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398 Interview: state Your Name: Kelley Kennedy Hist. 398 Final Project 1-2 -My name is Bernice Pedersen, & I live in Chinook, WA. Tell me about your family? How many brothers and sisters did you have? Bernice: -I was born in Peoria, Illinois -3 brothers and 1 sister -My sister was the oldest and the boys were mothers pets. 3-4 What were the boys names? Bernice: 1)Robert 5 yrs older 2)Daved 2 & a half yrs older 3)Jack 4 yrs younger 1 & my sisters name was Florence 7 yrs older was the oldest. 4-5 What was your mothers maiden name? Bernice: My mothers maiden name was Minni Noe My fathers name was Michael Robert Mallony 5-6 What was your mothers background? Bernice: My Grandmothers name was Louisa Hasear born in Louisiana, and her father was born in Germany. My mother got as far as 2nd year in junior high school. Then her father told her that she had enough education and that it was time to go to work. So mother got herself a job in a bicycle factory. 6-7 How long did she work there? 2 It was some time cause she bought herself a bike and a pair of bloomers and rode her bike through town. That didn't make her father very happy. He was my grandfather he was evidently a butcher by trade. Bernice didn't recall him working yet he always had money maybe he inherited it, or were he got it. 7-9 What about your fathers family Bernice: I don't know that much about my fathers family Mike Maloney was the Black-Sheep because he drank. He was the oldest son - he had two brothers, John and David and 3 sister, Josephine, Eleane, Isabelle. 3 married and 2 stayed single. Grandfather never bought the house. -Grandmother wouldn't let the children upstairs -Grandfather lived to be 96 and he worked for the railroad-as an engineer, he started all 3 sons in working the railroad. But Mike quit working since interfered with his drinking. 9-11 11-19 Mike was a heavy drinker Bernice: 3 He didn't know when to stop. He never owned a car. I guess that I was about 6 yrs old when they bought their first house. It had 3 bedrooms, and a path and he did put plumbing in the basement. The boys shared a room and the 2 girls another. How did the boys and you girls get along with your dad? Bernice: Well my dad he was the boss, and you had to understand he was, and when he told you to do something you did it. I remember he loved to play cars and when he had no money he expected the family to sit down and play cards with him at night. -"Well I had some school work to do but I also had to play cards. So I evidently made a foolish bid, and he hit me one along the side of the head hard enough that I went back and hit the wall. I was almost passed out laying on the floor when my brother David, he must have been around 17 yrs old. He picked up a standing ashtray and hit his dad over the head with it. So dad, he staggered out to the kitchen and fell to the floor, here he is laying on the kitchen floor with his head bleeding. My sister walked in by this time she 19-26 was married, she called the doctor and the doctor came out sews up my dads head and charged $5.00. I was the only one that had $5.00 so I had to pay the doctor. -kids never got taken to the doctor then! Ah you had the marks of his hand along the side of your face the next day when you went to school but that's if you got up and went on, there was no thinking about concusion or anything, you got up. We wouldn't have had the doctor for him if he hadn't been bleeding all over the place. 4 -When my father decided 2 yrs later that he wanted a divorce; mom said she would think about it. We noticed a few days later that the red color was coming back in his hair. -He was coloring his hair and watching what he ate out with someone else. Another day he said we're going to court Saturday we're getting a divorce and you'll need to bring a witness "Bring that brat along" meaning me. So we went to court and the judge granted the divorce gave mother the house, the children me and my younger brother Jack. No child support because she got the house. We were divorced so we went to Grandmas house and waited for him to get his things out of the house, clothes and things. we went home 4 hours later 26-32 32-40 5 and he was passed out on the bed. He was divorced but he was home. mother bundled us up and took us back to my grandmothers then she called my older sister and said get your father out of my house. -It had only been a couple days notice was all. But he had been so nasty not giving her any money the only groceries that came in the house were one he made out the order for from his sisters husbands store. I have seen different times when it was square dance time - they would go in to go dancing. "They wouldn't dance with each other though." He was a street angel and a house devil. So then what did your mom do? Minnie went to work in the tea rooms at Bergners making salads and sandwiches, they had no union then. she would eat there so she wouldn't have to put out much. But the house wasn't paid for. I don't