Lee S. Manwill, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Luke Kelly, July 11, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 267

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Lee Manwill Jul 11 2001 full acre because he wanted to raise chickens. A chick n c op and a garag h buil t. nd we lived in that while he built the house. o after he built the house we moved in it. It was not completely finished. W lived in it while he finished it. It was kind of fun. The neighbor kids used to go up to the brickyard, which was truly a brickyard then, no stores. They didn't have the restrictions like they would today for safety for kids. We'd go in and watch them taking these bricks off a pressing machine and put them on a conveyor belt. We'd watch all that kind of stuff. It was kind of fun. Oh, there was a lot of things. It goes on and on. LUK: Oh, no, if you want to. I'm more than happy to ... LEE: Well, I'll just go on and hit some other highlights. Eventually, we moved to 409 East 27th South. And it belonged to the Winder family. The Winder Dairy was there at one time. It still had this big old silo in the backyard. Of course, that's long gone too. But at the age of sixteen I was going to Granite High School, and we'd walk from there on 27th to school every day, summer and winter. But the summer of 1932 I was sixteen, and I couldn't get a job, and my dad couldn't get a job. It was part of the Great Depression, 1932. And a couple ofbuddies of mine and I decided we wanted a little adventure. So we decided to hop a freight train and go to Denver. I had an awful time talking my mother into it, but she finally agreed to let me go. I had $2.50 in my pocket when we left; each of us did. We worked many hours to save that much. And we each had a little bedroll we'd made up. And we went down to the D&RG freight yard, straight down 27th South to the freight yards. There was nothing 8