LeGrand Raine Curtis, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, June 17, 2004: Saving the legacy tape no. 661

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L D RTI J 17 2 4 LE : ind ay Mar in and m . ho thre br th r plu w had a br th r in th at P arl Harb r. o three of us were in the service. The r st w r lder. BEC: Right. LEG: What was I going to tell you? BEC: You were talking about your brother making a phone call. LEG: Okay, he made a phone call to me. He said,' You and Patty are coming out to set up practice?" I said, "That's right." He said, "You're going to need a place to live." I said, "That's right." He said, "You need to buy my house." I said, "Jess, I've got twenty-five cents total in my pocket." He said, "Let me tell you the terms." It was a house in Highland Park. Do you know where Highland Park is? BEC: Is it east of Highland High School? LEG: No, let's go out to Highland Drive and Stratford A venue south of Sugarhouse. BEC: Oh, Okay. LEG: He said, "It's nothing down and the payments are seventy-one a month." I said, "I'll buy it." So I paid the first seventy-one and we stayed there about three years and started our practice in Sugarhouse. My brother-in-law called me, who was in real estate. He said, "I just listed a home you ought to buy." I said, "Well, you've got me wrong. I don't have any money." He said, "Well, it's a lady and her husband died. She's a widow. She wants nothing down but the payments are a hundred and fifty a month." By then, I could afford a hundred and fifty a month. So I said, "I'll do it." So I sent in my very first month's payment for a hundred and fifty dollars. Now listen carefully, I got back a receipt and one hundred and forty two of the one hundred fifty went to interest and eight dollars was for principal. I'm not too swift on money but I know that at eight 27