Mary Kaiser, Clip 5: Part-Time Jobs
Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Mary Kaiser
Date: Time Period: 1928 - 1938; 2010-08-13; Interview recorded: August 13 2010
Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg. Dimension:
Total running time: 0:02:58
Creator: Mary Kaiser interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt
Identifier: aql:20618 kaiser_mary_clip5
Description: Mary Kaiser describes how she got an allowance of 50 cents a week, which she spent mostly on pencils because she frequently lost them. At the suggestion of her friend Margaret's mother, she got some money depositing bottles. She and Margaret started doing weekend deliveries for a butcher on their bicycles. When she was in high school she worked in a candy factory that made gumdrops on 149th street in the summertime. She recalls how the employees were allowed to eat all the candy they wanted, which killed their appetite for it after a few days on the job.
Creator :
Mary Kaiser interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt
Date :
Time Period: 1928 - 1938; 2010-08-13; Interview recorded: August 13 2010
Summary/Description :
Mary Kaiser describes how she got an allowance of 50 cents a week, which she spent mostly on pencils because she frequently lost them. At the suggestion of her friend Margaret's mother, she got some money depositing bottles. She and Margaret started doing weekend deliveries for a butcher on their bicycles. When she was in high school she worked in a candy factory that made gumdrops on 149th street in the summertime. She recalls how the employees were allowed to eat all the candy they wanted, which killed their appetite for it after a few days on the job.
Subject :
Delivery of goods; Butchers; Children's allowances; Gumdrops; Candy industry; Part-time employment
Rights :
This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Coverage :
Locations discussed: Waldheim, Flushing, Queens, NY Flushing (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
Oral history
Format :
Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg.; Total running time: 0:02:58
Identifier :
aql:20618 kaiser_mary_clip5
Subject:
Delivery of goods; Butchers; Children's allowances; Gumdrops; Candy industry; Part-time employment
Delivery of goods; Butchers; Children's allowances; Gumdrops; Candy industry; Part-time employment
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This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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