* He was involved in the construction of the school and was the first person on the employment rolls. Oral History of Benny & Marian Zayti Sanitarium to see what used to be the Sanitarium, w hich is now the park, you know. The Maybury Sanitarium was such a busy place, and some people today hardly know what tuberculosis is. But I had a brother and a sister and a father die of tuberculosis so that was a really big thing in our life, Maybury Sanitarium. (Benny – that was a city in itself.) Yes, it truly was. (Benny – It must have had forty or fifty big cement buildings.) Beautiful brick. And they did farming there. You know, and an uncle of mine f rom Salem was the baker. He lived out there. His son would take him in on Sunday night s o he could bake the bread for Monday. He had Sunday off, and then he’d start in and bake all the breads and desserts that they had at Maybury. It was a great place for high school kids to get a job in the summer time when vacations would come up. I think your brother Mick ey worked there a short time, didn’t he? (Would they be working on someone else’s holiday or ...?) Yes, vacation time would come, and did you know Katherine Kline, McKenna Kline that ta ught in Northville? (No) Probably not, I think she was probably before your time. I have a great problem associating people and teachers at the same time, and her mother was the head dieti cian out there. So there’s a lot of history of Northville mixed in with Maybury Sanitarium. In fa ct, I was born in the Maybury Sanitarium house on Eight Mile Road because my father worked o n the farm for Maybury at the time, and took care of the horses, and the plowing, and the w orking. And that was before they – he went to Wayne County Training School. My grandfather and four of his sons helped build th e Wayne County Training School. And two of my uncles and my father stayed on to work there. My uncle George, that’s Clifford’s father, was the plumber. My father and Uncle Chancey were firemen in the power house so... (The Shoebridge boys?) Yes, the Shoebridge boys. It was a great part of our life. You know when that was built, Mernie, it’s hard to believe that t here were no blueprints. Now, my Uncle George knew where every pipe went into every building, and after he retired, Bob Kuhlman took over the thing, and he would have to call Uncle George u p to find out where these pipes were, and I think finally they had blueprints made so they coul d find all the sewers. But that’s how building were put up back then. That was a huge place scatt ered all over, but that...he helped put them in and he knew where those pipes went into the buildings.