Interviewer: {X} 270: You want my middle name? Interviewer: Sure. 270: Gradinia. G-R-A D- N-I I mean I-N oh I-N I-A. {D: So} Interviewer: {X} 270: R-R E-L-N Interviewer: Okay. And what is this community around here known as? 270: Jackson Heights. Jackson Interviewer: {NW} 270: {NW} Interviewer: {X} 270: Heights. Interviewer: This is Tampa. 270: Right. Interviewer: And what uh county is this? 270: Hillsborough. Interviewer: Is this uh Hillsborough County a a stand for take up all of Hillsborough County? 270: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay. Okay. 270: {X} Interviewer: {X} {X} 270: Yeah. Interviewer: {NS} {X} Okay and you address here? 270: {B} Interviewer: And where were you born? 270: Tampa. Interviewer: Not a trick question, {X} 270: {NW} Interviewer: Okay and your age? 270: Eighteen. Interviewer: What is your occupation right now? 270: I'm working at community relations. {D: someone else} In between classes. {NW} Interviewer: And what is your religion? 270: Baptist. Interviewer: Can you tell me something about your education? 270: Well I um went through you know elementary, junior high, then I finished at a vocational school Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: In Interviewer: {X} 270: Tampa. Vocational technical high school. Interviewer: Okay. Can you tell me the names of the schools that you went to? 270: Oh so many. Interviewer: {NW} 270: Um {NW} first I went to uh Cottage Hill Interviewer: {X} 270: Uh-huh. That was first through third grade. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Then I went to uh {D: St. Peter Claver} That's the Catholic school. Interviewer: Oh really? 270: #1 Uh-huh. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # {X} 270: That was only for one grade. Fourth. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 they really # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: put it to you {X} 270: {NW} Interviewer: Okay. 270: And then fifth and sixth grade I went to Jackson Heights El- Elementary School. Interviewer: Okay. 270: Seventh and eighth I went to Franklin Junior High School. Then they started buses. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 270: #2 So I went to # Interviewer: {X} 270: {NW} Horace Mann Junior High School for the ninth grade. Interviewer: Ninth grade. Okay. 270: Then tenth through twelfth I went to uh I'll make it short like Tampa Bay Tech Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Running out of space here {X} 270: It's called Tampa Bay Vocational Technical High School. But we call it Tampa Bay Tech. Interviewer: What do you do you take up a certain area of study? Or 270: Uh clerical {X} Interviewer: Uh-huh. I just 270: Yeah. Interviewer: {X} Okay where was your um mother and father born? 270: My mother was born here. Tampa. Interviewer: Okay. And your father? 270: Uh Statesboro, Georgia. Interviewer: Oh Statesboro Blues. 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # Interviewer: The Allman Brothers sing that. 270: {NW} Interviewer: Okay, can you tell me something about your uh {C: inaudible speech} 270: my grandma she used to live around she she was born in Georgia. But I can't I think it's Evansville. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Um she didn't finish school {D: you know how it is} Interviewer: Okay. 270: She's working in a {D: new house} {X} My real grandfather died before I could remember. You wanna know about my step-grandfather? Interviewer: Sure. 270: Um These are my mom's parents now. Interviewer: Yeah. 270: He he didn't finish high school and he was born in Georgia. And he's sick now but but before he was a a cook. Interviewer: Okay. What about your um father's parents? 270: Uh my other grandmother, she was born in Georgia also. {NW} Interviewer: A lot of people born in Georgia. 270: My grandfather was born in Georgia also. Interviewer: Okay. 270: My grandmother does housekeeping. Interviewer: {X} 270: My grandfather's dead but before he died he was um a mechanic. Interviewer: Do you remember anything about where uh when your parents first well not your parents but um anything about your ancestry? You know, where you came from from before you came to the United States? Can you think about that far back? 270: No. Interviewer: Okay. 270: {NW} Interviewer: Well uh okay. Are there um um any major sections of uh Tampa? 270: Um there's West Tampa. Belmont Heights. Jackson Heights. Well there's Temple Terrace but I'm not it's not a part Tampa, it's it's another little town. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Um you want to know about other areas surrounding Tampa? Interviewer: Sure. 270: #1 Okay # Interviewer: #2 Sure. # 270: there's um Highland Pines that's out that way, {D: College} Village. Um {X} Town and Country. Davis Island. Hyde Park, that's about it. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What uh what what are their boundaries, do you know? Like what streets where does it stop and another place begins? 270: Well the difference between Hyde Park and West Tampa {D: Cash Street} Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: And uh Jackson Height and Belmont Height it's Thirtieth Street. Okay. Just past Fortieth down the street off of Twenty-First is Highland Pines Fifty-Six is Temple Terrace out that way Um College Village is is off of Seventy-Eighth Street. Um trying to Temple Terrace is straight out of Hillsborough, just way out in Hills- Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 270: #2 borough. # 270: I mean not Temple Terrace {X} did I say Temple Terrace? Interviewer: Yeah. 270: I meant um Town and Country. Interviewer: Oh yeah. 270: {NW} That's I can't think of anything else Interviewer: Okay. Um where are most of the main um offices and big banks located in Tampa? 