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Waln Brown interviewing Margaret Maloney - 3 - 8/19/72 Tape 4-2

MM: Well it was and it wasn't when the screens were in it wasn't too hot of course
summer's wasn't really too hot only a few days just the same as it is now
it's not too hot you can, yeh.

WB: So you just kept a bed up in the attic, that's all.

MM: The bed and the clothes, I had a rack up there the clothes used to go up.

WB: And the attic was used for storage area?

MM: Yeh, well I never had much storage I didn't like things stored around I always
made sure every room was in the same condition.

WB: But when you were a child I'm speaking about. Didn't your parents keep old
clothing or blankets or anything like that up in the attic?

MM: I always had a big box and I kept all the quilts and the blankets and all in
there my attic is just like a bedroom but since they roofed that I pulled the
roof off and now I'm goin' to re-roof it and then I'll paper it again.

WB: How about the master bedroom, the front bedroom up here when in the 1915s
do you remember how that was furnished, what that looked like?

MM: Well it had bureaus, well it's the same, come on up and I'll show it to you
the furniture that was in it before isn't there it's different.

WB: This stairway was it built into the house later on or was it always the same
stairway?

MM: That was closed in, I cut that, now here's the front bedroom.

WB: Was it the same type of furniture that's in here?

MM: No it was a little different, not much though the bed was a brass bed and
that was all the difference, the same size as this a double bed.

WB: Same type of tables and things like that see what I'm trying to do it get an
idea of how the houses were furnished.

MM: Well I'm only tellin' how our home was furnished, some homes were altogether