Robert Gudmestad

So you have your cabin passengers who are on the boiler deck, so they're one level up, and you have your deck passengers who are on the main deck.

So who do you want to hear about first?

I want to know about the gamblers.

Okay.

Well, the gamblers were on both decks.

But that was a real thing, wasn't it?

It was, yeah.

Well, they used a different kind of deck to gamble when they're on the decks.

But that's another story.

But yeah, gamblers, the area that's the public space for cabin passengers.

So on the boiler deck, you have cabins.

individual cabins for people that were small.

I mean, think like, I don't know, cruise ship cabin, maybe 10 feet by five feet, very small, two beds in them, like bunk beds.

But then you had an open area that was the public area and that's called the saloon.

And the saloon was where socializing happened.

And it's also where the meals happen as well.

So the people, I mentioned them earlier, the waiters, they would have to set up the tables

for food and then set up all of the cutlery and the dishes and then bring the food and then tear it all down.

And then you've got this open space.

And so in the saloon, so it's not like a saloon in the old west.