Carl Joseph Santoro, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, June 28, 2004: Saving the Legacy tape no. 670

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RL JO EPH A TORO J 2 2004 AN: I tarted at the bottom of the heap as a mess cook they call d u . What y u did was you served the food, you washed the dishes, you got up early in the morning and helped the cooks get ready. You did all the dirty work as far as food. You served the guys and picked up their trays and washed them in the dish machines. Once a week, you had the pots and pans detail. That was terrible. It was two big tubs of hot water and you washed the pots and pans all by hand, all these tubs and pots and everything. It was a sixteen-hour day. Man, I hated that. That was in the kitchen or the galley. We all had to take turns doing it. But I had my tum once a week. Then I graduated to being a compartment cleaner. That meant I was a janitor. I did the toilets, I hauled the waste out and for a while. At that time, there were Quonset huts at Clearfield. We didn't have a barracks. There were twelve guys to a hut. Each hut had a coal oil stove in it. We had to go get the coal oil and fill the stove tank. That was a miserable job. I had to do that. We took our turns, thank goodness. We got trained to take turns pretty good. Hey, you take your turn and nobody got victimized. That's what we did. There were twelve of us and the heater used up a full tank every day. Every twelve days it was my tum to do that. I've got a picture of that in here somewhere. BEC: Oh, I'd like to see that. SAN: I think I have. No, I don't have. I thought I did. I just grabbed these in a hurry without looking at them because I was running out of time. Well, you can't see it. But, this was the kid from Cleveland that I was going to go to sea with. [looking through pictures] I can't show you a Quonset hut but you can see the front door. BEC: Right, and on that picture, you can kind of see the curving roofline of the hut. Now, what is that? 14