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no electric they used kerosene lanterns to build stock bins in the basement, I have worked on over a hundred stores, Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx, Staten Island and many towns in New Jersey also the Woolworth Bldg. I was with them off and on about twelve years, when things got slow I would get work from other contractors. In 1939 I worked in Flushing Meadow New York Worlds Fair Cristal palace and Billy Rose Aquacade we made a lot of over time the last two weeks before the opening the theme of the fair was 200 foot Perisphere and the 700 foot Trylon, the site was three miles long and one and one half miles wide, more than sixty foreign countries. thirty-three states and numerous commercial exhibitors were represented,