know what the payments were but she had to make payments on the house. I think they were only $40-$50, but wages were not much. I can remember when I would go out babysitting and maybe I would sit all evening for .so cents or $1.00. What did you do when your parents got divorced? I'm not quite sure, it must have been in the late 20's. Maybe I'm not sure when it was I was 17 or 18 yrs 6 old, so it must have been around 1930 then. So you were home during the depression? I was home for part of it. I was home until 1932. After I graduated from high school at the age of 17 and I'd always dreamed about being a nurse. My girlfriend and I went up to St. Frances hospital and filled out all of the forms to be a nurse. You could do your training there as long as you had a high school education. You didn't have to go to college, so we filled it all out and they accepted her and they gave me a paper, and said I had to take this home and get your mothers signature because you're not 18. So I took it home and gave it to her to sign and she refused to sign it, she didn't want me to be a nurse. She said I want you to be a school teacher. -I worked part time in the Beame's Bag factory for .19 cents hr. and you worked when they wanted you to any hrs day or night because there was a line up at the gates somebody waiting to take your job. -I was desperate. I made paper bags, they put dog food and stuff like like that in 50 lb bags. I was off bearing behind a vending machine. They put a valve in the corner so that they could fill the sacks, I then off loaded them from the machine and stacked them on the dolly, when I got it 40-50 7 higher than my head, some boy would come along and haul the dolly away and bring another one. I did that for hrs, and hrs. -The average day was 8-10 hrs if you were lucky. It depended on how many orders. This was after the 1929 crash. There wasn't anything in the way of jobs. I next worked in a real estate office and I made $15 a week. They had all the books from the auto License dept. for the state of ILL & I had to go through them and pick out every one that lived in our county and send them advertisement for a new sub-division that they were putting up. That was interesting. It lasted two weeks. After that job ended I baby sat some more and I worked life insurance but they went broke too. -The owner remembered me of my father if his Secretary was out I would write it down on the typewriter. He swore a lot so I didn't last there either. Next I did some house work. I worked at $3.50 a day and then there was a lady that had a dinner party, so I dressed up in a maids uniform. 1932 I got married. My girl friend brought him over to the house, he was born in ILL. but his mother took him out to Washington when he was a 8 dad. So when he got in his 20's he decided to go back to ILL and look up his own family, so he came back there and got a job in Peoria and the lady that he boarded with had a son, and her son was running around with my girlfriend. so my girlfriend, she though well now, I think I kinda like Art so I think I will drop Frank and take Art. -so she called me since I never take anyone elses boyfriend, she brought him out to the house. He said the first time I came walking down the steps he knew that was it! So we were a steady thing and she never got him back. He was about 22 and I was 19. He was working in the Packing House, his uncle had divorced his first wife and married a girl that was younger than I was, so we rented a house together and all moved in together. When Art had come back East he had come back with his buddy named Huey Cameron. Well Huey Cameron owned a car. Huey went to work in the packing house too. So we rented a bed to Huey too of course we had to put it in the dining room. Your Grandad was making $30 a week working in the Packing House 8-10 hrs a day and half day on Sat. that was good money. Come Sat. Uncle Eds new 50-67 9 wife went down to pick up her husbands check. Every other week I cooked when they worked 10 hrs. a day they eat. I got tired of cooking, so I threw sauerkraut in the skillet and cooked it for them. -Arts mother was writing every week asking him to come home, so Art figured that we had $100 and he had bought a car that went 35-40 mph. We went up to meet his folks all street Catholics, asked where we got married. Art told them by J.P. In the eyes of the church we weren't married. I need my birth certificate and we were married in the Saiocent we passified everyone. -we drove up to Minneapolis and ran into a hail storm and stopped at a farm house that rented rooms for a dollar a night. -It took 9 days to get from Minneapolis to Seattle. Then we went to Squim where Arts folks lived. Who taught you about sex education? By the time I was pregnant I would go walking down country roads. Dr. said I needed the exercise. Dr. said when it's ready then it will come and that was $35. - please the hospital was an aditional $35. This was the only form of sex education I got. I had fever, so I had to stay in 10 the hospital