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- pretty much grown when they'd
built the house, so it was just like a brand~new house; They could have bought tlie other
halfofthe block and this house for $10,000. (Laughter) That was in 1922.
G:
Well, $10,000 was-
L:
My father didn't want the land
- us our breakfast in the morning, and we ate out the rest of
the time.
now .
We ate at a place called Wukasch's, which is not here
It was 6n Guadalupe, on the Drag, about half a block from : where
we roomed and we had meal tickets and ate lunch
- . And on that corner
was the old Burleson home.
F:
Yes.
L:
And back of that was old man Stark s home, who used to manage the
1
Driskill. They re all gone.
1
now.
You see, the whole block's cleared off
But he had his headquarters, and I'd go by there once
- .
Each ti me he tried to get support or money,
I think he finally just decided that since they
were blocking him so totally in one field, that he would just run
for governor instead.
I don't think he originally intended to run
for governor back
- near the hotel conven
tion headquarters which was the Biltmore.
So they gave us the
New International Clark, which was two and a half to three blocks
from the Biltmore. But it was an old, dilapidated, horrible
hotel~ ·
dark, dingy; the beds swayed
