Mendel Melasky
Mendel Melasky's roots in Texas ran deep. His grandfather Jack Melasky, whose given name was likely Jacob, came from Poland and landed at Galveston during the Civil War, around 1862 or 1864. Robbed of his money on arrival, he received help from a Galveston family named Bloom and made his way to his uncle, known as Uncle B, who had settled in Austin about a decade earlier. Jack peddled goods on the streets of Austin and across the surrounding ranches and farms before helping found the town of Taylor, where he built the only stone building in town and ran a general store. He prospered as a merchant, dealt in cotton, and lived there until his death in January 1914. He married Sarah Pearlstone, who was born in Rochester, New York, in 1864 and grew up in Waco.
Mendel's father, Hyman Melasky, was born in Taylor in 1881 and became a pharmacist around 1902, running a drug store his grandfather gave him before later managing the J. Melasky estate. Mendel himself was born in Taylor on January 11, 1909, and grew up at 416 Porter Street in a town of roughly 6,000 to 8,000 people with a small but close-knit Jewish community that included the Goldstein, Alexander, Summers, and other Melasky families. Because Taylor had no synagogue, the family traveled to Waco, where his mother's people lived, for the High Holidays, though his grandmother recalled the earlier days when an itinerant rabbi held services in the family home.
After graduating from the University of Texas in 1929, Mendel worked in El Paso for three years before settling in Dallas in 1932 during the Depression. He worked for the Home Owners Loan Corporation, then spent thirteen years with A. Harris and Company as a credit manager, and later worked in oil merchandising with firms connected to Alfred Bromberg, Rudolph Sonneborn, and eventually Witco Chemical Company. He served four years in the Army infantry during World War II. He was closely connected to Irving Goldberg, whom he first met at the University of Texas and who became his brother-in-law, and he remained active with the Dallas Jewish Historical Society, warmly recalling his Taylor origins throughout his life.
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Jim Alexander and Robert Beer are going to take an oral history today, March the 25th, Monday 1996 of Mendel Mulaski, originally from Taylor, Texas and now a long time resident of Dallas, Texas. Well Jim Alexander and I are now in the apartment of Minkah Mulaski at 3701 Turtle Creek, Dallas, Texas, and it's our pleasure to be with you. We're going to start out to ask if you can recall when your family originally came to the United States and then on to Texas. My grandfather, Jack Mulaski, I suppose his real name is Jacob, who was called Jack, came. I'm not sure whether it was 1864 or 1862.
One of the other, he landed at Galveston during the Civil War. Yeah. And in the process of getting on and off the boat, whatever you do, could be coming to the United States. Somebody took his money and he was there broke. And there was a family in Galveston, his name was Bloom. I never knew him. He became very friendly with them over the years. But he gave him five dollars and that got him to where his uncle lived, B. Malaisky, he had come over ten years before the Civil War. And I suppose he was the one who financed, what do you call it, financed, grandpa's trip to the United States.
And he that where the brother Molasky started That what you want the Molasky part Let stay with the Mowasky and then we move to the end Okay. And he went to Austin and went to live with his uncle and immediately started peddling on the streets of Austin first. And then, oh, after he was successful, in old-fashioned almost immediately, and by the end of the third year that he was there, he could afford a horse and go wagon. And he started pedaling. Pedaled in all the ranches around the farms and did that for several years. And then he liked to, they were going to found a town called Taylor.
And he, by that time, had acquired a little money and he opened a, built a store of stone. The only stone building in this little town. And he stayed there until his death, for the rest of his life, in Taylor. And prospered. He was a merchant, just a general store. And he bought property, bought land, Taylor and farmlands around there. And the cowboys kept him going pretty much. They would come through, it was on the Chisholm Trail those days, and they would come through and come in, just come into the store and take everything they wanted. And if they had, if they sold the cattle at a good price, on the way back they would come and give them some money.
Nothing organized, just money. And this went on for a good many years, I think. And he, when he got tired, he was too uncertain about what he was going to get paid. And so he put up iron shutters on this stone building. And it was very fortunate because a year or so after he did that the town burned and the only thing that he didn burn was his stone it was stone building And they rebuilt the town and went on, and he stayed there and dealt in the cotton book and would carry the farmers, and that was his-he lived there until his death in 1914.
