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Audio Recording "Remember what Paterson used to be: piece goods. The train used to leave the silk goods on this block, back in the 1800s."

"Remember what Paterson used to be: piece goods. The train used to leave the silk goods on this block, back in the 1800s."

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Title

  • "Remember what Paterson used to be: piece goods. The train used to leave the silk goods on this block, back in the 1800s."

Names

  • Contreras-Mas, Sylvia (Narrator)
  • Curling, Amada (Narrator)
  • Carroll, Thomas D. (Interviewer)

Created / Published

  • 1994-09-15

Headings

  • -  Interviews
  • -  Oral history
  • -  Sound recordings
  • -  Clothing industry
  • -  Family-run businesses
  • -  Industrial facilities
  • -  21st Avenue (Paterson, N. J.)
  • -  V. B. F. Trim Company (Paterson, N.J.)
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- New Jersey -- Paterson

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Interview with Amada Curling and Sylvia Contreras-Mas, co-owners of V.B.F., a garment cutting and sewing contractor business.
  • -  Summary of audio segment: Why Paterson? Cheaper rents. They found out by doing some research, looking into things. Went through the brokers, asked for a straight, clean-cut loft, with a big open space and no beams in between. And Paterson has buildings like that, not many other places do. Because there's a lot of old buildings in Paterson. SC-M says remember what Paterson used to be: piece goods. The train used to leave the silk goods on this block, back in the 1800s. So, they had to do something right.

Medium

  • Digital Audio Tape

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1995/028: WIP-TDC-A027

Source Collection

  • Working in Paterson Project Collection (AFC 1995/028)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line

Working in Paterson Project collection, 1993-2002 (AFC 1995/028), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Contreras-Mas, Sylvia, Amada Curling, and Thomas D Carroll. "Remember what Paterson used to be: piece goods. The train used to leave the silk goods on this block, back in the s.". -09-15, 1994. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip004022/.

APA citation style:

Contreras-Mas, S., Curling, A. & Carroll, T. D. (1994) "Remember what Paterson used to be: piece goods. The train used to leave the silk goods on this block, back in the s.". -09-15. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip004022/.

MLA citation style:

Contreras-Mas, Sylvia, Amada Curling, and Thomas D Carroll. "Remember what Paterson used to be: piece goods. The train used to leave the silk goods on this block, back in the s.". -09-15, 1994. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afcwip004022/>.