270: Downtown. Interviewer: Okay. Um is there another section um where most of the office buildings are other than downtown? 270: No. Interviewer: Okay. Um okay where are like the oldest and largest stores in uh Tampa? Like real old, must've been here since way back? 270: Downtown. Interviewer: Okay. 270: {NW} Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 270: #2 {NW} # {NW} {NS} they're moving out though, it's mostly business downtown. Interviewer: Uh-huh. They going mostly out to malls 270: Uh-huh. Interviewer: and stuff? {NS} Okay. Um okay are there any uh neighborhoods that can be identified with uh certain nationality groups? You know like the Greeks? Or any 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # {D: close to here and} {X} here and 270: Well Interviewer: {X} 270: Ybor City is mostly Cuban. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Spanish. Um {NW} that's about you know where I could say because most everybody live this way and that way so um if I say {NW} you know most of the black people live like in the center of Tampa. And like the the whites {NW} are you know on the outside. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Mostly are most of 'em. Interviewer: Okay. Um are there any uh uh religious groups that you know are off to themselves like Catholics over here and uh Protestants over here? Jews some place else? 270: You mean uh I can't understand what you mean. Interviewer: Well I mean just like where {NS} just like the people from Savannah {D: they wore suit} Do any particular religious groups have certain areas that they hang around or mostly {D: club for them?} 270: No I can't I can't say that. Interviewer: Okay. Um okay are there any names for uh these places that an outsider might not recognize? Is there does Ybor City have any kind of nickname or uh 270: No Interviewer: {X} 270: {D: Uh-uh.} {D: No sections} Interviewer: Okay. 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Um okay do the um like the well-off and the poor members of these groups live in dif- different neighborhoods? 270: Yes. {X} Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: How's that? 270: Well Hyde Park is mostly the rich Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: white people. And out this area you know um mostly blacks. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: You know um I'm not saying blacks don't live in High Park because there are you know some in Hyde Park but mostly rich, white people buy it. There's some poor areas along Twenty-Second Street. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: that's down in Heights. You know where the projects is? Interviewer: Yeah, I was down there a week or so ago. I was looking for well {D: do you know Mr Mime over in Draffus?} 270: Uh-huh. Interviewer: I was looking for him, uh I had gotten some information like now let's see about three or four months ago that I should talk to him you know? 270: #1 Uh-huh. # Interviewer: #2 Trying to get # uh people for my interviews. I went down there. I got lost. {NW} 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 270: Well that's mostly where well in West Tampa, it's some more projects. Interviewer: #1 Uh-huh. # 270: #2 {D: You know.} # 270: You know have you ever rode the interstate? Interviewer: Oh yeah. 270: #1 Well # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 270: along side you could see that. {NW} Interviewer: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Off to the right? 270: Uh-huh. Interviewer: Yeah {D: I know} 270: Well that's mostly where the poor blacks are and {X} {NW} That's about all I know. Interviewer: Okay. Um okay are there an- any names for uh these places that an outsider might not know of? You know like High Park, does it have any kind of a nickname? Or uh or Davis Island or something? 270: No. Interviewer: Okay. Uh {NW} okay do any of these neighborhoods that you were telling me about, you know like Town and Country, Temple Terrace, 270: Uh-huh. Interviewer: do they have their own shopping districts? 270: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay. Is there a certain name for these districts or uh or where are they located? 270: You talking about the shopping areas? Interviewer: Yeah, uh-huh. 270: Well Temple Terrace most of most of the shopping is on Fifty-Sixth Street. {D: It's um} It's not one mall what what you're saying is um like a lotta stores on the street? And um it's just stores, I can't Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: I don't know the name of 'em. Interviewer: Just like Ybor City has their own shopping district or just kinda scattered? 270: On Seventh Avenue there's stores all up in there. {D: Llama's} Furniture uh {D: uh} it's a Cuban sandwich place down that I go to, Silver Ring Interviewer: Yeah you were about to do Christmas, tell me 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 about that place. # Interviewer: Must be pretty good. 270: It is! {NW} Interviewer: Really? Yeah I was talking to uh well you know um uh Ms Chandler? 270: Uh-huh. Interviewer: Works down here at the office? I'm doing the same thing with her. Doing the same interviews with her. And she was uh she was telling about this Cuban sandwiches {D: down there} 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # It must be good, everybody goes there. 270: #1 They are. # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 270: {NW} Interviewer: Okay where uh where do like the rich people uh live? {NS} 270: Davis Island. Um Hyde Park. {X} that's the main two #1 places. # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh. # Uh-huh. 270: It's um Town and Country. That's a nice place. Off of {D: Dell} Main Road. Interviewer: #1 Uh-huh. # 270: #2 That's # that's Hyde Park also. Interviewer: Oh is it? 270: Yeah, that's right up you know where {D: Clan} High School is? Interviewer: Yeah. Yeah. 270: Up in there. Interviewer: Oh okay. 270: {NW} Interviewer: I- I don't live here, I just 270: {NW} Interviewer: just strutting through. And where uh do most of the other people live? You know like the middle class people? 