The Community of Sandtown in the 1950s

ID: 1360 ~ Source: Gamboa, Robert, interviewed by Ali Clark and Mark Ruth, March 4, 2006, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
This file appears in: Sandtown Neighborhood

Robert Gamboa speaks of how people lived in the Sandtown Neighborhood, as well as how the people worked together as a community the 1950s.

This file appears in: Sandtown Neighborhood

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…