I couldn't wait to grow up because that's where everything was at that time we had the Air Force Base out of your tinker. We had the army basic, fort sill and then right down here Norman we had a naval station so because the black soldiers and sailors did couldn't go into the town, the buses would bring them down here and boy they would be having so much fun and I would have be riding through second street, with my nose glued to the glued to the window, praying God.

Let me grow up, so I can go on the deep deuce so before I before I went to think I had a chance to be on the deep deuce I worked in a newsstand for a doctor. Oh my goodness, Catherine st. Albert Thompson, who he was not really a doctor. He was a denturist and he needed something. You know to help him with his taxes, so he believed ready this little near standing. Deep deuce asked me to work for him. That gave me an opportunity to be somebody's boss.

Cuz I had all the little kids to clean up for me. It gave them part of my salary, so they could clean up, keep the place very nice and I could wear high-heeled shoes to work and I. Just thought I was the queen. What was you know?

I was working in the newsstand one day and a guy walked in the newsstand and I'm sitting there at the counter and he pulls out a gun and shot across the street, and somebody across the street was shooting back in there and the winners- oh, my god, I was crying. I was screaming and crawling around and and and somebody made him go out, it was we had some customers in there and they made this guy go out of the place and they continued shoot. Listen I had to get out of there.

I was not going to work in a place where I was. There was a chance how it's gonna get shot, you know and that's, but that was the that was the culture. In those days lots of ugly things going on there.