Oral History Interview with Billy Allen, March 1, 1976 Page: 48
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48food. It was made out of some kind of old syrup and
brown sugar. You'd even find straw in it. We'd buy
that. Then we began . . . we'd eat that. That's
where we began to get the diarrhea. But occasionally
they'd take us down to a river and let us bathe in the
river. When we went down there, there were a lot of
Filipinos down there with stuff to trade. Sometimes
we even bought some bananas and . . .
What did you all have to trade with?
Well, we had a few pesos on us that they didn't take
away from us.
Okay, we'll get into the food situation a little bit
later. Let's go back and talk some more about the
physical structure of the camp. So you had these
large barracks, and there were tiers of bunks inside
which were nothing more than bamboo platforms.
Right.
What sort of bathing and sanitary facilities did each
barracks contain, or didn't they?
No bathing facilities. We dug trenches for latrines.
That was it. The trenches we dug for latrines and
the faucet outside the barracks was the only running
water. There were no bathing facilities. Now sometimes
we took baths when it rained. We'd get out under the
eaves and soap up quickly. The whole camp was nudeMarcello:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Allen, Billy. Oral History Interview with Billy Allen, March 1, 1976, book, March 1, 1976; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529118/m1/50/?q=%22~1~1%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.