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Transcription: [[Background noises and talking throughout]]
[00:18:40]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}in
When I left, uh, Canton I went to Chicago, and I lived in Chicago; the Chicago area,
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
but I lived in Chicago proper about 5 or 6 years, and then we bought a little a place out by
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Kankakee, Illinois, and we moved out there.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
When was that?

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
We stayed out there.

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
When was that, that you moved to Chicago?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I moved in Chicago in 1942.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Ah, during the war.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Yea.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Uh-huh. Did you, did you work in Chicago?

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Uh-huh.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I worked in a book factory. Of course, I worked other places, but I can remember the book factory most
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
because I worked in the book factory during the war years.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
That's where I ruined my eyes. [[Both laugh]] Because we would read a lot.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
You know. We, we had to remember the dates, you know, like-- What, what is this now? June?
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
June.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Okay then, we would be making July books, so we had to get June books all filed away.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
So, we wouldn't get these, you know, uh issues--

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
mixed?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Mixed, right. So, I did a lot of, a lot of that.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Which I should have retired from that, but I didn't. I was wrapped up into a contract.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
If I didn't uh, work, my boss would [[inaudible]]. That's where we lived then we came down here in 19--
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
What? '72. We came back in '72.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
During those 5 years while you were in Chicago, did you go to the movies there?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Oh yeah. Yeah. I used to go see, uh,-- Who was that I used to go see in person? She was black and used to sing a lot.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Who was it? [[Laughs]]

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
[[Laughs]]

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
40's?
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Somebody in the 40's your talking about?

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
And she said--

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Lena Horne?

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Huh?

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Was it Lena Horne?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I think I've seen, yeah, I've seen her too, but was this was somebody that's super--
What her name? Mavis something?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Oh, I don't remember. I know, I used to go see her. She was kind of plump.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser,Louise Spence"}
Uh-huh.

[[Really loud noise]]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Brown skin. But I, I don't know why her name--
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Transcription Notes:
*Supposed to have spaces between dialogue. Both Louise and Pearl question Marella. Louise has a young sounding voice. not sure if the city is Kankakee timestamp: [00:18:40] not sure about translation timestamp: [00:19:59] not sure about translation "That's when we lived here" timestamp: [00:20:06] maybe? unsure about this translation timestamp: [00:20:42]