103

A. Veresano interviewing Frank Zahay
- 15 -
8/21/72
Tape 27-2

AV: What was the slope, it started to slope here and it ran from how many feet to how
many feet, here it started to slope to a height to about how many feet do
you know, not the ground but the floor?

FZ: I'm getting myself into something else, gee I don't know, I'd say the
rooms were at least 6-1/2 feet from the floor to the ceiling.

AV: At the peak?

FZ: See this is the attic here right across here and that wasn't used.

AV: It was 6-1/2 from the ceiling to the floor and it started sloping here - began
to slope to about how many feet off the ground?

FZ: You mean the floor in the room, oh to about 3 ft.

AV: These entrances are the main entrance to the house?

FZ: No, side entrances from the front of the room the main entrance came in this
side here.

AV: Over the part where it slopes?

FZ: That's right.

AV: What direction was these doors facing in?

FZ: The whole hosue was east and west, no this is west and this is east and
you know they're big rooms we call it the front room and that room was
16 x 18; 18ft. this was and 16ft across the front here.

AV: These were double homes - #1 was double homes?

FZ: Yeh double homes they were all double homes there were 6 of them in that
block, double homes.

AV: Who was living with you or in the apartment next to you?

FZ: Well you see remember we were looking at names the other day and I said
the names wer wrong, who gave you those names,Helen? Well you see
Helen put down Rudolph the name was changed to Frank I took my fathers
name and that's the only mistake she made, was the first name, but the
names are rihr I thought she meant the house Rudy lived in see?

AV: Now these doors were these facing Back Street or not?

FZ: Yeh, facing Back Street.

AV: How far from the street was the whole house?

FZ: Well we had nice side walks down there, the side walks I'd say were about
6ft wide and then up to the street, oh I'd say about 12ft.