Interviewer:  {NS} Okay Uh say you had three sacks of groceries okay and you had to take them home. And you didn't have your car so you picked them up and what?
888:  Packed them.
Interviewer:  Okay um is there-they're a little heavy you'd say you what?
888:  They was really really heavy.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 Heavy. #
Interviewer:  What'd you say? {X}
888:  Packed them.
Interviewer:  Okay um {NS} you might tell a child that stove is real hot so
888:  Watch out.
Interviewer:  Okay or don't?
888:  Touch it.
Interviewer:  Okay um if I want a knife and I send somebody for it I might say go and what the knife?
888:  Get me a kn- get me a knife.
Interviewer:  Okay um Let's see. {NS} Okay um You throw a ball to somebody and ask him to
888:  Catch it.
Interviewer:  Okay and I threw the ball and he?
888:  Caught it.
Interviewer:  Okay and I have been fishing for trout but I have not?
888:  Caught anything
Interviewer:  Okay um I might say there's no need to hurry I'll wait what you?
888:  Here.
Interviewer:  I'll wait something you.
888:  I'll wait for you.
Interviewer:  Okay um if you're about to punish your child he might say to you oh please what me another?
888:  Give me another chance.
Interviewer:  Okay um {NW} if somebody's always got a smile on his face and always has a pleasant word for everybody and he always seems to be in a good?
888:  Uh mood.
Interviewer:  What?
888:  Good mood.
Interviewer:  Okay um you might say there's that pesky salesman again. Wait 'til I
888:  Get him.
Interviewer:  Huh?
888:  Wait 'til I get him.
Interviewer:  Okay what if you were just going to tell him to go away?
888:  Oh {D: Lizard piss} {NS}
Interviewer:  Wait 'til I what of him?
888:  Get rid of him.
Interviewer:  Okay um {NS} Uh you might say about somebody {NW} he didn't know what was going on but he something like he knew it all.
888:  He he seem like he know what was going on.
Interviewer:  Okay um say a kid left his best pencil on the desk and he came back and he couldn't find it he'd say I bet somebody
888:  #1 Swiped #
Interviewer:  #2 what? #
888:  my pencil.
Interviewer:  What if it was somebody-something more valuable? What would you say?
888:  Somebody uh stole the pencil.
Interviewer:  Okay um you might say gosh I'd forgotten about that but now I {NW}
888:  Now I- repeat it please?
Interviewer:  You might say I had forgotten about that but now I
888:  Remember.
Interviewer:  Okay um you might say to me well you sure must have a better memory than I do because I sure?
888:  Didn't remember.
Interviewer:  Okay um You say I have just what him a letter?
888:  Wrote him a letter.
Interviewer:  Okay and yesterday he what me a letter?
888:  Wrote me a letter.
Interviewer:  Okay and tomorrow I will
888:  Write him a letter.
Interviewer:  Okay and talking about the letter you might say it's about time I was getting im-
888:  A letter.
Interviewer:  Uh okay if I ask you a question you'll give me an?
888:  Answer.
Interviewer:  Okay um okay you put the letter in the envelope and then you take your pen and do what to the back of the envelope?
888:  Write on the back of that.
Interviewer:  Okay but what is it you write?
888:  The name.
Interviewer:  And?
888:  Address.
Interviewer:  Okay and so do you call that anything I mean the whole process of writing the address on there? I've got to something the letter.
888:  Endorse the letter.
Interviewer:  Okay okay um say a child has learned something surprising and the parent says who was it who what you that?
888:  Who was it what?
Interviewer:  Who was it who mm you that?
888:  {C: mumbling}
Interviewer:  Who who was it who something you that? He came home he-he-he he had uh learned something new.
888:  Oh. Who is something.
Interviewer:  Who was it who?
888:  Who-who was it that learned you something new?
Interviewer:  No.
888:  Who was that that learned you something new?
Interviewer:  Okay okay um if somebody asked if you'd put up that new fence yet you'd say no but I was something to pretty soon.
888:  I-I would pretty soon.
Interviewer:  Okay but uh something that sort of like uh you-you need to uh
888:  #1 Oh #
Interviewer:  #2 Is there # another word that you use for that?
888:  I will soon.
Interviewer:  Okay okay um what do children call somebody who's always running and telling something on the other kids?
888:  Tattle-tell.
Interviewer:  Okay uh would you ever use the word tattle-tell when talking about adults?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay uh okay if you want to brighten up your room at the your house or something for a party and you have a lot of thing growing in your garden you'd go out and what?
888:  Pull them up.
Interviewer:  What pull what up?
888:  The plants. What'd you say- repeat that please?
Interviewer:  Okay you want to make the house bright.` Because you're having a party.
888:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Colorful and all that. And you have a bunch of colorful stuff growing out in your garden and so you go out and
888:  Pull it up.
Interviewer:  Okay pull what up?
888:  You said uh colorful stuff.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh okay so what colorful stuff am I probably talking about? I'm not talking about fruits or vegetables but I'm talking about
888:  Flowers.
Interviewer:  Okay {NW} Um okay what do you call something that a child might play with?
888:  Toy.
Interviewer:  Anything else?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay um have you ever used the word play-pretty?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay uh if something happened that you expected to happen that you had predicted would happen or maybe that you were afraid was gonna happen?
888:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  like if for instance if one of the kids hurt himself doing something you told him not to do you'd say well I just what?
888:  I just
Interviewer:  Something that was gonna happen.
888:  {X} I just {X} just in time.
Interviewer:  Okay okay um I might say here's the book you what me for Christmas?
888:  You bought me for Christmas.
Interviewer:  Okay and after you bought it then you?
888:  Gave to her.
Interviewer:  Okay uh I will what it back when I've finished it.
888:  I will give it back to you when I've finished it.
Interviewer:  Okay because you have what me so many other good books?
888:  Gave me so many other good books.
Interviewer:  Okay would you use that in the whole sentence?
888:  Because you keep- because you you have given me so many other books.
Interviewer:  Okay um I might say I sure am glad I carried my umbrella we hadn't gone half a block when it?
888:  Rained.
Interviewer:  Or what to rain?
888:  Pour I mean Rained down.
Interviewer:  When it something to rain.
888:  When it something to rain?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm we hadn't gone it was sunny when we started out but we hadn't gone half a block when it?
888:  Started raining.
