Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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Q. Who were 'all' of you? Bunch, and ... ? I C A. No, no. Bunch wasn't in on this cause he didn't live near us. These guys qed down the block and we'd. , , I I Q. Who were some of these again? I A. This was TJ MacMurray and Francis MacMurray, his younger brother, othfrwise hown as Sach cause he had a great big bottom on him and they called him 'Sachell" (chqckle) and Walt Taber, Betty Wood's brother. She was Betty Taber, And her father ran or owped Mauldenr=rs. The Mauldeners were out of it years ahead. Maddeners was a wonderful , w wddl place to eat and they catered and they made their own candy and ice cream. Their ice crew was. . . Q, They're still very good aren't they? A. Yes, but not like they used to be. And of course tbey're all gone now. I wan old Walten, and he had the best fie works on the 4th of July and all the kids would go dow in his back yard and he'd have 20 ball rolling candles and sky rockets and stuff like that. Q. Now this is Tabers? A. This is Tabers. And even balloons in those days. They made these paper balloons. You wouldn't think of it today, I don't think, but, , . hot air balloons about this hi* and in the bottom was a ring, a little ring, probably made in Cbina or something like that and a & across and then you'd had a about this big around of excelcier about so thick, and that soaked In .paraffin or something that would bum and. . . Q. Like a hot air balloon? A. Like a hot air balloon. And you'd get out there and you'd hold the top of this hot air balloon and get this up off the ground and then you'd light the little fire in there and ithmade a lot of heat and pretty soon the thing would all swell out and start to go up and then you'd let go of it and BOOM! up they'd go, and they'd go way out in the country-side and why in cbe devil they didn't burn down woods! They were supposed to be out when they came down but they went for miles. Q. Did you all follow them? Did you run around after them or were you too close to town? Where'd you usually do that? A. In their back yard off Lawrence Avenue, Q, Quite an ingenious idea for fun? A. Oh boy, we kids shot fire crackers off all day long. Why we've got any fipgers at all I don't
how. Q. Exactly, So what else did you do? t A. No wait a minute. Lets move me away £ram the Mac Murray gang. We qved to Williams Boulevard. Who'd I play with over on Williams Boulevard. Q. Did you play in the park? A. No, we played down behind the old Governor Yates house. There was a very low place there and we tried co dig caves in there, and that's where my brother then had his, later on, had his Indian tribe down there and they expanded it down there. All the neighborhood kids. Oh, and I didn't finish why he wasn't Chief Illhiwick. He got out there and danced for @ern and he had all the equipment, I mean he had all the feathers and stuff. And he went up to Cmp Anaceechee which was a YMCA camp in Wisconsin for two or three summers and he taught Indian lore up there so he was a very, very qualified guy for Chief Illhiwick. The only thing is he didn't get it because he got out these in the middle of the stadium and did his Indian war dances and stuff and of course those Indian dances are little foot-steps and Eddie Calb of Springfiew came out there and, I guess he hew a lot of Indian stuff, but he got out there and you've seeq them maybe as they gyrate around, so he got it, and John said, 'But he wasn't authentic", and they said, "We can't see you from the top of the stadium but we can see him, authentic or no^" So that's the one thing he didn't get at the U of I that he wanted. Q, What a heartache! A. By the way, was there any interest about my being at the University of Illisois over there. The tuition was $45.00 a semester, (chuckle) Special classes might have been an additional $5.00 or something, and the house bill at the Fraternity House was $52.50 a month and that was twenty meals a week Q. Not bad. It was all relative though wasn't it? A. And bansportation from Springfield to Champaign was on the old Illinois Terminal Railroad as we called iE, Inter-Urban. They had a special weekend pass which started Friday noon until Monday noon and that was $2.00 round-trip to Champaign. Q. That's not relative, A. No. And I nearly died when I paid $2.00 for a sheet of Watman's paper fac drawing class for architecture but we worked on it for. . . Q. During this same time?
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