1 30 9 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/42465/archive/files/cec66343cc22fe1ddc9ba5751d7b03f0.pdf?Expires=1789603200&Signature=HprPZ%7EK9OgDizxLY5I5qnyitBnL%7ED1DFqm-W079q-0ftrqvDokuRXgd20nxHKpjgntiwat-flSXxXWgpLwKwe7B3Mq9zKcxldX5mjNfytg6pHXe9av2x730G-GqI9qCbWM4fc9i%7EXdJPZ-BqDjm6UzfDwcnl7CjOzy2VJJn9pIpuPm0lCwvtVFtixn8fYaASsUNmU04GxS110q8Zx5W7MPv-v%7EUKN-mxcaIpgu-MMoFUMWR-LL0P1Pm1xHipKLvt6HpsqCDM1VSz%7E0G0PTFhplWqey3u5ZPEo-yOwG4w68Apx27gL63W3I-vFyc1iOps3mSQoXD4qw7vw0g6n43jdg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM b97849788b59fca9f9ec4dbe7cd65611 PDF Text Text LOWELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT II INFORMANT: JOHN DURKIN, JR. INTERVIEWER: MEHMED ALI DATE: 12/20/2001 J=JOHN A=ALI Tape I, side A A: So this is interview with John J. Durkin, Jr., December 20th, 2001. And first, where and when were you born? J: In Lowell, December the 26th, 1936. A: Happy Birthday coming up. J: Coming up. I’m 66. A: All right. You can retire the week after right? J: Yes, I would love to do that, but that’s not going to be the case. A: Now where did you go to school at? J: I went to Riverside Grammar School, which is a little grammar school over in South Lowell, Wigginville section of Lowell, and Lowell High School. And graduated from Lowell High School in 1954, and went to Lowell Tech for aeronautical engineering for a short time, and switched to Merrimack College where I graduated as a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. A: Okay. And what church did your family attend? J: Sacred Heart Church over in what was then called the Grove. A: Okay. And you lived in what neighborhood, in the Grove? J: No, we lived in Wigginville, (A: Wigginville) which was on Rockingham Street, which is still there. (A: Yah) And it’s a little village just beside South Lowell. At that �time composed of largely English people and some Irish, few Ports, but typical of, it was a suburban neighborhood, which was an early one at that time. I was born on Washington Street in Lowell, in a three-apartment tenement, where my father rented. And he bought this house at the beginning of World War II when he joined the Navy. And I spent, we moved there when I was one year old, all of my, both my brothers were born out of that house, and we lived there until my mother died and a year or two later my father remarried. A: Oh okay. Now that neighborhood on the other side was a lot of French people? J: In South Lowell, yes. Yah, predominantly French population in South Lowell. A: And how would you describe the boundaries between Wigginville and South Lowell? J: Well the main drag through Wigginville and leading to South Lowell is Lawrence Street, (A: Yup) and that was pretty much the divide. At Wigginville Center there was a fork, you bore right to South Lowell, Woburn Street as I recall. I’m sure of that. Riverside Grammar School was on that street. And Riverside Grammar School was kind of a dividing point between South Lowell and Wigginville. A: Okay. J: Yah, it was right, a few hundred yards down Woburn Street from that intersection. A: Now you said your mother was Portuguese, (J: Yup) and your father Irish. How did that mean for your own cultural development, or awareness? J: Well when I was very young I really never gave, there was no cultural strengths in my family. My mother came from a big Portuguese family, had eight brothers and three sisters and some of which had died before I was old enough to know that. And they were very prominent in the automobile repair business, the boys, in Lowell. Spinney’s Garage was a big operation on Central Street, which my second oldest uncle ran, Tony. A: And so their maiden, your mother’s maiden name was Spinney? J: Spinney, correct, yah. And the Portuguese name was Espinola, but her father changed it to Spinney when he came here. (A: Oh okay) He was a bit of a revolutionary (A: Yah) and was literally thrown out of Portugal because he was at war with both the state and government, and the national government, and the Catholic church. And I’m told he was a General in the Portuguese Army. I don’t know if that’s true or not. He certainly was an officer, and had a college education, which was very unusual for that year and that time. (A: Wow) But he was a cantankerous, mean spirited, annoying fellow, and he managed to you know, communicate that clearly to a mess of people. And he found himself no happier over here, although he opened a book store and was an intellectual of sorts, (A: Really) and earned his living doing that until he left his wife, my grandmother who actually died shortly after [unclear]. She died when I was three or four years old. 2 �And went to New Bedford where he started a Portuguese language newspaper. (A: Really) And the first one I understand, and this is the second largest Portuguese community in Massachusetts, and ended up hanging himself in New Bedford. (A: Really) Yup, and became despondent with his inability to convince the world that he was right I would assume, because everything I know about him, I remember him, but I really don’t, but everything I remember about him, he was real thick and real opinionated you know, old country male that expected everybody, especially you know, sib, younger members of the family to just accept everything he said as fact. And he failed to recognize that in this country people form their own opinion based on their experiences and their own intellectual abilities, and as a result you know, my father who was a very direct guy and my uncles who were, well never had formal educations were, were not you know, ready to accept anything [phone rings] of which was unreasonable. So he failed to generate support even within his own family. So his life I would gather was a bit of a failure. Excuse me. [Tape is turned off to answer phone, then turned on again] A: And what was his name? J: I believe he was Antonio J. Spinney. A: Okay. Now what did your parents do for work? J: My father came, was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. (A: Okay) And came here for Hood Milk to open new accounts. (A: Oh really) Yah, Lowell was a booming industrial city loaded with tenements and people, and their technique for opening new accounts, or getting new accounts was to send somebody around to offer a quart of milk, or whatever it was, to each new potential customer. He got, they got a free quart of milk, he got .50. And if they bought from the milkman who delivered to that route, the next quart my father got another .50. Then after that the account was the milkman’s. And he built his route that way. My father’s job was to go around constantly finding new customers. And after a while he, you know, they had, he and a buddy of his who came from Rhode Island, a Frenchman, Camden, Cam Brousseau, Leo Brousseau, had a daily quota. They knocked on so many doors and they sold so many accounts. And it was a hundred doors, or something like that every day. Of course you realize what Lowell was like in those days. There were tenements all over the place. You know, Back Central Street, Merrimack Street, all of those areas were filled with triple and quadruple deckers, and a lot of people lived in them. And he was looking for something to sell that he could keep the customer. (A: Yah) And he decided to get into the chemical business, which is the manufacturing of bleach and bluing, because the immigrant population were fastidious about cleaning, you know, which bleach (A: Right) because it killed germs. I mean the tenement stairs rising all the way up to the third and fourth floor used to be white they were cleaned so often, they were bleached right out. And so he got into the business of manufacturing bleaching water, which was a very simple process of mixing chlorine and water. It was 90% water and 10% chlorine more or less. I’ve forgotten exactly, and I worked there for a number of years. In a big vat, and he’d bottle it into one-gallon containers and sold it to people in their homes initially, and built a pretty good size business eventually. 3 �A: Where did he work out of? J: He eventually had a little shop over on, over on Bridge Street in Centralville, and later on Back Central Street. And then he developed a wholesale route selling it to supermarkets like DeMoulas and places like that. At that time it was family owned little super markets. (A: Yah. Yah) And doubled his business by selling it at a wholesale price. And he was a guy about my size, more broad than I am across the shoulders, and very active athlete when he was young, a ballplayer. And he could carry ten five-gallons in each hand. And you know, a gallon of water weighs eight pounds a gallon. It’s a lot of weight, you know what I mean?. And he’d strip those out of a box of four gallons like nothing at all, and walk into a store, get them on the shelves, come back out and get more in it. He’d be back in the truck and on the way to the next one. I worked with him for a number of years when I was quite young, and not assisting him as much as just being with him. And he built a pretty good size business, and he sold it to a guy and joined the Navy when World War II started. He joined the Navy in 1941 right after Pearl Harbor. And this guy was supposed to literally baby sit the business and take the earnings for himself for running the business, and my dad was to return to the business right after the war. And he ended up stationed out in San Francisco where he got a mail, San Diego rather, California, where he got a slot in the mail, main western military mail Post Office, and was going to be there semi-permanently in those days, a year or more was semipermanently. And he was entitled to bring his family out. So we got train fare to California. And my mother, myself, and my middle brother Roger traveled to the West Coast on a train and landed out in San Francisco, when we were supposed to land in San Diego, in San Diego which was like 500 miles south. My father had to borrow a car from the base and drive up through San Francisco to get us. Anyhow we lived there for two and a half years, and when the war ended drove back home. And the business was not here anymore. And my father kind of rebuilt it, but right after that an uncle of mine married to my mother’s sister had gone to work for a company called Elliott’s in Lowell which sold all kind of dry goods, but among them, floor coverings. And he developed an interest and some confidence in the floor covering area, and talked my father into going into business with him, and opened up what is now and still in Lowell, Puritan Floor Covering Company. A: Oh, okay. J: And he and my uncle ran that business, I don’t know, I got out of college in Merrimack in ’59, and I was going to work for a company and my dad wanted me to go into business with him, the floor covering business and he was going to leave Puritan. I finally answered yes to it. It wasn’t something I really wanted to do, but you know, it didn’t matter to me that much because I was willing to do anything. And I had worked in the business since 1952 with my father and uncle, I was a sophomore in high school. A: At Puritan? 4 �J: At Puritan part-time and then full-time in the summer, originally as a stock boy, and later as a salesman. And I wasn’t sure that’s what I wanted to do, but I certainly new the business, you know. At that point I had been in it for eight or nine years. And so we agreed to do it with one [unclear], my father controlled all the stock because I felt at this age, you know, if it didn’t work out I could walk and find something else to do and he was not going to be able to. Anyhow that’s how we started off. Now we opened a small store in one of Ned Flood’s properties over on Andover Street, the corner of Andover going up the hill on Andover Street there, the first intersection before the Commonwealth House. A: High Street? J: Yah, yah High Street, High and Andover, right at the corner. And we opened a store there called Durkin’s Incorporated. A: Okay. That’s still a rug place you know. J: What? A: That location. J: Oh is it really? I didn’t know that. I rarely go up there, just, my brother Tommy lives up there off Andover Street. I go up to his house, but I usually come in from 495 (A: The other way, yah) and go in that way. I’ve ridden up that hill for years. Anyhow, we did that. The operation was very successful. My father, I, and this same Cam Brousseau, who started with the bleach, it was called the bleaching water business, and we bought the former Stop and Shop building, which is where we’re located now. At that time Stop and Shop was building a new store over in, over near the bridge, the Aiken Street Bridge, this side, the Lowell side of the bridge, but near Lowell Tech. (A: Okay) They kind of cleared that area, and one of the first buildings that was built was Stop and Shop. This building that we bought was the first building that Stop and Shop ever built as a supermarket. A: Oh really? J: They built it like a God damn bomb shelter. I mean it was extremely well built. Of course at the time it was built it was surrounded by other buildings. The Lowell Depot hill was behind it, all of which got moved when they made that overpass out there. As a matter of fact my grandfather’s bookshop was right on that hill. (A: Oh really) Yah, the railroad station was a very active area in terms of investment. Any case we bought that building and moved the operation there in 1962, 63, and opened it as Durkin’s Home Decorating Center, (A: Okay) which was a relatively new idea at that point. Nobody called themselves that before. But we were offering you know, to help the consumer marry whatever they were looking for into the entire household interior. A: So you’re talking flooring and draperies, and? 5 �J: We eventually got into draperies, gift items, carpeting, that type of work. We did handle carpeting as well as what’s called [resetting] floor covering, linoleum and things like that. (A: Yah, yah) But we eventually got into carpeting, and big carpet, some area rugs and larger world of carpet specialists. Those were products that in those years were really only handled by furniture stores. There were no floor covering specialty stores. We were among the first of them. We weren’t the only ones, there were others, but the first that just dealt with floor covering and eventually drapes, upholstery, custom made details, custom rugs, custom drapes, and all types of window treatments, blinds, shades, all of those things. A: Now how did your family find out about Stop and Shop and that location? J: A friend of my father’s in the floor covering business in Boston was friendly with the owners of Stop and Shop. His name was [Rapd, R A P D?], the family that owned the largest part of Stop and Shop, and was aware that they were going to be selling this building. And as a matter of fact, they produced a rather odd set of circumstances that my father and I went over and looked at the building, and Jesus Christ what a wonder setup this is [going to be]. And at that point the overpass was being built. (A: Oh okay) It wasn’t done, but it was getting there, and the building was totally exposed to the whole overpass. So it was a hell of a location in addition to the space, and the building was extremely well built. And we got an enormous forty-five, fifty-car parking lot with it. He called this friend and said, “What’s your friend’s name who runs Stop and Shop?” He gave him the name of Rapd person that he knew. My father called this guy and introduced himself as a friend of, his name was Charlie, but I can’t remember his last name. And, “What do you want for it?” He said what he wanted, and my father says, “That’s agreeable, I can make financing arrangements for that. When are you going to vacate it?” They worked out the details. The whole deal was made over the phone. (A: Wow) Nothing signed. There was not a dollar that exchanged hands, and we got called from two or three people over the course of the next few months wanting to know whether we were interested in selling the building. That they understood from Stop and Shop and the Rapd family that we had bought it. There was nothing going on any further than I just told you. (A: Wow) And we eventually, we put together a deal where we sold the last third of the parking lot furthest away from the building to I think it was Mobile Oil at that time, for a gas station. A: Oh okay. So. J: And we got, I think we paid $125 for the building, and we sold the land to Mobile for $45, 000. So we were able out of what we were financing, the part we were financing to generate enough money to remodel the building into the facility that was suitable for us. And we’ve been there ever since. A: Yah, great. Now how would you describe the social and economic condition of Lowell in the late 50’s, 1960’s? 6 �J: Oh it was certainly a booming city. I didn’t realize it when I was a kid, but you know, it was probably one of the most interesting cities in the world at that time, primarily because of all the various immigrant groups that were there. When I was a kid in high school in the early 50’s we had the largest Greek population in the world outside of Athens, Greece. And [that was the seed of the] Greek Orthodox Church, (A: Yah) the, whatever they call the Bishop who is the Head of the Greek Orthodox Church, came here regularly. I mean it was his second home, because of you know, everybody was there. But that wasn’t all. I mean the population of Lowell when I was a kid was predominantly Yankee. French-Canadian followed them because they came down to work in the mills and largely settled here. They were followed by the Irish who dug their way up from Boston, the canals, and all the laborer type things that they did. And after that was a whole mess of immigrant groups, probably at that time Greeks were the next largest group followed by everything you can imagine. Germans, Italians, Polish, they were all here, all in various locations in town where they clustered as they did because of the languages, and worked. I mean when I was a kid the ethic of success was work. Learn to work and do something well, and you will be rewarded. That simple. And you know, my father and all the people that I knew from that, from that era had no [sustenance] of education, formal education, but they knew how to do that, and they did, and did it well. And I mean all of my friends and the families that I knew from various, enormously mixed ethnic background succeeded because they were imbued with that characteristic. Honesty, hard work, couldn’t miss. There were all kinds of opportunities in the city, and there were. (A: Yah) And there were. And I think of many, many people who I knew when I was young who have been enormously successful, and if you talk to them they’ll tell you the same thing. That’s why. Whatever direction that they took. And it also gave you an enormously very set of experiences in things like Greek food, Greek traditions, and the Greek Church. A lot of my friends were married in the Greek Church [phone rings] with the unusual little ceremony. And the Polish picnics, which used to be held you know, every weekend, (A: Really) and they were great social events. I mean as kids we didn’t drink much, but I mean that’s where you met the girls. They had all kinds of ethnic foods that the ladies all prepared. So it was fabulous food. The Portuguese had it too. The Germans had it too. Not as often, but the Polish had a picnic every weekend in the summer, and all of us guys used to go there. There were dozens of girls to dance with. And eventually the girls all went there too. And the churches were very active. The CYO, the Christian Youth Association it was called, in the Catholic Church where we were members, had dances every Saturday night you know, for teenagers, and they were a lot of fun. So there were a lot of social activities, and a lot of unsophisticated social activities that was easily controlled. You know, the guys didn’t drink. The girls didn’t get into trouble, and I mean you know, because I mean you got a girl in trouble, or you did something foolish like drinking and acting stupid, your father broke your head you know. It was as simple as that! It didn’t matter whether the cops caught you, it was your father or your mother that was going to take you apart. [Both laughing] And again, that’s a very simple thing, but it’s the thing that the absence of which causes so many problems for the current generation, and less so in your generation as in my kids’ generation. None of my kids, except for one I would say, got into any serious problems with the law, and they got into it with drugs. And it was a [unclear] of that generation if you got in with that kind of a crowd. And I always regarded myself as lucky that one out 7 �of six is all that go into that. The others I’m sure all tried it, but you know, knew better than to get involved in it. Whereas their kids, they’re having great problems with them. (A: Really?) Oh yah. Great, much more difficult to be a parent today than it ever was. (A: Wow) One of my daughters has four kids, aging from fourteen now down to four years old. And my oldest daughter has two, her thirteen and seven. And my son has my oldest granddaughter who’s seventeen, and a boy who’s thirteen. They’re no trouble, but certain of them you know, the social life of these kids is totally different than it was when we were young. It’s more structured, and you think that is good, but it’s so structured that they don’t get to do the things that they want to do, and so they go off and try some of these things that really get them into big trouble. A: Now how did you get interested in politics? J: That’s an interesting question, but I think probably the guy responsible for that is a guy by the name of Walter Costello, from Lowell, Dracut. Walter lived up on Wentworth Avenue in Belvidere. Walter and I met as freshman at Merrimack College. He was a vet. He was about four years older than I am. (A: Okay) And my class was composed of maybe a third were vets, guys who were four years out of high school, and guys like myself who were just out of high school. And he and I became fast friends. He taught me about Irish heritage I guess. (A: Really, yah) Yah, my father well was first generation Irish, and his father was born in Ireland. (A: Oh okay) Never played that ethnic aspect at all at our home. And my mother’s Portuguese background was limited to the certain types of food that she cooked that we all liked, but there was no, you know, I did speak fluent Portuguese I’m told when I was a baby, before I spoke English, but I don’t speak it anymore and nor that I have further experience with it. But Walter, Walter as I say, and I became fast friends, and he was from a family that was very ethnic Irish, (A: Umhm) strong Irish Catholic family, and politics were their way of getting anything done. My father’s family from Pawtucket, Rhode Island which of course was Irish, when my grandfather came over here from Ireland, and he also by the way was thrown out of Ireland, smuggled over here, IRA type something or another. My grandfather was a very quiet man and I never really learned what he did, but he did something in the revolution. A: Was he like part of the [East?] Rebellion, or something like that? J: It might have been because it was during that period of time, 1916, and but he got in enough trouble with the authorities being with the IRA to have to get smuggled over to England where he worked for a short period of time and emigrated to America. Anyhow, when he settled in Pawtucket, which was a smaller version of a town similar to Lowell, only not made up of as many ethnic groups, largely French and Irish and Yankee. The Yankee controlled it, and the others worked, but the political rules were that if you didn’t own land you couldn’t vote. (A: Really) Yah, and they existed generally throughout New England. That was the rule. And of course they prevented the immigrants from buying land. Now if you know anything about immigrant groups from my generation, their first priority was to buy land, they new the intrinsic value. And the unique aspect of America was “you bought it, you owned it.” Not the King owned it, not the, you know, the Prince, whoever was in charge of it. You owned it. And they thought that was just 8 �you know, the cat’s ass. And it was intrinsic again in their nature. And I don’t give a damn what nationality group you’re talking about, they all had that common thread, that you saved your money and you got a house, or you got land. And then when you got enough you bought some more, and you either farmed it, or you rented it, or you built on it, and you made it more valuable than it was before. And because they couldn’t do that, they couldn’t vote. So they could gain no political power. (A: Wow) And my Irish grandfather had an uncle, a brother, my uncle, granduncle Phil who was very active in Democratic politics in Rhode Island. And the purpose of his activity, or how he was drawn into it, was to get some power for the immigrant groups. And they eventually overthrew the Republican strong hold. (A: Really) And I swear from what I knew about it that they taught Massachusetts’ politicians how to do what they do better than anybody else in the world. I mean if you got, if there’s a graduate school of politics in America, it has to be in Massachusetts. (A: Right) Chicago has nothing on us. Anyhow, they eventually got control of politics in Rhode Island and I mean, every job was filled. The requirement was that you had to have an ethnic name to get the job. I didn’t matter what it was, as long as you weren’t Yankee. And they took over the state, and they cleaned it out. A: How about Lowell? What was the political system in Lowell? J: Yah, Lowell was largely the same way, except that the, I have no recollection of the inability to vote as a result of not owning land. That probably existed at some point, but it was well before my time. The Democrats control Lowell as a working-man city, and the Democratic philosophy as you know historically attracted the working man who needed support. And the standard Democratic principle of operation was “Elect me and I’ll get you a job.” And that’s how it worked. And pretty soon you know, like New York half the cops were Irish, half of them were Greek, the other third were French. And the DPW is the same mix like that. And whoever, what the ethnic groups would do was to try to find a candidate that they could get elected. And the city was divided up. Originally the councilors were elected at large, all of them. (A: Okay) The city was divided up into districts, and each district had a candidate, [had an office held]. And the districts were, were not what I would call gerrymandered, but they were very close. They were no resemblance to equal size, okay. They looked to isolate the French population so that they could get a representative, the same thing with other ethnic groups. And as a result each group got somebody elected, and had a voice on the city council. And eventually that became strong enough so that there were citywide candidates of any national group who were able to run and be elected. And we ended up with a council that was at one time, roughly half the council was elected by districts, and half the council was elected at large. (A: Right) And usually the largest vote getter was elected by the council as Mayor. (A: Okay) And at that time it was not a paid position. (A: Yah) And Walt Costello as I referred to a little while ago asked me to give him a hand to help a friend of his who was going to run for city council. (A: Uh huh) That was John Desmond. (A: Okay) And um, and I did. And I learned about the politics of running a campaign and tracking it. I’m kind of a mathematical guy, I’m a statistician, and so I developed a technique for what today is probably exit interviewing. So that you could get a very early sense of where the vote was going when the polls closed, by having a 9 �number of people all over the various precincts to check this and get these results back to you. And I’d be running an adding machine with that computer for half an hour after the polls closed to tabulate you know, samples of twenty-five, or fifty of the responses, and then totally that and then interpolated it against the total votes cast in that particular precinct and projecting what the vote was going to be thereby. It wasn’t entirely accurate, but it was very close. It used to be within one or two percent. (A: Wow) And the first time Jack ran he lost by a squeaking. (A: Really) Yah, and the next time he ran he was elected. A: Okay. So he ran in 1957 for the first time, or the one in ’59? That was the first year. J: I, I say that’s true. I’m not sure of those years, but the first time he ran he missed being elected by a squeaking, meaning it was a handful of votes. (A: Wow) And the next time he was elected easily. (A: Yah) [Phone rings] Then the city decided to go to city manager system I remember. Jack Desmond’s uncle Cornelius was a state rep, and sort of a senior one. I mean he’d been there for years. And he wanted the job. And Jack’s local political influence, and to some degree his I’m sure, got him the job. And so Jack was, Jack was the city manager, city councilor for I’m guessing six years before he ran for state rep? (A: Yah) And Walt and I ran the campaign when he ran for state rep, and that was a tough campaign, a lot of difficulty. And he was lucky. In between that we ran a couple of school committee races with different people. [I don’t remember who they are.] A: Any successes? J: I don’t recall any losses, so maybe they were successes. And the school committee was not that important at that time, but it was nevertheless something some people wanted, and it was nice to have a few people who were interested in education. Both Walt and I had very strong feelings about people who knew what they were doing getting in there, (A: Right, right) school committee or council. Jack was a, Jack was a great guy. A: Now what did he do for work? J: He worked for the telephone company (A: Okay) as almost the entire family did. A: Oh really? Yah. J: Yah. His brother Bill worked for the phone company. His brother Connie, his younger brother Connie, who became a very good friend of mine, worked for the telephone company. Cornelius at one time worked for the telephone company. Jack’s father worked for the telephone company. A: Okay. And what was his father’s name? J: Beside Mr. Desmond? 10 �A: Would it be John as well? J: No, it was William. A: William? J: Yah. Jack’s brother Bill was the older brother, (A: Okay) and he was named after his father, and that was William. And all of them, the father, except Jack, Bill and Connie retired from the phone company. (A: Okay) Connie just two years ago. So they all worked there. (A: Yah) Connie Desmond, former state representative, who was city manager, he’s the guy who appointed me to the Lowell Housing Authority. A: I think it was the Lowell Redevelopment Authority. J: Yes, that’s right. That’s what it was called then. And it was formed to form the basis for the, what was the Development Authority, the Housing Authority. The government subsidized various things that were available to us as a city, but we had no, because we had no organization to deal with that we had no access to it. (A: Okay) And I don’t remember everybody who was on the Redevelopment Authority, but the chairman was a Monsignor Twist, who was then the pastor of the church up on Gorham Street. A: Saint Peter’s? J: The one that was closed now. Is that called St. Peter’s? A: Yah, they just ripped it down a few years ago. J: Did they? Did they actually rip it down? Again, I haven’t been by there in a few years, because they had it all propped up the last time I was by there. That was pathetic, because that was a beautiful church. He was the pastor of that church, and he was chairman of the Redevelopment Authority. And a guy named Mello, who was a union business agent, (A: Yah) what was his first name? A: Joe. J: Joe, that’s right, yah, also important, was on it, because I guess you needed to have a union guy. There were a couple of women, a couple of more guys, which I can’t particularly remember. A fellow who was a young attorney, relatively young attorney, but well known in Lowell handled the temporary directorship of the Authority and acting as our one employee who did all the communicating, and got everything out and directed, kept the minutes you know, set up the meetings and all that sort of thing. A: And who was that? J: Um, I can’t think of [unclear]. 11 �A: It wasn’t Dick Flood, was it? J: Yes, it was one of the Floods. I’m not sure, I don’t think it was Dick. It could have been. Who was the Senior Flood? Wasn’t that Dick that owned all the real estate? A: Yah, I think Ned and Jim Flood was one of the brothers. They all died pretty young. J: Yes they did. A: They all died maybe in their 40’s or 50’s. J: I remember Dick Flood, because being the landlord of the first store my dad and I opened. And Ned Flood I knew. I don’t think it was either of them. So maybe it was Jim. I don’t remember this guys’ first name. A: They owned a lot of property around town? J: Oh yah, yah. Dick Flood, and Ned did too. Individual properties you know, like that block on Andover Street that we rented out. Dick particularly had a lot of big property like that, office space, small stores. A: I think their father, or their uncle was city treasurer at one time. J: It could have been. Well they’re certainly a well-established family in Lowell. A: Now I wanted to talk to you a little about the campaign before we go on to the Redevelopment Authority. Do you remember some of the issues that were happening during that time when Jack Desmond was running? J: The first time he ran there was a hullabaloo over the fact that the city hired the device called the [grate-all]. At that time the device, these figures aren’t accurate, probably cost $10,000. It’s a machine that has got all kinds of articulation that’s used for grating and developing roadwork. (A: Umhm) And they were hiring this from some friend of the city manager’s, or somebody he was associated with, (A: Okay) for some ridiculous fee a day, like a $1,000 a day. (A: Wow) Most of which time it spent standing idly by the road waiting for other developments of the road before it could be used. And I remember going out, taking a picture. I didn’t know what the hell a [grate-all] was. Take a picture of this thing and it became a focal point of Jack’s campaign against the then, whatever he was, the chairman of the city council. Maybe he was city manager, or either an uncle became city manager. A: Would it be Frank Barrett? J: Well when was Frank Barrett city manager? A: Right before Connie Desmond. 12 �J: It could be. (A: Yah) Yah, although Jack lost that campaign, (A: Okay) which was probably 50’s, the one you referred to in ’57. (A: Okay) Very close, but he did lose. Yah, Frank Barrett, it could well be. And they were defending it you know, in many ways that politicians do. But I mean the bottom line was, it was political payback you know. A: Yah. Yah. Do you remember the person that owned the grate-all? J: Um, well-known excavating landfill paving company in Lowell. A: Okay. J: Church comes to me, but I’m not, I don’t think it was Church, but it was somebody else. Just a family name. (A: Yah) And you know, we could have bought the machine for what we paid for I don’t know, ten, twelve weeks we were renting it by them. And of course the longer it sat up there the more money the guy made. The machine wasn’t even being used. In any case that was a big bone of contention and I imagine some focal point in that campaign, and there was a lot of hammering on it I remember. I wrote a brochure. I wrote a number of speeches for Jack. He would be on the radio. (A: Wow) And they all related to interplay of this incident, because Jack was a nobody I mean in terms [unclear] uncle was a state rep, but I mean he wasn’t known politically. A: Right. He was very young at the time, right? J: Oh yah. You know, I, what was that, ’59? Tape I, side A ends Tape I, side B begins A: Yah. J: But he certainly wasn’t known as a political entity, but his name was known. That was another part of the political (A: Strategy?) strategy if you will, was that you used names that were well known. Unfortunately after a while everybody’s name was well known because there was somebody in the family that was in politics. (A: Really?) Oh yah, Donahues, the you know, well you go back over all the names, French and Irish particularly, which seem to be the guys who went after politics. Johnny Janas as the one Pollock that I remember was an exception. (A: Yah) And we had a few, more than a few colorful Greeks that were in. And that George, Epicure Restaurant on the corner of Market and little Central Street there, was the political hotbed in town. A: Was it? 13 �J: Ah yah, it was the Georges brothers ran that. (A: Yah) And there were five of them. (A: Wow) And they ran it, very compatibly, which is extraordinary I always thought. A great bunch of guys. (A: Yah) And everybody met there to discuss politics, do secret things and decide who was going to be the next candidate, (A: Really) and who was going to support them. The Greeks were particularly adept at [McVillian] politics. A: Really? J: I mean they were, oh Jesus they loved it. They just absolutely loved it. A: What were some of the stories you recall from those days? J: Well they would, they would get together and they would discuss who was going to be a candidate, Greek or otherwise, it didn’t make a difference. Who was going to be successful, and decide whether they wanted to back him, and if they were going to back them, decide who they were going to destroy in the process. (A: Really) The word might be competition. And they would sort out, I mean you can’t believe the military precision that they used with this thing, and floating out who else was going to be a candidate. And whenever I wanted to know anything about the political scene as an update on something I had not been able to keep up with in anything, council, or statewide, or countywide for that manner, I’d go in to see Bill Georges. (A: Really) Yah, and get filled in. (A: Really) I mean oh yah, this guy’s going to go for it, and he’s going to get it. These two guys are going to go against him, and they’re going to get wiped. And right on the money, because they had planned it months ahead of time. And they did as much work against this guy’s enemies as they did for you. (A: Really) In the meantime you know, that was as far as I recall, the hottest spot in Lowell for lunch everyday. You know, all the lawyers were around the corner, and the cops were around the corner, and the Lowell Sun was around the corner. (A: Right) They all, they all accumulated there and that was a transmission of information there unlike any other place in downtown Lowell. A: Did you know the guy John Georges? J: Yah. A: What was he like? J: He was a gentleman. He had a lot of property, a lot of land. He was another guy who bought a lot of land. He bought land out on 495 long before it was ever a [division]. (A: Oh really) The family kept saying, “Hey, let go of that piece of shit. You can’t farm it, you can’t do anything with it.” I bought it right. It’s going to be good someday. And sure as hell they got a fantastic amount of money for it.. A: Where was it located exactly? J: When you go out Andover Street, (A: Yah) and continue out there. Is that 113? 