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A. Varesano interviewing Mary Marshlik 8/21/72
Tape 28-1
MM: This is the floor plan of the upstairs...
AV: The Back Street house?
MM: Our Back Street house.
AV: What number was that?
MM: 41.
AV: Um-hmm, And what was in the living room?
MM: In the living room? Wait a minute, I have it here...ah...this is the upstairs. I have it, like we had one bed here, a bed here, and a bed here, and there was a trunk here and a chest of drawers here...
AV: This was the upstairs?
MM: This was the upsatirs. And there was an entrance over here to that storage space, there was another entrance there and then there was the stairway. This is the stairway going down. And then there was a window over here. Now, this, ah, this is that little room, like I have made over here, the little room...
AV: The shed.
MM: That shed-like, yeah.
AV: How big was it?
MM: It wasn't very big, as you can see by the drawing, it was small.
AV: How many feet, would you say?
MM: Well, the rooms were smaller than these. So I would judge maybe they were about ten feet wide, maybe about ten by ten. The kitchen was small. The living room was a bit larger. Now see, here's the kitchen and here's the living room. The living room I would say was about 12 by 12.
AV: Twelve by Twelve.
MM: Yes.
AV: Okay. And then...
MM: And this would have been maybe about ten, ten by twelve, or something like that.
AV: And then this...
MM: And that was even smaller, and that, that, I would say maybe it was about, ah, let me see. It could have been maybe six, seven feet this way...
AV: Um-hmm. And this way...
MM: And, ah, well it was a square, so it was about... that's about the size of that
AV: Six square feet.
MM: Yeah, uh-huh
AV: Yeah. Now what is this over here?
MM: And that, that was the shanty. That we called a shanty.
AV: This, over here?
MM: That, no, no. This is where, then there was a porch in between goin' in[underlined] here, and then this was the shanty, and there was the doorway...
AV: How big was the shanty?
MM: The shanty[underlined] was, oh, I would say about a twelve by twelve.
AV: You have it more rectangular here.
MM: Yeah, I know I do, I made a, but it's a twelve by twelve, uh-huh.
AV: And then the storage shed...
MM: My father[underlined] had that added on. He put that on himself. That was only about four feet wide.
AV: Um-hmm. When did he add on the storage shed?
MM: Mm, I might have been maybe about seven years old...
AV: So that would be...
MM: Uh, that was about in the, uh, I was born in 1913, so that would be about 1920 or something like that when he added that on.