Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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Harvey: You don't want to talk about it . . .? [laughs]
Lewis: [laughs1 . . . No, that would be better left unsaid;
the girls initiated you in those days; we used to talk about
boys doing things - but the young girls had just as bad a
habit as the young boys. Can say it that way . . .
Harvey: We already got you then - you must have forgotten
yaurself because when we had the nostalgia hour down here
you told that . . . [laughs]. . .
~ewis: Well, that's alright . . . . long as it's permiss-
ible - but they were all nice people and everybody was
friendly; everybody lived close by.
Over Hoaper's Miss Bosley on Druid Park Drive used to
sell coffee; of course I had plenty of time was my job about
1L:30 I'd go up there. The people working they'd tell me
they wanted coffee, other things you wanted from the store
and I 'd go up there. And those days coffee come in a can
about 8 inches high, about 4 inches across. And Miss Bosley
used to give them ha15 full or better sf milk and sugar in
it for a nickel, And you a11 - 1 took it up there and,
of course, Miss Bosley would give me my coffee for nothing.
And a lot of othere little things; very nice lady and all
the people worked in the twisting room that I would carry
down these for - they always gave me something every week.
There was no charge for it; X was being paid Zor the company.
I remember one time Helen worked there in the
twisting room and so did Sarah Daley; and they had a big
affair at the Fifth Regiment Armory showing how the trenches