JK Stories : Draft
Transcript Story 045 - 050
My father had been assigned to the fixed post because there
had been a series of hold ups of pawn shops.
He was in the back of the pawn shop when my friend Chester Murphy came
in. He was going to redeem a typewriter that he had put in their O. week
before. He had received five dollars for
it. He had the five dollars now and he
wanted to redeem it. but he saw my father in the
back. My father used to always kid us,
and
A K. K.:
J. J. K.: Yes,
A K.: how old was he about this time
J. J. K.: he would have been about 20 years old
AK :he was already 20 ?of
J. K.: yes were already going to dances and everything
AK.: did he ever tell your father the story?
JK.: Yeah, Yeah later on
I was getting dressed to go into team practice. And all the sudden the girls walked into the locker room, of course they saw us exposed their and they yelled and they beat it, see. And we went in and somebody told the coach about. And when we came in the coach says to us what is this I understand about you guys giving a biology lessened to the girls?
A K.: did it get out to the other kids what it happened?
J. K.: I don't remember that.
Lee Ross was one of the lifeguards at
I used to like to talk to him, I used to like to needle him at the same time, so I said to him: Why should I come up and talk to you there? I can swim rings around any these guys here and I can't even get a job. He said I realize that, but come on up and talk anyway. I said I am so interesting that if we get talking together, we won't know what is going on. First thing you know, someone will start to drownd in your area, and they will be going down and we will be so immersed in our talk that we won't even see the person going down. He says: not to worry, who am I? I say, Lee Ross, my great friend. No, he says, Lee Ross, one of the fastest swimmers in the East. Right to, I said, yes, but what has that got to do with us here? And Lee says who was that down at the other end of the dock? And I said: Howie Thompson, my great friend. Now he said its Howie Thompson your great friend, the most conscientious man on the beach. You and I will be talking, a swimmer will start to go down in my area, Howie will start to see him going down. He will blow the whistle, I will take off my parka.and quickly make the rescue. Come on, let's talk. Laughter.
He is still going strong, Lee, at 84.
a.k..: where does he live?
In
Vinney Dunleavy was about 32 years of age, when this transpired. He had been a professional basketball star. My brother George is about 21, at the time, he had just come back from overseas. We were playing hand ball and I get a shot. Vinny, and George were both at the back to the court in. They went for the ball at the same time. And George when by like a light..He made Vinney look like he was standing still. So I said to Vinney later on, Jeese, he is quick! He says, when we are playing basketball one-on-one, I am four inches taller than him. And yet he is so quick,he just comes along. The difference in age. 21 and 32
AK:.what was your age at the time? 32, he was 21, 11 years difference
Arthur Donovan was a coach of the New York AC, boxing. He was one of the foremost referees in
AK: Did they actually do a lot of Street fighting, in those days?
No, no, but you would hear about it from time to time. Capt. Sheridan, had been a sailor, and he would get in fights with the guys on his ship, in his crew. He would beat the hell out of them.
There was a military mass, on the Elkon
river, in
Adhiratha: wasn't there another part of the story were you were in another city?
Yes, I was in
Adhiratha: and he was from? And where was this?
This was in
Story No. (JKS-051 ___) Radio Praying – Listening to Mass from St. Patrick's, Kneel down it’s the consecration My mother had her friend - religious woman,
My mother had her friend, a very religious woman, one
Christmas eve, she had broken her arm and the she
could not go to the