14 �A: Ah, 133? J: 133. You know when you get out where the, I don’t know if it’s still there, Stop and Shop, or a supermarket of some sort, a good size supermarket, almost up to the Andover line. (A: Okay) And the high-tension wires are near there somewhere. All that land, it was in the neighborhood of 150 acres of land from both sides of the road, and 495 goes right across [unclear] just beyond or before that restaurant. A: Okay. J: But he was involved in quite a few other pieces of property. Was John the one who had the Blue Moon? A: Yah. J: Yes. That was, that was one of the most famous business properties in Lowell. Because when John ran it, it was enormously successful, and John sold it almost every year and took back the paper. (A: Really) And people who would run it would never fail not to run it well. As a result he’d win it back six months, a year, two years later he’d win it back you know, the meantime he’d been paid for whatever he had, he won it back on paper. Took it back over, would build it right back up again into a successful operation, and again sell it. He sold that piece of property a dozen times and always made money on it. But he was a great guy. A: Was he active politics? J: On the outside. I didn’t know an intelligent Greek in Lowell who wasn’t active in politics you know, on the periphery, or behind the scene. [phone rings] Excuse me. [Tape is turned off, then on again] A: Other issues around, around that time. Remember when the city moved from well water over to the river? J: No, that occurred after me. (A: Okay) When did that (--) A: I think it happened right around 1960, 61 when John was first on the council. They got rid of the Cook Well System. J: Yah, but I don’t recall that as being an issue. It may have been something that was going on at that time, but it doesn’t (--) A: In 1960 they voted to suspend the city manager, and then the next council meeting they voted to put him back in. Do you remember that? 15 �J: Vaguely. Was that Desmond? A: That was, John was on that first, first (--) J: Yah, was it Connie Desmond? A: No, this was Frank Barrett. J: So Frank Barrett was the manager after Connie Desmond and before him? A: No, right before. J: Right before? A: Yes. J: So who was the city manager who was fired and then rehired? A: Frank Barrett. He was fired and then two weeks later rehired, and then next year they got rid of him for good. J: What were the circumstances? A: I don’t know exactly. That’s why I was wondering if you remembered. J: No, I do not. I remember the incident now when you mention it, but I don’t recall any of the details. A: Okay. How about the Industrial Park out on Chelmsford Street, any issues out there? J: When did the Lowell Redevelopment Authority first form? A: 1961. J: Okay. Well that’s when I served on the board. And was Connie Desmond city manager then? A: Actually it was formed in ’61, and then you went on probably in ’62 because Connie Desmond started in ’62. J: Sayers, John Sayers was the lawyer who was the liaison for the Lowell Redevelopment Authority. (A: Okay) It wasn’t Flood. It was Sayers. His name just came to me. I only served, we were involved with that as a consideration. It was one of the many projects that were possibly going to be considered by the authority to get government financing for, (A: Okay) or partial government financing. But I only served on the Redevelopment Authority for what amounted to nine, less than a year. (A: Okay) 16 �And the reason for that was what happened. Our primary responsibility on that first Redevelopment Authority was to hire a director, (A: Okay) a professional, full-time director. As I recall the figure that we had for a starting salary was $10,000 a year. We soon learned that that was nowhere near enough to attract what was then a confident, experienced Redevelopment Authority director. We had found this guy in New York who was very interested in moving out of New York more than anything else, nothing but praise for this guy. Had him up here and interviewed him a couple of times, but we were going to need, I forgot the figure, closer to $15,000 to hire this guy. And we pulled as a group, pulled every string that we had in the city council to get this salary up so that we could hire a first rate guy to run this thing, because none of us including anyone in the city knew anything about redevelopment, and particularly you needed somebody who had the experience to weave his way through the entanglements of government relationships to get this stuff done. A: So urban renewal was kind of a new field at that time? J: That was, that was an aspect of this. These were all, I remember there being like a wide focus photograph of all the possible projects the redevelopment authority could finger as things the city was interested in doing to further growth and employment, tax base on all of the things that were the objective of these programs, many of which were really just forming in the federal government level too. So they didn’t even exist in their full operational [set]. So I mean this thing had just enormous potential for the city as old as Lowell was, who had lost its textile base at one point, and we were flagellates in the electronics business at that point. (A: Okay) Wang was in Tewksbury. There was really nothing else in Lowell. There was a few fabrication plants. Crax was still big at that time, but getting smaller. You know, there was nothing with any real growth potential industrially to employ all of the people that had once worked here. (A: Wow) And to use, the other aspect of it was to use all of our empty mill space. We have miles of it, miles of it. Anyhow, as a group I felt that we were, I had served on a board at the Y, and then served on the board of a couple of companies, this was my first experience with a put together politically connected group of people to deal with a municipal type problem. And I thought that we had a group that were very thoughtful, provided a lot of good insight to information we needed to see, and really put the shoulders behind getting this budget up to the point where we could hire a professional so we could have a first rate operation that would do the city a lot of good. (A: Yah) That’s it. Then we have to go into the political aspect of it, okay. If I recall correctly, and you can check this, there were five or seven people on that board. A: I think there was probably five. J: Okay. And there was Joe Mello, myself and Monsignor Twiss, there were a couple of women, and there was at least another guy. (A: Okay) And I don’t remember who they were. (A: Okay) But we finally got the budget up, and we were meeting the following week to appoint this guy the first Redevelopment Authority director. A: From New York? 17 �J: From New York. The meeting was convened by Monsignor Twiss in the office where we met at town, at city hall. A motion was made by Joe Mello to nominate the kid who was a reporter for the Lowell Sun. A: Bill Kiely? J: Bill Kiely. I didn’t think much of Bill Kiely then, and I certainly thought a lot less of him after this event took place. Monsignor Twiss said, “I thought we were meeting to affirm the nomination of our candidate, Charlie Brown, whatever his name was.” And Joe says, “I think this man might be more qualified and he’s local.” He says, “What does he do?” He says, “He works for the Lowell Sun.” “What does he do for the Lowell Sun?” “He’s a reporter.” You know, and I mean Monsignor Twiss was as astounded as I was. The motion was seconded by one of the other people at the meeting. There were one, two, three, four votes for it, and Monsignor Twiss and I. (A: Really) Yah. And this guy was elected. What was his name again? A: Bill Kiely. J: Bill Kiely, right, as the first director of the Lowell Redevelopment at $15,000 a year. At that time he was making about $8, or $9,000 a year as a reporter for the Lowell Sun, and had absolutely no experience in this area at all, except he probably new every political face in town without a doubt. I resigned. A: Did you? J: Yah. A: Immediately after. J: Immediately after. I wrote a letter to the city manager, and I thanked him for appointing me, but that there was no way you were ever going to get anything done this way. John called me, Jack Desmond called me, Walt Costello called me and wanted me to retract it because you know, you have to work with these people. And Joe Mello was not a friend of John’s but he was certainly a political ally of John, as he was of Walt Costello. (A: Okay) But I only knew him from his serving on the board. I might have met him before that, but I certainly didn’t know the guy. And this is how things were done, you know. I didn’t recognize that. I didn’t like it. And I, you know, quit and I was absolutely firm of my position. I didn’t want to have any part of it. And so that’s why all the things that took place in the early 60’s on the Redevelopment, oh I’m sure I was reading about them and aware of them at that time, but you know, I was offended that they were taking place and not really paying a lot of attention to it. A: Now why did you, why do you think they hired somebody like Bill Kiely? 18 �J: Because it’s done all the time. (A: Yah) It’s done all the time. Why did they hire the former president of the Senate as the president of Merrimack, at Mass, U Mass? Because he’s got the votes, right? And he wants the job. He wants some cush job that’s going to pay him forever. So we got a school system at the medium and upper level that’s filled with directors who have little or no experience in education. All kinds of experience in politics. A: Let me ask you about some personalities that you might, or might not remember surrounding the Redevelopment Authority. The original board which only served a short while, Peter Riley? J: I know him. He owned a printing company. A family business. A: And if you have any stories associated with these guys, or any dealings. J: No, my relationship with him was very cordial. He was a gentleman. A: Okay. How about Albert Notini? J: Yah, I knew him. I knew him, Mr. Notini. Gentleman, ran that business. Was he the one who was a music director at the high school, or was he the one who ran that wholesale tobacco shop? A: I think he ran the store there. J: Yah, okay. I remember him, but I, I knew him, but not real well. A: Okay. Leo Clermont? J: Yah, ran the meat market? A: Yup. J: Yah I knew him. I knew his brother, his brother Joe. (A: Maybe, yah) Yah. Yah. I knew him better, and again you know, hard worker, rambunctious sort of a guy, but got things done. A: Okay. John Egan? J: From the bank? (A: Yes) Yah. A staid banker type, you know, very close vested. I don’t think he trusted too many people. A: Really? Why? J: It’s how he acted. He was a banker. People always want things from banks, or bankers. Just a close vested guy. He might have been a very nice guy, but I mean I 19 �certainly was in his company, and met him quite a number of times, because the Union National handled our financial affairs for the company. A: Oh they did? Yah. J: So my dad and I were in there a number of times. And I remember one of the times we were in there for something where we wanted to borrow some money to do something or another, and we were not rejected because we’ve been there for a long time and had a lot of money [unclear], but they were giving us a hard time. And we had this meeting in John Egan’s office, and somebody else come in and out, he was a more junior banker, and I mean you know, it was an interrogation. And you know, we weren’t going anywhere. We’d been in this town for all of these years, and all of us kids were born and brought up here. I found it you know, irritating and insulting. At that point I was probably in my mid 20’s or so, and even then I felt as though I was a little too young to you know, backhand anybody at that age. But I told my dad when we left that building, I remember walking about away through the lobby, the main lobby of the Merrimack Street branch, the main branch of the Union National Bank, saying “I don’t ever want to go through that again.” They have no right to that information, and you know, the sum of money you want to borrow is a fraction of what we have in his bank, and there’s no reason to be handled that way. And I, when we got out, when my dad retired and my brother and I took over the business, one of the first things I did was move the money out of that bank. A: Oh really? What were they, what were they looking for, for information? J: Yah, they were badgering us with question like they might ask you as an historian about a business matter. You know, about how this was going to be done? What you anticipated from this? Why you felt that was going to be successful? And many of the questions were oblique. They were not being asked for the purpose of answer to that question. They were being asked to reveal other information. A: Really? J: Yah, I thought so. I was really teed off at him. I couldn’t, except for the sense of it describe it any more accurately than that to you. A: Now was Homer Bourgeois there? J: Yah, Homer was the president of the bank. A: Yah, and he was in this meeting. J: Oh no, no. He had very little to do with day to day business, not long after he became president. He was a day to day working executive at the Union National Bank [of the Yankee manner], and he was among the first of the ethnic groups to achieve you know, a 20 �high level of power by being elected, appointed and elected president of the Union National Bank by the Yankee board that controlled it and owned it. A: What was his role with the Yankee community? J: Well his role with the Yankee community was the ethnic liaison to the non-Yankee community, which represented obviously in it’s mix, the vast majority of the population of Lowell, (A: Okay) particularly the French, which were, which were second only to the Yankees in terms of a number of them. I’ve forgotten the numbers. In those days we had a 100 odd thousand people in the city. And they were 25, or 30,000 Frenchmen and only a few more percentage were Yankee names, whether they were or not, and various other ethnic groups followed that. The Irish were behind the French, but again not by much. (A: Okay) But the French were almost the largest population group in the city, (A: Okay) and certainly among the most vocal. (A: Really) Well from the viewpoint of emotional excitement. If they got excited about an issue, for Christ sake they were all over the place. And Homer was a member of the French Club over on, what’s that street called? A: Over by the common, the North Common? J: Yes. A: The Lafayette Club? J: Lafayette Club. Lafayette Club. Cam Brousseau, whose name I mentioned to you before, the fellow who came from Pawtucket with my Dad and started the bleach business, or who worked, still works with my father in the floor covering business, and worked with us when we opened it, and he was a member of the Lafayette Club and regarded himself as a friend of Homer Bourgeois’ as every Frenchman who ever met him did, because he was a [gregacious] guy and well spoken, and really you know, looked after the community. The guy had a big heart. And they picked the right guy, because they picked the guy who everyone got along with who knew him. Once you met him you were pleased to know him. And he was cordial and gracious, and he was a man of means at that point, because he was given, paid a lot of stock for his position as president of the company, and eventually controlled the bank. A: He did? He controlled the bank? J: Yes. A: In stock? J: If he didn’t control it, he was very close to controlling it. (A: Hm) He was president of the Union National Bank for quite a few years, (A: Okay) almost all of my business years in Lowell. (A: Okay) In any case he would represent the community, the French community, particularly the French business community. Clermont you mentioned (A: 21 �Okay) was one of them I know that got along very well with the Union National Bank. Eventually I think he was a director, and that was through Homer and the Lafayette Club. A: Okay. J: Homer was at the Lafayette Club with regularity, like Cam Brousseau, and Cam went there two or three times a week. A: Oh really. J: Have lunch, it was a very [unclear] little place, and it served good food, and good drink. And you know, it was popular with the French population. And it was their intermixing point for those that were successful. Very similar to the, I don’t know if it’s still there, the Greek Democratic Club. (A: Okay) Does that still exist in Lowell? A: No it doesn’t. J: Okay. Well that was a mucky muck political club that was largely populated by Greeks. And if you were a non-Greek and you were invited there you got to know all the Greek boys and if you were acceptable, and the same was true at the Lafayette Club, or any of the others, the Polski Club is the same way, you had an entrance to their inner circle. (A: I see) And that was one of the other links like the Olympics that interlocked, that formed the political connections and drove the power in Lowell. (A: Hm) From those groups came candidates they agreed upon support, and they in turn interlocked with other ethnic groups, which they had no formal, superficial relationship, but the same kind of a relationship I’m describing that I might have had with the Greek Democratic Club, because I was brought in by a Greek, he introduced me to his friends. Introduced me to his friends. (A: Yah) So therefore I became a friend of theirs. And that didn’t mean they’d murder for me, but it did mean that if I called them they’d answer the phone and speak to me, and help me whine my way through the Democratic power scene of the Greek community. (A: Okay) And you know, in Ireland and in England there’s the tradition of the Pubs, which are the local gathering places for men particularly of the community, and all the interchanging of gossip and news takes place at those. The same things exist in Europe and all of the various ethnic groups in Europe. I’m sure certainly in your family’s tradition of the Turkish side of it, there’s all that business of smoking and the black coffee (A: Right), where they met and they talked. It was a social event for the guys, the exchange of information. And everybody likes to know what’s going on. And they certainly like to know just as much as women do about what’s going on in the inside. And the lifeblood of political activity is knowledge of that information. And there’s not, that doesn’t exist anymore. (A: Okay) I mean it exists only in another form, a looser form, a more arms length form. It doesn’t have the warmth that it had. When I was brought in to the Greek Democratic Club by what the hell was his name? A: Was it Louie Kolofolios? 22 �J: No, no. No, no. That was [unclear]. He was a brilliant Greek politician who was never elected into office. (A: Really) Yah. And he knew everybody. And he knew where all the bodies were buried and what the connections were. A: And what did he do for work? J: He ran a catering business and bartended. A: Was it Ernie Cagnas? J: No, he worked for Sam Samaras. A: Okay. J: Sam was once a cop, eventually owned a package store with his brother. A: Okay. J: And Sam also owned a couple of bars, and he worked from [Xagoras, Xagoras] spelled with an X. A: That’s the guy? J: Yes. A: That’s the guy that was the political guy? J: Yes, brought me into the Greek Club. And what the hell was his first name? A: Was he an older guy? J: Not, well no, older than me, but not an older guy. He was Walt Costello’s age, maybe about four or five years older. (A: Okay) [Gogi Zagoras. Gogi Zagoris]. (A: Okay) A political operative of the first degree. A: Really. Now was Homer Bourgeois involved in politics? J: On the outside all the time. (A: Really) Never in front. (A: Yah, yah) Way back. He fingered, he shoved, he pulled and he was a powerhouse. A: Really. Who were some of the people he supported around town, do you remember? J: Oh, I’d have to think back who the French candidates were back in them, back at that time. One guy he didn’t support, a Frenchman in the 1972 Congressional race that my brother was involved in was the Frenchman there, the Monsignor who was, who ran for Congress as a Republican. 23 �A: Spike Morrissette? J: Spike Morrissette, right. A: He didn’t support him? J: He didn’t support him. A: How come? J: Because he thought he was stupid. (A: Really?) Yah. And he was right. (A: Yah) Yah. A: And so who did, who did Homer support? J: Oh in that particular race I don’t know. He gave us money. A: He did, really. J: Yah. A: Paul Cronin maybe? J: I doubt it. (A: Okay) Paul Cronin was supported by the entrenched Republican stronghold of Brad Morse, and Homer was still I think you know, a Democrat, although he might have been registered otherwise. He was certainly not an aristocrat as Republicans regarded him. (A: Yah, yah) The Republican Party belonged to the Yankees, and only a very few ethnic groups were in their. Italians and a few Irish, but you know, as Churchill once said, “If you’re not liberal when you’re young you don’t have a heart, and if you’re not conservative when you’re old you don’t have a brain.” So he found a few ethnic types who were successful at what they did, whatever it might have been, and felt they belonged in that crowd. (A: Okay) And a dye hard Democratic friend of mine from Connecticut who was a former state rep there, who insist that those Irish that are Republicans don’t know, they think they’re rich, and they foolishly [end up broke.] A: Um, let me try some other names on you for the Redevelopment Authority. John Mullin, he was the union rep? I think Joe Mello might have replaced him. J: Yah, it rings a bell. No, on that board I’m referring to Joe Mello was the original appointee. Mullin might have replaced him. The name rings a bell, but I don’t know the man. A: Okay. How about George Hudson? 24 �J: No. A: Edgar Vigeant? J: Vigeant. A: They used to call him Ricco, Ricco Vigeant. J: I remember the name. It was a very popular name around Lowell. A lot originated from Lowell. No, I don’t recall anyone with that name. A: Okay. And how about George O’Meara? J: Yah. A: He later became a councilor. He worked for the Telephone Company. J: Yah, he was a friend of Jack Desmond. Um, and I knew him. I don’t have any particular good or bad experiences with him. (A: Okay) I think I knew him mostly when he worked for Jack Desmond. A: Okay. And tell us about the Monsignor. What do you know about him? J: Arrogant. Aristocrat. Regarded himself as a Prince of the church. No, which always offended me. I, the churches in Lowell, the Catholic churches in Lowell, which are mostly, absolutely beautiful architectural pieces were built with the nickels and dimes of the working poor people. (A: Right) And this guy lived up in the rectory in absolute luxury. (A: Really) Oh yah, the best of everything. He used to call me to replace oriental rugs over there that he was tired of looking at and were worth thousands of dollars. You know, just not a compassionate man. Not the kind of a man that ever should have become, in my opinion, a Monsignor. We had another Monsignor in Lowell named [Heida], (A: Yah) a German. Did you know him, [unclear]? A: He was up at Saint Margaret’s I think? J: That’s right, yah. He was a very close friend of my father’s and I knew him very, very well. I got to know that man very well. Extraordinary guy. Just an extraordinary guy. He was like Homer Bourgeois was to the banking world, he was into everything, but you never saw him in anything. (A: Okay) I mean he would help out more people, and more entities, and get more things done by just making phone calls and plugging things together, and a great guy. Just, a guy like him, if he hadn’t gotten sick in his later years, and eventually died from that illness, he probably would have been a Bishop, or a Cardinal of the church. He was a brilliant guy, brilliant organizer. A: Tell us about the pick six election. That was the 1961 election, and the group of people got together, including Jack Desmond, and ran kind of as a slate. 25 �J: Who else was on that slate? I remember that phrase. A: Ellen Sampson, Bart Callery, Ray Lord, Joe Downes. J: Ray Lord was the big French candidate of Bourgeois. A: He was. J: [Unclear]. Who else was there? A: Joe Downes and John F. Carney. J: Oh yah, John F. Carney, the character. A: Do you remember his radio speeches? J: Oh yes, I remember it well. For a short period of time after the war my father was in the carnival business sort of. (A: He was?) Yah, he ran a concession and he went around, and that’s what John Carney’s father did. (A: Right) And John Carney took it over. It was Carney’s Entertainment Company, or something like that, and he ran these little carnivals that you see in churches now. And John Carney, as that business died, went to work for WCAP as an advertisement salesman. And we advertised on CAP and Puritan at that point you know, we were running the store, my father and my uncle. So he would see me regularly to get ads and set up ads, and he was a guy who loved to talk. Funny I still talk about him, because he was a very deep thinker. He was a guy who never smoked in his life. (A: Really) Never had a drink in his life. (A: Really) I mean worked out at the Y three, four days a week, stayed in shape, and he died very young, a raging cancer. I just always thought that was so incongruous to a guy who lived a type of life he lived. And he was a very devout catholic. I mean he went to church all the time. I don’t think Jack ever married. He might have, but I’m not sure. I seem to recall he didn’t. Anyhow, he was a very thoughtful man, and in his thick conservative way could be extremely lucid and gather support from nowhere, you know. I mean when he first ran that show on CAP you know, the switchboard would light up after he was done, and 90% of the calls were supporting him. (A: Really) And you know, you get, because John would say some things you know, on the radio that would raise some fireworks. Yes, I remember that effort being made, and it was being made as I recall to the elimination of somebody who wasn’t on that list. Do you know who else ran during that period? A: Sam Pollard was kind of John Carney’s nemesis, and visa versa. J: Yes, that’s right. Oh yah, he did a job on Sam Pollard. (A: Yah) Who else? A: Um, let me think here. I know people that fell off were Arthur Gendreau. J: Yah, I remember his name. 26 �A: But I think Frank Barrett was the guy they were really hot on. J: So Frank Barrett was supported by Sam Pollard, (A: Right) and this guy Gendreau, was it Gendreau, (A: Gendreau) and others that you mentioned that were defeated. (A: Right) (A: Okay) Then maybe that’s what I’m thinking of. That was the purpose of it, was to elect a city council that was going to say to the public before they were elected, they’ll can him, and they did. A: Yah, they wanted to get rid of Frank Barrett, number one. Now do you remember some of the speeches that Carney gave [phone rings] on the radio? J: Um, not in detail right now, but I can feel the tone of them and the direction of them, yes. A: Do you remember his famous football team? J: Yah, that does ring a bell. A: And Frank Lawlor from the Lowell Sun as one, you know, the quarterback or something, and Clemie Costello, and Homer Bourgeois, and other people, James Cooney. [Phone rings] J: Excuse me. [Answers the phone-tape is turned off] Side B ends Tape II, side A begins J: I’ve got to get going soon. A: Okay. Yah, I just have a few more questions. On that pick six election, did the candidates ever meet? Did you ever coordinate a meeting between the candidates on this slate? J: As I recall there was a lot of conversations between the candidates, telephone conversations. And a few of them who were close did meet, but not as a group. At least I never participated in anything as a group. (A: Okay. All right) And at that time, yah at that time I was still active in the Desmond’s campaign. But at that time, and when Jack ran for state rep, and when my brother ran in ’72, what I did for Jack in doing those campaigns, a lot of campaigns were primarily speech writing and putting ads together, and I acted as the track, statistician on election night, and nomination night, election night. Other than that I wasn’t doing the day to day strategy, but if I heard something you know, I’d call Walter and give him what I heard and he’d act on it. A: Yah. Okay. Now why did Jack Carney decide to run for council? 27 �J: Because he felt he could do something. (A: Yah) Yah, he was in the vernacular you know, a thick nick, but he had a good mind. But the thicknickness was stronger than the mind was in some cases, and I laugh about that now, but it was a serious problem then, because you know, these guys were very committed people. Jack Carney was not a fool either intellectually, or politically, he did what he did because he believe that that’s what needed to be done to fix something. And he was willing to sacrifice himself and his reputation to do that. So it didn’t bother him one iota to come off as an ass as times on the radio, because he sought to get that point made. He was a very honest guy. A: Yah. J: I always admired that. A: Now why do you think he was so opposed to guys like Homer Bourgeois? J: Power. You know, I mean you got to understand that the Homer Bourgeois era, Homer Bourgeois could pick up the phone and kill a guy, or make him, I mean literally. A: In the political field? J: In any field, socially, economically, politically, honest to God. I mean you had a few power brokers in that city like you did everywhere who had those kinds of connections. If Homer said you are no good and not to have anything to do with you, you couldn’t believe how isolated you’d become. (A: Really) Yah. And he didn’t do that lightly. He was a vindictive type of a guy. (A: Right) But if he did that because you were a bad guy, or had bad motivation, you were dead. And there were a few Greek boys who had that experience. (A: Really) I don’t now whether they had them particularly with Homer, but they, they tried to bully their way into the king makers lap. And you know, he recognized them for what they were. They had a reputation and they were blackballed. (A: Really) And as a result of that they could get no support anywhere. A: Really, wow! Who were some of the guys that he was opposed to? J: There was a guy, a Greek who ran for Congress out of the Acre. He had run for every office in the city. A: George Macheras? J: Yes. George Macheras, (A: Okay) he was one that happened to. (A: Really) When he got, he was first, I think he was elected wasn’t he, to the city council, or school committee? A: No. When Sam Sampson, Ellen Sampson’s husband died on the council floor with the proportional representation Macheras had come in way at the bottom with the popular 28 �vote, but because of PR and the number one votes, he got all the number two votes for Sam Sampson, and he was actually put into the council. J: Ah huh. Okay. Yah. A: Never, I don’t think he ever won an election after that. J: He never won at all. It’s like Paul Tsongas. Paul, who as a close friend of my brother Roger, they went to high school together, and Paul’s uncle and father were friends of my father. We took our cleaning there. I never knew Paul that well, and so I never developed a relationship with him. I was older than him. But I remember when Paul came back from the Peace Corps, and was marching down Merrimack Street with a Vietnam Kong flag, you know, leading an anti, peace march of sorts, which was alien to us at that time. And he ran for city council. And the guy he ran against dropped dead, and he was elected. He was a new comer, out of the blue. Most people couldn’t even pronounce his name, never mind spell it. And he was city councilor, he was school committee a couple of terms, and then he ran for city council. And some other quirk happened there too, and he got elected. A: Then he was on County Commission. J: Then he was a County Commissioner, and the Lowell Sun was all set to support him against cleaning out, you know, for cleaning out the guy who was a thief that was in there, Michael something or other. And when, to the total surprise of Paul Tsongas, Brad Morse decides not to run and take the UN job. You know, and he was already boxed in with the Lowell Sun. A: Who was already boxed in? J: Paul Tsongas (A: Okay) with the, to run for the County Commission. (A: Yah) And he couldn’t extricate himself. And he regretted that, he’d tell you so any day. I remember having a conversation with him when he lived down here in the Cape in the summer. A: So this was 1972 election? J: Right. Well no, no. Yes, ’72. Yes ’72 is when he was running for (A: Commissioner), backed by the Lowell Sun, running for Commissioner against this guy Mike something or other, who was a corrupt Commissioner. And the Lowell Sun was backing him all the way, when Brad Morse as a complete surprise to the Lowell Sun who supposedly knew all such things, decided to take the UN job. Brad Morse had had it. He was, he was never a guy who was much interested in work. He was real good at Edith Nourse’s AA, but I mean he was never a real you know, gangbusters go get him type Congressman. (A: Yah) But he held on to the job because the Yankees elected him, just, he took care of everybody else too, so, that he could. Anyhow, that was a complete political surprise (A: Okay) to everyone in the city of Lowell. And Paul would have 29 �liked to have run. That was where he wanted to go for the County Commissioner’s job, but lucky for him that he was married to that commitment to the Lowell Sun to run, that he didn’t get involved in the devil cal that, the war that took place with national publicity. There was more money spent on the Fifth Congressional District in Lowell for Congress than there was for any Congressional race in the country, number one. Number two, we had more candidates on both sides. I think there were nine republicans and there were twelve democrats. Everybody who was anybody was running. And Walt Costello was working for Paul Sheehy who was running, was a state rep, and he was because Paul Sheehy was a friend of his. And Paul got him his job at Lowell Tech as Financial Officer, Financial Aid Officer. (A: Okay) And I was working for my brother Roger who ended up running as an independent only because he had gone in to vote the previous year and switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat in order to nominate somebody on a Democratic ticket. And then you’d have the automatic switch back, and had forgotten to switch back. (A: Okay) And when he went in to get nomination papers for the Republican party, he was registered as a Democrat. A: Who was he nominating the year before? J: Who was he voting for? I don’t know, but whoever it was, he’d move it in. Then you could make the switch on your party allegiance and get him a ballot. And you had to go to city hall to switch back. And he failed to do that anyways. That’s why he was an independent. He was basically a conservative Republican. Anyhow that turned out to be a major mess. A: That was a real huge election right? J: Oh it was, I mean it involved Lawrence and their hometown boys, and our hometown boys. A: John Kerry. J: John, and John Kerry who, the carpetbagger from Dunstable who was a Vietnam Vet. And I mean of Jesus, some of the intrigue in that race was unbelievable. A: Tell us some stories. J: We had, we had a political operative in Washington who worked for Nixon, working for us. (A: Really) Yah, his name was Finkelstein, he was rather well-known. (A: Okay) And one of his men was a guy named, two brothers from Connecticut, the kid you want to talk to is my middle brother Roger. (A: Okay) He’s an historian. (A: Is he?) Oh yah. He regards himself as an amateur historian. His actual job is as an appraisal and personal property [unclear]. I can’t think of this kid’s name now, but this kid worked for Bill Buckley, the columnist, writer who was, at that time was the voice of conservativism in America. And between Bill and Finkelstein they had all kinds of political connections. They had both worked for Nixon. And he was having his people dig into Kerry’s past (A: Oh really) to find out you know, where there was, was it Nixon who invented the 30 �term “dirty tricks”? Maybe publicly, but it was not him who invented it. Anyhow you know, they came up with this thing. When a ship is in trouble it needs help. The signal for it was to fly the flag upside down. (A: Okay) That’s tradition. (A: Right) However men don’t go around parades carrying flags upside down without it being insulting to the country. And he did this in Washington. (A: Okay) Very much like Paul carrying the Viet Kong Flag down the street. (A: Yah) And he had written a book, Kerry. (A: He did?) Yah, before 1972. He was a big admirer of John F. Kennedy, and he was John F. Kerry. And he liked, loved the firm, the term JFK. And you know, he was modeling himself after Kennedy in terms of he was a war hero, and he was writing a book. He wrote a book and he published a book, yet in the Congressional race in 1972, one of the things Bill Buckley came to [unclear], “If I wrote a book I’d want everybody to know about it, and I’d sell a hundred copies if I sold that many or more during the election,” right? (A: Right) So why doesn’t he want anybody to know about this book? So he found the book. He located the book. And on the cover of the book was John Kerry in a parade of veterans carrying the American flag upside down. I get on the phone and call whoever published the book. I can’t think of who it was. It wasn’t Prentiss Hall, but it was someone like that, and I had to speak to their authorization’s department. And they faxed me permission to reproduce the cover of one of their author’s books, specifically John Kerry’s. I got it in writing, and boy did that girl regret that. The next day we ran a full-page ad in the Lowell Sun, John Kerry carrying the American flag upside down, in his book that he refuses to release to the population of Lowell. Why does John Kerry not want you to read his book that he wrote and published?” Holy shit! I want to tell you, World War II broke out, because Clem Costello and his brother John supported [Roger?]