Oral History Interview with William J. Stewart, June 11, 1981 Page: 55
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that car, and he mentioned that one morning he went
out, and where the door panel normally was somebody
had cut out a perfect frying pan. Just the shape
of a frying pan had been cut out of one of those
door panels.
I don't remember that particular door panel, but I do
remember the car, and in a period of a month, it got
awfully little (chuckle).
The Japanese had no objections to this?
No, apparently the car was disabled for some reason, and
they didn't bother to try to get it fixed. I don't know
what the original problem was, whether somebody had
thrown a rod through the crankcase or what the deal was,
but, like I said, within a month's time there was nothing
left of it but the hard iron--no springs, no tin on it
anywhere.
Let's talk about the food here at Bicycle Camp and also
the process by which you got fed. Describe what the
food was like here at Bicycle Camp.
Well, the food here was horrible; however, if you ate it,
you'd stay alive.
What made it so horrible?
It was dirty. It was rice, and it was rice like the
natives normally ate there. It was stored where there
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Stewart, William J., 1920-. Oral History Interview with William J. Stewart, June 11, 1981, book, June 11, 1981; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1944633/m1/57/?q=%22~1%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.