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when this was finished we demolished his mother's hotel the south east corner of Merrick Road & Springfield Blvd, we salvaged a lot of the lumber it took us almost two months, I brought home a lot of firewood which we burned in the furnace that winter, there is a bank on this corner Springfield National they had two branches, one in Laurelton on the Merrick Road the other in St. Albans on Linden Blvd, brother Joe was architect on all three banks, things got slow again Martin got a job at Creedmore State Hospital as carpenter, I did small jols around Valley Stream, in 1935 I joined the carpenters union again, Bill Gunther was working for or F.W. Woolworth he got me a job with them, the first, Merrick Road Laurelton this was a new store