. (A: They did, yah) They didn’t object to Cronin, they thought he was a milk toast, and the thought the same of Brad Morse. And that was largely true. They were guys who absorbed the job. They weren’t good at it, and but Clem and John were both realist. It was better to be a friend of the Congressman than to be an enemy. So in that basis they got along. But their support was always preferably with hometown guys who had the heads to do the job, and would not cooperate with them so much. They had all the power and money in the world. They didn’t need anything. But bring to Lowell political strength. And you know, they had picked the right guy in Paul Tsongas, and for the job that he got. And to finish that story with Paul Tsongas, Paul was easily elected County Commissioner, and avoided the war in Lowell that year. And Cronin ended up getting disgraced in office for claiming too many credits on the money that supposedly came to Lowell, (A: Oh really) and ran as an underdog, and two years later for the re-election, and Paul beat him easily, and he would have probably anyhow, but beat him easily and quite a turnaround. A: And everybody else that had ran in ’72 had you know, spent their money and (--) Oh, they were, they were wounded, scattered and dis-[unclear] and they were all over the place, and most of them politically in ruin. Yah, there were many of them financially in ruin. It was unbelievable. This book could be written just about that, and all the candidates, and what happened to them all. But then two, or three terms later Paul wanted to run for Senate, (A: Right) and ran against Ed Brooks. Powerful, black, liberal Republican Senator from Massachusetts. A whole incongruous list of titles. And he gets attacked by his wife, and his daughters for non-support, and rousing, and carousing in the 31 �islands. (A: Wow) And goes into the shit! I mean literally from king of the hill to in the pot. And Paul walks in, you know. I mean a relatively unknown three-term congressman from Lowell, and he walks in to the United States Senate. And he was a tremendous success in the United States Senate. And I don’t personally agree with Paul’s politics, but I always thought a great deal of him as a person, and a very compassionate man. A: Now your brother ran, and did he pull out in one of the elections? J: My brother ran as an independent, and we withdrew from the race (A: Okay) a few days before the election because our polls showed that we were going to go head to head with Cronin, and it was very unlikely we would win, because the Republicans would stick with a Republican, and that would be the difference. Our pollster who was the same guy Finkelstein took out of Washington, felt that the wisest thing for us to do would be to throw in our support with Cronin, and gain some political leverage from that, and we’d elect Cronin. I’m not sure that Finkelstein’s motivation was Roger’s best interest. I think it might have been a Republican party’s best interest, but I couldn’t disagree with the logic of it, because I had the same sense that the race was so close, the Democratic guy was out of it. The race was so close the Democratic guy was out. Kerry, we had weakened him so much, we had, not Cronin. That’s the other thing. You know, White Knight Cronin stood apart from this savage war. (A: Oh really?) The battlefield was littered with blood and he was white as white knight. But he was politically smart enough to welcome us with open arms. And I did the talking at that meeting. (A: Really) He agreed that the race was very close, and that if we jumped in the bed with him that he would win it. And if we didn’t we may both lose it, but certainly he would lose it. And so, which I personally think that Finkelstein, the guy in Washington, the political operative, probably had access to the information on Cronin’s on internal polls, because he was a powerhouse in the Republican Party. (A: Right) And because of his position, Roger would want to know where Cronin was. And this probably gave him more accurate information than somebody else might have had, because Cronin, as with all professional politicians, spend much more money on polls and political management that people like us did. I remember that campaign was the first time I ever saw a fax machine. A: Oh really? They had them back then? J: Yah. We had to rent one from the phone company. It was about $200.00 a month. God damn machine had to be this high and that wide. It took two guys to carry it in. A: It was about two feet tall and three feet long? J: Yah. No, it was about eighteen inches tall, and easily two feet wide, and it was deeper than a shelf. It was as wide as a desk. And because of Finkelstein in Washington, I mean he’d fly down here ever week or ten days, but he was communicating stuff back and forth all the time on the fax machine. Something came out in the paper and he’d want to read it, fax it to him, and [snaps finger]. But today for Christ sake we get 200 in a day in this little office. 32 �A: That’s right. Now did Bourgeois, did he support Paul Tsongas? J: I would guess that he did. I don’t know that, but I would guess that he did. He was his kind of man. A: Yah. And how about the guy Eldred Field, did you ever meet him? J: Yup, many times. A: What was he like? J: Stayed, Yankee gentleman. Gentleman first, but you know, he took care of his own. A: Okay. Active politically? J: Always behind the scenes. (A: Yah) Yah, always behind. I think, did Eldred run for one thing, for the School Committee, or something like that? A: Ran for School Committee during the war. A: Ran for School Committee during the war and won, but then got drafted shortly after. J: Yah, and so never served. A: Yah. J: He was a powerhouse in Lowell, not of the magnitude of Homer Bourgeois, or the Costellos, but certainly among the varmints, he was, he was one of the top boys. A: And what was the relationship between Homer and the Costellos? J: Like all power brokers, I think they were allies when they felt it was to their advantage, but more often than not they weren’t. A: Okay. J: The Costellos were not really Republican, but they were conservative, and as John Desmond was. John Desmond was, was a misnomer at that time, though a conservative Democrat. The Costellos were really conservatives first, and party was not that important to them, but they did get more involved in the Republicans eventually, because it was the nature of the politics. A: Right. Right. J: That never came to be involving conservative Democratic set-up if you will. 33 �A: Yah, yah. J: Um, so, but there was no place for those people who felt that way. Any case I think Homer, Homer more than any of the political powers in Lowell, had the pulse of any of the groups as to what they were doing and who they were fronting, and who they were backing. And he joined those groups when it involved someone that you know, that he thought would be a good leader. (A: Okay) And certainly [unclear] but he didn’t. But every once in a while we had a candidate like Paul Tsongas who was absolutely, and certainly not elected by the Greeks, or by himself, that is he had broad support, and got broader every year and he was elected because he, and he did, this is another thing I always liked about the guy. He did it without being a political, political. That is, he didn’t frequent the bars. He didn’t frequent the political locations. You could always find Paul at home at night. He went to certain types of social events that had political undertones, or overtones to them, where his presence was needed to support them, and always with his wife on his arm. He was never scadadaling around town with every female that was available, as was political you know, [unclear]. And the guys who were in the campaign in ’72, which were mostly experienced state reps, city councilors, god knows, all the political, the [unclear] of them, whatever you call it were there. They were all people who had operated in that political arena, which required that type of a set-up. If you wanted to meet all of the guys who were running around all of the bars, ten bars in a night, and get home and have all you can do to you know, flop into bed. And I remember in the early Desmond campaigns you know, we did that too. (A: Really) That’s how you, I mean you know, the local pub was the local hangout for all the guys in their groups. Whether it was, the Lafayette Club was a step above that. The Yorick Club was the same way in downtown Lowell, but all the others were neighborhood bar places, with the exception of the Epicure Restaurant, which had a lounge in the back, and a restaurant in the front. And that was a political gathering spot. A: Citywide? J: Citywide, (A: Okay) yes, and all ethnic groups. (A: Okay) And down the street was the Greek restaurant, Olympus? A: Olympus, yah. J: Olympus, yah, and that’s where the Greeks went. (A: Okay) And DeMoulas’ first supermarket was around the corner, and then a little shop right beside it. A: Oh Tatsios. J: Tatsios right, Tatsios. [Unclear]. He was a real political operative. (A: Really) Oh yah. He, I used to call him a gun-slinger. I mean you know, if you wanted to go out and assassinate somebody, I mean not physically, but politically and mentally and otherwise, Tatsios was the guy. You know he’d get so excited. A barber shop, was it a barber shop? 34 �A: No, it was a little lunch cart diner or something. (J: Okay) A little hole in the wall. J: And Sam Samaras was another one. Jesus Christ, I said, “Sam, I cannot imagine you ever being a cop.” I didn’t know him when he was a cop. He worked for John Desmond too. A: He did? (J: Yah) So what was his role in the campaigns, to get the Greek vote out? J: Yah, just to get the Greek vote out. That was at the stage where the ethnic groups were more melding. They were no longer a powerhouse within themselves. (A: Right) The last of them probably were the Greeks. (A: Really?) Oh yah, because you know, very few Greeks marry non-Greeks. (A: Okay) Unlike all the other ethnic groups who, you know, just melded into one another and as a basic group except for the older population, they trump all the time. The Greeks maintained the integrity of that community for quite a while, as did the French before them. You know, the French had schools, churches that were entirely in French. The fellow I mentioned to you, Cam Brousseau, who was my father’s closest friend in business compatriot, he had three sons also as my father did. And the oldest one was about my age, and the next was about my brother Roger’s age, and the next was about Tom’s (A: Tom’s age) age. And the kid who was my age spoke broken English. (A: Oh really. Yah. Yah) Yah, and it was a product of his education, you know. (A: Yah. Yah) Both Cam and his wife spoke fluent French, spoke English certainly, but this kid, who was not effective in any way mentally, but he grew up in the catholic French schools and they talked French. So he had difficulty you know, making the transition. A: Okay. Second to last question because I know you need to get back to your business. Um, at one point Homer Bourgeois was not so much a powerbroker anymore, correct? J: Yah, I think that it dissipated over a period of time. A: And what would you attribute that loss of power to? J: Well through most of the friends that he had in positions in different groups passing away. (A: Okay) The age just caught up with him. (A: Yah) Homer was fairly old when he died as I recall, but he was the last of, as my father was, the last of the people of his age group. I mean all of his friends were dead. My dad died two years ago at 89. A: Oh he just died. J: And he lived a long life. (A: Yah, yah) You know, when that happens with a guy like Homer, and Homer didn’t live to that age, but at that time I’d say late 70’s. A: Yah, I think he was 77 when he died. 35 �J: Yah, something like that, they were all gone. [Unclear] all gone, because his generation went back. Homer Bourgeois was working Union National Bank for Christ sake in the 40’s. A: No before that. He started in the 20’s actually. J: Oh did he? A: He started as a runner, and (--) J: I remember him saying he was a teller, and he was this and he was that, and he just picked up as a guy who could get things done by the owners of that bank. They picked the right guy. A: Yah. Yah. Yah. Any ah, oh, one last question. Did, Paul Tsongas, did that represent the new political grouping that was coming to the front during the late 60’s and 70’s? J: No, I don’t think new, but he was an absolutely abnormality, because of the Peace Corps, and the Peacenik title that was a fringe group politically, not a core group of any of the political parties, but anything it was frowned upon rather than supported, you know. I mean people had sympathy with it. They certainly wanted peace, and didn’t want war, but they didn’t think that was the way to go about it, (A: Right) I guess would be the answer to that. And I think maybe he did in fact represent a transition into a new era of politicians, but I don’t think it was recognized as that then. I think when Paul was diagnosed, what is now about six or seven years ago, and he resigned the Senate seat, that, there were a lot of article, national article about him that had that aura to them. And so I don’t doubt that that was the case, but I don’t think it was recognized. Paul was elected because he was intrinsically a good guy, and clean. (A: Yah) Much to the chagrin of a lot of political diehards who felt they had much more political connections than he had. Certainly they did, but they were going out of vogue. That, I say that quickly, but I, because I know it isn’t true. There are political spider webs all over Lowell that still exist, (A: Right) and some of them are much older than you or I are. But a lot of them don’t have the overall power that they had at one time. And there’s still a lot of that at the federal level, and certainly at the state level, but I don’t think there’s as much of it. At least if there is it’s very sophisticated today. It’s not as noticeable as it was. So maybe I was in the middle of it then, and I was more aware of it. (A: Yah. Yah) But I really got to get going, but I’ll, one of the things I’ll do is give you my brother Roger’s name (A: Okay). And he’ll be down my house for Christmas and I’ll mention it. A: Okay, thanks very much. 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Title A name given to the resource John Durkin Oral History Interview Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001-12-20 Description An account of the resource John Durkin, Jr. was born on December 26, 1936 in Lowell, MA to an Irish father and Portuguese mother. He graduated from Lowell High School in 1954 and went on to graduate from Merrimack College with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He continued the family business of cleaning products, eventually opening Durkins, Incorporated. His father owned the Puritan Floor Covering Company. His mother, Helen (Spinney) Durkin, was part of the Spinney family, a large Portuguese family in Lowell. The family's surname was originally Espinola, but the patriarch, Dominus, changed it to Spinney when he immigrated to the United States. In this interview, John tells the family folklore of how Dominus was kicked out of Portugal, eventually opening a bookstore in Lowell. 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Relation A related resource <a href="https://umlportuguesearchives.omeka.net/admin/items/show/id/836">Image of Spinney Family circa 1915</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF MP3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Durkin, John 01.20 Subject The topic of the resource Ethnic neighborhoods Children of immigrants Suicide Cleaning compounds Tenement houses Immigrant families World War, 1939-1945 Rug and carpet industry Entrepreneurship Irish Americans Politics and government City council members Campaign management Urban renewal Christian Youth Organization (CYO) Durkin's Incorporated Lowell Redevelopment Authority Puritan Floor Covering Company Spinney's Garage https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/42465/archive/files/56f71cbc8c207110cb6ce14c50a07846.pdf?Expires=1789603200&Signature=vE04FdR0wE21%7Eb3hhxthz-3LFPmOl8MlqlT4JW9q4-PRxWh4fo6%7ErtQrq1YsKvs5xNrW0lR1vdIAHrTfmRppcT4GJx1V5RuVxwA-Go4sWs4ubkW-BSDluYV7xxLALyrFcYSqDFZaOZ3STdYLpHyiS22SDrIVfN-9BD38CTwXp-9IX3JVZSO12Mr4gToBzHZRYnnXFmQiigAGCWBeuToDdyAtfwvE1EcklnzW4IE4qUq8YbJlDovYhcoVYHLRFU8fErQDcGpNO9DBVRHMXYZP9RGdOoQ6UTNMkJKpg21BbrneMH1Dgq7P6aKE09Yr4j%7EyQCBnFkrjBy21Yc8JQBxzmA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 183a84d11383afb2b3363cb694717fc9 PDF Text Text UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL SAAB CENTER FOR PORTUGUESE STUDIES ORAL HISTORY PROJECT INTERVIEWEE: JOHN LEITE INTERVIEWER: GRAY FITZSIMONS DATE: February 8, 2023 Biographical Sketch: John Leite was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1933. His father, Belarmino (1892-1970) and mother, Violante J. (Sousa) Leite (1894-1979) were born on the island of Graciosa in the Azores. They immigrated to the U.S. in the mid-1920s, initially settling in Lowell, before moving to Manchester, New Hampshire, they worked for a number of years at the Amoskeag Mill. Belarmino Leite worked in the highly skilled job of loom fixer and Viloante Leite worked many years as a spinner. Around 1936 they returned to Lowell, living there the remainder of their lives. They had three daughters and one son, John J. who was educated in Lowell’s public schools. Belarmino, a trombonist, played in and managed Lowell’s Portuguese Colonial Band. John Leite joined the band when he was a boy, playing the trumpet and later the trombone. After serving in the U.S. Army in post-war Europe, he returned home and matriculated at Lowell State Teachers’ College; after graduating from the college he taught in the area’s public schools, performed as a professional trombonist in well-known local bands, and formed his own band; beginning in the 1970s Mr. Leite became secretary/treasurer of the Lowell local of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), AFL-CIO, and after its merger with other locals in 1995, he was elected president of AFM Local 300. Scope and Contents: As in two other oral history interviews with Mr. Leite, this Interview includes a great deal of information on Mr. Leite’s career as a musician and some of the well-known composers, conductors, and musicians whom he knew and with whom he performed. But unlike the other interviews, this oral history covers his recollections of the Portuguese “Back Central” neighborhood in Lowell and his childhood, into his early teens, as an altar boy at St. Anthony’s Church. It also includes additional information about his parents, their work in the textile industry, and their home in South Lowell. J=JOHN G=GRAY G: It’s February 8, Wednesday. I’m at the home of John Leite, and here we go. J: My dad was a loom fixer, and he made a piece of equipment somehow to make the loom run better. Right? 1 �G: Right. J: He didn’t get a dime for it, you know, I mean the powers that be did. G: The company did well. J: But he could fix anything. It didn’t matter what it was. And my mother started as a bobbin girl. Then she went as a spinner, and then she became a weaver. And I would visit the mills once in a while. I mean I remember the noise you know. They must have all gone deaf. And the shuttle going back, [makes sounds of shuttle going back and forth], you know, the weavers. And if there was a break in the line you had to go [makes sound]. And she had fast hands. Incredible and getting paid crap for it. And the companies are making millions of dollars on the silk. That was a silk mill. G: Yah, this was the Newmarket Mills, right? The Silk Mills. J: Yah, Newmarket. They called it the Silk Mills. Across from Athenian Corner. That one there. G: Your dad, and your mom, they were there a long time, right? J: Yah, they were there. First, well Wilhelmina was born really early, when they got married. And then Mary came along twelve years later. And then Helen four years after that. And then the last four years, myself. But with Wilhelmina, she was a secretary in Robey Shoe. You know where that fifth-floor thing is in the mills from Jackson Street to Middlesex Street? G: Yes. J: Those mills there? G: Yes, the Appleton and the Hamilton Mills, formerly. J: Yah, and you go underneath and out. They sell records up there, Dave [David Perry]. G: Right, Mill No. 5. J: Yah, No. 5, well that’s where, exactly where Robey Shoe was. G: Oh, is that where? Robey Shoe, on that same floor? J: Yah, I remember that. Because he told me, Dave Perry, the record guy, told me that they found a last, you know a true last, in the wall, on that floor. I said, well I worked there after I, just after I got out of high school. G: Did you work at Robey Shoe? J: Yah. G: I didn’t know that. J: I was a shipper/receiver with the older guy who was there, and I was you know, learning. G: But your sister Wilhelmina worked there? J: My sister Wilhelmina worked in the office. The shipper/receiver says, “Hey, grab a broom.” “It looks clean here.” “No, no, see that first row of women? The last? Go down there and clean under her.” She’s wide open, you know. And, you know, of course I was always doing a lot of cleaning. That was a 2 �day full. But then I left that, and I went to Jay’s Radio on Bridge Street. Right on the corner of Paige. Was it Paige, where it comes around down like this? G: I think it is Paige. J: On French Street. G: On French Street. J: Bridge Street was the main door. One of the owners, George Ash, was the Mayor of Lowell. And he was a part owner. G: Oh, was he really? I didn’t know that. J: Yah, of Jay’s. And they had a store in Lawrence. So, there’s a kid in Lawrence, Louie and myself, used to put TV aerials up on houses. You had to take four ten-foot galvanized poles, clamp them together so you’d have forty feet height. Then the butterfly antenna, right. And we’d take turns going up the roof. It was a tough time, and tough thing to carry that thing up there. G: I can imagine. J: It was heavy. But the guy on the roof had to take it all the way to the peak. Walk along the roof to the chimney. Put the chimney straps and put it in, you know, and that’s before cell phones. You know, you’re yelling down, turn it the other way! No, no, no, a little bit more. Oh, okay, you got it. Okay, picture looks good. Lock it up. Come on down. And we did this on Pine Street, which was a doubledecker. Of course, now they’re all condos on Pine Street. And diagonally across from the school. And it was his turn, Louie’s turn to go up. It was a slate roof. G: Slippery. J: And they’re always losing slates, you know. And his turn to go. He goes up the ladder. He walked up. I used to go up on my bum, right. He’d just walk up the roof. The slate let go. He came down two stories. Boom! Fortunately, there was grass there. He got up and he says, “Son of a bitch!” And he ran up the ladder, and he ran up the roof. He was a crazy bastard. The highest one I had to go in was in North Billerica, four stories. Those aluminum ladders would bend like that as you’re walking up. G: Yes, I remember. I know what you mean. I’ve done it. J: Four stories, that’s a long way up. And then going up to the peak, and going over the strapping, and all that stuff. G: It’s a young man’s job. J: Jeeze, I was eighteen. G: Well actually, here’s the thing. I was going to ask you, you were born in Manchester, right? And then you guys moved to Lowell I think in 38 or 39? J: Helen and I were born in Manchester, the one closest to me. The one that’s four years older than I. The first two were born her [in Lowell]. G: Yes. J: You know, Wilhelmina and Mary. And then Helen and I were born in Manchester. They went where the work was, The Amoskeag Mills. 3 �G: Yes, Amoskeag, right. J: So, they had to go work at Amoskeag Mills, and we had cousins up there anyhow. So, we had connections in Manchester. But then they moved back to Lowell. I was three. G: So, the thing is, I found through the City Directories that your family moved to Bowden Street in South Lowell. J: Twice. G: Yah, I know, exactly. I was going to ask you about that. J: First time was fifty-six and fifty-eight Bowden, a double decker. Mr. Rebello owned the house, and he had a grape garden, grapevines in the back. And I used to help him pick the grapes. So, this one Christmas he said, “I want to buy you a sled. You don’t have a sled.” There used to be a toy store downtown across Shattuck Street and where the bank is now. Then there’s like a little sub shop, or something in there at the corner. The next store, which has changed about a million things. That used to be a toy store. G: Was it? J: And he said, “Pick any sled.” They’re all hanging on the wall. I picked a Donald Duck sled. It was cute. I liked it, you know. So, he bought it. He comes home, he brings it home. My father looked at it. He says, “How much was that sled?” Asking Mr. Rebello. And he told him. He said, “Why did you spend so much money?” He says, “Hey, he’s a good kid. He’s your son, but he’s a good kid. And he helps me with the grapes. That’s it. I bought it. You don’t have to buy it.” And so, I had a Donald Duck sled parading around Bowden Street. We lived at fifty-eight [Bowden Street], upstairs. G: So, Mr. Rebello was Portuguese, right? J: Mr. Rebello, of course. G: And do you know where he was from? What island? J: No. G: Okay, that’s all right. J: No, I’m sorry, I don’t. I was little. G: No, no, of course, I know. But, your parents moved back to Lowell. Did they know Rebello beforehand, or did they just find an ad for this two-family house? J: Well, you know, in the church. The church makes the connections. And so, you talk to Father Grillo, you know, somebody always knows. Oh, Mr. Rebello has a place. You know, that’s how. It’s a network like today. G: Let me ask you though, when your parents moved to Manchester, they didn’t continue to go to Saint Anthony’s did they? J: Oh no. No. G: They were at a church up in Manchester. J: Yah. Don’t ask me the name of it. I have no clue. 4 �G: No, no, that’s okay. J: I was just born. G: 1933. So anyway, so your parents moved back to Lowell. And my question is, they didn’t move to the Back Central neighborhood. They moved to Bowden Street. J: Yah, that’s what was available. G: Right. But I was wondering, what are your earliest memories of Back Central, the neighborhood? J: Well, I told you I had an aunt and uncle there. G: Your aunt was on Chapel Street. J: Yah, but I had an uncle and aunt on Back Central Street, that big, long Nolan Block. G: Oh, the Nolan Block. J: On the right-hand side. I don’t know how many stories, four or five stories or something. G: I think it’s four. J: There’s a market on the corner. And my uncle lived there, my father’s brother, José . And he was sickly. And his wife was a [whistles]. As a kid, you’re walking in there, and it’s a dark hallway. And there’s one sixty-watt bulb hanging down on a wire, right, from the ceiling. And as a kid you’re walking up. It’s scary. You’re walking up the stairs, fourth floor, right. It was after Mass, right. And then as you walk along there’s a hallway. And the hallway has all these windows on Central Street. And she had garlic tied to all the locks. G: Garlic? J: Garlic. G: Why? J: To keep the spirits away! I’m telling you she was a strange lady. So, we finally get into the apartment, and my father says, “Mude mulher!” She [my aunt replied] “Não vá!” My father got pissed, right. And he walked right past her. She was a bitch. And he opens the door, and he closes the door and visits with his brother, you know, because he was really sick. I don’t know what he had. But she was just a whacko. And she would have fought my father, you know, if we weren’t all there. G: She was a tough cookie still. J: Yah, that’s how I remember her. But he, José , was a wonderful man. J: And he was a wonderful man, you know. Anyway, it was scary to visit that place. The other place on Chapel Street was brighter, and it was only two stories. G: Was it a double house? J: Double decker, yah. G: Double decker. Did a few families live there, or just a couple? 5 �J: Well, there were two-families in a double decker. You know, they’d go by how high, how many floors, and you put another family in. I’m sure there were some places that had families in one place. I didn’t know any of those. G: So, this was your aunt on Chapel Street. J: Yah. G: Which aunt? One of your father’s sisters? J: My mother’s aunt? I think it was like a grand aunt, or something. G: Got you, okay. J: Something like that. She was a nice lady. We used to go to another relative, further down Chapel Street. I forget who it was. And the guy used to make his moonshine. Most of them did. Most of the old guys, they made their moonshine. And I’ve been there as a little kid, and I see the old guys going, taking shots and a bite of a fig. You know, you get a fig, you get a date, you know, and you take a shot, and then you take a bite, and you take another shot, take a bite, you know. My dad could do that like poof. He was good at doing it. So, as I grew older, and now I’m fifteen and I’m saying, hey “Pai, agora?” Yah, all right. And I take a shot, right. And I said, “I’m going to do this. Took a bite of the date, took a swig. Oh gee! It’s great!” It was barely a drop. Oh Christ, it burned so much. This was moonshine. Oh my god. So, I said, “Why do you guys drink this?” And he says, “You don’t know how to drink it.” Slow, little sips. Bite of the date, another sip. Bite of the date. Well, some of them used to zap it, you know. The second one they’d do it slower, you know. First one they go, zap it. And then the second one, okay, now we’ll eat the dates. But, you know, that’s my biggest memory. Well, the other memory of Back Central Street is the Portuguese Band. G: Yes, I was going to ask you about that. J: I started playing trumpet when I was younger. And I was thirteen when I joined the band. And I was taking lessons with John, Mr. John Giblin. You always addressed him that way. Mr. John J. Giblin. G: G I B L I N? J: Yah. And he had a studio in the Rialto Building. And right on the corner, the tower, the second floor. It had windows, you know, on both sides. Beautiful studio. And when it started off my father would take me up there. And after that, you know, go take your lesson. And he was a wonderful man. He was a high school band director. That’s how I met him. He played cornet. Lowell used to have a lot of opera houses. And he played in the pits of the opera. He had a tongue like a snake. Oh man could he tongue. And every student of his had to learn single, double, and triple tonguing. My graduation from Morey Junior High, of course it’s not a junior high anymore. It’s an elementary school now. They tore it down. The original one was a junior high. G: A junior high school. J: You go up to ninth grade. From my ninth grade graduation, Doris Fein, played piano. She was a concert pianist. The piano was up on the stage. And I said, I got to nail this thing, the triple tonguing. [Makes triple tonguing sounds] The whole thing is all triple tonguing, right. And at the end it was a high A. And I said, if I miss that everything is lost, right? G: Right. 6 �J: [Makes more tonguing sounds and hits high A], and I hit it, right, and I wouldn’t let it go. And she’s up on the stage like this. Hey, when are you going to end this thing, you know. I was so happy I nailed that sucker. I held it and held it. And then I went “yo!”. And she went [makes sound]. Oh, I was so happy to hit that high A. G: Gee, I mean you were what? Fourteen, fifteen at the time? J: I graduated. I was sixteen when I graduated from high school. G: Were you? Sixteen? J: Well sixteen March 31st, my senior year. I didn’t turn seventeen until March 31st. So, only two months left for high school. So basically, my whole senior year I was sixteen. So, you take four years off of that. I was young. Twelve or thirteen? Something like that. And I used to practice every day, two and a half hours. We lived in a tenement, Wilhelmina’s house, on A Street; fifty-three and fifty-five A Street. G: Yah, you guys moved from Bowden to A Street, in the Highlands. J: Yah. G: Did your father rent, or did he buy that house on A Street? J: No. That was Wilhelmina’s house. G: Oh, that was Wilhelmina’s house? J: My oldest sister, and her husband Gabe Gouveia. G: Gouveia, okay. J: Yah, Gabe Gouveia. And they owned it, and we rented the top, second floor. G: I see, okay. J: And those houses were really close, right? And I used to practice two and a half hours every night, and nobody ever complained. If I were on a gig, they’d call my house to see if I was sick. Honest to God. G: Where’s John? Why isn’t he practicing? J: Yah, how come John’s not practicing? He’s playing a job. You know, he has to go play a job. I started down at the Cosmo, I was fifteen. I had a trio. G: Oh! Was that your first professional gig if you will? J: Yah. Well not counting the band. G: Right, but you got paid at the Cosmo. J: Oh yah. G: Fifteen, wow. J: Yah, I was fifteen. I had a trio. G: Were you playing the Trombone, or the Trumpet? 7 �J: Trumpet. I was still on a Trumpet through high school. And so, Sidney Richardson was at piano. He was a classical guy. He could read anything. Ray Robey was the drummer, my buddy. G: Ray? What’s his last name. J: Robey. G: Robey. J: R O B E Y. And we were friends all through high school. G: So, you had a trio? J: I had a trio, yah. G: Oh nice! J: I owned a trio. And we used to get paid five bucks a night. The Cosmo, on Market Street, the building is almost all gone, except for the end. G: It’s all gone. Yah, I know. J: Well, the end where the Sac Club was. Now that’s a restaurant. G: Believe me, I fought to keep that building up, but anyway. J: It was a long building. G: I know. J: And where I played, the lounge was on the righthand side, okay. G: As you faced it, it was on the righthand side. J: Yah, there was a big lounge in the middle. But there was this small lounge, right, and it had high booths and stuff. And we’d get paid five bucks a night. G: You don’t have any photos from the Cosmo, do you, of you playing? J: No. G: Sorry, go ahead. J: There was a woman there that used to do bjs for two bucks, right. G: I believe it. J: So, I got home two nights a week, Friday, and Saturday, with three bucks. It was a good two-dollar buy. G: So, again, you were about fifteen or sixteen years old. J: Fifteen, yah. And that’s where I met Jack Kerouac first time. G: Did you really? J: Yah. G: You met him at the Cosmo? 