270: I could say we're middle class people. Interviewer: Pardon me? 270: I could say we're middle class people. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Around {X} up in this area. Interviewer: Okay. {X} Is there any other neighborhoods that you know? 270: It's um some in Hyde Park. {X} you know it's scattered. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Can't say one place. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 270: #2 {D: I don't know} # Interviewer: Um are there any uh well-known places in Tampa? Uh withn the city limits? You know like parks or 270: Bush Garden. Interviewer: Oh yeah. 270: {NW} Interviewer: Everybody {D: who} really goes there {X} 270: Um {NW} let's see {X} drawing a blank. Um {NW} a lot of amusement parks. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Um {NS} Interviewer: {X} 270: you're talking about when the fair is here that's a everybody goes there. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Um they're building a new fairground up off of {D: Neil White} and that's gonna be open the next year or the year after that. Um {NW} are you talking just areas that just um recreation areas? Interviewer: Yeah or other things like uh big statues say downtown or something or 270: #1 Oh uh # Interviewer: #2 things # 270: parks you know University at Tampa? You know there's a lot of statues {X} Interviewer: Uh-huh. I- isn't it in some kind of big old village? Uh somebody was telling me about that 270: Oh the castle. That's the that's the university now Interviewer: #1 Uh-huh. # 270: #2 but it # wasn't before. Before Interviewer: Oh really? 270: yes. There's um {X} and um {D: I think it} trying to go from here and Interviewer: {NW} 270: get me nervous {NW} {X} Interviewer: Don't be nervous, 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # {D: makes you} if there aren't any other places you know? {X} 270: #1 That I can # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 270: think of. Interviewer: Yeah. Okay. Um if you were say flying in from like Georgia or New York, where would you land? Where would the plane land? 270: In Ta- Tampa. Interviewer: Well not here but {NW} yeah in Tampa, uh-huh. 270: Tampa International Airport. Interviewer: Okay. Um do you see any difference between something called a airport and an airfield? 270: Yes uh airfield is private, isn't it? Interviewer: {D: I think} 270: And a airport is public. Interviewer: Okay. Um say if um I was coming in from say Georgia what uh big road would I take coming down to Tampa? 270: {X} um Interviewer: Well it would be it would be Seventy-Five. Would you have any name for that type of uh road? 270: I haven't driven to Georgia in a long time. Interviewer: Okay uh here's a phrase, would would you ever call that big road an interstate? 270: Uh-huh. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 270: #2 A # highway. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 270: #2 Highway. # Interviewer: Okay. 270: {NW} Interviewer: Um okay where where might you stop along the uh highway {D: to uh} to you know wanna get out and stretch your legs? 270: A rest area. Interviewer: Okay. Um would it make any difference between uh someplace that had like picnic tables? Toilets? 270: Yes. It would Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 Yeah {D: I mean} # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Uh {NW} if you can drive it, why not take a {X} um or if it has just like a service station and would you call 'em rest stops uh rest areas? Rest stop, yeah. 270: A rest stop? Okay. Um what is it that's uh painted on the roads to help you stay in your lane? What would you call those? A yellow line. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 270: #2 {NW} # {NW} Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Um what about uh like have you ever seen those big concrete things that they put 270: Leading strip? Interviewer: Yeah. Uh-huh. 270: {NW} Interviewer: Okay. Um what what if there were two like say four lanes of traffic with two going this way and two going this way and there was a big grass area between, what would you call that grass area? 270: Let's see I'm really not sure. Interviewer: Okay. {C: dog barking} Um okay what do what would you call the the place places on the highway that you would get off and get on? 270: Exit {NW} Interviewer: {NW} 270: and uh just I just get on Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 270: #2 {X} # 270: entrance somewhere. Interviewer: Okay. Okay. Um {NS} okay ar- are there any uh roads {D: italic} in uh {D: Owen B. Annerd} or uh left to special places? 270: {NW} No. Interviewer: Okay is it is there a uh {X} I think it's going over to uh Clearwater, isn't there a kind of a long highway that you go o- 270: Oh uh um {X} Interviewer: #1 {X} # 270: #2 Causeway. # Interviewer: Pardon me? 270: The causeway? Interviewer: Yeah okay. Okay. Um okay, are there any um neighborhoods I mean not neighborhoods but streets that are associated with uh uh certain uh groups of people? Like you just said well like Atlanta um Tenth Street is where all the hippies used to hang out years ago. 270: #1 Uh-huh. # Interviewer: #2 Is # there any streets in Tampa that you know you say such-and-such street {D: some might say ah} you know. 270: Down {D: Avery} {D: they call it strip} Interviewer: Oh is it? 270: Yes. #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 Is it? # 270: Um Interviewer: What who hangs out up there? 