Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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"Come on down to the breMast shop. Come and have breakfast with us. So we did and 04 the way back up to our room at about one thirty,.they had funny papers in the up two or three newspapers and took them along with us and I don't about six o'clock or so and so we said, "Let's get even with Maggie we said, "Maggie, we've read all the newspapers and all She said, "You eat breakfast, I'll be. right down." And if she come down. (Chuckle) We had breakfast at about seven or and drove all that night. Pulled in at the Gibbons Hotel, Monday morning, Dqton, where could stay for five days, but since we almost bought the bar at the hotel befor7 that with o company, we stayed there for five months. I I I I Q. What did Kitty do? 1 A. She darned all my sox cause I could put em on from either end. She did weaving. She said, "When I got it all done, it was silly, why not throw them some new ones." She'd always darned her fathers so she sat around for for an apartment and then. . . Q. They didn't provide one for you? A. Oh no. Four hundred war indusiries and Oh, my God, I think there were Q. In Dayton, Ohio? A. I think there were f ~ty five thousand civilians. See, you had Wright field, atterson Fiey and the, Oh, the Air Technical Service Command. How could I a prize for the Air Forces, and that was in another place that you had, Patterson, and so she went out. ..she had volunteered for the Red here or the women rolling bandages, and she was in the international truck around apd so she went out to the Red Cross at talked to the Director there, "Did he need any volunteer work give you a job. You're the new assistant field director. So she started just lik that and for she got a hundred and fifty dollars a month, just like wasn't making too much, We paid five dollars and a sheets and pillow cases and towels every day. We cooked a pot that we had. There was a big market across the the menus at the hotel which was not often, but come in and so. ..and they knew us very well beef sandwich instead of just the roast beef cents. It was 'about three dollars otherwise. Oh boy. Q. So when were the twins born? 1
A, Let's see. October 19, 1945. Q. Near the end of the war? A. Maybe it was October, '44. Yeah it wa .s '44 becaus birthdays and the war was over in '45. Q. So you came back here directly by way a€ Dayton. 1 our way horn le, thdy had their y ar A. We came back here fiom California. Our fiend Maggie was in California Ld she decidkd we should come out and visit on the way home. Q. Where in California? A. North Hollywood. Q. What was she doing out there? A. I don't know. She was divorced from Dm Brown at that point and then +y got back together but she just thought it would be a good place for me to start practicinb architectur~ Q. How'd you feel about that? 1 A. Well let's look and look it over and she had a guy who was even willing to give me a job. But of course, the trouble was California does not recognize anybody else's licenc . Q. At that time? A. At that time, yeah. Still don't, I guess. You have to go for national. registration now but in those days, why. . .any more than Florida would because of hurricanes. I was alright for New York, I guess. If I was Chicago, I could build in New York, but anyway I didn't want to do Angels fear to tread. People with twins getting on an airplane in Mmmm. That's a whole story on it's own. Anyway, we got to then we came back here to Springfield and moved into Kitty's who had rented this had gone home. The war was over. It so we left the kids with Kitty's mother and Kitty and I place. There was a bunch of furniture that was her moved that down and did that for about a month Christmas: and that would have been '45. Q. And you were working with Meyer? I i
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University of Illinois at Springfie
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ARCWES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF UINOIS
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CATALOGUE Trutter, Philip Louis (19
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almost an apprenticeship or somethi
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I skin and the other, he got a comm
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the Art Association (Recollection o
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