8 �J: He used to go to all the clubs on Moody Street. They used to say “Moodsi” Street. You’re going to “Moodsi” Street. So yah, there was a lot of clubs. G: Yah, I understand that he used to sip a few there. J: He used to go around to all the clubs. And he came this one night, just one time, sat down and he listened, you know. And when we ended, playing the tune, or whatever it was, he said, “Gee, you guys sound really good. Keep it up.” G: Interesting. John, if you were fifteen, that would have been in forty-eight, or so. Interesting. J: So, anyhow, that’s the first time. The funny thing is that when I eventually met Dave Amram in Europe. G: I know, you were in Germany. J: Yah, Seventh Army Symphony. G: Who could believe it, right? J: You know what my first assignment was when they put me over there? First, I had to audition for the Eighteenth Army Band in Devens, Fort Devens. G: Yes. J: And so, it was an opening for euphonium. You know what that is? A small tuba. There was an opening for the euphonium there. And so now I was studying with John Coffey in Boston. He was the Bass Trombonist for the Boston Symphony, you know, under Koussevitzky, and then Munch, during that time. G: He was the Bass Trombonist? J: Bass Trombonist, yah. G: What’s his name again? J: John Coffey. G: Coffey. J: C O F F E Y. He had the studio across the street from Symphony Hall. G: So, you studied with him? J: Yah, I studied with him. G: Oh wow! Is that where you learned the bass trombone? J: Most of the guys who were traveling, there were a lot of traveling bands then, you know, name bands, Tommy Dorsey and all these guys, and guys would stop off at John to get an upgrade on, hey, I have this problem, I have that problem. G: No kidding. J: Oh yah, he’d straighten them out, you know. He was a wonderful guy. I was there taking lessons one time and this guy comes in with a suit, three-piece suit, and he wraps on the door. There was a big studio. The second studio was big. The first one was cramped. First one was, you know the BU Theater 9 �across? Well on the righthand side. There’s a sleezy bar down at the bottom. And then you got up to, I think he was up on the fourth floor. He had it up there, a studio, but then he moved over this way, over a men’s store on this side, on the corner. He had a studio. That was a nice one. A nice big window and everything. It had little rooms. So, I’m taking a lesson with him. Now I’m older. I’m already back from Germany. The trombone, right. And this guy in a three-piece suit knocks on, in the inside window where his lesson was, there was a glass window so you could see. Oh, John says, “Who’s that?” I said, “I don’t know.” So, he goes out there. He says, “I’m from the IRS and I understand you’re selling [fake] music books and not recording anything.” It used to be fake books, you know, you could get a million tunes out of the books. And he used to sell them for ten bucks. Most of the guys were selling them for twenty, twenty-five, thirty. He was trying to help the kids. You know, so he says, “Yah.” “Do you have anything?” He said, “Yah, I have a thing there. See it. I got them stacked up there.” And he says, “You got to pay for those. You haven’t paid for any of that. You can’t do this anymore. You have a two thousand dollar fine.” G: Wow. J: So, he said, “Look kid. Here’s two-hundred bucks, cash. See you later. Keep the cash.” The guy walked out. G: He paid them off. So, did you learn the bass trombone from John Coffey? J: No, actually. Well, I did, later I did. But when I went to my first assignment after I left the Eighteenth Army Band at Fort Devens. G: This is after you had mustered out of the army? J: No, no, no. I had to go down to Fort Dix for training. G: I’m sorry. You learned the euphonium at, or you were playing the euphonium at Fort Devens though, right? J: Yah, but that’s after Fort Dix. I had to go to Fort Dix. G: Okay. That’s where you did your basic training? J: Yah. December, January, February. Three coldest months of the year. Well, one time we had M1 rifles. I was a marksman M1. I could shoot anything at a hundred yards. Those rifles were great. We’re all lying down on the snow. And we had the big green coats that went down to here, with the brass buttons, and the pack and stuff. So, we’re all lying down shooting the M1s. It was time to roll over. Okay, get up. We’re all frozen to the ground with the buttons. So, he comes to the first kid on the squad, and he said, “Get up!” He said, “I can’t.” He said, “Oh yah.” He grabs him by the collar like this. Rip! And all the buttons were in the ice. “How the hell did my buttons?” “Dig them out with your bayonet.” So, he did it to all of us, the whole squad. So, we had to dig him out, right, go back to the building and sew the frick’in buttons on. But anyhow, after I did that, I was the only guy coming back to Massachusetts. Most of them were going to Oklahoma, Alabama, you know. “Where are you going?” I said, “I’m going back home.” So, I had to audition first. When I went for the audition John Coffey (--) G: Where was the audition? J: Up at Fort Devens. G: At Fort Devens, okay. 10 �J: And John Coffey says, “Go ahead and do that.” I said, “I don’t have a euphonium.” He said, “For Christ sake, take one from your high school. What, you want me to take the audition for you?” I said, “Sure.” I got a horn out of the high school, you know, and I was a trumpet player, right. So, I went up to Fort Devens. The Warrant Officer says, “Okay, you read F clef?” “No.” You know, that’s bass clef. I was a trumpet player. I had to read in treble clef. It’s called transposed treble. It’s not concert treble. And so, he said, “Well all right, but if you can play, I’ll give you six weeks to learn the F clef.” “Yes sir.” So, I began the thing, and I whaled through everything. And so, he said, “Okay, you’re in.” G: You made it. J: Yah, I made it. I don’t have to go to Oklahoma, or you know. G: So, were you shipped to Germany? J: I was at [Fort Devens] first. I was living at home on Sayles Street now. Sayles Street was the first home my dad bought. You know, beautiful, double, a lawn, yard, everything. Actually, the guy across the street’s sister is living there now. But I used to get picked up by Bob something, a French horn player who lived in Tewksbury. He used to pick me up every morning. It was like a day gig. We’d drive up there, play the gigs. You know, the rehearsals, march around. At the end, come home. I was living at home for Christ sake. How do they think I could go out and live in the barracks at all up there. And then that was up there, I don’t know, two and a half, three months. And then they had this levy, what they call a levy. It’s a group of people, guys, ten. A levy of ten. And at first, they said FECOM. I said, oh Jesus. G: They said what? J: At first they said FECOM. G: What’s that? J: That’s Far Eastern Command. That’s Korea. And then the next morning they said, “No, that was a mistake. It’s EUCOM”, Europe. So, ten of us out of that band were sent all over different units. And the first place I went was the music school. G: Where was that? J: In Dachau. G: Dachau, oh wow. J: So, I walk in the front door. I go up the stairs, the second floor. G: What year was that John, by the way? J: Fifty-two. I went over in fifty-two. Went over on a boat in fifty-two. And anyhow, I had the class, and we went to sleep that night, right. The next morning, I wake up, I look out the back window. What the hell are those railroad tracks for? What are those? Ditches? What the hell is that for? So, I asked the German guy onsite. He says, the bodies came in the carloads, you know, freight cars. Just stacked up. Bodies stacked up. If they were still bleeding, they lay them in the ditch so that they would dry out and burn faster. And I was sleeping over the ovens and the gas chamber. Three months I was there. As an eighteen-year-old that’s scary. G: Oh, it’s awful. 11 �J: You know? And then you had to say, well I’m not going to think about that, you know. Let’s get to the music stuff. And the guy was a really good instructor, a German guy, musical guy. And then, the first band I went to was an all-black band. G: No kidding. I didn’t know that. J: Well, everything was segregated through the Second World War. G: Yes. Right. J: Until 1940, let me see. G: 48 I think. J: No. G: Under Truman. J: Yah, but it was 47 when they started the integration. And then they started sending whites to the black band, blacks to the white band. You know that kind of thing. G: Interesting. So, most of the players were black though? J: Yah, when I got there. I walked in with my trombone, right. Oh, that’s the other thing. I didn’t have a trombone. John Coffey says, “I’ll sell you one.” So, he sold me a small Holton, you know. And he said, “Here’s the seven positions. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. See you later.” That was my lesson on a trombone. G: Where was this again, with Chuck Carver? J: John Coffey. G: Oh, I’m sorry, Coffey. Gotcha! That was the lesson. J: Yah, he said, “You’ll figure that out kid.” So, I get on the boat. G: But you had that same horn that you took overseas then, right? J: Yah, I bought it! G: From John. Okay. J: So, I’m on a ship, right. You know, it was awful. You’re sliding. I had the bottom. These racks, there were four racks, and they were canvas. So, you know, you sit down, and it goes [makes sound]. And I was on the bottom because I was a little, smallest kid. I just didn’t have a belly or anything. And they said, “You go in there.” I said, “How the [expletive] am I going to get?” He says, “Figure it out. If you want to sleep. Figure it out.” So, you slide in, you know, like that. And the guy on top of me had a big ass and it was hanging down here. So, I couldn’t roll over. In order to roll over, I had to get out and turn around, and go back in. Oh, before the ocean storm, there was a sax player from North Chelmsford that I met, Ronnie Klonel. Ron Klonel. His mother owned a shop up in North Chelmsford. She sold cloth for making clothes, or something. And he was on the boat. He was an organizer kind of guy. And he found a piano player on the boat. You know, he said, “You’re a trombone player.” I said, “I just got the [expletive] horn. I haven’t had a lesson yet.” And he said, “You’ll figure something out.” So here we are. We got a band. We found a drummer. We had a band, and we started playing afternoon gigs. 12 �G: On the boat? J: Yah, on the boat. And so, then he said, “You know we’re doing this for nothing, right. I’m going to go talk to the captain of the ship.” “What the hell are you going to (--)” “Leave it to me.” He goes up to the captain and he says, “You know, we’ll do two gigs a day, right, entertain the troops.” Fifteen hundred guys on the boat. That didn’t include the crew. Just fifteen hundred of us lumpers. So, he says, “We’ll do two gigs a day, right, and what we need to do is eat up here with your guys, and not down in the mess hall, and maybe use the shower or something.” The captain looked at him and he says, “You got to be the biggest ass I’ve ever known.” He said, “Why would I do that?” “Well, to keep the troops.” He says, “I don’t care. You know, five days over, I won’t see them.” So, he said, “Come on man.” He said, “All right. You can eat up here with us, but no showers.” So, Ronnie did that. There’s a picture in Paul Marion’s book of me with the piano and Ronnie Klonel. G: Oh, is that right? J: Paul Marion. G: Yes, his book on Lowell. J: Yah. He has the picture of me in there. G: I’ll have to look at that. I’ll look at that again. Do you have that picture? Is that a picture you have? J: I did have it somewhere. G: Okay. J: It’s an old picture. G: No, that’s great. J: But it’s in his book [John Leite pointed out the date of the photograph in Paul Marion’s book, Mill Power, is incorrect; the date should be 1952, not 1950]. G: I never heard about this guy before. You say he was from Chelmsford? J: Yah, North Chelmsford. G: North Chelmsford. J: Klonel Family. A Jewish family. G: How do you spell the last name? J: K L O N E L, the way it sounds. Klonel. G: Klonel, okay. Interesting. J: He ended up, when we came back, he ended up playing on “Moodsie” [Moody] Street there in one of the big-time clubs with a Trio. Paul Desilets played piano. G: Oh, Paul Desilets, yah. J: I can’t think of the drummer’s name. Dick Derry. Dick Derry was the drummer. G: Sorry, what did Klonel play? 13 �J: Klonel played tenor sax. G: Tenor sax. Oh, okay. J: He knew a million tunes. G: Was he good? J: Oh, he was very good. He knew a million tunes. Someone there saying, “Hey, can you play this?” He’d play it. G: I love the fact though, that he essentially negotiated with the captain. So you were in Germany, and then when did you meet Dave Amram? J: Well, that wasn’t until my experience at the (--) G: In Dachau? J: No, Dachau. Then I went to the 31st Army Band in Wurzburg. That was the black band. G: Oh, was the band black? Were you the only white guy in that band? J: No. There were two or three others when I got there. G: Okay. J: When I walked in with my trombone over my back, right, and this big dude was sitting. He looks up and says, “Oh you the white boy!” And I said, “Yah, I be the white one. Where do white boy go?” [Room] 244. I went up to the room and opened the door, and a shiv came right across my face. G: Really, yah? J: And I grabbed it. I didn’t say anything. And I’m saying, “I hope this thing is a weighted shiv.” And I went, flung it back into the other wall. German war lockers were all wooden. Stuck in. And I said, thank God it stuck in that. And I said something I’m not going to record, to the guy that did it. And I never had any problems after that. And then once you get around you make friends. There was one trumpet player, this black dude, he was a little bit older than most of the others. And wow, what a player he was. Oh gee! And they had a big band. I have some pictures of that. G: Okay, in Wurzburg? J: Yah, 31st Army Band. And they had bandstands, you know, with everything. In one of the pictures, I’m standing up taking a solo, and the other guy is doing a duet thing behind us. G: Nice! J: So, I’ve had that all over the place. G: You’ve had that picture all over the place? J: Yah. And then I was there, that was early ‘52. And I went to I think it was April fifty-two they came around looking for horn players. Oh, and when I was in Germany, at the black band, the bass trombonist of the Wurzburg Symphony, used to peddle his bike up. He had the first ever gig bag I ever saw. He made it out of leather so he could strap the trombone around his back, and peddle his way [up the hill]. Of course, all the facilities were up on the hill. So, he would peddle that bike up the hill. We 14 �had six trombone players at one time, and he was supposed to give them all lessons. None of the other guys liked him. So, I took all the lessons. G: Oh wow! Interesting. J: And then he was a bass trombonist. So, then I started messing with that a little bit. And then when they came around, James Dixon, who was the conductor of the 7th Army Symphony in fifty-two, came around looking, different bands, looking for horn players. Because now the orchestra needed horn players,, it started off as a chamber group. Samuel Adler started it. And there were like eighteen people all strings mostly. And then they started adding woodwinds, you know, and stuff. And they they’re going around looking for brass. And I auditioned for Jim Dixon, James Dixon, excuse me. Excuse me, James. And anyhow, I auditioned with him, and he liked it. And we got along, you know, personally it was good. He was as gayl, but you know, he didn’t [let] you know. And so, I went back, and I got transferred to, let me see, I was in Wurzburg and then I went to Stuttgart. The 7th Army Symphony Headquarters in Stuttgart, on the hill. You know, they took everything on hills, because all the other German things were on a hill. And so, I was up Stuttgart Vaihingen they called it, and we were up there up on the hill. And the first guy I met was Midhat Serbagi, [Midhat Serbagi, Jr., son of a well-known Arab-American tenor Midhat Serbagi, Sr., who performed on radio and was a recording artist in the 1920s and 1930s] he was a violist. After we got out of there, he went to the Met Orchestra. And he played for thirty-eight years with the Met, lead violist, number one. And he played his ass off. And we were good friends. And then his brother played cello. Let me see, there were two brothers. That’s when I met Dave Amram. G: Yah, in Stuttgart. J: He had hair long hair, you know, looked like a hippy. G: Even then, back in fifty-two. J: And he used to have these cans about this big. And I said, he’s eating this, it’s like, I don’t know, sand, right? I said, “What the hell are you eating?” “This is wheatgerm.” He was eating the wheatgerm out of the can. “Do you want some?” I said, “No, I thought you were eating dirt. I don’t want to eat that.” Well maybe I should have because he’s till gigging all over the world. I think he’s ninety-two now. And he’s still got all his marbles, you know, more marbles than I have. Jesus, he’s an amazing (--) G: He’s an amazing guy, truly. I’m very fortunate to have met him, thanks to you. J: Well, you know, he played with all the jazz greats in the sixties. Dizzy Gillespie, all of them. G: And he composed the soundtrack to “The Manchurian Candidate.” J: Oh yah, and “Splendor in the Grass.” G: That’s right. J: That’s his too. He put me in one of his books, Kerouac Offbeat. It’s says offbeat on it. I’m on page 270 something. He gave me a page in the third. G: This shouldn’t probably be on the recording, but I want you to know, I met you for a while, and then I met Dave. I thought to myself, and he spoke well of you. I mean he just thought you were great. I couldn’t think of two more different people, Amram. Is it Armenian? Do you know? 15 �J: I think he was Jewish. G: Is he Jewish? J: There might be some other thing. G: Anyway, but it was just two striking, both very striking guys. And the fact that you guys were such good friends. J: Oh, we were very good friends. Yah, we were the best of friends. And Midhat Serbagi too. I was very close to him. We all got together one time and decided to buy a car. And we ponied up about three hundred bucks. And we went to this lot, and there was this, it looked like a Hitler car, right? It was a big four-door thing with the wheels on the fenders. You know how they used to do them? Covered, with the mirrors on top of those. And we said, how about that one? So, we negotiated. We bought it for three hundred bucks. You had to hand choke it most of the time. And the sides would come up like this, each side of the engine was long, you know. And so, we’d take turns choking it. They had to open it up, take the air bonnet off, put your hand on the top of the carburetor. Okay, go ahead. Hey! Here we go. We’re all set. G: You’re tooling around Germany in this old military vehicle. J: At one point after James Dixon left, Kenny Schermerhorn came in. He was a master musician. And he was the lead trumpet player, originally, with us. And we were going to a gig. It was Schermerhorn, Dave Amram, Midhat Serbagi, I forget, there was somebody else with us. There were five of us anyhow in this wonderful vehicle driving to the gig, right! I was going about eighty kilometers an hour, you know, buzzing along. There was no speed limit back then. I guess they have one now. There was no speed limit then. You could go over 150 if you had a car door. So, we’re going down the highway and we hear klonk! I go, what the [expletive] is that? I don’t know. The car was slowing down. And they’re saying what the heck. Don’t slow down, we have a gig! Well, what was that thing back there? We had to pull over. Somehow, I don’t know how we called, there were no cell phones then. G: Of course. J: Somebody must have come by and seen it. And so, they got a tow truck, and they towed us to this garage. And they got the thing that fell down. It was the whole drive shaft! It just fell out of the thing. So, anyhow, we got to the shop and the guy says in German, you know, hey, no bushings. Dave spoke millions of languages, you know, including Portuguese. G: Did he speak Portuguese? J: Oh yah, he speaks Portuguese very well. G: Wow, I didn’t know that. J: Yah. And so, he’s talking to this German guy. And the guy is telling him we don’t have any bushings for that. And I looked at him and I said, [In German] “Kann er [can he] weld it?” And he said, “Yah, he can.” Yah, I know that. So, he welded the [expletive] thing up there. Oh god! G: Sent you on your way. J: On our way to the gig. We just made it. They couldn’t start. We had the conductor. We had the first French horn, you know. G: Of course, and you, trombone. 16 �J: There were a million more stories. G: No, no, John. This is great. J: You’re getting off the track here. G: By the way, I’ve interviewed you before about, you know, your music and your career. I’ve never heard some of these before. This is great stuff. Hey, but let me ask. Speaking of clubs, going back to Back Central, I want to ask, what do you remember when you were young about the Portuguese American Civic League, the Reds? J: Not a hell of a lot. G: Yah. Was your dad a member there? J: No. He was a member of the other one. G: The Portuguese American Center, the Blues. J: Yah, the Blues. Because we used to rehearse the band there, in the band hall, and that was before they put up the brick. G: At one time that was the Portuguese Band building, where the Center is now. J: Yah, the white building on the end of Chapel Street. G: Exactly. J: Yah, we used to rehearse, had band rehearsals there. And when they had something going on upstairs, we’d rehearse downstairs. There’s like a bar area. Then you had to move all the seats and stuff, make room, and everybody would sit. And Abel Alves was (--) The first conductor when I started was Joe [Ferreira]. He was a skinny guy, a clarinet player. He conducted, you know, like a little person. He was little. And he died. And Abel Alves took over. G: Yes, he’s the name I remember. J: Abel was a trumpet player. Abel Alves and Joe [Miguel]; they were the lead trumpet players. And when I was a kid, they put me in between them. And they’d say, just get as many notes as you can. Well within one year I was playing the part. And then when the other guy died, Abel took over. So, it was Joe Miguel and myself, you know, playing. G: And that was all at the Portuguese Band Building down there on Charles Street. J: Portuguese Colonial Band. That was the name of it, Portuguese Colonial Band. And we rehearsed in, we called it the band hall, that building, white building. And one time, later in life when I took over conducting the Portuguese Band, you know, I came back from Germany. And I played in the band. And I brought other guys in, friends, you know, we expanded the band. Once I got to ULowell, Lowell State, Lowell Teachers, the first year, then I had met a lot of other guys and I used to bring them in to the band. G: Non-Portuguese, right? J: Yah, non-Portuguese to enhance the band. You know, more trumpet players, more trombone players, you know, great players. All great players. They all played somewhere in the armed services. In the Navy, and you know, the Army, whatever. And so, you know, I was conducting that. You know, 17 �going back to when I was fifteen, the picture on the front of the recording that we did, you know, I’m the third one on the left with the hat cocked. I always had to do something different, so the chicks would look at it and say who’s that guy? G: I know that picture. J: But the history, I don’t know if you want to know the history of the band, or where you want me to go now? G: Here’s the thing. This is not central to your life, but I’m just in terms of Back Central, and the two clubs there. One question I wanted to ask you about, the Reds and the Blues, as they came to be known. J: I don’t think they called it then. G: No, they didn’t. That didn’t happen (--) J: The PACL, Portuguese American Civic League. G: By the way, I don’t think it became the Blues and the Reds until like the sixties, or seventies even. So, but back then. J: Probably the seventies. G: By the way, just one thing. I didn’t realize this until I started looking into your family background, Fernando Loureiro was one of the cofounders of the Portuguese American Center on Charles Street in the late ‘50s. [Fernando Loureiro was one of John Leite’s uncles through his marriage to Adalice “Alice” Teodomira da Cunha Leite, who was an aunt of John Leite] And they basically brought the property from the Portuguese Colonial Band, which owned that building. So, they basically, you know, there’s an exchange of real estate, and that’s where they set up. But the club, as you said, there was always a bar down there, and from this club they created the Portuguese American Center. J: It was a great thing. You know, later in life when I was conducting the band, I used to bring guys in from school, college. Augie Silva was the helicon bass player. Helicon bass comes over your shoulder. I have it in the attic. He willed it to me. Anyhow, he was funny. He could drink more than anybody I knew. G: He was a big guy, wasn’t he? J: Oh, really big. G: Because I met him. J: I’ve got to digress here. Downstairs, when we were rehearsing, right, in the club. G: This is at the Portuguese American Center, or the Club. J: Yah, the Band Club I call it. And Abel Alves is conducting. And then he stops and says, “Augie, how come you’re not playing?” Augie says, “I have four measures of shut up.” That’s what he used to call rests. Yah, I have four measures of shut up. G: Four measures of shut up. That’s good. 18 �J: Getting back to the club. Now we’re upstairs. We were finished rehearsal. We’re going to drink, right. And this trumpet player friend of mine, Josh Norris, who 2017 died in a house fire with three of his kids. G: What was the name? J: Josh Norris, N O R R I S. I met him at Lowell. He was a wonderful player. Anyhow, he was up in the hall when Augie, and myself, David Taggert, who was a valve trombone player, a college friend, Tom McGaw, he wound up teaching at Berkeley. He’s retired now. And we’re all drinking, right. And so, Augie said, “Whoa, whoa, stop! Stop! Vehna aqui!” (Come over here). Sit at the big round table. He says, “Okay, this is what I’m doing with this, okay. Everybody have one shot of liquor in the glass. You can’t drink it all. One shot, and you got to wait, no beers, just shot, okay. And when I tell you, you drink the shot, and drink a beer.” Okay. He lined them up. There were six of us. You know, hit the beer chaser. Four of them didn’t last a minute. You know when you’re taking shots like that, you know, it’s. So anyhow, two of the guys, they were out of it for Christ sakes. Of course, they had been drinking. And so, Jack Norris, he disappeared from the hall. So, I went in the back room where the guys, the old guys were playing cards. I says, in Portuguese, “Onde ele foi?” I’m looking, where the [expletive] did he go? And there was a side door on Chapel Street, right, with a couple of steps. This is wintertime, right, big snowbanks. He was so cocked, he opened the door, tripped and he went in headfirst into the snowbank. He couldn’t move. So, we’re looking, and we opened the door. There’s Josh’s ass! We had to get down, pull him out. I took him home to this house, put him in the bed, in the big bed down the end of the hall. And his wife was here. They had six kids, but I think two or three of them were here. The girl was laying underneath that orange chair, and the kids just fell, wherever it is. About an hour later I hear [makes sound], he went running down the hall. I said, “If you’re going to throw up go to the bathroom you dink.” He was big, 6’2” you know. I’m trying to drag him and he’s not moving. And he went right against the wall, right. So, six hours later, he said, “Oh Jesus, what a night.” I said, “Here are all the cleaning supplies.” “What’s that for?” “You got to go wash that wall down and clean up the rug.” G: So that was life at the Blues Club there. J: That was downstairs. G: I know. Let me ask you one final question about the two clubs. Do you remember any difference between the Civic League and the Portuguese American Center? I mean, why would, you know, who would, would certain people go to the Civic League? J: Yah, but you know, it’s like joining the Elks, or joining the Moose, or whatever. You know, you just have friends there, you know, and your friends say, “Hey, come to this club. It’s a good club.” That’s about all. There’s no animosity I don’t imagine. G: No, no. I was just wondering for example, if basically if the Blues Club members were basically those from Graciosa, where the Reds Club were those from Sao Miguel, or Terceira. J: There’s some Madeirans too, Madeira. G: Exactly right. Yah, so whether they tended to go to the Civic League, Madeirans, and the Azoreans tended to go to the (--) J: Yah, because of friendship. G: Yah, gotcha. J: You know, friendship on the Islands. The original islands. 19 �G: John, let me skip down. I want to ask you a couple of more things. J: Okay, sure. G: One is about Saint Anthony’s Church, which you already talked about a little bit. And you also talked about kind of the early memories of the church. But do you remember, I mean you were there, when it was still basically subterranean? J: Oh sure, yah. As a matter of fact [it was] 1959. And my wife and I got married October 10, 1959. And we wanted to get married in the Portuguese Church. It was my church, but it was under construction. And so, Father Silva called around to all the churches to see what, you know. And they were all busy, and they couldn’t take us. And we didn’t want to change the date. So, Saint Peter’s, Monsignor [expletive] took us in. So, when we got there to talk, he found out that Melba was Protestant. And he says, “You can’t get married in the upstairs church. She’s Protestant.” I said, “What the hell does that mean?” We had to get married in the frick’in bottom church, because my wife was (--) You know, that building is [expletive] gone now. So, that’s what you get there Monsignor. I did it in your whole [expletive] building. You know, they were so stupid. But Melba said, “That’s all right. You know, let’s just get married. The plans are here. The families are here.” You know, just do it. G: Because Saint Anthony’s was under construction, you had to go to Saint Peter’s. J: Yah. He wanted to send me to the Polish Church. G: On High Street? J: Yah, but they were booked too. He called around to all the churches. G: Because there was a Portuguese Church in Lawrence too. J: Yah, we didn’t want to go to Lawrence. I know exactly where that is. We’ve done gig down there. But no, it happened. And our friend Bob sang. He’s got a great voice. He sang the service. So once, you know, you don’t realize you’re in the cellar of the church, you know, we just do it. You know, the priest, you get married, and Bob is singing, our friend is singing, and it was beautiful. The whole thing was beautiful. G: Hey John, let me ask you, moving to the next section [of the interview]. I want to talk to you about some of the Portuguese of your father’s generation. From your memory of your father’s generation, who would you say were the important figures in Lowell, or important to you. J: Mr. Silva, Danny Silva who owned a market down the bottom of Back Central Street. It’s a liquor store now. Danny Silva was a big time. I’ll tell you how good he was. And across the street was the bakery. G: Barry’s Bakery at one time, right? J: Yah, Barry, yah. When they used to have the Feast, right, all the meat would be prepared at Danny’s market. They marinated it, the old guys. My father and those guys would go and marinate the meats. G: At the market? J: At the market. And they would leave them in the refrigerator. And then Saturday morning of the Feast, I got booked by my father to help. And we went to Danny’s and carried all those pans, by hand, over to Barry’s to cook them. To partially cook them. Like you say, parboil, you know? Just partially cook them in there, because then you’re going to cook them up at Holy Ghost Park. 20 �G: Holy Ghost Park. J: So, then the van comes. You got all these pans. They’re trying to straighten all these pans out in the van. Whoever was driving, I don’t remember, you got to go slow, “vai devagar,” not to spill anything. And so, we go up to the Holy Ghost Park, take all those pans out into the kitchen. And the women would fix it up, you know, put them in the oven for Sunday’s meal. And they’d cut all of the (--) They used to use dry blood, you know, and dry blood could cut in chunks, right. Looked like liver. Oh, liver is a lot of blood too, but they cut them in chunks like about like that big. And so then put them in the soup, chunks in the soup for the taste. And I told you I had a lot of friends from Lowell. Well Dick O’Shea, who became a State Trooper, he’s retired now, was a Sousaphone player, and Frank Page. They were both Sousaphone players for Lowell High where I was. So, I got them into the band. G: The Colonial Band. J: Yah, Colonial Band. So, Dick was a big, tall guy, 6’3” or something. And so, he’s eating the soup. He says, “Wow, this soup was great. Oh, I loved the liver. Jesus, that liver was so easy. You don’t even have to chew it. It mushes in your mouth. It’s great. Can I get some more of that?” I said, “Yah, you want some more? I’ll get you a little plate.” So, I went into the kitchen. I knew all the ladies there. My mother’s there. I bring it over to him, he pops them all in, right. “Ah, [expletive] great. Oh, I love this. I’ve never eaten liver that’s so easy to eat. You don’t even have to chew it.” So, when he was all done eating, it was break, right. We were going to go back to play. I said, “You liked that liver huh?” “Oh, it was great.” I said, “You know what it is? Coagulated dry blood.” He went outside by the tree. He upchucked his whole meal. G: So, Danny Silva was one. Who else of your father’s generation would you think? J: Barros, the Barry, Barry’s Bakery. And let me see. Oh, Brockelman’s Market. G: Brockelman’s, yah. J: It was downtown Lowell, on the corner of Bridge Street and Merrimack Street. You know when you come out of Prescott Street, is one way, right? And then you go across to Bridge Street, right there, that corner. It’s been a million things since then. I think it’s a secondhand store now, or something. But that was a market. Brockelman’s Market. And you walk in the door on this side, and the meat counter was raised way up high. So, you’re looking at the guy up there. And I had a godfather who was a meat guy there. G: Oh! What was his name? Do you remember? J: I don’t. G: That’s okay. That’s all right. J: I’m thinking when you’re leaving I’ll send you a text. G: No worries. That’s okay. J: He was my godfather. He used to save great cuts of meat for us. G: Anyway, so he worked at Brockelman’s. J: Brockelman’s, yah, Market. That was a big market. You know, that was great, because people who lived downtown and worked in the mills, right, they stayed in the mill houses. They could walk to a store and get food. You know, it was a full market, full supermarket. 21 �G: Who else, John, of your father’s generation, and mother’s generation, that you know, you remember as a kid were kind of important figures? J: I don’t know. My father went to the club, but he wasn’t a clubber. G: He was not. J: No, he wasn’t a club guy, because he was usually working in the mills, or at home. He wasn’t a person that would go to a club and all of a sudden have nine people around him. G: That’s okay. Let me shift gears. J: He was a more quiet guy. He could be loud. I found that out as a kid, but mostly he was a quiet guy, you know, kept to himself, his friends, relatives, and that was about it. G: I’m going to name some people in a few minutes from your father’s generation. But one other thing I really wanted to ask you about, this is kind of interesting. I didn’t know this until I started studying Lowell’s Portuguese, but up until, you know, basically immigration, not just Portuguese, everyone, in 1924 a very strict immigration law was passed. And it essentially cut off immigration from every place. And it didn’t change until the sixties, but for Portuguese, the volcanic eruption on the Island of Faial, special legislation was passed that John Kennedy as a Senator was involved with. And so basically it liberalized immigration for Azoreans, beginning in fifty-seven. So, some of them started coming and came to Lowell in basically 1960 and thereafter, but then I think it was in sixty-five there was a federal revision to the immigration, National Immigration Law which eliminated quotas. And that meant that more and more people could come to the U.S. from everywhere. But what’s interesting for Portuguese, many from the Azores beginning in sixty-five began to come to Lowell. Many of them were from Graciosa, Terceira, some from Sao Miguel, some from mainland Portugal, but the fact is there was this (-) And by the way, Lowell at that time, every decade was losing population, okay. You know, the city was depressed. But there was this wave of Portuguese, mostly from the Azores, but some from Madeira too by the way, they’d come to Lowell and many of them settled in Back Central. It’s people like some you know, like Luis Gomes, he was part of that wave. Demos Espinola, and Maria Cunha, they were all part of that. But I just wondered, my question to you is, do you remember? Because you were in Lowell at that time, this was in the sixties and seventies. Do you remember this new wave of Portuguese coming into the city? J: Oh sure, because you know, they have a band now, a Portuguese, they have a Portuguese Band. As a matter of fact, my Greek friend is conducting it, Louie Stamas. G: Yes, I know him. J: But it was different when that wave came in. G: That’s what I was going to ask you. What was different about it? J: They come in more in groups, because of the law that you talked about. Then instead of one family coming, you know, it was a whole bunch of families coming in. And so, it was different because they were groups. They had their own friends and clicks. When my parents came here, you know, that was what was it? 19? 1918. I think it was 1918. And that was so different. I mean Ellis Island was a [expletive] zoo to get through. My father told me stories while they were there. It’s like the Godfather when the kid comes over, right. G: He’s quarantined. 