Ybor City Tapes

Wilson interview

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 years, then he became mayor of Tampa, I don't remember four or eight

 years, then he went back as county commissioner, I think, for

 another four-year term, then he got beat.

M: What kind of cultural programs did they have back in the early

 thirties? I'm saving the best part for the last and that's

 the forties. But right now a comparison. Did they have

 assemblies, plays, yearly carnivals, for example?

W: Well, we had assemblies, and we had the carnival thing, of

 course, which was a Halloween thing to get them off the

 streets and get them in some activity that was more or less

 fun and that they could have a good time. We planned the

 carnivals for the whole family.

M: Oh, the whole family would get involved?

W: Oh, yeah, the whole family.

M: How would the whole family get involved?

W: Well, we had certain things that the whole family could get

 in on. Certain games--bingo and different things; they'd

 run the booths and sell stuff, and they'd participate in what-

 ever they could.

M: Theycould sell booze ?

W: If they wanted to.. They sold things at the booths.

M: Oh, oh, booths. I'm sorry, I thought you said "booze."

W: No, booths.

M: Okay.

W: B-o-o-t-h.