Pauline Autherson

Pauline Autherson

Community: Allensville

Date of Interview: January 16, 1998

Interviewer: Jenny Hayman, Vinton HS

0:04:00: Now the kids are driving cars. At that time we sat around and talked, run bicycle in the garden. We didn’t have a television set. I helped in the kitchen.

0:07:10: When I was a kid, my neighbor wanted some bread. She gave me a dime to get her a loaf of bread, and a penny for candy (laugh). That’s a big deal, to get a penny for the candy, so the bread was nine cents.

0:09.47: When I was in school, I walked to school in the morning, back home for lunch, back down to school, and then back home.

0:10.26: What got you in trouble from your teachers? I don't know, I didn't’t get in any trouble. Back then, the big things were chewing gum, talking when you’re not supposed to be.

0:10.45: Now you see on television, the troubles are guns or something like that.

0:12.34: I know something that I remember -- in the summertime about my mom. We'd swing on the porch in the evening and just sit talking.

0:13.08: My mom talked about the town clock at Central School. When it struck at 10 o’clock. It was time to go to bed.

0:14.00: In the winter time, mom used to hang clothes in the kitchen. We used to hang them up in my neighbor's basement. Put the cloth on sled, take sled to school (laugh). Can you imagine that now? That was a good time.

0:14.47: Working Years- I started working part-time in high school when I was sixteen, I worked 10 hours on Saturdays.

0:15.23: I believed I got 27 cent an hour, $2.40 in the envelope. I saved some of them. I gave some to my mom to get her hair cut.

0:15.47: That was a part-time work for kid. You see, how much better off it is for kids today.

0:16:20: People values - back then, I feel like people had more values and they cared more about people.

0:17.20: Flood - there were so many different floods. In the 1937 flood, we sleep with water.

0:18.55: My neighbor, Jack built a raft. My sister went with him go around Pomeroy to take pictures.

0:19.25: On the raft, they have high water, I took Catherine. They could get drowned, she couldn’t swim.

0:21.45: Pearl Harbor - that was on the radio. My dad was listening to the news.

0:22.30: WW II - I remember World War II. My father was still young and I worried whether he had to go to war. One of his brothers was almost killed.

0:23.48: Gold stars - if they had more soldiers, more sons in the services, they hung more stars at the windows. But if someone died they had gold star or something, I don’t remember.

0:24.40: JFK - we lived out towards Syracuse. A neighbor told me that the President has been shot. I remember John-John. I have my mom’s book about the Kennedy's.

0:26.36: Television - I remember when I saw a box with the word "TV/Television" and people said "you can see a picture in it". How could you see the picture?

0:28.00: I forgot something. In the summertime we'd go to bible school and we walked down to Pomeroy.

0:29.00: Hippie - I don’t know whether I was Hippie. I don’t know if people like to be like that (laugh).

0:34.56: Picture of her nephew who died in a nursing home after serving in the Vietnam War.

0:36.00: Flood - when I went to school , that was fun time because school got out. But when I worked, it was not fun time because we have to move.