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Berlin | Bob Morin
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speaks about growing up in Berlin, his paper route, and a creative way to make some money.
speaks about growing up in Berlin, his paper route, and a creative way to make some money when he was a kid.
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Berlin | Bob Morin
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I love the way you speak about the different sections because it really Berlin was a lot of different neighborhoods that were quite distinctive.
Right.
And so the neighborhood you lived in was known as the French, French-Canadian, the French Canadian side.
This side was mostly all French.
And in that section on Goebel Street by the foundry there was Germantown they call Germantown then you had the, the Norwegian that lived up on Riverside Drive in that.
Yeah.
And the Irish.
The Irish, the Irish at St Patrick's by the, by the arena and, and during it if the Bush camp built that had built he was the, he was the pastor on the east side French father Bousquet, Father Bousquet, there was Father Bousquet and Father Loggia.
They were real popular in Berlin in that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He had Father Loggia was Saint Joseph's who said they had the St Joseph's School, St Regis, St Pat's and Angel Guardian and all these schools in Berlin and that.
And did you go to Angel Guardian.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We had half day It was French and the other half was English.
Yeah.
Did you speak French when you went to school?
yeah.
And what did I learn most?
To speak English.
When I went in the service and I went to Notre Dame at the high school, it was all English.
But sometimes you get into a discussion in the English class, first thing you know, everybody speaking French and was supposed to be English.
Yeah, it was.
It was a lot different than it is today.
Tell us about your paper route.
Paper?
we had from, like I said, starting from Google Street all the way to Angel Galleon, and we'd have to most of the places, you'd have to make sure that you put the paper between the doors.
If you didn't, you get held or sometimes some people didn't want to pay.
Yeah.
So we've me and my brother used to do that, deliver that.
And you know, it was a half cent, half a cent per paper.
Yeah.
At the end of the week we'd make about average about $5.
how old were you when you started delivering paper?
I was around six years old, you know, first thing in the morning and you know, anytime you start to use a slid the papers or so the papers were pretty thick then, you know, And you just slid in.
And I still get my bike in the summertime.
I still get my bicycle from that and a big heavy duty basket on the.
And then after a while, you had to carry on.
Most of the time we carried a baseball bat.
And a baseball bat?
Yeah.
Was that to make people pay for their papers?
You know, that's what keep the dogs away from biting.
yeah, were all these long days.
And then and first thing in the morning when everybody let their dogs out to buy many pair of pants.
Yeah, but it was so cold ones in the wintertime, it was kind of cool.
And you delivered the Lewiston paper.
Lewiston.
Tonya The Lewiston Sun.
Yeah.
And because people like Bill, most of the people won the Lewiston Sun match the union.
These to happen, but very few people wanted it.
Yeah.
No, we didn't deliver that out there.
Just we just delivered.
Lewiston Sun So interesting to me that, you know, Berlin New Hampshire was felt more connected to Lewiston, Maine than to Manchester, and that was that was the French Was it the French Connection?
Yeah, to a lot of the people from around here that their relatives went to Lewiston.
I don't know what I think it's a shoe factories that attracted the people to go to work in it like me out on my grandmother's side the press, they went there, they were off.
A lot of them were in Lewiston then.
I want to hear the story about the circus or the circus.
When the circus used to come to town, they used to come into Grand Trunk with the Grand trunk.
And they did have a parade, and they'd parade all the way up to.
Well, it's, you know, I'd cemeteries is on the east side by before you get to White Mountain lumber what about development the whole thing nowadays to be all fields and that's where they used to have the big circus over there.
And then after that, towards the end, they had the circus at Horn for you.
And there for a few years.
And I won't tell you what I do with it.
You won't?
I heard you had a funny story about the circus.
Yeah, I used to go there.
I'd get up and I'd get with the elephants.
And always with the elephants.
They could keep the elephants.
The grass would grow that tall.
So after the circus, I'd go down and pick up the elephant, move it.
But then again, it was after after a while, if you were to win that, I could get up early enough to go get it.
Get the people there.
You went over there to pick it up bright and early and go, Good for it.
And good fertilizer.
Yeah, it was good.
Yeah.
And it wasn't elephant dung great or tomatoes.
Yeah, great.
For everything.
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