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Amado transcript [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3195/collection_resources/164096/file/298752/transcript/95164/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Henry G. Amado  0:10  \r\nMy name is Demetrio Andruta Amado, but my teacher is in first grade. I couldn't pronounce the measure, so they changed my name to Henry, which is Enrique, and my middle name is Gastellum, so I go by the name Henry G. Amado. When I was born in 1935 December 9, so I'm 89 years old, and I was born in Tucson, Arizona, on some of the Iowa Street, and near Maine. Well, we always talk about my family, and most people talk about the Amado family, and the Amado family came here as three brothers, my great great grandfather Santos Amado, and his two brothers, Rafael and Carlos, and they came from Spain, Valencia, Spain to Florida, where most people would go to Acapulco and and they were coming straight to Tucson appears that were coming for the gold rush, and they had friends and family in Alamos, because the Europeans that came to the to this country from Europe generally went to Acapulco and went by land, traveled by land, passed their museum, a Spanish colonial town known as Alamos, Mexico. So I understand that town is mostly owned now by Americans, and very few, because the homes were Moorish style with the white walls and nice big fat adobe walls and the red tile type roofs, and that attracts Americans, so that's the story on that end, but they, the Amatos, then came here, and because they had relatives in Alamos, they traveled from Tucson to Alamos on horseback, and when they went through Santa Cruz Valley, which is where I 19 goes from Tucson to Nogales. They said, Why are we going to California? The gold is here because terrain was so nice, and so they decided that they were not going to go, and then they, I guess, they asked or studied, and they said, well, we find that there's three land grants: Canoa land grant, which is in the model, and then the Otero land grant, and Tubac, and the Baboquivari land grant near Tubac, but west of it, so they said we're the only Spaniards here, so we claim all this, and we respect the three land grants, so they didn't bother Otero Kano or or Baboquivari, because that had been given to the Spain to certain families, the families I mentioned. So that's the story on how they got here, but my ancestors on my mother's side, the Castellans, my great, my grandfather was Santiago with Castel, and he was born in Butama, Sonora, Mexico, which is the first mission south of the Tumacakri Mission, which the boss Spanish soldiers were protecting, when the king converted all the Gustav and family that he knew up there into military soldiers to come and guard the Presidio in Tumacockery and Tubac, so his father was born Tubac, and but they came here in 1706 about two centuries before, or one century before, I should say, the Amados and. Wow, so my mom's family, my mom considered herself Mexican, my dad considered herself Spanish, and to the day they died, they were saying they were Spaniards, and most of the friends over here were Spaniards, like the Jacomes came from Mexico, and I don't think the Jacomes were Spanish, but they had the main store here in Tucson. The Ronstadts, of course, are German type, but they're all our friends, so those kind of families were business families here in town, and the group of Spaniards that were here were all friendly, and they married non-Indian, and in some cases they, if a son married a Mexican, they sent him to California, who was not accepted, so another was their prejudices. They were prejudiced, and they claimed to be, but by the time my dad grew up, there was no prejudice in him. So he married my mom, and my mom always said she was Mexican with Father. Well, I remember talking about Doug Astellams.\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  6:34  \r\nMy grandfather was a storyteller, and by the time I knew him, he was probably in his late 70s, because he married the first two wives, died at birth, at first childbirth, and he married my grandmother, my mom's mom, from Attila, from Llano Sonora, when he was over 50 years old, and then they had 12 kids, three pairs of twins, and my mom was about the fourth of his child, and my, I see my aunts and uncles, so all my uncles, except one, were in World War I, World War II. I'm sorry. And one uncle, who was my godfather, did not go because he had several children, and I guess that kept him from getting drafted. My dad didn't get drafted. My uncle Hector, on my dad's side, didn't get drafted. He also had 12 kids, my dad had nine kids, but he was mostly exempted from the draft because he was a farmer and he grew a lot of produce for the community, so on that basis he didn't have to go, but my grandfather was very, as I said, a storyteller, and very kind, and was able to be kind to the kids. My grandpa, the Metro model, was the opposite. He, he was, he was born in Tucson, and Manuela model, and Ismael Amado, and the photo there, her name was Ismaella Ferrer, so the mezu, the mezu, and his brothers and sisters, children of Manuela model, who was the son, the first born here, actually was born in her Museo on a trip to Alamos to visit relatives, and on the way there, he was born in Mosillo, but they always lived in Tucson. So, Manuel was the business guy of the group, Carlos and Rafael, who came with Santos, sort of went to other communities. By the way, Rafael happened to go to Patagonia, and he was a blacksmith, so it was very handy for my grandpa when my son and Manuela model, my great grandpa, they lived in the. let me back up, their models lived what we call the Amada block, and is known as the Amala block at 15th and Stone, and in the photo that I gave you, there's an adobe house, and the family sitting outside, that was their original house, but he had the whole block. Walk there and he fenced it in the middle of the block, he had a haystack and corrals, mules and oxen, and his business was making trips into Sonora and buying grain from the farmers, and he had two wagons and another driver who drove one and two shot two guys with a shotgun sitting next to him, so they were never bothered by the Apaches, and when he filled up his wagons, he would take them through Patagonia where his uncle Rafael Amato was Manuel's brother, and he fixed the wagons for him if he was a blacksmith, and then my dad would, my great grandfather Manuel, would go to Fort Huatuca, deliver grain, carried a big pot of gold to pay it over there, and they paid him with gold coins over here, and then the second train went to Fort Lowell, which is across the fence from my house in Tucson on Craycroft and Fort Laurel Road, and so by coincidence I live across the street from where my brother used to deliver grain, and then he lived, and he would go to the Amala block to his home on 15th Street, and, and I forget the name of the street in front of Santa Cruz Church. What's that? It's got stone, isn't it? It's stone, I'm sure. Yeah, I forget. Anyway, that's that's where he had his house, and they never knew where he put his gold, but it turns out that later he told them that he always hid it in the haystack, so he didn't even take the gold in the house. So that's the story on their models on my grandpa's side, Gastelum. He lived in, was born in Tibutama, but when they asked the Spanish soldiers that were here, mostly Gastelums, at the two-back Presidio protecting the Europeans. Here, they told them that the Apaches were too fierce and dangerous, and after they, they stole the Apaches, stole all their horses in one night. They had 80 horses in the corral.