Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador Page 5 LA: back home, cause I'm not used to that. FO: Do you see some changes in this idea of family occuring between your generation and Vincente's? LA: Oh boy, a big change, when I first come in this country the law have regulations a kid under eighteen years of age, the minute the whistle blows in Salt Lake City, anybody can tell you it used to be a great big blow you can hear all over the city, at ten o'clock, no before it was nine but then changed it at ten the kids gotta have one more hour that's the mistake at nine o'clock the kids used to go home and stay home and if a policeman find one or two or three kids in the street after that hour they have to have a pretty good explanation of why they was out whether they was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, they take them to the detention or take them to their parents and give them a good talk to the parents and a good talk to the kids. VM: Do you like that? LA: Don't you think it would be good for young kids to learn self, well, self-respect in other words. You find young kids nowadays ten, twelve years old, smokin', drinkin. Well, I don't see that on a young kid because he's not capacity enough to do those things because to start he don't earn that kind of money. What he does he goes to the Kress's and steal a little bit