Ybor City Tape

Wilson interview

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 was putting on a radio program occasionally on one of the radio

 stations. SoI got the big discs and when Orange Grove, say, would

 put on a radio program I would record it. And then give them

 the big record so they could go back to their Orange Grove

 School and play the record and hear themselves on radio.

M: This you'd be doing for Orange Grove.

W: Or somebody else. It didn't matter, anybody else. Soon as

 they found out I'd do it nearly every school that went on

 wanted it done. Then I got a wire recorder later. I put

 the first intercom system in at Ybor School. And I put the

 first teachers' lounge in at Grove, got it built in.

 And got the first air conditioning, first venetian blinds,

 the first television set at Madison.

M: You know, a lot of these things you take for granted.

W: First.

M: You know, like the teachers' lounge.

W: Oh, yeah.

M: It would never occur to me you wouldn't have one.

W: Didn't have one before. First one I know of, actually a teachers'
 got
 lounge and that we /air conditioned and got venetian blinds in

 was the one I had built in at Grove. I know the first

 television set I bought at Madison, an Emerson, I remember it

 very well. And I had it in the library so that when particular

 programs come on and so forth they could go in the library and

 watch them.