Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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Q. That's quite a trip for a little girl up all those st;
you scared?
A. No, no. No, there were guards around, you how. Eve:
friendly, you how. In fact-ah, am I talking now?
Q. Yes.
A. Now you want m to tell that over?
Q. No, no. Weq-ve got it. It [tape recorder] just pops 1
is done. We used to have to tim our tapes and it was so
A. Well, am I spending too much tirne?
Q. No, no, n ~ at t all. All these details are inte~stinl
A. Well, he'd put the pulleylone tim the pulley got m
of the flagpole and my father climbed up there and put it
what we were told. I believe h,im about his work. He made
used to make tin things for us; a tin doll we had. And r
sew; w mother couldn!t sew onv a machine. He made-I can
dress now he made for the doll. - It was blue calico with w
white dots. It had a belt on it and that was bound with 1
low the belt and around here.
Q. Around the neck and mund the sleeves?
A. The sleeves, yes. And at Christmastime, we had a tin
tube like this that went up and then it cam out this way.
We had a cedar tree in ow yard; he would cut off branches
ips. Weren't
ybody was
? when the tape
JlstractFng.
mg on the top
m. Well, ,that's
kite, li€tlL tiny
sd ahow be-
€2. Stick them in?
A. Yes, and we had a Christmas tree. That would do even
Oh, he was good to us at ChristmastQne. We had oranges; t
special, you know. And we all hung up ow stockings. I 1
you know. And I think now what could I have done to have
different. But [he was ] so generous, you know, giving awz
Q. Of course, your mother's illness musttve been hasd on
A. It was; I'm sure it was. Oh yes, and after she died,
the hotel for Sunday dinner.
yew for us.
at was something
ved ny father,
3de the situation
irn too.
?'d take us to
A. Which hotel?
Q. Now the hotel was on Third md Jefferson. And a famil
one of the worm, the daughters
i
waited on tables and it h
style. It was all put on In di hes there and you helped 5
took us there for dinner. Then we'd get on the streetcar
Washington Park where they had ce cream. Somthing happ~
time. I had a little brown hat it had quite a rim; it wa
of thing. And it had a plaid r bbon on it; it went ammc
-1 know that
3 served family
melf. &
zd go out to
:d there one
a lacy kipd .
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