ype meal. We would buy one pepsi-cola for 5, you could make a big pitcher of tea, pour that one pepsi-cola into the tea, and we would have pepsi-flavored tea. A lot of people would think that is stupid, but no it wasnt, we looked forward to it. We didnt realize that we were different. Going to school, one of the first schools we went to was Bragtown here in Durham, we had moved from the country into Durham because my dad began to work in Bragtown. And we were with 2 miles of the school so we walked. Now, kids dont walk a block, now they take the bus. But we were within 2 miles of the school, and if you lived more than 2 miles away you could take the bus, so we walked to school.C. K.:Did you ever take a vacation back then?W. B.:Oh no, it was a complete luxury. But once in a while during the summer the church would sponsor a trip to the theme park over in Raleigh. It had a merry-go-round and a few recreational things. And the church would hire a bus to take all the kids to the place for a picnic outing. The parents would bring food and spread it out on the picnic table and everybody was there. But that wasnt really a vacation.C. K.:So when would you way your first real vacation was?W. B.:Oh, i guess after the war, after I married. We took a trip down to Florida, or something like that.C. K.:What about TVs, radios, and cars, when did you first have theses?W. B.:Well, we had a car in 1927. The earliest pictures Ive got of me, my mother and father, when I was a little old tyke sitting on my fathers knee. And the car was in the background, an old Buick, with plaid curtains, a soft top, side curtains. Instead of having [roll down] windows, we had glass with fabric strapped onto the sides, and the top. And the windshield wiper was manually operated.C. K.:When did you begin to drive?W. B.:When I drove was after the war.C. K.:When was your first TV?W. B.:Well, see when I came out of the service in 46, video electronics was my profession. I stayed...
