| Title |
Esperanza and Gavino Aguayo, No. 1, Hispanic Oral Histories, Accn 1369 |
| Creator |
Aguayo, Esperanza, 1932-; Aguayo, Gavino |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Date |
1985-02-06 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-02 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Bingham, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans--Utah--Interviews; Aguayo, Esperanza, 1932- --Interviews; Aguayo, Gavnio--Interviews; Discrimination against Mexican Americans; Emigration and immigration--Social aspects |
| Access Rights |
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| Description |
Transcript (102 pages) of part 1 of 2 of interviews by Leslie Kelen with Esperanza and Gavnio Aguayo, on February 6, 1985 and February 25, 1985. |
| Collection Number and Name |
ACCN 1369, Hispanic Oral Histories, 1984-1987 |
| Abstract |
Esperanza Aguaya (b. 1932) recalls her parents and their stories about various revolutions in Mexico. She explains how her parents came here from Mexico intending to stay one year and never went back. She and her brother, Gavino, remember their childhood in Bingham, a small mining town in Utah. Topics discussed include the differences in what girls and boys were allowed to do, street games, Hispanic culture, school, neighbors and friends from various ethnic groups, living conditions in Bingham, and racial/ethnic discrimination. |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
102 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv46923 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s64j2mvp |
| Topic |
Mexican Americans; Emigration and immigration--Social aspects |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
893604 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64j2mvp |
| Title |
Page 20 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
893518 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Esperanzo y Gavino Aguuayo s2:18 GA even the time of the depression, my Dad worked one or two days. Something like that. of course, you'd go into hawk to the store. For the groceries and everything else. I remember that. That's what I can remember about paying off .the barber, the show, with food becuas eyou could buy that on credit. See. (alughs) There was no money, but the food was L You paid your bills by giving somebody ••• GA Yeah. like I said, like the barber, I remmeber taking cans - whatever cans, I don't know what was in them. Mother just gave you can, you know, go get a h2i:i:cut. Or something. The loaf o of bread, Iremember because that used to - that seemed to be the standard ticket. eun the movie house. And he'd take a loaf bread. Of course, the loaf of bread was I think 10 cents. So you paid him back. L That's a great way todo it. GA Oh well ••••. Like I said, it probably ~eally was poor. B- You know, I've seen slums in Chicago. And that - Now that's what I sued to consider poor. Becuase they~were so juml;lled and so dirty. And I didn't think that was-- EA And we wre not dirty. We were clean. GA You know, ti's a town,ik~s poor, but±ti's got the hills; it's got open space. So youreally can't get dirty. You know. our home wasnt that pretty like that. But I remember some of the people in |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64j2mvp/893518 |
