Leon, Mary Olga
This interview was recorded on April 24th, 2019 in Tucson, Arizona and it covers the following themes:
b. 1930
Father’s work at El Tucsonense newspaper. Growing up on south Stone Avenue across from the Temple of Labor. Neighborhood description, games, nearby Elías and Carrillo families. Description of Meyer Avenue.
Attending St. Augustine Cathedral school for elementary. Description of the church in the 1930s/40s. Attending Safford for middle school.
Family’s experience during Great Depression. Welfare.
Stepfather’s work as butcher, local meat. Food. Description of mother’s day-to-day life at home. Walking culture. Dancing at Santa Cruz Church.
More observations on life during Great Depression. Outbreak of World War II.
Music. DJ Jacinto Orozco.
[Oscar Leon joins the interview at this point.]
Working at El Minuto Café in 1945
Dancing.
Santa Cruz River in 1940s and 1950s. Description of Cottonwood Lane.
Tucson High experience in late 1940s.
Olga and Oscar’s courtship and marriage. Getting a house. Marriage. Oscar’s family ranch in Vail. City expansion and traffic.
Changes in clothing, shopping downtown in the 1940s.