Pop's Oral History, Tape 2b
Tapes by Gus Pagels, circa 1980
Posted September 15, 2010
© 2010, Herbert E. Lindberg
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Tape 1a -- Leaves Berlin
at 14 Tape 1b -- Begins railroad hobo trip west across U.S. Tape 2a -- Gets to San Bernardino and Los Angeles Tape 2b -- First stay in Santa Barbara, working at Ott's hardware Tape 3a -- Back east in New York, Key West, then Georgia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Flint Michigan Tape 3b -- Returns to Germany, Marries Mom, returns to U.S., builds house in Sacramento Tape 4 -- Gus, Otto and Harry born in Sacramento, buys first car: 1919 Buick Tape 2b (22 minutes) [Right click to download the tape] a. Takes train from San Francisco to Santa Cruz as passenger, but with no ticket. “Fella caught me and took me to the police station and admonished me not to do that.” Soon after takes train to Santa Barbara—no ticket again, but wasn’t caught. b. This reminds Pop of another trip from Chicago to New York in which he and a friend rode on top of a “water car” and got dumped with water. He then hops a Norwegian freighter (1914) with intent of returning to Germany but he is caught and the Captain kicks him off. c. Goes to business school in Santa Barbara while working at Ott’s. d. Delivers goods from Beaumont TX to Tampico (?) Mexico. e. (Pop was mixed up logically and chronologically on this tape, more than on the others.)
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