William Perry was offered a job to start and oversee the Electrical part of the City as Chief Residential Engineer in 1942 or 43.  All the little houses were cookie cutter same thing.  there were wooden sidewalks, post office, shops, grocery stores were all built to accomodate the people that were working in the plant that was created to build a part of the atom bomb.  this was called a secret city and no one knew what they were working on.

Bobbye Jean Baze, William Perry's grand daughter, had just had her twins in January 1944 but they died within a few days.  She became very depressed so William Perry and Sara Bertha, his wife, had her come to Oakridge to live with them for awhile.  Bobbye Jean got to work in the phone center and took calls from all the new residents when they had a complaint about their little new houses and turned in a ticket to have the things fixed.  Bobby Jean soon lived in a dorm with other girls and they would go see the Baze's to play cards.  

Sometimes the girls would go on weekends to Knoxville, and other small towns in the area to site see staying in little motels.  They usually took the bus to the other towns to site see.  They ate in little restaurants or cafe's.  Her favorite drink was a black and white soda:  chocolate ice cream, vanilla ice cream squarted with spritzer soda.  It was about 20 cents.