\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  13:03  \r\nThe corrals were had locked gates, they made their own locks back then, and but the walls were adobe, and there was a drinker inside the corrals, for the there were drinkers inside, so next to a drinker they put a patchy down there with a bucket, and he handed water to the guy that was at the top, and he would pour the water, and one guy on each side, one Apache on each side, they used their horse hair rope as a song, and he was putting water, so he cut the wall all the way down, cut it one over there, pushed the wall over, and 80 horses were gone, so they were that bad, so they told them to leave and go to the closest mission, and so some of them went to San Xavier and some of them went to Vitama, which are the closest ones from Tumacakri. So that's the story. My grandpa on the metro, different from my grandpa, was college educated. Manuel had plenty of money, his father from the mule train business, or whatever he did, and he sent Antonio. My grandpa was the older of the two. They had Manuel, they met you. Alberto was the youngest and the oldest was Manuel then Demetrio Junior, he's in the picture, and then he. Rosa Clementina Miguel, my dad, Ismael, and Carmen, and then my uncle Hector was the youngest, so that's a family, and all of them have children, they're my cousins, Fresco. Prescott, so Rosa married a Jacobs old-time family in Tucson. Clementina married Carlos Robles, an attorney old-time Robles, Robles Junction, and most of Tucson was owned by the Robles, and Carmen married Corney Acevedo. I don't know his background, but he was from Tucson area, I guess, and those are the three girls, Rosa Clementino and Carmen, and my Demetrio. When my grandmother died, and she was probably the first accident between Tucson and Nogales that caused her death. My grandpa had a Model T, and the magneto went out at Kanoa Ranch there, and he had bridge abutment. The car turned over and fell on her neck by the time he got back from running over to Kanoa headquarters, which was about a mile away, she was dead. So he waited for a stage citizens out of stage was going back and forth to Tucson and Nogales, and so he took her body back, and the next day he showed up with Antonio in a brand new touring car that he had purchased, and he told the kids to get in the car, they were going to Tucson, the girls were there, my dad was there, and their master was there, and I think we don't know, but he told them, as you, you stay here. I think he probably told him his mother was dead. It shocked him, and says, you stay here and put some of the furniture on the train, when it goes by, put it on the platform, and they load it for you, and you jump in the train and go to Tucson, and he says, I'm taking the rest of the family to Tucson, and my dad says he remembered my dad was 10 years, 15 years old in 1920 so he says, my dad, when my grandpa got there, he says I had just hitched a couple of mules and was plowing a piece of land near the house there, so he says, 'Put the mules away, we're going to Tucson, and tell you that story, so they got over there and they found out that my grandma was dead, and my dad says there was a lot of crying, but I really never understood what what had happened, but my aunts were older, and they told me that that the story about the Met, or the junior that I just told you, so my grandpa came back to the ranch off and on, and he left my dad in charge. The master, for some reason, maybe even before, he didn't really do things like my dad could do. So I'll tell you a story about my dad.\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  18:59  \r\nMy dad was five years old, and the railroad had gone in 19 went in 1910 so I think the story is not quite right, because the railroad was in when at the time of the flood, the Santa Cruz River flooded really big, and it never got past the railroad track. The house was east of the I 19. Now the Amala school was near I 19, and then was the Amado road all the way, is still there, but the old road from Tucson ran in front of my grandpa's house, because they were the only people that are the Amados, so my grandpa had the farthest south ranch, and then on. Antonio had a next ranch, Alberto had a ranch next to him, Manuel had Alamo Unito, because he, Manuel Jr. because he was a senior brother, and that was the headquarters. The church of Amado is built, was built by the Amals at Alamo Bonito, and they had it there until for quite some time. There's a huge adobe barn covered with a tin roof, and it was built in the 1850s and it's still standing, so the church is near it, maybe half a block away, and that property was bought by an Italian from Germany, I think he is, his name is Middleton, and I met mr. Middleton because my uncle Ismael Amado had a 60 acre parcel over there next to my dad's ranch, and Ismael never married, and he lived with my dad or my grand, my family, mom and dad, and us, or lived with Grandpa after his second wife died, and he sold it to Middleton, and Middleton then fenced my dad's property away from the property bought from Ismael, and they broke into my dad's shed and stole some wire and fence posts, and I was about 12 or 13, and then he says, \"Take the horse and go tell Middleton to stay out of my place. So I went over there, and I met mr. Middleton, and I told him that my dad had sent me over. I said, you don't know, but they put the fence in, and they didn't need to break into my dad's storage shed to take his wire fence wiring, and he says he spoke broken English. He says, I do know, I do know, meaning I don't know, and shook my hand, told me thank you, and I went. That's the only time I met him. Later on, when my dad sold, when I sold my dad's ranch after he died, I was going to buy half of that ranch from my dad, from my brothers and sisters, and it turned out that it didn't work out, and so I came and bought this ranch, and Dad died december 1 1997 and I bought this ranch September 30 1998 but I had intended to build a half a million dollar house on that ranch and on the back end, and then, and have the remaining parcel along the highway more valuable. I put it back in alfalfa, like my dad had, and I had offered to do it over a period of three years, and with a nice house like that on the other property, and a model there it might have a little more value, but every one of them, and all my nieces and nephews have enjoyed the privilege of being at a ranch like this, and they love to come here every time we had a party, birthday or whatever. If I just invited my brothers and sisters, we had 80 people here. As I told you, I was born in Tucson, but within two weeks, my mom was back at the ranch, and it was the second child, and by the time I was five years old, I was had taken hold as I was my dad's boss on the ranch when he wasn't there. My cousin Herman Gossellem lives in California, and he still remembers every summer he'd come the day he was out of school in Tucson, he'd come in and he'd stay with us till the last day of summer vacation, and then he'd go back with my dad because my dad went to Tucson two or three times a week with produce for mostly wholesale, very little retail, but he sold a lot of produce in Tucson.