Ybor City Tape

Wilson interview

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 one who is selected unless it's somebody I can't support."

M: Looking back over those years what would A you say were your

 favbrigeyyearg?

W: My favorable years?

M: Your favorite years. Your best.

W: I don't know. I think the enjoyment I got out of being a prin-

 cipal of an elementary school was more than A I ever had in

 any other job I had. But I couldn't stay in an elementary

 school because I couldn't live off the salary.for one thing.

 And it wasn't enough challenge to me.

M: It wasn't enough challenge?

W: No, because I felt like I'd done about everything that I could

 do there by the time I left.

M: So you actually set up a system in a sense?

W: Changed Ybor completely from the original to what it was when

 I left.

M: Well, how would you describe that by the time you left. What

 essential changes took place?

W: Well, basically the population in Ybor had dwindled down

 to where, 'course they still kept us in that ten square
 that
 blocks, and when the superintendent that was electedjbeat me,

 he wouldn't enlarge the territory because it would be more

 money to me. In fact, he triedto to get me out of there and

 we had a go around with the trustees and I was sustained.

M: He sounds a bit like an S.O.B., too.