HomeMy WebLinkAboutCollege Station Days 010804 Myfather, Dr. C. B. Campbell, came toA&M in 1903 and
Modem La
and
1917, and
November 13, 1922.
big argument later
Bryan (at the hospital).
Minr~
wrote a letter to
Broncos and
the next
game schools.
Station
horse
a
when I
WORK
I
door. I worked at the
week - 12 hours aday - $45 a
ColOrado with my dru earnings.
door to
6 days a
I had my first summer job taking care tennis cou rking
FritzH - I was 12 years old "1 for 75cents an hour - "1 think."
TROUBLE
I was bored one summer day and chunked some rocks through windows of
g
elders and new everyone so
home. Mother told
Igots .
thatl
Another time, out of
Old Main bui
cornice ledge.
We
dipping - when A&M was out of
hangaround!
clothes, but
floor window of
18" wide
went skinny
enoughto
We also tin canshinney on roller skates on the "Little Gym"
basketball court - another no-no.
I'm afraid on Halloween we tipped over a privey or two.
Bill Hensel had a tree house we built in his in Hackberry
tree. We used to go across campus a 1Ocent hamburger and a5 cent
Nehi andhave lunch in the tree house.
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Some of
Calved. I
to be the right
Hensel came to get me - I got home at dawn with myfolks in the driveway!
While coil coke bottlesin the old CedarGrove across reet on
Thanksgiving day the game with T.U., I got hit by a car and my leg.
the biggest snow in memory, and I was ina cast!
We played and Indians al/the time. We aisohad inner tube rubber
gun fights. We climbed trees alot, and rally made our own games and fun.
Growing up asa child in College Station was a wonderful experience. We
went to Sunday school Sunday. We had a fe - no one was rich - no
one was poor - and everyone knew ev~eryone
my Spanish te , Mrs. S come to mind. They couldal/make you learn in
spite of yourself!
We walked to school and came home for "dinner." Wehad "supper" at night.
The old grammar school was about 3 or 4 blocks away. For high (we had no
middle school), we went to old Pfeiffer Hall, a condemned building onthe campus -
just south of Old Main where Dad had hisoffice.
trash cans
heard of)
but
neverbeen
did.
We ~
grades, and when I
n 1939.we only had about
No
7-7 tie on
over to
events.
used to go
cavalry and
was the
"Auld
we
Home" and
In th
all the,
Th ps marched
- Assembly
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I don't think we had a street address. Our mail came to Box 273, Faculty
Exchange. On our
then
Highway6 and the RR
what is now the site of Cain Hal/athletic dorm.
the
and
Grove on
There's a
rope and
all overthe place.
We had no air
didn't know any better so it was all right.
We'd put out a card for 25 or block ice. Milk
Actually, the ice was inand putin the
those days.
'30s. We
door.
The d didn't really
their salaries, while not wonderful,
when prices fell offthe scale, our
as the faculty didn't get laid off, and
cut as far a result,
bu power.
woman named
way it was in the '20s and '30s in College Station.
black
in
is just the
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