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Tell me a little bit about that,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=91.0,100.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e And scabbard and blade. What are your remembrance Yeah, remember scabbard and blade and the bobcats and the journalistic fraternity, phi del epsilon, I think it is. 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Maybe they still do then, every Wednesday night, the student body had to dance there, and we played for that, and we played for the meals in the dining hall and for our meals that sort of thing. 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Yeah, well, now there's so many buildings the campus scene with Maricopa and Pima Hall and the gals where they lived, and then Cochise and some of the halls on the men's side and the library. I was here when they built the, what is now the old library, which is, I understand, the museum, but when you enter into third street, it was a beautiful campus to drive around, through clear up to the observatory, which I don't, I didn't see it. Is it still here? Yeah, well, that was the end of the campus. Cherry Street was the final East boundary of campus. And of course, the in 21 there was no stadium, just bleachers. And I think you you may have a picture of that, with the with the graduating class in the in the bleachers, and not in the least, if you don't have, I have one somewhere, but the campus was really a pleasure to see and be in. 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What was some of your best memories of when you were here? Anything in particular?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=299.0,305.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, the fact that we got shaved as a freshman when we first came in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=305.0,309.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e What do you mean? 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In the I was in the traveling quartet that represented the university, and all the rest of the fellow the other three men all had hair, and I was bald as a cue ball. We're traveling all around the state with these programs, but that, the fact that we had lots of fights for some reason with the sophomores, we generally end up in the cactus garden in front of Old Main and that wasn't much fun either.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=324.94,325.07071"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you come from Bisbee? 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And the, my interest in it is the fact that when he was in the hospital, and he wasn't expected to live, Coach McHale went up to him and said that the members of the football team have sent their best wishes to him. Then coach said, you have anything you want to tell them? The first thing he said was, yes, tell, tell the team to bear down. And that's carried on from then now. 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And, well, that could be, I think he was probably Button from the time he was kid, but I know it carried all the way through.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=521.28571,541.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e I understand you met your wife here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=541.0,544.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, she was a delta gamma, and I didn't have time to do much dating, because every weekend I was playing in a dance band somewhere, and I had a horrible reputation that I dated gal and then a dumper. So they had warned her ahead of time, you know. So I dated her for about two years. Here, I was out of school. She graduated in 29 and I had been out of school for a couple of years, but I was dating her then, and she was her sophomore year. She was the Desert Queen for that particular year. And I don't know why this, you got pretty well acquainted with the Delta gammas for some reason. And how have you married 69 years? You can believe it these days.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=544.0,594.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me a little bit about your family, your kids and stuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=594.0,597.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Just so we have that, well, we have this boy, right? Here. Dale is our first born, and he was born right here in St Mary's Hospital. And he went on, went through Boulder, graduated as an out of Arizona, I mean, as an aerospace engineer, went with bowling, then for five years, then went to San Diego with the Aurora Corporation. He was there for 32 years where he graduated the other son came three years later, and he's a professor. He got his PhD in Hawaii, and he's teaching marine biology. Was what he went over there for. They stopped the marine biology program for a couple years and switched him off in the anatomy and physiology, but she knew nothing about it at the time. That's the best way it goes. But now they're back with all three subjects, and he's been there now for he could retire now he's been over there 36 years. I think so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=597.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me a little bit about between, like, when you graduated, just what you did in your career, and bring us up to like 1940","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=660.0,667.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, well, when I graduated, we lived here. We built a house out here in Cameron and Grant Road, and it was halfway under construction when we were the great right after we were married in 1929 we were married October the 19th, 1929 and the stock market crashed on the 20th. And I was in the brokerage business. So we were in Hollywood, Grauman's Chinese Theater. We came out that night, and here were these newspapers all over being screamed great, market difficult. So I called the boss, and he says, Come home immediately. So we tore back to back to here, and he said, you're going to be busy for the next few days. And I think Louise, I saw her sitting on the steps as I came home after about two days, she probably thought, what the heck did I get into here? Then after that, then I had to go into there wasn't anything to do. No jobs available. So I went into life insurance for the New York Life, which I disliked with a passion, and then the war broke out in '42 but in the meantime, in '38 I spent two years with the Civilian Conservation Corps in Colorado and down in East Texas, and places like that, and kind of filled in. But that's, that carries us up to the period of the war when that's first called in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=667.0,764.