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C: No, just this one building. Then they had a railroad station that
 the train went through one time. It didn't make the curve, and
 split right through it. It was a terrible wreck. It was a passen-
 ger train and all the people were brought into the hospital here.

J: What was Uncle Jake's full name?

C: Oh, heavens. Everybody ought to know that. I don't. Jacob B.
 Conrad, I believe. He was president of several banks and then a
 bunch of the men here in town got together and they built the
 Clarington Hotel, which is now the Plaza, I think, in Daytona
 Beach. He was a very rich and influential man. Very smart man.
 He had no children. He was my husband's idol. He took him on all
 his trips with him. Austin travelled everyplace with him. From
 the time Austin was a little boy had this quick mathematical brain.
 He could just really figure. So when time came, Uncle Jake had
 died, and then Cousin Ray took over and was president of all the
 things. Then when Cousin Ray died, Austin took over.

J: Where did Austin get the name "Deedee" or "Dee"?

C: Well, that's just too silly to tell. That's a little private ro-
 mance that we had going. But it came from a comic strip called
 "Deedee Bumpkins", I think. And the silly part was we were both
 "Deedee". He called me "Deedee" and I called him "Deedee". Then
 I went into "Weenie". But most everybody called him "Bo Peep".
 He was the smallest person in Stetson, and he played shortstop on
 their team up there. They called him "little Bo Peep". So that's
 where he gets the Uncle Bo. Everybody calls him "Uncle Bo".
 Eleanor, Allen, and all those children all call him "Uncle Bo".
 Well, I think David Gumby does.

J: Did Dee move from New York with his parents?

C: Oh no. He was born here. Uncle Jake moved down here. Then the
 whole family came down. There were houses out in Glenwood.
 Austin's mother's name was Bonnie Wood. She married Austin's
 father, who was John Conrad, who was a brother of Uncle Jake's.
 However, Uncle Jake had half-brothers. Fred Conrad, who was pres-
 ident of the Merchant's Bank in.Daytona, and a big man over there.
 And Eugene Conrad, who ran a grocery store. By the way, Austin
 used to go over and spend the summers with Uncle Gene. There was
 one launch that went twice a day from the mainland to Daytona
 Beach. He went with the grocery man and delivered the groceries
 to the people on the beachside; there were only about four or five
 houses on Daytona Beach at that time. He had the fun of getting
 in that lauch and going across the Halifax River, and they would
 dock over there. Then they would have a team meet them and they
 would go from house to house and deliver those groceries. He used
 to love to tell me about that.

J: This was all before the turpentine business?