January of 1914. Mendel, I wanted to ask you next about where your grandfather had come from in Europe. My grandfather came from Poland. I suppose it was Poland at that time. But the reason I say it was told is because he apparently had one uncle whose name was, first name was Wolf, who lived there and I don't really know it because it was sort of a crude joke, but once a year, they would, even after grandfather died, my father was They would pack up everything in the store that hadn't sold and sell themselves a wolf in Poland. And I went on, I was a big boy, but that was going on.
So I know that at that time Uncle Wolf lived in Poland. I presume that's where my grandfather came, but I'm not sure. What name did the store carry? Let me see. After grandfather died, it was known as the J. Mollasky estate, and went on until finally that he sold it, daddy sold it. But it was just Mollasky's until it ended up during his lifetime. Was it on what street was it on? On Main Street. Do you, let me ask you a question, do you recall your uncle's name in Austin? I knew him he was my grandfather uncle And everybody called him Uncle B but what the B stood for I had never known Probably Bernard or something like that Did he live in Austin all of his life after he came to the country Yes, yes.
He died in Austin? Died in Austin. He was buried in Austin. Did he have a wholesale business or was... I don't know what kind of a business he had. He lived on 6th Street. I've been into his house as a child and he had a big family and his daughters, two of his daughters married and lived in Austin. One of them married Mr. Hirschfield who was the founder of the Austin National Bank. The other married a man named Crone who was a cotton broker. They, their family's descendants, that their, some of the Hirsfield descendants still live there. We have to get Grandma in here because there couldn't be any megalodal.
Well, my grandfather married Sarah Pearlstone, who was the daughter of the, I.L. Pearlstone, I think. I think it was. I've got a cane I'm looking for, couldn't find out. But she was 14 years younger than my grandfather. She was born in New York in, where is the Eastman Cote? Rochester. Rochester. She was born in Rochester, New York. And she was born in 1864, just about the time She was a grandpa who came to this country. And they moved to Texas when she was an intern. Went to Palestine, Texas, and lived there until they moved to Waco. And that's where she grew up in Waco. She went to boarding school in Austin, Texas, and I can't think the name of the school.
I used to know it. I don't remember. It was there for many years. It was still there when I was a kid at the outskirts, the northern outskirts of Austin. When I got to the school, by riding in a car, in a caboose, Grandpa Pearlstrom shipped cotton and he had some people in the railroad and she arrived to Austin back and forth from Palestine in the caboose. And then she was a very handsome woman. And they forgot, I think she was only when they got married, and 18 and 30. And they moved to Taylor and lived there until my grandfather died. She started traveling around.
She went to San Francisco to be with one daughter and would come back and just spend the summers out there back to Texas to be with the other three children. How did she relate to Harmon Pearlstone? She was his aunt. His aunt was aunt. And his, she was, Harmon's father's name was Barney and she was a Barney to her sister. And then... Now we get down to your parents. and children of it. There he was born in 1881 in Taylor. As a matter of fact, I was born in the house in Taylor, just about a block and a half from where he was born. What street was he born on?
He was born on Main Street. And ten years later they built the house that still stands in Taylor, and I think he's been made a bed and breakfast place. But air-conditioned, let me come in a hole. Your father's name was? Was Hyman. That's why I'm in. And, uh, uh, I, there were, he, in the Hyman Molesky family, there were two children. My sister and Marion, Jessel, and, uh, myself. He my mother name was Junior Long came from Waco And then and then and then he died And he operated the store. He originally, on his twenty-first birthday, my grandfather gave him a drug store. He wanted the drug store.
birthday present. And he was a pharmacist and he operated the drug store until the grandfather died. And then he sold it to manage the J. Malasky estate and made a deal that he wouldn't go back in the drug business for ten years and the month of ten years was up he bought another drug store so the so the so the gentleman where do you learn to be a pharmacist well in those days he went he went to school in a school in san antonio where he did some basic work but most of it in those days you went to individual people that are chemists gave you an examination and somebody else gave you an examination I think there were six of them I believe that I'm not sure about that but I believe when did he become a pharmacist in well he was born in 81 it was 21 so what would that make 1902.
1902, yeah. And two years later he married. But... No reason after that, my dad was a pharmacist. Was he? He started in 1911. I do know. And dad enjoyed the drug business. He still had the second drug store. As a matter of fact, he built the drug store, the second drug store, where the, where the, my grandfather's store had been, remodeled around the store. And he was very proud of it. It was a really beautiful, beautiful store. Did the family own those buildings that they were in? Yes. They owned them for many years and then we finally sold it to the First Taylor National Bank and they built the bank building there Which has since gone the way of many banks.
