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Working in Paterson
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Item Title
"Hispanic businesses, small businesses, are one of the things that have regenerated economic life in Paterson."
Author/Creator
Interviewer: Carroll, Thomas D.
Created/Published
September 03, 1994
Notes
Interview with Miguel de la Carrera.
Summary of audio segment: MC says that Hispanic small businesses are one of the things which have regenerated economic life in Paterson, whether it's a grocery store, a clothing store, a barber shop -- service industry stuff -- an insurance agency, or whatever, party shop. Those have been the ways people have expanded. MC says that one of his father's clients is a Cuban who owns a grocery store, who started out in a crummy area which has gotten much better over the years, partly because of what he's done there. The grocery store has expanded and expanded and finally has become a miniature supermarket. And the owner got a variance and built a mini-mall on an abandoned lot next to his store -- there's a party store, a pizza shop, a barber shop, a laundromat, etc. in the mall. And there have been developments like that happening, with people who turn little neighborhood stores into bigger enterprises. But other than the Dominicans who are in the grocery store business, MC can't pinpoint nationality involvement in particular occupations or industries. There are now a lot of Koreans in town who dominate the electronics stores in the downtown area. There are probably close to a hundred Korean owned businesses there.
Subjects
Cuban Americans
Interviews
Lawyers
Oral history
Sound recordings
Ethnography
Interviews
United States--New Jersey--Paterson
21st Avenue
Object Type
Related Names
Narrator: Carrera, Miguel de la
Medium
Digital Audio Tape
Language
English
Call Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-TDC-A016; A: 00:13:04
Reproduction Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-TDC-A016
Part of
Working in Paterson Folklife Project
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afcwip tca01602
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcwip.tca01602