Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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INFORMATION SHEET INTERVIEWER: Bill Harvey (with Susan Hawes) PROJECT: Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage DATE@) OF 1979. 6.19 INTERVIEW: 1979. 7.15 NUMBER OF 3 TAPE@): GENERAL TOPIC(S) OF INTERVIEW: PLACE@) OF Community Center INTERVIEW: LENGTH OF 2:30 INTERVIEW: Education, Work (in mills), Local Associations, Social Life, Business, Citizenship, Politics CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE INTERVIEW [PLACES, OmRS PmSENT AND m I R =LATIONSHIP TO TEE INFO=, ETC.] At Mr. Lewis' request, we did the interview in the Hampden-Woodbury-Remington Community Center. Audio quality on tape I is lousy, especially side 1. On tapes 2 and 3, audio quality is fair. PARTS OF PARTICULAR VALUE [TOPICS DSISCUSSD W GFSATES DETAIL, AFS.4 OFPARnCULAR EXPERTISE, ETC.] Mill life and importance of mills in neighborhood. Politics, lodges and other groups. GENERAL EVALUATION [=LIABILITY OFINFORlvMNT, INFOFNATION CONTAIPJD ONTAPE, ETC.] Mr. Lewis is a very good narrator with an eye for detail and sense of humor. His memory seems very acute. POSSIBLE TOPICS FORFURTHERINVES~TGATION Churches, especially Grace Methodist. This was a very difficult tape; unintelligible at times, hammering in the background, lots of mumbling, record player in background rambling on and on.
~ LIST INFORMANT'S BIOIGRAPHICAL DATA NAME: Charles LeRoy Lewis 1 YEARS AT ADDRESS: BOARD:~ ADDRESS: 1232 W. 37th St. TODAY'S DATE: 1979. 7.15 PHONENUMBER: I I DATE OF BIRTH: 1903. 2.16 PLACE OF BIRTH: Company House on David Ave., RELIGION: Methodist HOUSE OF WORSHIP: Grace UMC Masonic Order 1928 - Mechanics Golden Rule branches Optimist Club 1950's PREVIOUS RESIDENCES: LIST YEARS: 3510 Ash St. 1908 210 Roland Ave. 1909 - 1915 3648 Beech Ave. (with parents) 1915 - 1924 30th St. (with in-laws) .37th St. 1924 - 1928 SCHOOLING AND/OR OTHER Boarding School F Prep. School - TRAINING: 8th grade Spinning Room, Meadow Mills 6 months Notions Dept., Hutzler's 5 months Mount Vernon Mill 2 days (fired) Weighing, Hooper Mill 1917 - 1919 Steamfitter, Wm. E. Woods Co. Transit Conductor, no. 10 line Salesman (after 1932), S&N Katz Jewelers Salesman, Heiss Jewelers 1919. 2 - 1920
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