AL 32AB


 Tape A


M: moved. They relocated the station while I was a student as a matter of fact,

 and I remember that place better. I remember riding here as a freshman and

 feeling totally ignorant of everything with a trunk and a suitcase and a

 lot of wild hopes.

J: Was that typical of students who arrived here in the'30fs that rather than

 their parents bring lem up and get em settled they would come by themselves?

M: Uh... it was typical if you came a long distance like from Miami or from

 Pensecola or fromMdistance. Uh it became a little iffy if you were from

 Orlando or any place between Tampa or where it was still a reasonable one-

 day drive up early in the morning and arrive back late at night.

J: But people didn't come and spend the night and then go home or anything?

M: Oh I guess a few did but.....

J: But that wasn't the majority?

M: I think most of- from Miami that I can remember just-packed up and either

 took the train up to Waldo, the Seaboard dumped you off at Waldo, or took

 the bus and there were lots of routes you could come up and it kept changing

 and the Greyhound would route through all different ways. My favorite one

 was to St. Augustine and then back from St. Augustine through Gainesville.

 There was a bus route from St. Augustine through Gainesville to Cedar Key in

 those days...... and that's the one we caught/was the Cedar Key bus. That

 Cedar Key (joy_ _1i~,.

J: How many hours would a trip like that take?

M: It took about twelve hours.

J: Mmm hmm.

M: I remember the first trip I left..... I think I left uh..... Miami sometime