Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

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INTERVIEW: Cordova Page 27 He was helping his dad, I guess, from the time that he was seven or eight years old until he went into the Service. Besides going to school of course, working and helping him out. His dad just paid him a commission. He had $1,000 when he went into the Service. BM It was a prosperous business, then. EC It was. Then when Carl went into the Navy and, well, it was in 1939 we decided to open a restaurant. Did you want to know anything about the restaurant? BM Yes. In 1939 you decided to open a restaurant? EC Yes, he decided to open a restaurant. We had the property next door and he had it fixed up as an apartment. His brother and his wife lived in it for awhile and then they moved to Bingham and then when my mother died my father came and lived in there. Then after my father passed away Al said, 'What should we do with this building now? Should we fix it up and get somemore tenants?' 'Oh,' I said, 'oh, Heaven forbid, not tenants! ' So he said, 'I will tell you what we are going to make us, a restaurant out it it.' And I thought he was kidding, but we opened up that restaurant in November of 1939. Then Carl went into the Service. See, I got a little bit ahead of myself before. When Carl went into the Service he decided to close the store on 2nd South because he couldn't handle the business