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we found an apartment for ourselves and for two of our friends on Seventeenth Street not far from U [Street]. So you can see Washington has changed quite a bit since that time.

HENSON: Yes, if you got an apartment there.

MANN: Two girls would not want to get an apartment there nowadays. But it was very nice.

HENSON: How would you get down to work? Walk?

MANN: I know I walked sometimes. I probably went over to Connecticut Avenue and got a streetcar, or probably it'd be Fourteenth Street and got a streetcar. The streetcar would go all the way down, I think it went to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and got off and walked across to Agriculture.

HENSON: Right. Did you ever visit the zoo in those days?

MANN: Occasionally, but I wasn't a zoo fan.

HENSON: Did you visit the United States National Museum much?

MANN: Yes, I liked that.

HENSONL: What was your perception of those places at that time, do you remember?

MANN: Sort of overwhelming I think. [Laughter]