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DM inter. Mary & Tom Ferko -21- 8/7/72 Tape 6
TF No the people here mostly lived, some like on the Back Street where they had these small homes but the family got bigger they'd look for bigger homes
DM Only if there was an opening would they try to move in because this used to be the high class section too
TF Yeh
DM All the way up to the office where we work
TF All the foremans lived there
DM Yes the foremen and the big shots
MF Yeh that's what I thought. he had lots of money because he lived down here and I lived on the Back Street but he fooled me
DM He fooled you huh, what kind of people lived on the Back Street when you were here people with lower paying jobs
MF Oh yeh
TF Not exactly lower paying jobs but that's where they live were no homes down her that time, it was hard to get a home
DM But can you remember any stories or any experiences where they got a new job and he thought he was God's gift to everything and strutted around town and tried to move into a big house and all that
TF No you couldn't do that
DM The way the housing situation was
TF It was always full
MF Even when the people moved out of here we had a hard time gettin' this place
DM Yes how do you got hold of another house
TF We had to go up to Coxe's office in Hazleton the big shots were Coxe's up there
MF And you had to have somebody to talk for you
TF If you didn't have nobody to talk for you you could go up there early in the week
MF And you wouldn't get it, maybe one of their friends, many people that we want to