots, he was good looking, my husband. Anyway, that's getting way ahead of the game. Marge: Well, let me ask you. Did either one of you ever have girls come and stay in your home when they would attend events on campus? I know that happened in earlier days, in the '40's. Nita: That was in,my day, when I stayed in people's homes on campus. Willie: You mean fiends? Marge: No, when you came to attend an Aggie football game, or dance, you needed a place to stay at night. Marge: After you ere married, did you ever have anyone come and stay with you and Charlie when they wer coming to visit an Aggie? Willie: Marge: And you actually came and stayed? Nita: I actually came and stayed with people like Helen Anderson and Frank Anderson. Interestingly enough, my different boyfriends all seemed to know the Andersons. It was embarrassing when I would come as a guest of a boy, and then the next time I'd come with anther boy, who would take me to the Anderson's, also. And it really happened that way. !Nobody gave me away, so it worked out fine. When there was a big "ball" at A &M, they would turn those West Texas. My mother move the boys out of some of the dorms, and then, they over to the girls. And, in my case, we were coming from two or three other mothers who had sons down here, would load all of us girls in the car and bring us to A &M, and we'd all stay in the dorms. The mothers had just as good a, time as the girls did. Willie: I missed all of that because I was just across the river. We went home. Marge: You just w�nt home at night, didn't you? Nita: This was before all of that, yes this was the late 1930's. After I came here to live, we did have lots of girls come and stay, and we were glad to have them. But, by that time, there were places for them to stay at motels. I remember the first one, was it Marge: Wasn't the ands Motel over there too? Jose: It was further north, about where the Comfort Inn is now? Nita: I only remember the blue tops! Nita: The Red Lobster. That was a really large motel. They had little blue tops. I can still close my eyes d see a lot of them. And that was one of the first motels here. Blue Top Motel, where th fish place is on Texas Avenue? Marge: The Red Lobster. o Willie: They were (called the Blue Top Motel. Marge: Do you remember when the Sands was built? Nita: The Sands., I would say it was built a good bit later than the other one. Willie: Yes, it was. It was built much later. Marge: Well it's about where that Adult Video is now. Nita: The only t e I remember, of course ... Jose: That was tie Saber Inn, wasn't it? Marge: Oh, Saber , excuse me. Jose: Because the Sands was a little bit farther than the Ramada, where the Ramada used to be. Nita: We have not mentioned the fact that there was an Aggieland Inn on campus which was very important to everybody. You really had to be somebody special to get into the Aggieland Inn, because that's where all the professors would take their friends, and that's where the board of directors would stay. Willie: Ms. Cashion ran that, didn't she? Red Cashion's mother? I believe she was head of that. Nita: Bill Carl w s the only one that I remember that ran it. Jose: The exact location of the Saber Inn is where the Taco Cabana is now. And then, where 707 is now, that used to be Arnold's Barbecue when I moved to town. It was i a red brick building. Nita: And then mer Norton had a restaurant further down. Marge: A Pancake house. Jose: That was I Where the well, Fontana's Restaurant is where a Chinese restaurant is now. Nita: Yes, I think it changes about once a month. But, Homer's restaurant was very nice. Marge: Were eithe� one of you here when FDR's Campaign Train came through? Nita: What year was that, Marge? Do you know? Marge: Well, hews first elected in wasn't it 1932? I don't know when it came, it was just one of the questi ons that was suggested. And, of course, he died in 1945, I i believe. Nita: That's a little ahead of my time. I didn't graduate high school until 1933. Marge: Willie: Marge: Nita: Willie: Did you gol to the movies in College Station? Oh! What Was the name of the movie house? Campus T�eater? We did havle one in College Station. They had a erything in there. What was the name of that? i I Nita: The one herl on campus. Willie: Yes, the one here on campus. They had all kinds of activities. Marge: Campus Th ater. Jose: I think they' a talking about the one right on campus. Willie: Right on campus, yes. Marge: Guion Hall? Nita: Guion Hall. It was in Guion Hall. Willie: Guion, yes, never would have remembered it. That's right. Nita: Guion! We could take