for two weeks in Nov. 1932 Molly was born. I couldn't nurse her all she got was blood. Until Daisy put her on Eagle brand canned milk. I had a bit of fever when I brought her home. I asked Daisy my mother in law how I was to do my diapers and she told me that I had to pack the water. Art fixed up the Wash house and we lived there for about 4 months and then we rented a house that was infested with bed bugs and stayed there until a company house became available. We stayed there until the mill closed. The baby couldn't drink milk so the Dr. said that we had to fed him Karo but I had food vouchers and couldn't buy Karo without a Dr.'s letter. Everyone in town was broke with no clothes on our backs and the car was put up on blocks, we couldn't afford the gas to run it. The Commissioners set up a sewing room and told you what you could sew. The town was called Carlsberg. Your grandfather started a Union with a communist friend in about 1936. Pete Johnson and his wife owned their house, we got evicted and moved to Port Angeles. Art put in his applications and went to work in a mill in Enumclaw while the kids and I lived in Port Angeles for 2 weeks then we moved to Enumclaw to a 2 room house with a path. We stored our furniture 67-68 11 at the folks farm except for the kids cribs. Art wanted to buy a bar. He dreamed all his life of owning a bar,so he saved $300 - by the time the mill closed in 1937. We found a bar, he paid 25 down Liquor license 25 - state lie 182.50. We had about 100 - for stock 50 for rent. We opened the bar to get a liquor license we had to be interviewed by the mayor, we were also interviewed by the chief of police. One day a man came in and offered 825 for the tavern, so we sold it to him for 10 - down so then Art wanted one in West Seattle, he borrowed 1500 from his folks, we bought the "new deal" then we bought a house, then your mother was born in 1941, the women that frequented the New Deal made baby clothes. This Irish woman Kathleen babysat for me. Jack would come home from her house with wired coins as did Molly. Then the in-laws moved in and shortly and I went to the tax title sales and bought them a house. -They decided to remodel the house before they moved in. So Shorty would open the bar then Art and Shorty would work on the house and I would run the bar, and the Grandmother would watch the kids. Shortly after they moved up there pearl Harbor happened. 70-72 72-73 73-75 75-77 My husband got his draft notice and I called the draft board and said that you can't take my husband I've got 3 kids and a business to run. The man setting on the draft board said lady we don't give a damn how many children you have or what you have to run, if your husband passes his physical he's in. I said thank you and hung up. But he didn't pass the physical he had bleeding ulcers so he was declined 4F. 12 In the business things got better if you'd been selling a lot of beer then you had a good quota. The beer drivers had their hands out and for 100 a week Mac could get another keg of beer which he did. Mac by this time everyone was calling Art Mac, he wanted another tavern. When he didn't pass the physical he had to work in the ship yard. He worked long, hard hours as a burner. We hired a girl and kept things going Mac saved his money and bought a bar in Interbay over by Ballard. we hired a couple, he was 4F too! He and I would run 1 bar and your Grandfather and Della would run the other 1. I was running the New Deal and they were running "Interbay" but I would have to go to the bank and gasoline was rationed you couldn't get gasoline for our Grandfather to go to the bank 77-79 79-80 80-82 13 and take change around from 1 bar. To another, so I was riding the bus from bank to tavern and tavern to bank with lots of money in my pocket. Sometimes I would have couple of thousand dollars in my pocket. I'm lucky somebody didn't knock me in the head. We were in the money then and we got the brick house and it was what I used to call my dream house. It was a gothic style with hardwood floors, Italian tiles, a kitchen, dining room, a big living room, a breakfast nook and a half bath, 2 beds and a bath upstairs. It had a finished recroom in the basement when we first looked at it I asked the real estate agent how much and he said 10,000 dollars, so we bought the house. My kids were there and in 1946 Dana came along. The 1949 Earthquake - we still lived in that house. Mother in-law was taking Molly and going to town. Daisy would ignore road signs and traffic signals. Molly was 14 at the time, so they were getting ready to go and the earthquake started. The other kids Colleen and Jack were out playing and the lady across the street gave Colleen her new baby to hold until the quake was over. The school fell down that the kids went to, it was a good thing that it was empty for Easter 14 over. The school fell down that the kids went to, it was a good thing that it was empty for Easter Vacation. It was about this time that we bought the Palace Motel we had 5 maids.
