Missouri One - Text
Caucasian female, 21 years old. Born in Kansas City, MO, and raised there until the age of ten. She attended middle and high school in Stillwell, Kansas (30 miles away from Kansas City). In this recording, she reminisces about the area she grew up in. She also shares an amusing college theatre anecdote. At the time of the recording she was a senior attending the University of Kansas, studying theatre and film. This file was recorded and edited by Shawn M. Muller on August 25, 1999.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
(um) I grew up in Kansas City. I was…I grew up in in a…fairly metropolitan part of the city and I lived there until I was about 10 years old. We lived across the street from the park and every day on the way to a small private school that I went to we had to drive through the Plaza which was a main shopping center in Kansas City, Missouri when in Christmastime is lit up with thousands of different colored lights its ve-very very beautiful and sometimes we’d have to leave very early in the morning to get to school and lights would still be on. (um) When I was about ten we moved to a suburb in Kansas called Stilwell, Kansas it was a very small town and I went to a very large school so‘s a very different switch from a huge town and a small school to a small town and a big school. (um) I lived there till I went to college and I went to college first at Emporia, Kansas a… four year university and transferred then to the University of Kansas which is a bigger four year university and I expect to graduate this May. Just tonight I got an email from the set designer of a show I was in last last spring called Ramona Quimby. The set designer had dec-decided that in the last scene the Whopper Burger scene where the Ramona Quimby family goes to the Whopper Burger that the big set piece would be a humongous hamburger that’s dropped from the top of the set and the theme was a construction theme so it was dropped in on this big crane, and he sent me this email of a website of what happened to that big hamburger after the show was over and he took pictures of it in various places. They hung it off of the top of Murphy Hall which is the hall the theatre’s in and then they they left it on the side of the building and it snowed on it and he had just basically pictures of it everywhere and then he took pictures of like Paris and New York and and somehow imposed the hamburger in these places and it was pretty funny.
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY RICK LIPTON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR TRANSCRIPTIONS, JULY 30, 2008