I. J. "Izzie" Wagner, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998

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L: I: Then she'd move it into the house and sometimes we'd have two or three dressers and she put a sign outside in front, furniture for sale. So she'd sell it and make a hundred dollars. Fifty dollars, twenty r3.ollars, whatever. In those days, money was, you know, very valuable. You'd go and get a big stick of licorice for a penney. Right. Get grapes, six pounds for a quarter. Seedless grapes. L: Your mother wasn't afraid to deal. I: No, she was always ... L: It came natural to her. I: Yeah, she'd buy anything. My dad was a super salesman. But he was 'AJeak as far as gambling was concerned. He couldn't hold onto a dollar. He'd get in a poker game. He'd go down to the Elks Lodge, Eagles Lodge which is now the Aetna Life Insurance. ~e only lived a block from there. And he'd go down there anc lose his money in poker. He never had any money. As soon as he'd get money it was gone. He'd buy a Lincoln car. He'd buy a Rio car, seven passenger Lincoln, he'd buy good clothes. He was always ~ell dressed. As far as the house was concerned he wouldn't spend a dime. My mother would, they'd kind of split. My mother moved in with my, my mother moved out and moved in with my aunt. See, my aunt had the old Devereux home as a rooming house. L: She owned that? I: She leased it. L: She leased it. 51