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Item Title

[Introducing the Hot Texas Wiener to the Public]

Author/Creator

Interviewer: Lloyd, Timothy, 1951-

Created/Published

August 17, 1994

Notes

Interview with Chris Betts and Nick Doris at the Hot Grill, Clifton, NJ.
ND: The FVG served sauce, mustard, and onion only. When the HG opened in 1961 in Clifton, it was far enough away from the Paterson Falls-are geographic core of the tradition [maybe 3 miles] that people didn't know what a HTW was. So in 1962, at the time of the HG's first expansion, they held a grand opening. From 10 AM until 2 AM the next day they gave each person one free HTW. 40 people served 14,000 wieners that day: people came back for seconds, etc. But it introduced a great many people to the food.

Subjects

Interviews
Oral history
Sound recordings
Hot Texas Weiners
Ethnography
Interviews
United States--New Jersey--Clifton
The Hot Grill

Object Type

sound recording-nonmusical

Related Names

Narrator: Betts, Chris
Narrator: Doris, Nick

Medium

Analog Audio Cassette

Language

English

Call Number

AFC 1995/028: WIP-TL-A001; Side B

Reproduction Number

AFC 1995/028: WIP-TL-A001

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 tla00106
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcwip.tla00106