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay, and when you were called into the war, tell us about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=764.0,766.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, the university had a cavalry unit here, maybe you've heard about and I took up the I went into cavalry unit just because I was interested in military, and then the horses and that kind of stuff. So I got my second lieutenant commission here in 1926 I think it was, and was assigned then for active duty, who was the 10th cavalry down at Fort, Huachuca. And Huachuca was the the old, what they called the buffalo regiment. It was all black soldiers, but white officers. And I was with them a short time. And then I was transferred to the seventh cavalry, which is custer's old regiment down in Fort Bliss, Texas. And I was there, we used to put in six weeks every summer in maneuvers and special training that when the war broke out and they called me in, they called me in as an anti aircraft artilleryman because they didn't think they wanted horses anymore, and so I went in as that and went all through the war, then the army, but a half an hour after I scrolled into the Army, the Air Force called me, and I always wanted to be in the Air Force, because I knew photography had been doing this all my life, and I wanted to get into Signal Corps. Well, I didn't have any they weren't about to transform me. So I went all through the war in Germany, and when, when I came out of Germany at the end of the war, I was over there for a year and a half in the army of occupation after the war, and when I just started home, they said, now you're going to stay in the army to get your commission. I said, Not if I can transfer to the Air Force. So they transferred me to the Air Force, and I stayed with them from 46 then until 66 when I retired as Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force, which I never would have gotten, had a state with the armies, and in the meantime, of course, I tried to keep in touch with the university here and what fueled alums that I knew around town.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=766.0,895.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e Great. So tell us now the story of the bell. Tell us the whole story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=895.0,899.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, well, like I say, the bell story, to me is a strictly fatal action, which couldn't possibly have happened any other way. My regiment, the 202nd Coast artillery, came out of Chicago, and that was the 200th Coast artillery, also that was out of Chicago. We were sent to the Philippines. Supposedly, our colonel goofed up on all the logistics, and we couldn't make it, so they sent the 200th. Well, the 200th are the ones that were in the baton Death March. So there's the that's the first point of fate, and they sent us to the Bremer Navy Yard, what they call the Puget Sound Navy Yard. And we had the protection of that whole area, including McCord field, which was the air branch of the service over in Tacoma. We had that so we had anti aircraft, guns and balloons and radar and all these sort of things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=899.0,962.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, how it came about for the bell, I had gun position scattered all around the area, but I had no way to contact them except by telephone or by jeep, which we didn't want to do. But half the time, the telephones didn't work, so someone set up a gong system, because we expected the Japs in there any minute, anyway. And so I went down to the Navy Yard, because the army couldn't possibly furnish anything like that. So I went to the Navy Yard, the salvage yard, and where they bring everything in to redo and talk to the manager of the salvage yard, and then they had a whole lot of shell casings from the battle of the China Sea, great big brass shell casings from the big guns. And right in the middle of it was a six foot cubic wooden crate. And he said to me, he said,\"I don't have anything like you're looking for. But speaking of bells, let me show you something.\" And so we went back there, and I pulled a slat off the side of the box, and I looked in and said, Arizona 1916 and I said, \"Now, is this what I think it is?\" He said, \"Yes. This is one of the two bells off of the battleship Arizona.\" After it was sunk, they recovered these two bells, and one of them, of course, is in the memorial that is built right across the hall of the Arizona in Pearl Harbor. And it's right there now, well, this one, I said, first thing. I said, \"The hell you are. You're not going to melt it down.\" He said they were going to melt it down. And I said, \"The hell you are!\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=962.0,1063.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e So, then I went immediately to the captain of the Navy Yard and told him the story and which I mentioned up there, Captain Robotham, which I thought was a wonderful name, and he got quite interested in the fact and that he didn't even know they were going to melt it. I don't believe word got to him. So I immediately, then got a hold of the governor, Governor Osborne, State of Arizona, and Louis Slonaker, which a lot of people here will remember him, a lot of the old timers. You know the name quite well. He was the president. He's president of the Alumni Association and the president, and told them all the stories. So they immediately got busy, and they wrote, there's some correspondence between the President and Osborne. And they wrote to the Secretary of the Navy in Washington and taffen. There was his name and all of that the correspondence is right here. Well, in Washington, they mulled it over for several months, and finally they said, at least they saved it from being melted. Finally, they said, Yes, at the end of the war, either the state or the university could have it. So I kept pulling as much as I could to make it the university.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1063.0,1148.