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Dearest folks:
I have been intending to write ever since you were here but cannot seem to get around to it. I did finally write to Ruth. I have been busy fixing curtains. One of our roomers changed rooms and two went to the unemployment camp, so that left three rooms to fix up. Jack has been paintin, kalsimming? and varnishing furniture and I have been fixing the curtains etc.
Dad is not so well. He tried to do too much, altho' we urged him not to. The past two days he has hadley been able to go and has gone to bed about seven. Jack does the night-work altogether so he is relieved from that. Anne and I did a big washing Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and I washed twelve blankets last Monday. Have been intending to wash some more but have not had a day warm enough since to dry them the same day.
John left Monday afternoon and I have not seen Betty since. June is getting well and I suppose she is helping Maybelle and cannot get away. Anne has not been here since the day we washed, tho' Paul has come in several times.
We had a surprise Wednesday. Dad came in an told me there were some people at the desk who wanted to rent some rooms and he was too dirty to attend to them. I went out and there were seven people. I asked how many rooms they wanted and one of the men said "two." I told him we did not have two rooms that would accommodate so many people. In the meantime, they had registered and the man asked me if I was Mrs. Chuning. I said I was and he turned the register around and said, "That is our name." It was Viret? , his wife and his step-father, a man by the name of Ward who lived in Craig. They stayed a couple of hours and went on to Tiajuana[sic] and back to L.A. that night.
Viret lives in San Francisco and has been in the restaurant business. He recently sold out and they came down to visit Earl who lives in L.A. Viret's boys are fifteen and twelve - Fremont and Ira. Earl has four boys, ten, eight, six and three. He married when he was nineteen. His mother lives near them at 125 W. 83rd Street. Earl lives at 640 East Golden Ave. He is an automobile mechanic. Virel lives at 764 Howard St., 'Frisco.
Mrs. de Belloy and Addie were here Tuesday. Mrs. de B is staying with Addie for the present. She had to give her tenant thirth day notice to give up her house at Palm City. She is trying to find something to do in the nursing line. Says if she can get work for six months she will be out of debt and can live on the money that Oakes? pays her.
I went to a beauty parlor yesterday with Mrs. Erickson to see about dyeing her hair. She won't let her hair stay white and has used so many washes it is streaked. They asked $7.50 and she said she would not pay that much in these hard times. We went to the drug store and got some dye. I am going to help her put it on.
I finally got another magazine rack and also got another one for you. You can get it the next time you come down.
Before I forget - Helen wrote us such a nice letter. Not many girls would have thought of it. We were charmed with her -- all of us.
Well, it is almost Christtmas. How I wish that I had lots of money. Did Lynn and Mary come down last week? I wish that they might have stayed longer down here. Bates felt that they could not keep the car in a garage any longer.
Must say good bye and get busy. Neither Jack nor Dad are up yet- eight o'clock.
Love to all,
Mama
Dearest folks:
I have been intending to write ever since you were here but cannot seem to get around to it. I did finally write to Ruth. I have been busy fixing curtains. One of our roomers changed rooms and two went to the unemployment camp, so that left three rooms to fix up. Jack has been paintin, kalsimming? and varnishing furniture and I have been fixing the curtains etc.
Dad is not so well. He tried to do too much, altho' we urged him not to. The past two days he has hadley been able to go and has gone to bed about seven. Jack does the night-work altogether so he is relieved from that. Anne and I did a big washing Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and I washed twelve blankets last Monday. Have been intending to wash some more but have not had a day warm enough since to dry them the same day.
John left Monday afternoon and I have not seen Betty since. June is getting well and I suppose she is helping Maybelle and cannot get away. Anne has not been here since the day we washed, tho' Paul has come in several times.
We had a surprise Wednesday. Dad came in an told me there were some people at the desk who wanted to rent some rooms and he was too dirty to attend to them. I went out and there were seven people. I asked how many rooms they wanted and one of the men said "two." I told him we did not have two rooms that would accommodate so many people. In the meantime, they had registered and the man asked me if I was Mrs. Chuning. I said I was and he turned the register around and said, "That is our name." It was Viret? , his wife and his step-father, a man by the name of Ward who lived in Craig. They stayed a couple of hours and went on to Tiajuana[sic] and back to L.A. that night.
Viret lives in San Francisco and has been in the restaurant business. He recently sold out and they came down to visit Earl who lives in L.A. Viret's boys are fifteen and twelve - Fremont and Ira. Earl has four boys, ten, eight, six and three. He married when he was nineteen. His mother lives near them at 125 W. 83rd Street. Earl lives at 640 East Golden Ave. He is an automobile mechanic. Virel lives at 764 Howard St., 'Frisco.
Mrs. de Belloy and Addie were here Tuesday. Mrs. de B is staying with Addie for the present. She had to give her tenant thirth day notice to give up her house at Palm City. She is trying to find something to do in the nursing line. Says if she can get work for six months she will be out of debt and can live on the money that Oakes? pays her.
I went to a beauty parlor yesterday with Mrs. Erickson to see about dyeing her hair. She won't let her hair stay white and has used so many washes it is streaked. They asked $7.50 and she said she would not pay that much in these hard times. We went to the drug store and got some dye. I am going to help her put it on.
I finally got another magazine rack and also got another one for you. You can get it the next time you come down.
Before I forget - Helen wrote us such a nice letter. Not many girls would have thought of it. We were charmed with her -- all of us.
Well, it is almost Christtmas. How I wish that I had lots of money. Did Lynn and Mary come down last week? I wish that they might have stayed longer down here. Bates felt that they could not keep the car in a garage any longer.
Must say good bye and get busy. Neither Jack nor Dad are up yet- eight o'clock.
Love to all,
Mama
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pictured - Tijuana crowd scene from Dorothy Baker Bladorn's album ca. 1920s?
Jack was a cousin to Sally's children - Ruth, Edna, Paul & Lynn. He lived with them a lot of the time.
12/9/32 Sally and her husband owned a hotel in San Diego. Anne was Paul's wife.
8/21/39 - David Chuning was Pauls's son. He was born about 1933.
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