New York City, United States, New York
· 1939-02-02
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Morrison, Vivian, Reed, Rose
4s, STATE Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview New York NAME OF WORKER ADDRESS DATE. SUBJECT FORMA Circumstances of Interview Vivian Morris 225 West 130th Street, N.Y.C. February 2, 1939 Domestic Workers 1. Date and time cf. interview 2. Place of interview 3. Name and address of informant Rose Reed 318 West 119th Street New York City 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,…
New York City, United States, New York
· 6 pages
Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FORM A Circumstances of Interview STATE" New York NAME OF WORKER Irving lieholoce ADDRESS 4507 15th Ammo. Brooklyn DATE Desember Us 1034 SUBJECT slog wawa 111#411 1411 FOLKLORE NEW YORK 1. Date and time interview Oseeiber 21 aed Desaiber 22 et 12 aed 10 Oslo* respeetively 2. Place of interview 165,5 Sett 4th 'tree% droOklys home or the Jareresat 3. Name and address of informant Philip Dash, 144$ last 4th Street, Inveklye 4. Name and address of person,…
New York City, United States, New York
· 1938
· 1 page
Recorded by: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman
LIVING FOLKLORE herman Partnow an DE TROOT KIN SAVE TUB Day doan edjioate yuhs. Day domesticate yuh. Dey make tome animals outa yuh. Why? So day kin use yuh in de nest -blood -bath day got b;f up dere sleeve. Dam big parasites. DemAairby parasites. edin off yuh bones, alla time. Why, even yuh own mothers are on dere side. Take a baby. When he grows up an wants& know de faotsa life, wot does yuh awn mother say? De boogey man is gonna getohah. I tellyuh, we want de troot. Only by do troot…
New York, New York City, United States
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman
LIVING FOLKLORE Herman Partnow ALL PUFFED UP WID PRIDE Alik1101101? is Brother, sam you saved? Is you saved from sin? (HUH%) You nevuh sinned, brother? (NO/) N-o-o-o?...You're all puffed up mid pride, aintoha my...son.... Listen, Ah heard dere wuz a man who died on de craws fer me. An I wuz baptized in de knowledge uh ts anyraved by de beloved Father and de Ho -o -o -ly Ghost. (GWAN, LEMME ALONEI) Does yuh desahre de key, son, to de Kingdom xuh Hevven: Den wash yuhself in de blud uh de lamb,…
New York, New York City, United States
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman
6. IT'S FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL,'HUH? A This adolescent is like Walt Whitman's child who "-went forth and whatever object he looked upon, he became." He is still ,soarching for his identity. The girl face, the goat mouth, the 'shipping clerk hands with the kscarred knuckles don't piece toe gether into the lank hundred pounds of elbows and knees. Loose impulses flash in and out of the 5 "with one more hour, one more night, one more day somehow to be killed." tired grey eyes squinting against the…
New York, New York City, United States
· 3 pages
THE DEEP, BLACK, EMPTY TERRIBLE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD 11--- and you, fantasy Frank, and dreamland Dora, and hallucination Harold, and delution Dick, and nightmare Ned What is it, how do you say it, what doss it mean, what's the word, that miracle thing, the thing that can't be so, quote, unquote, but just the same it's true 1. AM I RIGHT OR WRONG? 'Forget the answers that give no reason, forget the reasons that do not explain.' A thin man sits modestly on a bare park bench, one bony leg folded…
United States, New York City, New York
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman
b 1/4z net% Poi c:t o TAXI STRIKE I: FAR FROM HUMAN HABITATION It don't bother me. Ya see me waitin for a call? I'm always waitin. Business is lousy anyhow. Owner, driver, hackie, cabbie: it all registers the same thing. If it's good with the next guy it's good with me. Ya think I blame those guysl They take plenty of abuse. It's a dog's life. The man walking on the street thinks if a hackie asks for 45 percent, it's a lot, Figure it up, what does it amount to? A dollar a week, maybe. Let them…
New York, New York City, United States
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman
_ __,----- I'M A COULD -HAVE -&,EN I admit it, I'm a hog. In other words, human. I enjoy inLercourse and a pair of doughnuts like anybody else. Say tomorrer I -eke up I'm covered in communism, say I can go and get what I want b: asking I want six wives. You maybe want 24 suits and him they gotta give twelve yachts, otherwise he's miserable. We're nuts, we're all deprived so long we went nuts. Plain hogs. It's chemical, you can't do nothing. We're 90% water, 11.20, and 10% other things sodium…
New York City, United States, New York
· 3 pages
Itit A a ail I admit it, I a hoe. In other words human. I enjoy women and a pair of doughnuts like any_ody else. Lay tomorrer wake up I'm oovered in communism, say I can go and get what I want by asking I want six wives. You mayle want 24 suits and hiLis they gotta Give hin twelve yachts, otherwise he's miserable. 'ie're nuts, we're all deprived so long we wort nuts. Plain hogs. It's chemical, you can't do nothing. e're 90% water, H20, and 10% other tin s sodium helium oxygen hydrogen…
New York, New York City, United States
· 2 pages
I'M A MIGHT -HAVE -BEEN "Are you, in fact, a privileged ghost returned, as usual, to haunt yourself?" This stooped over park -bench philosopher with his hands in his pockets started talking when they put him on felief and he won't stop until they put him back to work. Worry has made his face pasty and he makes sure to sleep as little as possible so he can exhaust himself into SC tolerating his world. He is in his late thirties, of average height Kxi and his solid body has grown fat through…
New York, New York City, United States
· 1939-02-13