Interviewer:  Okay um You might uh let's see I might say why are you out of breath? And you might say well I just feeling so happy that I what all the way home?
888:  Ran all the way home.
Interviewer:  Okay and horses gallop but people
888:  People {X}
Interviewer:  Well you just ran all the way home.
888:  But people
Interviewer:  Same word.
888:  Ran. I mean whatcha say?
Interviewer:  Horses gallop but people {NS} Not ran but Ru-
888:  Run.
Interviewer:  Okay okay is that-is that what-what you would say?
888:  No. {D:I mean} would you repeat that again?
Interviewer:  Okay horses gallop but people don't gallop they
888:  {X}
Interviewer:  Uh oh okay uh Okay uh you might say gosh I'm late I'm going to have to what in order to get there.
888:  On time.
Interviewer:  On time yeah not not walk but?
888:  Run.
Interviewer:  Okay um you might say they have what a mile everyday this week?
888:  Walked a mile.
Interviewer:  Not walked but?
888:  Ran a mile.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay now #
888:  #2 everyday #
Interviewer:  they have would you say the whole sentence for me?
888:  Oh. They ran a mile every week.
Interviewer:  Okay but there's a have in there. {X} Start and put the have in okay? They have
888:  They have ran a mile every day.
Interviewer:  Okay okay uh one more. Uh if you didn't know where a man was born you might ask where does he what from?
888:  Where is he from?
Interviewer:  Where does he something from?
888:  Where does he uh
Interviewer:  #1 Where does #
888:  #2 Born in? #
Interviewer:  Where does he mm
888:  #1 Where do where #
Interviewer:  #2 from? #
888:  do he come from?
Interviewer:  Okay uh and somebody might say he what in on the train last night? Same word. He what in on the train last-?
888:  He came- he came in on the train last night.
Interviewer:  Okay and he has something to our town every month this year.
888:  {X}
Interviewer:  Has- no just using the same verb.
888:  Oh.
Interviewer:  He has
888:  He has uh {NS} came to our town every month.
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} {X} {X} {X} {X} Okay with your eyes you?
888:  see.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh you might say I what her outside just a few minutes ago?
888:  I seen her outside a few minutes ago.
Interviewer:  Okay and you might say we have what so little of you all this year?
888:  We have seen a just a lot of little of you {X}
Interviewer:  Okay {X} Because I don't like it
888:  Oh.
Interviewer:  To the mic.
888:  Oh.
Interviewer:  Um Oh you might say about some road you might say you can't get in that way the highway department's got the machines in the road's all
888:  Blocked off.
Interviewer:  Okay or what else though?
888:  Blocked out.
Interviewer:  Uh so they've got the road they've taken up the pavement you know just taken it up so they can lay down some more.
888:  They got the road closed.
Interviewer:  Okay uh uh but if they're taking it up the road is all what up?
888:  the pavement's all up.
Interviewer:  Okay uh okay say you got attacked by a dog on your way home {D: and the doctor looks at the injury} He tried to bite you and and he ripped all your clothes up and so all your clothes were what up?
888:  Ate up.
Interviewer:  Okay or another word
888:  Bitten up. Bitten up.
Interviewer:  Okay or they're ripped. What's the other word for ripped?
888:  Tore up.
Interviewer:  Okay alright. Um. {X} If you give somebody a bracelet and she sits there and looks at it you might say why don't you?
888:  Put it on.
Interviewer:  Um. I might say can you mm that?
888:  Can you move {X}
Interviewer:  This is gonna be a short word.
888:  #1 Repeat it? #
Interviewer:  #2 I don't # I'm asking if you're capable of something I'll say can you mm that?
888:  Can you do that?
Interviewer:  Okay. And you might say well my sister yesterday {X}
888:  She did it.
Interviewer:  Okay and then you say sure I have what that all my life.
888:  Did it all my- did it all my life.
Interviewer:  Okay would you use the whole sentence for me?
888:  Okay
Interviewer:  I have
888:  I have did it all my life.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh I might ask you what you do and you might you might shrug your shoulders and shake your head and say ah?
888:  Nothing.
Interviewer:  And I might say aw come on there must be?
888:  Something.
Interviewer:  Okay eh sometimes you hear an old person say well I never heard of?
888:  Such things.
Interviewer:  Okay um If I ask you how long something's been there you might say well I don't know as far as I know it's?
888:  Been there forever.
Interviewer:  Okay or another word is it's something been there.
888:  Something in there. I mean
Interviewer:  {D: Been there forever hasn't it}
888:  It's a {X} It's all dirty.
Interviewer:  {X}
888:  Say it again.
Interviewer:  Okay I might ask you how long has that been there and you might say well I don't know as far as I know it's?
888:  It's been there forever.
Interviewer:  Okay or it's something been there. Uh not just Oh I know maybe uh Have you ever seen a dog walk kids to school?
888:  Yes.
Interviewer:  Yeah okay well I might ask you if uh uh how often does that dog do that and you might say well he doesn't do it sometimes he?
888:  Often do it.
Interviewer:  Okay but not just sometimes he does it
888:  #1 Always do it. He always do it. #
Interviewer:  #2 everyday s- what? # Okay uh uh I might say how long have you been living here and you might say ever mm I?
888:  Ever since.
Interviewer:  What?
888:  Every since.
Interviewer:  Okay and you might say it wasn't an accident he did it?
888:  On purpose.
Interviewer:  And uh somebody might ask me a question and I might say I don't know you'd better mm him.
888:  Ask him. Ask the other person.
Interviewer:  Okay. So then you went and you?
888:  Asked him.
Interviewer:  Okay and he'd say why you have mm me that?
888:  {X} Asked me that.
Interviewer:  Okay uh you might say those little boys like to?
888:  Fight.
Interviewer:  Okay and every time they met they?
888:  Fight.
Interviewer:  Okay um they don't so much anymore but used to be every time they saw each other they'd?
888:  Fight.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh
888:  {D: fought}
Interviewer:  {X} Another word for they would fight would be they?
888:  Fought.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh they have what ever since they were small.
888:  Fought.
Interviewer:  Okay and you might say he took a big {NS} took a big knife and she what him with it?
888:  Stabbed him with it.
Interviewer:  Okay um {NS} funny picture's been drawn on the blackboard the teacher might come in and say all right who mm that?
888:  Who drew that?
