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Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FOLKLORE
NEW YORE
FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
STATE New York
NAME OF WORKER Joseph Vogel
ADDRESS
DATE March 22, 1939
SUBJECT Hospital Talk In The Waiting -Room
1. Date and tim of Alterview
2. Place of interview
Two women meeting in the waiting -room at Kings County
Hospital.
3. Name and address of informant Anonymous
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in
touch with informant.
5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanyinL you
6. Description of room, house, surroundings, etc.
(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 Interview (Unedited)
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
STATE New York
NAVE OF WORKER. Joseph Vogel
ADDRESS
DATE March 22, 1939
SUBJECT Hospital Talk In The Whiting Room
FALLEN ARCHES
(Two women meet in the waiting -roam at Kings County Hospital and
exchange a few words.)
1. I had a pair of feet, it was something to look at. Before my
trouble, I mean. Like two pieces of iron. So what happens, I go
into the grocery business. And from the grocery into the hospital
is like going from the parlor into the bedroom.
2. It's not so bad, it's not so bad. As long as your health is
good, let the arches be high, be law, it's not so bad. But by me,
the kidneys-. (She coughs) Uh, I'm coughing now six days without
stopping.
1. Mat d'you mean, it's not bad. By you fallen arches is nothing?
Do you know abet it means standing from morning till night behind a
counter until you feel you're falling off your feet. You know how
it feels? It pulls by the heart, it pulls (she makes a fist) until
you feel you're fainting. You should see my Izzie, nebach. Pneu-
monia he got from standing on his feet
2. Since when you get pneumonia from standing on your feet? (She
coughs). Gevalt„ it's tearing me out the insides.
1. Listen, darling, I'll give you a prescription, it'll stop the
cough in five minutes. So I was telling you, my husband is stand-
-2
jug on his feet, and the next minute he's laying on the floor.
I grab him upstairs and put him in bed, and when the doctor comes
he says it's pneumonia. For three weeks for three weeks day
and night, that's all I know is taking care my husband and stand-
ing day and night in the store. I'm telling you, even if I was
made from iron, even if I was a horse, who could stand so long
like an animal without a good night's sleep, not even a chance
to close the eyes a few minutes during the day. So first I feel
it's pulling alp by the legs, then it's pulling me by the heart...
fallen arches, yeh. So thank God my husband feels a little better
so I go to the Chiropodist....
2. There is Mrs. Slakter, I was waiting for her. You'll excuse
me, it was a pleasure to meet you.
1. We'll meet again, don't worry.
2. Well, goodbye. It was a pleasure
1. Likewise, a pleasure.