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Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
STATE New York
NA NE OF WORKER Saul 1Jevitt
ADDRESS
DATE
SUBJECT
27 Hamilton Terrace
April 5, 1939
7:Iaritime
1. Date and timc, of Interview
April 3
2. Place of interview
Rational Maritime Uni-n Hiring Hall, 21st 11 Avenue
3. Name and address of informant
Lee Tyler
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in
touch with informant.
X
5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanyinL you
6. Description of room, house, surroundings, etc.
Union hiring hall: a large meeting room, with seats for some two
to three hundred, on 11th Avenue. Windows give on the sidestreet
with a view of the piers and shipsfunnels.
(Use as many additional sheets as necessary, for any of the form, each
bearing the proper heading and the number to which the material refers.)
FORM C
Text of Interview (Unedited)
STATE New York
NAME OF WORKER Saul Levitt
ADDRESS 27 Hamilton Terrace
DATE April 5, 1939
SUBJECT Karitime
.1,TARIT INE
I LOVE EH ALL
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
My philosophy a' life eveyting included is that it all leads to
intacawse between a man ant a woman --a cause by mutchal consent. If yer
ashore an' married yer still morkin' ft d' same tine as d' single feller.
Onny d' single feller gotta look around. Yuh work ten hours say an' yuh
want yuh grub an/ then yuh want a member uv (.1/ opposite sex. Show MR any
place inna won' mhere human nacher ain't the same in that respeck.
Presidents, bankers, doctors, d/ common man dey all man' it. A cawse it's
difrent fer the married man. Do I take it alla time. No. Hell, nol
It's the adventure am' it? YUh gotta chase 'era to get a t'rill. That's
physochology, boy1 Ain't it? Ain't that correct? Fawty-two on one trip from
Boston troo d' Mediterranean. Livahpool tree. Lisbon two. Den laples four, no
six. Sipus tree, beyuhrt five. Genoa four. Leghorn onna retoin tree. Livek-
pool two cm' Boston two. Nobody ashore gets anyting like than. I'm drunk wid
it man. I eat it, yessir. I'm a sothunah ant we develop a lig difren' in
that respicck. D'olimate gets us like that. You tell these namthint wimmin
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that's lookint fer a ttrill Itm the man, me,\ hat's right. Eveybody's
lookint for it and I ain't the last in line. What do yuh go to a dance
for? Yuh go there ttdance that's right. But ain't there somethint on
yuh mind? First yuh look aroun' fuh somebody t'dance with. Den yer attracted
somebody. It's a physical attraction an' what's in yuh mind? yuh got inta-
cawse in yuh mind. Or goint to a basketball game or a meetin' or any of den
places. It ain't d' me6tint yer thinkin' about alla time. Ain't that
correct? Eveybody's lookint for it to work off dt soifas enahgy. I lub em
all, man. I been goint up to dis skatin' rink on fawteen street an fuirst
avenoo. Evah go up dere? Skatint is nice up dere but I can't skate so
good, no, hell no. I ain't going up dere no more because dere's all candy
kids up dere unna eighteen. Dey don' know nothin' Say, send around one
of dese nawthin women that want's a new tgrill.
HEY BO I WHERE'S YUH BOOK?