For a time, "Pinetop" lived in the same rooming house as two other piano players: Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis.

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Also from the duo is The Jane (113 Jane St), set in the former sailor's hotel that housed the survivors of the Titanic and more recently was a rooming house.

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