our children to Guion Hall for tenor fifteen cents? It was not more than twenty -five cents. They could see the show two or three times. Willie: And Ms. Schulman would give us free passes, her whole classes. If it were not a special... Nita: That was the Campus, that was the Campus Theater that you're talking about. Willie: No, I had gone to Guion Hall. And it was also, it took, it was everything. Nita: I know. Nol v, what was the man's name that ran the place? He was the sweetest man. There were (times when I would be late getting my hair done, everything would be shut down, but he would sit there with my kids and wait for me to pick them up. And he did everybody that I way. It was a baby - sitting service. He was wonderful with those children. Willie: I remember at. Nita: My little daughter, Sherry, used to meet her boyfriends there on Saturday. She was just at that age where the boys and the girls could meet at Guion Hall. And, of course, that was the day when we didn't have to worry about what they saw, because all they ever saw was cowboys. It was just a wonderful time! Willie: A wonderful, safe environment, yes. I*M Marge: One of questions - What was the affect of World War H on your whole life? Now, you were not in our area, yet. Jose: I was just born. Marge: You were a l young bride, and you were probably on the road at that time. You had just been married.', Willie: No, I lost a �usband for a few years, there. Marge: That's right,l so he was in the service? Willie: Sure. Marge: Were you 'hiring in.. . Willie: I wasn't in the service. I stayed home because he was building air fields. He was involved with that kind of thing, and he moved so much. Marge: Did you live in College Station during World War H? Willie: Yes, we had just moved here. Was living in the house in Bryan. Nita: I can tell yo how it affected my life, because Manning, had not finished his masters and went on coaching. We had a young family and it was a convenient to stay here. He was older than the men who were all called into service. All of the football and basketball coaches were offered jobs in the service to do the same thing that they were doing here. Willie: We just di 't have football teams during those years. Nita: But, they 't take Manning, because they needed him. I can remember that he would take the A &M basketball team to play the Southwest Conference games and he would pull the hat brim off of his hat nearly every week because he would have a different team on the field nearly every week because some of the players would leave to go to the service every week. Near the end of the war, Manning finally did go to war. But most of the time they left him here. He was needed where he was. Marge: And how many children do you have and how old are they? Nita: Two. And pne of them was born in'41, and one was born in'45. i Marge: Did you have trouble getting things, you know for the family, during that time? Nita: Not really. Not that bad. Marge: Rationing? Nita: Well, they had rationing. Manning was very busy with Boy Scouts. Every children's organization there was, we were working with. He was using our rationed gasoline to go round up newspapers for the Boy Scouts on Saturdays so they would have some extra money coming I in. Willie: Sugar was rationed. Nita: I remembef that, but I never worried. I lived through it, but it never was that much of a hassle. Ev body learned to use molasses and honey instead of sugar. We all learned how to do things, and make adjustments. That is when hunting became really popular. We could go and hunt wild game to supplement our meat supplies. Willie: We had a big unit here, then, see we had Bryan Field, up there for the flights. And we had a big tbnit that entertained the young men who were here serving in Bryan Field on whatever capacity, and that took up a lot of time of the younger people. Marge: Like a USO? Willie: USO. That is what it was. I had forgotten what we called it. Yes, it was the USO. We had a big unit in the, let's see where that building was. It was between Bryan/ College Station. Marge: Did you all Know that they were holding prisoners of war in Hearne? In that area? Nita: No. I was 4 busy housewife with two little children, and that's just about what my life was like at that time. Marge: Ms. Leighton, you had mentioned that there was a fumy occurrence that made Ripley's Believe it or Not! that you would like to share. Willie: Yes, yes. at was way back. I dare say that was in the '30's. i Marge: There area' any relatives living here, now? Willie: Well, I . that we have one here today that would