22 �J: Yah, and you know, you on one of these lines for hours and hours. And you can’t say anything. You can’t talk to anybody else. Now they walk right over the [expletive] border. G: No, no, but I think one difference is that when the second wave came from the Azores for example, many of them, they just flew right to Logan. And came to Logan and then went, you know, had family meet them, because they had to be sponsored by the way. But the families would meet them and bring them to Lowell. They didn’t have to file to Ellis Island like your parents did. So that’s one difference. J: That’s a big difference, because in order for my mom (--) My father didn’t come with my mother. My mother came alone, with others, but he was the baby of nine. And the two next were twin boys. And when they became teenagers they said, “We’re getting out of here.” G: From Brazil. J: No, not from Brazil. No. G: From Graciosa? J: From Graciosa. They’re saying, “We’re getting out of here and we’re going to take you with us, because you’re the smallest. There’s no reason you hang around.” So, they went to Brazil. My father lived there I don’t know how long. He hated it, every minute. So, one of the brothers, I think it was John, paid my father’s passage, boat passage that come up to the United States, up to you know, Boston, and then to Lowell. My father never told me why he hated it, but I think it had something to do with the living there in those favelas, you know, they’re stacked up on the side of the hill and it’s all living like crap. G: But again, thinking about this new wave that came in here in the sixties and seventies, from what you saw, did you see, I mean did it bring a new kind of culture, a new Portuguese culture? Did it revitalize Back Central? J: It wasn’t a new culture. It was the old culture, you know, revived. Maybe that’s a better word. You know, because I did the Portuguese, I conducted a Portuguese Band when I came back from the Army, and I was at Lowell, and that’s when I brought my friends in and expanded the band. And then when I left that, that’s when I created the Leite Concert Winds; started doing union gigs. G: This was in the sixties? J: Yah, and that’s when I started doing union gigs. And it was the right thing for me to do because I had been a member of the union since I was, since I came back from Germany. That’s when I joined. Actually I’m in my 65th year of the American Federation of Musicians. My last convention in Vegas, I was the small locals committee chair for years. And I was giving my report, small locals, right. And I said, “By the way, you know.” I think I said it was the 64th because that was a Wednesday, and it wasn’t the 65th until Thursday. And I said, “I got to tell everybody here I appreciate you all. I’ve known many of you over the years. This is my last convention. I’m going to retire as President of the Merrimack Valley Musicians. Thank you very much.” I turned around and the president, right here, said, “Turn around, look back out.” I had a standing O {ovation}. And I have a recording of it. They gave me a video recording of it. G: What year was that, John? J: Two years ago. They gave me a video of it. G: Wow. 23 �J: I have it on my computer. G: This was in Vegas? J: Yah. G: Where was this? J: Westgate. Crappy hotel. It used to be the Hilton, the Las Vegas Hilton where Elvis Presley was. They had Presley pictures all over the place. G: Oh, so this was in the older part. This isn’t the, whatever that strip is out there with all the big new stuff, right? This is back. J: No, no, this is the street behind the Paradise. G: No, I know where you mean. J: The strip runs here, and then one street back. It’s actually the street that goes right to the airport. And on that street, it’s the last thing at the end. And it’s crappy because if you wanted to go someplace, you know, you got a pretty long walk. And then they started the tramway, but it doesn’t stop, for whatever reason, and the Wynn Resort. And that’s the one I like to go to only because in the late sixties and early seventies that was where the Desert Inn was. And they flipflopped them. The Desert Inn used to be right on the corner of that street, and the parking lot was to the right. Then when they built the Wynn Tower, right, they moved the Wynn Tower to where the parking lot was, and then they built the Encore, where the Desert Inn used to be. So, I’m very familiar. G: I know you’ve been there many times. You played there. J: I used to go out there every two years. My friend and I had a business, a junket business. I don’t know if I told you. In order to get the junket business, you had to clear it with the mafia. And across where the Boston Garden, it’s still there Boston Garden, it’s different. Diagonally across the street used to be Polcari’s Restaurant, Italian joint. And you walk in, on the left there’s swinging doors like the old cowboy things, to go into the bar. And if you go around to the right, that’s the restaurant. Every Monday night at 9:00 one of his lieutenants would come in. And whoever was in the bar, “Hey folks, we’d appreciate it if you’d move into the restaurant, because we’re having a meeting here.” And no one would say no. They’d get up and get the [expletive] out. And so, the first time we had to go, this partner and I, we’re sitting at the end of the lounge. And after the lieutenant cleared it, he comes in sitting at a big round thing. And he calls, “Bring somebody up.” So, Dick said, Dick Madison. G: It’s your turn now. J: Dick Madison went up. And maybe he was up there ten minutes, whatever. And okay, go up. I went up. And Jerry would stand up and he says, “What’s your name?” I said, “John Leite.” “Leite. What kind of a name is that?” I said, “It’s mine.” And they’re saying, you know. I said, “It’s Portuguese.” “Oh, Portuguese! I like the Portuguese.” Then he squeezed my hands. So, I squeezed his hand harder. He says, “You’re okay kid. Okay.” [I] went back and sat down. So, now we’re waiting. The lieutenant came [over and said], “You can start your business.” So, we started. We had an office, fifteenth floor of Charles River Park. You know where that is? G: So, and what was the business though. I didn’t quite get it? What was it? J: Advertising. 24 �G: Okay. J: Advertising. We did advertising for every TV station and radio station, you know. Dick was a very good writer. He wrote copy. A lot of copy. He’s a really smart guy, and he was quick witted. And he would write all the copy for that. And I ran the office thing. We had one girl at the time. And so, we had a friend in the North End. We talked about junkets, you know, because we know a lot of people. Like to go from Revere, from Saugus and you know, they want to go pay us and gamble. Late sixties, early seventies. G: I see. J: So, that’s why we had to go through that. And he said, “okay.” Now the first week we got a plane loaded, right, 232 people, or whatever it is. I got a phone call. “Hello, Las Vegas executives. Can I help you?” “Four seats in the next flight.” I said, “You know, I’d like to do that, but we’re totally booked.” He said, “You don’t [expletive] hear. I want four [expletive] seats on the next [expletive] flight. You under [expletive] stand that?” I said, “Well what do you expect me to do with those four people I’m going to bump?” He said, “We’ll take care of them. We’ll send them first class, TWA, the next flight.” “Okay, let me call you back.” Then I called four, two guys and their wives in Revere. I said, “You get bumped for a [expletive] week. You’re going first class.” TWA had those lounges upstairs in the big bubble. And the booze it up there. “Oh, that’s even better. Okay.” “You’re first class.” So, there’s four guys, then they did their business, whatever it was. And then after that I was golden. We started booking more of their guys than the tourists, because they liked the way we handled everything. And we had a tall blonde [woman]. And she wasn’t putting out, or anything, but she was quick witted, you know, she was funny. G: How long were you in this business? For how many years? J: Just two, I think. Two or three? It might have been three. G: Yah, okay. J: You know, every two weeks one of us was out there. Sometimes we’d both go out depending on what was happening out there. You know, we’d go to the Desert Inn, and we had all those people. And some people are awful gamblers. One guy from, I think he was from Medford, owned a machine shop. And he was an awful gambler. He had a line of $10,000. He blew that in the first ten minutes. The whole line. And he brought his wife with him. She was a nice, little, short chubby lady. So anyway, she’s upstairs in the room, and he’s (--) G: Losing all his money. J: Yah. So, anyhow, he says, “I need an extension,” you know. I said, “I don’t know. You’re on that list you know.” He said, “I know. But, you know, I’m good for it.” So I went, had to go see Earlene in the back. She says, “We’ll give him a $1,000, that’s it.” So, I said, “Okay.” I come back, “You got a $1,000.” “A 1,000? I want a [expletive] $10,000.” “All I’m going to give you is a [expletive] $1,000. You want to go argue with them? I don’t think it’s a good idea, because there’s some guys there that won’t let you argue.” “No, [expletive] it.” Boom! The [expletive] grand is gone. He put up his [expletive] business. He went across the street to the [Frontier]. G: Another Casino anyway, yah. J: [The Frontier] is gone too now. He went across the street, and he got a line of five. He blew that. He kept blowing lines. So, I told him, I said, “Tonight you’re going to the show.” I don’t remember what the 25 �show was. And I said, “And your wife is going.” “What do you mean I’m going to the show with my wife?” I said, “She’s been sitting in that [expletive] room while you’re [expletive] blowing your business. You got to take her to this [expletive] show. It’s paid for, but you’re going to take her.” So, when it was time for showtime, I went up and got his wife and brought her down. Okay, go. They went into the show. I said, you know, let her enjoy something for Christ sake. And they come out of the show, and I got them dinner. And you’re sitting, and you’re going to eat. He went back and he lost his business and everything. He lost his wife. Some guys were smarter gamblers, you know. G: Yah, not this guy. J: This guy, you know, it’s a disease. When you get it in your [expletive] head, and you think you’re going to keep winning. I mean I always had a limit when I did sit down. I played blackjack. And when I did sit down, I had a limit to myself. G: That’s a smart way of playing. J: If I blow the limit, that’s it! You know, next time. G: Hey, finally, just let me ask you about a few different people here from Lowell. First of all, again, totally shifting gears, but to Father Grillo. What are your first memories of Father Grillo? J: I told you. G: Yes, but we didn’t have the recorder running. Sorry. J: Okay, Father Grillo was the best priest. John Silva was okay. He had the fastest Mass in the world, but Father Grillo was an older man, and he was so good to us altar boys. They didn’t have altar girls back then. It was just boys. And there was never any question of any sexual advances, or any of that stuff with him. G: John, you know how some priest can be pretty formidable? Was Father Grillo more kind of a down to earth guy? J: Well, you know, he’s down to earth because I told you about the wine and the paper hosts. G: Yes, you’d go down to get the wine, and. J: Well, we took turns. Whose turn is it now? Go to the wine cellar, pick something out. Come back, we sit down. This is after the 11:30 Mass on Sunday. And four of us, Freddie Furtado, Eddie Silva, myself, and Father Grillo, would sit down and just talk. It could be about anything. About school, you know. He’d talk about me. He’d talk about any subject. G: No kidding. J: And he was very easy to talk to. G: Was he? J: Yah. So, you know, it was a good (--) G: By the way, was this all in Portuguese you were talking, speaking? J: Sometimes, but mostly (--) The other two guys didn’t speak very well. Freddie Furtado and Eddie Silva didn’t get into the Portuguese. 26 �G: So, a lot of the conversation with Father Grillo was in English. J: Yah. G: Yah, interesting. J: And once in a while he’d throw a few Portuguese things in there to see if the other guys would react. He was just a great guy, and smart. Smart as a whip. G: What did his voice sound like? Do you remember? J: Oh, if I had to categorize it, I would say a baritone. G: Uh huh! Yah. Did he have a pretty strong voice? J: Yes. G: Did he? J: I don’t want to say forceful, but it was very easy to hear and understand. G: Yes. And what were his Masses like when he would give (--) J: He was longer than John Silva. Nobody was as fast as John Silva. But he would be a normal, you know, like a High Mass, he’d be an hour, and hour and fifteen minutes. G: Right. J: But the regular masses, he’d still, it would still be an hour. And when John Silva came in, twenty-five minutes in and out! G: What did the parishioners think of Father Grillo? Do you remember? J: He was a man that was adored, you know. People loved him because he was a great person. G: Yes. J: And he spoke a lot, individually to people. People who needed some help. He was open. He had open doors. And that’s what made him such a great guy. You know, you go to the Sacristy Building, ring the bell. He’d come to the door. Come on in, sit down, and talk about anything you wanted. G: Did your parents think highly of him too? J: Oh, of course. They were so glad I was an altar boy. And so was I, not getting pinched in the ass [during Mass by my mother]. It was called beliscão. G: What is that? J: That’s a pinch in the ass. Beliscão. And my mom was a tiny lady, but boy she had strong hands; well, she worked at the mills. G: She kept you in line though, right, by doing that. J: She was a strong lady. She had strong hands, man. 27 �G: One other thing. I don’t expect you to know this, but Father Grillo came to Lowell out of Saint John’s Seminary. He was at another church at one point, and then came to Lowell. He initially assisted Bishop DeSilva, who was the priest. Believe it or not he was a Bishop from Portugal, who, through a variety of circumstances, wound up at Saint Anthony’s. He was the second priest at Saint Anthony’s. It’s rare, to say the least, that a Bishop is the priest. Buy anyway, so, Father Grillo assisted Bishop DeSilva for about a year, and then Bishop DeSilva went back to Portugal. And Father Grillo became the priest. However, the wonderful Cardinal O’Connell did not appoint Father Grillo as the priest. He had him as a, what is it called? An administrator. And I don’t know why. Because again, Father Grillo got his, was ordained out of Saint John’s Seminary, you know where Boston, Boston College is. But for some reason Cardinal O’Connell, who called the shots in the Archdiocese. J: He was a prick. G: So, did you know about Cardinal O’Connell back in the day? J: Yah, he was a prick. G: So, the thing is, in nineteen, sometime in the thirties, finally, after all the hard work that Father Grillo had done for the parish, he was made the priest. And do you know that there was, at the auditorium there was this huge dinner celebrating. That’s how popular Father Grillo was. J: I think I have a picture of those dinners. G: Yah. Anyway, though it’s not surprising. I appreciate your memories of him, because from what I’ve read about him, he was a very impressive guy, and he couldn’t have been more different. Bishop DeSilva was related to the King of Portugal. Father Grillo came from Sao Miguel, was a laborer in Hudson, Massachusetts, when he was a teenager. Worked in a shoe factory and then went to a couple of different seminaries. But essentially, he was a factory worker. Learned English, you know, through night school. Worked his way up. So, he was considered more, if you will, kind of a man of the people, than Bishop DeSilva. You know, this regal Catholic figure. J: Yah, I didn’t know him at all. G: So that name doesn’t (--) J: No. Father Grillo was the priest that I remember when I started. G: Okay. And then, you know, the thing is, Father Grillo, I think worked so hard, his health suffered, and I think he died in ’46 or ‘47. J: Yah, I was in high school. No, I wasn’t. Yah, I was in high school. G: Yah, because you would have graduated. J: ‘50, 1950. G: In fifty, right. So, the thing is, one of the things that Father Grillo did, which I found interesting, he knew that he wasn’t long for this world, and he wanted to make sure that Portuguese priest continued at Saint Anthony’s. So, he had some contacts in Portugal, and that’s how we got Father John Silva, from Lisbon, to come to Lowell, before he died in forty-seven. So, when Father Grillo died, it wasn’t Cardinal O’Connell by that point. It could have been Cushing. I forget. J: Cushing, I think. 28 �G: But anyway, that’s how Father John became the priest at Saint Anthony’s. But you clearly remember Father John Silva. J: Oh yah, when he first started there, he said, “Okay boys, twenty-five minutes. If I go twenty-six, tell me.” G: He’d tell this to the altar boys? J: Yah. And you know, zip, zip, yup. What the [expletive]? It’s over. You know, it was that quick. Even the High Mass, it might go to twenty-seven, twenty-eight, but not much longer. He never went over thirty in a High Mass. “There’s no need to,” he says. “Some of the stuff,” he says, “you can leave out.” That’s what he was doing, leaving some of the mass out. G: Apart from that though, Father Grillo and Father John Silva were very different. J: Oh, absolutely. G: How would you describe, what were the differences, the main differences between those two? J: Well, we talked about Father Grillo a lot. So, that’s that person. And Father John was like a new kid on the block. Not that we would know to say “hey guy,” or anything like that. G: Yes, it was more formal. J: You know, respected him. But until we got to know him, like anybody else, you know, you go to school, you’re a new teacher in the building. You got to learn the other people and how to react to certain people. The same thing with Father John. Father Grillo was so easy, but you know, Father John was easy after the fact. You had to wait. He never said it, but there was like a timeline that he would test, you know, see all the altar boys. How’s this kid? Did this kid learn any Latin yet? Or this kid didn’t know the phrases, you know the ding, ding? And then he would go, ding, ding, ding, and he’d make his order, you know. But I was taught and brought up that you respect your elders, regardless of who they are. And then the priest was even more. So, [Father] John was just a young kid on the block. That’s how I could explain it. He was so easy to talk to like Father Grillo, but he was more of an, I don’t know, an outward guy. G: What do you mean? J: I don’t know. He was more like he came out of a college, a college senior and he’s got a new gig. And he’s still relating to the younger kids. John did too. I mean Father Grillo did, you know, but they were two different people. Father Grillo was a little bit stayed back, but you know, you see this respect come right away. Father John, the respect had to be there, but you’re testing. You’re always testing. G: I see. J: And that’s what happens with any new person you meet. We sit down and talk, and you see where that person is coming from. And are you full of [expletive]? Well, this conversation is over. You know that kind of thing. G: So over time though, I mean, because he was the longest serving priest at Saint Anthony’s. J: I was gone at age eighteen anyway. I went into the service then. G: So, but you came back. Well, but you were back at Saint Anthony’s by the late fifties, right? Were you still attending church at Saint Anthony’s? 29 �J: Yah, when I got out of the service. I got out in ‘54. G: Fifty-four, okay. And you did come back to Lowell right away, right? J: Oh yah. G: So, did you resume at being at Saint Anthony’s then? J: Yah, I was with my parents. Now my father is on Bowden Street for the second time. Seventeen and nineteen Bowden Street, on the righthand side, three houses down from the right, from Gorham Street. And my father owned, he owned the house first time. No, he was renting there. We had the second floor. G: I think he finally bought the house at Sayles Street, right? J: Yah, when I was a senior in high school that’s when he bought the house on Sayles Street. First time he owned a house. Getting back to Bowden Street, the second time we were there, my sister Helen moved in across the street in a little cottage. I don’t remember the number. It was a cottage then. It wasn’t a double decker. It was like a cottage. G: On Bowden Street. J: Yah, on Bowden Street. She married Roger Sanborn, who was a big time Ray Riddick football player at Lowell High. G: Oh, it that right? J: He was the center for the offensive line. G: I meant to ask you. So, when you guys were on Bowden Street for the second time, when you would go to church services, would you drive to Saint Anthony’s, take the car? J: I’m trying to think. My father had a car by then. It took him a long time to get a car. The money was (--) Cars were only four hundred bucks, but he didn’t have four hundred bucks. He finally got a fourdoor car. We used to drive to church. The first one was a big Nash. G: Yah, sure. I remember the Nash. J: And it had the tires on the fenders, with the mirrors on the top. And the back had little curtains. Esther Stirk, a blonde chick. Oh, this is even before. This is when I was at Robello’s house. That’s when he owned the Nash. And Esther Stirk lived next door. A cute blonde chick. And we used to go in the back of my father’s Nash and pull the curtains down. It had regular curtains with tassels. We’d pull all the curtains down. This was kissy face, you know. We were kids just experimenting. G: So, the other thing too. I should ask you, but you’ve been going to Saint Anthony’s for a long time, right? Do you still go to Saint Anthony’s? J: No. G: When did you stop going? Just roughly. J: Roughly, I don’t know. Maybe after we were married, in fifty-nine. G: In fifty-nine. Okay. So, really, you knew Father John in the fifties, and after that, because you weren’t going to Saint Anthony’s. 30 �J: No. G: Let me ask you about some other Portuguese that were your father’s generation. Do you remember a man name Firmo Correia? J: Vaguely. G: He had a son name Manny who was President of the Holy Ghost Society in the seventies. J: Yah, I remember Manny. G: Do you remember Manny? J: Yah. G: You guys weren’t friends, but you knew Manny. J: Yah, I knew him. That’s it. G: But Firmo Correia, that name doesn’t really (--) J: No. G: How about Deolinda Mello, who was the head of the (--) J: Deolinda Mello. G: Deolinda Mello, yes. Do you remember her? J: I remember the name. I think maybe I could come up with what she looked like. G: No, that’s okay. You didn’t know her well, but you knew her reputation. J: I knew her, yah. G: Did you know John Silva of the Silva Brothers? J: Of course. Oh, I can tell you stories, John Silva. G: Did you know him pretty well? J: Oh yah. When I was fifteen or so, I worked at Spinney’s Garage. G: Oh, you worked at Spinney’s? J: Yah, I worked at Spinney’s Garage. G: Did you know Domingos Spinney? Domingos? J: Yah, Domenic. G: Domenic. J: Yah, he was a watchmaker. G: Wow, you knew him. J: Yah, he’s the watchmaker. Tommy was the brother, one of the brothers. A bunch of brothers. And Tommy owned the garage. And he ultimately had his six kids when he was there. And I knew the girls. 31 �G: And you worked at the garage? J: Yah, for two years. I started, I used to buzz cars in and out. Hey Johnny, go get the Ford! Okay. I could put cars in narrow spaces. That’s how I really learned how to drive. G: What do you remember about the Spinney Brothers? Do you remember much of anything about those guys? J: Leo was kind of an outcast of Tommy. He was a painter. He had a painting business. The original thing, they were all painters, the family, John Silva. G: No, I was asking you about the Spinneys. J: Oh, you’re talking about the Spinneys. G: Sorry, yah. I was asking about the Spinneys, because I didn’t know you worked at the garage. Do you remember anything about the (--) J: Sure, I remember Manny. There were two Portuguese guys. I know one guy who lived over in Swede Village. Johnny. G: That’s okay, John. J: The monument guys. G: Oh Luz? J: Luz, Joe Luz was a mechanic. He was a navy mechanic. And he got out of the service, and he worked for Tommy. And there was Manuel something, an older guy. G: Okay. Manuel wasn’t a Spinney though, right? J: No. And there was Billy Riggs, a big, tall guy. He was a prick, a big, tall guy. G: He wasn’t Portuguese though? J: No. Billy Riggs. The man used to come around with the milk wagon. And he used to chugalug the buttermilk. Buttermilk, he used to chugalug that. I could tell you a lot of stories about Billy Riggs. G: That’s okay. J: Anyhow, the Spinneys, Domenic was a quiet guy. He was a jeweler. He owned a jewelry shop somewhere. He fixed watches. He always had that magnifying thing in his eyes every time you’d go to see him. And Tommy, and Leo, Leo was a painter too. Originally, they were all painters. And there was one son, I don’t know what was wrong with him. Something was wrong with him in the brain. They lived right on, and they moved here. They lived on Chelmsford Street. G: This is the Spinney Family? J: Spinney. No, Silva. G: No, okay. I’m sorry. I was asking about the Spinneys. J: You asked me if I knew John Silva too. G: Well, yah, but I didn’t realize you worked at Spinney’s Garage. So that’s why I was shifting over to the Spinney Family. 32 �J: Well, that’s the connection with Silva. G: Okay. Sorry, what is the connection? J: The connection with Silva, is John Silva used to bring his car. It looked like a Mark, some kind of a Mark, a Lincoln Mark, the two-door, you know. G: He had it serviced at the Spinney Garage? J: Yah, and he had a big black and gray Shepherd [dog]. “Major,” he called him. He was always in the back seat, because John owned properties all over the city, big tenements, and stuff. G: Yes, he did. Huge owner. J: And he used to collect cash and put it in a paper bag. Put the cash in a paper bag and put it in the back seat with Major. Nobody would go there! And so this one time some guy, he was down on Mill Street, you know, that’s off of Back Central? Goes down, you know, Lawrence Street? G: I know what you mean. J: He was collecting rents there. And some “jerko” saw that bag of cash, right. He opened the door. He didn’t see Major in the back seat. Major went out and grabbed him by the side of the chest and ripped his frick’in skin off the side of his chest. And John come out, “All right Major. It’s all right.” And he said, “Go home kid.” You wouldn’t get in that car. If you knew you wouldn’t get in that car, and all that cash, thousands of dollars. And he used to have his car serviced. And there was a lady, Mrs. Pimber or something, would come. It was a 1929 Ford, or something, four-door. You know, some boxy thing, bring her car to be serviced. Well she and Tommy would get in John’s car, and they’d go off somewhere. G: Right, right. J: And Silva owned racing cars. There used to be a racetrack in Dracut, someplace in Dracut. And the top speed was like eighty miles an hour. It was in the mud. Like a mud track. And Tommy used to service the racing cars. G: Oh, okay. J: And so when those people were off on their journey going wherever, the mechanics would take a repair plate and put it on the back of the racing car, and I’d drive up and down A Street, B Street, C, and drive them in and over. You got to be back at such and such a time. Okay. Because Tommy will be back, and if you’re out there, you’re going to lose your job. Okay. So, I’d time it, right. And I’d go up and down A Street, B Street, C Street. G: You were out of high school when you were working for the Spinneys? J: No, I was in high school. G: Were you in high school working? J: Yah, I was fifteen. G: Yah, working for the Spinneys. J: Two years I did. G: Where was their garage again, the Spinneys? 33 �J: Corner of C Street and Powell. G: C Street and Powell, okay. J: There’s another family; a guy and sons. I don’t know who they are, but they took it over. Young Tommy owned it for a long time. And his brother Jackie was Johnny Silva’s godson. So, when Silva died, he left Jackie [a good sum of money]. G: Really? Wow! J: And he owed Tommy some money too. But his godson, he took care of his godson. It was Jack Spinney, Jackie Brady the fighter, the boxer, and another guy whose name I don’t remember. It was the book guy, you know, the bookkeeper kind of guy. And they bought the old Marty’s for Parties on Chelmsford Street. Now it’s a whole bunch of different things, but it was upstairs. That’s actually, we had our wedding party up there, Marty’s for Parties. G: Oh, did you really? J: Yah, you come in from Temple Street. You go around, you drive up Temple Street, and there’s a walkway down into the second floor. Yah, I had all my guys from the college in there rotating. They had a band, the whole four-hour band. G: Speaking of Brady and fighter, boxers, who’s the very well-known Portuguese fighter in the sixties in Lowell? Fifties, sixties. J: [Arthur] Ramalho used to be the boxer instructor. G: No, no, but this was (--) He actually (--) J: I don’t know. I didn’t follow boxing that much. G: Okay. You’d know the name. I’m sorry I can’t remember this guy [Manny Freitas]. By the way, there’s a wonderful photograph of him in the bar on Chelmsford Street, you know, the Irish, the Gaelic Club? I think it’s gone now. J: Oh, that’s gone. That’s the same place I’m talking about, Marty’s for Parties. G: Oh, yes. Is that where that was? J: Jackie named it the Gaelic Club for his mother who was Irish. G: I see, but in that bar, there was a great picture of this Portuguese fighter [Freitas] and a former neighbor of yours, Jackie McDermott. It’s a great picture. J: Jackie McDermott used to live up our street. G: It was a great picture because there’s McDermott sitting at the bar, and this was probably taken in the sixties. And there’s [Freitas] wearing his boxing trunks. He’s like Hollywood, good looking boxer with Jackie McDermott. It’s an incredible photograph. J: You know, Jackie ended up being connected a little bit. G: Was he? J: Jackie McDermott, I know when he got shot. We all knew here on the street. He was a good guy actually, you know. You never wanted to fight him because he was a hell of a fighter. Not a boxer, a 34 �fighter. He could knock anybody on their ass regardless of size. But I got to know him not as a good friend, but you know. G: Well, he was a neighbor right? He lived up the street. J: And I knew him before he moved here. G: Oh, okay. J: With the other connections in Lowell. But when he moved up there, you know, he’d be out in the yard. I’d drive by, “Hey Jackie.” “Hey, how are you doing?” Then the night it happened, when he got shot, I’m trying to think of the kid’s name. I can’t think of the kid’s name that shot him. G: Oh, Barnowsky, or something like that? J: No, Barnowsky ordered the hit. He didn’t do it. G: Oh, okay. J: It was a kid. I can’t, Peter something. My son knew him, the kid. He’s the one that shot him. G: I didn’t realize that. J: But when the Feds went in there after he died, the Feds knew he had money somewhere. It was all in the walls. G: In the house? J: Yah. They ripped the walls down. G: I’ve got to ask you about another guy. He’s well-known in the Portuguese Community, and for some good reasons, some bad reasons. [Did you know]Manny Bello? J: I knew Manny. G: And he had a club on Bridge Street? No. J: No, John Street. G: John Street. What was the name of the club? J: Flamingo, I think. G: Okay. J: It was right around the corner from Fanny Farmer’s Candy, which was on the corner of John Street, and you just walk-up John Street, it’s right there. It had a level, you know, street level place, and there was a downstairs. G: Okay. Did they have live music there? J: Yah. G: Did you play there? 35 �J: No. They had dancers there, sort of strippers, you know. But yah, I got to know him through, I don’t remember who introduced me to him. And I learned later on, when I was dealing with the North End guys who knew him. G: Did they know him in Boston? In the North End? J: Yah. G: Because I think he did some business with them. So, I just wonder, what were your impressions of Manny? He was, I forget how old he would have been when, maybe a little older. J: I don’t know. He was older than I was of course. G: Yah, a little older than you. J: I didn’t have a lot of dealings with him. Mostly here and there, and I’d go to the club once in a while. Because you know, as a union rep, back then if a band was playing, you had to check them out and collect dues. G: You would, right. J: Yah. And see if they’re union. If they’re union, you got to pay your work dues. Now nobody pays work dues. They just don’t. Boston stopped collecting work dues before I did when I was still President of this Local. I was still busting balls collecting work dues. And Boston, Mark said, “[expletive] that.” You know, “It’s not worth it.” G: So, you’d go around to the different clubs in Lowell, including Manny Bello’s place. J: Yah. G: Finally, let me ask you about one other guy. I’ve met him. He’s a wonderful, I think he’s a wonderful guy. And that’s Luis Gomes. J: I never got close to him for whatever reason. I don’t know. I never did much with him. I never had a lot of dealings with him. G: Okay. J: You know when you’re in church you meet a lot of people. And the Feasts, you meet everybody. Everybody went to the Feasts. So, you’d meet them there, you know, but a more casual kind of thing. Because you’re up there on the bandstand playing. You don’t have time to schmooze. Most of the time you’re playing so many [expletive] hours. The guys I brought from college, right, say, “When the [expletive] is this gig over?” I said, “When I tell you!” We had one trumpet player, Eddie D’Amico, great player. Great player. G: I remember Eddie D’Amico. J: He’s a lead trumpet player. And the first time he did a gig, there was only one bandstand there. And the old building is behind you. There was no new building then, yet. The old building behind you, and the bandstand is over there by the trees. And I’m going to go set up. Somebody puts a statue of Saint Anthony on the lead trumpet’s chair. They didn’t know, it was Saint Anthony. So, he comes up, steps on the back. He says, “Hey, who’s this guy? I’m playing lead, right?” I said, “Yah.” I said, “Put him on down on the floor.” Jesus Christ, I said, “Put him on the floor.” “Are you sure you want to do that?” “Why?” “I don’t know. You touch a saint, who knows?” Well, you know, the gig is long, right. This guy 36 �owned a Hudson car. You know, Hudson, four-door, big four-door, and he had parked that way. Okay. And the sun comes down this way. He goes back to his car. He comes back. “Son of a bitch! Somebody broke my [expletive] rear windshield!” “What do you mean, broke it? Nobody is going to smash your [expletive] windshield.” So, I went up there to look at it. The whole thing was shattered, you know, like somebody [makes sound]. You couldn’t see through the [expletive] thing. The sun hit it just right. I said, “Custigo. Pennance, Custigo. You touched Saint Anthony. You’re not supposed to touch him.” G: That’s great. J: “What the [expletive]! You know what it cost for a [expletive] windshield?” I said, “I told you, Saint Anthony. Don’t mess with the saint.” So, he had to have the window replaced. The insurance covered it, but you know. G: Hey John, on that note, I don’t want to take more of your time, but thank you. That’s great. J: I’m glad. I’m going to see Melba at 2:00. You know because she’s busy having her lunch. She’s doing PT now too. G: Thanks a lot John. I appreciate it. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1976-2018] Description An account of the resource These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1976-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell. Subject The topic of the resource Azorean Americans Children of immigrants Cultural assimilation Mills and mill-work Portuguese American women Madeirans World War, 1939-1945 Veterans United States. Navy. Factories Education Depressions--1929 Immigrants Christmas Immigrant families Ethnic food New Year Balls (parties) Community organization Civic leaders Baking Bakeries Bakery employees Tradition (Theology) Music Ethnic neighborhoods Boardinghouses Folk dancing, Portuguese Music teachers Civil engineering Urban renewal Park facilities--Planning Fasts and Feasts Portuguese language Instrumentation and orchestration (Band) Engineering Religious gatherings Police Portugal--Emigration and immigration Immigrants--Cultural Assimilation--United States Dance teachers Female impersonators Entertainers Musicians Suicide Cleaning compounds Tenement houses Rug and carpet industry Entrepreneurship Irish Americans Politics and government City council members Campaign management Community development, Urban Music--Portuguese influences Catholic Church--Dioceses Catholic Church--Societies, etc. Priests Code switching (Linguistics) Soccer Cooking Composition (Music) Portuguese teachers Women in community organization Labor unions Ethnic groups Fathers and sons Bars (Drinking establishments) Desegregation Military bands Track and field coaches Language teachers Brazilian Americans Bullfights Bullying in schools Conflict of generations Earthquakes Evening and continuation schools Volcanos Meat industry and trade Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 Christmas cooking Community schools Marriage Radio programs Sewing Angola--History--Revolution, 1961-1975 Agriculture Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976-2018 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lowell (Mass.) Boston (Mass.) Manchester (N.H.) Graciosa (Azores) Capelinhos Volcano (Azores) Faial (Azores) Lawrence (Mass.) Terceira Island (Azores) São Miguel (Azores) Madeira (Madeira Islands) Pico Island (Azores) Lisbon (Portugal) Azores Hudson (Mass.) Cambridge (Mass.) Tyngsboro (Mass.) