downstairs and the cook would have my breakfast on the table in between
 five and ten minutes. I could eat breakfast and get on my bicycle-and make
 an 8:00 class. During my sophomore year I got a motorcycle. And when I
 went to the service, during the First World War, I left my motorcycle here
 and some of the family used it or disposed of it, I don't know what became
 of it. After that, I had a Ford my junior and senior years. No, my junior
 year I had a Ford, and my senior year I had a little yellow sport car called
 a Roadster. The girls nicknamed it "The Yellow Peril," because it was
 painted yellow. I had this little yellow car for several years after I got
 out of school.

 My mother gave me the yellow car when I was a senior. I had this yellow car
 when I first left Gainesville, after graduating. Then my younger brother's
 Jack and John Dial, this was about 1921 or '2, had the Buick agency for
 Gainesville. So, I turned in this little yellow Roadster on a Buick, and
 I took this Buick out to Mississippi when I went out there. While they had
 the Buick agency, I had several Buicks up until 1921 or '22. Then I switched
 over to Plymouth with Charlie [Charles Samuel]--the BrouKing Motor Company.
 I have been buying Plymouth and Dodge ever since 1930. Including my business
 trucks and sales cars, I have had at least forty Dodges since then.

M: How long was your brother in the car business?

S: He and John Dial went out about 1929 or '30. When the Depression hit, the
 big cars quit selling.

M: So, they weren't in the business during the '30s?

S: No, they closed out. I remember that one time during the '30s, I bought a
 Chevrolet from [J.] Simms Gardner. I bought several Chevrolet trucks from
 Simms Gardner. I think I bought a Ford or two from Shaw & Keeter. But most
 of the time, I bought Plymouths and Dodges.

M: What about in your free time? I know you played golf. Other than golf, what
 would you do in your spare time for entertainment?

S: People used to hunt and fish. I never was much of a fisherman. I was a good
 shot, but I didn't hunt very much.

M: Was there alligator hunting in the '30s?

S: There was a fellow named Tom Pinkoson. He was Dr. [Charles] Pinkoson's
 either brother or uncle. Tom Pinkoson was the alligator hunter.

M: He would just go out and bring in alligators?

S: I didn't know too much about it. But, I remember at Newnan's Lake, you could
 just see dozens of them. They'd show their heads, and at night you can hear
 them hooting.

M: Was he still doing that in the '30s?

S: Oh, yes.

 Now, during the '20s is when things started turning around. Life from 1900 up
 through the '20s was horse-and-buggy-style life; the small schools and the small