Interviewer:  Okay and if you were going to lift something like a piece of machinery up on a roof you might use pulley blocks and a rope to what it up?
888:  Pull it up.
Interviewer:  Okay another word for pull?
888:  Another word for pull?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  Um {NS} jack.
Interviewer:  Okay um okay would there-now I don't know San Antonio very well so you're going to have to explain to me would you describe for me the major sections of the city and like what the names of them are?
888:  Okay.
Interviewer:  Like in Dallas you've got North Dallas okay that's a big section of the city. But I don't know you know here what it's like.
888:  Okay. Well uh they got Alamo Heights and that's another part of the city. Alamo Heights is not it's-it's in San Antonio but it's not the city.
Interviewer:  Oh
888:  It's nearby here but it's not San Antonio it's another you know another city.
Interviewer:  It's uh
888:  Eh
Interviewer:  It's kinda in the metropolitan area but it's?
888:  Yes. It's not you know the city.
Interviewer:  Who lives there?
888:  Well
Interviewer:  #1 What sort of people? #
888:  #2 {X} # White folks. White and colored. I say white and colored.
Interviewer:  Poor ones or rich ones or?
888:  I say rich people because my teacher live over there too. And I got a couple of friends that live over there.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  He's not rich but he's average you know. He's average.
Interviewer:  Okay
888:  And they got they got Bexar county. That's that's us right here. Bexar county.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  And then they got what's that little? {X} They got Manwood. You heard of Manwood? You know where Manwood at?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  They got Manwood. It's supposed to be San Antonio but some people don't call it San Antonio. It's a different section of you know places where things is going. It's not at like the city limits- it's not out of like the city- city limits of Texas.
Interviewer:  Who lives there?
888:  Well mostly spanish to colored people
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh are they poor #
888:  #2 and #
Interviewer:  or rich or what?
888:  I'd say you know average average.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  Then uh mostly that's you know like controlled by uh different police like Olmos Park police. They're not controlled by San Antonio police.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  They got different you know fire departments and stuff like that.
Interviewer:  Yes
888:  #1 City hall. #
Interviewer:  #2 what about school? # Is that different too or?
888:  Yeah you know they got Alamo Heights school. The one I was telling you about you know that's out of the city limits but it's close by here. And it's called Alamo Heights. Mostly all white people go there. And it's a pretty big school and it's they pretty you know strict on the rules over there.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  And that's about all I can tell you about it. Just a section but
Interviewer:  #1 Okay where do the #
888:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  poorest people live?
888:  The poorest people?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  {NW} That's a good question. The poorest people they stay all around in Kenwood where I am right now.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  We're not poor but right now we- we still looking for a house see we're moving soon and they building- they're supposed to be building our house well this is not the poor area but I'll tell you where the poor area is.
Interviewer:  Where is that?
888:  That's way back over on west side. {NS} Like the slum.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  This area right here most everybody working here lives in Kenwood right here.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  This is not the poor area. But you know the way things they don't want to bring things up in here you know it could go up you know but they tight on the money now you know the people that help- help some people but but we don't we're moving- see they're building our house but they're taking their time building it see well had they bought our land and our house cuz we had bought the house that we're living in right now.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  See they're building new houses for everybody you know. And right now we're still- they're building it but they haven't finished yet.
Interviewer:  Yeah mm-hmm yeah okay uh what are the- what are the major um nationalities or I want to say ethnic groups that live in San Antonio? There's blacks and whites and who else?
888:  Mexicans.
Interviewer:  Okay and who-anybody else?
888:  Puerto Ricans.
Interviewer:  Yeah
888:  #1 and #
Interviewer:  #2 do they live in # with the rest of the Mexican community or are they separate?
888:  Well I think they live in SORTA like the I say Mexican community because they don't Puerto Ricans you know some of them act like blacks and some of them you know don't because you can't tell them sometimes apart because they almost look like they're black but they're really Puerto Rican. And the Mexicans they live with the they live with different societies like I think Mexicans live with {X} {NS} well I can't say the other names that also live with them. All I know is that a lot of them come from Mexico and taking these jobs in San Antonio.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm mm-hmm okay um what do you call uh the-the place in town the central place where all the main offices of the big banks are?
888:  The main offices?
Interviewer:  Yeah all the big banks.
888:  All right I'll call I'll tell you the big banks. San Antonio Savings
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  And Alamo Bank
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  and that's the biggest offices I know of.
Interviewer:  Where are they?
888:  San antonio- it's downtown on the corner of Travis or Travis right across the street from Travis Park.
Interviewer:  Okay okay where are the biggest uh the oldest and the biggest department stores? Where are they?
888:  The oldest and the biggest?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  Well I would tell you the biggest department stores is Joske's and out there at the mall You go out there towards the mall and you can go and find anything you want.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  This one place you just start to walking you don't have to you know go on the outside {X} you know just a plain mall.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Is this one out north?
888:  Yeah right out go straight out San Pedro. I came out there from the other day.
Interviewer:  Oh. Where are the oldest stores? You know the original department stores. Where are they?
888:  The oldest stores? The department clothing stores?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Well oldest that I can think of is
Interviewer:  The oldest big ones you know.
888:  The oldest biggest store. I think the oldest I could say is Temple.
Interviewer:  Yeah where's that?
888:  That's down town on Houston. They've been in business a long time.
Interviewer:  Yeah okay um are there names for places like like Kenwood and uh over in the west where Spanish speaking people live that an outsider might not recognize?
888:  An outsider might not recognize where I live at right now?
Interviewer:  Yeah I mean like uh you could say Kenwood and I'd know what you're talking about. But is there is there a name for the area that I wouldn't know or somebody you know from out of town wouldn't know?
888:  Yes it wouldn't be a name but somebody wouldn't know because the reason I say that because we got names for the whole whole you know the whole section over here.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  And other names like Lynwood and I told you about like Lynwood that's a section about like Kenwood.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  But whites you know whites and spanish Mexicans and a few whites stay over there in Lynwood and a couple blacks friends of mine and somebody coming from out of town and they don't know the name and they get it mixed up with Kenwood they {X} Laurelwood. There's another one called Laurelwood.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  Laurelwood is back that way.
Interviewer:  Where south?
888:  Going back this way toward Hildebrandt yeah. No that's
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Going towards west.
Interviewer:  Yeah okay okay who lives there?