\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  24:49  \r\nHe had all kinds of vegetables and stuff, and so I remember that, you know, going back and forth and the store. Worry about when my grandpa sent my dad. My dad says there was a little mule, and he claims that he was five years old, and he says my grandpa got up, and he says there's a big flood that's running against the house, go out and pick up and saddle the little red mule and go up stream about two miles and then aim it at a model corner, amado road corner, and he says I just finished building the bar and we put a new tin roof on it, and see if the bar is still there, and my dad said he just did that, he did just that, and he says I went all the way up there, and then I go downstream, and when I got to the railroad track, it's just the water was running over about a foot high, and I looked, and I could see the roof going down the river. So he says, I went back the same way, and I said, my dad says they met you. My grandpa asked him, he said, What did you find? Well, it says the roof was floating down the river, and so my grandpa didn't say anything. He says, so I grew up, and my dad would tell us a story, and would go by there, and my grandpa never rebuilt the bar, and part of the house roof lifts was there, for I think it's still there on the corner. I wasn't going to be his business, a bar business, but my grandpa was postmaster because he was, he was educated, he was postmaster and sheriff of a model, and his cousin was a judge, so between the two of them they could pretty much do anything they wanted in Amado, the school at Amado, it's in Santa Cruz County, Amado, where my grandpa was, was where the post office was, the church, and the second church that was built after I was born, and but the Amado church was also in Santa Cruz County, but Alamo Bonito and Middleton's mansion, which was the church back then, is in Santa Cruz County. So my dad's ranch was in Pima County, near Halfway Station, north of the Cow Palace, now, and so we lived in Pima County. My brother Gene was a year older than me. It was born November of 34 and I was born December 35 So when Gene was ready to go to school, they left him with my grandpa and Grandma Costello in Tucson, and he went to school across the street from where I was born. When my mom had her six child, she had a handful, and she and my dad agreed that she could stay over there and get some help, and he would, he had a contract with a brickyard on Congress, and and St. Mayor's Road area out there. There was a brickyard there by the Santa Cruz River from downtown. If you go west on Congress, as soon as you pass the Santa Cruz River Bridge, on the left was brickyard, and they burned wood, of course. So my dad had a contract with them, and he had guys from a model workers, and they chopped the wood up, and my dad had a truck, and he would go up in the morning and pick up four cords of wood, take them to the Tucson, come back in the afternoon, and take another four full cords. So he was going to Tucson every day, so he saw my mom and I was with my dad, so sometimes my dad would leave me at home because my dad had all kinds of anything he could do for money, he had nine kids, you know, and is a very hard worker, and he made us learn how to work, so we were men, and we could do all the work, plus he had other workers, but we had to do the work, and so I stayed. It was my dad, and I was.. I didn't go to school. You're asking, did I go to school at a model? I didn't go to school until I was going to be eight in December.\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  30:12  \r\nSo, if I was born 35 that would have been about eight years later, about 42 or so that I started to go to school, and Jean had been in school three years, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade, so when, when my mom had come back, of course, less than a year, six months, I think she stayed in Tucson, but during those six months I was my dad's assistant, so he had always had two or 300 hogs that we had to feed, he had always over 200 chickens that we had to pick up the eggs, and of course I had to milk six dairy cows, each was about five or six gallons a day, so I was doing that, I'm sure, when I was seven or eight, and certainly when Irma was born I was milking cows already, so you can figure that out, and then my mom brought Jean back, and Jean and I went to Sudbury school with Benny starting school, so they put me in second grade because I had done all kinds of work for my dad, I was always his accountant, and he would say he had these big four dozen egg boxes, and they had 48 holes to place the eggs, so it says, \"Well, I'm getting the wood, I'll stop by on the way to Tucson and take it with me. But pick up the eggs, it says, \"and put them in here, put 48 eggs in this box and cover it, and then fill the other one the same way, and I would put the eggs in there, and he'd see me counting them, and he said, and I said, I said, I told you there's 48 holes, so you put it in there, it's four dozen, Dad, I just want to make sure that 48 you know, so that's how I learned, learned the count, and so that from then on I was my dad's boss on the ranch, and as I mentioned, my cousin Herman Gostell, and says, \"Well, you were the boss. He says, \"Uncle Mike, my dad would tell you, I want you to work with the boys, and you put Herman over that row, put Benny over here on this row. You take a row, and Gene is a harder worker than you guys. He goes ahead, he takes two rows, and he says you guys have to, you have to make Herman and Benny keep up with Gene, and they're only taking one role, so my dad was pretty unhappy one time when, and he, he scolded him pretty good at Herman, got to scold him because he had not, he was, he had come from town, and he liked the summer before I told my dad, my dad would say, ask me, How did you guys do? Oh, I said Herman was talking about what he did in school for the whole year, and he wasn't working, and he told Herman this second time, he says, You're going to be in trouble, come back if you don't work this time. Well, he did the same, I said to my dad, oh, my dad says, \"Go in there and kneel, and we'll talk about it tomorrow. So Herman says he remembers to this day how my dad scolded him, and he says he didn't ask Gene, he didn't ask us, he always wanted you to do it, so that's so wait. They put us in second grade at Saulbury School, which is in Piman Conley, and I rode the bus. My, my dad's cousin, Gustavo Almado, my, he was born about three or four days apart from my dad, and he was Antonio's brother, son, and my dad was the mattress, but they were cousins, and he got when Antonio distributed its properties to his own children, Gustavo got the ranch next to my dad and. Yeah, so they were always very close, and he used my dad at one time went.\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  35:07  \r\nMy grandpa had four houses on Fourth Street by the university between Stone and on Fourth Street, east of Stone, and one house was for himself, brick houses, he bought for them, one house was for the girls, his daughters, one house was for the boys, and the other house was forever, whoever needed to use it, so that's where the funeral was for my, for my grandmother when she died in 1920 and so my dad decided to work in Tucson, and he went to that brick yard, and he says he worked all day cleaning bricks, taking used bricks and taking off a plaster, you know, whatever they call it, cleaning up the bricks, and then he put up a pool table in the back yard, and Gustavo and his buddies from college were coming over to play pool with them, and he says, and we'd go over the railroad tracks, he says, and when they emptied the freight produce, or whatever, they left these big piles of ice, he says, so we'd take laundry tubs and bring ice and put the beer in there, so they had, they had a pretty good time playing pool, but my dad was only there about six months or so. Think it was always in charge of the ranch, my grandpa's ranch and his own ranch, because they just had the houses and the girls were older and the boys were younger, but the boys lived at the ranch. The girls lived in Tucson, because they went to school, you know. There, my dad, and, and I think the girl, the girls also went to school in Amado. They went to the school in Amado, and my dad was the driver. He had my grandpa imported the teachers from the East, and they lived in their house there at the ranch with the family in the school year, and then every morning and evening, my dad, my dad had a mare and a wagon, and he take the teeth, two teachers, and his brothers and sisters to the amount of school, but they had to cross the river one day, coming home, that the river had run pretty big and made a big bank, and the road was gone, so one of his mares drowned in the water, so he just took the harness off and let her go down the water, and so that was again, my dad was always in charge of everything, you know. I don't remember if I told you that. I don't think that they built the school. The school was at a model, and they went to a model, but they might have been involved, because what else was going on? That my grandpa was a post master, and the post office was there. I don't know if he built it or who built the school, but I never went to that school, but my dad went there, and when he graduated from the eighth grade, my grandpa told him the railroad was going through, you know, he told them you've had enough education, you speak English and Spanish, and you can read the meters, and he says the Indians that I have working can't read the meter meters on the steam pumps, and my grandpa would sell water and wood at the at the platform at the railroad station. He asked him to put the railroad station near his well in a model, so that he could sell him water and wood, and so he told my dad, when I've already given Ismael and Hector a ranch farther south, and you're going to have this ranch when I die, but that didn't happen, my dad had six, there were six siblings, and when, when my grandpa died, they took all the furniture out of the house, and my aunt Clementina Robles be here, because he was the attorney, Carlos Robles, my uncle Carlos told him he knew what to do with a. A estate, and so he said, bring all the furniture up here, and they had some very..