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CHARLES BANDERET, INTERVIE ;N TAPE 5/12/1977
TAKEN BY:	Margaret	M.	Gibbens
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Well what happened to the house?
NOW I DON'T KNOW IF SOME PART OF IT THERE YET OR NOT. I DON'T KNOW IF A NEIGHBOR BOUGHT IT OR WHAT.
JUST DON'T EXACTLY REMEMBER ABOUT IT.
THEY USED TO SERVE YOU WINE WITH HOMEMADE BREAD AND ALL No food ?
NO MAM, BUTTER WITH THE BREAD
Well, they had a big walk behind the house? It went out to a big Summer House?
YES, SUMMER HOUSE WAY UP ON PILINGS,
How high off the ground was it.
I'D SAY IT COULD HAVE BEEN MORE THAN TEN FEET.
And there were steps going up.
YES MAM,
ftnd it was covered and had a roof?
YES MAN,
How big was it?
IT WAS PRETTY NICE SIZE, LET'S SEE, I GUESS LONGER THAN THIS ROOM AND WIDER.
About 30' x 80'
NOT BY 80' I DON'T BELIEVE.
Now where did you play the piano, on the Pavillion?
INSIDE THE HOUSE,
In the hall?
AND THEY HAD THE PIANO IN THE ROOM THERE, AND THEY HAD THE DINING ROOM I GUESS YOU CALL IT WHERE THEY ATE THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER and THE WINE.
And what did they use the Pavillion for?
WELL IT WASN'T BOARDED IN, JUST THE ROOF AND THE FLOOR, AND INSIDE A LARGE ROOM.
Was it screen in?
NO,
They had tables?
IN THE HOUSE But not outside?
I DON'T BELIEVE?
THEY HAD THREE ALLIGATORS THERE.
Where were the Alligators?
RIGHT, THE HOUSE WAS HERE AND THE ALLIGATORS WERE RIGHT THERE, AND THEY'D GO UNDER THE GROUND. THEY HAD ONE THEY CLAIMED WAS OVER A HUNDRED YEARS OLD, HE GOT OUT AND THEY SHOT HIM.
Did they have them in a pen?
YES MAM,
Un huhi Chicken wire pen (Wire	showed	to	interviewer	by Mr, Banderets daughter
Mrs.	A.	C.	Mitchell	(Margie)
AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I SEEN, FRANK QUINTENNI THE BUTCHER HAD A HgDEL T FORD TRUCK,
I HAPPENED TO PE THERE AND, MBDEL T FORD, COME THERE, AND THOSE ALLIGATORS BUT THOSE ALLIGATORS NEVER MOVED OR ANYTHING. UNDER THE GROUND, WHEN FRANK QUINTENNIE TTJCK COME UP THERE I WISH YJTJ'L SEE TROJE T£13E ALLIGATORS THE NOISE THEY MAKE, COME UP AND MEET HIM . FRANK QUINTENNIE WAS A BUTCHER HAD A BUTCHER SHOP AND HE'D THROW THEM THE LIKES AND ALL WHERE THEY'D KILL, AND THOSE ALLIGATORS KNEW THAT TRUCK WITHOUT SEEING HIM OR ANYTHING, JUST HEARING HIM.
They just had them there for people to look at?
YES MAM	(f)
And they were BY the house by the driveway?	c'f]su)yr	/	/	^
flow many people would that place hold?	'	/
WEHHAD A PRETTY LARGE TALLY' HO, A CROWD OF PEOPLE	'