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Mrs. Kingsbury: And there used to be a basement in it as well and the basement was the shoemaker and the billiard hall and then later there was a little coffee shop down there. Johnny Ronco, who was the shoemaker who used to have the Pleasantside store, well he was the shoemaker down there. He was and excellent shoemaker. He used to make a lot of beautiful shoes and Mr. Gilfillan owned the pool hall part and he had a confectionary down there so as we went down to get your nickels worth of cent candy you know five of these and ten of those sort of thing and then there was the people named Horners that owned it for awhile and they had an ice cream parlor and they had little gardens outside with seats and flowers and everything you could sit out and have your ice cream.

Interviewer: Did they have those interesting wire ice cream chairs?

Mrs. Kingsbury: Yes, yes they did, really interesting and very, you know very old. They used to always have, on the porch of these stores, have these machines where you put a penny in and you got a jolt and we'd all put in a penny and one person would put in a penny and we'd all hold hands and get a jolt going right through us. That used to be a great pastime.