But it was there until recently. Is the bank building still there? Yeah. Is the building still there? As a matter of fact, that the bank building is on, his building and next to it was the Booth Building, which was occupied by the Simmons, Rosalie's family, and they had a men store there. And the bank building occupied both of those pieces of property. And they also then later they bought the Masonica building which was an Alaska building, another big Alaska property, and it was across the alley. And the bank bought that also and made a drive-in, so that's where that part of the property was. Wasn't Rosalie's father a doctor?
Yes. I was imagining he was prescribing you. Alfred was the youngest. Alfred was the youngest. So he left Taylor, didn't he? Yeah, after he got out of the university. He was the youngest of the cinema boys. Boys, everybody was boys or girls. We were trying to get you born. I was born in 1909, January the 11th, and went to school in Taylor, at the University in Austin and immediately after graduating in 1929, a likely year, I went to El Paso to go to work for the Matthias, the house of Matthias Holeshell House there. It was being run by a distant cousin of mine, and he had lived with us and Taylor for a little bit at one time.
And I lived out there for three years and I didn have enough sense to know that 1932 was a bad year to look for a job and I got tired of living in El Paso and I just quit And I went to Austin I went to came to Dallas and my mother and dad met me up here and we had we had dinner with Alan Carlson at night and he knew I needed a job, and so the next morning I had one. So I didn't suffer from that one. Was that Colonel Stone Higginbarlin, or...? Yeah, I swear... Well, I didn't... He originally sent me down to Corpus Christi to collect paving liens of the Smith Brothers Construction Company, And I stayed there, it would be a temporary job, it would be a few weeks.
I actually stayed there about six months, collected more than we expected. And then I came to work for Higginbotton, came up to Dallas and worked for Higginbotton Pearl Street. That was in 1932. To return for a moment to Taylor, what was the approximate population of the town and how many Jewish people were there? Well, when, of course, my grandpa went there, there were maybe a hundred people. Just started. But when I was growing up, it was between 6,000 and 8,000 people. And there was the Molesky family, and there had been the Alexander family, and the Goldstein family. And that was about it. And then later on, and the Summers were there very early too.
And then later on the chairman named Zablowski came over as an immigrant. Let me ask you, could I do a little research? Yeah. In 1901 there were four members of the Jewish Publications Society living in Taylor. There was an A. Alexander. I mentioned you. There was a Samuel Levy. Didn't know me. Didn't know me. There's a J.S. Molaski. That's grandpa, I guess. And there's a Mrs. J. Molaski. Oh yeah, there was a J.S. Mike, that's right. That was a cousin. And they had a big family, very nice people. They came to the United States considerably after my grandfather did. And they had a big family, and they had one of them, Emanuel Malaski, and it went to the Army for World War I.
It was a first lieutenant and died of the flu after the war ended. Zick Malaisky, Zellig Malaisky, Zellig Malaisky was a, had a good job with the cotton compress, around the cotton compress. Seth Malaisky worked as a salesman for, I completely forgotten that sound, worked as a salesman for a bed, a tailor bedding company. And Jake Malaisky was a farmer, believe it or not, and had a very big family. Am I telling you more than you wanted more? No, no, no. I want to be sure that the... I'm glad you brought... Now, those were relatives, but they're cousins, is that right? They were, I think they were grandpa's, may have been his second cousin.
I don't think they weren't very close. We liked them, we were friends with them, but they didn't go out very much. They were retiring people. Anybody else you got on there? Well, I'm going to ask you, but I'm getting kind of at year, but in 1912, in 1912, the statistics, the Jewish population statistics showed 52 Jews in Taylor and 50 in Temple, Texas. There were more in Taylor than in Temple. Well, I know this, that whenever on the holidays, my grandfather used to turn the house into, would hire an itinerant rabbi and they would have shul if he had had my house and the only reason I remember it was I don remember having the shoe there but I remember my grandmother said she had these fine floors put in my outfit from Chicago and then you brought all those people and ruined the floors.
