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There were trained grape vines behind the garage, to the south of the garage, and behind the house. The vines are still growing in these locations, but are untrained, as seen in the following photo. Many are Concord grapes. According the family, there would typically be enough grapes from these vines to make a few gallons of wine, and so the family did this from time to time, but the main winemaking needs were met by the larger amounts of grapes brought from California. Garage: The garage used to be a one -car garage. It was on the south side of the property. Joe DelPizzo enlarged it by moving the north wall of the garage farther north and making a new section of wall to fill it in. This photo of the back of the garage shows the seam in the wall and the original part of the wall on the left. Alley and Ash Pit: Before Louisville had paved streets, red ash from local coal mine dumps would be spread on the streets. Red ash was a reddish substance, a mining byproduct, that was viewed as a good alternative to having dirt streets. Joseph DelPizzo would regularly arrange for a truckload of red ash to spread on the alley behind 1133 Main. He did this at his own expense because he was 8