At the time of the interview, Mr. Villarreal owned and operated the Villarreal Theatre in Kansas City, Kansas. He was born in Oklahoma in 1932 and parents settled in Armourdale in 1936. In the interview he discusses his early life, education, church, the 1951 flood, burns he received from accident while in military, the theater he and wife runs, etc. Number 55 on MP3 disc.
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