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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
[[speaking softly]] always [[inaudible]]
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
When you went to the movies in Emporium, it was 10 cents.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
[[Cross talk]] Yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
That's where I was born. 10 cents a movies was
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
a nickel for the movies on Saturday afternoon, and a nickel for popcorn.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
The popcorn was like that; made hot at the door; and that was only a nickel, and my father gave us a dime.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And if you saved a nickel, the next week you get an extra nickel. What do you think of that? A dime that's all we got.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Encouraging you to save.

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
A dime a week.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And when we got shoes - these kids paying 60 dollars, 70 dollars for sneakers, - when we get shoes,
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
we went to the shoe store. Mr.Vulk; remember him well. And dollar 98 for Easter shoes,
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
with black patent leather bottoms, and white tops with a tassel. [[Laughter]]
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
What did your parents do for a living?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
My mother stayed home; she didn't work. My father refined iron, and sold coal.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
He worked in the ironworks, where you go around and pick up old iron, and they take it and frayed it out to Buffalo,
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
and they use-- They frayed it out to Buffalo, and they blast it, and they use it over.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
You go around with the-- He had a horse and wagon, and you go around, wherever you see old iron and you pick it up and take it.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And he made his living. We started with a-- They tell me when he first came to Emporium,
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
he had bought a house with two rooms, and every time a baby was born they add a room.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
It got to be a big house.

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Huh?
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
It got to be a big house. [[Laughter]]
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
They didn't have 13 rooms, but they had about 8 rooms, I think.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And then, when he-- He worked very hard; he had horses, and he had cows.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
We sold milk at 6 cents a quart, with cream on it, delivered to your door, and we had our own eggs.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
At Eastertime, you go up there and peep underneath to see if the chicken had hatched the little chickens. [[Laughter]] That was cute.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
He worked very, very hard, but my mother didn't do nothing; she stayed home.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
My father thought my mother was so beautiful, she shouldn't even wash the dishes. She was a beautiful woman.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Don't look at me cuz I didn't get it.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
[[Laughter]]
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Marvin got a little bit of it, but I didn't get none of it.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
She had red hair and she was beautiful, and he thought she was an angel on some pedestal
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And it was an altogether different life.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Where did your parents come from?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
My mother came from Lynchburg; my father came from Farmville.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Lynchburg, Virginia?

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
[[Cross talk]] Lynchburg. All from Virginia.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
[[Cross talk]] Both from Virginia?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Mmm-hmm. And uh, my father, first he bought the house, and he had the two rooms,
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
then he bought the house next door to that, where Joe's mother and father lived. They paid - listen to this - they paid 8 dollars a month.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
The 8 dollars would go over to Mr.Howard, that took the taxes and everything. That paid your taxes, and your water, and your sewage. 8 dollars
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
A month.

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
A month.
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Transcription Notes:
Not done correctly. There are to be spaces between each dialogue. Timestamps go right where you stop the tape, so right at the end of the dialogue, then a space then the speaker's name, then dialogue. The end of this tape didn't have any timestamps. I will add them. ALL DONE!! ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-29 00:06:07