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Okay, so I want to go back and find out a little bit more about the house that you lived in. So it was a large three-story house. Where was it? Where was it located?

MK: It was at Weller Street, 819 Weller.

BY: So Eighth and Weller.

MK: Yeah, so it was just two blocks from the furniture store on Jackson.

BY: Oh, okay. And your parents owned the home or did they rent it, do you know?

MK: No, he owned it.

BY: He owned it?

MK: He owned it.

BY: And then so three stories. Can you tell me roughly, each floor, what was on each floor and who lived there? So the first floor was...

MK: On the first floor it was all single men in small rooms. And then on the second floor our family took over with a living room and... it was not a dining room, but a big living room and the kitchen, and a couple of bedrooms, two bedrooms or so.

BY: And who lived in those two bedrooms?

MK: You know, it varied. At one time I remember that my parents lived there, and I was there. And then my oldest brother always had a room on the following, on the third floor by himself.

BY: Okay. And then how about all the other girls? Where did they...

MK: Yeah. About three of them lived in one room on the third floor, too.

BY: And what about Frank?

MK: I'm trying to figure out where... he didn't live with my oldest brother, I don't know where, but Frank ended up in that room (eventually).

BY: When your brother left, right.

MK: Yeah. But that's all I remember.

BY: So the single men who lived in the house just lived on the first floor?

MK: On the first floor, none of the family, but they were all single rooms with single men.

BY: Right, right. So were there any, did the single men live any other place in the house, or just on the first floor?

MK: No, on the third floor (too).

BY: Oh, more?

MK: It was mixed with our family. And we didn't have a bathroom on the second... yeah, all the rooms on the basement, first floor, had just one bathroom. And so on our floor, we never had a toilet.

BY: So was it an outhouse?

MK: No, we had to share it with the tenants.

BY: On the third floor?

MK: [Nods]

BY: Oh, I see.

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