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Anonymous Group Of People In The Park, Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman
Forms to be Filled out for Eacn Interview FORM 1. Circumstances of Interview STATE New York NAME OF IIORKErt Herman Partnaw ADDRESS 530 Parkside Avenue, DATE February 13, 1939 SUBJECT Leisure Folklore 1. Date and time c' interview January -February, 1939 9 Place of interview Union Square FOLKLORE NEI YORK 3. Name and address of informant A group of anonymous people in the park. 4. Name and address of person, if any, wno put you in touch with informant. 5. Name and address of person, if any,…
New York City, United States, New York
· 1939-02-17
· 15 pages
Recorded by: Anonymous, Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman
id e Forms to be Filled out for Eacn Interview FORM I Circumstances of Interview STATE Jew York NAME OF WORKER Berman Partnow ADDRESS 530 Parkeide Avenue DATE February 17, 1939 SUBJECT Elevator Strike 1. Date and time c" interview February 44, 1[19 2. Place of interview Garment area, fur 'motion 27th to 39th Street, Sixth to Eighth Avenue, 3. Name and address of informant Anonymous 4. Name and address of person, if any, wno put you in touch with informant. 5. Name and address of person, if…
New York City, United States, New York
· 1939-03-12
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Lee, Sergeant, Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman
Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FOLKLORE NEW YORK FORM A Circumstances of Interview STATE NAME OF WORKER ADDRESS DATE SUBJECT New York Herman Partnow 530 Parkside Avenue, March 23, 1939 Moo De MUdderland N.Y.C. Saul Levitt 27 Hamilton Terrace, N.Y.C. 1. Date and tin. of Interview March 12, 1939. Twelve until two. 2. Place of interview National Maritime Union 21st Street 11th Avenue New York City 3. Name and address of informant Sergeant -at -arms of NMI, known as Lee. 4. Name and…
New York City, United States, New York
· 1939-04-10
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Anonymous, Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman
you, CAN'T F-/Cart44 (9/4y:A_Lirz_biaLmktet 7. -ITOIY I'M Mat IN eti hIM "Tell how it was in some gayer city or brighter place, speak of some bloodier, hung- rier, more treacherous time any other age, any far land" She is a thin, timid gum -chewing typist/ The bones of her hips show beneath the gay dress from Klein's, the wrist under the novelty trinket from foam's is too sharp, amd the calves of her legs are too skinny' under the sheer hose, 69c special, the pale chestnut lair too Garbo- like…
New York, New York City, United States
· 1939-04-10
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Anonymous, Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman
re; -e -X 4.4.19 Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FOLKLORE FORM A Circumstances of Interview STATE NAME OF WORKER Herman Partnow ADDRESS DATE SUBJECT 557W. 144th St. May 9, 1939 Unemployed fringe 1. Date and time of interview April 10, 1939 2. Place of interview Automat, 14th St. and Fourth Ave. 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, accompanying you 6. Description of…
New York City, United States, New York
· 1938-12-12
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Golstein, Sam, Spector, Herman See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman
FOLKLORE Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview NEW YORK FORMA Circumstances of Interview STATE New York NAME OF WORKER Herman Spector ADDRESS 701 Crotona Park No. DATE DaVirA</1 ‘1:12 c7 SUBJECT 0, Happy Distancesl 1. Date and time o interview 2. Place of interview 1370 Clitton Ave. 3. Name and address of informant Sam Golstein address above 4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in touch with informant. None 5. Name and address of person, if any, accowpanying you None 6.…
United States, New York City, New York
· 7 pages
5,ty Ft.steen .:•.?toctur ,,Apierlbedy mutts to mritm storlms t owt, tivm or a44-::ar, Ip:oese. and ilia no eaceptim. aso thiz It like t;:i write 4Loot.iI: had the intaptiJ tri) 6it down and mTits, La that node INIMASO a -AlitanCOS VALt a kid has. 1 don't know just hoe t,› sm-Alsin it. rola Alsik arrIcaa a cxner ana itle a different world. 7-,-4110 it all depsuda ext ieldry it-,e7a4 riur chtlelwod. For Inatance. the :lartimout ParkeeprseSeolimea alras.AT as tZ:inc. or a alum when Ar family…
New York City, New York, United States
· 1921-01-04
· 21 pages
Recorded by: Swenson, May
7F7 V44-erwiteArt..... SPARKS, THE MIGHTY MAN January 4, 1921 (My 19th birthday) went to the recruiting station on Bast 23rd St. and wenlisted in the United States Marine Corps, for a period of four years. Tomorrow I go aboard the SS City of Savannah destination: Savannah, Georgia. Sold my sending and receiving set to Bill Moran for $11. Also my books and manuals on radio communications. The transmitter is still in fine shape-- had it five years. Consists a simple helix, small fixed spark gap,…
New York City, United States, New York
· 1939-07-06
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Ambulance Driver, Weinstock, Clarence
I Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview tiq fie 494 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,…
Cuba, United States, Florida, Spain
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Pendas, Enrique
urs maws it MB. MUM ranuAs I las born la the pristine* of Asturias is the year 1066 The toga La thigh on. boos Li so small that it does smelt appear on aay nap of spin. I as about as old as Christopher 'ColusbAs, who diesevered the net, sir 14 only beamse of the grit of the Mem brothers. Oolubbus vas at a total lose when his 'somass noodle no lemger garbed idea test isurse. vent to Ouha than still tery psng. sad was easpletsly &naiad sith the beauty of this land. It bas a twadorful'fortilitYs…