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And the dish cracked ice for a quarter. And we always kept it good and warm because I had them out fast all before I decided I wanted to be gone. Because you could linger with cold soda water with your canned food and its warm conservative booze. Oh, and everything. Prohibition was in the bank and there was no licenses. There were licenses that people had that were taken up when Prohibition Act was passed by the Congress, you might think, well, where were they getting the the spirits from to come into the club? The mixed with the setups. They could buy that on the outside. There were people around in the neighborhood that's so pints and half pints of ski gin and whatever you wanted it was plenty of good pure whiskey available because the the druggist they sold the whiskey by prescription so they would buy a pint of whiskey with a pint of alcohol and a pint of their three pints of whiskey. Taste good. And when prohibition ended. The people that we had working for us, lots of them saw potential and went in business for themselves because license became available. The only one that wanted it would be if you were a citizen or another citizen didn't make any difference for lack of board. We just got together real fast and started giving these licenses out because the politicians wanted the inspectors to go to work. I had to have a job for them, and the blocks and blocks sprung up from there, from there on. What were the shows like then? Our shows. Were mild. Is that the real difference? Oh, yeah, definitely. Well, it's really been years ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512#t=116.73,306.64"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512/transcript/62052/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But I was afraid to let the girls go topless, and the guys would say what was going on there? The block to me is home. I started working until Cloud Club 20 years ago, and I've traveled all over, but I don't know. I just had to come back to the block and buy a club here. And I enjoy coming to work every night. We all look forward to coming to work, me and my family, the girls that work here, it's just home to love. I'm not really lost people, but half of more sort of lost people traveling and all of a sudden they've been asked to go different cities and open a club, especially Columbia. And I gave it some consideration as and now I leave the block. The block needs me and if they need me or not. But I'm going to continue staying on the block and running my club. Well, it left me very bitter because suddenly, within three months, whatever happened down there happened. So I just closed my club and I said, before I change my shoes any other way or operate any other way, I will just close and sit back and wait. So that's what I did. I've been doing a lot of the things I always wanted to do and never had the time to do like. Skin diving and going down the river on a raft and all those things, all the things I wanted to do. But I'm tired of that now. Now I want to go to work and I want to find another place. Can you really, you know, lay out for us exactly what it is that gets so distasteful? Now, as you said, the last three months through the strangers. The Strangers on the Block.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512#t=307.42,399.49"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512/transcript/62052/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I'm not saying club owners, it's not the club owners. Suddenly there's an element on the block that you look at and you think every minute, what are they going to do to me? Or what are they waiting for? And you see big Cadillacs and mark Threes pull in on a side street and you see strangers. And these people don't belong here. What are they waiting for? And you can stay there maybe a half hour, 45 minutes and. Nothing happens. They sit there. I don't know what we're waiting for. So the people go get in the car and talk to them and get out. And even that is people I have never seen. It's parts of other cities, I believe, moving downtown. Where are they going to move it? Anywhere. I moved down from Fort McHenry so everybody can get down and look at it. Won't be anybody. Go there. There's a block in every city in the United States. You start up at the Canadian border and come on down and you have a block. People that come in the town. Don't want to sit in the hotel lobby. They want to go and get through the convention or the meetings. They want to get out. Where are you going to send them down the road? Federal Hill. Well, right now, the club owners that I knew that I knew very well all my life for the last 20 years, they have passed on or something has happened to them, their finance. Some of them I have clear such and such will be passed away. Or he had an accident. And that makes me very sad. And then especially when Sammy Goldstein was murdered, that that made me very sad because I know him and his family very well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512#t=400.06,511.72"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512/transcript/62052/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it makes you start to think it's time to move on. But I really miss the club and I miss my customers and I find myself dreaming that I'm doing my act and I just can't wait to go back to work again. The block is like any other place of business. It has good and bad ones. Not all merchants and advertising newspapers and good. Not all merchants advertise on your stations that are holy. But you don't see the block disappear. I don't think I can possibly. You've got to be realistic. Eventually, it may be torn down until it's torn down. And I don't think that. I would like to go back if if I see that. Like I said, all the building has been done. That there's going to be a new element of people downtown. And naturally the hotels will be full all the time. I stand a chance at putting my club back where it was because it certainly went downhill with the other places when all the new people started hanging on the block. And we're going to make you feel like you guys. Working. You know, the block has been a discussion for years and years. One of the great architects of our time felt that the block should remain the city of Baltimore. And he reiterated this when we went up to New York the other day to get two awards for architectural perfection in the city. His firm again reiterated the block is a is a integral part of the city. A number of years it's continually gone down. We've taken parts of it for buildings. We've made suggestions that the block, the members of that block possibly would get together and form another area rather than dispersing all over the city.