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Show Esther Landa tape 1 5-11-82 p.14 We used to relive all those. L: mw.·t. serials? E: Oh, yeah, there was somebody by the name of Dorthy B- c's\ · 4 ~~ • Well, it was like they had wild west serials. too. But you know, you'd see a different chapter every saturday morning. L: This was a film? E: Yeah, you'd have to go downtown to theoovies to see them. Yeah, you'd have a different chapter. There would be wild west. Or there was one on college stuff, and athletics and so on. and I thought that was great stuff. As I said, I was a tomboy, so I liked that ~nd of Lo: Being a tomboy, you must have been a more aggressive young girl. E: Yeah, you might say that. La: I think that's true of many women in leadership capacities ... aggressive ... you talk about being a hero. E: that's what my sister says. I think she's probably right. She's got a better memory than I have. But -- I remember the Wasatch school, the big annual event was the pet show. But I don't think I ever had a pet. I'm allergic to cats. We did have a dog when we livedan Yale Ave. But I'm sure in the Knickerbocker Apts we didn't have any pets. But anyway, that was a big deal, the pet show. And I also remember I played Pocahontas in the third grade. But then w moved to Yale Ave. and we went to a new school which is on 15th East and 13th South and at that time, there were no homes between 13th and 15th East and everything that's Princton, Harvard, LAird, there wereno homes there at all. And the principal of that school was Mr. A. B.. Kessler and he lived down on Yale Ave. about 1150 Yale Ave. there's a big hill going from lith to 13th. We used to sleigh ride there. So we remember in the winter time, he would start out--he was about as tall as Lincoln, looked a little bit like him, and he would break the path in the snow and we'd all fall in behind him and |
