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FOLKLORE
FORM A NEW YORK
Circumstances of Interview
STATE New York
KALE OF WORKER Clarence Weinstock
ADDRESS
DATE
SUBJECT
43 Morton Street
June 5, 1939
Ambulance Driver's Story
1. Date and time of interview June
2. Place of interview
Hospital yard.
3. Name and address of informant
4. Name and address of person, if any, who ut you in
touch with informant.
5. Name and address of rt,rson, if any, accoi?anying you
6. Description of rNym, house, surroundinj, et.
(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)
STATE New York
NAME OF WORKER Clarence Weinstock
ADDRESS 43 Morton Street
DATE June 5
SUBJECT Ambulance Driver's Story
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
HARLEM ANMULANCE
Busy? Boy you ain't seen nothing. You got to come up for the
weekend. It's a madhouse. Stabbings, g.y.'s and poison, in and out,
in and out. Take 120th and Lonox. There's a bunch of night clubs
around there. The stiffs start falling out of there after midnight.
If they go west, they're all right; if they go east, god help 'em.FFFT!
When do we drive fastefil( Well I couldn't say. Formerly we used
to go like hell if we had an C.B.S. because of the kid dropped in the
car, the doc and driver had to buy a keg a beer for all the boys on the
shift.
You can't drive fast up here. People are so used to us they don't
get out of the way any more like they do in other parts of town. Still
I get emlick as quick as I can; they're no different than any other
people, though some of the guys thing, "I'M better than any of them, why
should I risk my life they like killing one another." I don't figger
that way. It's poverty that does it, four of five of them in one room,
all of Harlem sleeps in one room. What the hell, here's a girl I just
brought in. Lysol. Husband kicked her out. Where's she to go? You
answer ne that. Here's a call, So long.