Lynn, Massachusetts, United States
· 1938
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Leary, Jane K.
WAZg-4,-"' 1. Name -Jane K. Leary Subject -The Shoemaker of Lynn 5- Section #t0- 2/1/39 ---Z-SerSedS; iv 7A l.}-9 "Not all the manufacturers had machinery in their shops, time a the Ironclad Lockout in the 701s. Some guld jest buy stock an' have it cut, and then send the cut parts ta be made in some other place where they had machinery. Them places wuz called the making shops. There wuz a dozen gr more of gem in Lynn then. "Sometimes them manufacturers as had their shoes put tagether in the…
Massachusetts, United States, Lynn
· 1938-12-29
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Healy, John, Leary, Jane K.
that, fur some thought there wuz some kind a.poison there on his tomb, that caused 'em all ta die sooner er later. That might jest be superstition but I always thought there wuz somethin1 in it. --44-.417-444407-4ha4-"Fairr-41*41"1"43-44611- -gesoperir-en14. efore that the only kinda low shoes fur men wuz the Newport Tie with two tr three lacin's, and the Oxford, both jest used fur summer time./1 "The general run a shoes fur men wuz high with eyelets clear up ta the top, or with eyelets half…
Lynn, Massachusetts, United States
· 1939-02-16
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Leary, Jane K.
orpIsu MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Cheek one) PUB. Livinx Lore in New England Naesaohueetta TITLE Shoe /Aster of LAna WRITER Jane K. LeerY DATE 2/109 W. PP. 5 CHECKER DATE SOURCES GIVEN (T) ,Interview COMMENTS Name: Jane K. Leary 2/15/39 Subject: The Shoeworker of Lynn Section #16" The machines in the shoe shops din't only change the way shoes wuz made but it changed most the hull way that people lived. Before they come in strong, and before they come in atall, people usta do a lotta other things…
United States, Massachusetts, Lynn
· 1939-02-13
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Leary, Jane K.
/7 Name: Jane X. Leary Subject: The Shoeworker of Lynn Patent Leather Shoes Page 1 3/1 "Taday, it 'aint sa hard fur manufacturers ta make patent leather shoes as it wuz in my time. Fur then the leather 'ould crack sa easy. Jest a little cold weather 'ould crack 'em if ya'din't watch out. Why when a manufacturer 'ould have racks a 'em in the shop, he'd shure see ta it that the shop 'ould be warm, night as well as day. Fur if he din't more'n likely he'd come inta the shop some mornin' and see…
Massachusetts, United States, Lynn
· 1939-01-11
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Leary, Jane K.
11 Name --Jane K. Leary, 32 Acorn St. Informant --John Healy, wife and son iubject--The Shoemaker of Lynn Unions and Strikes eoMest a the strikes in my day in the shops wuz caused _ by competition. One manufacturer would take a few cents off a pair a shoes, and then the other manufacturer would have ta do the same if he wuz ta sell his shoes. Say he had a customer fur a good many years and that customer found he could buy the same kinda shoes from some one else fur less money. Well, he'd have…
United States, Massachusetts, Lynn
· 1939-01-26
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Healey, John, Leary, Jane K.
Name Jane K. Leary Informant John Healey 1 7 77/ Subject The Shoeworker of Lynn HUMAN INTEREST SNAP SHOTS //a 4 ta 7 si‘ "There wuz a shoe manufacturer I worked fur once that sure wuz stubborn about changint the style a shoes he made. II make shoes,' he said, !not all this fol de rol that won't stand up.' This wuz about the time that the findint a King Tut, made the whole world jest crazy ta wear shoes like wuz on that olt guy when they dug him outa his tomb. "Well, everyone that knowed…
United States, Lynn, Massachusetts
· 1939-01-17
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Healey, John, Leary, Jane K.
so, /4, iii Name Jane K. Leary Section #6 Informant John Holley Page 1 Subject The Shoeworker of Lynn THE COMING OF MACHINES "I always liked ta cut shoes by hand bettertn by machine fur two reasons. First, we got one third more pay fur hand cuttinte An' we wuz in it fur what we could get outa it. Then anuther reason wuz that ya kin dis- tinguish the stock better in hand cuttint than ya kin in machine cuttint. When ya put the dye down in machine cuttint ya Can't see the stock as well but when…
United States, Massachusetts, Lynn
· 1938-12-01
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Healey, John, Leary, Jane K.