\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  40:07  \r\nMy grandpa had his house was an adobe house with wood floors, and the ceiling was on the top dirt and straw to keep it down, and then he had oatillo on the bottom to keep the dirt from coming through, and then they had a huge linen cloth over the dining room table, and a fan, and one of the majors, when they were eating, she pulled the fan, just like if you can imagine a board going back and forth, just moving that, so that he says, and then next to that, on that side was the living room, the living room, and had a piano in there, and all their fancy furniture from Europe, and all that. Basically, my dad took it to my grandpa's old service station in Tucson, and my aunt Clem just gave it away to Goodwill, but my mom said they should have saved the dishes, because I remember my grandpa had all kinds, and he kept that room locked when we went over there. Listen, my grandpa, my dad would say, 'Pop, open that room, I want to play the piano for the boys, and my dad never took lessons, he'd go tick tock tick tock tick tock tock tock, and just was one finger, you know, and but he wanted, so when they moved the furniture, my dad kept the piano, so he took it to our house, but again that disappeared. We don't have any of that stuff in the family anymore. The way I heard it was that they came here, as I told you earlier in this interview, that they went because they had relatives and friends and Alamos, and we know that they came single as single men, and the women that they, and obviously knowing the fact that they were Spaniards, and the only Spaniards they didn't want to marry an Indian over here because there were Mexicans and Indians here, but probably not a lot of Spanish people, so they went over there, and I know that Ismaella Ferrell, who married Manuel, was, I mean, yeah, Manoel was first born here. My great grandfather was Spanish, and so I knew one of the relatives, Vincent Ferrer, when I went to junior high across the street from my uncle Carlos on 14th Street. So when I went to school at Safford, I would go on horseback from the ranch to halfway station. I'd leave the horse there. My dad had to feed and put the horse in the corral that the owner of the bar here had, Basilio Carranzano. He was Italian immigrant. He came here and then he married a Mexican, and they had a Mexican restaurant at the bar. Everybody stopped at halfway station for any time, not everybody, but anybody they knew that wanted good Mexican food would stop in there at halfway station to have a good meal, including us. Even after I got married, Gloria and I would go to the house or go to the ranch, either coming or going would stop. It was right, right across the entry to my dad's ranch. That's where my dad's ranch was in a model. So I think I went around the circle, but that's that's how they, they married. in their mind, they married Spanish to Spanish, and of course, as I mentioned, all those families - Velasquez, Vasquez, Robles, Jacobs - a whole bunch of, they all were intermarried and friends, and they hung around together, you know, that kind of thing. My wife, I met her in Disneyland when I was in the Marine Corps, and I had. Into Disneyland before going into the Marine Corps, because when I graduated from college, I graduated with an accounting degree, and I took the CPA exam, and I always wanted to be a CPA in Tucson, because that's where I'm from, so when I was recruited in college by the Internal Revenue Service. They told me they had a one year program, and they taught the tax code to their agents. So I was a revenue agent from about mid May when I graduated from U of A. The next day I went, I drove my own car, and went to LA.\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  45:45  \r\nI had never been farther than Phoenix in my life, and so I got to over there, and I rented an apartment for two weeks near downtown, and then we had, I had training for a year, and my brother Benny was here in Tucson, and he had only 12 credits to go to finish college, but he had a friend, a girlfriend in the draft board, and she called him and says Henry's on the draft board for next month, and you are too many because you're not taking a full load, so in just 12 units I think he had to take 16 units or 14 units, but anyway, he and I, by coincidence, he went around and tried to get into something as a reservist, so you don't get drafted for two years, so he signed up for the Marine Corps on july 5, I think, and I signed up for the Marine Corps on July in Tucson, and I signed up for the Marine Corps Reserve in Los Angeles on july 5, the same day, so I called him, and I said I signed up. He says, \"What? What? Who did you sign up with? I said, \"The Marines were the only ones that weren't full, so I had to take them. Oh, he says, \"They take everybody. He says, \"Even took me. He was kidding you. But anyway, we were both Marines, and then Alfred, because his younger brother ended up being a marine, and that's why I'm deaf. I was, I was already a college grad, so I got deferred, and I took, I was already graduated working for Internal Revenue, and when I got called, I told them that I could get deferment because I was doing a program with the IRS and they agreed they deferred me for one year, then they drafted me, they took me into active duty for a year and six months, I guess it was, and then weekend warrior for the rest of the thing, so I had a lot of good experiences with the Marines. Well, yes, I met her, and when I was almost out of the Marines, and I went to Disneyland on my first leave from see, you go to boot camp and you get into Liberty, then you go to infantry training, and after about a couple or three weeks they gave us Liberty. So the closest place I could think of going is taking the bus and going to Disneyland. So I went over there and she was the cashier at Carnation Ice Cream Company, and that's the entry, was the entry. I hadn't been there for years, but I was there quite often after I met her. It only cost $1.60 back then to go in, and so I was with a couple of marines, and I saw her, and I didn't say a word. I said to the Marines, I did say I said I like that girl, the cashier. I said I'm going to pay the bill, and between there and the cashier, I said I'm not going to let her know I'm a Marine, because most girls don't want to go out with Marines, you know, and so I just paid the bill, didn't say a word to her. Two weeks later, I got liberty again. I went over there by myself. I started talking to her, and she said, \"Well, I'm going to college, but there's a lot of kids here, college kids working, everybody wants to work at Disneyland, so she says it's a nice job. It's a nice job, and she says, Are you in the service? I said no, and she says, How come you have a short haircut? I said, fraternity prank. And then I said, well, actually I said I am in the service, and I'm going to be out in a month, and I was going to be out in two months, so I said, give me your telephone number. No, she says, when, when you get out, you come over here, and I'll consider dating you, but you have to go to my house to pick me up.