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e And they put it on a scaffolding in the Navy Yard so that all the new recruits that came in could ring it and just to give them a good start, Good old Navy, And so at the end of the war, must have been five or six months, I guess after the war, they finally sent it down here, and where they stored it, I don't know, but I always got a kick out of Slonaker. He wrote me a letter immediately, and he said we were going to hang an old main building, but he said, if we had the building would have collapsed. So he said, I don't know what we're going to do with it now and then later. I guess it stayed in storage here somewhere for a long time, and finally, they decided to build a memorial building, put it up there where we were.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1148.0,1203.08176"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e What did it feel like ringing the bell today?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1203.08176,1206.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, it was, it was good. It felt real good. I didn't get goose pimples like I did the first time, but I was bound and determined I was going to ring it again some of these days. That's... I told somebody today. I said the only reason I came this time is ring the bell. I didn't want to see you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1206.0,1229.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e So that that's how it landed here, and thank God it is here. And I don't think the governor of the state has had too much... I don't think he worried too much, but I don't think he even knew what it was, really.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1229.0,1242.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e How do you feel about the fact that they're going to take it out of the bell tower and display it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1242.0,1245.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e I think it's a great idea. I really do. Get it down to where people can see it. And this Marilyn, what's her name, sitting next to me. She told me all the plan she has for it, and wonder what I thought of that ringing it a certain number of times for certain acts, whatever develops, you know. And I said, I thought that was a great idea. And if something very important happens on campus, ring the bell so many times, and then in the campus paper after, will describe why they rang it and why that many times. So I think the setup that's in progress now, which I hope isn't going to take too long to consummate, I think it's a great idea, really.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1245.0,1300.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e And what is it? What does it feel like? In your own words, I know you've already talked about this, but what does that bell signify to you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1300.0,1311.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, it just signifies the beginning of World War II for us, really. And just in fact, of course, the fact that there were 1134 of our men... I don't know. Just... that's a pretty deep feeling.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1311.0,1333.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e Um...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1333.0,1340.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Got something else, there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1340.0,1343.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e What does it feel like to be an alumnus of the University of Arizona?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1343.0,1348.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, after 72 years, it's great to be an alumnus. I'm just lucky that I've been an alumnus this long, and I hope it'll be few more years, yet, I don't know. I just like to keep close touch. I keep in touch a little bit with a 5m unit here and the one in Colorado Springs. I don't pay much attention to they have a good one there, but I'd rather keep in touch here, and I don't know, just talk about it and see my sister and her husband both graduated from here also. Well, her name was Frances Bowers, and she married Lloyd Knudson, which was a twin with Oliver Knudson, and Oliver and his wife also graduated here, and she was Dorothy Stripling at the time. That was there. There was also married in '29","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1348.0,1401.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e How do you, you've had such a long and very enriched life, how do you sort of, not rate but the time that you were here at the university? What has that fit in your whole scheme of your life, in terms of what it means to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1401.0,1420.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e answer really, I don't know. I think it just gave me an insight into life at those particular times, and what I had to look forward to, and just the association with the, with all the people that I met during the time I was here, and and the fun and what education I got out of the whole thing. And I don't know it just to me, I reminisce quite often on things that I did here with other people and and different things. 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Always, I don't know whether you've ever heard of the Blue Moon or not yet, we played there quite a bit.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1454.77596,1494.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e What was the downtown Tucson like at that time? Did you go down there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1494.0,1498.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, it was so. The Santa Rita Hotel, of course, was where most of the bashes were held, and then we'd have a dance up on the roof and but they were dancing on concrete, so it didn't work too well, but the downtown was small, Steinfelds and Santa Rita and the Pioneer Hotel and things like that. Oh and Levy's, of course, you remember Levy's. And Aaron and I knew all the Levy's real well. Congress Street was Congress, and Stone, of course, was the main cross intersection. And Congress said you knew of all the buildings up to about 12th Street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1498.0,1543.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e Let me show you this. If you could describe this picture here, I'm showing you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1543.0,1548.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, one of the things that Dean Cummings, Dean Byron Cummings, who also became an interim president here for a short time, we used to go out on archeological digs and just for fun. Here's Dean Cummington standing here at the base of the saguaro. And this is Dr Haury, Emil Haury, who's head of the Arizona State Museum. He just passed away two years ago. Didn't he something like that? I'm sorry to hear that. So we just fooled around one day and said we'd climb a saguaro.