remember the story of it. Do you want to hear that story? I Marge: Yes. Mayb� we better leave out the names. Willie: Oh, I don't know the names. I would have to get the names from her. It seemed that there was a colored couple. They lived somewhere, I believe, in the area of Phoenix Street. And, this, that, and the other, they decided they should divorce, very friendly like. So the husband, being a carpenter came upon the idea of just, to cut the long, shot - gun house in two. Well, it was the gentleman about him, he took the unfinished part and turned I around on the back of the lot, so he would get that very necessary south breeze. And left her with the choice location, he repaired up the back of the building, and he built the porch on his house. And I have a watercolor sketch of the finished product. Marge: Now, wher was that located? Willie: It was dow# in the area of the Old Lincoln School. That's back, down i here. Marge: And that made it into Ripley's Believe It or Not! When the couple split up, they even split up the hou Willie: Oh yes, the did. But there was no injuring each other. They were the best, good neighbors. I thick that about finishes it. Nita: I think that's a nice way to finish it off. Marge: Now, she said it's time for you to go. Now, you were working on a project. That you will get more information about the whereabouts of the church? The church, you said... Willie: Oh, yes. Let's let that come up next time. I have a watercolor sketch of that, too. And I think it's in one of four places. Marge: Well be sure to check with the people in charge. Nita: When she g is this, she can add it. Marge: Right, I just didn't want you to forget. ) Willie: Oh, I don't need help, honey. Pm sure. You can hold my cane, I don't usually have that much help at home. See that's what I want to stay, on my own. I still live alone. In the house we built in 1940. It's been wonderful. Nita: You just used the word wonderful. That's just about what I would use to describe Mrs. Leighton. Marge: Then, the n xt time, Ms. Leighton, we will get into the history of College Hills. Before I come out, with y¢u, I want to tell you that your fame, you know these youngsters that you had in classes for a week? Let's see, his name was Johnny Lion. You knew that he went on to fame in Nashville? Nita: No, I did not. In Nashville? He has his own band. He's around to retiring. All over the place. He's pl iyed here a number of times. And, is he good. Johnny Lions. He used to come back after one of your classes, and you know when Mr. Patranella died, they built the sail out showing how he could d Nita: He was a Willie: Jose: Willie: Nita: Marge: He was a Good to Thank vc we'd get our kids out and Johnny would go down that, ;e just looks so much like Manning. Same little light step. ;e young man. So was his mama and papa. ar little boy. Aren't they nice. Good to see all of you. you, Ms. Leighton. so good to meet you. Just being with her the last hour and a half is worth the trip. Well, she's been one of my mentors. Unfortunately, the development of her school falls into another tine period. And I surely hope we will be able to do that, because I think it's very h4ortant to get her. I Marge: Some of the other things that we haven't touched on, that you might want to share with us: Did you o on trips or excursions? And how did you go, and anything that you want to tell about a special trip or anything that pertains to this area. Jose: Well the only trip that I remember, I went out of town with Aggie group to the football game in Houston. That was years ago when I used to have time to do things. Nita: That was an excitement. Jose: Yea, and, going to Houston, it was a very pleasant trip. Coming back, it was not, because we lost. Well, I used to take chips and dips and other people took peanuts, and it was just, and I think it's probably the same way, I don't know. But, people just are real nice. That's one thing that I have to say for Bryan/ College Station. I think people are superb. Nita: In the'40's, ( there were no restaurants to speak of, and there would be hundreds of people comin g I in here to the ball games. On Thanksgiving, there wasn't anyone connected to A &MI that did not have at least twenty people to feed on Thanksgiving! I had never cooked a turkey in my life, but the year of our first Thanksgiving, I had just a little apartment and I had people up and down the stairs, all through that little apartme�. We had turkey and dressing, and everything that went with it. Marge: Did many people have their own gardens at that time? Nita: I don't