- - Interview with Angelo Basileo at his home in Haledon, New Jersey.
- - Summary of audio segment: "We each had about fifty bucks. We hitchhiked. Between thumbing, freight cars . . . everything . . . walking." McCarl asks when this occurs. Angelo says, "early 'thirties, I guess. Took the Lincoln Highway, at that time that was all they had. It went through all the big towns like Trenton, Philadelphia, Ohio, up north a ways, then west. Sandusky, and west from there, more or less. Then we dropped down south again, the way the highway went. Then you get out to Arizona, Tombstone, Ft. Worth, through Texas, and we would sleep out at night, outside, this was in July and August. So we spent our money on food and maybe once a week at a boarding house to wash our clothes and wash ourselves. And in them days you paid a $1.00 a night to get a room. And once in a while we'd sleep in jail. Time to time, put in jail and of course they booked us as a vagrant. They'd say 'show us your money;' we'd say 'sure, we got money,' but they'd still treat us like a vagrant. 'Sure we'll stay here for the night.' I think we had about fifty bucks each."
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- AFC 1995/028: WIP-RM-A008
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- Working in Paterson Project Collection (AFC 1995/028)
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