\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  50:29  \r\nSo I met her in March of 1961 and then we got married, got engaged in December 61 and got married on June 16, 1962 and Laurie, then we had our first child, Melinda Rose Amado, on August 16 1964 two years after we got married, and then my son Hank, now deceased, was born December 13, 1965, Greg January 18, 1968 and our youngest daughter, February 28, 1970 Her name is Michelle Amado.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3195/collection_resources/164096/file/298752#t=0.0,3106.709"}]}]},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3195/collection_resources/164096/file/298751","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 2 - azu_ms839-009_a.m4v"]},"duration":2578.965,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/298/751/small/azu_ms839-009_a.m4v_1765908485.jpg?1765908487","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3195/collection_resources/164096/file/298751/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3195/collection_resources/164096/file/298751/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arizona.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/298/751/original/azu_ms839-009_a.m4v?1765908480","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":2578.965,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3195/collection_resources/164096/file/298751","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3195/collection_resources/164096/file/298751/transcript/95165","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Henry G. Amado transcript pt II [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3195/collection_resources/164096/file/298751/transcript/95165/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Henry G. Amado  0:11  \r\nWell, my ancestors came here and they loved the beautiful Santa Cruz Valley because of the grass and they saw a lot of opportunity for them to have a cattle ranch, I guess, and they said they claimed it as being there all the way from Nogales to Cortaro, except for the three existing land grants, and therefore they formed the headquarters, the Amado headquarters at Ala Mobunito, which is sort of halfway between Amado, the town and the cow palace, but much closer to the river, and that's where the church is. It's on the mountain, actually above east of the what is now our 19, so but because they were from Tucson, they went and claimed the land around San Xavier Mission to the south of San XavierMission, and all that land that you see that's cleared out, the Amalas cleared it out, and they got water, they moved water in from the river, Santa Cruz River ran all the time, so they, they dug a ditch way up, and then the water was coming into their farmlands, so they had alfalfa, and they had dairy cows, and they sold milk to the city of Tucson population at that time, a small town, of course, and in I think it was about 1850 the government wanted to put the Papago Indian Reservation around San Xavier, so they went over to the Amatos and told them that they had to move out there because they were squatters on the land, and they said, well, we were here first, and they wouldn't move, so they told them that if they didn't move, they were going to burn them down, and my grandpa's younger brother, Antonio, couple years younger than my grandpa, was in the future. He and my grandpa became attorneys, but they never practiced law. They were ranchers, anyway. They sent Antonio and an Aaron from San Javier Mission on horseback when he was six years old to Tucson, and when he got over there, I learned this from a story in the museum. We have a copy of the newspaper. They interviewed him, and they said to Antonio, well, what do you remember? Well, he says, I got to Tucson, I did my errand, and then he says, I looked over towards a mission, and he says, with his little blue eyes, he said, I could see that billowing smoke, so I said, 'Oh my God, the federal government burned our dairy down. So I got over there, and sure enough, all our house and corrals had been set on fire, and we just moved the cattle to the headquarters that we had built in Amato, because we anticipated that would happen anyway. So I think at that point they got out of the dairy business because the cattle were in Amato, and that's too far to all milk in a wagon. So that's a story about where they started and how they ended up, and then, of course, they had their homes in downtown Tucson also all the time. Yes, for the story on why the railroad was near my grandpa's house, as I told you, he was an attorney, and when his father died, Manuel Amato, he had two sons who were attorneys, Demetri Amato, who claimed to be the smartest in law school, out of 90, he got an 89 and he'd brag about. It and, and laugh when he told the story. How he was the and Antonio wasn't that smart. I passed the loss test, but I was a lot smarter, you know. So, following that, he used to tell a story. You see, he lived on his ranch. My dad took care of his ranch since he was five years old, and my dad promised him his ranch because he had given land to Uncle Hector and Uncle Ismael, my dad's younger brothers. So he expected to inherit the ranch, but my dad at that point never gave it a mind. He just helped my grandpa, because my grandpa didn't work, especially during the Depression.\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  5:52  \r\nMy grandpa moved from the ranch, and he moved into a service station house that he had on Main, and the main and the railroad truck crossing in Tucson, kind of in the barrio, or the edge of the barrio, they're right on Main Street, kind of across the street from what is now Tep Building, and we used to go over there, and again my dad would take him wood and stuff, and we'd fill up a truck with gas from his pumps, and they had the old-fashioned pumps that you pumped a lever, and it would fill up and say five gallons, and then you pour the gas, and then you wanted more, five gallons, pour more gas, you've seen those antique gas pumps, so he had two or three of those there, and so he was very comfortable, and no problem, but he, at that time, he couldn't live on the ranch, he had something in his back that constantly oozed pus or something, and so I think that was probably had kept him from being very active, but he was never active because he was the owner on the ranch, and he kept track of everything when Manuel Amato decided was that he was going to soon die. He told the kids Antonio is going to get 50% of everything I have, and I talked to him, 50% of the money in Valley National Bank, 50% of all the houses in Tucson, and 50% of all the ranches he already has his own ranch, except what ranches I have given to you, and each one of you, including the daughters, had a ranch, so he says, but Antonio is more able to work the ranches, and he deserves that, because I have asked him to run all the cattle as a model ranch cattle, and give each of you your share of that money, but he keeps 50% and the rest of you five get 50, the other 50% so Antonio was always in our mind the richest one, and but he was a good guy to put in that position, and I admire him for having taken the ranch and held it all those years and managed, managed it well. He had a herd of Hereford cattle, registered Hereford at that time. The Hereford bulls were about that tall, maybe at the most three and a half, possibly four feet high at the most. Now the Herefords are well over five feet, you know, but he had them in his barn with hay, like you do at the shows, and you couldn't see their legs were about that long, and one of the bulls got into his pasture, and I, and we'd see him at church most of the time, because we're busy on our ranch, he was busy on his ranch, and so he told my dad, I don't want your bulls, they're not registered with my, I don't want your bulls with my cows, he says, you have to go over there and get that bull, I was next to my dad and him there. He says I'll send Henry tomorrow. Well, tomorrow was Monday. So, in the morning, my dad's out in the field working with whoever, and my mom saddled a horse for me, got me on, and I went over there, and T. Antonio, we called him the. T. Antonio was out there waiting for me, and he had the bull on one side away from his couch, so he pushed him out and got him, and I followed the bull, and he got it to the gate that went into my dad's pasture. I crossed them across the Santa Cruz River. Fortunately, the river was dry, and I took a ranch to my dad's corrals at the house, and I remember it, because my mom said, 'You shouldn't have to be doing this, you're only five years old, but I could do it, I did it, that's the first thing that I remember personally, as I know I did that.