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A. Veresano interviewing Frank Zahay -10- 8/21/72
Tape 27-2

AV And this was a double home?

FZ No it was a single home.

AV Oh you said the homes were like Helen's place and Helen's is a double
home.

FZ Oh I was talking about the Shanty Street but this was a single home the one
that I bought so it was like Helen's home.

AV And who lived in this home that you bought?

FZ Charlie Ray had it last.

AV Who else before him, do you know?

FZ No I don't, but I remember this he lived there when I was a young fellow
and worked in the shop and he came up one morning to work and he said to
Mr. Barrick, the day after the night that it rained see, he said, "Jim
I want my goddam roof fixed," and Jim Barrick said, "Why Charlie,"
he said, "Why all night, last night I had to walk around my house with an
umbrella." So he's the guy that lived in there last.

AV And who lived in those other 2 homes do you remember?

FZ No I don't I, the last one that was torn down was the one that Fred [B??????]
lived in so he lived on one side and a fellow by the name of [??????]
he lived in the other one but the other home, I don't remember.

AV What did their yards look like?

FZ The yards like up here - pretty big yards - maybe not quite as big because
their yards were on the lower side of the house in back [blank space] I don't
think they were any bigger than these.

AV They didn't have any yard thing in front of the house?

FZ No they all had in front on Shanty Street and right next to the street
that's where their shantys were and then the house, but we had our summer
shanty in back here and that there's in front.

AV Oh, near the front entrance?

FZ That's right.

AV Was it connected on to the house?

FZ The only connections were what people built themselves, it wasn't connected
on to the house away from they house maybe there was 8 ft. away from the
house.

AV On all three of these homes

FZ Yeh