Code,999072
Subject,Lynn Kupsa
Date,
Interviewer,
Abstract,
Special Notes,"St. Helena,Romanian,West 65th,depression,"
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0,"intro parents came to St.Helenas church area near 65th, rented from Mary and Margaret Patton,"
1,"originally six in Patton family, very active in neighborhood,"
2,"members of St. Coleman's church, Lynn and sisters were well behaved so Mary Patton liked them, on 64th street many Romanian and Irish, St. Mary's Orthodox Romanian Church"
3,"nice place to grow up and live, close to downtown, close to church, great transportation, reasons for staying in area, Harp apartments well kept, still is well kept, father worked at Westinghouse"
4,"Gordon Square Theatre across street when Lynn was growing up, spent recreational time going to movies at Capital Square, neighbors watched over each other"
5,"new stores and restaurants starting to show up, nice people on 64th street, parents moved to Cleveland in 1922, moved to 64th street in 1933, most houses in area built around 1925, ,"
6,"parents Romanian, father came to avoid Austrian army, after WWI decided to stay in US, Lynn went to St. Stephens school near bridge street"
7,cont
8,"memories of Depression, kids knew not to ask for things, when banks failed she lost  Christmas Club savings,"
9,Depression cont.
10,"World War II rationing, economic frugality, avoid debt, appreciate things more since Depression and WWII shortages"
11,"grew up playing on own street, hung around with children in area, never went beyond 66th, expect for Wallace Library on 74th street,"
12,"laid out in yard to suntan, friends were from neighborhood, visit family out of area on Sundays"
13,"bike riding in metroparks at Rocky River on Sundays, no work on Sunday, enjoyed leisure  O'Boyles shoes on corner of 65th,"
14,"A and P, dress shop, nice window shopping, Gordon Square market in basement, Capital Theatre big, with balcony,"
15,"Capital had organ to play music, premiums gave away dinnerware,"
16,"Marshall Drugs where income tax place is now, soda fountain was place to go, also Standard Drug, Rothman's Hardware was interesting to go and see items"
17,"stores where CPT now is, beautyshop, dress shop, nice apartments where Save A Lot is, barber shop in area had a bomb blow up may have been union related,"
18,"Cracian's funeral home, used to be houses in that area, some large,"
19,"lots of Irish at 65th and Detroit, Lenahan's Bar, City Grill"
20,"ST. Helena's was small church, parish like a family,"
21,"church as way of life, second home,"
22,"progressed from small building to large complex, largest Romanian church in US, built in 1906, established 1904"
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