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Title | Pedersen, Bernice Oral History Interview, 1992 |
Interviewer | Kennedy, Kelly |
Date | 1992 |
Description | 56 minute oral history with Bernice Pedersen, conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398) course at Washington State University. She talks about early family life, Depression era challenges, parents' divorce, and family alcoholism issues. She worked in factories during the Great Depression. She and her husband owned Seattle-area taverns. Talks about her children and family life. |
Subject | Business people; Alcoholism; Working mothers |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--King County--Seattle |
Type | Sound |
Genre | Interviews |
Publisher | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
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Rights Notes | In copyright. Item is in copyright until 95 years after 2011 publication date. |
Identifier | ua220b09f61 |
Source | Is found in Archives 220, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua220.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Holding Institution | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries |
Contributors | Digitization and description funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities We the People grant for Washington Womens History to the Washington Womens History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society. |
Language | English |
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Title | ua220b09f61_Abstract |
Full Text | 398 Interview: state Your Name: Kelley Kennedy Hist. 398 Final Project 1-2 -My name is Bernice Pedersen, & I live in Chinook, WA. Tell me about your family? How many brothers and sisters did you have? Bernice: -I was born in Peoria, Illinois -3 brothers and 1 sister -My sister was the oldest and the boys were mothers pets. 3-4 What were the boys names? Bernice: 1)Robert 5 yrs older 2)Daved 2 & a half yrs older 3)Jack 4 yrs younger 1 & my sisters name was Florence 7 yrs older was the oldest. 4-5 What was your mothers maiden name? Bernice: My mothers maiden name was Minni Noe My fathers name was Michael Robert Mallony 5-6 What was your mothers background? Bernice: My Grandmothers name was Louisa Hasear born in Louisiana, and her father was born in Germany. My mother got as far as 2nd year in junior high school. Then her father told her that she had enough education and that it was time to go to work. So mother got herself a job in a bicycle factory. 6-7 How long did she work there? 2 It was some time cause she bought herself a bike and a pair of bloomers and rode her bike through town. That didn't make her father very happy. He was my grandfather he was evidently a butcher by trade. Bernice didn't recall him working yet he always had money maybe he inherited it, or were he got it. 7-9 What about your fathers family Bernice: I don't know that much about my fathers family Mike Maloney was the Black-Sheep because he drank. He was the oldest son - he had two brothers, John and David and 3 sister, Josephine, Eleane, Isabelle. 3 married and 2 stayed single. Grandfather never bought the house. -Grandmother wouldn't let the children upstairs -Grandfather lived to be 96 and he worked for the railroad-as an engineer, he started all 3 sons in working the railroad. But Mike quit working since interfered with his drinking. 9-11 11-19 Mike was a heavy drinker Bernice: 3 He didn't know when to stop. He never owned a car. I guess that I was about 6 yrs old when they bought their first house. It had 3 bedrooms, and a path and he did put plumbing in the basement. The boys shared a room and the 2 girls another. How did the boys and you girls get along with your dad? Bernice: Well my dad he was the boss, and you had to understand he was, and when he told you to do something you did it. I remember he loved to play cars and when he had no money he expected the family to sit down and play cards with him at night. -"Well I had some school work to do but I also had to play cards. So I evidently made a foolish bid, and he hit me one along the side of the head hard enough that I went back and hit the wall. I was almost passed out laying on the floor when my brother David, he must have been around 17 yrs old. He picked up a standing ashtray and hit his dad over the head with it. So dad, he staggered out to the kitchen and fell to the floor, here he is laying on the kitchen floor with his head bleeding. My sister walked in by this time she 19-26 was married, she called the doctor and the doctor came out sews up my dads head and charged $5.00. I was the only one that had $5.00 so I had to pay the doctor. -kids never got taken to the doctor then! Ah you had the marks of his hand along the side of your face the next day when you went to school but that's if you got up and went on, there was no thinking about concusion or anything, you got up. We wouldn't have had the doctor for him if he hadn't been bleeding all over the place. 