Interview with Roy Wilhelm, February 28, 1993
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| - | '''Roy''': It was an old doc in Winslow, the guy that tried to take my, Doctor Oscar S. Brown, he was a Santa Fe doctor down there and he was, people went all over from everwhere to, cause he was a good doctor, good surgeon and so forth. When he started to take my tonsils out he cut into one of them and, boy, he liked to never got the blood stopped. I was a bleeder. Scared the hell out of him, thought he'd lost me there for awhile. I was just a little bit old kid. I just vainly relect that experience, but anyhow, he (Dr. Brown) had the ranch, he's taken his railroad money here and invested it at Lake Elsinore. And had some farms and California ranches, don't have to be very big to be a ranch out there. | + | '''Roy''': It was an old doc in Winslow, the guy that tried to take my, Doctor Oscar S. Brown, he was a Santa Fe doctor down there and he was, people went all over from everwhere to, cause he was a good doctor, good surgeon and so forth. When he started to take my tonsils out he cut into one of them and, boy, he liked to never got the blood stopped. I was a bleeder. Scared the hell out of him, thought he'd lost me there for awhile. I was just a little bit old kid. I just [[vainly relect]] that experience, but anyhow, he (Dr. Brown) had the ranch, he's taken his railroad money here and invested it at Lake Elsinore. And had some farms and California ranches, don't have to be very big to be a ranch out there. |
'''Roy''': And so he had a string of well drills and the guys that he had runnin' 'em, that's kind of hard for him, he had to trust somebody where he was out here, he could just go back there once in a while. They were takin' him for a ride, shortin' the books and everything, so he wanted my [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Dad]] to come out there and run the well auger for him. [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Pa]] says, "I don't know a thing in this world about well drills." "Well," he says, "just see where you got them beat, I trust ya." And [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Pa]] thought about that. That meant that you can learn how on the job, I can stand your honest mistakes but I can't stand what these guys are doin' to me. | '''Roy''': And so he had a string of well drills and the guys that he had runnin' 'em, that's kind of hard for him, he had to trust somebody where he was out here, he could just go back there once in a while. They were takin' him for a ride, shortin' the books and everything, so he wanted my [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Dad]] to come out there and run the well auger for him. [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Pa]] says, "I don't know a thing in this world about well drills." "Well," he says, "just see where you got them beat, I trust ya." And [[Zemira George Wilhelm|Pa]] thought about that. That meant that you can learn how on the job, I can stand your honest mistakes but I can't stand what these guys are doin' to me. | ||