But I remember that. About when was that, what do you think? Well, I guess it was from way back yond, I guess, in the nineteen, from the 1980s on until they started going, transportation became less difficult and they went to Austin or Waco for 10-2. Let me ask you about another time. In 1912, there was, they showed a member of the publication site, Lionel Feiner, F-E-I-N-E-R. We lived at 416 Porter Street. Porter Street, I know that's where we grew up at. Yeah, I still lived, 6th and Porter. But no, I didn't find that. FBI and ER. He was a member in 1912 and 1913 in publications.
That means nothing, Jerry. I'm staying around by that time. Yeah, yeah. What other families were there down there? Well, the Alexanders and the Goldsteins were close friends with my grandparents. Now, let me ask you, Joe Goldstein? Joe Goldstein was Dave Goldstein's son, and they lived there until, I guess, I guess, Dave, he was killed in a railroad accident. Must have been about, I can't tell, it must have been about 1935, 1936. Was they related to Goldstein, McGill, and Waco? They were, but not close relatives. I think it seems that they were... he was a nephew of something, of the Goldsteins and the Gills. With some Alexanders, it became prominent in Laredo, Texas.
Yeah. The store Alexanders and the bank. Well that may have been the Alexanders moved away from Taylor when I was a little boy I knew them They had a house on the main street And the ghosties did too. Sidney Rosenberg. There was a Rosenberg store there on the side street. I can't, I don't, they had a door that went through. But I didn't know him, but I knew there was a family band named Rosenberg. I want to look at some of the University of Texas yearbooks. I saw your pictures. Joe Goldstein was in the Phi Sigma Delta. That's right. Sidney Rosenberg was one of the founders of the Sigma Alpha Mule.
Yeah. 1923. I didn't know him. Then there's a Bernard Kahn's, C-H-N. A little later, this was the 1930s. Ethelon Kahn. Oh, sure. Ethelon Kahn's mother was a Malaisky from that family that we talked about before. We talked about boys, but didn't talk about the girl that had four daughters with eight children. Yes, Evelyn, she moved to, I think she lives in Houston. I completely lost track of it. She was just my age. And there was a, I got a picture of Mary Molesky. Mary's sister, go ahead. She graduated the same year that Irving graduated. That's right. Did they meet that, the University? Yeah. She went in the freshman year and went together for four years and then got married.
And when he was a second-year Harvard, a third-year Harvard man, she went up to, went to school at... Ratcliffe? Ratcliffe. That was the ladies' part of Harvard. I remember Irving saying on the tape now, when we got into Lyndon Johnson, that he came, I think, to Taylor and worked for Attorney Mulaski. Uncle Harris. Uh-uh, Irving. Harris. Yeah worked for Uncle Harris daddy brother Who was a friend of Lyndon Yeah And That how he made that connection originally Let me ask you one more name. There's an M.S. Roberts. Does that strike any familiar to you? No, I told you I was going to be a babe.
He gave the address of 108 North Main Street. That was 1923 to 26. way down near the railroad. It may not be Jewish, because they belong to the publications. I wouldn't necessarily make them Jewish. They belong for four years. What publications was that? This is the Jewish Publication Society. Oh, Philadelphia. They published most of the Jewish books. In 1937, where I said in 1912 there were 52 Jews in Taylor. By 1937 there were 32. Drops mine. I guess they came and left. Left. When cotton got to five cents a pound, there wasn't much there. They looked for greener passages. That's everything she would have. There were 52.
Well, I know when there wasn't anybody, when Ethelon Kahn, I used to pronounce her, when she came to Taylor, after her father died, I don't know where they lived before that, but they moved in with her grandparents. And she was in my grand, and I was the only Jewish person that was ever in my grand school. So I don't know. Well, you don't have to have too many families, because the families were pretty big. Yeah, that's true. Well, that's right. Yeah, after all, the other Molaske's had eight children. How many did the cinnamon have? Oh, let me see, I can name one. They had, well they had three daughters.
Name all you can. Well. Put the names on the record. Alfred of course was the youngest, and he was just a year or so older, his sister, so I knew him. I knew Sig real well, and I knew all of them. Your savior was Abe. Yeah, Sig and Abe. Abe was about my father's age. And then there's one that died. Yeah. Dave. Dave. I knew him too. In fact, Rosie told me the names. I can't remember. Bessie, was Bessie a woman? Yes, she lived in Waco. She married a man and lived in Waco. She married French? Married Bessie French, that's right. And there's the one who lived in Conroe.
