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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
So,

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
hmmm.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
We got money from him. Very good. And then he used to sell fish, take it on the bicycle, go around and sell fish. I said he must of owned the fish store.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Yeah, bet it wasn't fish.

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
All the money he accumulated [[Laughs]]
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
He accumulated some money, but they said that's all he did is sold fish.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Hm.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
He'd go on his bicycle and sell fish.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
He wasn't the plumber?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Hm?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
This is not the the plumber?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
The plumber?

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Yeah
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
No, he was a he wh-- didn't do nothing but sell fish, he worked for the, uh, uh--
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
We didn't have a plumber, we'd had a,
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
a carpenter. Frankie was a carpenter.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mm.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And uh, uh, Petey was electrician.
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{SILENCE}
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
That Fronses family. But, uh, we didn't have no plumber.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Wish I had help--

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
What did what did the boys do in Emporium?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Hm?

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
What kind of work did the boys do in Emporium?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
In Emporium? There was uh, Marshal and two Patterson boys and uh--
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
I don't know what kind of work they did because see they were older then me,
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
and I don't know, I don't know what they did.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Was not much work for colored. You'd have to do, uh,
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
shovel coal and dig ditches. That's all it was for colored then.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
There was no work for colored.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mm.

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
No jobs like they have today.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
You'll see nobody setting up in the office.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Now the railroad men, who stayed at the
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
boarding house--

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Well that was from, uh-- That was from the Pennsylvania railroad.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Hm.

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
They used to have to have place to stay when they came.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Were they Pullman Porters?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Pullman Porters.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
They used to say, "Come to Miss Badle's for Buddy."
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Buddy was-- That was a different--
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{SILENCE}
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Everything I'm telling you, today everything they--
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
People don't know how lucky they are.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
They are living like millionaires, and they don't know.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
They got so much.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
I remember when your husband bought that house on
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
[[Cross talk]] Carol--

SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
On Jerome Street.
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[[Drilling sound in background]]

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
It's Carol. [[Yelling in background]]
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{SILENCE}
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Transcription Notes:
Unsure if ending of recording should be labeled as silent or if subtitles should mention the ringing phone. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-28 19:03:13 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-29 20:02:31