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I agree.Now, how did you go about finding and getting that job? Well, I was on my job. I worked at Bayne's, which was also a dress shop downtown. It was Wanda Lida's Dress Shop at the time. And Jimmy and the Wirths came by there one day. And they said, "We came to take you for lunch." And I said okay. Then I went there. He came straight to the Westside, to the Moulin Rouge. And this wasn't nothing but a bare wall. And he said, "You see that, that's yours." I said, "What do you mean that's mine?" Pointing to? The bare wall at the dress shop. The bare wall in the Moulin Rouge? Yeah, the dress shop. Well, see, we didn't have no pictures, no nothing because they were still working. And I said, now, what does this man mean, that's mine? And he saw the expression on my face. He said, "Yes, that's going to be the dress shop. That's yours, young lady." That's what Mr. Wirth said to me. He said, "That's yours." Girl, I couldn't believe it. And you knew what he meant when he said that's yours? Uh-huh