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Record Identifier: 0279001-029-034-004

Record Creation Date: 2022-01-13

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Title: Oral History Interview with David Lasker

Creator Name: Boston (Mass.). Office of the Mayor

Type of Resource: oral histories (literary works)

Date Created: circa 1975/1976

Language: english

Conditions Governing Reproduction: In copyright - Non-commercial use permitted

LCSH Subject Heading: Hyde Park (Boston, Mass.)

LCSH Subject Heading: Motion picture theaters

LCSH Subject Heading: Youth

LCSH Subject Heading: Baseball

LCSH Subject Heading: Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915)

City: tgn:7013445

Neighborhood: tgn:7015004

Collection name and number: Boston 200 records (279.001)

Box and folder location: Box 29, Folder 34

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Other descriptive data: Interview with David Lasker conducted by Susan Wick. Lasker talks about creating a baseball team among the boys in Hyde Park. In order to buy uniforms, Lasker organized the boys to sell raffle tickets. He boasts that one of the Hyde Park teams, Woodlawn Athletic Club became “one of the best semi-professional organizations in the state.” Lasker also explains how Robert Bleakie, the owner of Bleakie & Company Woolen Mill, helped to persuade the residents of Hyde Park to vote to annex Hyde Park to Boston. Lasker talks about the motion picture industry in Hyde Park and the different theaters that existed in the area. These include the Star Theatre, the Eagle Theatre, Waverly Opera House, and French’s Opera House. He mentions that the opening night of the Hyde Park Theatre showed Birth of a Nation.Other topics include the different geographic areas of Hyde Park which included, “Rugby, from Wood Avenue down through the wooded areas there. Oakland Street coming to Mattapan. Ablewood, Forest Hills, Readville, Climehurst, and Sunnyside,” sledding from the top of Fairmount Hill down Fairmount Avenue, baseball and football games between Hyde Park and Dedham played in the Stonybrook Reservation, the different mills and factories that had existed in Hyde Park, and the promise of a five cent fare for public transportation to Boston.

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