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SIDE ONE 13-born in Lowell at Corporation Hospital in 1909 20-mother was born in Lowell, father was born in South Acton 25-father worked at Saco-Lowell Machine Shop, once the largest company of its type in the world 35-lived on Worthen Street in Corporation Boarding housing 42-lived in a foreman's house (his father's capacity) laborers weren't provided with housing 65-also owned home in Granitville, but preferred to live near job 74-Giant Store building replaced Saco-Lowell Housing 93-Saco-Lowell was located between Dutton and Jackson streets near the Swamp Locks (tape states this is the Northern Canal but it actually is the Pawtucket) 107-remembers visiting the machine shop when it was closed 121-buildings are all razed (present site of Pellon) 130-Saco-Lowell closed down (during the twenties?) probably because of taxes business moved to Newton, then to Saco, Maine 156-subject's family moved quite often between Granitville and Worthen Street 166-attended Middlesex Village School, Worthen Street School and Sargent School in Granitville 171-father bought house on Baldwin Street 178-had been owned by Spaulding Family, known as Middlesex Slaughterhouse 245-attended Charles Morey School, Lowell High School received football scholarship to Cornell University quit very early in the year due to some misrepresentation of terms of scholarship 262-Worthen Street School, site of transformer building 268-Greek Church was once Worthen Street Baptist 276-movement around the city was accomplished by trolley cars and walking 284-downtown Lowell 295-small section on Worthen Street hasn't changed its facade over the years 312-Canals (mistakes Northern for Western Canal) 315-Remembers watching Greek people picking up eels from canal bed after it was drained on Sundays 321-Acre-Greek and Irish section 336-Irish moved to Flats, St. Peter's and Sacred Heart Parishes 344-North Common Village, had been huge tenement blocks probably built around 1930 or later 361-Little Canada was just across Merrimack Street 377-area where Lowell Technological Inttitute Buildings are 384-Laurier Park, baseball diamond at site of present LTI Reaearch Building 389-Ethnic areas in the city of Lowell e.g. Middlesex Park near Hadley Field, English 402-Round House, near railroad station, where Corey's is today. Building burned in 1975 418-Ethnic rivalry exhibited mostly in sports,but was not otherwise significant 440-Lowell was a cosmopolitan city because of the Textile industry 448-upper Middlesex street was "Scotchtown" (near the Hi-Hat Roller Skating Rink, in direction of North Chelmsford Line) 459-expertise of different ethnic groups e.g.Scotch, jute and carpet weaving 467-English, drawing and spinning rooms 469-Lowell Mill Girls 476-Women working in the Mills 478-was a freshman at Lowell High, hired by Mr. James Gaffney, head of the Merrimack Mills for the summer 484-there were many women still working there who had worked all their lives in Lowell,having come there from the farms 488-other workers exhibited a great respect for Caunter's education 498-women's views of Lowell 502-working long hours 506-remembers one particular woman, named Ishawood she began work at daylight, and left when it was too dark to see the yarn run through the machine 5i6-work day was around fifteen hours 523-a few of the women lived in corporation boarding houses 531-but most of the boarding house residents were men 539-viewed the Duttin Row Houses before they were destroyed 544-some of the rooms were unbelievably run down 550-it would have been too expensive to renovate the interior 553-there were long hallways, with single rooms off to each side 560-there were community bathrooms 565-and wooden frame bathtubs 569-Exodus of industry from Lowell in the 1930's 578-industry went South, inducements were many, i.e.tax breaks 585-at the same time Lowell's tax rate was increasing 589-Lowell was terrtbly hard hit by this exodus of industry as well as the Depression 591-effects of the Depression o no work anywhere 598-people stood in line outside mills every morning to apply for work 610-after High School, Caunter went to Cornell on a football scholarship, quit after a few months due to some misinterpretation over the terms of the Scholarship 614-got a job at Fletcher's Quarry ONLY BECAUSE of ability to play baseball. Fletcher wanted to have a winning team Caunter became known as a "Fireball Pitcher" 618-worked in curb yard 45 hours, earned $18.75 a week 629-Caunter remembers "you had to have something going for you to get any kind of a job 633-Sports 634-Twilight League, South Common, attracted eight to ten thousand people per game 638-the league was composed of people from all over the city 643-there was no admission but they "passed the hat" 645-basketball was usually played in a Church league 649-CYML Catholic Young Men's Lyceum, looated near St.Patrick's Church on Suffolk Street 662-played basketball it the Armory 666-Played semi-pro football, practised at night after work, Team received percentage of proceeds from passing the hat 671-games were played at the Fairgrounds on Gorham St. 680-attracted thousands of people 686-Teams: Butlers from the "Flats", Indians from 'Swede Village", St. Peter's Cadets, Rovers from "Centralville" SIDE TWO 2-didn't play high school ball 8-preferred to go trapping after school rather than football practice 24-played semi-pro for the Providence Steamrollers 35-received twenty five dollars per game 40-traveled in Buick pick up truck 75-Cornell only gave football scholarships, other sports were not yet recognized with scholarships 94-Caunter also ran track, hurdles, hundred yard dash for Independent groups 104-ran under an alias while in High School to prevent ramifications from high school coaches 150-many players played under an assumed name in semi pro because they also played college ball 174-Caunter notes that he was 5'11°, weighing 190 lbs. and that was considered "Big" 179-things are different today 199-played baseball with the Cape Cod League 243-sports of that era were better than today 268-teams pitched in to buy equipment 278-in baseball, foul balls were always retrieved 286-"Sand Lot" Baseball was popular and kept the kids busy 328-Golf is now the "in" sport 341-girls in sports YWCA 364-luckily times have changed (i.e.in regard to the status of women) 383-women have been held back by old traditions, but these are changing today 395-Rose O'Neil, a well known name locally in golf game. She lived near the North Common and always played football with the boys 434-more and more today, women are being accepted in sports 466-tradition bound notion that only men belong in the field of sports End of interview |
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