4 -When my father decided 2 yrs later that he wanted a divorce; mom said she would think about it. We noticed a few days later that the red color was coming back in his hair. -He was coloring his hair and watching what he ate out with someone else. Another day he said we're going to court Saturday we're getting a divorce and you'll need to bring a witness "Bring that brat along" meaning me. So we went to court and the judge granted the divorce gave mother the house, the children me and my younger brother Jack. No child support because she got the house. We were divorced so we went to Grandmas house and waited for him to get his things out of the house, clothes and things. we went home 4 hours later 26-32 32-40 5 and he was passed out on the bed. He was divorced but he was home. mother bundled us up and took us back to my grandmothers then she called my older sister and said get your father out of my house. -It had only been a couple days notice was all. But he had been so nasty not giving her any money the only groceries that came in the house were one he made out the order for from his sisters husbands store. I have seen different times when it was square dance time - they would go in to go dancing. "They wouldn't dance with each other though." He was a street angel and a house devil. So then what did your mom do? Minnie went to work in the tea rooms at Bergners making salads and sandwiches, they had no union then. she would eat there so she wouldn't have to put out much. But the house wasn't paid for. I don't know what the payments were but she had to make payments on the house. I think they were only $40-$50, but wages were not much. I can remember when I would go out babysitting and maybe I would sit all evening for .so cents or $1.00. What did you do when your parents got divorced? I'm not quite sure, it must have been in the late 20's. Maybe I'm not sure when it was I was 17 or 18 yrs 6 old, so it must have been around 1930 then. So you were home during the depression? I was home for part of it. I was home until 1932. After I graduated from high school at the age of 17 and I'd always dreamed about being a nurse. My girlfriend and I went up to St. Frances hospital and filled out all of the forms to be a nurse. You could do your training there as long as you had a high school education. You didn't have to go to college, so we filled it all out and they accepted her and they gave me a paper, and said I had to take this home and get your mothers signature because you're not 18. So I took it home and gave it to her to sign and she refused to sign it, she didn't want me to be a nurse. She said I want you to be a school teacher. -I worked part time in the Beame's Bag factory for .19 cents hr. and you worked when they wanted you to any hrs day or night because there was a line up at the gates somebody waiting to take your job. -I was desperate. I made paper bags, they put dog food and stuff like like that in 50 lb bags. I was off bearing behind a vending machine. They put a valve in the corner so that they could fill the sacks, I then off loaded them from the machine and stacked them on the dolly, when I got it 40-50 7 higher than my head, some boy would come along and haul the dolly away and bring another one. I did that for hrs, and hrs. -The average day was 8-10 hrs if you were lucky. It depended on how many orders. This was after the 1929 crash. There wasn't anything in the way of jobs. I next worked in a real estate office and I made $15 a week. They had all the books from the auto License dept. for the state of ILL & I had to go through them and pick out every one that lived in our county and send them advertisement for a new sub-division that they were putting up. That was interesting. It lasted two weeks. After that job ended I baby sat some more and I worked life insurance but they went broke too. -The owner remembered me of my father if his Secretary was out I would write it down on the typewriter. He swore a lot so I didn't last there either. Next I did some house work. I worked at $3.50 a day and then there was a lady that had a dinner party, so I dressed up in a maids uniform. 1932 I got married. My girl friend brought him over to the house, he was born in ILL. but his mother took him out to Washington when he was a 8 dad. So when he got in his 20's he decided to go back to ILL and look up his own family, so he came back there and got a job in Peoria and the lady that he boarded with had a son, and her son was running around with my girlfriend. so my girlfriend, she though well now, I think I kinda like Art so I think I will drop Frank and take Art. -so she called me since I never take anyone elses boyfriend, she brought him out to the house. He said the first time I came walking down the steps he knew that was it! So we were a steady thing and she never got him back. He was about 22 and I was 19. He was working in the Packing House, his uncle had divorced his first wife and married a girl that was younger than I was, so we rented a house together and all moved in together. When Art had come back East he had come back with his buddy named Huey Cameron. Well Huey Cameron owned a car. Huey went to work in the packing house too. So we rented a bed to Huey too of course we had to put it in the dining room. Your Grandad was making $30 a week working in the Packing House 8-10 hrs a day and half day on Sat. that was good money. Come Sat. Uncle Eds new 50-67 9 wife went down to pick up her husbands check. Every other week I cooked when they worked 10 hrs. a day they eat. I got tired of cooking, so I threw sauerkraut in the skillet and cooked it for them. -Arts mother was writing every week asking him to come home, so Art figured that we had $100 and he had bought a car that went 35-40 mph. We went up to meet his folks all street Catholics, asked where we got married. Art told them by J.P. In the eyes of the church we weren't married. I need my birth certificate and we were married in the Saiocent we passified everyone. -we drove up to Minneapolis and ran into a hail storm and stopped at a farm house