Oral History Interview with John Lowe, Jr., August 7, 1978 Page: 10
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Lowe:as I remember, it originated from the Moana Beach Hotel there.
Under the banyan tree or something like that?
Yes, that great, big tree. I always tried to go there and
watch that, and then we drank a little beer and that sort of
thing.
I gather a lot of the servicemen used to frequent Hotel and
Canal Streets with a certain degree of regularity.
Well, some of them did. I never did get down in that area.
Like you pointed out, there were lines for everything, whether
it was to get into bars or the houses of prostitution or
whatever it might be.
Well, I never noticed that so much during that period of time.
However, later in the war when I was back out there, I noticed
quite a number of lines along that line.
In your bull sessions, did you and your buddies ever talk very
much about the possibility of a Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor
as relations between the two countries continued to deteriorate?
Did the thought ever cross your minds?
That thought never crossed my mind. The talk was that we figured
eventually that we were going to have a war with the Japs. But
as far as being attacked as we were there, I don't recall anyone
making any conversation along that line.
I remember one day while we were on the USS Argonne, one
of the fleet cargo vessels came in, and they had a load of PT
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Lowe, John, Jr. Oral History Interview with John Lowe, Jr., August 7, 1978, text, August 7, 1978; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529186/m1/12/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.