270: It's you know a lot of clubs and uh {NW} um the prostitutes. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: {D: I don't know what that street is} Also McGraff Street is uh {X} Interviewer: Oh really? 270: Uh-huh. Interviewer: Lovely town. 270: {NW} Interviewer: {D: No} Okay is there uh any uh uh streets that are associated with certain neighborhoods? You know ne- groups of people I mean who said such-and-such an avenue you immediately {D: come to uh} Cubans or Greeks or {D: what have you} 270: Seventh Avenue, that's {NS} Ybor City. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Cubans. Um that's the one I can think of right now. Interviewer: Okay. Um okay if um okay what uh what might you call a uh a place where like railroads go over uh you mind if I smoke? 270: Uh-uh. No. Interviewer: Do you care for one? 270: No Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 270: #2 I # don't smoke. Interviewer: That's good. Don't get started. 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Um uh is there a place where um uh railroad tracks would go overhead? 270: No Interviewer: No no place in Tampa like that? 270: All in the ground. {NW} Interviewer: All in the ground. Uh what do you have a term or something for a place like that? What would you call a big say a 270: Monorail? Interviewer: Or something like that, uh-huh. 270: Is it's monorail {D: timber} are you talking about just Interviewer: #1 {X} # 270: #2 Pass- # enger trains or Interviewer: Yeah mostly, you know freight trains 270: No {X} Interviewer: Uh-huh. Um well would you be more likely to call something like that um a viaduct or an underpass? 270: No. Interviewer: Okay. Okay how would you um usually park the car like on a neighborhood street? You know if you had to park one here, park one here what's that? Is there a name for that kind of parking? 270: Parallel. Interviewer: Okay. You ever have to have to learn how to do that? 270: Yes. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 270: #2 {NW} # 270: That's part of the uh driver's ed courses, you have to do that to get your license. Interviewer: Oh really? 270: Uh-huh. Interviewer: Wow. I don't see how my mom got her license {NW} at least in Georgia um okay what kind of um um parking's done at like a shopping center? 270: Angle parking. Interviewer: Okay. Okay. Um alright what uh what might you find uh or call those um outlets you know where the fire department hooks up to the hoses? 270: Hydrant. Interviewer: Yeah. Yeah. 270: {NW} Interviewer: {NW} That's {D: tough, okay} 270: #1 Uh-huh. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Okay. Um okay what uh where's it that you would park when you go downtown? 270: Um they have parking lots but they're filled most of the time with {X} Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: you know parallel {D: park} Interviewer: Uh-huh. Um w- when you mean parking lot does does that like a parking lot with a bunch of {D: like} 270: #1 {D: Uh-huh.} # Interviewer: #2 three or four # layers? 270: No um Interviewer: Or 270: #1 Just # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 270: a lot with you know the {D: cars, the cars are left} Interviewer: Uh-huh. D- do you have any word for that kind of parking in the drive into the building, just go about about three or four levels? 270: No, just park. Interviewer: Okay. Um Okay what are the um um tallest largest buildings in Tampa? 270: First the Natural College. That's the tallest. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Uh thats the tallest building. You you want more than than just that one? Interviewer: Well tallest a- and largest 270: That's the only Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 270: #2 I # tall Interviewer: O- 270: #1 building # Interviewer: #2 kay # Interviewer: Okay they just they just built a 270: #1 this new uh # Interviewer: #2 {D: Uh-huh.} # hotel in Atlanta, it's like seventy stories tall. 270: Wow. {NW} Interviewer: #1 {X} # 270: #2 {D: Okay} # Interviewer: #1 # 270: #2 # Interviewer: {NW} they give you oxygen when you go up from the 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 in the elevator # you know? Um o-okay. Is there any do you know any kind of words that describe a just really tall buildings? Uh have you ever called 'em uh 270: Skyscrapers. Interviewer: Okay. Okay. Um would you would you ever call like that that bank down there a highrise? 270: No I would refer to that one as uh we have a highrise apartment building. Interviewer: Okay. Okay. 270: Uh Interviewer: Uh okay what uh what would you call like a passageway uh say between two buildings downtown? Like if there's a big the main street was here and there were two big buildings? 270: An alley? Interviewer: Okay. Um how about if it was like behind your house? 270: An alley. Interviewer: Okay. Uh and what uh what might you call a uh uh say a place downtown that um makes that had a building on it and they just tore it down and they haven't built anything else? 270: Vacant lot? Interviewer: Okay, sure. Okay. Um are there different sizes of vacant lots that you've seen in Tampa? 270: Yes. Interviewer: Are they like half a block long or 270: {NW} Um some of 'em are like the size of this house you know uh a block uh {X} half a block, Interviewer: #1 Uh-huh. # 270: #2 it # 270: varies. Interviewer: Oh okay. Um where where might you get a uh a drink of water near near one of these big buildings? 270: At a water fountain. Interviewer: Okay. How about if if you were in a park or something? Would you call that a water fountain too? 270: Uh-huh. Interviewer: Okay. Um okay can you name some different kinds of uh cars and trucks? {D: Maybe} not naming you know like brand names like Chevrolet or Buick but like styles? 