remember on this side of town. I think over in the other sections, probably. But not so many] over where we were. There wasn't that big push like there was before World War H. Marge: Did you ha�e a victory garden? Nita: Oh, absolutely. Manning and I had a whole acre. We had everything we ate, even chickens, over th�re. And grew wonderful, wonderful vegetables. The victory garden years was great. But, as I said, I look on the bright side of life primarily, anyway. And I don't remember any of the bad side. Marge: None of your neighbors was killed in action? Nita: None of my neighbors. Some of my dear friends of the Aggie world that I had known, we lost. Nor all member of my family. I didn't have any cousins that were young enough. Marge: Did any of your neighbors have victory gardens? Nita: Well, not to' an extent, because their lots weren't as large. We have a two acre lot. Marge: Was there a, community or an EastGate Victory Garden where you all went to get... Nita: No, no. We' didn't have anything like that. Marge: Did you did any war efforts together as an EastGate community? Nita: No, not that I was included in. We didn't have but one car. Back in those days you didn't have two cars. Marge: And three gallons of gas per week. Nita: That's right and you had to ration, and like I said I had two little children and, that took my time. I wasn't a bridge player, I was a dancer, and I enjoyed my dancing. That was long before we got into dance school business. Marge: Do you remember was there a special celebration at the end of World War II? Nita: Well, wi ' my own family there was, because we had cousins that would come home, and we would have Aggies that would come back to the area. In the first month, we had a huge crowd come in, but everybody brought food, and they made beds on the floor. By that time i was living in this little house. And when I say this little house, girls, it was just that, it was pretty much just a very simple house. We put down cots for all these returning Aggies. 'It was strictly a family affair, but it was wonderful. Marge: Kind of like a reunion? Nita: Yes. Just lice a family reunion. It was wonderful. Marge: Do you remember when they started the July 4th activities? They used to have it in the high school football stadium when John and I moved here in 1960. There was fireworks afterwards. Nita: No, but my Ichildren went. Marge: Well, did y�u have any community parades or anything on July 4th? When your kids were little? Nita: Not like they do now. I don't remember any of that part. We were gone a lot. We would travel through the states, and from the states we began to travel nationally, and then we traveled inte rn I ationally. So, by the sixties and seventies I was gone a lot. Marge: How about who was the doctor? Were your children born in College Station? Nita: Yes, Dr. Dwight W. Andres. Dr. Andres was here for years and years until he retired and moved to Lubbock. I think he still lives in Lubbock. He was the first doctor in College Station. iMy son was one of the first ten babies that he delivered. Marge: Where was hat? Nita: In the old hospital in Bryan. That was the only hospital we had. And, of course, there were war babies coming along! I can remember that I had to go into the hospital a few days early in order to end up with a room when our son was born on the eve of the Pearl Harbor raid, December 6, 1941. Marge: Was his o es in Bryan, or College Station? 7 Nita: His offices were right here in College Station. In the area where Pruitt's Fabric Shop is now. Marge: In SouthGate. Nita: Yes, in that area. And I can't remember who came after him. Oh, Dr. Walton, Dr. T.T. Walton came in those days, too. Let's see, there was T.O., and T.T. I f believe T.T. was the doctor in Bryan. T.O. was the young one who lived in College Hills. Marge: Were they brothers? Nita: Yes, T.T. and T.O.. They were sons of Dr. T.O. Walton who was the president of the college for years. Marge: And the one Dr. Walton had his offices right along Texas Avenue. Nita: Right, that was Dr. T.O. Marge: Right there EastGate. Do you know if he built that building? Nita: Yes, he did. Yes, he built that building. Marge: Does he still have any relatives living here? Nita: His daughter lives here. She lives in College Hills. rm trying to recall her last name, Mary Lou. Marge: Is she the one who runs the plantation, sort of Greece Plantation. Nita: What's her last name now? Epps? Marge: Epps. Nita: I used to tape her to Sunday School every Sunday morning. They lived up on the hill above us. Their first home was right there on the