gillumhouse
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And the Gillums had roomers. A lady in town who is now 91 lived in our Rosi's Room - with another girl during WWII. We have also had a guest who lived here the first winter she taught school - in Lumberport (about 3 miles) because her parents did not want her to make the trip between Fairmont & Lumberport with ice & snow (distance - about 15 miles, max if they lived in town).The funny thing that occurred to me about a year after I opened the B&B is that my maternal grandmother ( who I never met) ran a boarding house during the depression. So now I can say that innkeeping is in my blood!Well, people have funny conceptions of what being an innkeeper is.
I have an elderly neighbor who told me she had been an "innkeeper" here in the past. In reality, what she did was rent out one room during a big event here and sent those folks out to a local breakfast place for breakfast, which was not included. There was no housekeeping during their stay & no food of any kind. It was a place to sleep when everyone and their uncle were renting out rooms for this huge event.
Definitely not the same as what I did for two years........
.Same here. My grandmother told me I am following in her mother's footsteps except she raked it in and ended up owning loads of blocks of land and housing in San Diego, Pacific Beach waterfront, all over...I am just here scrubbin' bogs. Although we are probably meeting more interesting people from all over than the boarding house.Innkeep said:The funny thing that occurred to me about a year after I opened the B&B is that my maternal grandmother ( who I never met) ran a boarding house during the depression. So now I can say that innkeeping is in my blood!
.My great-grandmother ran an establishment in the 'red-light' district of Philly durning and immediately after WWI. Talk about interesting people...Joey Bloggs said:Same here. My grandmother told me I am following in her mother's footsteps except she raked it in and ended up owning loads of blocks of land and housing in San Diego, Pacific Beach waterfront, all over...I am just here scrubbin' bogs. Although we are probably meeting more interesting people from all over than the boarding house.Innkeep said:The funny thing that occurred to me about a year after I opened the B&B is that my maternal grandmother ( who I never met) ran a boarding house during the depression. So now I can say that innkeeping is in my blood!
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