Identifier,999113,,,,
Interviewee,Doug Patterson,,,,
Date,03/11/2014,,,,
Interviewer,Julie Gabb,,,,
Abstract,Doug Patterson grew up near Columbia in Glenville. He moved to Glenville when he was 8. After school he became the head of an entertainment booking company.,,,,
Tags,"Columbia school, athletics, Glenville High School",,,,
Special Notes,"Phone went off during interview, sometimes interviewee would raise voice",,,,
0,"Start, business",,,,
1,"Moving to Glenville, Columbia Ave.",,,,
2,"Columbia Ave., schools of Glenville, Columbia school",,,,
3,"Columbia school, yard guarding, banking in elementary school",,,,
4,"Banking cont., yard guarding in elementary school",,,,
5,Yard guarding cont.,,,,
6,"Bullying, staying out of trouble",,,,
7,Football games in the neighborhood,,,,
8,Bullying,,,,
9,"""           """,,,,
10,"""No fren-dippys"", bullying",,,,
11,Bullying,,,,
12,Fighting for girls,,,,
13,"Fighting for girls, bullying",,,,
14,Bullying,,,,
15,"Friends with bullies now, gangs",,,,
16,"Friends from school and their careers now, athletics",,,,
17,Football and track,,,,
18,Classmates then and now,,,,
19,Street teams in football and baseball,,,,
20,"Staying out of trouble, classmates who did get in trouble back then and now",,,,
21,Wrestling in high school,,,,
22,"Staying in the mountains for wrestling,  played muni ball instead, brother started in varsity as an underclassman",,,,
23,"High school band, football team's record",,,,
24,"Rivalries - Glenville and Kennedy, girls from Kennedy and John Adams",,,,
25,"Girls from Kennedy and John Adams, fighting for girls",,,,
26,"Rivalries - Kennedy, John Adams, Shaw. Girls from Collinwood, East Tech.",,,,
27,"Sport rivalries based off of similarities - colors like Shaw and architecture like Kennedy, education and living of different schools",,,,
28,"Shaker HS mostly consisted of whites at the time, white flight, riots, gang wars",,,,
29,"Glenville riots - different start of the riots?, blackouts",,,,
30,"Neighborhood troublemakers wouldn't let Doug get mixed up in their crowd, how Doug's friends got in trouble",,,,
31,Fighting for girls,,,,
32,"Fighting for girls, bullying",,,,
33,"Being short and being bullied for it, Glenville Riots",,,,
34,"Glenville Riots cont., able to get things from stores at that time, stealing from stores",,,,
35,"Parties during high school years, girls, Glenville Riots and military ",,,,
36,"Pool rooms, gangs during the riots",,,,
37,Fighting,,,,
38,"Hiding from fights, being picked on for being an underclassman",,,,
39,"Glenville festival - 37th year, other neighborhood festivals",,,,
40,"White flight, different neighborhood racial makeups",,,,
41,"Big houses in Glenville now, inner city, stratification in neighborhoods",,,,
42,"Cedar and Hough - seedier parts of town, elementary schools in the neighborhood",,,,
43,"Walking to school, how tardies were dealt with, paddling",,,,
44,"Running to school not to be late, paddling for tardies, ",,,,
45,"Tardies, how you need to be tough, boxing class in school",,,,
46,Boxing ,,,,
47,"Tardies in Jr. High and elementary, respecting people",,,,
48,"Fighting back then versus now, how people deal with problems then and now, use of guns",,,,
49,"Poker and fighting, Old Glenville",,,,
50,Old Glenville High School and new Glenville High School,,,,
51,"""",,,,""""
52,"New Glenville High School, lost school records",,,,
53,"Losing school records, not dropping out but having to repeat a year",,,,
54,Met his future wife from being held back,,,,
55,"Wife, how they had kids right after high school, having kids at age 20",,,,
56,"Good relationship with children and grandchildren, looking up to parents as figures for parenting",,,,
