Category: Tillie Olsen
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Alice Kahn Fall 1984 interview annotations
These are for my purposes, no pretense to completeness. I find his comments about Joe Garcia to be quite revealing. There are a few other good nuggets in here. Man, even in the depths of his Rock Bottom period, he sounds engaged and articulate. What a mind! ~~~~~~~~~~~ Fall 1984 interview by Alice Kahn. Date…
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Which Side Are You On?
I got a few hours at the San Francisco State University Labor Archives and Research Center to see if the haystack would yield any needles about ol’ Joe Garcia, recalling that Jerry had said his pops had had some hassle with the musicians’ union. What we think we know Blair narrates that in April 1937…