that rented rooms for a dollar a night. -It took 9 days to get from Minneapolis to Seattle. Then we went to Squim where Arts folks lived. Who taught you about sex education? By the time I was pregnant I would go walking down country roads. Dr. said I needed the exercise. Dr. said when it's ready then it will come and that was $35. - please the hospital was an aditional $35. This was the only form of sex education I got. I had fever, so I had to stay in 10 the hospital for two weeks in Nov. 1932 Molly was born. I couldn't nurse her all she got was blood. Until Daisy put her on Eagle brand canned milk. I had a bit of fever when I brought her home. I asked Daisy my mother in law how I was to do my diapers and she told me that I had to pack the water. Art fixed up the Wash house and we lived there for about 4 months and then we rented a house that was infested with bed bugs and stayed there until a company house became available. We stayed there until the mill closed. The baby couldn't drink milk so the Dr. said that we had to fed him Karo but I had food vouchers and couldn't buy Karo without a Dr.'s letter. Everyone in town was broke with no clothes on our backs and the car was put up on blocks, we couldn't afford the gas to run it. The Commissioners set up a sewing room and told you what you could sew. The town was called Carlsberg. Your grandfather started a Union with a communist friend in about 1936. Pete Johnson and his wife owned their house, we got evicted and moved to Port Angeles. Art put in his applications and went to work in a mill in Enumclaw while the kids and I lived in Port Angeles for 2 weeks then we moved to Enumclaw to a 2 room house with a path. We stored our furniture 67-68 11 at the folks farm except for the kids cribs. Art wanted to buy a bar. He dreamed all his life of owning a bar,so he saved $300 - by the time the mill closed in 1937. We found a bar, he paid 25 down Liquor license 25 - state lie 182.50. We had about 100 - for stock 50 for rent. We opened the bar to get a liquor license we had to be interviewed by the mayor, we were also interviewed by the chief of police. One day a man came in and offered 825 for the tavern, so we sold it to him for 10 - down so then Art wanted one in West Seattle, he borrowed 1500 from his folks, we bought the "new deal" then we bought a house, then your mother was born in 1941, the women that frequented the New Deal made baby clothes. This Irish woman Kathleen babysat for me. Jack would come home from her house with wired coins as did Molly. Then the in-laws moved in and shortly and I went to the tax title sales and bought them a house. -They decided to remodel the house before they moved in. So Shorty would open the bar then Art and Shorty would work on the house and I would run the bar, and the Grandmother would watch the kids. Shortly after they moved up there pearl Harbor happened. 70-72 72-73 73-75 75-77 My husband got his draft notice and I called the draft board and said that you can't take my husband I've got 3 kids and a business to run. The man setting on the draft board said lady we don't give a damn how many children you have or what you have to run, if your husband passes his physical he's in. I said thank you and hung up. But he didn't pass the physical he had bleeding ulcers so he was declined 4F. 12 In the business things got better if you'd been selling a lot of beer then you had a good quota. The beer drivers had their hands out and for 100 a week Mac could get another keg of beer which he did. Mac by this time everyone was calling Art Mac, he wanted another tavern. When he didn't pass the physical he had to work in the ship yard. He worked long, hard hours as a burner. We hired a girl and kept things going Mac saved his money and bought a bar in Interbay over by Ballard. we hired a couple, he was 4F too! He and I would run 1 bar and your Grandfather and Della would run the other 1. I was running the New Deal and they were running "Interbay" but I would have to go to the bank and gasoline was rationed you couldn't get gasoline for our Grandfather to go to the bank 77-79 79-80 80-82 13 and take change around from 1 bar. To another, so I was riding the bus from bank to tavern and tavern to bank with lots of money in my pocket. Sometimes I would have couple of thousand dollars in my pocket. I'm lucky somebody didn't knock me in the head. We were in the money then and we got the brick house and it was what I used to call my dream house. It was a gothic style with hardwood floors, Italian tiles, a kitchen, dining room, a big living room, a breakfast nook and a half bath, 2 beds and a bath upstairs. It had a finished recroom in the basement when we first looked at it I asked the real estate agent how much and he said 10,000 dollars, so we bought the house. My kids were there and in 1946 Dana came along. The 1949 Earthquake - we still lived in that house. Mother in-law was taking Molly and going to town. Daisy would ignore road signs and traffic signals. Molly was 14 at the time, so they were getting ready to go and the earthquake started. The other kids Colleen and Jack were out playing and the lady across the street gave Colleen her new baby to hold until the quake was over. The school fell down that the kids went to, it was a good thing that it was empty for Easter 14 over. The school fell down that the kids went to, it was a good thing that it was empty for Easter Vacation. It was about this time that we bought the Palace Motel we had 5 maids. |
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