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Audio Recording Jameson Wagner interview conducted by Jess Lamar Reece Holler, 2018-06-07

Audio interview with Jameson Wagner, night-shift manager at Adriatico's Pizza. Part 1 of 2.
Audio interview with Jameson Wagner.

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Title

  • Jameson Wagner interview conducted by Jess Lamar Reece Holler, 2018-06-07

Summary

  • Long-time Adriatico's Pizza night shift manager Jameson Wagner discusses his early childhood in Medina, Ohio; his introduction to restaurant work through front- and back-of-house work at a now-defunct finer-dining establishment in Medina; and his start at Adriatico's Pizza upon moving to Columbus to attend the Ohio State University. Jameson, who is also trained as a sociologist, talks extensively about the dynamics of food service employee worker and management culture, and sets forth several compelling theories about ways that kitchen workers' occupational folklife and socialization contributes to a culture of excellence, cohesion, pride, and sense of personal contributions to the workplace. Jameson discusses the deeply-ingrained role that Adriatico's Pizza has played in campus life; the culture of the night-shift and the pizza kitchen (including bawdy humor); after-work socialization cultures amongst kitchen workers; and Adriatico's unique Sicilian-style dough and massive "Buckeye" pizza size. He talks about wages; his unexpected career at Adriatico's after graduating from college; and the restaurant owner's unique profit-sharing model. Finally. he discusses Adriaticos' pending move to a new location around the corner, since Ohio State University's School of Optometry is seizing the building where the restaurant has stood for the past 30-odd years.

Names

  • Wagner, Jameson, interviewee
  • Holler, Jess Lamar Reece, interviewer
  • Occupational Folklife Project, sponsor

Created / Published

  • 2018-06-07

Headings

  • -  Wagner, Jameson--Interviews
  • -  Hours of labor
  • -  Humor in the workplace
  • -  Wages--Service industries
  • -  Job satisfaction
  • -  Work environment
  • -  Work-life balance
  • -  Restaurants
  • -  Food service employees--Ohio--Interviews
  • -  Restaurants--Employees--Interviews

Genre

  • Sound recordings
  • Video recordings
  • Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Personal narratives

Notes

  • -  Recorded at Adriatico's Pizza, Columbus, Ohio, June 7, 2018.
  • -  Kitchen Workers in Central Ohio: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2017-2018 (AFC 2017/020: 04380) American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  To honor the memory of Archie Green (1917-2009), a fellowship program was established at the American Folklife Center in 2010. Archie Green Fellowships support new research in the contemporary culture and traditions of American workers.
  • -  In English.

Medium

  • 2 sound recordings (01:41:11) : digital, wav
  • 8 video recordings : digital, sound, color, mov
  • 23 photographs : digital, Camera Raw, color
  • 1 manuscript : digital, pdf

Source Collection

  • Kitchen Workers in Central Ohio: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2017-2018 AFC 2017/020: 04380

Repository

Digital Id

  • https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2017020.afc2017020_04380_sr01
  • afc2017020.afc2017020_04380_sr02
  • afc2017020.afc2017020_04380_ph
  • afc2017020.afc2017020_04380_ms01
  • afc2017020.afc2017020_04380_mv01
  • afc2017020.afc2017020_04380_mv02
  • afc2017020.afc2017020_04380_mv03
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  • afc2017020.afc2017020_04380_mv06
  • afc2017020.afc2017020_04380_mv07
  • afc2017020.afc2017020_04380_mv08

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021655389

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  • video
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Wagner, Jameson, Interviewee, Jess Lamar Reece Holler, and Sponsor Occupational Folklife Project. Jameson Wagner interview conducted by Jess Lamar Reece Holler, -06-07. -06-07, 2018. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021655389/.

APA citation style:

Wagner, J., Holler, J. L. R. & Occupational Folklife Project, S. (2018) Jameson Wagner interview conducted by Jess Lamar Reece Holler, -06-07. -06-07. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021655389/.

MLA citation style:

Wagner, Jameson, Interviewee, Jess Lamar Reece Holler, and Sponsor Occupational Folklife Project. Jameson Wagner interview conducted by Jess Lamar Reece Holler, -06-07. -06-07, 2018. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021655389/>.