just before we came so she came in the late 30's or 40's and I

don't know about the other people%

 (Ms. Wanza): Where did they go?

 (Mrs. McKellar): I really don't know.

 (Ms. Wanza): Can you describe the main business areas you

went to in Overtown? The main business areas you went to in

Overtown?

 (Mrs. McKellar): You mean in Colored Town?

 (Ms. Wanza): Yes.

 (Mrs. McKellar): Well the main street was Second Avenue and

I think it's still Second Avenue now. In that era we had Baker

hairdresser, there was a bank sometime ago, grocery stores,

drugstores, you name it we had it.

 (Ms. Wanza): Could you describe where your family brought

groceries?

 (Mrs. McKellar): Our family brought groceries

from...sometimes from the...I can't think of the store...I can't

think of the place...some kind of "Top" on Seventh Street...was it

Seventh or Sixth Street but that was...I don't remember.

 (Ms. Wanza): Could you describe where your family went to the

barber shop or beauty shop?

 (Mrs. McKellar): We went to the beauty shop across the street

 from our home and some of us went there and some went to our

 private hairdresser. Now for the barber shop, the brothers went on

 62nd Street near 7th Avenue, I wouldn't know the name of the person

 who owned the shop.


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