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Location: 716 Windsor St.

Koch: So there was a feeling there, there always been a feeling between the Protestants and the Catholics, but it never flared up to the extent that it ever caused any trouble. They had a certain amount of respect for the other fellow’s religion, you know. But there was that feeling. And there probably still is, you know, among some people. But, uh, among the kids, yes. There was a lot of it, and among the schools. Now for instance, uh, I was going into fifth school—fifth grade school up there on the North Side and the Catholic school—we had the St. James Catholic School, you know, just north of the fifth grade school, see. Well, in the winter time we’d get into snowball fights. That was the way we expressed our feelings toward each other, was we’d all have snowball fights. Kids would get hurt that way too, you’d get some ice in there, you know. And, uh, then we would get in a jam with the principal of the school. We had many of those snowball fights. They could never stop them, you know. But, uh, kids would be reprimanded in the school, you know, in them days they didn’t think anything of taking a kid out in the hall and spanking the dickens out of him, you know. They used a club, you know. They could do it in them days, you know.