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
Return to Old Pagels
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Tape 3a (23
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a.
Pays his way as a passenger on a boat from New York to
Charleston, then on to Key West, Florida.
b.
Stays in Key West, Florida for at least 8 months. Ship
captain paid Pop to stay in his house with his wife and mother-in-law, for
protection and odd jobs.
c.
1918. Leaves to work on a farm in Georgia. Experiences
blacks/whites separation on a streetcar.
d.
Kingston, Tennessee, milking two or three cows for $5 a week
plus board and room.
e.
Stops at several other towns, then goes back to Liberal,
Kansas to see what it was like compared with his first stay in 1910. Works
on a farm, slept in room next to stable.
Many changes to Liberal, from dirt streets in 1910 to paved in
1918, and a new high school, where Pop took typing, English.
f.
Gets back pay from Naval Reserve which,
with farm pay, allows Pop to go to high school. Farm
work from 5 am to 8 am, then cleaned up, changed clothes, and went to
school. After school, worked in a restaurant (wash dishes, wait tables,
cook). Stays in Liberal for two years.
g.
Meets some girls and goes back to Tennessee and Oklahoma.
Gets malaria again.
h.
Flint, Michigan: Shipped there by the railroad to work as a
laborer. Works into becoming a
carpenter helping build 700 homes in support of new auto plant. When they
got into finish work Pop quits and goes to New York to ship home to
Germany as a seaman in 1919. First trip home since coming to America in
1910. Learns that both older brothers, Max and Paul, were killed in the
war. He had three sisters, two younger.
i.
On second trip back home Pop meets Mom. Had met Cesar Romero
in class at school.
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