888:  Who lives there?
Interviewer:  Yeah laurel- Laurelwood?
888:  It's mostly white people live there. That's where rich white people live.
Interviewer:  White kinda- what kinda white? Middle or rich?
888:  Upper class rich people.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay uh
888:  {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah must be nice. Uh Okay do any of the place like Kenwood and uh the west side and all those have they're own like financial districts where their you know they have their own banks or are those you know mixed in with the white community?
888:  Are they mixed in with the white community?
Interviewer:  Yeah I mean like the banks and the businesses that would be just- just black?
888:  Are you trying say it's just black all black?
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah like #
888:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  a bank owned by all blacks or something like that?
888:  No there's no bank in San Antonio by all blacks.
Interviewer:  Yeah okay well is that all uh Mexicans? Would they own banks?
888:  Yes I think so.
Interviewer:  Would they be in with the like where the bank- white banks are or would they be off
888:  #1 Maybe #
Interviewer:  #2 someplace else? #
888:  They wouldn't be all they wouldn't be all they wouldn't own nothing but they'd be all together {X} in on with the white people. by working there. #1 Black people work #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
888:  together with white people because they don't own the bank but they work for it.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I see- I know a lot of people who work for it but black people work for the bank but they don't own it.
Interviewer:  Yeah. So all the banks are you know in one place?
888:  Well they not in one place down in San Antonio they're all over town.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  They got the San Antonio Savings down there. That's where I keep my money at. And they got Northeast Savings and then they got Merchant Bank down there at the mall out there. {X} Then they got the new bank they built Alamo Bank. Then they got another san antonio savings over there on commerce.
Interviewer:  They do okay.
888:  There's a lot of banks. They got {X} {NS}
Interviewer:  Something else I want to ask you um in san antonio do rich blacks and poor blacks live in the same neighborhood or do rich blacks live where white I mean huh where rich whites would live? And poor blacks live where poor whites would live. Or do all the blacks live together and all the whites live together?
888:  That's- that's a tough question.
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  Well uh all I can say that the white people right now we used to live around a lot of white people up in remember when I told you that we lived in Linwood. And then we moved and we stay up there with white people. And mostly white people's off to theyself. And {NS} the black and the spanish sometimes together but it's all mixed up I mean you know in this area but mostly whites towards going towards San Pedro they off to theyself. And the blacks some of the blacks is off to theyself. So the spanish people is off to theyself.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  So are Puerto Ricans and or any groups.
Interviewer:  Okay
888:  But they all mixed in different neighborhoods because they most people come from Mexico here.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Taking over these you know jobs taking ours.
Interviewer:  Uh the ones who live together are they mostly poor or are they middle or are they rich?
888:  Most most of them that live together?
Interviewer:  Yeah that- that I mean are mixed in with like the whites.
888:  Oh they rich. They got money. All blacks I'm not trying to say all blacks is poor
Interviewer:  #1 No. #
888:  #2 Some # blacks is rich.
Interviewer:  Yeah yeah but I mean like is there if you get a neighborhood where where they're all mixed up would you say they're the same economic bracket or do you think that varies?
888:  They're they same bracket.
Interviewer:  Yeah okay.
888:  Not some people but.
Interviewer:  Mm
888:  Yeah same bracket. Go ahead.
Interviewer:  Okay so would that mainly be you know for the ones that are mixed in together would that mainly be uh more wealthy or or not very wealthy or middle?
888:  Not very wealthy because if they was wealthy they wouldn't just move into any kind of neighborhood.
Interviewer:  they what I can't hear you.
888:  They wouldn't move in right in the inner ci- you know any kind of neighborhood without they had good money they would move somewhere that they wanted to be ag- with their own people.
Interviewer:  Oh if they have enough money they're going to be segregated. Is that what you're saying?
888:  Well see mostly people that move in with different groups of the races I mean they they don't have to move but they have to move you know
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Because of the money. You know if they didn't have they had enough money to get a place a real nice place they move off where they own people live. It wouldn't be no problem.
Interviewer:  Okay yeah that's what I was trying to find out but I get it. Okay it's interesting how these things work out in different cities because you know they're different in different cities. Um okay where do the probably the richest people in town live?
888:  The richest people?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I'm going to tell you where the richest people live in San Antonio It's in Terrell Hills.
Interviewer:  What what?
888:  Terrell Hills
Interviewer:  yeah?
888:  And Pecan Valley.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  {NW} {X}
Interviewer:  Which which direction is that from here?
888:  Terrell Hills?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  It's going st- straight out.
Interviewer:  North?
888:  Yeah going straight out it's it's going way you you going to take, say you take the San Pedro all the way out
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  And then you should run into Terrell Hills if you keep straight.
Interviewer:  Before you hit route four ten or after?
888:  After. It's way it's kinda out.
Interviewer:  #1 North of the {X} #
888:  #2 In the Pecan Valley # You know where the Pecan Valley is don't you?
Interviewer:  Huh-uh.
888:  It's back out that way.
Interviewer:  South?
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Where- where is it I mean? Is it between here and downtown or?
888:  Well it's past downtown. And it's going t- no I said I said Terrell Hills is going toward the east.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  It's a big community. Now we right now we could move way out but we don't want to move way out because it's all the jobs is located in this area right here see you move somewhere out and you got to come way back over her you know taking a bus or driving you know you'd be saving a lot of money if you could just stay in the section that you can work and get a good job.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Because most of it- this is right now this is where the jobs at on the north side of town.
Interviewer:  Is that right?
888:  Like I work at Trinity University. It's a Trinity University. It's right over there. I can walk over there to work if I want to.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  Cuz it's close by my house.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  Now if I was living over on the other side of town I would have to take the bus or ride my cycle. Which I be burning a lot of gas.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  So that's why right now we trying to- we having a house built but you know this development agency they take their time about doing it. Because they doing a lot of people like that. See they building Kenwood up. I wouldn't say it's poor but they building it up. You ha- you haven't seen the new some of the new houses they build out here have you?
Interviewer:  I don't think so.
888:  No you- right here this part is the Spanish Mexican group round this part right here. Black part is over that way. Over there on Main.
Interviewer:  #1 Oh yeah. #
888:  #2 Over there towards Main. #
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  This is the Spanish the Spanish Kenwood part.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay let's see um Okay what are some-some of the um what are some of the landmarks around here or well-known places that tourists come to see?
