Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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in them days talked about ghosts and all that kind of
stuff ; den' t go past there, ghosts come out of there [laughs] .
And used to tell ghost stories, scared to go home [laughs].
Those were the good days, and 1 say we had our fun and, of
course as I say in those days when it got dark you was home.
You wasn't out, and I say then today f think children ought
to be in at night; I don't think they ought to be out. Of
course now, if you go somewhere, alright. I think they mak-
ing childxen old too quick. Graduation exercises in public
schools I feel they wait later on 1 think later on they be
by theixself and go out and worry. But I find that today
in the neighborhood you still got men that does stuff in
the neighborhood and not political bosses or one thing ar
another. And you dan't hear about it. And I think it's
mighty nice.
Harvey: . . . say that again . . .
Lewis : below old Cedar Avenue Bridge on Falls
Road. That's why the second dam's down there - used to run
water in it. Take the roads and there.
Where that Falls Road runs through where Potts and Callahan
that's where the ald City Lee company was . . .
the Old City Ice Company.
Harvey: When did McMannis close up shop?
Lewis: 1 guess McMannis closed up 3 would say just about
World War I or right after that. They stood these for a long
while, but see, there was nobody but farms around here and
nobody didn't haul it in to them anymore, to grind it and all.
See, at one time there was quite a few farms around here;