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the cement blocks, did all the carpenters work, three set of stairs and all the painting, brother Phil and John the plumbing and heating, brother Joe the plans, most of the work was done in the family we did several alterations, then things got slow, Rhiney left and started tire vulcanizing in a store on South St. Jamaica and I did jobing in Valley Stream, I worked alone for several years, one of the jobs I will always remember Franklin Roosevelt came to speak at the Pavilon Royal and I built the speakers platform it was a big day for Valley Stream that was when he was running for President. About 1929 Martin Muller and I went in together we built two big buildings market house and stable for George Reisert he had

Editor’s note: You can find a link to FDR’s Valley Stream speech here.