888:  Landmarks?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Well uh the Alamo.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Is that what you #1 talking about? #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah but kind of the #
888:  Okay the Alamo the HemisFair HemisFair Tower uh {X}
Interviewer:  {X} What was that you named after the alamo?
888:  Oh the Alamo. You know where the alamo is down on alamo
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  street? They come to see that because that's one of the things that some people have never seen before.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  And then they go over to the HemisFair tower to see the HemisFair tower because they've never been way up high. Because they don't see too many tall buildings like that
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Yeah Other thing is they come to see how San Antonio is really built.
Interviewer:  Yeah. What about parks? What all kind of
888:  #1 Yeah they come to brackenridge park because #
Interviewer:  #2 parks are there? #
888:  Brackenridge Park is about I wouldn't say the largest park in San Antonio but I just that's the only park that I know that people will go to more often because of its everything is mostly happening at Brackenridge Park.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh uh-huh.
888:  Yeah and now they come to it to the zoo.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  Course the only people in
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  You know
Interviewer:  #1 Do you know any other names #
888:  #2 out of state. #
Interviewer:  for Brackenridge Park? Do you call it anything else?
888:  Anything else besides Brackenridge Park?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  No just Brackenridge Park.
Interviewer:  Okay okay.
888:  And the Brackenridge Zoo.
Interviewer:  What else is there? Any other parks?
888:  Yeah they got Comanche Park they got
Interviewer:  What park?
888:  Comanche Park
Interviewer:  Where's that?
888:  Comanche park is way out there. Towards actually you got have {X} way out there towards W- W- White Road.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  And they got Olmos Park which people can't go to Olmos Park right now because they running the express way through here going to Olmos Street. You know where Olmos Street at don't you?
Interviewer:  uh-uh.
888:  It's over there by my you know where that church at over there on {X}
Interviewer:  Huh-uh. Which church now?
888:  {X} church. You see
Interviewer:  #1 Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah #
888:  #2 {X} # Right that street run right there they going straight up one across the ri- like they're going to cross the river. They building an express way all the way through.
Interviewer:  Oh
888:  Going across the stadium.
Interviewer:  Yeah
888:  #1 Here the other people come #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah #
888:  And you know they they really can't help right now the parks they they tore the old park up on the Cuz they running the express way through there. And they got another park called Lakeview yeah Lakeview Park Lakeview.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh uh-huh.
888:  And that's all I can tell you.
Interviewer:  Do any of these parks have other names? Other than you know just the name of the park?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay um if you were uh flying home from new york where would your plane land?
888:  Flying home from New York?
Interviewer:  Yeah. {NS}
888:  On the airport.
Interviewer:  Okay okay what's the name of the airport? Do you know?
888:  Might be Kennedy Airport. I'm not sure.
Interviewer:  Okay okay that'd be in new york. What's the airport here?
888:  Oh the airport here?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I couldn't- I know I- I know where the airport is but I don't know the name of it but I never ride the plane cuz I don't want to get on one.
Interviewer:  Yeah {NW}
888:  It's right over there but I don't know the name of it.
Interviewer:  Okay okay what would you call it if you were just talking to somebody about it?
888:  I call it the northside airport.
Interviewer:  Okay okay um if you were uh if you were driving in from like yeah okay say houston what highway or what road would you come in on?
888:  Coming from Houston?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Well I would probably take the Seguini road and think it's {D:I H ten} something like that.
Interviewer:  What?
888:  Not I-H ten no. Highway ninety.
Interviewer:  What's the difference when you said I's on one of them and highway on the other one? What's the difference there?
888:  What's the difference from I-H ten or something like that?
Interviewer:  Yeah. What's the difference between I-H and highway?
888:  Highway? Well I guess it's a different interstate {X} that's a different intersection between the highway.
Interviewer:  What?
888:  Different be- section between the highways.
Interviewer:  Oh I see okay.
888:  {X} We was coming in last night I think it was highway nine we came in and then we hit some kind of little then we hit randolph road.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  And then we came over here.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh okay.
888:  Next thing I know.
Interviewer:  Okay um if you stop um along the interstate i h 10 or whatever he stops. Uh what would you call a place where you stop? And it just had like uh old picnic tables and garbage cans and stuff like that and that's all it had. What would you call that place?
888:  Rest area.
Interviewer:  Okay. What if they had um you know a rest room and oh water fountains and more stuff. What would you call it then? Same thing or no?
888:  {X} Rest area is is what would I call it? I'd just say rest area.
Interviewer:  Okay what if it was uh what if it had restaurants? You know a place to eat and filling stations? Then what would you call it?
888:  I'd call it
Interviewer:  Same thing or?
888:  Snack bar.
Interviewer:  Okay okay um Oh what do you call that thing that's painted on the road to help you stay in your own lane?
888:  What do you call it?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  The line ones or the stripes?
Interviewer:  Just-just-just the painted things.
888:  Strips. Splits the side roads strips.
Interviewer:  Okay okay what do you call the round things?
888:  I call them dots.
Interviewer:  What?
888:  Dots. I call them dots.
Interviewer:  How do you spell it?
888:  D-O-T-R dots I guess. Dot
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  D-O something like that. I don't know how you
Interviewer:  Are these things arranged in a line?
888:  Yeah in in a line. I don't know what y'all call them but that's what I call them.
Interviewer:  I don't guess I ever called them anything.
888:  I don't really call them that neither but I just give them a name. That's what everybody else you know they don't really use it. They don't ask- never asks me what you call them
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  They look like dots to me because they round and in the street they look like dots.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  Some call them dots some call them dots
Interviewer:  Uh-huh okay I get it I guess I never talked about them much at all. Um let's see what would you call the thing that goes down the middle of the road that's like usually you got it on a bigger highway you know it's got a concrete thing that goes up and then sometimes there's a steel fence on top of that you know well a little fence about like that- steel railing. What would you call something like that?
888:  What would I call it? I would call it nothing. I don't know a name for it.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  Unless it's no I don't have a name for that.
Interviewer:  Okay okay um Okay if you were on highway ten or something like that what do you call that place where you get on? You know it comes in an angle?
888:  The intersection.
Interviewer:  Well no I think of an intersection to me is something that is square you know. But these- you know call it an intersection anyway these things come in like this and these things come in an angle and you don't have to stop necessarily to get on. Now you- you might I mean you know I want to make sure we're talking about the same thing.
