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Show Rose (1 / 17/83 ) page 13 Mr. K Mr. R ~r. K f'r. R Mr. K Mr. R time. We lived 3 blocks from the east river, and we used to go swimming 1n the east river as we got a little older, and we never went unless we went in a bunch, because we had somebody watch our clothes, but we wouldn't go to the river alone. What would happen if you did? What might happen? I don't know how many Italians would get you. If you go in another direction, you 're walking into the Polish neighborhood. How would they know what you were? Oh, we probably got a good look at each other in school. I can't tell you how we'd know, but I knew. I knew when somebody was •• looked foreign to ~e ••• was not a me~ber of my environment. I knew practically the whole Jewish neighborhood. Well, I can't say I would know the Jewish neighborhood, but somehow or another a Jew smelbdifferent to another Jew. I mean, another Jew doesn't have an ~or to a Jew. A Polack has an odor to a Jew •• a Jew has an odor to a Polack, or an Italian. I think I'm over simplifying that, but you just knew, period, you just knew. There was no doubt in your mind. And you knew what your boundaries were, you knew where the Polish neighborhood started, you knew where the Italian neighborhood started, you knew where the Irish neighborhood started. The one thing about the Irish neighborhood, I can't ever re~ember 1t being ganged and I can't ever remember a Jew being ganged in the Irish neighbor-hood, or an Irish kid being ganged in the Jewish neighborhood. He might get 1n a fight, I might get in a fight. He might get 1n a '; ,, ·~;, fight) me 1n an Irish neighborhood, ~ or some Irish kid in the Jew-ish neighborhood, and I don't even know that they were ganged under |
