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Record Identifier: 0279001-oh-128_01

Record Creation Date: 2023-10-11

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Title: Oral history interview recoding with Joe Lyons

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

Type of Resource: sound recordings

Date Created: circa 1975/1976

Language: english

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

LCSH Subject Heading: Boston Elevated Railway Company

LCSH Subject Heading: Charlestown (Boston, Mass.)

LCSH Subject Heading: Police Strike, Boston, Mass., 1919

LCSH Subject Heading: Irish American families

LCSH Subject Heading: Bunker Hill (Boston, Mass.)

LCSH Subject Heading: Catholic Church

City: tgn:7013445

Neighborhood: tgn:7015010

Collection name and number: Boston 200 records (0279.001)

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Other descriptive data: Oral history interview recording with Joseph T. Lyons, conducted by Cecile Wagner. Lyons was born in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown in 1906 to Irish immigrant parents. He recalls the continued development and subsequent backlash of the Boston Elevated Railway, which has now been entirely replaced by the MBTA. Although too young to remember much of WWI, Lyons recalls the Boston Police Strike of 1919, the leadership of then-Governor Calvin Coolidge, and the economic struggles of the time. For entertainment, Lyon was especially interested in ballroom dancing, and would also attend minstrel shows when not helping his family. There are discussions about Americans' secularism compared to Lyons' earlier years.

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