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Show white brick with black recessed mortar and the wood trim was painted white. About the bricks John K liked to tell this story: When he was eleven years of age, he had been taught to smoke by two half brothers who were sent to the Bottoms to help with irrigating. They paid John K and Frank to do their work for them to avoid dirtying their new boots. The pay was with chewing tobacco and roll-your^own cigarettes. Later,>John K turned to smoking cigars. Shortly before he and Virginia were married, in 1914, she tried to persuade him to stop smoking his cigars, for she felt it was a dirty habit, and expensive. After thinking seriously upon the matter, he started to figure and soon realized that each of his cigars was costing him about the equivalent price of a brick. When he and Virginia were in San Diego on their honeymoon (1914-1915) he had thrown away his cigars. He always felt that his action had contributed substantially toward paying for a good portion of the bricks that went into his new house three years later. Since both of them liked Salt Lake City, they decided to rent an apartment and live there for the following winter while the house was under construction. So, when the Thompsons moved into their old house, the Madsens moved out and into Salt Lake. 165 |