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ali, Mehmed Denatale, Doug Fertig, Barbara Fitzsimons, Gray Holden, Maria Miller, Marc Norkunas, Martha Page, Paul Perkins, Carole MacDougal Reis, John M. Spandagos, Olga Strobel, Christoph Szewczyk, Kimberly Taylor, David Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Leite Oral History Interview #3 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023-02-08 Description An account of the resource As in two other oral history interviews with Mr. Leite, this Interview includes a great deal of information on Mr. Leite’s career as a musician and some of the well-known composers, conductors, and musicians whom he knew and with whom he performed. But unlike the other interviews, this oral history covers his recollections of the Portuguese “Back Central” neighborhood in Lowell and his childhood, into his early teens, as an altar boy at St. Anthony’s Church. It also includes additional information about his parents, their work in the textile industry, and their home in South Lowell. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fitzsimons, Gray Subject The topic of the resource Mills and mill-work Portuguese American women Instrumentation and orchestration (Band) Musicians Music teachers Veterans Bars (Drinking establishments) Desegregation Military bands Catholic Church--Dioceses Azorean Americans Priests Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lowell (Mass.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Leite, John Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. 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Relation A related resource <a href="https://umlportuguesearchives.omeka.net/items/show/503">1999 Oral History Interview with John Leite</a><br /><a href="https://umlportuguesearchives.omeka.net/items/show/19">2016 Oral History Interview with John Leite</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF MP3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Audio Text Band Hall Barry's Pastry Shop Colonial Band Holy Ghost Park Portuguese American Center (Lowell, MA) Saint Anthony's Church (Lowell, MA) Spinney's Garage https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/42465/archive/files/689d9051b38801de7a95c085393e32e2.pdf?Expires=1789603200&Signature=vHAfxO3yNXI6RlLTzy4eFIc2EMQ8cBpZ%7Egtf5vf-eGzd8APmrut2QYKoJMzzKRdmQT4ct8rABHHfWRwJcQGmCjgqDFqDwqPUjkVl2pHQ4u96RHnxIMFZ-SaaPHFFAGMiwbIncoeD7RIorEucY6I4oF%7EY71NdEcISj74ujsPe-VbM8ZAev%7EVGZTPBqfQ8FFIDdUj0qWLDq%7EqEKEMhaP6Ur9F3Zaz2fVjv57bN5BUD9kZERxaNvBbkOuE3FROBG4O49bEMa9OBMo3asdmEsyHAjac4kVUOONTFXtnaDw-qsFcup7IdCsddf01oAHJ5aRVg3N%7Eo0%7E0kd2k7Fi3yh7DnVw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM df714d1ad4892b942baa4f305548ef40 PDF Text Text C A C H E .T SPONSO RED BY N MEEHA M E S P. HON. JA ,MAYCR , 1947 1 t p e S , 1 3 , Augs 30 �Welcome Welcome . . . . • • • Portuguese- American Civic League of Massachuse tts LENO MENDACA MRS. HELEN SEARS General Convention Cenf'ral Convention Chairman Co-Chairman The coming of the Portuguese-Americ an Civic League of Massachusetts is awaited with pleasnreable anticipation by the Lawrence Ladies' and Men's Councils, and in their behalf we wish to extend a friendly hand of cordial welcome to tbe d elegates and guests to the 17th Annual Convent.ion of the Portuguese-Americ an Civic League of Massachusetts. We are indeed honored to be your host this week-end, and it is our sincere wish that your brief stay in our city will be a pleasant and memorable one. " May the Spirit Never Die." GENERAL CONVENTION COMMITTEE, LENO MENDACA, Chairman MRS. HELEN SEARS, Co-Chairman Former Representat ive J. KENNY BROOKS �Seventeenth Annual Convent ion Seventeenth Annual Conven tion WELCOME ! P. A. C. L. OFFICE OF THE MAYOR PORTUGUESE -AMERICAN SALAZAR CLUB Affiliated with THE PORTUGUESE-AMERICA N CIVIC LEAGUE OF LA WREN CE, MASS. LAWRENCE , JAMES MASSACHUSETTS P MEEHAN, MAYOR As Mayor of the City of Lawrence it gives me great pleasure to welcome the Portuguese-American Civic League of Massachusetts to our ci ty on the occasion of the 17th Annual Convention. I extend the hospitality of the City to the delegates, their families and all friends of the organization. I hope that you will find that Lawrence is justly known as "The Friendliest City in the United States" and that yo u will enjoy every minute of your visit here. I know that I express the feelings of all our people in extending these greetings to you. JEFFREY VASCONCELOS Vice-President a11cl Convention Banquet Chairman FRED COUTO President and H onorary Chairman of Convention President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer R eceiver Master of Ceremonies Inside Guard Purchasing Agent Fred Couto Jeffrey Vasconcelos John J. Silva Manuel D. Sousa Alfred Silva Joviano Joaquim John S. Rosa Manuel M . Sousa Board of Directors A lvaro De Sa Gaiolas A lbert Thade u J oseph Joaq uim , Jr. Thitonio Azvedo Thom as G. Sousa Building Trustees Ah·aro De Sa Gaiolas Manuel ]\,f, Sousa Joseph J oaquim, Jr. Clarence Andrews Josep h C unh a Manuel Rosa �P ortuguese-Ame rican Civic League of ~M assachusetts Seventeenth Annual Convention Compliments of * THE GEORGE THOlVIAS POST SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1947 Portugue se - i\n1erica n War Veterans Registration 2 P. M . to 5 P. J\I. -- Convention Headqu a rte1·s, Portuguese-Am erican Civic Association Building, 2 Saratoga Street. 7 P. M. to 10 P . M. - St. Mary's Auditorium, Haverhill Street, Lawren ce. Ball (Semi-formal) 8 P. M. to 11 :30 P. M. -At St. J'vfary's Auditorium. Grand l\farch 10 P . M. - Frankie Kahn's Orchestra . Open House After the b all -At Convention H eadquarters. SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1947 Delegates' Mass 10:30 A. M. Street. Registration 11 :30 A. M. to 1:00 P. M. quarters. 3 P. M. to 5 P. J\.f. - John S. Rosa Commander High Mass- Ss. Pete r and Paul's Church, Chestnut Convention Head- Sen ior Vice-Com rnand er Manuel Mendonsa Junior Vi ce-Commande r Salvatore R eis Joviano G. Joaquim Adjutant Parade (Starting from Headquarters) l :30 P. l\J. (Hayden-Schofi eld Playstea<l) Leno Mendaca Finan ce Officer R ev. Fr. John ChajJlain Banquet 6:30 P. M. - St. Mary's Auditorium. Invocation by Rev. John .J. Lamond, O .S.A. Benediction by Very Rev. John B. Martin, O.S.A. J. Lamond Judge Advocate J oseph Andrews Sergeant-al-Ar ms Joseph Oliveria Manuel Mello Officer-of-th e-Day Frolic *** After Banquet -At Convention Headquarters. Board of Trustees MONDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1947 Convention Meeting 9 A. M. -A t Convention H eadquarters. John J. Seraphine Silva Silva Melvin Correia Thomas G. Sousa Mariano Mattos, Jr. �Portuguese-American Ci11ic League of JViassachusetts Portuguese-American Ci11ic Leagu e of Nlassachusetts Compliments of Compliments of ':}) '-4-mico anJ Son Embalmers and Funeral Directors BEST EQUIPMENT IN NEW ENGLAND - - John B. Roussel Special Services - Best Wish es - -CLOTHING FOR MEN AND BOYS Where You Can Buy the Best for Less Labell Furtniture Co. Telephone 7770 Lawrence 195 Essex Street "BETTER FURNITURE FOR GRACIOUS LIVING" 1;;l;;J.US X;;JSS3: ;:))U;;JJ1½.B'J 69St SSS ;}UOljd;;ipJ" * -8NIHlOT) S.N3:W i\UBlS!8 ·v ·s Telephone 27536 jo SJU;Jut !7lfUlO J 41 7 Common Street Lawrence CornfJliments of SEBASTIANO D'AMICO ' T01\1MY AND ANDY'S FOUNDER NO CHARGE FOR USE OF CHAPEL - Night ancl Day Service FRIENDLY SERVICE - GENERAL AUTO REPAIRS LUBRICATION - Lawrence Funeral Horne ancl Chapel: 160 GARDEN STREET TEL. 1131 532 MAIN STREET OILS - ALEMITE ROAD SERVICE * TEL. 5379 Haverhill Fun eral Horn es ancl ChajJel: 96 RIVER STREET GAS - Telephone 9875 2 Concord Sttreet Lawrence, Mass. �Seventeenth Annual Conven tio n P ortuguese-A merican Civic League of Nlassachusetts SPECIAL CHECKING ACCOUNT·S NO MONTHLY SERVICE CHARGE NO MI N IMUM BALANCE REQUIRED Comp liments of NO CHARGE FOR DEPOSITS ANY SUM WILL OPEN AN ACCOUNT EVEN $ 1 This new service is for the personal use of individuals. A charge of $ 1.50 for each book of twenty checks, at the rate of 7 ~~ cents per check, covers the entire cost for the regular use of this ser vice. A. Tomaselli, Prop. * Flowers for All Occasions ARLINGTON TRUST COMPANY Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. BEST WISHES FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION FLOWERS TELEGRAPHED ANYWHERE Telephones: Shop: 22702 - 32029 - R esiden ce: 6282 MA NU EL 82 LAWRENCE STREET LAWRENCE, MASS . SEARS Sears Brothers Orchestra MUSIC FOR ALL OCCASIONS 30 Ohio Avenue, Lawrence, Mass. Tel. 2400 �Seventeenth Annual Convention Portuguese-Americ an Civic League of l'vlassachusetts History BEST WISHES FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION / t Summary of the Portuguese Colony of Lawrence, and th e Lawrence Ladies' and J\fen 's Councils of the Portuguese,American Civic League of J\fassachusetts. The Portuguese colo n y in Lawrence is as old as the city. When , in 1853, the six year old tu,vn received its charter as a city, a Portu guese barber, Andrew Mideros, was already established in a barber shop at the corner of Lawrence a nd Common Street, and lived, with hi s family, at 11 Bradford Street, wbere, in I 856, he paid a tax of .~4 1.02 , at the rate of ::); 7.60 per $ 1,000. The cornerstone of the Portuguese Church of Ss. Peter and Paul was laid on September 30, 1906, with elaborate ceremonies. It was dedicated on .'.ugust 4, 1907. Mr. John B. Sears, known as tbe Father of the Lawrence Councils, organized the Local Men's Council in 1930. JOHN B. SEARS A year later in 1931 , tbe Ladies' Council was organized. Through the efforts of Mr. stau nch supporters of the Civic was purchased from tbe United quarters is now one of the most LIGHT OF THE WORLD PORTUGUESE MUTUAL SOCIETY - Founded in Lawrence, l'vlass., 1915 As a Non-Partisan Civic Association , our main activities are in taking part in all civ ic affa irs of th e communit y, state and nation , prompting interest in American naturalization amongst our people. Mr. Manuel Scars was elected the first president of the Lawrence Men 's Council in J 931 , followed by Clarence Andrews, 19:12 ; Freel Couto, 1933-34; Jeffrey Vasconcelos, 1935-36; Manuel Sousa, 1937; Manuel Sears, 1938; Joseph Olivera , 1939 -40; Alvaro Gaiolas, 1941; John Rosa , 1942; Freel Couto, 1943-47. Mrs. J essie Espinola was the first president e lected in th e Lawrence Ladies' Council in the year 1932. She also served in 1933-34, followed by Mrs. E lsie l'o ley, 1935-36; Mrs. Jessie Espinola , 1937; and Mrs. Ezilcla (Cardoza) Silva, 1938-39; Mrs. Ezilda (Cunha) Lynch, 194 1-42; Mrs. Gilda Mendonsa, 1943-45 and Mrs. Helen Sears, 1946-47. Manuel Sousa Cerino C. Marcos Alvaro S, Gaiolas Manuel Rosa Albert Teduei Oscar Marshall Jose Joaquim Frank Leites President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer . Receiver Financial Secretary J\foster of Ceremonies Inside Guard Directors Antonio Sousa .Jose S, Bettencourt Oscar Marshall Alvaro S. Gaiolas, then president in 1941 , and one of the organization , the present headquarters at 2 Saratoga Street Spanish \Var Veterans. Througb his supervision , the bead modern buildings in the city. Under the direction of ?vfrs. Ezilda Lyncb, active member of the Ladies' Council , assisteJ by Miss Philomena Joaquim , Mrs. Mary Picanso, Alvaro Gaiolas, Manuel Sousa, Clarence Andrews and many others, a Victory Committee was formed. The purpose of this committee was to send packages, correspondence, etc. , to the boys and girls in the service. IN CORPORA TED - Anthony Thomas Auditors Ceryaco A. Sousa Sousa F, Manuel MEMBERSHIP _DRIVE OPEN UNTIL DECEMBER, 1947 Admission Fees Free $1.00 41 to 45 Years 16 to 25 Years 26 to 30 Years 31 to 35 Years 36 to 40 Years $10.00 $2.00 $4.00 B enefits Death Disability, per year $200.00 $ 180.00 - \ Ve are proud to be affiliated with the Portuguese-American C ivic League of Massachu - 12 Weeks 12 Weeks SAVE MONEY BY JOINING at $ 10.00 per week at $ 5.00 per week Now - Headquarters at setts and P. A. C. A. BUILDING "May the Spirit Never Die" 2 Saratoga Street Lawrence, Mass. �Seventeenth Annual Convention Portuguese-American Civic League of JWassachusell s BEST V1TISHES FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION COMPLIMENTS OF PORTUGUESE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF SAINT ANTHONY INCORPORATED ]896 LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS - MEMBERSHIP DRIVE NOW OPEN - Admission Fees $1.00 $2.00 16 t.o 20 Years 21 to 30 Years 31 to 3,; Years 36 to 40 Years $3 .00 $4.00 Benefits D ea th. Over Disab ilit y, per year $400.00 $150.00 12 Weeks 22 Weeks at .$7.00 per week at .$3.00 per week Take Advantage of Our Drive and Join Now President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer R eceiver Financial Secretary ]\![aster of Ceremonies Sergeant-at-Arms Anibal L. Sousa John F. Silva Manuel Freitas, Jr. Anthony Picanso Manuel Camara .John S. Pitta Antonio Mendonsa Joaquin Silva Miss MRS. FELECIA COELHO Cu-Chairman Banquet Committ ee PHILOMENA JoAQ U IM Gen e ral Co11ve11tio11 Secretary LAWRENCE LADIES' COUNCIL * President Vice-President Mrs. Helen Sears Mrs. Gilda Mendonsa Secretary Miss Philomena Joaquim . Treasurer Financial Secreary Marshal Miss Mary Ribas Mrs. Olive Rosa Mrs. Felecia Coelho Lawrence Agency Founded 1903 Board of Directors H eadquarlers at Mrs. Elsie Silva P. A. C. A. BUILDING 2 Saratoga Street Mrs. Rose Ribas Mrs. Antonia Amaral Lawrence, Mass. ALVARO S. GAIOLAS, Lawrence Agent State D irectors Mrs. Felecia Coelho Miss Mary Ribas �Portugues e-America n Civic League of !vlassachusetts Seventeen th Annual Conventio n Complim ents of ComjJlim ents of Complim ents of ALIANCA PORTUGUESE . OF MASSACHUSETTS Square Deal Furniture Company Hyder Beaut y Salon JOHN ENUS - FR ED TOSCANO 10 BEDFOR D STREET , FALL RIVER, MASS. HOUSEH OLD FURNIS HINGS * , One of the leading and largest American fraternal organizati ons of Portugues e descent in the Unite~ States of America I ALL LINES OF BEAUTY CULTUR E 22 Years of Dependab le Service Kitchen, Dining and Den Sets Be<lroom Suites - Parlor Sets No Appointm ents Necessary The Store for a Square Deal * Tel. 24059 Telephon e 25734 < ALBERTO FREITAS President 102-104 So. Union St. * APPROX IMATEL Y HALF MILLION OF DOLLAR S PAID IN SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT S D EATH BENEFI T $500.00 HOSPITA LIZATIO N BENEFIT S DISABIL ITY BENEFIT S $10.00 per week (maximum ) FREE MEDICA L ASS ISTANCE 344 Park Street Lawrence BEST WISHES TO THE LAWREN CE COUNCI LS FOR A SUCCESS FUL CONVEN TION CHAS. A. FRAT ES * F"UNERAL HOME 265 CouNTY Sr .. Nrw BniroRo CHARLES A. FRATES & SONS RejJresen tative iri Lawrence : MANUE L SOUSA 16 Plymouth Terrace Lawrence FUNERA L DIRECT ORS Methuen, Mass. 265 County Street New Bedford, Mass. �Seventeenth Annual Convention Portugu ese-American Civic League of Niassachusetts ComjJliments of Good Luck on Your Convention Lewis H. Schwartz City Window Cleaning Company Compliments of FALLON'S DINER l' E r ER DESILVA, * 172 Lawrence Street ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Lawrence, l\!Iass. Bay State Building Lawrence, Mass. P rop . Telephone 2 1519 Lawrence 275 Common Street Compliments of Compliments of Bart J. Galvin DiZAZZO BROTHERS OIL BURNERS AND PUMP SERVICE Tel. 25872 Second Floor Telephones 26958 - 86424 Bay State Building Lawrence, Mass. 97 - 265 Oak Street ComjJliments of BEST WISHES .... THE ROUND ROBIN V ISIT OUR COCKTAIL BAR 416 Essex Street Lawrence, Mass. Near Transfer Station ComjJliments of Compliments of ATTORNEY Joseph C. Campione Joseph M. McDonald Tel. 33483 351 Essex Street Lawrence ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW Tel. 33483 Rooms 55-56-58 35 I Essex Street Lawrence JAMES P. KANE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW �Portu guese-Amer ican Civic League of !vlassachusetts Seventeenth Annual Convention - Complimen ts of Best Wishes- Central Lunch John S. Pitta CHARLES PICANSO , Prop. Tel. 25811 463 Central Street Lowell, Mass. Lawrence's Only Time To Visit the BELLMORE RESTAURANT JOSE FREITAS, Prof;rietor Cor. Central and Tyler Streets Lowell, Mass. Exclusive OrthofJec/ic S/1oe Salon - Gilroy's Health Footwear Co. Best Wishes - SERVING REGULAR DINNERS Open Daily from 5 A. M. to 2 A. M. including Sunday * Sousa's Market Wi lbur Coon Shoes Availal)l e in Sizes l to 2. Widths AAAAA to EEE Tel. 7412 CENTRAL BLDG. -~ I G Essex St., Lawrence, Mass. Telephone 3636 I Lowell, Mass. 186 Middlesex Street 38 1 Central Street Lowell, Mass. ComjJlimen ts of COMPLIM ENTS OF SPINN EY'S GARA GE 24 HOUR SERVICE - J. D. NOBLE Tel. 20921 340 Central Street TOW CAR SERVICE Night Tel. 26202 Lowell, Mass. DISTRIBU TOR Royal Feast Potato Chips Luzitania Bakery CornjJlirnents of Specializing in PASTRY - BREAD Dr. Fausto Lage AND DELICIOU S MASSA CAUADA Tel. 30961 - 5478 129A South Broadway Lawrence, j\fass. 434 Central Street Lowell, Mass. 163 St:immer Street Lowell, Mass. �Seventeenth Annual Convention Portuguese-American Civic League of JVlassachusetts Comp lim ents of the Compliments of DIGHTON LADIES' AND MEN'S COUNCILS JIMlVIIE'S CAFE, INC. FINEST QUALITY BEERS 39 Degrees We Serve the Best Quality Foods at Popular Prices Phone 9687 Lawrence, Mass. 63-67 Lawrence Street - LAD!ES' Mrs. Dorothy White President Vice-President, Miss Hilda Cambra R ec. Sec'y . Miss Barbara Carvallo Mrs. Mary Perry Corr. Sec'y Miss Rose Borges Treasurer -MEN'S Mr. Gene P erry Presiden t Vice-President, Mr. Albert DeMello Mr. Harold Rose R ec. Sec'y Manuel Correira Mr. . Sec'y Corr. Treasurer . Mr. Manuel DeMello Board of Directors Miss Doris Mendoza Mrs. Anna Mendoza Mrs. Mary Cracia Mrs. Irene Goulart Mrs. Anna Carvalho Mrs. Gladys Benevides Mrs. Angelina Morris Board of Directors Mr. John Enos Mr. William Benevides Mr. Antone Rose Mr. Lawrence Mendoza Mr. Antone Goulart Mr. Antone Enos Mr. Manuel D. Rose - Visit Us While at th e Convention - AL1\1EIDA & CABRAL, INC. Com jJliments of SUCCESSORS TO GABRIEL D. PAIVA Manufacturers of PORTUGUESE SAUSAGES Portuguese-American Civic League Plvmouth Men's Council ,; Phone KIRkland 6630 156 Fifth Street Compliments of East Cambridge, Mass. Compliments of Compliments of Plymouth Ladies' Council Globe Furniture Co. Elliott's Stores, Inc. HOUSEHOLD FURNITU R E THINGS FOR THE HOME Tel. 238 15 I 94- 192 Essex Street Lawrence Lawrence - Lowell - Haverhill i\Irs. Mary A. Crawley . . President Mrs. Am elia Contente First Vice President . Mrs. Isabel Pacheco Second Vice President Miss Hilda Costa Recording Secretary Mrs. Anne Vaz Financial Secretary Mrs. R ose Morgado Treasurer Board of Directors-Mrs. Virgini a Riberio , Chai rman; Mrs. Ma r y Cross, Mrs. G loria Vaz. Mrs. Cotilda Rebbello, Mrs. Mary You ngman , Miss Peggy Youngman . T-Velfare Board-Mrs. Carolin e Martin , Mrs. Mary Pi n to . Door Guard- Mrs. Isabel Furtado. �Sevente enth Annua l Conven tion Portug uese-Am erican Civic League of !vlassachusetts PICANSO GULF SERVICE LINO PIC.-\ NSO , P ro/J. BEST WISHE S FOR A SUCCE SSFUL CONV ENTIO N TIRES - Cambridge and Somerville Councils Portuguese-American Civic League Men's and Ladies' Councils BA TT E RI ES - Teleph one 2-8 145 ~treets Gorham and Central Lowell , Mass. BEST WISHE S FOR A SUCCE SSFUL CONV ENTIO N PORTUGUESE - AlVIERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE - LOW ELL Anthon y De Jesus Silveiro Montei ro Philom ena Coimbr a Manue l C. Alves Anthon y Picanso Charlo tte Silva J oseph De J esus COMP LIMEN TS OF Mrs. Evelyn Seravia ACCES SO RI ES Mary Calues Philom ena Coimbr a Au gustine Nunes COU NCIL - Preside nt Vice -Presid ent . Secretary Treasur er Receive r nies Ceremo of l\1aster Guard Directo rs Manue l Santos Manue l Sousa John Dias A n thony De Jesus Charlo tte Silva Preside nt Ladies' Counci l Compli m ents of Mr. Julius W. Ribeiro Preside nt Men's Counci l Officers and Members SHI BEL N. SAB AG BOOTS 143 Hamps hire Street D ealer in SHOES - RUBBE RS Lawren ce, Mass. �Seventeenth Annual Convention Portuguese-American Civic League of Massachusetts Compliments of COM PLIME NTS OF The Somerset Council Portuguese-American Civic League of New Bedfor.d Compliments of * LADIES' COUNCIL Fall River Men's Council President . Vice President Recording Secretary Corresponding Secretary Treasurer Financial Secretary John C. Fonseca, Jr. Ernest T. Cabral, Jr. Antone Furtado Albion B. Freitas Francisco A. Santos Manuel Silva Board of Directors Arthur F. Pimental Manuel Felley, Jr. John Correia Manuel Torres, Sr. Francis B. Oliveira Manuel Carvalho Ernest Castro Joseph V. Velozo Leo P. Soares Manuel J. Rebello Antone Perreira America C. Mendes COMPLIMENTS OF State Directors Joseph C. Borges Tobias M. Furtado Portuguese-American Civic League of New Bedford * lV elfare Board Manuel F. Mello Antone Moniz Compliments of MEN'S COUNCIL The Fall River Ladies' Council �Portuguese-Americ an Civic League of fviassachusett s Seventeenth Annual Convention Complim ents of Compliments of Taunton Ladies' Council Portuguese- American Civic League WEIGEL'S CATERING SERVICE Telephone 7525 Piazza Insurance Agency Complete Insurance Protection REAL ESTATE SURETY BONDS Commissary Phone 23218 La ,vrence, Mass. 124 Abbott Street Lawrence, ~1ass. 153 Lawrence Street Compliments of Compliments of N. HEFFRON & SONS The Curtain Shoppe, Inc. Prop. PACHECO, Salesman TED FREIJE, EucENE COAL - COKE Hot Top Driveway Contractors Telephone 24738 424 Hampshire Street WINDOW SHADES OIL - Lawrence, Mass. VENETIAN BLINDS CURTAINS, DRAPES, ETC. Compliments of Compliments of Fay & Driscoll RANGE AND FUEL OIL U. S. W. V. Tel. 4557 413 Essex Street Lawrence, Massachusetts POWER BURNERS 576 Haverhill Street Lawrence �Seventeenth Annual Convention Compliments of . . • Portuguese-A merican Civic League of M assachusetts Com plim ents of .. .. ALDERMAN ALDER:MAN LOUIS J. SCANLON JOSEPH E. CARNEY COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC HEAL TH AND CHARITIES Complimen ts of ... C orn/Jliments of . ... ALDERMAN STATE SENATOR MICHAEL L. FLANAGAN ANDREW E. DONAHUE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC PROPER TY A N D PARKS �Seventeenth Annual Convention Complimen ts of Porluguese -A merican Civic League of Jvfa ssachusetts DIAMOND SPRING BREWING CO. * CO YCE &JO CURRAN • f~ stf ~~ :f~ ofl a HAVE YOU TRIED HOLIHAN'S ALE IN THE LAWRE NCE ·MASS AC HUSE TT S _!_ PJ//irJiC!~-k~-111 - ~ • 1:L'i ii(~ NEW GREEN QUART BOTTLES * LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS �Portugu ese-American Civic League of Massachusetts Seventeenth Annual Convention Compliments of Su ccess lo the Port uguese-American Civic League .. . THE SAVINGS BANKS OF LAWRENCE HARRIETT'S SHOPPE COSMETICS - STATIONERY - GREETING CARDS - NOT IONS - SUNDRIES - TOYS - Your best friend in time of heed is a dollar in the Bank ART GOODS TOBACCO BROADWAY SAVINGS BANK COMMUNITY SAVINGS BANK ESSEX SAVINGS BANK LAWRENCE SAVINGS BANK 487-489 Broadway Lawrence, Mass. Tel. 31482 Tel. Res. 22143 BEST WISHES USED CARS AT LOW PRICES BOUGHT AND SOLD DON'S AUTO SALES AND SERVICE GENERAL REPAIRING Max Nicholson, Attorney 301 Essex Street 444 Riverside Drive Lawrence, Mass. ComfJlirnents of THE RIVERVIEW Specia lizing in ICE CREAM - FRANKFURTS - HAMBURGS AND LIGHT LUNCHES 444 Riverside Drive Lawrence, 1-'lass. R esidence - 5 Summit Avenue Lawrence, Massachusetts �Portuguese-Americ an Civic League of J\llassachusells Seventeenth Annual Convention ComjJlime11.ts of Comp lim e11ts of SILVERWATCH FURNITURE CO. CITY BARBER SHOP Dealers in " TEDDY" AZEVEDO, Proprietor HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE- CARPETS - STOVES Telephone 30023 Lawrence, Mass. 315 Common Street Lawrence , Mass. 409 Broadway Successful Convention .... Cornj1lirnents of · CITY GLASS COlVIPANY FARRIS CAFE AUTO GLASS INSTALLED WHILE "U" WAIT Felt and Iron Channels - Regulators - Door Handles and Locks FURNITURE MADE TO ORDER - / ETC. PRIVATE BOOTHS FOR LADIES WINES - ALES - MIRRORS LIQUORS Italian-Am erican Foods Telephone 9539 Lawrence, Mass. 311 Common Street Lawrence, Mass. 41 White Street Corn,jJliments of Compliments of NAHILL'S DRUG STORE STEWART OIL CO. M. AZEVEDO, OIL BURNER SALES AND SERVICE KITCHEN UTENSILS * Tel. 34812 158 Lawrence Street PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY FILLED T. CouTo, Props. HIGH GRADE HEATING OIL HARDWARE Two Registered Pharmacists Lawrence, l\!Iassachusetts 286 Oak Street Lawrence, Mass. Fred E. Daher Compliments of FURNITURE UPHOLSTERER AND SEAT Service and Quality Angelo Nicolosi Residence: 211 Chestnut St. Tel. 24455 Shop: Tel. 23040 50 White St. Lawrence, :rvfass. MEAT MARKET Tel. 24432 326 Elm Street Lawrence �Seventeenth Annual Convention Portuguese-Americ an Civic League of Massachusetts Compliments of Complimnets of A FRIEND A FRIEND -M. S. Telep ho n e 2- 16 12 -A. F. Te le ph o n e 2-7294 - FEDERAL NEON SIGNS GEO. A. GOOKIN CO. ELMERY C. LEFEB\" RE. ProfJ. NEW AND R EBU I LT QUALITY NEON SI GNS A R C HITECTU R A L FLOORS Asphalt T il e - Rub ber T ile - Shee t Rubber Linole um Carpets W I NDOW SHADES - Cork T il e - D u racork Telep hone 5751 274 Broadway Lawrence, Mass. FURN ITURE AND UPHOLSTER ING Compliments of Authorized Armstrong Floor Con tractors * 77 M idd le Street Best vVishes from . . . Tony the Barber 77 Amesbu ry Street Lawrence Best J,f!ishes - A FRIE N D Lowell , Mass. ComjJliments of Compliments of Economy Market Boston Fish Market G R OCERIES AND PROVISIONS PAPPALARDO, Prop. A Friend -H.C . K. ALL K I NDS OF F R ESH AND SALT WATER FISH Tel. 22088 I 59 Hampshire Street Tel. 4537 Lawrence Corner o[ Concord Street 658 Haverhill Street Lawrence �Portuguese -American Civic League of i'vl.assachusells . . . Convenli on Chairme n ... Success to P. A. C. L. DISTINCT IVE DESIGNS FOR PEOPLE DISCRIMI NATING Joseph Olivera , Chairman Program Com . Alvaro S. Gaiolas, Chairman Ball Com . ~3 If/I I FLO '.,VE-RS - FOR ~;r (• 11 t ••, I / ) ~ .I 1 ALL : OCCAS IONS * Manue l M. Sousa, Chairman Parade Com . Thitonio Azevedo, Enterta inment Chairman Open Daily 9:00 A. 1\/I. to 11:00 P. M. Year Round * .J. 253 Broadway MASUK, ProjJ, Lawrence, Massachuse tts �Portuguese-American Civ ic L eagu e. of Massa chusetts Seventeenth A nnual Conve ntion Wh y Nol Visit Lawrence's T wo Comp lim ents of Nlost Friendly Stores HARRY'S TAILOR SHOP ---- *---Al's Furniture Dept. l\1ANNY'S MARKET I\,f EA TS AND PROVISIONS, CANDY AND ICE CREAM 551 Common Street Three Floors of Quality Furniture - CLEANING AND PRESSING FREE PARKI:-:G CIGARETTES AND CIGARS, ----*-- -- TISS UES AND Al's Radio Dept. COSM E TICS MANUEL MENDONSA - 518-520 Essex Street FREE DELIVE RY SERVICE - 309 Common Street Lawrence's Leading Radio Store Lawrence, Nfass. 26 Ohio A venue Telephone 26666 Telephone 20487 Lawrence, Mass. Successful Convention .... JOHN HAYKAL - Complim en ts of DRY GOODS- Infant Wear A Specialty M. J. MAHONEY Telephone 33932 FUNERAL DIRECTOR Lawrence, Mass. 62 Amesbury Street Th e O ldest Establishment in th e City-Established 1862 Compliments of ComjJlirnents of Elliott's Terminal Lunch Post Office Barber Shop TRANSFER ST A TION \ M. J. E SPI NOLA A ND JOSEPH B F.1, 1:-IATO Proprietors T elephone-Day and Night- 711 3 182 Hampshire Street Lawrence, Mass. 16 Franklin Street Lawrence Lawrence, Mass. �Portuguese -American Civic League of Nlassachusells Seventeenth Annual Convention Complimen ts of ComfJlimen ls of MERRIMACK VALLEY DISTRIBUTING COMPANY WHOLESA LE LIQUOR DEALERS BRIDE and GRIMES Telephone 32749 Lawrence, l\1ass. 13 Union Street - Complim ents of Best W is hes - MERRIMACK VALLEY WHOLESALE GROCERY CO. BACK BAY STUDIOS PORTRAI TS OF DISTINCT ION -- WHOLESA LE GROCERS - Wedding or Family Groups-Da y or Night by AjJfJOintme nt Cash ancl Carry Telephone 28828 277 Jackson Street Complimen ts of Mr. and Mrs. AntonioDaSilvaNeves Superinten dent Rockingham Park Lawrence, Mass. Telephone 201 31 ComjJ lim ents of Complimen ts of A Friend Lawrence, :Mass. 132 South Broadway DONAHUE'S LIQUOR STORE Telephone 5606 Broadway at Cross Street - H. E. R. Lawrence, l\1ass. �Portuguese-American Civic L eague of Massachusetts Seventeenth Annual Convention WEDDINGS ... SjJecializing in H air Sty ling . .. CHRISTEN I N GS J IMM IE 'S TAX I MARY ROSE BEAUTY SALON J. SAFFlE, P ro/J. MARY R . VA SCONCELOS, Pro/1 . Cregg Building - Telephone 7600 Room 201 Lawre nce, Mass. 46 Amesbury Street For Appointmen t Call 31348 - 406 Common Street BEST W ISHES - Lawrence, Mass. Compliments of BAY STATE FURNITURE COMPANY SAM LA.BELL, Prop. A FRIE N D DEALERS IN HOUSEHOLD FU R N ITU R E Agents for G lendale Ranges Te lephone 20596 Lawrence, Mass. 395 Common Street -F. B. F. J. H. THORLEY CO. Compliments of -Since 1924 TYPEWR ITER S - International Molders and Foundry Workers of North America ADD I NG MAC HI NES - CASH R EGISTER S Sold - Rented -· Repaired OFFICE SUPPLIES, ETC . Office Telephone 237 19 LOCAL NO. 83-LAWR ENCE, MASS. 18 Franklin Street Presid ent R ichard Hamilton Compliments of Vice-President Ernest Cross Financial Secretary vValter Hamilton DR. BEN NICHOLSON Secretary Malcolm Norwood -DENTIST - \ Auditors John L inehan Lawrence, l\1ass. Leonard Nussbaum Telephone 21147 J ohn Bartose 499 Essex Street Lawrence, l\1ass. �Port u guese-Am erican Civ ic L eague of J"\llassachusetts Seventee nth Annual Convent ion Portu guese -Ame rican Civic Leag ue of Mass achus etts DURING THE CONVENTION DROP IN AT MALONEY'S CAFE = = ·w here You Can Enjoy a Few Hours in Friendly Surroun dings ·with a Mixed Drink That's Better · Request Number s Played on the Hammon cl Solovox 410 Commo n Street * Best of Luck .. . Aug ustine D. Riley Lawrenc e, Mass. Stanley's Cafe Ladies ·w elcome ENTER TAINM ENT WEEK- ENDS Cor. Huse St. 313Park St. ';ou;:i.1i11.E1 l;:i;:i.rlS Amqs;:im y 801 zggt,;; 'Pl PRESCRIP TION PHARMA CY -9NISS3:1ld -9NI'13: QOW3:1 l - -9NI1lIV d3:1l \ Tel. 9739 88 Lawrenc e Street, Cor. Elm Street Lawren ce, Mass. Dighton Men Fall River Ladies Fall River Men Falmout h Lawr ence Lad ies Lawr ence Men Lowell New Bedford Ladies New Bedford Men P ea body Plymout h Men Province town Rehobo th-Seeko nk Somer set Ta unton Ladies Somervi lleCambrid ge Ladies 'Westpor t Taunton Men C HARLE S A. FRATES Presiden t SlPSn4)E SSEW White Cross Dighton Ladies P lymouth Ladies ATTORNE Y-AT-LAW Tel. 34272 418-419 Bay State Bldg. La,vrenc e, Massach usetts Cambrid ge No. 1 .1;:iAI{;:)Q pu E ffE'.) UO_Zl:JUZJ,Za /o H;JtW:JJ J S1l3:AQ - S1l3: NV3:'1'.J '1O..LidV'.) * SU PREME OFFICE RS . Charles A. Frates, New Bedford t Presiden sident John C . Fonseca, Jr. , Fall Ri ver First Vice-Pre Mrs. Grace Enos, Taunton sident Vice-Pre Second Saraiva, Cambrid ge No. 1 Octave sident Vice-Pre Third ce Borge, Fall River y Constan Mrs. Secretar R ecording New Bedford Orcutt, L. Mary Secretarv Miss jJonding Corres · Gene Perry, Dighton Treasure r . Annibal L Sousa, Lowell Chaplain Charles A. Perry, Taunton Imm ediate Past Presiden t �Portuguese-American Civic League of Massachusetts Seventeenth A nnual Convention Compliments of Compliments of NUNO de ANDRADE ... CARPENTER ... Tel. 20012 Lowell, Mass. 45 Auburn Street GILBOARD REFRIGERATION CO. Dealer in Best ·wishes Fogel All-Electric Beer Systems lVIR. ANNIBAL L. SOUSA NOTARY PUBLIC and Massachusetts Lowell, l\1cCray Refrigerators Compliments of JOSEPH COSTA CEMENT FINISHER Mo)lRIS GILBOARD, ProjJ. Tel. 37 179 208 Grand Street Lowell, Mass. Best of Luck DIVISION ONE, A. 0. H. Tel. 33911 207 Lowell Street Lawrence, Massachusetts �Portugu ese-Am erican Civ ic League of Jvlassach usetts Seventee nth Annual Convent ion Complim en ts of BEST W ISH ES . . . Complim en ts of RA Y'S T H E HOM E O F T H E G OLD EN CRISPY CHIP POTATO CHIPS David Brown * School Commit teeman H averhill , Massac husetts 45 Hilldale Avenue James R. Carter Compli ments of C OMPLI MEN TS OF . . . Ritzy's Diner and Restaurant Adam Eberhardt O PEN DAY AN D N IGH T KEEP I N G OOD H EALT H EAT G OOD F OOD Tel. 96229 Lawren ce, l\1ass. S. A . Essex Street Michael's Amoco Service M 1cHAEL M . P A wu K, C H ESTER M . P AWLI K, AUT O ACCESS ORIES Tel. 9582 63 South U n ion Street Propriet or Attenda nts R AY S ILVA, IGN IT I ON f VORK Lawrence, Nfass. Complim ents of D. S. and E. S. �Portuguese-American Civic League of Massachusetts Seventeenth Annual Convention Compliments of Lompliments of Compliments ot Charles A. McKallagat Th e Busy Druggist Mayfair Cafe Lawrence, Mass. 221-225 Hampshire, Cor. Oak Street TWO FLOOR SHOWS NIGHTLY 9 P. M. 11 P. M. Best Wishes for Success Oppenheim' s MEN'S CLOTHING AND FURNISHINGS G. W. Marsden and Son BARBER AND BEAUTY PARLOR SUPPLIES RejJresentecl by CHARLES MOTTA T AKESIAN Tel. 9632 Cor. Franklin and Lowell Street Lawrence, Mass. Tel. 7045 567 Essex St. Lawrence, Mass. Acknowledgement Success for Convention George & Bill . Compliments of Findeisen's Farms The Lawrence Ladies' and Men's Councils are greatly indebted to, and take this opportunity to thank, the City Government, business and professional men of Lawrence ' The Eade,c, Tribune and the neighboring cities and towns for the support and valuable assistance which has made possible the success of this convention. The committee urges all members to reciprocate b y their patronage of the advertisers in this program. Best ·w ishes M ethuen, Mass. St. l\1ichael' s Young Men's Club �Seventeenth Annual Convention Portuguese-American Civic L eague of 1vlassachuselts WLAW Compliments of Serving Industrial New England 680 on your dial Ki Harvard Brewing Co. 50,000 Watts-Day and Night-Unlimited Time * The family newspapers of Brewers of Greater Lawrence ... Eagle . .Tribune BEER - ALE and PORTER - Read daily by more than 92 out of every l 00 families in Greater Lawrence �P ortuguese-Am eri can Civ ic L eagu e of Massachusetts Seventeenth A nn ua l C o nve nt io n ComjJlim ents of ... Convention Chairmen ... - TH E - TJLQ ROOFING COMPANY, INC. T elephone 27070 Lawrence, Mass. 7 Broadway ComjJliments of THOMAS J. LANE JovrANO G. MAN UEL JoAQ UIM ROSA CONGRESSMAN OF <: e11 ernl T reas u rer Corres jJ0 11di11 g Secre tary /TH DISTRICT * * COMPLIMENTS OF GLENNIE'S MILK PURE SWEET CLEAN MRS. EzrLDA LY N CH Co-C h air111a11 Ball Co111111itt ee Compliments of Jack Berger Tel. 4159 107 Massachusetts Avenue North Andover, Massachusetts �Seventeenth Annual Convention Portuguese-American Civic League of Massachusells Compliments of BOOSTERS Tommy Sousa's Orchestra • Alvaro S. Gaiolas Fred Couto John B. Sears Arnaldo Mello Vincenzo D 'Errico A lberto Teduei Philomena Joaquim Frank Faria Steve Tranoe M rs. Felicia Coelho .John D . .Joaquim Mariano Couto Manuel S. Cafua .Jose Oli veira Mr. and Mrs. Anthony M. Silva Mr. and Mrs. Anthony F. Espinola Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Sousa Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Silva Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lima Mr. and Mrs. Manuel D. Sousa Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Joaquim, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Manuel M. Sousa Mr. and Mrs. Edward .Joaquin Mr. and Mrs. Manuel C. Cabral Mr. and Mrs. Jose Pacheco Mr. and Mrs. Freel Gomes Manuel C. Santos Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Azevedo Salvatore R eis Frank .J. Silva Mr. and M rs . .James Olivera Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sears Leno i\Iendaca Manuel Sears John S. Rosa .John .J. Sears Fremino Costa Charles Pinto Mariano Cravinho Manuel C. Cunha Mary Ribas Joviano G . .Joaquim Mr. and Mrs . .Joseph Olivera Fred D . Angelo Manuel E. Costa Luis G. Freitas Mr. and Mrs . .Jeffrey Vasconcelos Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Rosa Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Lima Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sears Mr. and Mrs. Manuel .Joaqui n Mr. and Mrs. Albino Ribas Mr. and Mrs. Jene Amaral Mr. and Mrs. Cerino C. Marcos Mr. and Mrs. Manuel B . .Joaquin Mr. and Mrs . .Jacinto Rodrigu es Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Silva and Son San .Jose, California Mr. and Mrs. Edward Machado Mr. and Mrs . .John Correia Melvin .J. Correia Mr. and Mrs. Manuel F. Sousa Alice Collins AVAILABLE FOR DANCES, PARTIES, WEDDINGS, ETC. Telephones 2 3451 - 32 171 Best Wishes of Red Label Company HOUSEHOLD CHEMICAL PRODUCTS Telephone 973-R Andover, Mass. Compliments of Central Lunch GREGORY MALISOS , - Prop . BEST PLACE TO EAT - LAMB ON STICK - SIRLOIN STEAK 317 Common Street Lawrence, Mass. Compliments of Memorial Granite Co., Inc. Quincy, Mass. SALES ROOMS THROUGHOUT NEW ENGLAN D Show Rooms at 159 Hancock St., North Quincy 725 Southern Artery, Quincy �Seventeenth Annual Convention ... (}eneraf Convenlion Commillee ... Fred Couto Leno Mendaca Mrs. Helen Sears Miss Philomena Joaquim Joviano G. Joaquim Manuel Rosa John J. Silva COMMITTEE BANQUET Jeffrey Vasconcelos, Chairman_ Mrs. Felecia Coelho, Co-Chairman Mrs. Isabel Vasconcelos Miss Mary Leites Caesar Sinwes James Falcon Joseph Olivera Anthony F. Espinola Joseph Sears Manuel C. Santos Manuel F. Sousa Manuel Mendonsa Manuel Cabral BALL COMMITTEE Alvaro Gaiolas, Chairman Mrs. Ezilda Lynch , Co-Chairman Miss Delia Cunha Daniel Sousa Manuel Cunha Mrs. Lillian Sousa Edward Joaquin Mrs. Gilda Mendonsa Thitonio Azevedo Manuel C. Santos Manuel .F. Sousa HOUSING COMMITTEE Manuel D. Sousa, Chairman iWrs. Palmecla Sousa, Co-Chairman Joseph Carvello, Jr. Joviano G. Joaquim PARADE COMMITTEE Manuel M. Sousa , Chairman i\'lrs. Marv Azevedo , Co -Chairman John S. Rosa Charles Pinto Albert Thacleu Freel Gomes Manuel F. Sousa Manuel C. Santos Manuel Cabral * Honorary Chairman General Chairman General Co-Chairman General Secretary CorresjJonding Secretary General Treasurer Publicity Agent PROGRAM THE OLDEST LIQUOR HOUSE IN LAWRENCE * OVER 70 YEARS REPUTATION FOR SELLING THE BEST COMMITTEE Joseph Olivera, Chairman Miss Mary Ribas, Co-Chairman Manuel Sears Joseph Sears Thitonio Azevedo Thomas Sousa John S. Sears Manuel Mello Jeffrey ,Vasconcelos Anthony M. Silva John J. Silva Mrs. Felecia Coelho Manuel Mendonsa ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE Thitonio Azevedo, Chairman Miss Mary Vasconcelos, Co -Chair111a11 Salva tore Reis Joseph Joaquim, Jr. i\liss Mary Ribas Alfred Silva George Pacheco Albert Thadeu Thomas Sousa John D. Joaquim Fred Gomes Joviano G. Joaquim Daniel Sousa Leo Doyle Cerino C. Marcos Anthony F. Espinola Manuel C. Santos J\fanuel F. Sousa Mrs. Alice Marcos Mrs. Felecia Coelho 1'frs. Isabel Vasconcelos Mrs. Elsie Silva Manuel Cabral * M. CARNEY CO. Lawrence, Massachusetts �DURING THE CONVENTION VISIT .. . NEW ENGLAND'S ONLY THEATRE NIGHT CLUB * The Hofbrau - for - TWO AND ONE HALF HOURS OF CONTINUOUS ENTERTAINMENT 2 Hampshire Street Lawrence, Massachusetts "l'-~ p EA G LE - TRIBUNE JO B P~ l "IT I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lawrence History Center Portuguese American Collection [1920-1999] Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived All physical copies of the items in this collection are housed at the Lawrence History (LHC) in Lawrence, MA. Through their partnership with PADA, LHC gave permission for these items to be digitized and placed online. