My first place to live away from my clan was living at the YWCA in downtown Cincinnati. I earned $39.47/wk as a file clerk at the Welfare office. Room and board at the Y was $13.50/wk. That was two meals a day, six days. Shared a shower/bathroom with half a floor, but had my own room, something new to me. Lived on the 9th floor. Boys could come to visit in the parlor on the first floor. Girls, of course, could come upstairs.
I walked to work, only about three blocks away. If I left downtown I took the bus. I didn't have a car, but then I didn't know how to drive either. We window-shopped for fun. Or we acted as ushers at the symphony or the Schubert where I saw Patti Duke and Ann Bancroft in the Miracle Worker among other plays. In the summer we bussed up to Mt. Adams and listened to the opera for free since it was an outdoor production. It was also held at the zoo's outdoor amphitheater so particularly poignant arias were accompanied by elephants trumpeting and the big cats roaring. We thought that was the best part and graded the worth of the singers by how much commotion the animals were making.
WizardMarks, Central
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