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A. Varesano interviewing Anna Timko
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6/23/72
Tape 16-2

1095 make everything. You couldn't buy no clothes. You couldn't buy no bread, you
couldn't buy any clothes, you couldn't buy any fruit, you couldn't buy anything,
because there wasn't money to buy it, or yet they didn't sell that stuff.

AV: Even men's clothes?

AT: Well, no, you could buy men's clothes. You could buy a shirt and suit, and
stuff like that, you know. But I used to make shirts for my husband. Like
for around the house, you know. I used to make them myself.

AV: Did you make his mining clothes?

AT: No, no. They were overalls. They needed heavy stuff for that, and you used
to buy that.

AV: What colors did you use mostly?

AT: Oh, many colors, what kind of colors they had. Either striped or printed, or
whatever, you could buy whatever you liked. Solid color.....

AV: How much was the stuff?

AT: It was about ten cents a yard, maybe. Depending what kind of material it was,
you know.

AV: Was it thirty-six wide?

AT: Some was twenty-seven inches wide. Some was thirty-two. Seldom you got a
thirty-six inch material.

AV: Any forty-five wide?

AT: No, I don't remember having any forty-five at that time.

AV: What was the difference in price in material? How did they make one kind
more expensive than the other? What did they judge by?

AT: Well, just like they do now, the kind of material it is. If it's better
material, you gotta pay more. And if the width of the material, or the
quality of the material in it, just like they do nowadays. Everything isn't
the same price, because you've got better and cheaper material. Cheaper
1105 quality. It was the same thing in them days.

AV: What did you wear in the wintertime, over the dress? When you went outside?

AT: I often laughed about that! I says, in the winter, when we had to walk to
Freeland, and everywhere we went we walked, well you had a short jacket, like
a coat suit, you know? You were wearing tht, in the coldest weather, you
had to walk to Freeland, to church to whatever you were going to buy some
stuff, you had to walk. And this little thin jacket you had on. Well, we
used to make them at home. Then later on, already, you could buy a coat, the
regular winter coats, you'd buy them. Well then there were buses, we used to
ride buses. I said isn't that something! When we were walking and freezing,
we had this little ragged thing on ourselves. And now, I says, you put on
1119 a heavy coat, and you go on the bus!

AV: Where was the bus stop?

AT: It used to go all around town. And then later on, already, they only had the
regular stops, you know. They'd stop just at a corner or something. But
first they used to go all around town. Because too many people didn't ride, and
most people walked then, yet, too, you know? And first, when they started, it
was just a truck with benches in it. Oh, was that hard to ride. That was
after the first world war when the began that bus run. And then later on
they started with the seats in it and so on.

AV: How did they signal for the people to come out and take the bus?

AT: Well, they used to blow their horns. And then some people were complaining
that they disturbed the babies. So they had to stop that. So then you had
to watch for it. Well then later on already, they just would stop at corners.
But first they stopped at every door. Whoever was waiting, then they'd stop
at every door and pick them up, and they roade all around town. Because, see