TX BIOS:  Mrs. Richardson
   Selected and converted.American Memory, Library of Congress.
   
   Washington, 1994.
   
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   U.S. Work Projects Administration, Federal Writers' Project (Folklore
   Project, Life Histories, 1936-39); Manuscript Division, Library of
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   [Interview?]
   
   Interview from Mrs. Richardson at 1308 North Houston Street.
   
   I've been here since 1900 but I don't know anything particularly
   interesting. When we came this place here was all in pastures and
   wheat. I remember that [San?] Anthonies Hospital was away out in the
   country. There was a street car that ran out that far and turned
   around. The kids that went to Laura Philips rode that far and had to
   walk the rest of the way. That was what is now the [Presbyterian?]
   Children's Home.
   
   The biggest building here was the Amarillo Hotel. It was two stories
   high. I can remember when the Old Opera House burned down. It was
   brick and it all burned except the north wall which they just left
   standing. In a few weeks the wind was up strong and that wall blew
   down on the building just north of it and hurt several people.
   
   The old [Mcintosh?] Hotel was at First and Buchanan Streets. It's
   burned down too now. There wasn't any rangers here when I [DEL: [?]
   :DEL] came. They had already gone. They didn't have any soloons either
   then.
   
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