270: Um {NW} a Cordoba A Mustang. A Chevrolet, Chev- Chevelle {D: Roller} {NW} A {D: Cellofen} Volkswagon. A T. R. Six. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 {D: Okay} # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Um okay are there any like general type of cars? Or I mean is there like you know two-door and four-door type {D: thing?} 270: I don't under- Interviewer: #1 Oh okay. # 270: #2 stand uh # Interviewer: I mean uh are there any kind of uh descriptions for um like cars a- and trucks that you see around that you could say you see what what you were naming was uh brand names you know. I mean the companies that put 'em out. 270: Uh-huh. Interviewer: Is there any like general terms for uh uh cars? Like you know they'd either have two doors or four doors or 270: No. Interviewer: Convertible? Whatever. 270: Yeah I'd say a convertible. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: I've seen 'em. Convertible. But I wouldn't use two-door or four-door. Interviewer: Okay. Uh okay what uh what might you call a real a real big car that eats a lotta gas? Is there any kind of general word that you might call it? Like would you ever call it gashog or 270: {NW} Interviewer: anything like that? 270: A hog, I mean a hog. Interviewer: Oh do you? 270: #1 Uh-huh. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah? # Okay. Um have you ever seen one of those cars that uh they don't have a a trunk you know? Like in the back the window just goes down? In these cars {D: get it rolled it it in?} 270: A hatchback? Interviewer: Okay. It's it's something like a hatchback, yeah. Uh this is more like um well usually large families have a a car like this. Instead of you know like in the back of back part of the car coming down like this, 270: #1 {D: Uh-huh.} # Interviewer: #2 you have the # trunk here {X} 270: {NW} Interviewer: something like that. It goes all the way 'til the end. Like that. This way? 270: Oh e- sure. Sure. Interviewer: Oh {X} yeah. Uh okay um if what uh what kinds of uh of small trucks like bring mail or small items to your house? 270: Um a mail mailman, a mail truck. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: a moving Interviewer: Okay. Wou- would you ever call something like that a {D: something} like that a panel truck? Or just a delivery truck or what might you call it? Just as a general 270: #1 Truck. # Interviewer: #2 word? # 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {D: don't dream and} # she- she'll guess that herself. 270: {NW} Interviewer: Um okay what uh what might you call one of those trucks that farmers used to drive? 270: Pickups. Interviewer: Okay. Um okay then what uh what might you take to the airport if uh you couldn't get a taxi? 270: Bus. {NW} Interviewer: Okay. Anything else? 270: That's all it's either a taxi or a bus. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Wou- would you ever take a limousine? 270: #1 {D: Oh} # Interviewer: #2 O- # 270: no {NW} Interviewer: {NW} 270: No {NW} Interviewer: Okay. Um let's see okay where uh where's the speedometer located on your car? 270: Um right um in front of the steering wheel. Interviewer: Okay, is there a name for that area underneath the windshield? 270: Dashboard. Interviewer: Okay. Sure. Um okay and that little little place in your dashboard that you know you got a little locking thing? You can put maps and gloves and {X} 270: Glove compartment. Interviewer: Okay. Good. Um {NW} Okay what uh what might you use to uh I think I got one here. {NS} One of these great American inventions. 270: Rubberband. Interviewer: Okay. Have you ever heard it called aynthing else other than rubberband? 270: Rubber for short but Interviewer: Uh-huh. Okay. Okay. Um okay if you had just a couple pieces of paper like this what would you call this this thing right here? 270: Paperclip. Interviewer: Okay. Have you ever hear- ever heard it called anything else? 270: {D: No.} Interviewer: Okay. Uh okay and then the place in your car where you might keep um you know your spare tire {D: folds} and all that area. 270: Trunk. Interviewer: Okay. This is really tough okay. 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Um okay and and the thing that you might step on to uh 270: Gas pedal. Interviewer: Okay. Um i- how would you shift uh gears in a car without the an automatic transition? 270: Funny you should ask me that, I drive one #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 Oh # do ya? {NW} 270: #1 Yeah. # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 270: {NW} Interviewer: Okay. 270: Clutch. {NW} Interviewer: The clutch? 270: #1 Uh-huh. # Interviewer: #2 Okay. # Interviewer: What would you call the thing that you grind the gears with? {NW} 270: A shift. Interviewer: Okay. Is there are there uh different kinds? Of shifts? I mean are they located in different places? 270: A van {D: fair} hold the steering wheel. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Most you know cars and things {X} Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 270: #2 it's just an # old, it's not fancy. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Is there is there a name for that for the ones that are on the floor? 270: Stickshift? Interviewer: Yeah. Okay. Um what uh what might you hit {NW} if you're driving through like a a residential section? You know big lumps in the road used to uh slow people down? 270: Oh uh Interviewer: Is there a name for those things? 270: Yes uh hm I can't think of the name of it. Interviewer: Okay would uh would you call 'em like speed-breakers or speedhumps? 