b"doing, what you're doing and be responsible for all of you? Im responsible for me, I do what I want and that's it. I'm doing alright, I do my overtime, maybe you don't have to work as hard as me and you make the same money, butyou got a headache, I don't have a headache.Can you tell me what your starting salary was when you began working for the City?I think it was like $600 every two weeks, $636 every two weeks. That was pretty good. I was coming off of making adollar seventy-five an hour working for Sam Roth and I winded up making like five, six, dollars an hour, something likethat; it went up that much.What was your salary when you retired?When I retired, I was making fifty-four thousand, and another eighteen-hundred from Social Security, so there's another couple thousand there, so I make about 75, 80 thousand a year, now that I'm retired and now getting my SocialSecurity and everything. So, it's not bad; it's nice so long as I wake up in the morning. That's all I'm happy about now.I'd like to ask you a few background questions: You told me that you grew up in the Kips Bay area?I was born and raised in Smith Houses by the Brooklyn Bridge, but I lived with my grandmother on 20th Street- 346between 1st and 2nd on 20th Street. Most of my time, I stayed over there with her. But I went to school downtown andwhen I went to school, I stayed downtown and then I went to my grandmother's house afterwards. I stayed with mymother and father down there. I used to go to St. Joseph's school, a Catholic school. I used to go back and forth like thatand stay with my grandmother and take care of her. I graduated St. Joseph, but it only went to 8th grade. I winded upgoing for one year to public school. I was good with electricity and they sent me to a school for electricity I forgot thename of that school. In Brooklyn somewhere. That would have been when I was 16 or 17. I got married to my first wife a couple of months before I was 18. My mother and father had to sign for me in 1970.Were you still in high school then, or had you left?No, I was finished with school and I was in Housing then. I got married before I was 18. I had my daughter threemonths after I got married.I was in Housing. I saw the increase in the money that I was making so I said: Look if youwant, we'll get married. So, we winded up getting married that year in August 1970. Shes 47 now. My son that works in Housing will be 45. He works in Staten Island and owns his own home in Staten Island. My oldest daughter owns herhome, another daughter owns a home in Elmont, and my other daughter is renting a house in Ozone Park.Where did your family come from?Italy and Ireland. My mother is Meuccio [sp?], Italian. My grandmother was from Italy. And my father was Irish, that'show I got the name McGarry. They say I look like my mother. Two of my brothers have blonde hair. My fathers side is fromDerry.Is there anything else you'd like to tell us today? I loved Housing. I miss it, tell you the truth.78 "