comer of Walton and Francis. There is a huge oak tree, there, in the front. You cross Walton as you go down Francis, and it's the very, rock house on the corner. Jose: Oh, yes, ye Where that little island is in the road? Nita: Yes. That's here they lived. Have any of you girls ever been out to, let's see, what's the name of it? Marge: Southern Brieeze. Nita: Southern B eeze. It's really nice out there. Marge: Another interesting question: Did you buy with cash, credit, or trade? Nita: We bought with cash. Marge: They didn't have credit cards back in the 1940's and'30's. Nita: It was hard earned cash back in those days. Marge: Did they have installment plans? Nita: Yes. �,. Jose: My first credit card that I remember was a Foleys, when they used to have those little bitty plates. And at that time, I don't think there was any national credit cards. Like Visa or Master Card. Nita: Well, we had charge accounts. Jose: Yes Nita: The stores lOt you have charge accounts. Jose: Well, we moved to Houston, from Mexico in 1958. I remember the first, I guess, city -wide credit card was Shopper's Charge in Houston. Nita: Shopper's Charge. About when was that? Jose: Probably, early sixties. Marge: Were you charged any interest when you charged to the store? Nita: No, no. Actually I don't know how they ever got their money. Most of the difference between that time, and now, is that people trusted one other. There was a lot of trust and honor among people. And when you made a date to buy a couch from this fiuniture store, they figured that you meant that you were really going to pay for it. And, usually, you were going to be there the next ten years or more. We weren't nearly as mobile, then as people are today. At this time, people don't live in a community more than two to three years. Back in our time, you were there for, look at me, 52, 53 years. And that made the differences as far as the credit business was concerned. Marge: Did you ever remember trading? Nita: I didn't remember that. Pm sure they were, though, Marge. Jose: Going back a little bit to what Nita was saying, when people trust each other. When I first uncovered the onset I picked, I never had a contract of deeds or rent or anything. It was just a handshake deal, and I was there for nine and a half years. We never had any disagreements. Marge: Like, were the rules simpler then? i Nita: A lot simple! Telling a he was a real sin in my family. I can remember there was a time the little gAs in high school were stealing little Coca -Cola glasses. They were cute little things. We just thought it was a great thing to do. So I took one one time when I was with my mother and daddy. I got in the car and set it up on the front of the car. Dad said, "Did you pay for that ? ". Well, I didn't dare not tell him the truth. I said, "No." And he said, "In that case, get out of the car and you take it back. If you want it, you pay for it." And to this day, I have never forgotten that. He didn't argue, he didn't fuss. It was just, "Take it lack, pay for it if you want it." That was the way children were brought up in that time, so it's hard for us, I think, to realize how different it is today. Marge: Speaking of differences, what kind of appliances did you have when you first started high school? Nita: We had a stove, a gas cook stove. Marge: So most of your friends, when they built their houses in Eastgate in 1940's or early 40's. Nita: We had nice things. We didn't have dishwashers and we didn't have dryers. In fact, I don't think most of us had washing machines until we had children, and grandmothers and grandfathers helped buy that first washing machine. Marge: How did you do your laundry? Nita: We ironed. We washed and hung our clothes on a clothes line Marge: If you didn' have a washing machine, did you just have tubs? Nita: No, I don't think so. Marge: Maytag Wringer, right? Nita: No, I guess I took my stuff to the laundry up until Mom and Dad bought us a washing machine. I lived, in the era on a ranch when my momma washed in the tub on an old washboard, and used bluing to whiten the clothes. Marge: Turned your socks? i Nita: Turned you socks. I said I lived on the ranch. There were no children, no brothers and sisters, so I played with animals. The worst spanking I ever got in my life i was for putting my pet goat in the same wash as my mother's clothes. I thought that would make him a prettier white, so I dipped my goat in the bluing water and he came out the prettiest little blue goat you ever saw, and I got the reddest bottom you ever saw. Marge: As a parting', shot here, because