270: Speedbumps. {NW} Interviewer: Speed- 270: Yeah {D: I know} Interviewer: #1 have you ever hit one of those things? # 270: #2 {NW} # 270: Uh-huh. {NW} Interviewer: Yeah I had a I had a Jeep one time that I was cruising along and hit one of those things and almost put my head through the 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 canvas, you know? # Interviewer: Okay, what uh what kinds of cars and trucks and uh aircraft are used by the fire and police department? Just general. Three or four. 270: Firetrucks. That's just one. Um boats. Interviewer: Okay. Um 270: You'e talking about ambulances too? Interviewer: Sure, yeah. Uh-huh. Um what what might the um fire chief come to the fire in? 270: What? {D: That's what} um A rescue. Interviewer: Okay. Um {X} {C: silence} Okay. Um 270: {D: I need} closer {NW} Interviewer: Not's it's it's okay. It's just I have trouble to recording {D: my lil- little} Been having problems with this thing ever since I got it down here. Um okay uh uh what uh what might the police carry a lot of people off in? {D: A lock?} 270: #1 Um # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # 270: {X} {X} {NW} it's a I don't use it much, {D: just fall off the bed} Some truck but I can't think of the name of it. Interviewer: Would you just call it a police van or a paddywagon? 270: Paddywagon. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: U- um again in that that uh aircraft that the police sometimes use you know big spin- 270: Helicopter? Interviewer: Okay. Um have you ever seen those things cruise around at night? 270: Yes. Interviewer: #1 Yeah # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: they uh I was talking to this one lady down at the uh the newspaper office and she was telling me that uh she I think she was coming home from a date one night and a chopper was coming over and had that big spotlight. 270: Yes. Interviewer: She thought the lord was calling her 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # {NW} 270: {NW} Interviewer: Okay what uh what different kinds of uh bad weather do you get in this area? The Tampa area? 270: Um storms. Hail. {NW} Interviewer: {NW} 270: Um Interviewer: Do you really get hale? 270: Um about a couple of weeks ago there was a tornado watch Interviewer: Oh yeah 270: and um hail, it was {D: big one} Interviewer: {NW} 270: {NW} Interviewer: Caught all sorts of hail {NW} 270: {NW} Interviewer: Okay. Are there any other storms? 270: Sometimes we have electrical storms. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: But it's mostly rain and lightning. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Not snow. It's never snowed. {NW} Interviewer: #1 Okay # 270: #2 I wish it did. # Interviewer: Snow? You ever live in a place that has snow? 270: No. I've never seen any. Interviewer: Don't worry about it, 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {D: you're not missing out} # Interviewer: It's nice to look at but it's it's a pain to shovel. 270: {NW} Interviewer: Uh okay are there any um um do you ever have ice storms down here? 270: You're talking about um hurricanes? Interviewer: Well these these are more like um if it it rains a lot and then the water freezes? 270: No. Interviewer: Oh. In Georgia we have just every once in a while and like they'll when the rain comes down it's um it's like below freezing down on the earth. 270: Yeah. {NW} Interviewer: It's warmer up in the sky. 270: {D: Uh-huh.} Interviewer: And when stuff hits it makes a layer of ice under everything. You know trees {D: and everything} {X} 270: Oh yeah {D: the} dew, does that Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: It's like when it's cold that uh windshield on the car if you leave 'em out ice. Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 270: #2 {NW} # 270: But as far as that there's no ice. Interviewer: Okay. Um what uh what might you call the the poli- uh firemen? Is there any uh goo- good terms that you know for the firemen? Or bad terms? Or slang or anything like that? 270: {D: Naw} just firemen. Interviewer: Okay. 270: If you ask me about police. Interviewer: #1 Right. # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: That's the next 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 question. # Interviewer: Are there any for the police? 270: Cops. {NW} Um pigs. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: {NW} that's it {NW} Interviewer: Okay. Uh {NS} okay and the place that the police usually stay, what would that be called? 270: Station? Interviewer: Uh-huh. Okay. And how about the um firemen? 270: Um firehouse? Interviewer: Okay. Okay. {NS} Okay if a uh if {X} have have you you uh have you ever heard anybody use the term uh drunk tank? 270: I've never seen that word. {NW} Interviewer: {NW} Okay. 270: {NW} Tank. Interviewer: Do is there a difference to you between drunktank and jail? 270: No. {NW} Interviewer: It's down- 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 hill, that's all. # Interviewer: Okay. Uh what might the uh the policemen carry with with 'em for protection? 270: A gun. {X} Interviewer: Okay. Are there um different kinds that you know of? Or 270: I just know um twenty-two caliber uh call 'em heats. {NW} Um Interviewer: You call 'em what? 270: Heats. Interviewer: Oh really? 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 270: um thirty-two. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: I don't know about guns Interviewer: #1 {X} # 270: #2 I'm # scared, I don't. Interviewer: Okay. Um what else might the uh police carry with 'em? 270: A bat. {NW} Interviewer: A 270: #1 No a # Interviewer: #2 a {D: what?} # 270: um a stick. Interviewer: Uh-huh. {NS} Okay. Um okay what are some you mentioned prostitutes on on Dale Mavery 270: Uh-huh. Interviewer: uh what are other names for prostitutes? 