Mrs. Culp's Diary, Monday, August 23, 1937

Sanding floors and buying fabric

Have you ever had hardwood floors sanded? That is what was going on in the front room at 317 S. Edison Avenue today and it literally drove the Culps from the house. “The noise is terrible,” Mrs. Culp wrote; I can’t imagine the dust! Walter ate lunch in town somewhere, while Mrs. Culp escaped to the lunch counter at Walgreen’s.

She then went shopping for…