Conroe. I never did, I knew her, I'm sure I knew her. Fanny. Fanny, Fanny, I knew her. And there was one more aunt, was there a nanny? I'm trying to think, I don't think. It probably was, I don't think I knew her. I knew the men because the store was right next to my father's store. I got all my clothes there. When we were down in Wakefield, the cemetery by it, and I looked at the cinnamon plot, but there was another cinnamon plot, not Rosalie's family, but another, at least another plot to name the cinnamon. I don't know who they were. She didn't know who they were either.
There was another cinnamon plot in the West Cemetery in Wakefield. See, all my family, even my great-great-grandmother, she was a Jassel. And my grandmother's...yeah, she's my great-grandmother. We even found my great, great aunt Hannah-Hella Sanger, plopped in there. I've got something I think you'll be interested in, if not, you went to the St. Louis for a year, you went back to London and persuaded that folks to be in the United States. What did I tell you? How about him, Tim? Oh, my, my, my. I remember that one called, would call the Lord and Lady Jesper. Well, it seems the Lord by this time was deceased, but Lady, as she was listed in a London telephone book, I found out late, I looked at her and she listed as the Dowager Lady Justice on the telephone director.
But anyway, he called over there and the man answered the phone and he told him who he was and said he would be very anxious to meet her. So the man said I will hold the phone He came back in a few minutes and he said uh Lady Dowager Lady Jussel appreciate your calling And she is going to have open house on September the 22nd, or some such date that I'm making up. And she would be glad to see you at that time. It was then June. So anyway, I gathered there were not two actors to meet their American relatives, so that was all of them.
You know, those Yankees had revolted in 76. Oh, that's great. Now... Well, let me ask, when you were growing up in Taylor, you said your grandfather had a chule at his house. Not during my life. This was before I... Before your time? Yeah. My grandmother told me about it. Okay. When you were growing up, what kind of Jewish community was there or wasn't there? Well, there was Dave Goldstein, Joe Goldstein was there and Jake Molaski moved to Taylor, moved from the farm back to Taylor when I was still there and he had a raft of kids And one of them, a very nice guy that I liked very much, was just my age.
And he was a grade ahead of me. And he was in school when I was there. And Athlon Conn and her brother Bernard Conn were there during that period. And Joe and Esther Ray, Goldstein had two children. And, uh, then there were, there were some newcomers, newcomers, Zablotsky, and he had some children. They were in school. They were younger than I. They were great, too. but that about all the Jewish people that I know of They didn have any synagogue or any services there where you were growing No Were the people going to Austin or to Waco? We went to Waco because my grandparents lived there and mother's people.
And I think today it goes to Indi too because they had some relatives living in Waco. But that's what, but Austin was closer, of course. Waco was 82 miles and Austin was 35. Weren't there some Malaski still living in Austin? Yes. At that time, Uncle B had died, but his daughter Fanny Malaski had a lady's store there on Congress Avenue. They call it the boutique now, it was very fancy. And then of course the other girl that is married. And then the rest of his family lived there. He had a son, one of the boys I worked for Frank Brothers from San Antonio. One of them went to New York, and he had a daughter that married and moved to Oklahoma.
I don't know what that name was. But as you said earlier, they all had big families. There wasn't a lot else to do in Cali. There still isn't. Let me ask you about the Cinnamons. Do you remember anything about older generation? I remember their mother. I didn't know Mr. Cinnamon, but their mother was a, she was, I always remember that my mother said that she went into, I had something, something at Cinnamon's house. Her mother said she never in her life went into a house I've cleaned before or since. I remember Miss Sentiment, she used to come down to the store and I would see her just provide the film.
So, life in Dallas, you continued to... Yeah I went to work for them in 1932 And the Home Owners Loan Corporation was founded Mr Shaw was president of this area for it and he was a I had known him ever since I was a child I asked him to give me a job and he did. And I worked for the Home Owners Loan Corporation for three years and handled loans for Dallas and Tarrant Counties. And it was incidentally, it was very interesting work. We had to persuade the holders of the mortgage to take bonds which were selling for 85 hours, a hundred dollar bond, selling for 85 hours, and they were not government guaranteed.
They were only guaranteed by the, secured, they were secured by the property at which we had the loan. We had to do that and we had to persuade them to cut their mortgages down so they would be representative of a good faculty. And it was interesting work. I enjoyed it. And I left there and went to work. I had applied at one time for work with A. Harris and Company when I first came to Dallas, soon after that, still in 1932, and they didn't have anything for it. But they apparently kept the application and I got a phone call from Mr. Craymore to send me and I went up to see him.