270: {D: Prawls} {NW} Interviewer: Pardon me? 270: {D: Prawls} Interviewer: Really? 270: {NW} Interviewer: Ho- how do you 270: {D: Prawls} you know, shop for prostitute. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 270: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Oh okay. 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 270: Um um {NW} Interviewer: That's really interesting, that's the first time that I've ever heard that. Anything else? 270: None that I can think of. Interviewer: Okay. Um okay what is the uh building sometimes called where prostitutes work? 270: {D: You mean} where you take that {NW} Interviewer: Pardon me? 270: Whe- where they take the uh customers? Interviewer: {NW} 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 Okay. # 270: #1 Uh {NW} # Interviewer: #2 Yeah you can call it # customers 270: Um I don't have no name. Interviewer: Okay. Um okay what what might you call a manager of a prostitute? 270: A pimp. {NW} Interviewer: A pimp, 270: #1 Uh-huh. # Interviewer: #2 okay. # Interviewer: Do you have any other terms or 270: That's all. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 270: #2 Pimp. # Interviewer: Um okay what uh what might you call somebody that uh is always getting uh arrested you know like downtown for being drunk all the time? Always thrown in jail? 270: For being drunk? Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: A wino. {NW} #1 Or a drunkard. # Interviewer: #2 Okay. # Interviewer: Okay. How about if um somebody uh got drunk a lot at at a party? Would you still call him a wino or a drunk or 270: A drunk. {NW} Interviewer: Uh-huh. Is it do you see any difference between someone that's called a drunk and somebody that's called an alchoholic? 270: No. Interviewer: Okay. They're {NW} 270: {NW} Interviewer: #1 Same old stuff # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 {X} # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Okay. Um do you see any difference between somebody that's called who might be called a drunk and somebody that might called a derelict? 270: Well {NW} {NS} Interviewer: {D: You're at uni- cab once you've gottten out so} 270: This a derelict is someone doing it for fun or something? Um I couldn't answer. Interviewer: Oh okay. Okay. Um okay what what might you call those cheap hotels where you know derelicts might you know the two-dollar-a-night hotel type thing. 270: A motel? {NW} Interviewer: Okay. Woul- would you ever call that anything else? You know would you ever call it {D: flop house} or 270: No. Interviewer: Okay. Um what are some um some forms uh that you know of of marijuana in uh Tampa? 270: {D: Oh gold} {X} Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Um that's the hardest, it's just plain reefer. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: That's the that's the only only two Interviewer: Okay, is the gold supposed to be the best or 270: Uh-huh. The strongest. Interviewer: Okay. Um {D: what uh} do you know of any other words for uh marijuana? Just that you heard around or 270: Reefer. Um {D: Lord come on, God} {X} {NW} It's a a no-name cigarette. {NW} Interviewer: A no-name cigarette? 270: Yeah {NW} Interviewer: {NW} Okay. Um okay what are are some of the harder drugs other than marijuana floating around town? 270: Heroin. Acid. Pop- popping pills um speed, downers uh {NW} cocaine. {D: There's one} that I can think of Interviewer: Okay. What uh what effects are usually associatied with each one of those that you named? That you've heard people talking about it or read or s- that you know of? 270: What what facts? Interviewer: Yeah what effects do you know {X} 270: what effect- oh. Well I know about heroin um. {NW} It's funny though, it'll stop you from uh no it'll make you have sex, Interviewer: #1 Uh-huh. # 270: #2 that's what # 270: I don't know about it, I don't use it. {D: You know?} Interviewer: Well I mean this is just what you've heard or talked to other people. 270: {NW} Um Downers. It you know if you you real high-strung Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: it um you know, bring you down. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Speed it you know like if you're down in the dumps it'll bring you spirits up. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Okay. How about uh cocaine? 270: I don't know much about I don't know {D: I only know} how you use it though. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Okay. What uh what might you call it if someone is uh who's always taking drugs? 270: A dope-addict. Interviewer: Okay. How about somebody who's a sells a lot of it? 270: Uh s- um a dealer. Interviewer: Okay. Okay. Have you ever heard any other names for 270: Um no. {NW} No. Interviewer: Okay. Um okay what might be some uh slang words uh for money? 270: Cash. Dough. Um green. {NW} Interviewer: {X} 270: {NW} that's all Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 270: #2 I can think # of. Interviewer: Um okay are there any places i- in Tampa where you might say take a watch in and and sell it to this guy {C: knocking on door} g- get his {NS} money for it? 270: Um a pawn dealer? Uh-huh. Interviewer: A pawn? 270: Yeah. Okay. Um {NW} Okay are there any different uh types of um uh different kinds of uh uh like general terms for uh wine that you know of? What um wine? {NW} You talking about the name? Of the brand? Interviewer: Well just um any like slang terms for wine that you know of? 270: No {NW} Interviewer: Okay. {D: Um} 270: You picked the right one, didn't you? Interviewer: #1 {X} # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: No, 270: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 no # see it's it's to us you know in in our study that we're doing it's just as important to know that um people say in your age bracket you know, you know in your educational level you know in high school don't know certain words. 