Friday Feb 15

Movies & home.

I've a nice little home
but it is awfully lonesome.

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Papa doesn't say what movie he went to, but here are a few that were in town that week:

• The Yankee Consul
• Bachelors and Children
• My Man
• An Innocent Sinner
• Name The Man
• When a Man's a Man
• The Ten Commandments
• The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
• The White Sister
• The Great White Way
• The Eternal City
• The Covered Wagon

When he wanted to take a break from his "awfully lonesome" apartment on Attorney Street, there were at least two theaters right around the corner:

Monday Feb 11

Brought all my things
home from Mendel's where
I lived until now,

Bought some neccessities
for my own use,

I am arranging my little
lone 2 room apartment,

I see I'll have yet to do
lots of work until everything
is in shape.

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This is the first time he's mentioned "Mendel," who is clearly the person he's boarding with, but we don't know much else about him. He's probably a friend or even the owner of a more formal boarding facility (my sense, after visiting with the people at the Tenement Museum, is that Papa was just renting a cot in someone's living room or kitchen). In any event, the apartment mentioned here is where Papa lived until he met my grandmother.