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Forms to be Filled out for Eacn Interview
FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
Now York
NAME OF WORKER Herm= SpeOtOr
ADDRESS 701 Crotoma Park North
DATE
SUBJECT "NOBODDY BODDAS YOU" (BRUNEL'S RESTAURANT)
1. Date and time ce7 interview
2. Place of interview BILIVEV8 RESTAURANT
CORNER ORCHARD MD DEW=
3. Name and address of informant MANAGRR OF MACK
NAME AND ADDILSS UNKNOWN
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in
touch with informant.
NONE
5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you
FRIEND, MR. GORDON
6. Description of room, house, surroundings, etc.
TAKE FROM TEXT OF REPORT
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.)
FORM C
Text of Paterview (Unedized)
STATE New York
NAME OF WORKER Herman Spector
ADDRESS 701 Crotona Park Nowth
DATE
SUBJECT RIOBODDY BODDAS YOUR (BSLISIA% RESTAURANT)
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
Como in, gentlemens, sit down I got here a nice table. You
vent better to sit over hero Louie, elean off: is de 81100 prise. A pot of
tow, right avay. Nero is evvyboddy volcomo. Vet kind of people is here? You see.
Dore is pushcart peddlors, a few oontraoters„ bricklayers„ meyte carpenters,
painters a few. Neff and hefts heft is voiking, heft on relief homerelief you
call die. Nere noboddy boddas you, for 5 eents a day you sit, for a pot 10, 15
cents for two people. You play cards' do vot you like, so long you don't disturb.
No, doy don't play for moneys just for de treat. Is hungarians, Russians, de same faoes,
always de same, business is steady, von somebody dies is vun less. Sines de
immigration is closed, you know, it gwoes gradialiy less peoples it is Shrinking,
yes, business is shrinking liddlo by liddlo,
Voioess Stop hooking a chynigS (Quit clapping on my kettle) Do
voter gets cold already.
Excuse me please, gontlemons, later I come back, now I an busy.
(Notes I was directed to the tea.rooa by one cop and a couple of pusheart.pedillors
an Orchard Street who told me it was a real old.time joint and insisted that the "tie"
vas drunk there from pitchers. The tearoom, known as the Boliskalostaurant, is located
on the first floor of a building undergoing demolition at the corner of Delaneey and
Orchard. Its windows, smudged and bleary, afford an interesting view of the last lid.
street traffic. /looted at ancient tables along the walls and upon a Astform ie the rear
are gesticulating merchants and peddlers 'oho Iris* tea from glasses and bite into blame
of sugar while they play a Rehtiekel pineehls" or discuss entire is surepe. It is on
interesting "joint" and the following rough transcript of the manager's friendly
conversation is merely to set tho locale for stories idlioh I hope to gather
there in the future.)