Vol. 4-Interview-Zurko

Mary Zurko interivew by Denis Mercier 8/21/72 Tape 12-1

their way going from the kitchen up, you know, because you only had the one bathroom. DM: You say maids, were there more than one main? MZ: Oh, they had a couple maids there. DM: They had indoor plumbing up there, I assume. MZ: Hmm? DM: You said, going up to the bathroom? Did they have a full bath in that house? MZ: Well, no, they had two ways of going upstairs, you see. From the front you can go up--looks like a hotel in the front. Beautiful. THen they have a sitting room, they have a living room, and then they have a, go through a hall, and the hall takes you right out to the dining area, into the kitchen. But then there's another way of coming in, if you want to enter the doorway, you want to go into the living room or you want to the dining, then you go out through the dining room and then go into the kitchen. DM: Oh brother. Were there more than one housekeepers, up there? MZ: Yes. They had the book and the maid. And then they had, there's one bedroom upstairs that is a huge room, it has two double beds in, and you really couple put a cot in it, if you wanted to. And they have clothes closets, and they have the white room--of course, I lived up there with my aunt, you know, with my cousins--and then there is the fron bedroom, there's one, two, three, not wait, one, two, three, four, five rooms upstairs. Then they have an attic, but you couldn't very well sleep in it. I mean, if it was done over, you know, this would be all right. But the bathroom is very big. It's a very big bathroom. And that house of _______ down there, that's another one. DM: That's a beauty. I've been through that. MX: Oh, yes, that's nice. My aunt lived there.