888:  Are you trying to say that when another road meets with each other you don't have to stop?
Interviewer:  Well you know how highway ten will be going on like this and on each side of it there's another little road?
888:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Like it's just one way each way.
888:  One way.
Interviewer:  Yeah and and then uh you get up on highway ten just by going up there's a yield sign but there's no stop sign or anything like that and you can just kind if there's nobody coming you don't have to stop or anything you can just go on up.
888:  I would just say I'd just say drive on and that.
Interviewer:  Okay alright do you- do you have a name for the place you get off of an interstate?
888:  The name of the place.
Interviewer:  Yeah you know these places it's kinda like the place where you get on except that I think the oncoming traffic has to yield to you.
888:  Oh yeah. The oncoming traffic yields to you like you're getting off. And when you're getting off {X} the high- express way whatever {X} I mean you know You've got to give them the right of way let them know that you're getting off.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay let's see um {NS} Okay what all um what all different names do you have for things that are streets? I mean why do you call one kinda thing a highway and you might call this a street
888:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  What other names like that do you have? Do you know?
888:  Uh avenue
Interviewer:  #1 What? #
888:  #2 street # I get what you mean and I call it some of them's alleys.
Interviewer:  What's an alley?
888:  An alley is a place where you can it's not a large road it's still small and it's mostly a place where you gotta be careful in because you don't know what's going to come out. You don't because there's no stop signs that don't mean you don't stop you have to stop and you gotta be careful about people walking in the alley because some people try to take a short cut through the alley.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. #1 Does an alley #
888:  #2 (X) #
Interviewer:  go like behind houses or behind buildings or between?
888:  Behi- behind them between them everything.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh okay okay what else is there?
888:  Roads.
Interviewer:  Okay yeah.
888:  Well the roads well they got dirt roads. {NS} and then they got that's the only kind of roads that I can tell you.
Interviewer:  Okay okay um {NS} okay and just a street like this what would you call it a street or would you call it a road or?
888:  I just call it a street.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
888:  #2 Or a road #
Interviewer:  Okay um {X} over here on like over here on san pedro there's uh a place where the road goes down I think goes under some railroad tracks
888:  Oh you talking
Interviewer:  #1 What would you call that place? #
888:  #2 {X} # That's a underpass.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay uh {NS} Um let's see what else do we have? If a car was parked right here but parked this way with the curve?
888:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  What do you call that kind of parking?
888:  Parallel park.
Interviewer:  Okay what if the car was parked well like I am over there like kinda you know on the other side of the building where I kinda hid at the end of the parking place? What do you call that kind of parking? {NS}
888:  Just regular park.
Interviewer:  Okay okay um What do you call those things where the fire department hooks up the hose when it has to put out a fire?
888:  What do you call them?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  I call them fire faucets.
Interviewer:  What?
888:  Fire faucets.
Interviewer:  Okay okay uh if you were going to go down town and park where would you park if you couldn't find a parking place on the street?
888:  If I would go down and I couldn't find one?
Interviewer:  Yeah if you couldn't find just along the street you know at a meter where would you park?
888:  Probably a parking lot.
Interviewer:  Okay um can you describe a parking lot for me?
888:  A parking lot is a place where you can put cars in and different other things like you- other size cars you can put trucks and other type of vehicles as long as you know you pay for your park.
Interviewer:  Okay is it just open?
888:  It's open. It's all you just drive right in.
Interviewer:  Okay okay um downtown San Antonio do they have um whole buildings or private buildings where you where you drive in and maybe park it yourself and maybe somebody takes the car and goes and
888:  #1 Yes they do. #
Interviewer:  #2 parks it for you? #
888:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 What do you call them? #
888:  Well they- I call it park and drive I guess.
Interviewer:  A what?
888:  Driver. Some people you call it a park and drive. So then you then you park the car and then drive it.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
888:  #2 And then they # you know they'll tell you they'll take it from there. You go and they park and drive it.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay okay say I saw a sign the other day I want to see if you know about this It said park and ride. What is that? What does it mean?
888:  Park and ride?
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah it was just a little sign #
888:  #2 Oh #
Interviewer:  it said park and ride.
888:  Well it means that you park your car and you can take the bus and for what you can take. Just park your car and ride the bus.
Interviewer:  Oh yeah like downtown or
888:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 something? # And the bus will bring you back out to the same parking
888:  #1 Yes. #
Interviewer:  #2 lot. #
888:  It's cuz you going somewhere and you don't have a parking space so you can ride the bus and save gas and different thing.
Interviewer:  That sounds like it'd be a good deal.
888:  {X} That's why they got all the buses at the p- park and drive.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  Park and ride. Did you say park and ride?
Interviewer:  Yeah I think that's what I said.
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Is that what it's supposed to say?
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Or do they- is it park and drive?
888:  Uh park and drive I'm talking about's- park and ride I'm ta- yeah park and ride was right.
Interviewer:  Okay okay uh let's see what are the- other than the uh hemisfair tower what are the other tallest buildings in town?
888:  Tallest buildings?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Besides the Hemisfair Tower?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  This place called not the Alamo I forgot the that's the Alamo down there that's going in to town on East Houston Street. and I think that's the second tallest building downtown in San Antonio.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  And they got Bexar county jail It's pretty tall.
Interviewer:  Jail?
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  The jail's tall?
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Huh
888:  You've never seen have you seen Bexar county jail?
Interviewer:  Well I may have and just didn't know what it was you know.
888:  It's a pretty tall building they got a lot of people down there.
Interviewer:  Gosh
888:  It's pretty tall. That's and I say that Bexar county I take that back yeah I say the sa- that little that building down on cotton down there called Alamo is the biggest and the third one coming is the jail house- Bexar county jailhouse San Antonio.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  That's about the tallest buildings I can think of in San Antonio right now downtown.
Interviewer:  Do you have one name that would cover all those tall tall buildings?
888:  The Empires.
Interviewer:  What?
888:  The Empires. One name.
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
888:  #2 Empires. #
Interviewer:  Okay anything else that you might call them?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh where do you think they got that name? The Empires? Is that what you called them?
888:  Well I- I gave them that name.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh why is that?
888:  Reason I say that name is because they look like empire building which is t- what I mean is towers because I would say I would say that they look like towers but they ain't built like towers they built like towers.