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1548.0,1582.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e How'd you get up there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1582.0,1586.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Very carefully. Well, luckily, there weren't very many stickers down at the bottom here. And I think I boosted Haury up, and then he sort of helped me. I think maybe Cummings started and gave us a boost. But we got up there. I don't know how, but I thought I've always liked that picture. Not many people have climbed a saguaro.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1586.0,1605.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e Great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1605.0,1606.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e So is there anything I've missed that you want to say, or anything you covered the bear down? Did you want to talk about the song, bear down?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1606.0,1615.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Or No, I don't think about the song just the same. Yeah, just the same that's all that Howard originated to know, and the fact that I knew button quite well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1615.0,1627.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e You guys should get out any of those photos that we","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1627.0,1633.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e have, the pictures you gave me today. Yeah, you might just tell us about some of the stories. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1633.0,1639.44291"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, I think one of the things we used to do, I understand, they're running the streetcar up and down Third Street again. And of course, they stopped that for many years. But one of the things we always did on Halloween was take the streetcar and shove it right up through the gate and up onto the campus, and then they had these plastic, sort of plastic hanging straps for people old that couldn't sit down. And I think every, every man in dormitory, something, had one of those to hang his ties on in the room. 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In those cases, I was up on the tower, and my good buddy turned on the floodlights, and I had to get into the pool real quick. And here come all the fellows and the girls from Pima Hall over to the fence, and I couldn't get out until the guard came and shut off, the lights. Got me out of there. Little things like that. That your particular good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1672.88996,1731.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e Why not? You know one thing no one asked about Rufus. Tell us a little about the original mascot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1731.0,1736.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, he was a real cutie. He was large. What was it? It was it? It was a bobcat.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1736.0,1748.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay. Now, Rufus was always taken to all the ball games, and he was fairly docile, but he was a robot, this long, I guess, but this high, pretty good sized cat. And then when he passed away, then I think all the records on him upstairs anyway, then Rufus II, who came in. And he was a little guy. He was real cute. I think you have pictures of both of them probably. And I don't know how long he lived, because I lost all track.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1748.0,1775.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you pet him?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1775.0,1778.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e No, no, no, neither one of them district pictures. And at that time was when I was taking pictures of all the buildings and things that I wanted a record of them. And is the snowstorm showing in that album? Here you remember anything about one of my favorite stories there is. You can cut it out later if you want to. We had about three inches of snow. Well, the Delta Gamma house was over on Fifth Street, I think, and faced this way. And as you open the door, the dining room was right here, and they had a big long table there that they were all sitting, and my buddy and I were out throwing snowballs. So we were throwing them at the front of the house. Well, somebody opened the front door and one of our snowballs went in and hit a big carafe of cocoa or a big pitcher. The Delta Gammas had nothing to do with us for quite a while, little things like that that you don't forget.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1778.0,1841.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e Let me show you some talk about some of these pictures.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1841.0,1844.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, well, this was the team, and then here's Button. He's the shortest one of the whole bunch in there, of course, this was in Bisbee. Yeah, it's Bisbee High School, and this is Button and Leighton Bledsoe. So he was the right half back, and I was the left halfback.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1844.0,1862.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eINTERVIEWER:\u003c/strong\u003e Are you in this picture?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1862.0,1864.0"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBILL BOWERS:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I'm not in this picture. This is Button. See, he's not very... this guy's just about my size. So you see, Button would be...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330#t=1864.0,1876.5"}]},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["English [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2320/collection_resources/98180/file/195330/transcript/87436/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"subtitling","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/087/436/original/transcript_1765330719.vtt20251209-2593616-y42w61.vtt20251209-2593616-y42w61?1765330719","format":"text/vtt","language":"en"},"target":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/087/436/original/transcript_1765330719.vtt20251209-2593616-y42w61.vtt20251209-2593616-y42w61?1765330719"}]}]}]}