Ybor City Tape

Wilson interview

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W: Yeah. We had a home ec. out at Ybor and then they abolished

 the platoon school of course we abolished the home ec. department,

 and the shop, and the auditorium and so forth.

M:U Then more or less then the platoon system was stopped about 1942 .

W: No, well, it was some time, I think later than that. It

 could have been, I think it was '48 or '49, I'm not sure, be-

 cause I think it was under the superintendent that beat me

 for county superintendent. But I'm not sure whether it was

 stopped in there somewhere between '41 and '50.

M: There was just no more need for it.
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W: Well, it was then down to, well, when I cam back there as

 principal in '41 it was down to seven or eight hundred kids.

 You really didn't need it anymore for this, for the reason

 that I thought it was put in there. Then when I lefthere,

 when I left there in '50 I don't think there was over four

 hundred, three or four hundred kids there.

 M: Who was the principal during the thirties at Ybor or were

 there several?

 W: Well, McIntosh was there all those years after I left until I

 cam back.

 M: The man from Gary, Indiana.

 W: Yeah.
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 M: So actually yD-'were there ...

 W: Nine or ten years.