Helen Granger Boss - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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BOSS; 056 1:2:28 They had a sort of a building there, I don't know what they used it for. But I know when I was a girl, about eight or nine years old, I saw Houdini get out of his workings down there. They threw him overboard••• wasn't many peo:yle there at all. Even then (I was little then) I thought, gee, any other time there'd be a big crowd here, but it wasn't. They put him over in this trunk. Us kids, we had no other••• outside the movies when they came along and they were a nickel •••but outside that•••we didn't always have a nickel to go to the movies. But I say, I often wondered why there wasn't more people that day and he was going to perform like that. But I was real•••I knew he wasn't coming up. «chuckle» But he did. That was our Sunday walk, you know, over the Light Street Bridge. They started building the new bridge -- the new Brooklyn bridge now, or the Hanover Street bridge in 1917. That was started because it was right before my father died. Now see, that was all boundary down there where you could look across to these summer resorts where they had the show and they had the dance pavilion and all and Mr. Kirby had the stage. Naturally, he had an orchestra there, people would dance to it. That was his amusement, more or less, because you could go to Mr. Slagle's for beer and other refreshments. But then when you came down he only had the stage and he sold fish sandwiches and things like that. Now on this side of the bridge••• Kupchyk: Which side was that? Boss: On this side of the new bridge, Hanover Street bridge, this is Cromwell Street, the lock insulator's way here almost at Light Street••• Kupchyk: At the north end of Cromwell? Boss: No, at the east end of Cromwell where the jerkwater came through
BOSS; 056 1:2:29 and where right middle way you come to the GuJ.ch. This was the Gulch right here where you come into it. And on the other side of it was Jake Snyder's. That's a big important thing because Jake Snyder was there for years. He sold fish sandwiches and he had a bar. He was on the west of Cromwell Street alongside of the new bridge. Kupchyk: The new Light Street bridge? Boss: No, the new Hanover Street bridge. The Light Street bridge was the old bridge. And Jake had that place there. You say -- what bounded it? There were these shore homes where people went in the summertime. Down here further was another place called -- the fellows called this woman "Mom McMaho:n;' her name, I say Mrs. McMahon-had another place like that. But I don't think she cooked. She just sold beer and other things like that. ((end»
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