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All right. Kelly turn the air on. So now how do we get done? Okay. Now, first off, your name is was Gardner Charles Gardner. And what have folks call you? Both. But your name is Charles Gardner. But everybody knows you as Buzz. Right down here. Busey. You got it. Gardner, your the. And you were where are you? Where were you born and raised? I was born an Eastern Shore, Queenstown. And came up here to Baltimore when? Maybe 1935. So you were just a youngster. You got it. How old were you? A couple of years old. Born on a houseboat down Queen Anne's County. How many were important to have boats that that can help. We're in a hospital now. But you were literally born on a houseboat. That's it. Like my aunt, she delivered me. How come you came to Baltimore? Your parents came up here. The watermen. My father were the watermen and the water. As it is now, it's high. Low. He came up there and they come along for more money. Okay. All right. Now, so your. Your daddy was a longshoreman. Yeah, he was a waterman down there. What? Catching crabs. You got it. The whole nine yards. And then came up here to go to work. That's right. Yep. So now when you got old enough, you went to work on the water. You got it. And they got killed on a ship right down here. A Pier nine we worked on together. So you saw your father die on the waterfront? Yeah. How old were you when you started working down there? 16. You quit school? Yep. I'm a big family. You know, Back then, they had all the big families, and we had about 12. So hard to keep food on the table.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136830/file/253842#t=15.9,152.72"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136830/file/253842/transcript/71683/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Was that working on the waterfront? So me and my brother went down the waterfront more shingled. And that was many, many moons ago. You got it. You just retired. 1985. How many years you have in 37. They gave me. And they gave you an award? Yeah. When I went out. Best slinger in order to Sling Earth. No, I hooked the cargo up that goes into the ship. Do they still do that nowadays? Not much. Everything's containerized. That's the old way. But you took the things on the pallets and. And, well, chokers. Different cargo, different scales. And you were one of the best, according to them. 1985, you retired and off. Now, when you were a youngster, you. You did a little painting, drawing right through what happened? I mean, did you just give it up or. No. When you went down the waterfront, you don't when you get off of there at that time, you are dead tired. I mean, with all manual labor back then and I didn't have much energy for it. Throwed bags for about 8 or 9 hours. So then you wound up over in Korea? Yup. You were drafted? Yep. How old were you when you were draft? 21. So when you were 21, you when you turned 21 years old. After six years on the waterfront, you wound up in the army and they sent you to Korea. You got it. Then over there, you had an opportunity to do a little painting. Not right away. I got to run up the mountains. And the first time you said, anybody want to volunteer right here, they said, Can you paint Korean signs? So we got Koreans augmented into her outfit. I said, Can you write explosive? Dangerous? They wrote it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136830/file/253842#t=153.14,272.42"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136830/file/253842/transcript/71683/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Painted it. From there, I came up to a different thing. Could you paint this? Could you do this? And then I started painting the picture than the Quonset hut and keep the guys morale up. So that lasted. And then when you got back out of the army, you went back to the waterfront. To the waterfront. No more painting. Very slow because there were still manual labor. 1985, though, that changed. Yeah. When you're retired, you had more, more time. You got it. So you got yourself some canvases and some brushes and paint. And you've been painting ever since. Yes, sir. Over the last one. I see. I was 85. This is 96. We're talking about ten years. How many paintings would you say you've done over the last 501? Five. And one of the things over the last 1050 a year, that's almost more than a week. Well, so does one have none for a couple of weeks. And then they would come in droves like Father's Day holidays. Then everybody wants a picture of the loved ones. Well, you know, you could be Baltimore's most prolific painter. I could. How's that sound? Sounds good to me. Was Gardener, Baltimore's most prolific painter. Let's look at just the locust point. The Fells Point. They'll be awful angry. Yeah, but still, maybe nobody doing one painting a week for the last ten years. True. The professional. It's going to kill me. Let me ask you this. All these paintings, you must be making a ton of money. Not really. See, that's why everybody in little gets points. Get oil painting. They couldn't afford it from a professional artist. I saw one that they wanted a lot of money for 3 or $400, and it's worth about 70%.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136830/file/253842#t=272.99,382.45"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136830/file/253842/transcript/71683/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, I know I can do better than that. So I started paint for people who had little money and I'd give them a little price because I've got all the time I can afford to come down. So you could be Baltimore's most reasonable, prolific painter. Now you got it. And a lot of these paintings I think you've done for nothing. Just for. Just to give them away. You got it. In fact, the one you did of me, some at school and people who lost loved ones. And they don't have the money to pay for opening. Go. I don't give it to them. Do you paint? Listen, I brought a couple of pictures along with me. I mean, can you paint people that weren't born and raised in Locust Point ball in South Baltimore? I paint a lot of that now. And look at point just this is where the the highest paintings are and this is the lowest point. But I've painted some for people from Bermuda and different parts of the United States. All right. Well, I got two guys whom I brought their pictures around. And you think now they're not from this area? There's matter of fact, one of them's from from down south. The elements from Ohio. You think you can get a likeness of these guys even though they weren't born and raised in South Baltimore or Locust Point? Do I know you may have seen them on television? A couple. Well, I think I know where you're going. And you think you could handle that? I think so. This is not a rush job. Like. No. Good journeys. Okay, so that'll be 503. You got it. What's around the corner for a bodyguard. I mean, you've you've you've been painting for the last ten years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136830/file/253842#t=384.04,484.52"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136830/file/253842/transcript/71683/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Any new goals? Are you satisfied to keep things going? I'm trying to paint long point landmarks now. I do the the portraits in between, but I've painted the hour later good counts of church tugboats and we got some other landmarks there. And I like to do all the churches and Indiana Grain. It wouldn't be a pretty picture. But I tell you, it's a part of Lucas Point has been around for a while. I well, you've make a nice blue sky, a nice fluffy cloud. Maybe it'll look better. Also, you know, the nice if you have been able to do some of the things that are gone now, like Fort McHenry Lumber, the old garage, the old warehouse that burned down. I'm eating my heart out that I didn't get photographs at that time. So that's a lesson for you? Yeah. No, I get all the photo. I have a video camera, and I wander around one day and took pictures of all or most of them walked around here that you would know. So it's recorded now, just waiting for the right for you to take brush in hand. You're going to. Turn it just a little bit towards you. Just a little bit towards you. Toward me? Yeah. Now. Right. The other boy with death murdered. The one working. That was in 30 years ago. I was looking in the mirror. We did that. That's a little girl in the middle is my daughter. That's the girlfriend. The one with the long hair. He was working from the wife. Quit. Who's. I felt right there. How long ago did he die? I think about ten years ago. Somewhere around there. You can't ask for his wife when he passed away. His wife had no really good pictures of him, so she gave what she had and he was able to do that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136830/file/253842#t=484.79,701.55"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136830/file/253842/transcript/71683/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sometimes it's very difficult for. All right. Now, I tell you, I look, just look at it and just take your finger and touch it like you're getting a speck of dirt off of it or something. You know what I mean? All right, That's it. Hello. Yeah. The. Well. 1985, when I retired, I started planning. It doesn't work at all. Yeah. Not be a violent world. And. Get all. I think. This is 1200 block of Cookie Street. Correct? 1200 block. Cooksey Street. Yeah. 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