Short’s Pig Stand: For ten years my dad cooked at café’s
in Wichita Falls, from 1947 to 1956. He was a cowboy and cook. He liked cooking
in WF so he could be near the bars – because he was also a drunk. He was one of
the first cook’s for the downtown Casa Manana when it opened in 1947. I don’t
know how long he worked there, but was probably fired for showing up drunk. One
of his last jobs was cooking at Short’s Pig Stand. When he left there we went
back to the ranch, leaving WF and all my friends. It was a sad time for me, but
I would soon join the Army and move away from the area for twenty years.
