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DG: Well, there is some written material that says that they had in the very beginning before 1900 just one room with...

TH: So many beds.

DG: Right.

TH: Yes, well that was still classified as a hotel.

DG: And what were those beds? They were just slats of wood, right?

TH: I don't know actually what it was.

YM: In our time they were beds.

TH: Must have been beds.

YM: In our time, '20s, but a lot of rooms are considered housekeeping rooms, remember. You had a gas plate there and they could cook, called housekeeping rooms. Our rents were $4 (a month) for the inside rooms without heat or windows and then $4 a month. And the outside rooms with the windows looking on the street were $7 or $8 a month.

DG: So who did the work, the laundry?

YM: No, no, no, Mother did the housekeeping. I mean, cleaning, and making the beds.

TH: Laundry was sent out mostly. The Grand Union took care of most of the laundry.

YM: But the housekeeping rooms, they were supposed to take care of the rooms themselves.

TH: That's right.

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