Arthur Senior. Arthur Senior, yeah. And they said that their credit manager was leaving the store. We got in some trouble. But anyway, it's the moment and that his assistant, Fred Morris, was going to be credit man to be leading an assistant. And he hired me. And I went to work with, stayed there for 13 years, and then went to work with Alfred Bromberg, Seinborn, Emily Moldova, and stayed there at Florida Tavern. Probably exchanged information with Tomlowski. Oh yes, I sure did. We used to have credit men's meetings once a month. We'd all bring our list of bad accounts, slow accounts. And Tomlowski, I thought you worked at the end camps.
And Herman Tomlowski, he knew everybody on everybody's list what that position was. He was a great man. He was wonderful. He was a great guy. He really was. And then I was working with him when I went into the Army. Stayed in the Army for four years. Irving Goldberg always said that I was the only person he ever knew who could read and write and remain an enlisted man in the infantry for four years. I wanted to bring in your relationship with Irving as brother-in-law and friend. How you saw him. I first met Irving when he used to come for weekends as assistant, when I was still in high school, and he was Master Frada, the Phi Sigma Delta fraternity when I went to Austin.
And for my freshman year, he was a senior, he was an academic senior. That's when I first met Irving. So it was a pretty long relationship. You appeared to be very close, just a kind of caring, lovely family, but... Yeah well Irving and I were very close to one another Of course being a brother he had to put up with me anyway But we got along and it was fine I got the sense that he didn't put up with anyone he didn't want to put up with. So you're just being modest. And then I stayed with Amelie R., which was owned by Rudolph Sonneborn. He was the manager, and he was one of the three big stockholders.
And I was with them when he, when his, one of his uncles died, and it was a private meal and the inheritance tax was something fantastic. And Rudolph got worried about that and decided they had to do something about it. And so he made a deal with Whitco Chemical Company, to get out of the big board. And then I stayed with Whitco until I was a big, And that's about it. Where did Alfred Brownberg fit? Did he work for that company too? He, Alfred Brownberg in 1909, the year I was born, and Florence Goldstein's father, Cohen, Mr. Cohen, organized, they made a deal with the Sonigorns to merchandise their oils in Franchise for Texas of the Southwest Texas uh uh Shreveport Louisiana and Oklahoma And, uh, they, and Mr.
Cohn was deceased when I went to work for the firm. And Alfred was manager. And after Alfred retired, I succeeded. I worked for some real, some very nice people. When is the last time you were back in Taylor? I haven't been back in Taylor in about almost two years now. I just went through there. I think that one. No, this one. I regret never having seen Taylor. Well, you always, next time you're down there, you already drive through. I've been told that my mother's house is now a, in fact, I know it was true, because the housekeeper, my uncle's housekeeper, who still lives in Taylor, and we knew I'd stay in contact, told me there was a bed and breakfast now.
Was Lady Bird born in Taylor? No, no, no. She was born... She was from New Jefferson. She was born in one of the southern states, and after another, and then they moved to Jefferson. Carnac. Carnac, which is right near Jefferson, Texas. And she a very nice woman I mean quite a sad effect I remember Irving saying he had been invited to the White House and how gracious and lovely she was when he was up there They used...they went down to the ranch a couple times, too. I went down there once. If we have nothing else, I think we will conclude with... Would you have a Coke or a highball or something?
How about it? Depends how high the ball is. Well, I have scotch and bourbon and gin and... Well, I'm driving, so I'd better pass. You'll have a Coke. I'll have a Coke. Are we going to have ginger ale or tomato juice or something? On behalf of the community, we want to offer you many thanks for helping enrich our history of Texans, Jewish Texans in Dallas. Let me ask about somebody else. Mm-hmm. This is later. There were some Zydells that moved out. Oh, yes. But they were after I had always gone to university without them. I did know them, yeah. And a matter of fact, I was in the cleaning store one day, and a lady came up to me and you from Taylor?" And I said, yes, it isn't.
And she was as I doubt. There's some ladies that come up to me at the Historical Society, and there's two ladies that come once in a while, and they're from Taylor. They may be a Zoblatsky or Glaser, or something. Anyway, they keep saying they come from Taylor. Well, next time we're at the Texas group meeting, we'll have to look them up and actually go find them. What will you have to drink? You can have...