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Ron Fenolia was interviewed in two oral history interviews, one by Boulder's Carnegie Library for Local History in 1996 and the other by the Louisville Historical Museum in 2010. Ron said that he worked at the Post Office for his dad for no pay while he was growing up. He told the Louisville Historical Museum that he would put sort and put mail in the mailboxes, wrap up the mail sacks to go on the train, and wash windows. He spoke of how his relatives were from Northern Italy and so a typical Sunday dinner at his house at 1008 Jefferson was risotto with chicken, not pasta with spaghetti sauce as was seen with some other Italian families in Louisville. He also recalled that the family used an outhouse until the bathroom was added to the house at 1008 Jefferson (in the early 1950s when a town sewage system was installed). He remembered that the family kept chickens as well as mallard ducks, which they used as live decoys and callers for duck - hunting. The house at 1008 Jefferson was filmed during World War II in a scene that is part of the film "Our Boys and Girls in the Armed Forces, 1943-44" that was made by a local resident showing servicemen when they were home on leave and that is now in the collection of the Louisville Historical Museum. (Ron served in the European Theater during World War II, including the Battle of the Bulge, and received the Purple Heart and Bronze Star). In the scene, Ron can be seen along With his mother, Celia, coming out of a doorway believed to facing south from the back of the house: 5