Code,999022
Subject,Marilyn Anthony
Date,9/13/06
Interviewer,
Abstract,"Marilyn Anthony was born in Cleveland and describes growing up in Ohio City. She remembers the various European enclaves that were present in the area, specifically mentioning Hungarians and Gypsies. She shares her experiences of walking to the West Side Market, bakeries, butchers, and other local shops. Anthony also mentions her relationship to the multitude of ethnic Catholic churches in the area. Finally, Anthony discusses the changes in the neighborhood and how it impacted residents. "
Tags,"immigration, ethnicity, Ohio City, Gypsies, Hungarians, Italians, Catholics, churches"
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0,Introduction: interview is in speaker's house on the west side
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2,"place of birth Cleveland, Fairview park hospital"
3,Cuzzy's bakery
4,"""all the bakeries were little better back then"""
5,"""we all had European parents"", clothes that parents bought for them"
6,"parents, naturalization of grandparents"
7,grand-grand parents
8,"step-father was a truck driver, driver license were metal coins"
9,"mother worked at the factory that produced batteries, ""piece work"", then at National City bank"
10,mother was good at multi-tasking
11,mother thought that foreigners had to learn the language
12,"""I know some Hungarian"", European neighborhood, churches"
13,"Italians, St. Mary"
14,"local stores, a bar, Gypsies with violins"
15,"caravans of Gypsies; the Market House, butcher tables"
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17,"the Open-air Market, the RB bakery,"
18,"behind the RB bakery was warehouse where the bicycle company stored their bicycles, St. Ignatius"
19,"""they turned the church down to build a school buidling"", chapel by Lorain Ave"
20,the bowling alleys
21,used to walk to the West Side Market
22,"""altogether I had nine children"""
23,"1950s, West 25th"
24,"The Snake Pit ? bar ""things went on down there that police would never know, dark part of our city"""
25,the housing project quieted the area down
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27,"The Ohio City, they did not help the poor people"
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29,"memories of the neighborhood, the library, schools, St. Patrick's school"
30,the library
31,description of how the library changed
32,"people did not fight the changes ""we liked 25th the way it was"""
33,"""I miss the old tavern with Gypsies dancing"""
34,"""It was a friendlier neighborhood"""
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