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A. Varesano interviewing Anna Timko
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6/23/72
Tape 16-2

1013 much more expensive here. Most people did, you know, they used to buy it here.
It wasn't a company store. It was just some other people. Maybe, years ago
it might have been, I don't know if it was a company store or what not, but
now it wasn't. The coal company didn't own this store. It was another party
had it. Mr. Reese had that store . Some kind of Keller, I think,
first had it. That I don't remember real well. It must have been when I was
real young yet, I don't remember too well. But then I remember Mr. Reese had
1023 that store. He was there, too, but he had people working for him.

AV: And, did you use a pattern?

AT: Oh, yes.

AV: Oh, where did you get the dress pattern, make it yourself?

AT: You could buy it. Sometimes you'd make it yourself, from another dress. And
if you wanted to, you could buy it. There wasn't much of a choice, I guess,
but nobody was fancy!

AV: What kind of style dress did you make?

AT: Well, it was just like now, changing styles. Sometimes they would have them
with the waist, and then later on one time they had something like the shifts
are today. That's the kind they had in them days. Because up about here,
1032 there was one lady living up there, she was pregnant and nobody knew she was
pregnant, not even her mother! And her mother lived across the street, and
she was at her place every day. She didn't know her daughter was expecting
a baby. Because she was on the heavy side, and she had one of those
loose dresses, like a nightgown, you know, something like the shifts are
today. Well then, who knew she was pregnant? So her friend was there when
she went into labor. See, because they didn't go into the hospital to have
babies then, they were born at home. So, when she went into labor, well they
called for the doctor, she was sick and her friend was there. So her friend
went home because the doctor was gonna come, and her friend was sick, so she
went home. Next day, she hears her friend had a baby! She was struck dumb!
She says, I was there so many times, she says, I didn't know she was pregnant!
And the girl, this lady's girl, went up to tell the grandmother, you know,
that they have a baby. She said, Are you crazy? Her own mother didn't know
she was expecting! It was loose, you know, so you couldn't tell on her,
whether she was fat, or whether she was pregnant, or what. She was on the
heavy side. She's dead already. Now they moved, they built a home down in
Buck Mountain someplace, both their parents are dead. So, one of the boys
I think is a state trooper. Teddy, was it Teddy Nagle? I think it's Teddy.

AV: Nagle, did you say? His mother?

AT: The boy is the son. He's married already. The parents are dead. But the
son is married and I think he's a state trooper, stationed in the Poconos
someplace.

AV: Any relation to this William Nagle here?

AT: Yes. This one up here was a brother. And then these are his children
already now. They were brothers.

AV: And they were living back here....

AT: Well, Willy Nagle first lived on the Back Street down here at lower end, too.
Well, first they lived on the lower end here, in the second block, in the
small houses, and then they went down to the bigger houses, down there, too.
They lived near Fedorshas some place, when Fedorshas were living down there.

AV: Yeah, I think she- I remember that.

AT: Yeah, this is Willy, and this guy's name was Teddy.

AV: And, did you make the clothes for the kids, too?

AT: Even little suits for John, when he was going to school. And material, just
plain, you know, like dress material, only more like for boys. You had to