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Angela Varesano
8/17/72
Mary Washko

Her husband John's family lived in this house. She moved in here in 1933 when she married John Washko. The description of the interior as she had it when she moved in:
The parlor had a door in the doorway with painted wood similar to the cellar door, with a doorknob. On the east wall there was a Victrola and two chairs with stuffed arms and back. There was a davenport on the west wall and a table by the window with an electric lamp on it. The walls held holy pictures, the one on the west wall being the Garden of Gethsemane scene and one hand-painted sunset of "God Bless Our Home", with the Lord walking a path to the home. There was a shrine (wooden sick call set) of the Holy Family on the east side of the south wall. Wall were papered, the ceiling too, with a carpet covering the floor.
There was a stove where the heater is now on the north corner in the interior of the original kitchen. A table and chairs was in the south corner and sewing machine in the east corner. There was a chair on the wall near the cellar door. Floor covering was lenoleum ("oil cloth"). The table was covered with oil cloth like a tablecloth over the top. Lighting was electric in the middle of the ceiling. The walls and ceiling were papered. Clothes were hung behind the stove on nails or on papers on the floor when the husband came home with wet clothes. Eating utensils were kept in a drawer in the table.
The shed built off the kitchen was six feet by nine feet. It had paper walls and ceiling with the roof slanted toward the kitchen. Where was a door to the outside on the south side which was homemade like the cellar door of painted verticla boards and a doorknob. Still used is a sink with drainage to a hole in the garden that "sucks right into the mines someplace". The shed was six feet out from the kitchen door and nine feet across out from the door. A sink was on the east part of the north wall with a medicine cabinet above the sink.

[illustration of shed layout]

This is now her shandy. A couch was on the west side of the north wall. When she had children, she used to put them to nap there; she used to put guests there too.