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Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview
FORM
Circumstances of Interview
STATE Sew lest
NAME OF WORKER Roma Spector
ADDRESS 4111 Third Avenue
DATE January 17. 1100
SUBJECT e ALL SIOLANATIONO Pain SAM
I. Date and time c" interview
Jan. 1S. 19SO. 7 P. 16
2. Place of Interview
Overboard sa the Sreas4evad Load of the *rd Ave. L
3. Name and address of informant
Identity mimeos
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in
touch with informant.
5. Name and address of person, if' any, accompanying you
6. Description of room, house, surroundings, etc.
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
Ibis is serely a jettlas of an eavesdropped ~sided oesvoreatiee4
Subjeet is a youngish workiavuother, evidestly separated. divoreed
or widow, talking to a triad as the traits. imeiuded as a tootmete
to last lids types.
(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.)
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STAT): New York
N.)
'ierman Spector
AupaEs!, 4121 Third Avenue Ne., 'fork
DViF jan. l, 1939
sTJLCT ALL EXCLAMATION POINIS a2AST.
0 she's so crazy my sistuh, she's so cranky, she oughta be marriedl
But she wantaa live swell I doan blame uh, my shoulden she? She gotta good
job. dut she's soi‘ouchy, 0 is she stingy, she nevuh spenisa nickelt I'm
tellin yuh she's terribulll She pays frety-figh a mont rent fa one room in da
Hotel Sheltn, woodja -oulifive it? She loser: 37211 buy aself a cuppa
dunho how she does it. Aah, she's bln1:1 Huh husben? Say if shill evub.
be able ta live widda man I fail ta see howl She drives us all nuts, yeah,
now she's gonna live wid us, she's comm n back, she's gonna help my muddahl
Sure she Aantsa live on West End Avenuva no less, are apahtmin am n iood enoughl
So my mudduh keeps on coin ta agew,s, it's gotta be da best, fa huh shill do
it i.fty a mont rent she gotta pay no less, uhsif she ,;ot so much moneyl
Aah, we're gon. nuts3
Say I wen to a dance las nigh yid some frens a mine, jus kiddin
aroun ya know, I hadda a is fun. Fifty sense ta st in it cost me den
fifty sense hatcheck. Kids, wot else? Ya know how fellas act, I dint let da
fella take me home. I wu, tawkin ta some fella den we danced en we bote
stepped on each uddats feet. Yknaw dose noo dances: orazyt But dare's quite
a few valtzers, I seen a few, I dunno wot club it was C. L. somothin. just
did my trona a favuhl I'm aloes gone ta movies, ya get so bamd, so I wen
widdem. I dint wanna go, tmo dey seemed silly, but yknow haw it is
My goilfren knows a fellUh he's fayty yeah. ole, dye tink hols
too olo? Ho manta& wife on a chile, a woman who's been married, jus righ tub
mo. I dunno wot he looks like, who da hook cares? He's got doughl Lisson
haah, dye tink I manna stinkUh, a WPA uht I manna man who kin take oars a mos
I -manna have a good time I'm young yet Dye tink he's too ole fUh moo huh,
huh?