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
888:  #2 But # they not you know look like a tower's real small you know and they look like a jail. {X} I just say empire buildings. cuz they big. You understand? {NS}
Interviewer:  No {X}
888:  Oh.
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  {NW} Well I what I mean is about the empire buildings like big building that pretty big like if you can go on top of the empire building {C: child yelling} and you can see how far it is from down up on top of the building and you can see up.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um what would you call a real tall apartment building? What would you call that?
888:  A building.
Interviewer:  #1 What? #
888:  #2 The Hilton. #
Interviewer:  Okay if you didn't call it a specific name like that you know just a {X} in general for a real tall apartment building what would you call it?
888:  I call it {C: I can only assume this is the mother of the yelling child} uh tower apartments I guess.
Interviewer:  Okay. {X} what do you call an area in the city where some buildings had been torn down? And {C: And now there are more children} and they hadn't replaced them yet? {NS}
888:  The building's been torn down?
Interviewer:  Yeah. And they hadn't put anything back on there. {NS}
888:  I call it a parking lot cuz when they knock a building down that's being built on they call it a parking lot.
Interviewer:  {X} What about a smaller area like right around here {X} what would you call an area like that? Like around here uh But it just wasn't a house on it? Kids like may play baseball out there or something
888:  Vacant lot
Interviewer:  What?
888:  The vacant lot.
Interviewer:  Okay okay uh what would you call the thing where you get a drink of water in public place?
888:  A water fountain.
Interviewer:  Okay uh what would you call if it was in a park? The same thing?
888:  Water fountain.
Interviewer:  Okay um what are some different kinds of cars and trucks? Other than brand names you know like Chevrolet and ford and like that but like just what are some different kinds?
888:  Different kinds?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Brand names?
Interviewer:  Not brand names.
888:  Not brand names what's the different kinds? Well they got the kind of trucks that you got They got the camp on them. They got El Caminos and they call them trucks. You know El Camino?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  They look like cars but they're trucks.
Interviewer:  What kind of car- what kind of truck carries a camper?
888:  What kinds of truck carries a camper?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  It's any size I mean about a ten about a ten ton truck.
Interviewer:  {X}
888:  Ten ton uh
Interviewer:  What?
888:  about a ten ton truck.
Interviewer:  Okay what kind of truck is that I mean what would you call it?
888:  What would I call it I just say a regular truck.
Interviewer:  Okay okay um all right what are some other kinds?
888:  Uh Small trucks El Caminos They carry campers.
Interviewer:  What?
888:  El Caminos.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  They carry campers too.
Interviewer:  Okay what about cars?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay uh let me think. What do you call that kind of truck that like delivers flowers you know? That has a closed bed?
888:  Delivers flowers?
Interviewer:  Yeah like it some sort of delivery truck you know that has has a has sort of a closed bed where they can put flowers or whatever back in there. You know some sort of delivery truck. {X}
888:  I call it I call it uh storeroom.
Interviewer:  Mm okay um let's see what do you call the kind of car that has got two regular bench type seats you know like my car does but then back behind it it's got a lot of room where you can put suitcases or maybe a whole scout troop full of kids or?
888:  What kind of car would I call it?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Station wagon.
Interviewer:  Okay um say what do you call a kind of small truck that most farmers might have? With an open bed and you know they drive them in from farms you know with feed sacks on the back?
888:  Uh T-model trucks. T-model {X}
Interviewer:  What do you call little bitty fast cars?
888:  Little bitty fast car?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I'd say Sting Ray.
Interviewer:  Okay do you have another more general sort of name for something like that?
888:  Fast car. Hot rod.
Interviewer:  Okay okay um is a hot rod a new car old car or? {NS}
888:  Well you it's old and new.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Because you can make an old car out of make an old car run as good as a new car.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  And you if you get a new car and if it's a hot rod it's a hot rod.
Interviewer:  What do you use a hot rod for?
888:  Racing.
Interviewer:  On the streets?
888:  Not on the not on the s- well they do it on the streets but you know you get caught if you you know they usually they go to the Alamo dragway.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 I don't know #
Interviewer:  Where's that?
888:  That's going towards road T
Interviewer:  Okay okay um mm Okay uh what's the difference between a sedan and a coop? You know?
888:  Sedan and a coop?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Uh well I'd say a sedan is bigger than a what you say? A coop?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I think a sedan is bigger than a coop because it's got more room.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  And a coop. It don't have too much room.
Interviewer:  Okay um {NW} does a coop just have on seat or does it have a front and a back seat or can it have either or?
888:  Um It can ha- they got a front and a back no it just got a front and a back seat.
Interviewer:  Okay okay um what would you call big car like a Cadillac or something? What would you call that sort of a show off king of car?
888:  I'd say luxury car.
Interviewer:  Okay um.. If you went to the airport from a motel say you didn't car you didn't take your own car you know.
888:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  uh and you didn't take a cab sometimes those motels have a big car that will take you to the airport. Do you know what they're called?
888:  Taxi.
Interviewer:  Okay okay uh okay and the park and ride thing you take a what is it you take down town?
888:  You take your car and then you oh park and ride?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Oh park
Interviewer:  You take your car and park it and then what?
888:  Dr- uh ride park and ride I guess. You take the bus you park uh see if you're going down town
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  You wanna leave your car and you want to go somewhere else you take the bus so you park in th- you park and ride.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Okay On the the car um what do you call that thing up front where the odometer is and all that other stuff
888:  {NS} What do I call it?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  What you mean?
Interviewer:  Uh you know it's got the oh okay it's got the odometer and it's got oh I don't know sometimes there's a clock up there. There's a whole kind of panel that runs across right under the windshield and it's got a bunch of dials and stuff on it
888:  What do I call that?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I just say the operating buttons.
Interviewer:  Okay okay um on this panel over to the right usually there's a little place where you can keep I don't know matches or a flashlight or something like that.
888:  {X}
Interviewer:  What?
888:  Glove department.
Interviewer:  Okay uh what might you wrap around several maps to keep them together or something. A stretchy thing.
888:  Something might I wrap around them?
Interviewer:  Yeah. I just lost mine. I keep one on my {X} and I lost it.
888:  A rubber band.
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} Um okay you just had uh a few sheets of information to keep together um you might put a little metal thing kinda at the top here. What would you call that?
