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2007.500.587

Core
Old No
684
Title
Buchonis, Raymond
Title (generic)
Tape
Accession No.

Address: 6 Vermont Street, Lawrence, MA 01841
Date of Birth: June 1, 1924
Occupation: Retired - Restaurant Business
Ethnic Background: Lithuanian - French
Interviewer: Joan Kelley
Summary: The narrator describes the Brook/Union Street area where he spent his youth. He includes the businesses, particularly bakeries, which were so abundant in the locale. Besides people of his Lithuanian heritage, there were Polish, German, and Italian people (and the resulting businesses). His friends were primarily Italian. He played in the section which today is Scarito Park; the boys would roast potatoes in the small fires that they built. They also would go through a large drain pipe to fight boys from Prospect Hill.

See also OH 678

Collection
Lawrence History Center Oral History Collection
Date (created)
2007-11-06
Format
1 tape, 50 minutes
Administrative
Release
NoRelease
Location
2nd Floor Oral History Room
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Status
OK
Copy
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Folder
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