Making Their Own Toys

ID: 1358 ~ Source: Gayton, Emmett, interviewed by Michael B. McCarty, March 4, 2006, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
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Emmett Gayton explains how he made his own toys as a child who lived in the Sandtown Neighborhood.

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By Michael Woodward
Sandtown was a vibrant and predominately Mexican American neighborhood that was active from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1960s. It encompassed the area of downtown Waco between Third Street and the Brazos River, and the seven blocks…