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A. Versano interviewing Frank Zahay
- 6 -
8/21/72
Tape 27-2

FZ: Yeh, did you ever ask anybody else, maybe in the back where Mrs. H[????]
and them lived, Mrs Maloney back here the Castlegarden was in somewhere.

AV: In back of Emory Nichols' place?

FZ: Yeh, right around thre somewhere, on Shanty Street.

AV: Then who told you, John Fedorsha?

FZ: Yeh.

AV: What did he say that it looked like?

FZ: I don't know what he said but there were 4 families or 6 families, I don't
remember, Mr. [????] family, he was born here, you know, he remembers a
little more that I do.

AV: And did Joh Fedorsha tell you anything else about it?

FZ: No, the only thing he tole me wa and George Kushner told me - in back
of the rectory there were 2 houses.

AV: That was on 14 Street?

FZ: Yeh that's what they call 14.

AV: What did they look like?

FZ: I wouldn't know but I'd say they looked like our homes.

AV: Like this home here?

FZ: Yes, like this one.

AV: Without the addition, they were double homes and they were 2 story with
2 bedrooms upstairs and 2 rooms downstairs?

FZ: Yeh, same as these and what most of them had was what we called a lean-to, a
shed.

AV: Right outside the kitchen?

FZ: Yeh, some people made them very small, maybe 6 x 6, 6 x 8 no smaller
than that what they were mostly used for were most everybody had a bench
and the women used to keep their buckets of water there.

AV: And their coal too, or just their buckets of water?

FZ: Well you could say coal too, but in the summertime you kept your coal in a
summer shanty that the

AV: Your brother that lived in the hotel had a garage and a tool shed built onto
each other, out in the yard?

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