Esther Kline, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998

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Esther Klein 2nd Int. Side 2, p 56 can never remember if they ever took pictures of us. I don't eve1 remember ending up with one but we did end up with a little, a little cup and saucer. In fact, my nephew's daughter wanted some-thing, when I was little and I gave her that little cup and saucer So I kept it a good many years. I can remember Elizabeth fixing my hair in curls. You know my hair was long and I never did have my hair cut ever until after I finally got up in high school. I forget what year it was, I finally decided I wanted my hair cut like all the rest of the girls and my mother was so disappointed. Elizabeth and I went into the bathroom and she proceeded to cut rn~ hair and put it up on rollers. That was so funny. LOR And mom didn't know about it? EK And morn was so mad. She said, "Crazy." But I finally did get to to go/a barber that did it right. Oh, that was so funny. LOR Esther, if you were to remember your father in such a way, let's say, if you were to paint a picture or have someone paint a pictui of him from your memory doing something that was typical as you remember, typical for him to do, what would it look like? What would he look like and what would he be doing? EK Oh, I'll tell you something that he used to do that nobody else i r our neighborhood did in those days. It was when we were on 7th South, that's when he wasn't working very much then. And in the wintertime my dad would get out early enough and shovel from our place. We lived in the middle of the block and he'd go clear do~ to the 3rd East and shovel a path across the street to where we would have to stand to catch the bus. We most always took the bu~ in the wintertime. But, no one else ever did that but I can reca. my dad always shoveled a path that we had a place to stand. And 1