Oral History Interview with George Samson Nalle, April 24, 1984 Page: 4
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How did you get from here to church on Sundays?
Nalle It wasn't any problem then, it is now though. When I eleven years old,
I was driving everywhere. There were only about six cars in Austin. My
father taught me to drive at an early age, because he, not that I was
clamoring to be a driver, as most children are. But because he had to get
out and hold the horse's head, so I let the old noisy car went by and as I
would drive the car by and he'd walk on up maybe half a block. After he
got the horse quieted down going the other way or something then he'd
get in and drive.
Dougherty You had a stable here?
Nalle What?
Dougherty You had a stable next to the house?
Nalle Yes, we had a stable with two horses. My grandmother had a carriage
with two horses and then my father had what they the called a hug-me-
tight type buggy in those days. Did you ever hear of them?
Dougherty No.
Nalle Just for, just hold two people. It was sprung, a regular buggy, with
patent leather fenders and so forth. My father, and then he built that little
part of the house in the end of the stable there for his horse. We had the
three horses here. And where all the Regency is there was the was horse
lot where they went, horses just ran. We paid the premium of course, but
they had that old whole lot to run in. So a lots of changes since then.
Grown-ups think there is much improvement. To short a time she was a
wonderful wife and, and inspite of all the talk that went on about the
Ferguson's and the hatred in politics and all that, that went on in lies and
all that. Should you see, each one was elected twice. Mrs. Ferguson was
elected twice and Governor Jim was elected twice. And my way of
thinking there were no better people ever lived than they were. And
certainly they were both splendid father-in-law and mother-in-law. They
never interfered with Ouida and me. But I don't know. I've been driving
a car since I was eleven years old by myself. The gasoline car. My
father's original car was a steamer too. Two passenger steamer. Sat side
by side in a steam car. And you got going down you started off and it
was he and his and my mother had packed a wicker basket of food.
When they were going out on a picnic some where. And the exhaust heat
from the burners caught the basket on fire. We had to get the basket off
there quick, decide what happened right that quick in front of where, well4
Dougherty
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Dougherty, Mary Ann & Nalle, George Samson. Oral History Interview with George Samson Nalle, April 24, 1984, text, April 24, 1984; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth201197/m1/4/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting St. David’s Episcopal Church.