"My friends were the ones in the neighborhood there. Just the ones in the neighborhood because they wouldn't let us go farther up to la Arizona, to those places, so we stuck around there in the neighborhood and played with the kids that lived there. Sometimes if we didn't mind her, our mother would get strict with us.

We played hike [hide]and seek y los listones, the ribbons. Los listones were, you would sit in a line and then they would say "What color is the liston?" and then we had to guess the name, azul or whatever. That's how we'd play. The one who was supposed to guess was the winner. No prizes because we didn't have no prizes then. Girls were supposed to play by themselves and the boys by themselves.

Both my parents disciplined us. If we did something wrong, they wouldn't let us play. One time my mother hit me with a hose. (Laughter) I was bad and she had the hose in her hands. And she just lightly hit me with the hose. She told me to do something and I didn't do it and then she happened to have the hose in her hand, and she said, " I told you to do it" and I said "oh, why didn't you tell the other girls to do it too." I didn't do it and I resongar (talked back). I guess she hit me pretty hard because I cried. And then my feelings were hurt too.

Sometimes parents argued. My dad used to like to gamble. He went to Newtown. They had a gambling house he would go. He would come home with no money. She would get mad. But when he came with money, oh, she was very happy. (laughter) She never did stop him from gambling. She just gave up. He kept going to gambling so then she just kept quiet. She had no choice."

"I didn't date too much. I guess nobody liked me. There when we played, they tried, "will you be my girlfriend?" and I said, "no, no, no."

There were some Mexicanos that dated Americanos. I know a girl that was going with one. Her name was Beatrice Mojado. She was going around with this American guy. They didn't get married. They just broke, you know. They were boyfriends when they were young and then they weren't.

By the Royal Theater was the Morenci Club. We used to look through the window and saw . . . they would sell ice cream and they played pool. We couldn't go in. We just looked through the windows. You know when you're a kid, you would peek through the windows and see what was there.

I think after the Depression, Mexicanos and Americanos could go in together. After the Depression, they finally let us in there. When they let us in there when the PD started working and everyone had money so they let us in. It was after the Depression. During the war everything was normal.

We had to go the neighbor's house to hear the radio because we didn't have one. There was one. It was a funny one. Was Jack Benny then? I think one of them was Jack Benny. I don't remember the other one. There was another one, funny one.

My interest was going to the movies. That was my favorite. The dances too. Dances and movies. I liked Mexican music and then some American too. I did the jitterbug. Not too well, but I did it. (Laughter) Still I like to dance. Yeah, I always like to dance.

I was seventeen when I started going out with boys. No chaperone. We would go to the movies. Then we would sit outside on the porch and talk."