DARE Interview : San Francisco, California; Primary Informant CA015

Fieldworker

Jones, Mary Jay

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• CA015: White; male; age: 65 (old); education: high school; community type: urban
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat 1. Speaker: CA015 (3:52) [Periodic loud squeaking noise]
• Arthur the Rat 2. Speaker: Informant's sister (3:40) [Periodic loud squeaking noise]
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0096-S1). [Additional speakers: Informant's sister]
• Content:
• 00:10 Always lived in same San Francisco neighborhood
• 01:45 Father in laundry and real estate, his first job in bank
• 04:15 Mission District dialect in the bank
• 06:30 Informant had TB at young age, got over it mostly in a year
• 08:30 Enters real estate business and Democrat politics
• 10:45 Starts to take notes on sportswriters' language, involvement in political appointments
• 12:40 Becomes Notary Public in 1938
• 14:25 Organizing integrated jam sessions
• 17:10 Involvement in jazz world
• 18:25 Publishing on language, jazz
• 24:20 Reasons to study San Francisco language
• 26:20 Arthur the Rat
• 31:10 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0096-S2). [Additional speakers: Informant's sister]
• Content:
• 00:20 Home births
• 02:00 Candymaker they know
• 04:25 Movie houses, nickelodeons. Mother liberal with letting them go to shows. Relative fascinated with acting
• 10:00 Sister's early jobs, saw people in serious charge trouble; other jobs
• 13:00 Depression era; secretarial jobs
• 16:15 Sister wanted to be in police, got into prison matron's job
• 19:50 People she knew in the prison, matrons and inmates
• 23:05 Weekends with the USO, staying in a firehouse
• 26:40 Arthur the Rat
• 30:55 Tape end