Helen Granger Boss - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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Her mother would fix his dinner and we would walk down there. This Mr.
Drum over here that Mr. Slagle worked for -- this Mr. Durm had his boat­
yard here and that's where you could get the launches to go over to this
Kirby's Park. Up here was Charlie Durm's. He had boats where he would
hire them out. He would hire a launch out or you could get a launch up
there.
Then up there when I said that you went through the Dead Man's Gulch
and got out here••• and this beer garden was over here -- Tod's Beer
Garden. There was a lady named Miss Lizzie Flood. She lived a couple
doors from me down there in the big house. She had a man working for
her and they used to hire out boats to get across there. Still you could
go up in town and come around in the stretcar to get over there, too.
There was three ways of getting there••• about four ways to get there.
So this day•.• every Sunday she took her father's dinner. We'd go
down here to Mr. Durm's, down here to this lower part because her father
had his concession down here at Kirby's. We'd go across there. We'd
wai t and the man would take us in the launch. We'd go over there and
walk around through them there places down here to where they'd have this
show. Then sometimes we'd be in here like, go right over here. And
we'd walk around and this place here didn't have any show. He had a dance
pavilion.
Kupchyk: What place was this?
rooD Boss: Mr. Kirby's. This was where Mr. Slagle worked -- where he had
his concession. People from down near Klien's would walk up there and buy
crab soup and clams and steamed crabs and things like that. It set a
little out over the beach -- not the water, over the beach like. This
evening it had been an awful storm. It thundered, it lightened while we