Interview with William Corpew O'Neal 7
February 22, 1996




C: The 720 Building, that big office building. 0: Yes, the parking lot of the 720 Building for doctors' offices. C: Was that opened by the time you went to 7th Grade? 0: It opened when I entered the 3rd Grade, and I went about roughly half of the 3rd Grade
 there.

C: But the new school, which we called Westside School, I guess, that was 1 through 12
 also, and then Eastside School was 1 through 12, then later was only 1 through 6. So then you were no longer living on 7th St. and you moved out to the west side to be in that
 school.

0: We lived on Palmetto, and we moved over on McCormick St., which is probably about
 3rd Ave., because 2nd Ave. was then called Masonic St. C: It gets confusing.

0: It does now when somebody gives you an address, you mentally have to divide the city
 into quadrants.

C: Right. So you were out on what was in the western side of town but not too, too far west
 of the school and probably were able to walk to school and walk most everywhere.
 Most people did.

0: Well, I don't know when they started busses to school within the corporate limits of the
 town, but I'm sure it was after I was a grown man.

C: Yes, I think so. Anyway, well, your friends over at Westside School were still Will and
 Jar and probably a few other people that we know in Gainesville, but anyway you went on to high school there. You finished high school there? Who were your best friends in
 high school?

0: You mean who still survive? C: No, anybody.

0: Well, we had in those days what they called high school fraternities. C: Oh, yes.

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