MR. MCDANIEL: Yeah, yeah. MR. WATSON: And my dad stayed at a boarding house, and Marvin and I slept in the back of the truck for two weeks, usually around about two or three weeks. MR. MCDANIEL: Really? And when we'd take it over at night, we'd go over and take a bath at MR. WATSON: my dad's - where he was boarding. MR. MCDANIEL: Oh, really? Now where was the market? MR. WATSON: What? MR. MCDANIEL: Where was the market? MR. WATSON: It used to be Western Avenue Market. MR. MCDANIEL: Oh, okay. In Knoxville. MR. WATSON: MR. MCDANIEL: Right, right. MR. WATSON: And they had a whole big building in there. MR. MCDANIEL: Yeah. MR. WATSON: It was a tobacco warehouse in the summertime. MR. MCDANIEL: Oh, okay. I see. Yeah. MR. WATSON: In the summertime. MR. MCDANIEL: Yeah, but so that was about, you said, the mid '30s. MR. WATSON: That was '34. MR. MCDANIEL: Now when did the peach blight come through? MR. WATSON: The peach blight? Well, it wouldn't be a blight so much as it would be the frost would kill them.
MR. MCDANIEL: Yeah, yeah. MR. WATSON: And my dad stayed at a boarding house, and Marvin and I slept in the back of the truck for two weeks, usually around about two or three weeks. MR. MCDANIEL: Really? MR. WATSON: And when we'd take it over at night, we'd go over and take a bath at my dad's - where he was boarding. MR. MCDANIEL: Oh, really? Now where was the market? MR. WATSON: What? MR. MCDANIEL: Where was the market? MR. WATSON: It used to be Western Avenue Market. MR. MCDANIEL: Oh, okay. MR. WATSON: In Knoxville. MR. MCDANIEL: Right, right. MR. WATSON: And they had a whole big building in there. MR. MCDANIEL: Yeah. MR. WATSON: It was a tobacco warehouse in the summertime. MR. MCDANIEL: Oh, okay. I see. Yeah. MR. WATSON: In the summertime. MR. MCDANIEL: Yeah, but so that was about, you said, the mid '30s. MR. WATSON: That was '34. MR. MCDANIEL: Now when did the peach blight come through? MR. WATSON: The peach blight? Well, it wouldn't be a blight so much as it would be the frost would kill them.
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