--14. t 4., 0.t)6\i Worker-- Jane K. Leary InfOrmant-- John Healy, 24 Cedar St P Section #2 page 1 Subject The Shoeworker of Lynn ((luck if fiv) PvtA.g. Uncle Jimmie told me nothing of his courtship. did however secure some glimpses from his sister-in-law. _ a. His first wife wasAtubercular girl, beautiful, but definitely sick when Uncle Jimmie married her. They were both in their early twenties. ---gr-i-eada-we-re-ae-eemble-d-in the Catholic ahurch for the ceremony. "What a good face he has,"…
United States, Massachusetts, Lynn
· 1938
· 18 pages
Recorded by: Seary, Jane K.
Jane K. Seary, Field Worker rage 1. re. Living Lore The Irish Shoemaker of Lynn Sixty years is a long time ta have a cuttin' knife in your hand, but ya linow, I'd like ta have one there stile Duch as I like the time to be sittinl here readin' all the PC6 things I dint have time ta read then.la lot of things happened in them year often times I kinda imagine myself feelinl a piece of ,leather to see which part ta cut the toe or the shank from. A man thinks somehow while he's feelinl leather.…
Massachusetts, United States, Lynn
· 1939-07-07
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Leary, Jane K., Ryan, Patrick J.
Name: Jane K. Leary, 32 Acorn St. Informant: Patrick J. Ryan, 152 Jackson Bt. Assignment: The Shoe Machinery Worker of Lynn. IF I COULD LIVE MY LIFE OVER AGIN. July 7, 1939 nSettint here sa much, an' readint an' restinl, I got lots a time ta think now. Utta be when I'd come home from the shop at night, I'd be so tired that all /Id want ta do wuz sleep. But now I got lots a time ta jest think. RAW I often wish, like, guess most men wish sometime or other, that I could live my life all over…
United States, Massachusetts, Lynn
· 1939-06-14
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Hughes, James, Leary, Jane K.
6/14/39 Name: Jane(K. Leary, 32 Acorn St. Informant: James +hes, 51 Johnson St. Assignment: The Shoe Laster of Lynn (Living Lore) Character Sketch of Informant and Wife Within a five minute walk from Central Square lives this old shoe laster with his wife and brother-in-law, in a rather sparsely furnished but scrupulously clean five room, high cellina,ed flat of a "three tenement block." Unlike many Irish homes, this one is almost totally devoid of the numerous knicXimacks that usually…
Lynn, Massachusetts, United States
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Hughes, James, Leary, Jane K.
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Check one) PUB. Living Lore in Iv Shoe New England TITLE ftww Lister of Lynn -#6 WRITER Jane K. Leary DATE 5/31/39 WDS. PP. 7 CHECKER DATE SOURCES Gmx (”Interview James Hughes_ COMMENTS Name: Jane K. Leary, 32 Acorn St. 1. Informant: James Hughes, 51 Johnson St. 5/31/39 Assignment: The Shoe Laster of Lynn (Living Lore) The Irish Sweepstakes Mr. Hughes answered my ring and smilingly bid me enter. Mrs. Hughes greeted me also and pointed to an easy chair. "Heve a…
Lynn, Massachusetts, United States
· 1939-05-24
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Hughes, James, Leary, Jane K.
r ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Check one) PUB. Living Lore in New England TITLE Shoe Laster of Lynn 45 WRITER Jane K. Leary DATE 5/24/39 MVS. PP. 4 CHECKER DATE SOURCES GIVEN 04terview James Ruebas COMMENTS Name: Jane K. Leary, 32 Acorn St. Information: James Hughes, 51 Johnson St. Assignment: The Shoe Laster of Lynn. q10, The Influenza Epidemic £.1.--e".--f ->7 Page 1 5/24/39 "Well, how ya bin sence? "Sence I seen ya last, we've bin hevin' a bit a spreng weather. Tame, ain't it? We hed a…
Lynn, Massachusetts, United States
· 1938-07-08
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Leary, Jane K., Ryan, Patrick J.
