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Walr[?] Brown interviewing Margaret Maloney - 1 - 8/19/72 Tape 4-2

WB: Did your parents ever tell you how the house was furnished, before you were born,
how they used to live, things like that?

MM: Well no I can't think of anything like that I know we had a couch, chairs but the
couch wasn't like these things but was a plain couch ike with a back on it, a high
back, I can remember that when we'd be runnin' in or out we'd run on it or lay
down or when we'd get tired we'd sleep on it.

WB: Do you remember what the house was like when you were 10 or 15, you lived in
this house when you were that old?

MM: Yeh

WB: Was the shanty part of the back of your house on like that?

MM: No we put that in between the shanty and the kitchen, we built that ourselves,
yeh because we used the shanty a lot in the summer and we used to leave our
kitchen fire out to keep it cool and we used that so I said we might as well build it
and not be bangin' one screen door and open another screen door and I said we'll
close it in and when it rains you can go in and out and have no trouble and we built
that ourselves.

WB: Do you remember about when that was built?

MM: Well now wait till I see it was after the fire yes this was a new house then oh yes
wait until I think I guess it was in the 30s that it was built.

WB: Well this house burned down in the 20s wasn't it?

MM: yeh

WB: And then who rebuilt the house?

MM: Mike Geyer he was the contractor he built it well Mrs Coxe had it built because
they were her homes.

WB: So the company actually took care of building you a new home?

MM: Yeh they made sure that we got a house they built it.

WB: So it was rebuilt in the late 1920s? And at that time did they rebuilt it with 2
room or 3 room it was built with 3 rooms on the bottom?

MM: It was built like it is the house was the same it was buit on the same foundation