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512#t=512.02,683.98"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512/transcript/62052/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think the block's future is is in jeopardy because we're going to build more buildings in that area. We're going to improve that area, and possibly the block will be going. Well, that block is, of course, more than one block. And there are different portions of it. For instance, a block has already been taken before the police building. And there are other segments of it that I imagine would be whittled down. I can't I don't foresee any massive plan to take the whole area of East Baltimore Street on both sides for, say, three blocks. That is the center of the entertainment district to take that all at one time for some alternative use. It probably be new uses that will be coming up maybe within the next few months for part of it. But I would imagine that something will be there unless they all decide to relocate as a group that there will be something there for another 5 or 6 years at least. Um. I wish. I'm really. Now. I. And. The movies were going down. There's potential for burlesque in Glen Burnie with the location lies between Baltimore, Washington, Fort Meade, and that's why it's here. It's a money making proposition that people themselves think it's not the kind of entertainment they'd like to be part of or have in their own backyard. They're upset about it. Well, that varies. There are some people that are upset about it and there are some people who like it. I've heard comments where they say that's the best thing that's happened to Glen Burnie. And there are a few people that are upset about it, but. To each his own. Yes, it definitely was upsetting to all the residents of the community. And we done everything we could to discourage it, like coming in here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512#t=684.52,934.42"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512/transcript/62052/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But of course, the thing you have to have to be and they have to come in and see what's going on. And so they're here. And I don't believe that they're going to stay due to the fact that this isn't the area for this type of operation, because this is strictly a real fine residential area and fine people and they don't go for this type of operation. So I think what it is was just a trial run down here to see exactly whether they could make it. And I think they're finding out that they cannot make it here. And I think they're operating in the red every week. And you can't continue an operation like this. For instance, the X movie was the first one. It didn't go, so they changed it from X movie to burlesque. And it isn't going. So I think it will die of its own weight. Well, there are those who will say, well, we'll just wait it out and it'll go away because Glen Burnie is basically a solid residential area. Do you believe it'll go away? No, I don't think so. There's something else. I'll move in, but I don't think it's going to go away. You don't think it could thrive here with local participation? Definitely. No, definitely not. I don't think this is the area at any anything of this type can can survive. The idea of burlesque and glamor wasn't to draw from the Glen Burnie area in general. The location of the theater in regards to Baltimore, Washington, Annapolis, Fort Meade is the whole idea of putting it here. We're close and we have parking facilities. Well, as I say, I don't think it will catch under is enough area here for them to spread out in the first place.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512#t=934.69,1037.91"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512/transcript/62052/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I don't think the people in the area will support it. So I don't see how it could really function. It is going to be larger. You. Remember me? Let's start from the tips that don't go to say that she threw them down and. That you. Because it's way outdated, you know. They need a new concept, you know, of going about live entertainment because live entertainment is dying with, you know, TV and movies. So I think people still really want live entertainment in their lives, but they want a little different. Like the block with the hustling is just, you know, turns people off. People don't want to be hustled. You know, they want to be entertained, but they don't want to be hustled. So you say there's what you're indicating and there is still room for burlesque, but not in the form that it's on the block. Right. It'll be, you know, like I think, you know, everyone's just got to take a newer, you know, attitude, a new concept, and, you know, still, you know, have live performances and people should, you know, enjoy this. But, uh, everyone's got to change their attitudes, you know, and people have to come and see when there are good shows to be seen, they should, you know, they have to support them by saying, you know, burlesque is a good, um, shame. It's been in existence for a long time. You know, I don't know if the people who object to it or not, you know, it's a lucrative business. It's. It is lucrative. I've been dancing for a year and a half, and I won't dance on the bar because they don't want to pay any money anyway. But, uh, and other than hustling and I'm not into hustling, but the money is on the road, you know, I go to Canada and Finland and, you know, all the roads, different places, you know, through an agent.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512#t=1038.72,1295.33"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512/transcript/62052/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And the money is very good. Like how good in Newfoundland? I'm a 500 a week. I could move one of many places and through just for reading the papers when I didn't even give comments and I was out of town, I could go a lot of places, but I miss the block. I really miss it. And sometimes I just drive down, say, Let's go see the funky old block, and me and my family will drive down the block and then I feel better. But I have been negotiating for a new club. And I tell you, and I'm not afraid to say in Glen Burnie, I'd like to go out there and put on beautiful shows and you see all those people out there have nowhere to go. They go to these swankiest restaurants and there's some beautiful restaurants with beautiful clientele in Glen Burnie and on Ritchie Highway. This I've been to dinner myself out there and after I say, well, let's stop and have a few drinks, but where are you going to stop? And right now I don't think anyone else is going to put burlesque in Glen Burnie. But the kind of burlesque I want to put an entertaining show, like a Las Vegas show. And then of course I'd have my Possum Hollow Symphony on the brakes where I play my instruments because that's what I really like to do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512#t=1295.69,1369.07"}]},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512/transcript/62052","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["English [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114457/file/217512/transcript/62052/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"subtitling","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/062/052/original/open-uri20231130-39476-ebhd7?1701361307","format":"text/vtt","language":"en"},"target":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/062/052/original/open-uri20231130-39476-ebhd7?1701361307"}]}]}]}