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 20 1 didn't understand hitchhiking in those days. We did in Atn rica but th y th ught it wa weird that I was standing on the side of the road with two fingers. f course th y hav lefthand traffic there, you understand. So I'm on the left side of the road, and here's a car coming from my right. And I motioned with my two fingers the direction I wanted to go. He stopped and asked me what I wanted. And I explained that I needed a ride to Lowestoft. And this guy took me quite a ways in his car. You had to be pretty wealthy to own a car in England in those days. But he was interested in me. Finally, he came to this little town. And I can't remember the name of it, but It wasn't all the way. It was about halfway from where I wanted to be; halfway to Lowestoft from Hull. And he said, "Well, this is as far as I go sorry," and he let me out. It was evening and just starting to get a little bit near dusk, and I walked down the road. It was a little tiny town. And I saw a bobby, that's a policeman in England, a bobby, and so I asked him-I had two shillings and a sixpence left in my pocket, and that was about sixty-five cents. And I remembered up in Hull there was some bread and breakfast places. You could get a bed for the night, and a breakfast, all for two shillings and a sixpence. That's what they called a half a crown, two shillings and a sixpence. So I asked him if there was a bread and breakfast place there that I could get a bed and breakfast for two shillings and a sixpence. He said, "No, this town's too small. There aren't any bread and breakfast places here. 11 But he says, "I can put you up for the night in the jail if you'd like. 11 By the 14