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LHC_ Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lawrence (Mass.) Subject The topic of the resource Portuguese American women Catholic Church--Societies, etc. Processions, Religious--Catholic Church Fasts and Feasts Catholic Church--Dioceses Priests Wedding photography Music Musicians Instrumentation and orchestration (Band) Statutes Constitutions Minstrel shows Balls (parties) World War, 1939-1945 Veterans United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 United States. Army. Community organization Community development--Religious aspects--Catholic Church Festivals City council members Political posters Azorean Americans Mother's Day Portugal--Emigration and immigration Ascension Day Soccer Description An account of the resource These items are part of the collection at the Lawrence History Center in Lawrence, MA. This collection reflects the organization of the local Portuguese American community from the start of the 20th century through the 1990s. Items focus on the Portuguese American Civic League, Holy Ghost Society, and Saint Peter and Paul's Church.<br /><br /><strong>About the <a href="https://lawrencehistory.org/">Lawrence History Center (LHC)</a></strong><br /><br /><span>Founded in 1978 as the Immigrant City Archives by German immigrant Eartha Dengler, the Lawrence History Center’s mission is to collect, preserve, share, and animate the history and heritage of Lawrence and its people.</span><br /><span>Currently in their fifth decade, LHC seeks to better serve a community that is rapidly changing due to immigration and changes in the local economy. The past few years have marked enormous growth for LHC as they move from being an organization that ‘collects and preserves’ stories of the city to one that animates these stories for current residents, researchers, and visitors to Lawrence through rich and varied programming, the strength of our collections and the power of the history of an immigrant city on the rise.</span> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1920-1999 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG PDF Language A language of the resource English Portuguese Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 17th Annual Convention, Portuguese American Civic League (1947) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived All physical copies of the items in this collection are housed at the Lawrence History Center (LHC) in Lawrence, MA. Through their partnership with PADA, LHC gave permission for these items to be digitized and placed online. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1947-08-30 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LHC_013 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lawrence (Mass.) Subject The topic of the resource Balls (parties) Alianca Portuguese of Massachusetts Almeida & Cabral, Inc. Central Cafe City Barber Shop Dighton Council Fall River Ladies and Men's Council Joseph A. Costa & Sons Lawrence Ladies and Mens Council Light of the World Portuguese Mutual Society Lusitania Bakery Manny's Market New Bedford Ladies Council New Bedford Mens Council Picanso Gulf Service Plymouth Council Portuguese American Civic League (Lowell, MA) Portuguese American Civic League of Massachusetts Portuguese American Salazar Club Post Office Barber Shop Rose Bud Flowers Saint Anthony's Portuguese Benevolent Society Saint Peter and Paul Church Sears Brothers Orchestra Somerset Council Somerville-Cambridge Ladies Council Sousa's Market Spinney's Garage Taunton Ladies' Council The George Thomas Post Tommy Sousa's Orchestra https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/42465/archive/files/44e86be9e38d2c11c5706db48df8b1bc.pdf?Expires=1789603200&Signature=AbaxDRrAa0s-LxpbIx4XQ2P8oDhFyyPyfNH1lFCx0S9zr%7EtGF64EYvYcuQddEJM6bihtmAjWwZoBfMt20Vce9KrubiBgO3Fua91FrALrUDoSArGvYahQKRjNx-4-BqbUU5QOoa-0DGedwBeE8EgsLMx-lrlxff8gM0ceRWFejdqjxWM86gX6J3C7HfVhqOXojow4UWqmC7MLnn1b77NymqcbV6y5bAZamiLYY-KLWINczYLnXbbjJEhqLMDOJzRIBK0ivqoPgm3XTF4VeveYzIQdsgH9liF3vS3iYBcPbl7m3yh1d34tf0LGrUCwYSfVs-nFQJqdF-Mm3VWUw2yZmg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 440e5306286a08681d02f134994ffa9c PDF Text Text �Bonded Also Licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Certified in the State of New Hampshire Licensed by the City of Manchester, N. H. Registered in the State of Maine --4pprecialion The committee in charge deeply appreciates and since re ly thanks the following for their special efforts in behalf of our Musical Revue and Program Book. Rev. John F. da Silva, our beloved spiritual director, for his enthusiastic cooperation; Mrs. Tebert P. Mello, our general chairman; Leo I. Silva and Mrs. Russell J. Katibian, our pro ducers and directors; Miss Rose Ann Mello for designing and making our costumes; Miss Shirley Bettencourt for our dance interpretations; Mr. An+onio Batista and Mr. Manuel Ferre ira of the Portuguese Radio Hour; Mr. Henry Santos who design e d our cover; Mr. Norman Glassman for his kindness in allowing us to use the State Theatre; the Lowell Sun for its excellent pub licity; the Trans World Airlines, Inc., for their propertie s, and the A. G. Pollard Company for decorations. A big "Thank You" too, to you our audience, our musicians and cast, to our patrons and little treasures and especially lo all of our fine local merchants who so generously responde d to our appeal by favoring us with their ads. May you enjoy our show as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to you and count tonight as one of your mos t e n joyable evenings. PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS and DETECTIVES 1 Investigations 1 Protective Systems 1 Character Reports 1 Business Surveys 1 Guards Swiftly and Discreetly Efficient Service Given In Strictest Confidence by 34 Competent Agents - - - -1- - - - RADIO PATROL CARS - - ·- - 1 - - - - PRINCIPAL RESIDENT - - AGENT CITIES MASSACHUSETTS Beverly - Boston (Metropolitan) - Fitchburg - Gloucester Haverhill - Lowell - Lawrence - Lynn - Malden - Newburyport Salem - Salisbury - Springfield and Worcester NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord - Dover - Hampton - Manchester Nashua - Portsmouth - Rochester MAINE Augusta - Biddeford - Lewiston - Portland - Waterville - - - -1- - - - EXECUTIVE OFFICES BAY STATE BUILDING - LAWRENCE, MASSAC HUSETTS Telephone Lawrence 7895 - Connecting all Departments day or night - - - -1 - - - - Member: 'vVorld Secret Service Association Associated American Detective Agencies National Detective Association - National Safety Council Federation of British Detectives - Lawrence Chamber of Comme rce KINDLY PATRONIZE OUR A DVERTISERS �Best Wishes For A Successfu l Show W ith The Complime nts of Rev. John F. da Silva Rev. Antonio X. Pinto ID4r f4nly Nainr ~nrirty :J/ie .JJof';f Rooar';f SoJa/it';f o/ St. --4nthon';f ~ Church Spiritual Director _______________________________________ Rev. John F. da Silva President ______________________________ -----------· Mrs. Antonio G. Caldeira Vice-Preside nt _______ ---------"------ _·_________________ Miss Rose Ann Mello Secretary ----------------------------·-····-··---·---------· _____ Mrs. Tebert P. Mello Treasurer _____________________________________________________ Mrs. Alfred Andrews Mistress of Ceremonies ________________________ Mrs. Maria C. Tavares OF ~t. Ant4nny' n ill4urr4 Mrs. Russell J. Katibian This page contributed by the Members of the Holy Rosary Sodality of St. Anthony's Church KINDLY PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISE RS �BEST WISHES FOR A SUCCESSFUL SHOW THE LOWELL COUNCIL THE DO NA MARIA OF THE AMELIA SOCIETY PORTUGUESE - AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS THE PORTUGUESE CATHOLIC SOCIETY OF SAINT JO HN THE BAPTIST ST. JO SEPH'S BENEFIT PORTUGUESE COLONIAL BAND CLUB, INC. President _________ ·-··-·-·---- Manuel S. Neves Vice Preside nt ----------------·-------- Frank Silva Secretary -------------------· _________ Frederick Avila Treasurer__ ____________ Francisco J. Quadros, Jr. Receiver _______________________ Man uel Bettencourt Vigilan te _______________________________ Joaguim Silva Master of Ceremonies ._ Herculano Augusto - ASSOCIATION, INC. ,, 59 Charles Street Lowell, Mass. MADEIRAN ALLIANCE SAINT A PRO TECTIVE ASSOCIATION, INC. / THE PIONEER CLUB 112 Charles Street Members of NOSSA SENHORA ST. ANTHONY'S SPORT CLUB D'AJUDA SOCIETY Lowell, Mass. Tilden Street KI N DLY P AT RO N IZE OU R A D VE R T IS E RS KI N D LY P ATRO NIZ E OU R ADVE RTI SE R S �Compliments ot ANN MARIE BEAUTY SALON Honorary Chairman - Rev. John F. da Silva General Chairman Treasurer - 147 -175 Central Street Mrs. Tebert P. Mello Tel. 3-0041 Mrs. Alfred Andrews Program Co-Chairmen-Mrs . 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Santos Director Lowell, Mass. 833 Central Street Tel. 2-7902 Compliments oi WORTHMORE FARMS DAIRY "Good Milk Always" Chelmsford, Mass. Tel. 3075 This Page was contributed with the best wishes from the Stitching Room of the Robbie Shoe. KINDLY PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS �• Program Compliments of ACT I. RED PINE GRILLE, INC. DINE & DANCE Billerica Nuttings Lake We cater to TESTIMONIALS - WEDDINGS - BIRTHDAYS - ETC. We specialize PIZZA - CHICKEN - CLAMS Compliments of COUNCILLOR JOHN JANAS KINDLY PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Salute to the U.S.A ............. Pilot Leo J. Silva Far A way Places ·······················-······· ... ············-·······························- -------'Chorus Medley, "Saluting States" -----··········································· ····················· Shirley Cotta Song, "Side by Side" ---······························ .··----------The G. Cleffs Our Own Little Glow W orms-Mrs. Manuel Alves, Mrs. Charles Camara, Miss Rose A. Mello, Mrs. John S. Pitta, Mrs. George Sousa, Mrs. Mary Smith 5. Song, ''Pretend'' .......................................................... ............................................... George Mello 6. Song, "Keep It A Secre t" ................................................................... Mrs . Thomas R. Katibian 7. Song, "A Bushel and a Peck" .................................................... Brenda Mello, George Mello 8. Dance Tap . .. Daughter of Rosie O'Grady-Louise Avila, Shirley Bettencourt, Helen Leite, Mary Leite, Roselyn Machado, Vir• ginia Machado, Hazel Mello, Mary Santos -----····-································Chorus 9. Song, "Home On ·The Range" ···········-············· 10. Western Songs ........................................ .................................................................... Wes tern Girl 11. Song, "Doggie In The Window". .. Mrs. Alice Joncas, Roselyn Machado, Virginia Machado 12. Song, "Alabama Jubilee" ----······························· Thomas R. Katibian, Tebert P. Mello, John Perry, Edgar Seman, Paul Walters 13. Song, "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee " .......... Mrs. Manuel 4\-lves, Mrs. Charles Camara Miss Rose A . Mello, Mrs. John S. Pitta, Mrs. George Sousa, Mrs. Mary Smith 14. Song, "You Belong To Me" ................................................................ Mrs. Thomas R. Katibian Between Act I and Act IL ................ A Monologue-Joseph M. Sousa ACT II. Salute to the Azores, Madeira and PortugaL .......... Pilot Leo J. Silva Soloists: Miss Elaine Ferreira, Mrs. Mary Faias, Mrs. Leonore Rodrigues, Mrs. Alice Joncas, Antonio C. Branco, George Mello. Dancers: Mrs. Charlotte Ramalho, Mrs , Arthur Silva, Mrs. Frank Leandro, Mrs, Manuel Viera, Mrs. Lino Picanso, Mrs, Roland Cunha, Mrs. George Cunha, Ernest Ramalho, Arthur Silva, Frank Leandro, Manuel Viera, Lino Picanso, Roland Cunha, George Cunha, Camacheiras: Miss Rita Freitas, Miss Mary Ares, Miss Theresa Ares, Mrs. Joseph A. Camara, Miss Alice Viera, Joseph A. Camara, Roger Rodrigues, Helen Camara, Dolores Fer· reira, Edward Avila, Manuel Barros, Anthony Francisco, Roger Rodrigues. Piano Accompanist ............... David R. Fielding Musicians: George Silva, Joaquim de Freitas, Buddy Oliveira, Antonio Mendonsa, Manuel Aguiar, Anthony D, Silva, Lewis Trainor, Bernard De Paulis, I. 2. 3. 4. Between Act II and Act III-Comedy, "The Landing of Biancolena" Mrs. Tebert P. Mello, Mrs. Lino Picanso, Edgar Seman ACT III. Salute to Brazil... ........ Pilot Leo J. Silva 1. Song, "South American Way" ........................................................................ ··············-· Chorus 2. Song, "Blue Echo" ···-························································· ····---- - - Mrs. Paul Walters 3. Dance, The Tarantella .... Louise Avila, Shirley Bettencourt, Helen Leite, Mary Leite, Roselyn Machado, Virginia Machado, Hazel Mello, Mary Santos 4. Song, "You Belong To My Heart" .. ...................................................................... George Mello 5, Song, "Begin the Beguine" ............................................................................................... Chorus 6. Rhumba -------······································· Mrs, Thomas R. Katibian, Joseph P. Costa 7. Song, "Gomen Masai" ·--·--------·-··--···--····----------···----····----·----···----··..····----···-- · Mrs. Alice Joncas 8. Song, "Manana" ...................--..................................... Thomas R. Katibian, Tebert P. Mello John Perry, Edgar Seman, Paul Walters 9. Song, "Siboney" .... --............. ----·········· ........ _ _ _ _ _ _ ................. _ _ _ _ _ Shirley Cotta 10. Song, "Anna" ........... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - - - - - - - - - - - · - - · · · ·Miss Mary Ares 11. Song, "Magic In he Moonlight" ······--.. --....·------.. --· ..··············..· - - - - - -The G. Cleffs 12. Song, "Jealous Eyes" ........ --... · - - - -··....... --.............--................................... Elaine Ferreira Finale ....... ---- .......·--·-·....···----·······............-- .. --.... --...... --........... ------·· ..····· .... ------·--......... Entire Group Commentator ..................... Mrs. Tebert P, Mello Tableau ..·--········ ...{ Soldier ··--·.. --· ... ----................. Manuel D, Santos Soloist ------... --.............. Mrs, Thomas R. Katibian Chorus: Dolores Freitas, Barbara Kelley, Rita Avila, Dolores, Ferreira, Theresa Pereira, Kath• leen Gomes, Alice Alves, Francis Barros, Lino Picanso, George Cunha, Edward Machado, KINDLY PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS �• PafronJ and PafroneJJeJ Compliments of Compliments of DEE'S DEBBIE SHOPPE PIONEER QUALITY MARKET Individual Hair Styling D. Silva, Prop. Lowell 45 Merrimack St. 189 Gorham Street Tel. 2-5537 Compliments of MARINE FUEL CO. Joseph Aguiar, Prop. 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Title A name given to the resource Saint Anthony's Church Archives [1902-2014] Subject The topic of the resource Catholic Church--Dioceses Acolytes Altars Azorean Americans Balls (parties) Boy Scouts Catholic Church--Societies, etc. Choirs (Music) Christmas Church group work with youth--Catholic Church City council members Fasts and Feasts First Confession and Communion Folk dancing, Portuguese Girl Scouts Instrumentation and orchestration (Band) Loreto, Our Lady Of Music--Portuguese influences Musicians Nuns Police Portuguese American women Processions, Religious--Catholic Church Priests Religious gatherings Snow Veterans Wedding photography Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archives at St. Anthony's Church in Lowell, MA. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lowell (Mass.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1902-1943 Description An account of the resource This collection of items come from the Archives held at Saint Anthony's Church in Lowell, MA. These items are kept in the Rectory and were organized by PADA archivists in 2021.<br /><br /><strong>Historical Overview:</strong> <p><span>For over two decades beginning in the 1870s, when Portuguese immigration to Lowell began to rise, most of the city’s Portuguese Catholics worshipped at St. Peter’s Church, a largely Irish and Irish-American parish. By the late 1890s the pastor of St. Peter’s arranged for Rev. Antonio J. Pimentel, of Boston and originally from Terceira in the Azores, to hold services for the Portuguese in a hall across the street from the church. With the Portuguese population approaching 1,000, a number of influential community members, notably Manuel P. Mello (1867-1938), from Graciosa, sought to establish their own parish. Rev. John Joseph Williams, Archbishop of Boston, supported this effort. Aided by Rev. Pimentel, Mello formed a committee, and, in 1900, began raising money for a church. One year later the committee had collected sufficient funds to purchase the abandoned Primitive Methodist Church, a wood-frame building on Gorham Street, built thirty years earlier. Dedicated on May 19, 1901, St. Anthony’s Church opened with Rev. Manuel C. Terra, the well-known pastor of St. Peter’s Church in Provincetown, celebrating the first High Mass with several hundred parishioners in attendance.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In early 1902, Archbishop Williams appointed Joaquim V. Rosa as pastor at St. Anthony’s. Born on the island of Pico, Joaquim Vieira da Rosa (1872-1964) immigrated to the United States in 1896 and for several years he assisted the pastor at St. John’s Church in New Bedford. Rev. Rosa celebrated his first Mass at St. Anthony’s in January, 1902. </span><span> </span></p> <p><span>Soon after taking charge of St. Anthony’s, Rev. Rosa established or supported the creation of a number of parish organizations. This included the long-lived Holy Rosary Sodality and the Holy Ghost Society. In addition to his clerical duties, he also led numerous fund-raising programs. Father Rosa also ministered to Lawrence’s Portuguese and helped found that city’s Portuguese Catholic Church. </span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1904, Archbishop Williams assigned Rev. Paul L. Despouy to assist Father Rosa at St. Anthony’s and to lead in establishing a Portuguese parish in Lawrence. At the same time Lowell’s growing number of Portuguese parishioners strained the capacity of the old wooden structure on Gorham Street and the search for a new church began. Once again, Manuel P. Mello played a major role in raising funds. Within two years, he and other parishioners had collected enough money to acquire land on Central Street across from the Lyon Street public school. </span><span> </span></p> <p><span>With the purchase of property, Boston-based architect Timothy Edward Sheehan (1866-1933), designer of a number churches for the Archdiocese, executed the design of the new St. Anthony’s. On Thanksgiving Day, 1907, Archbishop William O’Connell presided over the dedication of the laying of the cornerstone.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1908, with construction funds fully expended, only the granite walls and the floor of the basement were completed, and a flat roof was installed over the largely subterranean structure. Nevertheless, in May Father Rosa then celebrated the first Solemn High Mass. Joining him was Father Pimentel, who now led St. Anthony’s parish in Cambridge, Father Despouy, from his mission in Lawrence, and Rev. Manuel C. Terra of Provincetown. Although the rectory next to the church was finished and occupied by Father Rosa in 1908, funds to complete the construction of the highly ornate Mission-style church, following the original architectural design, remained insufficient. For the next 50 years, services continued to be held in the basement structure.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1911 Rev. Rosa, suffering from poor health and fatigue, due in part to his strenuous duties in leading his parishioners, resigned his pastorate and returned to his native Pico. In an action that proved especially fortuitous for the parish Archbishop O’Connell appointed Bishop Henrique Jose Reed da Silva (1854-1930) to lead St. Anthony’s. Bishop da Silva’s life prior to his arrival in Lowell was quite unique.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>Born in Lisbon, where he was educated and ordained a priest in 1879, the charismatic Bishop da Silva, fluent in several languages and a sacred music scholar who possessed a fine musical voice, quickly caught the attention of the Bishop of Portalegre, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jos%C3%A9_Maria_da_Silva_Ferr%C3%A3o_de_Carvalho_M%C3%A1rtens&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1"><span>José Maria da Silva Ferrão de Carvalho Mártens</span></a><span>. In 1884, shortly after turning 30, Rev. da Silva was appointed the prelate of Mozambique and moved to Maputo. Upon his ordination as a bishop, he assumed control of the Maputo archdiocese. Three years later Bishop da Silva took charge of the Diocese of São Tomé of Meliapore in southern India.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>During the bishop’s mission, the assassination of Portugal’s King Carlos and his son, followed by the Republican revolution in 1910, resulted in Bishop da Silva becoming an expatriate. By 1911 he returned to Boston from California and accepted Archbishop O’Connell’s offer to serve as pastor at St. Anthony’s.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1916 the bishop was joined by an assistant pastor, Rev. John S. Perry from St. Peter’s Church in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Father Perry, of Azorean parentage and born in Rhode Island in 1874, quickly formed a close working relationship with the bishop. Although in good health at age 62, Bishop da Silva relied heavily on Rev. Perry for regular sacramental duties and to lead the church during his frequent absences due to his duties on behalf of Cardinal O’Connell.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1924, after being away from his native Portugal for nearly 18 years, and having reached the age of 70, Bishop da Silva quietly decided to retire from St. Anthony’s, return home, and live the remainder of his days in his beloved Lisbon. In his place, Cardinal O’Connell named Rev. Joseph T. Grillo (1885-1948) as pastor of St. Anthony’s. Born on the island of </span><span>São Miguel Father </span><span>Grillo immigrated to the United States in 1899, settling in Hudson, Massachusetts.</span></p> <p><span>Under Rev. Grillo’s leadership, several affiliated organizations were revitalized. This included the Vincent de Paul Society, the Holy Name Society, and the Holy Rosary and Young Ladies sodalities. He undertook the first significant renovation of the church, overseeing the installation of a terrazzo floor, a new brighter sanctuary, complete with new statuary. Father Grillo also re-established the annual day-long picnic for parishioners and their families. In addition, he promoted various church-sponsored athletic programs and teams ranging from soccer, baseball, and basketball to track and field, along with a fife and drum corps. He also intensified various fund raising initiatives including the popular penny sales.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>Throughout much of his pastorate, Father Grillo had no assistant pastor except for one year in the early 1930s when Rev. </span><span>Theophilo Pedro Damiao de Oliveira, from São Miguel served in this role. Finally, in early 1937, in recognition of his devotion and many contributions to St. Anthony’s parish, Rev. Grillo was named permanent pastor by Cardinal O’Connell. During the Second World War, Father Grillo was among Lowell’s leading clergymen heading the War Fund Drive. He was also instrumental in establishing a memorial in 1943 for Private Charles Perry (Carlos Pereira), who was killed in North Africa the previous year and was the first Portuguese-American serviceman from Lowell to give his life for the nation.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In the years after World War II, Father Grillo suffered from poor health that resulted in lengthy hospital stays. In his absence, priests at St. Peter’s, who were Irish-American and spoke no Portuguese, filled in for him. Likely aware of the language difficulties this presented to his parishioners, Father Grillo contacted Bishop Giuseppe Alves Matoso of Guarda, Portugal, and requested that he send priests to New England. The Boston Archdiocese supported this initiative and in March 1947, Rev. João F. da Silva, (anglicized to John F. Silva), arrived in Lowell from Portugal to assist Father Grillo. Within a few months another priest from Portugal, Rev. Manuel J. Cascais, joined Father Silva as a second assistant pastor.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>A few months after celebrating his 25 years in the priesthood, Father Grillo’s health worsened and in November, 1948, he died at the age of 63. </span><span>Rev. John F. Silva succeeded him and began a 30-year tenure as pastor at St. Anthony’s. While Father Grillo led St. Anthony’s parish through the hard times of the Great Depression and during the difficult years of World War II, Rev. Silva assumed control of the church during a period of prosperity for many of his parishioners. In 1958, over a 1,000 attended the 50th anniversary of the church on Central Street. Held at the Lowell Auditorium, the celebration featured speeches by Senator John F. Kennedy and Representative Edith Nourse Rogers. The most significant physical change occurred in 1960 when the superstructure of the church was finally constructed. Boston architect Mario V. Caputo produced the design for St. Anthony’s modeled after a church in Colombia.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>During Father Silva’s pastorate, a number of priests assisted him, including Rev. Joseph L. Capote (1949 to 1950) and Rev. Antonio Pinto (1952 to 1954). In late 1972, Rev. Eusebio Silva, a cousin of Father Silva, arrived from Portugal to serve as his assistant. Father John Silva successfully led opposition to a proposed extension of the Lowell Connector highway that would have obliterated a large part of the parish neighborhood.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1978, Father Silva retired from the priesthood and Cardinal Humberto Medeiros appointed Rev. Eusebio Silva as administrator of St. Anthony’s. When Father Eusebio assumed the pastorate of St. Anthony’s in Cambridge, Rev. Antonio Pinto was appointed interim priest. During this time, Deacon Richard Rocha also served at Saint Anthony's, starting from his ordination in May 1983. In 1990, Rev. </span><span>José S. Ferreira assumed the leadership of the church and was assisted by the Rev. Ronald Gomes. In 1995, Father Ferreira was transferred to St. Anthony’s in Cambridge, and Rev. Francis M. Glynn, the first non-Portuguese priest of the parish, became pastor. Father Glynn served during a period of a growing Brazilian community in Lowell, but also at the time of a major strike in the city at the Prince Pasta factory, which employed dozens of his parishioners. Father Glynn supported the striking workers and their families, but despite his efforts and many others, including Representative Martin Meehan and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the corporation that owned the plant shut it down. </span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 2004, following Father Glynn’s assignment to a parish in Waltham, Massachusetts, Rev. Charles J. Hughes, became the pastor at St. Anthony’s. Father Hughes’ tenure proved a challenging time with declining parish membership and church closures in the wake of the numerous clergy sexual abuse cases in the Archdiocese. As with many other parishes, St. Anthony’s had no connection to any of these cases; however, it shared with many other churches increasing financial struggles and a continued drop in membership. Following Father Hughes’ departure in 2016, St. Anthony’s became part of the Lowell Collaborative in which it was joined with Immaculate Conception Church and Holy Trinity Church under the leadership of Rev. Nicholas A. Sannella. This administrative arrangement remains in place with Rev. Deacon Carlos DeSousa serving as a key clergyman at St. Anthony’s. </span></p> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only: This Work has been digitized in a public-private partnership. 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M. STATE THEATER Staged and Directed by CHARLES C. MELLO �Bonded Also Licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Certified in the State of New Hampshire Licensed by the City of Manchester, N.H. Registered in the State of Maine Victor Service Bureau PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS and DETECTIVES • Investigations • Protective Systems • Inspection Reports • Business Surveys • Guards Efficient Service Given Discreetly and Swiftly In Strictest Confidence by 34 Competent Agents RADIO PATROL CARS Principal Resident- Agent Cities Massachusetts Beverly - Boston (Metropolitan) - Fitchburg - Gloucester - Haverhill Lowell - Lawrence - Lynn - Malden - Newburyport - Salem Salisbury - Springfield -- Worcester New Hampshire Concord - Dover - Hampton - Manchester Portsmouth - Jiochester Nashua Maine Augusta - Biddeford - Lewiston - Portland - Waterville Home Office BAY STATE BUILDING LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS Telephone Lawrence 7895 Connecting All Departments Day or Night �Best Wishes For A Successful Show With The Compliments of Wqr i!;nly Namr @Jnrirty REV. JOHN F. DA SILVA Spiritual Director MRS. ANTONIO G. CALDEIRA Pre sident OF • Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Miss Mrs. Miss Manuel Alves Foster Braga Manuel Cunha Dominick J. Furtado Gabriel Gouveia Manuel Machado Mary Machado Anthony Medina Rose A. Mello Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. MRS. TEBERT P. MELLO Chairman of Musical Program Anthony Mello Manuel S. Neves Maria Medeiros Lino Picanso John S. Pitta Mary Smith George Sousa Joseph Souza �Compliments of 1A;nly i!lnnary ~nhality OF ~t. Autqnuy~ n illqurrq President ______________________________ · _________________ Mrs. Antonio G. Caldeira Vice-President ------------------------------------------------ Miss Rose Ann Mello Secretary ______________________________________________ Mrs. Tebert P. Mello Treasurer ---------------------------------------------------------------- ______ Mrs. Alfred Andrews The committee in charge, greatly appreciates and sincerely thanks the following, for their special efforts in behalf of our musical revu)3 and souvenir program book: Rev. John F. da Silva, our beloved spiritual director for his enthusiastic cooperation; Charles C. Mello, our producer and director; Mr. Antonio Batista and Mr. Manuel Ferreira, of the Portuguese Radio Hour for their fine announcements; The Lowell Sun and the Lowell Sunday Telegram for their excellent publicity; Mr. Norman C. Glassman for his kindness in allowing us to use the State Theatre and Frank Ares, Joseph Oliveira, James Oliveira and Buddy Sarkissian, for their soothing Lalin-American music. A big thank you too, to the entire cast, to you, our audience, to our many patrons and little treasures, and especially to all of the fine local merchants who so generously responded to our appeal by favoring us with their advertisements; may we recommend them to you, as worthy of your patronage. Again may we say, many, many thanks! 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Title A name given to the resource Saint Anthony's Church Archives [1902-2014] Subject The topic of the resource Catholic Church--Dioceses Acolytes Altars Azorean Americans Balls (parties) Boy Scouts Catholic Church--Societies, etc. Choirs (Music) Christmas Church group work with youth--Catholic Church City council members Fasts and Feasts First Confession and Communion Folk dancing, Portuguese Girl Scouts Instrumentation and orchestration (Band) Loreto, Our Lady Of Music--Portuguese influences Musicians Nuns Police Portuguese American women Processions, Religious--Catholic Church Priests Religious gatherings Snow Veterans Wedding photography Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archives at St. Anthony's Church in Lowell, MA. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lowell (Mass.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1902-1943 Description An account of the resource This collection of items come from the Archives held at Saint Anthony's Church in Lowell, MA. These items are kept in the Rectory and were organized by PADA archivists in 2021.<br /><br /><strong>Historical Overview:</strong> <p><span>For over two decades beginning in the 1870s, when Portuguese immigration to Lowell began to rise, most of the city’s Portuguese Catholics worshipped at St. Peter’s Church, a largely Irish and Irish-American parish. By the late 1890s the pastor of St. Peter’s arranged for Rev. Antonio J. Pimentel, of Boston and originally from Terceira in the Azores, to hold services for the Portuguese in a hall across the street from the church. With the Portuguese population approaching 1,000, a number of influential community members, notably Manuel P. Mello (1867-1938), from Graciosa, sought to establish their own parish. Rev. John Joseph Williams, Archbishop of Boston, supported this effort. Aided by Rev. Pimentel, Mello formed a committee, and, in 1900, began raising money for a church. One year later the committee had collected sufficient funds to purchase the abandoned Primitive Methodist Church, a wood-frame building on Gorham Street, built thirty years earlier. Dedicated on May 19, 1901, St. Anthony’s Church opened with Rev. Manuel C. Terra, the well-known pastor of St. Peter’s Church in Provincetown, celebrating the first High Mass with several hundred parishioners in attendance.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In early 1902, Archbishop Williams appointed Joaquim V. Rosa as pastor at St. Anthony’s. Born on the island of Pico, Joaquim Vieira da Rosa (1872-1964) immigrated to the United States in 1896 and for several years he assisted the pastor at St. John’s Church in New Bedford. Rev. Rosa celebrated his first Mass at St. Anthony’s in January, 1902. </span><span> </span></p> <p><span>Soon after taking charge of St. Anthony’s, Rev. Rosa established or supported the creation of a number of parish organizations. This included the long-lived Holy Rosary Sodality and the Holy Ghost Society. In addition to his clerical duties, he also led numerous fund-raising programs. Father Rosa also ministered to Lawrence’s Portuguese and helped found that city’s Portuguese Catholic Church. </span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1904, Archbishop Williams assigned Rev. Paul L. Despouy to assist Father Rosa at St. Anthony’s and to lead in establishing a Portuguese parish in Lawrence. At the same time Lowell’s growing number of Portuguese parishioners strained the capacity of the old wooden structure on Gorham Street and the search for a new church began. Once again, Manuel P. Mello played a major role in raising funds. Within two years, he and other parishioners had collected enough money to acquire land on Central Street across from the Lyon Street public school. </span><span> </span></p> <p><span>With the purchase of property, Boston-based architect Timothy Edward Sheehan (1866-1933), designer of a number churches for the Archdiocese, executed the design of the new St. Anthony’s. On Thanksgiving Day, 1907, Archbishop William O’Connell presided over the dedication of the laying of the cornerstone.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1908, with construction funds fully expended, only the granite walls and the floor of the basement were completed, and a flat roof was installed over the largely subterranean structure. Nevertheless, in May Father Rosa then celebrated the first Solemn High Mass. Joining him was Father Pimentel, who now led St. Anthony’s parish in Cambridge, Father Despouy, from his mission in Lawrence, and Rev. Manuel C. Terra of Provincetown. Although the rectory next to the church was finished and occupied by Father Rosa in 1908, funds to complete the construction of the highly ornate Mission-style church, following the original architectural design, remained insufficient. For the next 50 years, services continued to be held in the basement structure.