DARE Interview: Brownsville, Texas; Primary Informant TX031

Informant Data:

TX031: White; male; age: 74 (old); education: high school; community type: small city

Media Files:

Arthur the Rat. Speaker: TX031 (3:47)

Full Interview 1 (Tape 1617-S1).

Content:

00:15 Local people in the past

05:00 Events at Fort Brown in Mexican Revolutionary period

09:00 He had a grocery on property in town his grandfather bought in 1849

10:00 Local events in Mexican Revolutionary period

18:40 Catholic priests in parish in Chicago where his father had a drugstore

33:30 Tape end

Full Interview 2 (Tape 1617-S2).

00:05 Father's pharmacy business license in California

02:40 Mother died when he was young, came from Chicago to live with grandparents and uncles in Brownsville

04:40 Local people

07:25 County history

09:40 School

11:55 [Interrupted story, unfinished]

12:45 School play

15:20 DARE Questionnaire H (Foods) [partial] [includes digressions]

25:20 Baseball story

26:20 Currency and banking locally in the past, local banker

33:50 Tape end

Full Interview 3 (Tape 1618-S1). [Additional speakers: Adult female]

00:05 Baseball stories

12:10 Food [DARE QR I]

13:00 Salt Lake City, Mormons

14:55 Work for Public Health Service in quarantines and bracero camps, migrant farm labor

23:15 Pigs; military funeral music

25:50 Fort Brown history—U.S. Civil War period

28:55 Diseases [DARE QR BB]

32:10 Tape end

Full Interview 4 (Tape 1618-S2).

00:05 Local people, local history

04:50 Curandero [healer]

10:30 Finding bones of Mexican soldiers

11:30 DARE Questionnaire EE

17:10 Story about a boxing match

18:15 DARE Questionnaire FF (Entertainment and Celebrations)

27:30 Loud person

Full Interview 5 (Tape 1619-S1).

00:05 Diego Rivera mural

02:15 Local people

07:15 Bidding for deposit funds in the bank, bond

13:05 Local people

14:35 Arthur the Rat

18:25 Tape end