\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  10:48  \r\nI remember Tio Antonio, I remember the bull, and I remember my mom saddling the horse for me, and but anyway, we used to see Tio Antonio every Sunday, and my dad gave us - he had a bunch of kids, you know - he gave us each a quarter, including my mom, and we put it in the collection plate at the Amado church, and we were so impressed that Tia Antonio put in a whole buck, and when I got to be eight years old, I figured it out with my dad, my mom, and eight kids, that's 10, we were given 250 and he was putting $1 so he wasn't that generous, and we have another story on him, because Benny and I, Gene was the good guy in the family, whatever my mom said he did, he didn't get into trouble, but I was always looking for something to do or get in trouble, Benny and I, Benny would follow what I did, so we were, we would go to church and Tia Antonio would, would he get there about an hour before church, and my grandpa was a house mouse, church mouse. It was in there with his wife, Virginia, setting up that church, the mass, you know, and inside flowers, or whatever. He put up the sacraments, and so forth, and crosses and so forth inside the church, ready for the preparing the altar for the priest who came from Nogales. He came from Nogales and gave mass in Tubac, then he would go to Tubac from Tubac to the Amado church, so we were about 11 or 12 at noon mass at Amado, and my brothers and I would come on horseback from our ranch, and my dad with that mom, my mom, and the girls and the younger brothers would go around and go to the highway, and then go to Amado past the post office in the school come by my grandpa's ranch and go back towards there, so we would be there a half hour ahead of them, because it took them about 45 minutes, I guess, on in the car to go that far, but in the meantime that was like the meeting place every week, and what happened during the week, and my, my Tio Antonio, my grandpa was inside. He was never when he was not involved with that, but all the other guys are big-time ranchers, you know, mostly our models, and he would. Tio Antonio was very quiet, but when he said something, you had to listen to him, because that kind of a person, very quiet, and so very cheap, you know. He didn't spend money, so he had a can of Chris Albert tobacco that maybe that's the first one he ever bought, and then he farmed his own tobacco and cured it. He knew how to cure it. They put in the sun and put honey and stuff. My grandpa Santiago Gostelm was even better at making tobacco. My dad would farm two rows of tobacco for my grandpa Santiago Gostel, my mom's dad, and Antonio would farm his own little plot around his house up there, and so he had his tobacco and a Prince Albert can, and then he'd pull out his tobacco paper and take the tobacco paper and put about three or four grains of tobacco, and then he had so little tobacco in there that the end was 100% paper, so he'd fold the end this way, and he'd put it in his mouth, and then he'd take a match, and we'd love to do that, take the match. Light it on his live on his Levi's, I scratch it that way. A match is burning, he'd bring that match to his cigarette and his mouth, and the thing would explode, because it was all paper, you know. So he blinked a little bit, and then it take about three plus throw it away, so he had a smoke, and he was a very energetic, healthy type guy. His wife died a lot of years. I never met her. She was in Elias, Maria Leos was her name, that's another big Spanish families, a lot of relatives of ours are illegal. It's a border patrol plane, probably.\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  15:46  \r\nThey, they, we don't have any illegal traffic here, especially now that Trump has come in, and the Mexicans don't want to be here illegal, because they're not, they're being picked up and thrown back, you know, or jailed, or whatever else. So they don't even want to cross a border in here, but the border patrol, you came through, they didn't have the check station open. Now they don't worry about it anymore. No, in all the years I've been here, I've only had three different guys come here. The first one was a guy that was looking for work, and we were putting the fence. I had a group of cowboys putting a fence with concrete base around my house, so that the javelinas and deer wouldn't get in, you saw the fence, and we have a cattle guard there where they go to cross right by my house, so that keeps them from going in, but a guy was sitting up on the hill watching his word work, and I saw him and I said there in Spanish, you know. He says I'm looking for work. I said we don't have work. These guys are working, and I said the roads over there get to the highway and you'll get picked up by the border patrol, and they'd throw you into Mexico, or you can go up the hill and get caught later. So I told him, so I don't know what he did, but he was harmless. Besides, I had a German Shepherd dog that I had bought for security, trained in Germany, bought in Germany, but trained here in Tucson, and I bought a very expensive dog, so I had that for protection inside the house, so following that one day some Iranians or Arabs or something, they came to the house, and we were sitting in the living room where we had part of this interview earlier today, and I was sitting with my back to the window that faces that opens to the outside kitchen, and my wife was sitting on the sofa, looking at me at the kitchen, and he says, \"Henry, somebody just walked through our kitchen outside, and I turned around, and I see him going to the front of the house, so I got up, and Sultan was always at my feet. The Sultan's right there, and the guy's banging on the door, and he says, \"Let me in, let me in. He says, \"I got to come in. I said, \"You're not coming in, and as I got up, I said, Laurie, bring me the shotgun. So, by that time I had the shotgun in my hand, and him there. So I said to him, without opening the door, I said, Put there's water outside, there's a spigot right around the corner behind you, you get your water there and get off the property. So, oh oh, I want to get in. I said, \"You're not coming in. When he saw the shotgun, he listened to me, so he wasn't afraid of the dog, but that dog would have handled him. And so then, as he's filling his water bottles, he had about four or five empty water bottles in his hand, another one of these guys comes, but he had a backpack, and he walks up on the front porch and puts his bag down and starts to open it, and I say, \"Wait a minute, I said, \"Put one hand behind your back, and I said, \"And dump that thing on the floor, if you have anything in there, I said, you're going to hear a shotgun go off. So he said, put it down, dumped it, and then with one hand she showed me I had nothing but empty water bottles. So I said, you fill up, and then the first guy says, Which way is Tucson? I said that way, and I said you came through the back of this house, so don't get, don't go back that way. So the guy filled up, second guy puts his water in, the other's carrying the bottle waters with his arms like this, and they go right back, go back to the kitchen, and we're coming that way, you know, going south. Well, right over there, I went after.. oh, so I said, \"Well, I said they're illegals. And Laurie says, \"Aren't you going to call the border patrol?