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but also the pastor of the Apostolic Church in Louisville and his wife. Their names were James <br />and R. Pearl Clark. Presumably, the Clarks were renting part of the property from the Venettes. <br />The following photo is an excerpt from an aerial photo from the early 1940s, looking north, that <br />shows the house and how South Street used to cross the railroad tracks just a few steps from <br />945 Front and connected the west side of the tracks to the Miners Field neighborhood. <br />Oliver Ownership, circa 1944-1957 <br />By a deed recorded in 1944, Clyde Oliver (1897-1955) and Bea Oliver (birth and death dates <br />unknown) purchased 945 Front. Clyde worked as a miner, and in the 1950s, Bea Oliver worked <br />at the Hacienda Restaurant at 808 Main Street. Directories from the 1940s and 1950s show <br />them to be living at 945 Front. The following photo from a public family tree on Ancestry.com <br />shows them in 1942: <br />4 <br />