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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
About every movie house you go in, you get your seats and sat down like--
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Was it big?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Yeah, they had a stage, yes, and they had the piano, and they had the, uh-- The Lafayette always had the orchestra, and the Lafayette always had a good show.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
You paid for it though, but it's a good show. I don't remember, can't recall what the price was, but they always had a good show, always had a good show.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Was the attraction the orchestra, or the play, or what was going on on stage?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
No, the play was the main thing. The orchestra, they had a lot of problems, a lot of noise, but the Lafayette just had good shows.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
They had the, what would they call it, Pigmeat, is that what he was? You don't remember? Pigmeat.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Pigmeat Markham. Comedian?

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Pigmeat.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Yeah.

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Pigmeat used to come out and they had a good show; they had a very good show, the Lafayette; a very good show.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
And what was, what was the movie house like; the Majestic, here on Nostrand Avenue?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
On Nostand Avenue, they had the movie, and the girl would play the piano, and they didn't have any orchestra,
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
and they had the, as I said, the side door, where you go up the side and go up in the set and the attic.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
That's the only place I had remembered where you had to go in separate.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
It was that place. I can never remember the name of the place because its been a many, a many a year ago for-- A lot's been under the damn since that (laughter).
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
You don't remember any, or do you remember any of the films you might've seen?

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Any what?
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Do you remember any of the films you might've seen in that moviehouse?

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Mn mn. In the movies, a whole of Indians running up and down the hill.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
They used to show a lot of Indians. Now you don't need a television, you don't see Indians at all with the, in the wigwams and all that.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mm.
{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
They used to have all the Indians in the, whole lotta but there was--
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Everything was so different. I'm telling ya, we lived a different different world; all together different world.
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Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-29 12:04:56 Pigmeat Markham was an entertainer which the speaker mentions. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-29 15:47:59 Timestamps go right where you stopped the tape, then put a space, then the speaker, etc... This is how instruction video shows it. THE TIMESTAMP DOES NOT!!! GO RIGHT ABOVE THE SPEAKER'S NAME. YOU NEED A SPACE. I WILL FIX.