Larry is about 30. His real name is Yllanif, named after his father but called Larry after his death. Larry's father, Yllanif, owned the three story building when Larry was 14. He operated the bar on the first floor which he proudly called the Yllanif after himself. A red, lighted sign hung in the front window with just his name. The bar was famous for the Pork Steak Killing -- Yllanif was out in front of the bar grilling pork steaks and brats, (he always joked, "too many cooks spoil the brats.") etc. when he saw a pork steak rising into the air with a hook in it, lifted on a fishing line. He grabbed it and tugged, pulled it off the hook. Then a flurry of expletives spewed from the upstairs apartment. Down came the creeps from upstairs, both with tire irons in heir hands. Larry's dad told him to run for his gun under the bar. As his father argued with the two men, Larry inched his way through the front door but Larry could find no gun under the bar, indeed he never knew his father to have a gun. Larry heard his father being beaten outside and when he came out the front door, his father lay in a pool of blood, the two men laughing, pulling pork steaks off the grill with their hands. Larry says that his father had a smile on his face just before he died. After the death, Larry's mother closed up the bar but kept the aparments open to rent. After his mother's death, Larry kept the bar closed to the public, eventually using it as a place to drink himself after he was pulled over one night. Larry has never tried to open the bar for business but he and the tenants use the bar as a gathering place. Larry lives in the large basement apartment that his parents occupied. Larry pads around for days to get a simple repair done. Regarding problems in the building: - Too cold in the apartment: I'd just put an extra blanket on, but then, I don't live here. - Why would you want plants? - Why would anybody want anything more than Aldi soup? - Why don't people just eat the Banquet meat loaf and mashed potatoes; that's all you need. "The peas and carrots are nice and soft." - Why would anybody want more than a 4 cup coffee maker? - You only need 1 or 2 outlets. I don't use computers or anyhing, just a small tv; and I can make boiling water on the gas stove. Larry had a period in his teens, after his father's beating, when he hung around with other kids desperate for belonging, for something or someone. It was that period's equivalent of Goth.