270: Oh. Interviewer: I mean if I was talking to a a wino or something he'd probably rattle off fifty words or something 270: Uh- Interviewer: #1 for # 270: #2 huh. # Interviewer: different kinds of wine. But it's important for our study so you that it's just as important that you don't have the word or a term as it is that you do if that makes any sense. 270: Yeah I understand. Interviewer: Okay. 270: I'm in college now {NW} Interviewer: #1 Oh # 270: #2 I # didn't tell you that. Interviewer: Oh are you? 270: Uh-huh. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 270: #2 A. # C.C. Interviewer: Did you start already? 270: Yeah this fall I'm going into my um sophomore year. Oh oh. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Okay. What does what does H. s- H.C.C. what does that {X} 270: Hilsborough Community College. Interviewer: #1 Oh # 270: #2 It's a # it's a junior college. I should have told you that. {NW} Interviewer: Is that um you study cler- clerical? 270: No {NW} I I'm not into that, I'm not into {X} that. Um I wanted to go into dentistry but I changed my mind. So now I'm just taking the basic classes Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: 'til I make up my mind whether I wanna go onto uh dentist at South Florida. Go out of town to college. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 270: Um my other choice is going into the airlines. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Being a team steward? 270: I thought about being a stewardess but I thought about the air and crashing and everything Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 270: #2 {NW} # 270: so um {D: it might take me a little bit} Interviewer: Uh-huh. My dad's a dentist back in Atlanta. 270: {NW} Interviewer: He's a he's been at it for a long time. Um okay what uh what might you call a uh worst the really worst section of town? Like a place where derelicts might hang out? Or #1 criminals might hang out? # 270: #2 {X} # {NW} Um Interviewer: Is there a general word for that type of that area? 270: Just call it rundown. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Would you ever call it like skidrow? Anything like that? 270: No. Interviewer: Okay. Um okay what uh what might be some terms that you know for uh pornographic movies, the movies themselves and the places where they're shown? 270: X-rated. {NW} Interviewer: #1 Uh-huh. # 270: #2 {NW} # 270: Um that's it {NW} Interviewer: #1 Alright. # 270: #2 X-rated. # Interviewer: What i- um is there any name for the places where they're shown? 270: Um uh {NW} a movie house. Uh just a theater. Interviewer: Did you ever call it like X-rated theater? 270: Yeah, X-rated That's Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 270: #2 {D: what I said} # Interviewer: Um okay okay what uh what are some uh {D: Beverly} uh some city employees besides the the police and firemen that work in your neighborhood? 270: Oh uh mailman? Um um Interviewer: Is there somebody that comes around here and picks up 270: Trashman. Interviewer: Okay. 270: Garbage man. That's what I say. Interviewer: Okay. 270: Um {NW} people that uh fix the roads up {X} um I can't think of {X} come that's all that come down here is garbage man. Interviewer: Yeah. 270: Mailman. Interviewer: Okay. Um what uh what would you say a person has if they're able to uh like get favors from city hall? 270: Cool {NW} Interviewer: #1 Cool. # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 270: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Okay. Anything else? 270: Um he has friends. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 270: #2 {NW} # 270: Um that's all I Interviewer: Okay, great. Um what uh what might you call somebody that works for the city but doesn't have a real job uh you know has no real responsibilities but get's paid anyway? 270: That's a {NW} I don't know what {D: all it} I must be nervous. {NW} {NW} You call 'em a parasite but you wouldn't Interviewer: Okay. That's a good good name for 'em. 270: Lazy. {NW} Interviewer: Okay. 270: I don't know. Interviewer: Okay. Okay what uh what what would you call like the uh large food stores and shopping centers? 270: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 Is there # a general word for those big type stores? 270: A mall. A grocery store. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Okay. Did you ever call it supermarket or 270: Grocery store. Interviewer: okay. Okay. Um okay are there um what what might you call a like stores that open up early and close late? {NS} 270: {NW} Just a {X} {X} I don't know Interviewer: #1 Would would # 270: #2 {X} # Interviewer: you ever call 'em the convenient stores or 270: No. Interviewer: Okay. Um what what might you call a store that uh like that's run by one of the local family fam- families like you know that lives around here? 270: Just a a store. Interviewer: Okay. Um okay are there any uh um stores that have like specialties items or like uh you know cooked meats and vegetable salads? 270: Oh uh already cooked? Interviewer: Yeah. I mean they make sandwiches. They have a lot of strange foods. 270: Oh a restaruant. Interviewer: Okay. {NS} Would would you call it anything else? 270: No. Interviewer: Okay would uh uh would you ever use uh {D: delta test?} 270: Naw. I don't use that. Interviewer: Okay. 270: I know {X} about it {X} Interviewer: Okay. Okay. Um okay what kind of things do uh some people have in their kitchen to uh heat foods? 270: A stove. Interviewer: Okay. Anything else? 270: Hotplate {D: and} Interviewer: Okay. Have you ever seen one of those uh ovens that {D: that uh} {NS} {D: you have t-} 270: Microwave?