\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  20:39  \r\nNo, I said not with those kind of people. I said if they get arrested, they're going to blame me, and I don't want those problems. So five minutes later, a white van goes that way. Oh, I said that's a pickup car for them. They obviously have phones, so they picked them up, and then 10 minutes later we see the thing going back, so they had a ride already, but they didn't have water, and they didn't know they could come to the corrals right here and get water, that's the same water we drink over there, so that was the second, and the third one was a guy, I was going to Tucson, and it was standing at the front gate, electric gate there, and he says he was dressed in dress clothes, civilian clothes, nice shoes, nice shirt, nice pair of dress pants, and he says, \"Sir, he says, \"Can you give me a ride? He says, \"Those guys left me. I pay them a lot of money, but they left me. They smuggled them in, you know, and they charge them to bring them in. And then they left me, and he says, \"I don't know where to go. I said, \"You just walk to the highway, and within a half hour the border patrol goes by and pick you up, and they'll take you to Mexico, no problem. So he says, \"Okay, well, I'll do that. But why don't you give me a ride? I said, \"I can't give you a ride. I get the.. I, I give you a ride, and then they see me with you, with me, and I'll be going to the same jail you're going. So I said, \"I don't do that. Of course, that's that's the only three that ever came to this ranch in 28 years. Yes, you're referring to the fact that I told you that I was a good rancher, and my cattle, when they get to Marana Livestock Auction, the owner, Clay Parsons, calls all his clients, and he says we have Hacienda Model cattle for the sale this week. You better show up, so because they're good cattle. Well, I was there one day, and I went by myself, and he says a cow, my cattle came in, about 30 head in a bunch, they were all heifers, beautiful cats ready to be bred, about 14 months old, black brangus mix heifers, I have registered bulls and all of my cows have been born out of registered bull. I got rid of the herd that was here, they were Bayfords, which is at Brahmas and Hereford, but and they're big animals, but the hang the brangas has enough fat, the three eighths Brahma and five eighths Angus, the meat tenderizers, so they're more looked after than preferreds, and in other words, Angus is better than heifers for beef, and according to everybody, so I converted the cattle from that was the first thing I do in the ranch, and then, of course, I always bought registered bulls wherever they had them, and I didn't breed the bulls out of my cows to the cattle, so they're pretty nice anyway. That time I was at the auction, Clay Parsons, the auctioneer, said he's not the auctioneer, they have an auctioneer, but he sits next to him and he prices the cattle as they go, so he announced Ascend Amato cattle, and everybody claps, and he says that price of cattle just went up, and he says, mr. Amato, please stand up, and he says, I want the buyers to know. Know who that rancher is that has built this herd, and the buyers all went like this. Oh, very happy that I was there, and I had, I think, at that time about 100 head of cattle, and there was the first batch that went through, so they, they bit them at 10% starting, and they bid them up because they won my cattle. Several ranchers that came after me, at least four or five, came and said, \"mr. Amato, he says, 'I'm sure glad my cattle sold after yours because the cattle, your cattle raised the price of cattle, and we got a little more than we've gotten would have gotten if we had sold before you sold. So I said, \"Well, your walk almost had nothing to do with me. Oh, it's just a lot to do with you, he says.\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  25:56  \r\nYou have a very nice herd, that's that's what I did with the ranch, of course. When I came here, they had 156 cows on a 350 allotment ranch, and it was owned by the second owner after the Lazy Arena Ranch, which is right next to me here. This used to be the lazy R and R ranch allotment. I have 22,000 plus acres in the allotment. That's a permit to have cattle on the national forest, and I paid an annual fee, but I own the permit, and I sold it to the new owner, like I bought it from the first, that the first guy was a mr. Oberner, a retired banker in Chicago. He came and bought the ranch and told the cowboy, who was living over there in Temporal, in the on the ranch, because over here they had the corrals, not the kind of corrals you see there, but those corrals. My brother's a welder, and he worked for the mines. He put that he bought all those screens, used screens from the mine, and put them there. They're red, as you can see, and he says even a chicken won't get out of there, of course. He was just making a comment, because they're about a foot and a half from the ground, and they can fly over them, so that's not.. he was just making the sense that no cow can get out of there. So those corrals are very valuable, and they're arranged right. So we have an alley in the middle, and we work cattle the proper way. A lot of the cowboys get in a big pen and go circling around, trying to separate the cattle, and all they do is lift up a lot of dust and waste a lot of time. Over here, you put them in the alley, and if the cow wants to go, you want the car to go that way, you open the gate, the other guy puts a gaffle here, and we have the castle, which is called sorting, so that we have a scale on the ranch, and we have proper shoot. I went to Mexico on the recommendation of my vet, Dr. Gary Thrasher, he's a vet, DMV, they call themselves, and he says, \"I work a lot in Mexico, and there's a factory in Caborca, you go over there and you buy the tray, the shoot, and they've got the best chutes around here, so I went over there in my pickup, and I crossed it, took one of my angle cowboys, and we went over there and brought them back. So I have a chute, everything is right here, so I don't know what else I can tell you, other than the luck I had in buying the ranch, they advertised it, saying this is the best watered Southern Osona Ranch. I thought it was sales talk, and what happens here is I found out right away that it is the most well watered ranch in this area, and I don't pump a gallon of water to any pasture, and my other neighbors tell me they get about 18 inches. Sam Hubbell is my real estate agent, and he's worked on my ranch, and he has a ranch across the highway. He's a mile and a half from the edge of my ranch over here, so he gets 18 inches. I've gotten as much as, well, well, one time I had rain from june 25 through August, so. 30-first, and it rained every day, and I had 55 inches of rain that year. That wash was running several times too high to cross, but it generally goes down by the end of the day. All the time I've been here, I've only had to not be able to cross one or two nights each time, so about three times I couldn't go to Tucson on those days, but that's no big deal. I couldn't cross, I couldn't come to too much water in the wash. So, other than that, I know the situation.