Re: Rooming Houses (Ken)
>> During my first four years of teaching I lived in two different boarding houses. I had just a bedroom like Barney did and I could not cook in the rooms. My rent was $7 a week and that included a hot breakfast. At both houses the owners were quite elderly and they took in teachers to get a little extra money. After I married, my wife and I kept in close contact with both of the folks until their deaths. << Ken - Did you ever sneak in a bit of cooking on the sly, perhaps chili and crackers? If so, I hope you didn't mess up your landlady's dresser drawers with the spicy fumes. (Especially if it used to belong to her mother and was bussed in all the way from Ft. Lauderdale.) ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Rooming houses
My grandparents in Illinois had several roomers. My mother was a young girl, and they were all very important grown up friends for her. One was indeed a teacher, Miss Virgie. It would not have been proper in the '20s for Miss Virgie to live anywhere else. She left--the room and teaching--when she got married, but she was always in touch with the family. And then Franz came to live with them. He was a German master baker, like my grandfather, and he came to town with a flour salesman who thought my grandfather could help him find work. He did, and they rented him that had vacated by Miss Virgie. My mother told me that was a typical way bakers found work. The roomers, in this case, had the use of a hot plate and a small sink and even room for a small kitchen table and a sitting room. It could have been Mayberry. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Rooming Houses
During my first four years of teaching I lived in two different boarding houses. I had just a bedroom like Barney did and I could not cook in the rooms. My rent was $7 a week and that included a hot breakfast. At both houses the owners were quite elderly and they took in teachers to get a little extra money. After I married, my wife and I kept in close contact with both of the folks until their deaths. Ken Anderson The Mayberry Guru 2906 May Street Eau Claire, WI 54701 715-839-8470 www.mayberryreflections.com kanderson8...@charter.net ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
