Mickey Place T2 [Tape Two]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Place, John Thomas "Mickey"
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1997-02-14
Date Digitized
2010-06-15
Abstract
This tape is the second half of an interview with John Thomas "Mickey" Place of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Mickey talks about women working, his work in banks in New York during the 1920s and 1930s, the stock market crash of 1929, The Great Depression, movies, Broadway plays, New York, baseball, hockey, speakeasies and prohibition, Charles Lindbergh, FDR, and the hard times of the 1930s.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
New York, NY
Subject (Temporal)
1920s
1930s
1929
1928
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:34
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:01:30
Discussion about married women working; women's rights, gender roles.

SIDE A 00:01:30 -- 00:06:53
Discussion about working in New York in 1928; 1928, New York, stock market, wages, Chase Manhattan Bank, Seaboard Bank, banks.

SIDE A 00:06:53 -- 00:17:35
Discussion about the 1929 stock market crash and The Great Depression; 1929, stock market crash, Wall Street, The Great Depression, suicide.

SIDE A 00:17:35 -- 00:19:46
Discussion about movies; silent movies, talkies, movies, piano players, movie ticket prices.

SIDE A 00:19:46 -- 00:22:00
Discussion about plays on Broadway; Broadway, plays, Blithe Spirit.

SIDE A 00:22:00 -- 00:23:24
Discussion about Canadian currency versus American currency and living in different places around New York City; American currency, Canadian currency, New York City, Wall Street.

SIDE A 00:23:24 -- 00:31:40
Discussion about baseball; baseball, Babe Ruth, baseball ticket prices, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York City, Joe Dimaggio, New York Yankees, Babe Herman, Ebbet's Field, baseball fans, 1927.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:40.
SIDE B 00:31:47 -- 00:36:55
Discussion about baseball continues; Ebbet's Field, 1920s, Brooklyn Dodgers, baseball, Babe Herman, New York City, Lefty O'Doul.

SIDE B 00:36:55 -- 00:46:51
Discussion about watching hockey in New York City; New York City, hockey, Madison Square Garden, hockey ticket prices, Eastern Hockey League, New York Americans, New York Rangers, John Squarebriggs, Eddie Shore, EHL teams, Tiger MacKie, Snags, Frank Brimsek.

SIDE B 00:46:51 -- 00:54:17
Discussion about speakeasies, bootleggers, and prohibition; prohibition, speakeasy, bootleggers, liquor, bathtub gin, liquor price, ether, beer, Jessie's Deli, scotch, gin, mobsters, gangsters, Jessie Moses.

SIDE B 00:54:17 -- 00:58:47
Discussion about Charles Lindbergh and the Lindbergh kidnapping; Charles Lindbergh, Spirit of St. Louis, Lindbergh kidnapping, Hauptmann.

SIDE B 00:58:47 -- 01:00:30
Discussion about FDR and the New Deal; New Deal, FDR, 1930s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

SIDE B 01:00:30 -- 01:03:34
Discussion about life in New York during The Great Depression; The Great Depression, 1930s, rent, New York, prices, food prices.

Tape ends at 01:03:34.