Name: Jane K. Leary, 32 Acorn St. Section 14 Informant: Patrick J. Ryan, 152 Jackson St. July 20,139 Assignment: The Shoe Machinery Worker of Lynn jjJ OUL n 194 CHARACTER DESCRIPTION This informant is a stoutish old man of a little more than average height, with hair of non—descript color that has perhaps once been blond, with well worn clothes which the contours of his body have bulged into a shoddy appearance of comfort. His shoulders are a bit round, but he walks straight. The kitchen and…
United States, Lynn, Massachusetts
· 1938-07-10
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Leary, Jane K., Ryan, Patrick
Name: Jane K. Leary, 32 Acorn St" Lynn. Informant: Patrick Rpan, 153 Jackson St., Lynn. Subject: The Shoe Machinery Worker. Section A. ---77/762-•`-a•-;2--/ tAL 40 A*. fun agoint on my 79 years now and Ltve bin workint ever since I could lift a hand. Why I don't rameziOer the time that I didn't climb over the fence of the school that Lu w*z near Collins St.,then, to go to the ten footer shoe shop that my father made shoes in, to help lam during the, noon hour., I'd limb that fence after school…
United States, Massachusetts, Lynn
· 1939-03-17
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Leary, Jane K., Robinson, E.
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Check one) PUB. Livinz Lore in New England TITLE Shoe Laster of LINA -41 WRITER Jane K. _Leary DATE 3/17/39 WDS. PP., 6 CHECKER DATE SOURCES_OTTM-(1)_Interviewmdth E. Rnh3muyi.. COMMENTS .3/1/7/3 The following notes were taken from an interview with Elmer Robinson, elderly laster who was also for a num- ber of years, a business agent for the lasterts union. He lives at a convalescent home, 101 Nahant St., Lynn. He is of Yankee stock, was born in Maine, and came…
Lynn, Massachusetts, United States
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Leary, Jane K., Ryan, Patrick [?]
-.14-‘1A---fri '47o Name: Jane K. Leary „*32 Acorn St. June 27, Informant: Patrickplk. Ryan, 152 Jackson St. Subject: The Shoo Machinery Worker 1939 /7 jjO 1934 I/When I wus thirteen I quit school and quit helpint my father in the ten footer ant went ta work in a shoe shop down town. I done what sus called feedinl the nailer. I put nails in the heal that goes on the shoe and then put the heel on the machine. The operator then fastened the heel on the shoe by the =flint machine.. It was called…
United States, Massachusetts, Lynn
· 1939-06-07
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Hughes, James, Leary, Jane K.
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Check one) PUB. Living Lore in row England TITLE Shoe Ialitar af T4pm #7 (Irish) WRITER Jai e K. Lean'. DATE 6/09 WDS. PP. 7 CHECKER DATE souR=.17vEN.(4) Interview James Hughes COMMENTS Name: Jane K. Leary, 32 Acorn St. Informant: James Hughes, :51 Johnson St. Subject: The Shoe Laster of Lynn (Living Lore) "Yesterdiay I wint ta the circus, ant ya know, I enjoyed it, aven thouh it wuz jest a small one. Ya outa seen the croud thiere. "The best theng of all about it…
Lynn, Massachusetts, United States
· 1939-03-17
· 5 pages
Recorded by: [Mckie?], Samuel, Leary, Jane K.
ORIGINAL MSS. OR FIELD NOTES (Check one) PUB. Livinc Lore in New England TITLE Sho2 Laster in Lynn WRITER Jae K. Leary DATE 07/39 WDS. CHECKER RATE SOURCES GUM_ (?)Interview PP. 6 COMMENTS Jane K. Leary Informant --Samuel 2cKie, 45 Parrott St. Assignment --The Shoe Laster Section I Page 1 When you first look at Mr. McKie, you think he appears too yourh;f, (he doesn't look much over fifty) to have been a laster of the hand lasting days. But a slight protruding of the left side of his lower lip…
United States, Massachusetts
· 1939-07-27
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Howes, Mrs. [?], Leary, Jane K
ORIGINAL KU. OR PIELO NOTES (CHECK ONE) PUB. WE 113/LIC ON THE 'IPA TITLE THE HOME IT JOE I. LEARY DATil JULY 27 1,9459 go. -OREM SOINICES GIVEN (1') OORRENTS PP. Page 1 7/27/39 Names Jane E. Leary, 32 Acorn St., Lynn. Assignments "We Work on the W. P. A. The Howes No Mr. Howe ain't home. He's workin1 ya know. He'll be home at one, but then he's got ta go in an' see what he kin do fur his mother. She's sick. She' dyin1 really. But She's goin' on 81. *I got all I kin do up here takin1 care a…