57,Forced into marrying her,,,,
58,"On disability and welfare at a young age, marrying at a young age",,,,
59,"Ex-wife and him don't talk anymore,  cultural norms for having children",,,,
60,"Norms cont., drugs in the 60s",,,,
61,"Peers' alcohol and drug abuse, cost of drugs then and now",,,,
62,"Costs of drugs cont., parties - ""Red blue light"" parties",,,,
63,"How Glenville is a tight knit community, different schools you can go to as a child",,,,
64,"Rivalries in track in Jr. High, all the students that were rivals went to Glenville HS.",,,,
65,"Glenville HS alumni, different picnics for alumni - ""old school"" and ""new school"".",,,,
66,"Old school - poor, new school - rich",,,,
67,Alumni picnics,,,,
68,"""Old school"" picnics and ""new school"" picnics don't mix, old school contains pimps, hustlers ",,,,
69,"""Old school"" picnics and ""new school"" picnics cont.",,,,
70,"Police turns a blind eye to the ""old school"" picnic, ""new school"" picnic is in Cleveland Heights, Mr. Patterson running entertainment events",,,,
71,"Entertainment agency, ""old school"" picnic parties",,,,
72,"""Thug parties""",,,,
73,"""Thug parties"" cont.",,,,
74,"Glenville now, abandon houses, drugs, violence",,,,
75,"Glenville Development Co., Glenville festival",,,,
76,"Parents participating in street clubs, nightclubs",,,,
77,"Pool halls i.e. Cafe Tiajuana, Midway, Raleigh, Playboy, hustlers in pool rooms",,,,
78,"Safety of pool halls on 105, Cafe Tia Juana",,,,
79,"Cafe Tia Juana cont., Leo's Casino, Cafe Tia Juana - clientele",,,,
80,Cafe Tia Juana cont.,,,,
81,"Cafe Tia Juana and drinking, drug use cont., [ed note: home phone interruption]",,,,
82,Running into people that he knows in other cities/countries,,,,
83,Running into people that he knows in other cities/countries cont.,,,,
84,Entertainment agency and events he ran,,,,
85,Coordinating events and knowing local celebs,,,,
86,"Coordinating events with his wife, his son",,,,
87,"Concerts in Cleveland, nightclubs - Madhatter",,,,
88,"MC in clubs - Vale's, putting on parades/shows in Cleveland",,,,
89,Running Vale's for a weekend,,,,
90,"Putting on shows with Prince, Janet Jackson, Anita Baker",,,,
91,Coordinating parades,,,,
92,"Lack of racial discrimination, the ""Three Amigos""",,,,
93,Good relations with whites,,,,
94,"Invited to events where he's the only black man there, gets along with all people",,,,
95,"Invites white friends to events where they're the only blacks there, Tarblooder",,,,
96,"Tarblooder cont., Gold Coast - consisted of clubs",,,,
97,"Gold Coast - stretched to 55th to 107th and Euclid, no residential areas",,,,
98,"Seeing Peaches & Herb at Leo's Casino, various acts at Leo's Casino",,,,
99,"Running the Michael Jackson and Rick James shows, Rick James holding a show for towels",,,,
100,"Prince, seeing him live",,,,
101,"Seeing various acts live, did not see Malcolm X or MLK speak in Glenville",,,,
102,Cory Methodist ,,,,
103,Thugs who turned into pastors,,,,
104,Majorie/Lilian Pyles,,,,
105,Majorie/Lilian Pyles cont.,,,,
106,"105 splits the neighborhood, stratification",,,,
107,"One side - wealthy, other side - poor,",,,,
108,"Darring's and Scatter's, Juanita's",,,,
109,"Hot Sauce Williams, Scatter's killed, Mr. Patterson seeing the murder scene",,,,
110,"Scatter's, food at Scatter's, Darring's fried chicken",,,,
111,"Red Walter's and Lancer's for seafood, ",,,,
112,"Seafood restaurant - doesn't remember the name, Scatter's",,,,
113,"Darring's, Red Walter's,  105th clubs",,,,
114,Gold Coast - started going around 14,,,,
115,"Popular classmates, END OF INTERVIEW",,,,