Maryland Three - Text
The subject is aged 60 and was born and raised in Baltimore Maryland, with very little travel experience. She has relocated twice, once to Rhode Island and once to San Diego, but returned to Baltimore between and after she moved. She is currently living in Baltimore.
TRANSCRIPTION
I grew up in Baltimore Maryland. I lived in the city when I was younger, and then I moved to the county when I was about nine years old. …umm… my parents were divorced and they both remarried when I was two so I grew up having two sets of parents, unlike other children who only had one. So I consider myself very fortunate because all my parents loved me. I had a brother by my father and stepmother and I had a sister by my mother and stepfather. …and…umm….when I was seventeen years old I was with my girlfriend in the car we went to one of these drive in..umm…..umm…um.. food places where they like, ya know come out and take your order and put the thing on the side of the car, ya know very fifties, but it was actually in 1964……..and..umm…all of a sudden this car pulled in beside us and there were these two really cute guys in there and,,,and one asked me my name and I told him, it was Jackie and I said what’s yours and he goes K Knoreline and I almost threw up in the back of my throat…but then he said he was just kidding so we…umm.. started talking he asked me to go on a date and we’ve been together ever since. That was forty-three years ago August the seventh…let me see what else? Have I traveled a lot, well we lived a lot of places when I was growing up, my dad lived all over the east coast, so of course I spent summers and whenever I could with him and I would never move out and… and after were married my husband went into the Navy during Vietnam and we did some traveling into Dallas and we moved to San Diego California for two and a half years. Um.. so ya we traveled around quite a bit. We’ve been a lot of places on the east coast….um some that we frequent like Cape Cod …and umm….ya know last summer we took a trip out west and we did some remote to Phoenix and stopped in a lot of wonderful places and went back to San Diego, where we lived when my husband was in the service…
Recorded by Lee Lee Lawler, November 2, 2007