\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  30:39  \r\nMy dad used to run cattle and a model and his calves out of his cows weighed about 350 pounds at 10 months old and he sold them at that weight because the cows need to get the calf off and otherwise they lose their strength and don't breed back and that kind of stuff, so he had a friend, the most of the ranch over in Aravacam, and he put his cattle up there because the guys, their father died, the whole good rancher and the kids were were unmarried and they weren't kids anymore at that time, they were probably 4550 years old, but they spent all their time and money at the halfway station bar, and so they were selling the cows to pay the bar bill, and they didn't have any cattle, but they had more grass than any other ranch, so my dad put cattle up there from the ranch in Amato, and the calves were coming in at 10 months at 550 pounds, so the 350 to 200 is 200 pounds at, you know, $1 a pound, that's a lot of money. I have the figures in my head, but we don't need to mention it, as if you take 200 more pounds on 400 calves, that's 80,000 pounds at $1 more a pound, that's 80,000 at $2 160,000 So, whatever the price of cattle, if you take 80,000 pounds off 400 calves, you're going to have more, more money, because it's just they say you sell it by the weight, so that's that's what I've done with the ranch, and it's quite successful, and my neighbors tell me that they know I have the best water, but what I did, I'm very proud of what I one time I lost my cowboy for three weeks in the middle of summer, and in June, when there's no rain, so I was pumping water on. We have four wells on this ranch that I closed down after I did this. I was running a pump up there. We have a 40,000 gallon tank. I filled it up. It took about two and a half weeks, filled it all the way to the top, and then I would go at 5o'clock in the morning, go check the drinkers, they were always full from the tank, but you go because if you go, if you don't go in the morning, and there's a leak, you lose all that water, and it takes a long time, and the cattle were fine. So, but I did that for two weeks, and then I'd go, I'd be in the office by 9o'clock in Tucson, in my CPA office. Then 5o'clock I come back here, and I get home about nine 930 By the time I check the water, never had a problem, but you check it, you know. So Lori said to me, you're going to have a heart attack if you keep doing that. So I did it for two, two and a half, three weeks, and then I said, that's pretty stupid, you know. All the rain we get on this ranch, if we just make all the dirt tanks that were on the ranch, you can't open new ones. But if a tank goes dry, you get permission for the Forest Service, and they give you permission if it's dry and there's no fishing or toads or something like that in it, so then you can dig it up, and I called a company out of Saurida area. That's what they do, they dig dirt pots for people, and so I said, make them as deep as you can, and I'll never have to worry about water. And I have a tank up there, he'll call it the Mesquite tank, and he would go down to the rock, and that tank had rock, no rock, but good soil to heal, to seal the tank, and he took it in about, and he says you have about 50 feet of water, and the area, at least a half an acre of tank, and you see that you should see the dirt border around the tank, it's at least 10 or 15 feet. So he had a road where he went in and went out, and I had that Dooley f3 50 dooley that I have at the house that was brand new then and I said, can I go down there? I want to take a picture.\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  35:50  \r\nI put it down there, took a picture, and it looked like a little Tonka truck down there, just a little thing like that in the photo in this big empty water tank, so that's the biggest tank I know of on my ranch, but see what, just so you know, you asked me what I did to improve the cattle ranch. This ranch is running right, because I learned that from there, and by experience I couldn't be doing that, and depending on not having cowboys to watch the water tank, and the result of that was that 18 years ago I stopped pumping, and I haven't pumped a single gallon of water to any pasture from any well, so I'm the envy of all the ranchers around here, because nobody, in fact, in the advertising that we did for the ranch, that's what we said, that this ranch enlarged the tanks to their maximum, and because of the more rain that we have, they hardly ever go dry, except this year when the guy buys the place they're dry and quite a few are empty, but we had a little bit of rain, most of them have water now, but not full well. As you know, I was raised on a ranch, and when I went to junior high and high school, I dressed like a cowboy. I went with my boots on, and the, and I was a very good student, and I, when I went for the first, my mom sent me to Sudbury School with Gene, and Gene was in second grade, so the teacher says, my mom said put both of them in second grade, and I put Henry in whatever grade he belongs, but Gene goes in second grade. My mom said, because he's been in school and he got promoted to second grade, so the teacher there, mrs. Moat, at that time tested me, and she says, well, you and Gene can both be in second grade because you speak better English and you do all the math at fourth or fifth grade level, and because I was my dad's secretary when he sold produce, I told you I used to count the eggs to 48 even though I didn't need to, they were in a box that held 48 holes, and I still counted them. So, about a week later, the teacher sends a note to my mom, Henry needs to be in third or fourth grade, he's at that level, and Jean stays in second grade. My mom says, \"No way, don't let Henry get away, get ahead of Gene, because I don't want Gene to feel left behind. So I was in second grade, but I was doing, I would turn around, the first through fourth were over here, and the fifth through eighth were over there in fifth to eight. There were only about 19 kids, and about 13 of us were models, my cousins from a model, and their mother, Alvida model, and relatives, my dad's cousins, was that lived in a model. They sent their kids to so preschool and Vida model got a model's wife, my dad's best cousin does what's got us. He has my grandmother's, my great grandmother's summer home. He got that ranch and it's called Rancho Nuevo. So they bought that ranch, they formed that ranch, they built a ranch house, I should say, for her as their summer home, because the river ran so much that when she came with her, with her groom in the buggy, they couldn't cross the river to either Antonia's house or my grandpa's house, because the river was running, they were on the other side, east of the river, so they built a house there on the west side of the river, so when she came, so they called it Rancho Nuevo, because it was a new ranch, and so she used it in the summer to get out of the heat in Tucson, and so Gus inherited that property, my dad's cousin, and then his son Gus, and now my second cousin Gus Jr appears to be the only rancher left in the Amado area. I have a small piece of land in Amado, a part of the Golden Amado land that was sold, and I bought it back in 1974 and I was going to sell it when my kids needed it for college.\r\n\r\nHenry G. Amado  41:14  \r\nWell, then I never needed it, so I still own it. So I'm going to keep that and pass it on to the kids, so it's a nice pizza, our model land that they should have. You asked me the question of what I was the most proud of doing or living in this area. Well, I have to give you that background, that I came from a farm family. I was appointed, inducted into the National Honor Society for good grades. I showed up wearing an outfit like this, and the teacher, all the other kids with ties and stuff, and the teacher comes up. Don't worry, we'll just button your top button, and I didn't even feel left out, and I was proud. I wasn't a model, and I was accepted everywhere. Never, there was no prejudice on me from anybody or me prejudice towards anybody, so I'm proud of that, but I don't think that I've done anything major in this area, other than just be a good citizen. I belong to a lot of boards, we're very involved with our Catholic Church, and we have a very nice family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3195/collection_resources/164096/file/298751#t=0.0,2578.965"}]}]}]}