our time is almost up, do you have any favorite memories, any funny or unusual experience you would like to share? Jose: When I bought my first house, when I first moved to College Station, I thought I was going to have to commute between Houston and College Station because I hadn't really made the decision whether to take over the new restaurant and we couldn't really find a new home, or �nything to move into. Whenever we went looking, we left my name and phone number so they could call me if anything were available. Right before we had to take over the restaurant, the lady that was the manager of, what used to be the �.. Monaco apartments, the University apartments now at the intersection of Harvey Road and Texas. One of the Stu ents knew that he was not graduating so he just moved away to go back home, so we go his apartment. We lived there for eight months. Then my first house was on Woodland Parkway, it was 800 Woodland Parkway. Marge: Is that where the Broshue's lived? Jose: Broshue's, yes, that's where they live now. So when we moved from Houston, my brother was married and had a family so, we didn't have anything with us. We rented a partially fiunisjhed apartment. The only thing we could find was a one - bedroom apartment so that's where we lived for about eight months and then I bought that house. So not having any furniture because the restaurant, at that time, was not doing any good. Because there was a breezeway between the garage and the kitchen and the dining room, we were sitting on the step having dinner, momma looks at me and says, "Jose, we're living like hippies now, aren't we? Nita: That was 1960's? Jose: No, that was Christmas of'71. Marge: Well, we ar� just very glad you made it here. You have brought a lot of pleasure to people. Jose: I feel the same way. The community has been great to me. I feel very much a part of it, too. Nita: I have one thing that I haven't mentioned and since you're going to give me an opportunity, I'll tell you about one of my favorite A &M activities. The college asked me to direct the cotton ball. The cotton ball was sponsored by the Agronomy society of A &M. At that time, they had the cotton ball pageant and ball, and whatever money they made from it was given to �he Agronomy society. They sent students in the Agronomy society somewhere in the world to study cotton and they were often accompanied by Joe Mogford, head of the Agronomy Department at A &M. This was really a wonderful thing for these boys to get to do.' We had all the A &M Mother's clubs from all over Texas send �. representatives and then we had the representatives in the style show and a pageant. We had as many as 250 lovely girls from all over Texas here every year. It was really quite a big event on campus, one o f my outstanding memories of that period. Marge: rm so glad you shared that with us. You had such nice results to be able to I send students out. Well, wv re glad that you, too, made it to our area because you have meant so much to our community. Nita: I wouldn't v�ant to change it at all. If I had to do it all over again, Pd do it all the same way. Marge: Well, we think you both for sharing with us this morning. We thank the young ladies for helping us Nita: Bless your hearts, I don't know how in the world you could get it all down. �Y &'r 4'6� City of College Station Memory Lanes Oral History Project This is Today is , (month) (day) (year) I'm interviewing for the time '� ° ^' �)J Vs' Wo'' A-) (Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Dr., Etc.) This interview is taking place in Room of The �f)T PYWr V at 1300 George Bush Dr. College Station, Texas. 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Pages Date (name) Final copies: Typed by Pages Proofread by: 1) Pages Date _ Date 2; Pages Date Photos out for reproduction: Where to: Original photos returned to: Date: Date: Indexed by: Date_ Sent to bindery by Date Received from bindery Date Deposited in archives by: Date Remarks: City of College Station Memory Lanes Oral History Project Oral History Stage Sheet Memory Lane: East 6-0_1,e Interview No. Name /yi S;m; 4 h Interview date Z e/96 Interviewer MaLq e if n 5 lei--- Interview length Interview Place 5 . Co n e i - eki cz (e 1 74e v C477 , 1Z) 3 Special sources of information Date tape received in office # of tapes marked Date Original Photographs Yes No # of photos Date Recd Describe Photos Interview Agreement and tape disposal form: Given to interviewee on Received Yes No Date Signed _Restrictions- If yes, see remarks below. 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