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RP: Tell us about your father, he had an opportunity to buy some land in the Marina area...

AS: No, what he did... well, he bought land, but at that time, kind of the... evidently he, Mr. Pierce of Pierce Brothers, Dr. Pierce, I guess he was, he was a minister and I think he's the one that Pierce Brothers Mortuary, I think he started it, so he was a very nice, reliable gentleman. And I guess he loaned -- so my father bought the land in his name. He did it for several other people, too. I tell you, it must've been a few thousand dollars or something, but the bank knew my father had a business, and so I guess they said, "Why don't you buy this land?" And, you know, he couldn't buy it, but he bought it in Mr. Pierce's name. As soon as my, my two sisters were babies and he knew his wife, he wasn't in very good health so he couldn't trust his wife, so he said, "Why don't you put it in my name?" That's the only reason my father had the Marina land. Ten acres there. God, it was like nothing next to... you should see how that place was, that was like, kind of a wet kind of land there. The dump was right on the end there. The dump is there, but now those million dollar homes is there, but they, it's not a dump, but they got trees planted around and all the harbor there. And when I see that now, they don't know how that place was like nothing. But my dad, he bought it for, since the bank told him. And to tell you the truth, I think now that, I bet it was only a few thousands of dollars. [Laughs]

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