888:  A cliff.
Interviewer:  Okay. Any particular kind of clip?
888:  Paper clip.
Interviewer:  Okay a what?
888:  Paper clip.
Interviewer:  Okay uh let's see. Where do you keep the spare tire at in a car?
888:  In the back trunk.
Interviewer:  Okay and what do you call it the thing that you push down to make it go faster?
888:  What do I call it?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  I just say What you mean?
Interviewer:  Uh like you're driving along and #1 you have to speed up to get around somebody #
888:  #2 Oh # Shift.
Interviewer:  Uh and you press down harder with your foot on the
888:  The gas.
Interviewer:  Okay
888:  Gas pedal.
Interviewer:  On the what?
888:  Gas pedal.
Interviewer:  Okay um okay what is the shift anyway?
888:  Well we- you was talking about I was gonna talk about standing shift.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  It's a shift that you have when you gotta step on the standard pedal I mean the clutch and then when you step on the clutch you pu- you know shift to gear {D:when it's in the floor} Shift the gear to the floor because that's {X} to make the car go and give it gas.
Interviewer:  Yeah okay okay um Is the is the gear shift ever any place besides on the floor?
888:  Is it anywhere else?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  No. Yes yes. They got 'em in the steering wheel. I forgot which car that thing on. Mm It was first taken off drive stick and then the standard.
Interviewer:  Okay are there different kinds of sticks I mean different names for different kinds of them?
888:  Automatic and
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Standard.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um a lot of times you'll be driving along {X} a long thing that goes all the way across the road like you know and it's about this high and it's put in the road it's a piece of asphalt you know. It's kinda a bar shaped thing to make you slow down.
888:  Oh speed bump.
Interviewer:  Okay um okay what all kinds of cars and trucks and stuff do the uh does the fire department have?
888:  They got fire trucks. They got um fire trucks. What kind of stuff they got or what?
Interviewer:  Yeah what different kinds of trucks and all?
888:  All I know is the fire truck and the medic truck
Interviewer:  And the what?
888:  The medic truck. The medic
Interviewer:  What does it do?
888:  It helps people when they in trouble like they need help before the firemen get there.
Interviewer:  Oh yeah the medic truck.
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay uh is it- how is it different from an ambulance?
888:  How is it different from an ambulance?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Well I wouldn't say it's not different because only thing they got extra they got experience they know what to do too.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  The ambulance they just get there fast and they have the experience how to do an treat people.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh uh-huh but the medic truck is sort of the same thing.
888:  Yes. Basically the same type of thing.
Interviewer:  Okay is it smaller or bigger? Than the ambulance?
888:  I say bigger.
Interviewer:  Okay okay uh what do you call a kinda truck that pumps the water for the for the other trucks? Do you have a name for it?
888:  Pump the water?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh pumps it you know.
888:  Oh Water trucks I guess. That's all #1 I know. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay um # there's one kind of truck that has a big long ladder on it do you have a name for that kind of truck?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay uh there's another kind of truck that has uh a big long hose and it has a big arm kinda thing. I mean it's huge. And a bucket in the end of the arm where people stand and the fire I mean the electric department also uses them you know like to repair wires and the phone company uses them to repair telephone poles. Do you have a name for that?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay um If the fire chief came to the fire all by himself uh what would he drive over in?
888:  Would he drive over in?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. He came by himself.
888:  Oh he would drive in the fire department car.
Interviewer:  Okay okay um what do you call a police car?
888:  What do I call it?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  Police car.
Interviewer:  Okay anything else?
888:  No I haven't heard nothing else so
Interviewer:  Okay uh what do you call the thing like if you do something like say there's a riot and they pick up ten people and they can get oh six to ten of them in the back of this thing?
888:  Oh paddy wagon.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  Yeah..
Interviewer:  Take them to jail in it.
888:  Right on taking him to jail.
Interviewer:  Okay um what do you call the uh kinda thing that flies around and um instead of having you know a fixed wing like this you know it's got a little deal that's goes around?
888:  Oh you're talking about a helicopter.
Interviewer:  Yeah. {NW} Do the police have one here?
888:  Yeah they got po- yeah they got helicopters here.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  They gonna have to have everything in San Antonio they can get out. Take them back over to Mexico they get they get up here.
Interviewer:  Is that right? Okay uh y'all ever had any really um well actually before I ask you that I want to ask you something else What do you call the the main police place? The place where police officers are?
888:  The main place where they at?
Interviewer:  Yeah
888:  We- do I have to- you mean do you mean in a place where they go and all when their on duty?
Interviewer:  When they're on duty?
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Yeah uh-huh.
888:  I call it the pig stand. They always hang out at the pig stand. They're always there. I don't know why but
Interviewer:  Okay. Now- now is the pig stand um is the pig stand a place to eat?
888:  Yeah that's where all the pigs feed at.
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
888:  #2 {X} # That's the name of it. It's right down there on the corner of {X} They always have police cars all around that place.
Interviewer:  And it's really called the pig stand?
888:  #1 Yes like pig P-I-G #
Interviewer:  #2 Like the sign is #
888:  And then S-T-A-N-D
Interviewer:  {X} But it really has a sign out?
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  That says
888:  Pig stand
Interviewer:  Okay now when they report to work in the morning you know and when they sign in or whatever they do
888:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Where do they go?
888:  They go back down to the police department and punch in.
Interviewer:  Okay okay um What do you call the place that houses fire trucks and where firemen sit around and wait for the fire?
888:  The fire department. They just sit around and wait for a fire.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh Okay what other words are there for policemen?
888:  What other words for them?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Pigs Fingers
Interviewer:  What was the second one?
888:  Fingers.
Interviewer:  Fingers?
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  I don't understand {X} What is that?
888:  What you mean?
Interviewer:  What is fingers? What does that mean?
888:  Oh that's some name they just call them. That's all I know.
Interviewer:  That's neat. I never heard that.
888:  And uh Squilos
Interviewer:  What?
888:  Fuzz Squilos the fuzz. The heat.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  And that's all I can think of that you can call them. You can call them a lot of names but I don't want to say it on tape right now.
Interviewer:  {NW} What about the fire department? Do you have any other names for the fire department?
888:  I just say fire fighters. Fire put them out I guess.
Interviewer:  Okay
888:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
888:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Let's see {NS}