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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
At the time, Charles was just opening up, and he didn't care to go like-- well, I think, like Florida, I think was the closest place.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
But like they had a wool-- a place where they made wool material I think, in Florida.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mhmm
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
And he didn't go out there to work, so and rather we went to Chicago.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
And he was-- When I-- When he sent for me, and I went, he was um working for one of his uh family members.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
So I told him, I said, "Well you get there, why don't you write the President; write the White House?" Ya know.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
We, well the letters really didn't go to the President. But he would, he would always get the news, ya know.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mhmm.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
So that way he-- They gave him a job, and they wrote him back and told him that if he didn't like that, and didn't wanna keep that job,
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
he could, ya know, they'd give him another one, but he stayed there 'til he was retired.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
It was kinda-- He was working at a steel farm, and he could have gotten a job inside something.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Ya know he was inside, it's true, but he could have got something that he wouldn't have had to work as hard
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
'cause he, he just accepted what he had, and stayed at that.

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Mm.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Hmmmmm. So when-

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
And he went for 12 years.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
When you move to the country, he continued to work at the same job in Chicago?

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Yeah, until he retired.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Uh huh, did he enjoy the movies too?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Yeah he would go sometimes, to the movies. He liked it.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Did-- When you went to the movies in Chicago, did you mostly go with your husband or did you go with your friends, or alone?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I went with my friends, uh well, I went a lot because he worked nights most of the time.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
So he didn't have a chance to go to the movies like I did. I would go to the evening movies.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Uhm huh.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
[[?]] going to be some Blacks playin that I wanted to see or hear, you know.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Uhm huh.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Uhm huh.

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
And who would you go with?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
A lot of times we would go-- Some of the neighbors or
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
somebody would come over Gary, Indiana. I have a sister still in [[inaudible]], so I knew a lot of people over [[inaudible]]
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
They came over for a movie with some-- Most of them would come by sometime and get me, and then we would go together.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Did they come for the weekend, or just come for the night?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Sometime they would come, like, well, on the off-days. You know. we have a big steel foundry in Gary
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