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Miss Stevenson was an old maid and very old school. \u00a0She patrolled the building\u00a0 in a nightgown — a house coat — whatever women wore in the 1950s.\u00a0 My mom wore one too.\u00a0 Yes, a house coat.<\/p>\n
Miss Stevenson didn\u2019t like the custodians.\u00a0 These workers never met her standards.\u00a0 One custodian showed off too much butt crack when he scrubbed the floors.\u00a0 Another manager supposedly broke into Miss Stevenson\u2019s apartment and stole a book.\u00a0 A third custodian went barefoot “like a hillbilly” in the hallway.<\/p>\n
Miss Stevenson<\/strong><\/span> could guess whenever I was coming by; she stood guard by the building\u2019s front door.\u00a0 I listened to a lot of her diatribes about the decline of the West (Side).<\/p>\n I had a stamp collection too.\u00a0 I should have talked stamps with her.\u00a0 But I didn’t.\u00a0 Miss Stevenson was a bit frightening, and my dad had always taught me: Don\u2019t get personal with the tenants.<\/p>\n Miss Stevenson claimed she was related to Robert Louis Stevenson. \u00a0(The stolen book was an autographed Stevenson, she said.)<\/p>\n She carried<\/strong><\/span> a shopping bag and took the bus downtown every day, wearing her house coat.<\/p>\n Miss Stevenson died in 1992. \u00a0 That year a first-class letter was 29 cents.<\/p>\n I hope I get a letter today with eleven 4-cent Lincolns on it.\u00a0 I won’t, unless Miss Stevenson sends this . . .<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Postage goes to 45 cents Sunday (January 22).\u00a0 Add: Louise Stevenson, an elderly tenant, plastered 3- and 4-cent stamps on her rent envelope.\u00a0 This was in the 1980s. Miss Stevenson was an old maid and very old school. \u00a0She patrolled the building\u00a0 in a nightgown — a house coat — whatever women wore in the 1950s.\u00a0 My mom wore one too.\u00a0 Yes, a house […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7043"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8771,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043\/revisions\/8771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/stamps-300x136.jpg\" "\\"stamps\\"")
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