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Forms to be Filled out for Eacn Interview
FORM A
Circumstances of Intervie%
Now York State
NAME OF WORKER Terry Roth
ADDRESS 47 W. 69th St. New York
DATE Dee. 12, 1938
SUBJECT "EXPERIENCES OF A CAB DRIVER"
1. Date and time interview
Deo. 9th, Noon
2. Place of interview
Central Park
3. Name and address of informant
Not given
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in
touch with informant.
5. Name and address of person, if any, accowpanying you
6. Description of room, house, surroundings, etc.
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
(Use as many additional sheets as necessary, for any of the forms, each
bearing the proper heading and the number to which the material refers.)
STATE
NAN,.E OF WORKER
New York
ADDRESS
DATE
FORM C
Text of Interview (Unedited)
Terry Roth
47 W. 69th St. New York
SUBJECT
Dec. 12, 1938
"EXPERIENCES OF A CAB DRIVER"
FOLKLOBP
NEW YORK
"This W. P/ A. investigator visited an Italian to check his history. The
record showed 10 kids living with the guy, and a wife who was living in Italy but whom
he supported. "When did you see your wife the last time?" he asked the client. "I
see her three year ago" was the answer. The investigator looked at his records. "You
say you have a child 13 years old, one 12, another 11, and your youngest is a year
old, haw is that, if you haven't seen your wife for three years. "Oh, my wife, she
was married before."
"I am long time driving cab. When I comes here to dis country I have been
working in factory. So one say you drive cab so I learn the city to know all the
stands, hotels and everything you must know for examination but I didn't know well
the entrances. I pass examination and 3rd day I am working, a man told me to go
in Central Park. I go Central Park, look for entracne, seems to me I got it but
it's transfer and two times I come in park and two times it's transfer and I am out
of the park again. The man and woman begins to bother me. *What's the matter with
you. Don't you want to go to the park. What kind of sect (sex) you are if a man goes
in park with a girl to have a good time you go out of the park all the time." So they
go out of cab and take another one. Now I have beeg experience with park, I know
entrance, I keep in park.