Helen Granger Boss - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

BOSS; 056 1:2:24
like a point sit out on the bar. Then the bridge started right here, the
old wooden bridge. On this side was another pavilion, on the east side
of the old bridge, and that was Carl's Pavilion. A man was telling me
the other day, he said, "That was an expensive place." It was open
Saturday and Sunday, but the beer that you bought was like fifteen cents
a bottle. The men mostly went to the cheaper places. Anyhow, the bar
sit almost this close to•••in fact, a lot of the sand was of that right
under that old bridge, the old wooden bridge.
The wooden bridge didn't open like a drawbridge does now up in
the air. It spun around on a plot of ground and sat over top of that
plot of ground that had flowers growing on it and a man living there••••
Kupchyk: So it swung sideways?
Boss: It swung around. Say this was the piece of ground and this was
this man's home here, Mr. Marshall. (I worked with his daughters and
knew him well. He had three daughters.) He lived there, this Mr. Marshall,
and he had like a turn thing. He had to turn it when the bridge••••He'd
bring it around and it would sit••• It wouldn't sit down on his ground, it
would just sit over top of it. His place was left all right until that
boat went through and then he'd wind it back so it would be across the
water.
Kupchyk: So it did kind of go sideways?
Boss: It went sideways instead of up. You can use your imagination, but
that's how it was anyhow••••and that went over to Brooklyn.
Kupchyk: What else do you remember about Frog Island?
Boss: I don't know whether I told you or not, I walked on frogs.
Kupchyk: Tell me again.
Boss: Irene used to take her father's dilLner over there on a Sunday.