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CHARLES BANDERET INTERVIEW (TAPED 5/12/1977)
Margaret M. Gibbens
Hancock County Historical Society
REGARDING BROWN'S VINEYARD.
ALBERT WAS THE SON, THE MOTHER AND THE FATHER WERE SMALL, IN MY YOUNG DAYS I PLAYED THE PIANO, AND WE HAD THE UNDERTAKING AND LIVERY STABLE BUSINESS HERE AND TALLY-HO (Tally-Ho a double team of horses drawn wagon for taxi service to hotels)
WHEN THE HOTEL CLOSE YOU TAKE THE BROWD TO BROWN'S VINEYARD, IF THEY HAD NO PIANO PLAYER I HAD TO GO. THATS HOW MY LIFE WAS IN THOSE DAYS. Did you play the piano and the peiole danced ? MRS BROWNS FAVORITE PIECE WAS MY PRETTY RED WING, AND MY MOTHER tee. I PLAYED ALL BY NOTE, I PLAYED	AND FAUST, MY FIRST MUSIC
LESSON WAS FIFTY CENTS, THE ONE BEFORE THAT WAS TWENTY FIVE CENTS.
Mr„Banderet where was Ullmanville ? U 1 1 m a n, Ullman Avenue ?
NO, IF I DO I DON'T REMEMBER IT.
Out near Nicholson Avenue, Someplace out there ?
Where was the Brown's Vineyard House ?
/	RIGHT	ON	THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL, FACING THATJ, WHERE THE U. S. 90 AfiD THE OLD
f SPANISH TRAIL COME TOGETHER. RIGHT THERE WAS BROWN FTTNEYARD ON THE LEFT SIDE.
That was the House?
THE HOUSE AND THE VINEYARD, IN FACT THEY HAD ALL THE SCUPPERNOG VINES THERE
Behind it ?
YES MAM
And it went all The way to Nicholson Avenue?
NO MAM NOT THAT FAR.
It didn't go to Nicholson?
THEY OWNED BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET WHERE BROWN'S VINEYAR WAS,
Both side® of Spanish Trail ?
IT WAS THERE BEFORE THEY BUILT THE SPANISH TRAIL
How far up the Highway did it go from that point, Did it go up where the shopping
center is?
YES, WELL THE LAND, SOME OF IT, THEY HAD ALL THE SCUPPERNOG VINES IN THE YEXR YARD.
How big was the area where the vines were?
OH THEY HAD QUITE A NUMBER OF VINES, JUST HOW MANY ACRES I DON'T KNOW,
Qo /NOW, WHAT HAPPENED TO IT AFTER PROHIBITION? You know after they couldn't sell the / wine any more?
WELL, THEY BURIED IT, AND A FELLOW GAVE AWAY ON THEM AND REVENUE MAN COME AND DUG IT UP AND BROKE IT.
And they couldn't sell it any more? So what did they do?
Did they have to close it up?
OH YES MAN THAT WAS OVER WITH.
Then they sold it and someone bought the ground IT JUST WENT DOWN TO NOTHIN.
So it wasn't there after prohibition at all?
THEY DUG IT UP AND BROKE I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY BOTTLES OF WINE