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 g -'--. 9,', Aright uh)I grew up ...... I actually was born

 in Stuart, transient in my father's occupation. He was working for some-

 I in Stuart the year I was born which i6 1917. I was born in

 a rural area outside of Stuart called the St. LucRiver 1917 and shortly

 after I was born, a few weeks or a few months at most,planned to move back

 to Miami.

J: And where did they live at that time?

M: My father acquire a home, bought a home way out in the country just off of

 Flagler Street and about close to 12th Avenue. Farm started just after you

 crossed the railroad track going west..... -mI ~ w you were in farm country then.

J: Mmm hmm. Of course now that's part of Miami.

M: Yeah, a part of downtown.

J: Uh huh.

M: O So I grew.up in Miami. My father uh...... uh caretaker, manager, whatever

 you would call it of some of the old big estates which no longer exist on

 Miami Beach. And so I lived on..... I counted up something like twenty some-

 odd places on Miami Beach that we lived at various times, in a.... what seemed

 to me long time, but now looking at it I realized gee I did all this before

 I was eighteen years old.

J: So as a caretaker he would get um.... a home on the property?

M: He would live on the property..... on the property during the summer and in

 those days people didn't come down from the north until after Christmas.

 Christmas vacations were in uh...... home wherever they were/1 VLong Island.

J: Mmm hmm.

M: Or wherever the family lived and then they would come down to..... Uh so we