OFF SCREEN: I'm going to go back to your masonry work and ask you a little more about the kinds of masonry work you did. Did you shape stones?

HILL: Yes, that's what we did.

We had a little chipping hammer—is what we called it—and we'd scrub a line on that sandstone and you could chip it off and make a pretty face on it, like this here, an exterior face on it like that.

That was really enjoyable for us. It was shaping that stone where it would fit in like we wanted it to.

Then when we built the arch for the club house down there, we really enjoyed that, too.

That was a work of art that they showed me, and I really enjoyed putting, laying those stones where they would make that arch and stay there all these years.

And then we helped build the dance terrace on the back of the club house. They have an open-air dance terrace back there. We helped build that. We enjoyed that.

Mostly what my buddy and I—what our Saturday night consisted of—we'd go down—we didn't have any money—we'd go down to the club house and we'd buy us an orange soda pop and a bag of peanuts and sit there and watch them dance and eat them peanuts and soda. When we got through with that, we'd go back. That was our Saturday night. (laughs) But we enjoyed every minute of it.

OFF SCREEN: Who was there dancing? Were they local people coming out from— HILL: From out of Brownwood, yeah. They would come out there. I understood that they would sell tickets and rent that to some orchestra and they would come out there and play.

Oh, it was. You could dance across the dance floor and look at over the lake. It was real beautiful, especially when the moon was out at night. They really enjoyed it.

And they had a lot of good orchestras come out there, too. Every time we'd get a chance, we'd go down there and listen to the music.