Shirley Mooney remembered a grubby mattress on the floor where a man who repaired dentures for a living was rumored to have slept. The “before” pictures she kept have a pond-scum tint, as if mold had run riot in the one-room space.
But she and her friend, Tim Sullivan, saw promise in the spot on Belmont between Clark and Sheffield that they would lease on the spot for about $800 a month in mid-1983.
