Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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And they slept in the kitchen of the hotel. Him and his
wife slept in the kitchen. Of course, we had to eat there;
we went in all told when the holidays were over.
Hawes: Maybe you know something about I%e been told,
that when Theodore Cavacos bought what's the bbok store right
now on the corner of Roland and 36th.
Lewis: That's his brother.
: Right . . . that he had some problems - people
didn't like . . .
Lewis: Well, they pulled a deal over there. They built
that store out by the city line, and then they went into
court. Built it first and spent plenty of money and went
into court to tear it down. Used to be in the front of
the store before they tore it down
Hawes: But who fought him? Flho were the people who
fought him?
Lewis: He fought Roland Avenue, the property owners.
Everybody fought him, and of course, he got away with it.
And just Like I say when they left Greece, these Greeks
left Greece, they stole a lot of ornaments. I told you
this before, and the woman used to show up all around
Washington and nobody even know what it was - the people
couldn ' t understand why the police didn' t do some thing
about it. But they finally, after three or four years,
located them, it was in the cellar where Bansen got his
television shop. They dug them out of there, but Theodore
Cavacos he was crazy. In fact, he died in an insane asylum.