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1911 Rev. Rosa, suffering from poor health and fatigue, due in part to his strenuous duties in leading his parishioners, resigned his pastorate and returned to his native Pico. In an action that proved especially fortuitous for the parish Archbishop O’Connell appointed Bishop Henrique Jose Reed da Silva (1854-1930) to lead St. Anthony’s. Bishop da Silva’s life prior to his arrival in Lowell was quite unique.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>Born in Lisbon, where he was educated and ordained a priest in 1879, the charismatic Bishop da Silva, fluent in several languages and a sacred music scholar who possessed a fine musical voice, quickly caught the attention of the Bishop of Portalegre, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jos%C3%A9_Maria_da_Silva_Ferr%C3%A3o_de_Carvalho_M%C3%A1rtens&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1"><span>José Maria da Silva Ferrão de Carvalho Mártens</span></a><span>. In 1884, shortly after turning 30, Rev. da Silva was appointed the prelate of Mozambique and moved to Maputo. Upon his ordination as a bishop, he assumed control of the Maputo archdiocese. Three years later Bishop da Silva took charge of the Diocese of São Tomé of Meliapore in southern India.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>During the bishop’s mission, the assassination of Portugal’s King Carlos and his son, followed by the Republican revolution in 1910, resulted in Bishop da Silva becoming an expatriate. By 1911 he returned to Boston from California and accepted Archbishop O’Connell’s offer to serve as pastor at St. Anthony’s.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1916 the bishop was joined by an assistant pastor, Rev. John S. Perry from St. Peter’s Church in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Father Perry, of Azorean parentage and born in Rhode Island in 1874, quickly formed a close working relationship with the bishop. Although in good health at age 62, Bishop da Silva relied heavily on Rev. Perry for regular sacramental duties and to lead the church during his frequent absences due to his duties on behalf of Cardinal O’Connell.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1924, after being away from his native Portugal for nearly 18 years, and having reached the age of 70, Bishop da Silva quietly decided to retire from St. Anthony’s, return home, and live the remainder of his days in his beloved Lisbon. In his place, Cardinal O’Connell named Rev. Joseph T. Grillo (1885-1948) as pastor of St. Anthony’s. Born on the island of </span><span>São Miguel Father </span><span>Grillo immigrated to the United States in 1899, settling in Hudson, Massachusetts.</span></p> <p><span>Under Rev. Grillo’s leadership, several affiliated organizations were revitalized. This included the Vincent de Paul Society, the Holy Name Society, and the Holy Rosary and Young Ladies sodalities. He undertook the first significant renovation of the church, overseeing the installation of a terrazzo floor, a new brighter sanctuary, complete with new statuary. Father Grillo also re-established the annual day-long picnic for parishioners and their families. In addition, he promoted various church-sponsored athletic programs and teams ranging from soccer, baseball, and basketball to track and field, along with a fife and drum corps. He also intensified various fund raising initiatives including the popular penny sales.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>Throughout much of his pastorate, Father Grillo had no assistant pastor except for one year in the early 1930s when Rev. </span><span>Theophilo Pedro Damiao de Oliveira, from São Miguel served in this role. Finally, in early 1937, in recognition of his devotion and many contributions to St. Anthony’s parish, Rev. Grillo was named permanent pastor by Cardinal O’Connell. During the Second World War, Father Grillo was among Lowell’s leading clergymen heading the War Fund Drive. He was also instrumental in establishing a memorial in 1943 for Private Charles Perry (Carlos Pereira), who was killed in North Africa the previous year and was the first Portuguese-American serviceman from Lowell to give his life for the nation.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In the years after World War II, Father Grillo suffered from poor health that resulted in lengthy hospital stays. In his absence, priests at St. Peter’s, who were Irish-American and spoke no Portuguese, filled in for him. Likely aware of the language difficulties this presented to his parishioners, Father Grillo contacted Bishop Giuseppe Alves Matoso of Guarda, Portugal, and requested that he send priests to New England. The Boston Archdiocese supported this initiative and in March 1947, Rev. João F. da Silva, (anglicized to John F. Silva), arrived in Lowell from Portugal to assist Father Grillo. Within a few months another priest from Portugal, Rev. Manuel J. Cascais, joined Father Silva as a second assistant pastor.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>A few months after celebrating his 25 years in the priesthood, Father Grillo’s health worsened and in November, 1948, he died at the age of 63. </span><span>Rev. John F. Silva succeeded him and began a 30-year tenure as pastor at St. Anthony’s. While Father Grillo led St. Anthony’s parish through the hard times of the Great Depression and during the difficult years of World War II, Rev. Silva assumed control of the church during a period of prosperity for many of his parishioners. In 1958, over a 1,000 attended the 50th anniversary of the church on Central Street. Held at the Lowell Auditorium, the celebration featured speeches by Senator John F. Kennedy and Representative Edith Nourse Rogers. The most significant physical change occurred in 1960 when the superstructure of the church was finally constructed. Boston architect Mario V. Caputo produced the design for St. Anthony’s modeled after a church in Colombia.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>During Father Silva’s pastorate, a number of priests assisted him, including Rev. Joseph L. Capote (1949 to 1950) and Rev. Antonio Pinto (1952 to 1954). In late 1972, Rev. Eusebio Silva, a cousin of Father Silva, arrived from Portugal to serve as his assistant. Father John Silva successfully led opposition to a proposed extension of the Lowell Connector highway that would have obliterated a large part of the parish neighborhood.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1978, Father Silva retired from the priesthood and Cardinal Humberto Medeiros appointed Rev. Eusebio Silva as administrator of St. Anthony’s. When Father Eusebio assumed the pastorate of St. Anthony’s in Cambridge, Rev. Antonio Pinto was appointed interim priest. During this time, Deacon Richard Rocha also served at Saint Anthony's, starting from his ordination in May 1983. In 1990, Rev. </span><span>José S. Ferreira assumed the leadership of the church and was assisted by the Rev. Ronald Gomes. In 1995, Father Ferreira was transferred to St. Anthony’s in Cambridge, and Rev. Francis M. Glynn, the first non-Portuguese priest of the parish, became pastor. Father Glynn served during a period of a growing Brazilian community in Lowell, but also at the time of a major strike in the city at the Prince Pasta factory, which employed dozens of his parishioners. Father Glynn supported the striking workers and their families, but despite his efforts and many others, including Representative Martin Meehan and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the corporation that owned the plant shut it down. </span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 2004, following Father Glynn’s assignment to a parish in Waltham, Massachusetts, Rev. Charles J. Hughes, became the pastor at St. Anthony’s. Father Hughes’ tenure proved a challenging time with declining parish membership and church closures in the wake of the numerous clergy sexual abuse cases in the Archdiocese. As with many other parishes, St. Anthony’s had no connection to any of these cases; however, it shared with many other churches increasing financial struggles and a continued drop in membership. Following Father Hughes’ departure in 2016, St. Anthony’s became part of the Lowell Collaborative in which it was joined with Immaculate Conception Church and Holy Trinity Church under the leadership of Rev. Nicholas A. Sannella. This administrative arrangement remains in place with Rev. Deacon Carlos DeSousa serving as a key clergyman at St. Anthony’s. </span></p> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only: This Work has been digitized in a public-private partnership. 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Silva's Mini Market Souza's Central Cafe Spinney & Travers Service Station Spinney's Garage Worthmore Farms https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/42465/archive/files/b4b7fa3ada5bd2df5c4b082b166b27e0.pdf?Expires=1789603200&Signature=Q15jOH6fmncq3PnfNvyPL--c99bS2Fdg43RVAKMPvbU0apW0LTWlYq-CZr9mE3aQaFWhE37Cb8J61WObW1eAM2F5-rbDDoWVuQpu-pZXlwS1nPR%7EMjK7jeQ06cqZdcAx7aLLgfmsjUoNjf49lxthGi5cb8kGMov4r1ie6iKo6XIg9TQNx%7EF82e3nGVlXWk7IFYQTo%7EpCQx7hAbRN2l5HHKmcYtby1-09hB6Dilhx6ck7zIDo0IWkGMz%7E5RvS1Jq-OiorGvGIsEY2FATFFx-dafrIyxO5oHiQ5vXuMUf4-yB874VNdFzbZxQwnjdMSwxDegjK%7EEMA4ZNaaFOduZ2IiQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 938df9447d5dfb6e7e76350e42f34f16 PDF Text Text ' ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION of lke PORTUGUESE-AMERI CAN CIVIC LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS SpomoreJ blJ lite LOWELL COUNCIL al Lowell, MassachuseHs ofu9wl 30, 31, 1941 September, �I t The committee in ch rge of this souvenir program wish to express thanks to all who have contributed in any way toward its uccess. All proceeds derived from this convention will be used to further our program of naturalization and Americanization. Kindly remember all advertisers who have favored us. We recommend them to you as worthy of your patronage. Again may we say, ma:ny, many thanks. .:. ~t;t ~ ~~ ' . .~l His HoNOR GEORGE T. AsHE Lowell's Splendid Mayor whose sincere cooperation materially aided this convention �JOHN BRAD Y 155 CHUR CH ST. Complim ents of Complim ents of REHO BOTH and SEEKO NK PORT UGUE SE-AM ERICA N P.A. C. L. CIVIC LEAGUE "May the Spirit Never Die." Plymo uth Men's Council Teaming and Trucki ng Dealer in Coal, Wood, Sand, Gravel Cement and Cinders MANUEL BETTENC OURT Treasurer PORT UGUE SE-AM ERICA N CIVIC LEAGUE Plymo uth Ladies' Council OFFICE RS Pres.- Mrs. Amelia Content e 1st Vice-Pr es.-Mrs. Mary Crawley 2nd Vice-Pr es.-Miss Connie Souza Treas.-M rs. Beatrice Santos Sec.-Mi ss Mary Ann Souza Fin. Sec.-Mi ss Eva Pinto Board of Directors Mrs. Emily Lewis Mrs . . Mary Pacheco Mrs. Mary Cross Mrs. Rose Morgard o Mrs. Bernadin a Valente Door Guards Mrs. Trinity Motto Miss Deolinda Costa Compliments of P. A. C. L. PEABODY COUN CIL OFFICE RS Pres.-Joseph P. Sousa Vice Pres.-F rank Silva Sec.-An na J. De Freitas Treas.- Lucy R. Aguiar Master of Ceremo niesAnthony J. Foster lnnergu ard-Ant hony A. Chaves Ad'Visory Board Mary M. Mello Helen Amaral Foster Corey James Marshall William Amaral Directors Foster Corey Sylvene Bettenco urt Welfare Board Alice Silva Helen Amaral Joseph Sousa Anthony Foster Dial 2-4251 You furnish the house -We furnish the home NEYM AN FURN ITURE CO. Complete Home Furnishers Represented by Manuel Jardine Antho ny Sousa John Sousa Louis Perry 193-199 Middlesex St. Lowell, Mass. Tel. 20921 SPINN EY'S GARA GE 340 CENTR AL ST. Opp. Gates Theatr e Storage and Repairing Towing Open Day and Night �St. cAntbony's Parish LOWELL, MASS. + + + BEST The initial steps, to have a Portuguese Parish in Lowell, were taken in 1901 by a group of Pioneer members of the Portuguese colony with the aid of Rev. Anthony J. Pimentel, then of Boston, now of East Cambridge. Our first church of Saint Anthony was dedicated on May 19, 1901. It was located at the corner of Gorham and Congress Streets. WISHES from New Bedford Men's Council In January, 1902, Rev. Joaquim V. Rosa came as our first pastor. Under his hard work the present St. Anthony's Church was dedicated to God, on May 30, 1908. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Henrique J. R. da Silva succeeded Fr. Rosa in 1911. Portuguese-American Civic League Since July 2, 1924 our Parish has been under the care of our present Pastor, Rev. Joseph T. T. Grillo. Under his watchful care the embellishment of the Church and its surroundings became a real fact as also Saint Anthony's momument, commemorating the seventh centenary Jubilee of our Patron. Sodalities of the church include Daughters of Mary, St. Vincent de Paul, Holy Name, Holy Rosary, Drum Corps, Mothers' Aid. ! Compliments of PORTUGUESE-AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE Lawrence Ladies' Council OFFICERS Pres.-Mrs. Ezilda Cunha Vice Pres.-Miss Mary R. Silva Sec.-Miss Philomena Joaquin Fin.-Sec.-Miss Delia Cunha Treas.-Mrs. Olive Rosa Board of Directors Miss Christine Roderigues Miss Ezilda Cardoza Miss Mary Ann Lima Marshal-Miss Madeline Sears Inside Guard-Miss Adeline Roderigues State Directors Miss Ezilda Cunha Miss Delia Cunha Complim ents of PORTUGUESE-AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE Somerville and Cambridge Ladies' Council Pres.-Mrs. Evelyn Gonsalves Vice Pres.-Mrs. Noemi Aguiar Rec. Sec.-Miss Florence Medeiros Corr. Sec.-Mrs. Louise Furtado Fin.-Sec.-Mrs. Louise Camara Treas.-Mrs. Bemvinda Belmonte Ritual Officer-Mrs. Beatrice Goulart Master of Ceremonies-Miss Lucy Godinho Vigilante-Mrs. Jesuina Reis Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Directors Evelyn Saraiva Deolinda Sousa Mary Gonsalves Etelvina Silva Margaret Rocha Stale Directors Mrs. Stella Medeiros Miss Evelyn Gonsalves Masses on Sundays take place at 7.30, 9.00 and 11.30. On Holy Days of Obligation at 5.00 and 7.30. On week days at 7.30. Sunday School after the 9.00 o'clock Mass. Devotions to Owr Lord every Sunday evening, except in Summer, at 7.00 P.M. Devotions to Blessed Mother every Friday evening, except in Summer, at 7.30. Advanced Bible History every Monday afternoon at 4.15 except in Summer. Confessions: All Saturdays, days before Holy Days of Obligation and Thursdays before first Fridays, from 3.30 to 6.00 and 7.30 to 9.00 P. M. Monthly Communions: First Sunday of the Month, School Girls. Second Sunday of the Month, School Boys. Third Sunday of the Month, Holy Rosary. Fourth Sunday of the Month, Daughters of Mary. Quarterly Communion for the Holy Name: first Sundays of January, April, July and October. Baptisms: At 3.00 and 7.00 P. M. on Saturdays. Otherwise by appointment. Meetings of Sodalities: Rosary and Daughters of Mary after devotions the Friday before their Communion Sunday. After devotions Holy Name; after devotions of first Sunday of the month. Saint Vincent de Paul; after the last Mass every Sunday except the Summer months. Office hours: 1-2 and 6-8 P. M. except Sundays. �Portuguese-American C:ivic League OF MASSACHUSETTS DINE and DANCE Choice Liquors and Food First Supreme President Lowell 53 5 Merrimack St. Dial 2-8202 ANTHONY MEDINA, Prop. Compliments of International Baking Co. Lowell, Mass. 183 Gorham Street William Ii. Andrew Compli-m ents of COLE'S INN & HOTEL Lowell's Most Modern Hotel Garage Connections Former District Attorney of Middlesex County �Portuguese-American [ivic League OF MASSACHUSETTS Compliments of Compliments of Supreme Officers NEW BEDFORD P.A. C. L. TAUNTON COUNCIL LADIES' COUNCIL P.A. C. L. "May The Spirit N ever Die." President - - ALBERT M. GONSALVES Compliments of Fairhaven Compliments of DIGHTON LADIES' - First Vice Pres. - JEFFREY VASCONCELLOS Lawrence PORTUGUESE-AMERICAN COUNCIL CIVIC LEAGUE Segregansett PORTUGUESE-AMERICAN WESTPORT COUNCIL AUGUST; P. WHITE Second Vice Pres. Third Vice Pres. CIVIC LEAGUE - - LAWREN CE M. CABRAL Somerville Secretary ANTHONY B. SEARS South Dartmouth Treasurer CHARLES A. BERRY Taunton �I" Program Compliments of - SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1941 Compliments of REGISTRATION SOMERSET 12 Noon to 7:30 P. M. at Convention Headquarters 59 Charles Street. FALMOUTH COUNCIL MEN'S AND LADIES' P.A. C. L. REGISTRATION COUNCIL 7:30 P. M. to 12 Midnight at Lowell Memorial Auditorium. BALL 8 P. M. to 12 Midnight at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1941 HIGH MASS 10 A. M. at St. Anthony's Church, Central Street. PARADE 1 P. M. South Common, Highland Street. BANQUET 6 P. M. Lowell Memorial Auditorium. PORTUGUESE-AMERICAN Compliments of ENTERTAINMENT AND DRILL After Banquet until 11:30 P. M. CIVIC LEAGUE WOMEN'S COUNCIL PORTUGUESE-AMERICAN CIVIC CLUB OF PROVINCETOWN, MASS. Ta1111fo11 Men's Council FROLIC 12 Midnight at Convention Headquarters. REGISTRATION All day at Convention Headquarters. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1941 CONVENTION MEETING 9 A. M. Liberty Hall. �Comprimentos da Portuguese Convention Committees Sociedade de Nossa Senhora d'Ajuda EXECUTIVE CONVENTION COMMITTEE Presidente-Constantina Freitas Sec. Correspondente-Maria Rodrigues Vice-Pres.-Angelina Mello Recebedoura-Julia Goncalves Sec. das Actas-Elvira Neves T esoureira-Maria S. S. Caldeira Sec. Fin.-Philomena Coimbra, Zelta Correia, Hermina Freitas New England Coke Quinn's Premium Coal JOHN P. QUINN 937 Gorham St. Lowell Tel. 8440-.8 449 Success to P. A. C. L. St. Anthony's Portuguese Benevolent Society - - - of Lowell, Massachusetts - - - Co-Chairmen: MRs. DEOLINDA M. MELLO, ANTHONY P1cANSO Secretary, MRs. ANGELINA S. MELLO Secretary, Miss MARGARET D. SouzA Treasurer, MANUEL BETTENCOURT CO-CHAIRMEN AND MEMBERS OF CONVENTION COMMITTEE RECEPTION-Mrs. Mary P. Braga, and Manuel Santos, co-chairmen; Mrs. Annibal L. Sousa, Anthony G. Caldeira, Dr. Fausto M. Lage, Richard Perry. PROGRAM-Manuel Souza, Thomas Furtado, co-chairmen; Mrs. Gertrude B. Rebello, Mrs. Natalie Ramalho, John M. Gallego, Daniel Silva, John S. Pitta, Anthony C. Sousa, Anthony DeSilva, Alfred Andrews, John M. Souza, Manuel Jardine, Manuel E. Sousa. BALL-Mrs. Elvira Neves, Mr. George Mell,o, co-chairmen; Mary Esther Braga, Olive Silva, Angelina Mello, Mrs. Palmira Ramalho, Anita Braga, Frances Bettencourt, Mary Rodrigues, Anna Rodrigues, Alvarine Souza, Estella Souza, John Perry, Arthur Braga, Manuel Ramalho, Elsie Raymond, Joseph Raymond. BANQUET-Mrs. Mary S. Caldeira and Mr. Annibal L. Sousa, co-chairmen; 1.ino Picanso, Jessie M. Santos, Agostinho Numes, Anthony G. Caldeira, Manuel Bettencourt, Jr. CREDENTIALS-Frances Perry and Mrs. Mary Silva, co-chairmen; Manuel B. Silva, Alda Freitas. PARADE-Henry P. Machado and John M. Rebello, co-chairmen; Mrs. Natalie Ramalho, John C. Avila, Manuel Bettencourt, Manuel Innocencio, Manuel Cunha. PUBLICITY-Joseph M. Sousa. Incorporated 1895 DECORATIONS-Manuel G. Jardine. ENTERTAINMENT-Manuel F. Braga, Jr. Hous1NG-Mrs. Teresa Silva and Manuel E. Sousa, co-chairmen; Miss Anna Braga, Miss Florence Coimara, Manuel Costa, Joseph Ramalho. Congratulations to P. A. C. L. HIGHLAND HOTEL Inc. 5 3 o Middlesex St. Wine Lowell Liquors TOM BOYLE, Jr., Prop. Food RAFFLE-Miss Charlotte Silva, Miss Philomena Coimbra, Agostinho Nunes, Manuel Ramalho. REFRESHMENTs-Tebert Mello and Manuel S. Neves, co-chairmen; Mrs. Senhorina Dejesus, Mrs. Mary Rocha, Mrs. Mary Rodriques, Mrs. Mary P. Machado, John Bettencourt, Manuel P. Camacho, Simao Camara, Joseph Costados Anjos, Agostinho Fernandes, Francisco Silveira, Joseph Dejesus, Carlos Viera, Antonio Sequeira, John Viera, John B. Gomes, Manuel Picanso, Manuel Garcia, Manuel Jardine, Manuel lnnocencio, James Andrews, Manuel Ramos, Foster Braga, Manuel S. Bettencourt, Joseph Roderiques. �CHET'S LUNCH Jnrtugurnr-Amrriran Otittir 1£.eagur "A tray full for a trifle" nf .fflaaaar~uadt!:i The ideal eating place - -- Delightful surroundings 277-279 Middlesex St.-Lowell President Vice-President Treasurer Compliments of Mrs. Deolinda Mello Rec. Secretary Mrs. Angelina Mello Anthony Picanso Fin. Secretary Margaret D. Sousa Manuel Bettencourt Manuel Garcia Vigilante Master of Ceremonies George Mello Co-Chairmen of the Convention Committee BEST WISHES FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION BENNETT SILVERBLATT Attorney DEOLINDA M. MELLO ANTHONY P1cANSO Co-Chairman Co-Chairman Compliments of Board of Directors Chairman Annibal Sousa Secretary Thomas J. Ft:rtado Mrs. Vera Neves Manuel Santos Mrs. Mary Caldeira Manuel Souza State Directors LOWELL Thomas J. Furtado Anthony Picanso �• I • A Real Good Place to Eat Compliments of IDEAL LUNCH St. Joseph Portuguese Benefit Association Opposite City Hall ( lncorpora ted on March 1 5, 1916 ) PETER MOSHOVITIS, Prop. P. 0. BOX 55 - - - - - - - LOWELL, MASS. Compliments of GRAY FURNITURE CO. 231 Central St. Lowell Telephone 6771 .. Compliments from . . . JOSEPH F. PILATO ANGELINA MELLO -CHEVROLETPOST OFFICE GARAGE, Recording Secretary D. SOUSA Financial Secretary MARGARET INC. Lowell, Mass. Compliments of Compliments of MARTIN SILVA Paperhanging - - Kalsomining LOWELL CHELMSFORD DAIRIES Fresh Milk from Nearby Farms Tel. 3-0473 George Bou,dre~u, Prop. 20 Stewart St. Lowell �_. Compliments from Compliments of Dr. P. Victor Brunelle 24 Merrimack St. AL MELLO Lowell ComjJliments from BLUE ROOM NEW AMERICAN HOUSE 13 6 Central St. - Lowell Phone 2-823 5 .. Compliments of MARTY'S CAFE Martin H. O'Connor, Prop. Lincoln Square MAR y CALDIERA ANNJBAL SousA Co-Chairman Banquet Committee Co-Chairman Banquet Committee Chelmsford St. CHELMSFORD FUEL CO. Compliments of Dealers In COAL COKE - RANGE OIL 542 Chelmsford St. Lowell LOWELL,----MASSACHUSETTS Tel. 25011 BETTENCOURT BROS. �Best Wishes to the LOWELL COUNCIL , P.A.C.L. Compliments of From CHARLES A. FRATES 265 County St. Funeral Director New Bedford WELCOME DELEGATES Dutch land Tea Room 124 Merrimack St. Lowell, Mass. Specialising in Steaks, Chicken and Chops . . Compliments of 1£nmrll ilnuumrut OJn. VERA NEVES GEORGE MELLO Co-Chairman Ball Committee Co-Chairman Ball Committee 1060 Gorham St. Complime11ts of HUB HOSIERY MILLS 12 PERKINS ST. LOWELL LOWELL �Compliments of .. BEST WISHES of Bernie AND HIS JOHNNIE'S CAFE, INC. cfarkin 367-369 CENTRAL ST. LOWELL ORCHESTRA Floor Show every Friday and Saturday Compliments of P. A. M. A. BOYS Portuguese-American Musical Association Central St. - Lowell, Mass. .. Compliments of CENTRAL CAFE MANUEL Corner of THOMAS FURTADO SOUZA Co-Chairman Program Committee Co-Chairman Program Committee CHARLES and CENTRAL John Souza, Prop. Compliments of Compliments of PIONEER QUALITY MARKET D. SILVA, Prop. 189 Gorham St. ,1 CITY COUNCILLOR OF WARD 4 Lowell �.. Compliments of of LUZITANIA BAKERY Bread - COMPLIMENTS UNITED CLOAK & SUIT CO. HARRY IBASS, INC. All Kinds of Pastry Birthday Cakes WEDDING CAKES A SPECIAL TY Albino Brito, Prop. 434 Centr.11 St. 117 to 129 Central St., Lowell Tel. 2-8807 Tel. 3-1641 Comprimentos de Dr. Fausto Lage Compliments New System Laundry MANUEL G. JARDINE Decoration Chairman Lowell 2 8 5 Thorndike St. CHARLOTTE SILVA MANUEL NEVES Co-Chairman Drawing Committee Co-Chairman Refreshm ent Committee COMPLETE FAMILY SER VICE Arthu:r S. Nesmith, Inc. OIL AND ICE 81-9 5 East Merrimack St. Delivered to Your Home PONTIAC EDWARD TRAVERS Parts - - - Sales-- Service 58 Corbett St. Lowell 9329 Dial 29662 �Compliments of . . . COLE'S INN & HOTEL - - Lowell's Leading Hotel - - Father In the heart of Lowell RESTAURAN T and BAR Phone Lowell 7040 - 6930 Opera House Pharmacy John B. Kirwin, Reg. Pharmacist, Mgr. 3 8 9 Central St. Lowell Best Wishes to the Lowell Council -VISIT- PICANSO'S CAFE DINE and DANCE 3 5 Summer St. Lowell, Mass. Compliments of MARY MELLO & CO. 393 Norfolk St. Cambridge, Mass. Telephone Trowbridge 2258 Manufacturers of LINGUICA - - CHOURICO - - MORCELLA Orders large or small sent anywhere J T T [jrillo REV. JOSEPH THOMAS T. GRILLO, son of the late Jacintho da Costa Teixeira Grillo, and Maria do Rosario Cassador, was born on July 2, 18 8 5, in Ribeira Grande, Saint Michael, Azores, where he frequented primary school. On the I 5th of March, 1900 he embarked for the Unitd States of America. Lived in Berlin and Hudson, Mass.; as farmer, shoe cutter, rubber worker and clerk, until September 16, 1911, when he entered Saint Charles College for his preparatory course. On September, 1916, entered Saint Bonaventure at Alleghany, N.Y. for philosophy. On September, 1919 began the theology course at Saint John's Ecclesiastical Seminary from where he was ordained by His Eminence William Cardinal O'Connell on June 20, 1923. His first Solemn Mass was celebrated at St. Michael's Church, Hudson, Mass., on June 24, 1923. His first appointment was as assistant to Saint Joseph's Parish, Kingston, Mass., from June 28 to October 8, 1923, when he was appointed assistant to Right Reverend Henry J. R. da Silva, Pastor of Saint Anthony's Church, Lowell, till July 2, 1924. Since then he was in charge of Saint Anthony's Parish as Locum Tenens till December 28, 1938, when he was made pastor by His Eminence the Cardinal. He terment God and comes in has ever shown his great interest in the uplifting and betof all confided to his care, and his zeal for the House of salvation of souls is ever an inspiraticn to all with whom he contact. �SCRIPTURE'S LAUNDRY 256 Lawrence Street, Lowell, Mass. Dry Cleaning and Family Work a Specialty Coat, Apron and Barbers' Towel Supply Established 1876 Tel. 7562-7561 Complimmts of • t Madeiran Alliance Protective nearly half a century mutual admiration has existed between the Portuguese-American people of Lowell and Association, Inc. our firm. Founded Incorporated June 18, 1911 October 10, 1913 We extend Our Greetings to the Convention. M. H. MclJONOUGH SONS Modern Funeral Home ~8011..Jltardie Conveniently Located at Department Store 14 HIGHLAND STREET •Merchandise of MERIT onlY• Phone 6816 LOWELL DIAL 6361 . . �• • Best Wishes From The LA\\7RENCE MEN'S COUNCIL OF THE P.A. C. L. ALVARO SA. GAIOLAS _________________________________________President LOUIS SILVA -------------------------------------------------- Vice Presde nt JOHN SILVA ------------------------------------------- Business Secretary JEFFREY VASCONCELOS ._________ Civic and Social Secretary MANUEL MENDOSSA ----------------------------------------- Treasurer JOHN B. SEARS ____ --------------------------------------------------- Receiver ANTONIO P. COSTA __________________________________ --- --- Marshall Portug·uese [olonial Band Inc. 59 I JOSEPH CUNHA ------------------------------------------ Inside Guard Manuel M. Sousa Manuel Rosa Michael Silva John Rosa Manuel Coelho I Board of Directors Joseph F. Cunha Manuel M. Sousa John E. Sears Manuel Rosa M. Fred Silva CHARLES STREET LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS BU1·td·mg T t rus ees Compliments of JOSEPH A. COSTA & SONS Undertakers and Embalmers Compliments of TROwbridge 0400 - - KIRkland 0400 MANUEL SANTOS Cambridge, Mass. 2 57 Prospect Street WITH NEWMAN'S Lowell's Finest Store for Men and Boys Compliments of 227 CENTRAL ST. FALL RIVER LADIES' COUNCIL FEEL LIKE A NEW MAN WITH A SUIT FROM NEWMAN'S Portuguese-American Civic League ., . �" LOWELL ACADEMY OF HAIRDRESSING Lowell 97 Central St. Teaching the latest in Beauty Culture and Electrolysis Comprimentos da Compliments of OLD "66" Sociedade "D. Maria Amelia" 110-112 GORHAM ST. das P. ]. Hannigan, Treas. DAMAS PORTUGUESAS de "We lead, others follow" LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS JOSEF'S BEAUTY SALON of MRS. JESUINHA PITTA MRS. MARIA C. RODRIGUES Presidente Vice-Presidente Compliments of MARREN CAFE 143 Gorham St. Individual Hair Designing 502 HILDRETH BLDG. Where your grandfather-father and you trade. Dial 6331 JAMES KOUSAITES, Mgr. Secretaria MRS. CECILIA MENDES Sec. Correspondente MISS LA URA PIMENTEL MRS. MARY R. SILVA Recebedoura Tesoureira ' MRS. GERTRUDE B. REBELLO . CONTAKOS CAFE Compliments of PORTUGUESE - AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC CLUB Good Food Best Wishes for a Successful Convention Good Liquors Good Service 416-418 Suffolk St. from Lowell Andrews Oil Tel. 28421 ALFRED ANDREWS We enjoy serving you Compliments of GAGNON'S YELLOW CAB CO. DIAL 8777 at the railroad station Lowell Lowell 85 Seneca Street Dial 2-2602 ' �It Welcome to Lowell Compliments from a member of CHARLES PICANSO MANUEL E. SANTOS FUNERAL HOME CENTRAL LUNCH Co-m pliments of 8 33 Central St. 346 Central St. Lowell Tel. 2-7902 Lowell LYNCH WALL PAPE;R AND PAINT CO. Jobbers and Distributors of W ALLP APER-PAINTS Union Progressive [)uh Tel. 8124 JOE'S CENTRAL SER VICE Joseph v:eira, Prop. GENERAL REP AIRING On All Makes of Cars VARNISHES ,i Specializing in Chrysler Products 22 8 Suffolk Stre~t, at Broadway Lowell Dial 9841 Compliments of Lowell 2 5 George St. Td. Lowell 3-2801 H. R. GOURLEY MERRIMACK HOTEL 3 5 8 BOYLSTON ST. Special Rates by the Week Lowell, Mass. Cocktail Lounge Milk - Cream - Buttermilk 44 5 Middlesex St. Tel. 3-0982 (at Depot) Lowell, Mass. 2-8706 FRANKLIN LUNCH CHARLES C. SCHLOSS, Prop. JAMES & COMPANY Clothing, Cleaning, Pressing Oj,p. Boston f:J Maine Depot 463 MIDDLESEX ST. Lowell WASHINGTON SAVINGS INSTITUTION 50 .Middlesex Street 299 Middlesex St. Lowell All deposits guaranteed under the laws of the Commonwealth. �The Friendly CANDYLAND DEPOT DINER TEA ROOM and RESTAURANT 25 W. Jackson St.-Lowell The only air-conditioned restaurant in Lowell Home Cooking Delicious Coffee Bring the family C. R. GARLAND, Prop. KING'S, Inc. 131 Central St. Special Menus Good Food Reasonable Prices 173 CENTRAL STREET Lowell, Mass. Established 1906 Tel. 7481 A. A. SMITH & CO. Lowell, Mass. Machine Repair Service Machine Rental Service "Your credit is aces at King's" Desks Typewriters Stands Adding Machines Duplicating Machines New and Used Filing Equipment Radios-Refrigerators-Washers Electrical Appliances Records LOWELL'S FINEST EATING PLACE 249 Central St. - SEATS 500 41 KEARNEY SQUARE Lowell EPICURE Lowell's Finest BILL MELANSON TEA ROOM and RESTAURANT FRIENDLY CAFE Tel. 20401 DINE and DANCE Corner of Central and Market Sts. Middlesex Sc. Compliments of Lowell Portuguese-A.merican [ivic League LOWELL COUNCIL NUMBER I FARM SERVICE GRAIN co. LOWELL J. F. Crowley, Mgr. Tel. 6877-6878 CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Com plimenfs of King and Jackson Sts. DR. CHESTER LAPNIEWSKI J. �Compliments of REVERE CASH MARKET Manuel Gomes, Prop. Compliments of the WALTER'S CAFE QUALITY MEATS and POULTRY Justin G. Mickols, Prop. 295 Middlesex St. 3 94 Lawrence St. l 104 Middlesex Street - ' Tel. Lowell 3-3 571 Tel. 6811 5 34 Merrimack Street-Tel. 2-3441 I LOWELL Middlesex Supply Co. Lowell, Mass. Compliments of OPERA CAFE John 415 Lawrence St. I BEER - Dance 'till One Tel. 2-8224 Lucas Paints - iI GARDEN FURNITURE Lowell Reading Hardware - Hotpoint Refrigerators Best Wishes I Marble and Granite Monuments National Heating Boilers Maytag Washing Machines BILLERICA MOTOR SALES LUZ BROS. Humphrey's Enamelware Youngstown Steel Kitchens LIQUORS Lowell 1122 Gorham St. Armstrong Linoleum - J, J. Sarnowski, Prop. 60 Charles St. Distributors of 1 COLONIAL CAFE Authorized Dealers Ford - Mercury - of Lincoln Billerica A. C. Sousa, Jr. MEATS - GROCERIES - HOGAN'S BAKERY PROVISIONS POST OFFICE GARAGE, INC. I. Cakes - Pies - Irish Bread Lowell 3 81 Central Street WEDDING AND BIRTHDAY CAKES A SPECIALITY Tel. 7871 91 Appleton St. LOWELL 781 Central St. Lowell I I I �Compliments SILVA BROS. of Painting and Decorating Interior-Exterior Paperhanging-Kalsom ining LOWELL SODA & SPRING WATER CO. Done by expert men 60 5 Merrimack St. 360 CHELMSFORD ST. Lowell Lowell Dial 29711 Compliments of BOSTON HAT & CAP SHOP MELLO AND SON Gulf Products Lowell's only store where they make their own hats and caps Range Oil PARROT HAT BRICK KILN RD. East Chelmsford, Mass. 2-3738 Tel. POLLABDS £owell's Biggest Best and Busiest {J)epartme nt Store_; 94 Middlesex St., Lowell S. Glazer, Prop. MERRIMACK. PALMER and MIDDLE STREETS Varnishes Paints ARADIS BEAUTIFY PRINTING CO. YOUR HOME LOWELL WALL PAPER CO. Compliments of Dial 7768 Dial 29721 17 MARKET ST. LOWELL 9 J. S. PITTO Lowell, Mass. NORTH ST. GROCERIES SACKLEY STUDIO FOR YOUR GLASSES See Lowell's Leading Photographer DRS. CASWELL & DINNEEN 3 52 Merrimack St., Lowell 143 MERRIMACK ST. Tel. 2-7921 Lowell Lowell 463 Central Street Tel.2-5811 �Compliments Compliments of o,f JOHN F. SILVA M. SHARKEY 3 8 8 Central St. Insurance and Real Estate Lowell Shoe Fix Tel. 2-6856 Best Wishes 219 CENTRAL ST. Corner Jackson St. Compliments Compliments of of STAR BARBER SHOP CHARLES GOULD 215 Gorham St. 39 Powell St. Lowell Lowell Tel. 32921 from SOUTH END TAILORS LEWIS S. SANDLER Plumbing and Heating Contractor Agents for AND CLEANERS 196 Gorham St. Lowell American Radiator Products Lowell 39 Powell St. J. de Paulis, Mgr. Towers Motor Parts Corporation LOWELL LAWRENCE Compliments JOHN GONSALVES of Painting and Decorating WALSH BROS., FLORISTS Greenhouses, 161 Highland Ave. Lowell Dial 57 8 5 "Say It With Flowers" Papering and Kalsomining 10 Abbott St. Lowell Dial 2-2 840 NASHUA, N. H. �t MELLO UPHOLSTERING CO. Parlor Suites Recovered JOE MAJEWSKI 1 Furniture Repaired Estimates Given Compliments from EXPERT SHU-FIX Compliments of USED SHOES and MAGAZINES SEXTON'S CAFE 49 WAMESIT ST. INTERNATIONAL BAKERY 83 Gorham St. Lowell Dial 2-7617 CHARLES SANTOS GREGORY CAMACHO GORHAM Wholesale BEAUTY SHOP CONTRACTOR Cement and Concrete Work Fireplaces a Speciality Dial 3-275 3 BEEF, PORK AND VEAL SAUNDERS MARKET Cut Meats of All Kinds Lowell's Own Super Market 155-161 GORHAM ST. COR. JACKSON and KING STS. Ex pert Beauty Services 13 8 Gorham St. Lowell Tel. 8754 8755 PERMANENT WA YING Lowell Phone 2-2371 We Call for and Deliver Dial 2-2574 THE FASHION TAILOR MAX POPPEL, Prop. Cleaning, Pressing, Dyeing and Repairing. Fur Repairing and Glazing Compliments of C. H. HOBSON & SON Compliments of 489 GORHAM ST. JOSEPH M. BETTENCOURT LOWELL Somerville, Mass. THE CHILDREN'S SHOP Outfitters for Infants and Children Suits Made to, Order 67 Central St. 886 Central Street-Lowell Across from St. Anthony's Church HASSAN'S VARIETY STORE Compliments of HARRY HEALEY Compliments of BOTTLED LIQUORS BOSTON OPERA MARKET 463 GORHAM ST. Cigars - Sodas - Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Candy 103 GORHAM ST. Magazines Lowell ,, M. Martin, Mgr. FRANK CASELLE BARBER SHOP Real Estate Bought and Sold 560 Central St. Lowell, Mass. j ' �T L A FRIEND u u C JOHN J. DO HERTY & CO. WORTHMORE FARMS A Name to Remember in buying DAIRY I R C E 0 STUDIO COUCHES, N T T MATTRESSES, BOX SPRINGS F. E and CHAIRS 12 Hale St., Lowell MILK AND CREAM Chelmsford Tel. 3-2211 Dial 2-4376 RETAIL PACKAGE STORE LAWRENCE at ROGERS Telephone MOODY CASH MARKET Groceries - Meats Fish and Vegetables 248 Moody St. Lowell LOWELL ST. 3·3371 The CHALIFOUX BUILDING HOFFMAN'S BONCZAR MARKET FLORIST SHOP 191 CENTRAL ST. Fresh Cut Flowers For All Occasions Funeral Designs and Wedding Bouquets a Speciality at lowest prices in the city MEATS - GROCERIES - FRUITS Lowell's Children's Shop 24 Merrimack St. 421-423 Central St. Smart School Clothes Dial 2-8218 Lowell "Say It With Flowers" W. E. PORTER SNAY'S REALTY CO. Successor to John A. McEvoy OPTOMETRIST 2 King St. LOWELL Dial 2-7939 SEARS DAIRY CITY INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS MILK AND CREAM 200 CENTRAL ST. Produced on our Farm Lowell, Mass. Eyes Examined-Glasses Repaired 68 Merrimack St. Lowell 13 2 MARSHALL ST. "Your future plans should include a Savings Acc01mt" E. Chelmsford Dial 2-4977 Tel. 1798 THOMAS A. SHEAHAN, Inc. JOHN T. GORMAN General Insurance Appleton Bank Building Tel. 30761 CHERRY & WEBB CO. Northern New England's Finest Store for MISSES - WOMEN - CHILDREN Package Liquor Store Liquors - Wines - Beer ST. THERESE CHOIR Of the All popular brands HOLY TRINITY POLISH 3 GALLAGHER SQUARE Dial 2-9431 CATHOLIC CHURCH �Welcome Delegates! Delegates, friends we welcome you To spend with us these days too few May you feel that here in Lowelltown A bit of happiness you've found. REVERE We hope when you leave on Monday eve Your hearts will just a little grieve, But we thank you for the bit of cheer That you will leave behind you here. Home of Greyhound Racing Presents Its Fall Meeting SEPTEMBER 22 To OCTOBER 30, Inclusive America's most famous racing greyhounds, including all of the Florida champions will perform nightly excepting Sundays. M. GALLAGHER, SHELDON H. Bring to our shores your smiling face · Perfume our air with Christian grace United we'll pledge eternally Our all, for God and His country. President FAIRBANKS, ERNEST W. Portuguese hearts have known woe before, Yet Portuguese lips have smiled once more And America needs our smiles, today, As we travel along on life's dark way. Welcome ye sons of a noble race Whose footsteps were the first to trace Their way upon American sod And claim this land in the name of God. Under the sponsorship of the Re1:ere Racing Association, Inc. EDw ARD We're passing now through troubled days Our hearts may not be gay always But together we'll build a source of strength To serve for future encouragement. Vice President SoucY, Treasurer ADNAH NEYHART, GEORGE Assistant Treasurer C. FUNK, Manager �' ' reelingo to the members of thv PORTUGUESE-AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE THE BREWERS OF ALE · EXPORT BEER CLIPPER ALE · POR ER HARVARD BREWING co.# LOWELL# MASS. $tll.LIVAN BltOS ~ PRlNTEP:S � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saint Anthony's Church Archives [1902-2014] Subject The topic of the resource Catholic Church--Dioceses Acolytes Altars Azorean Americans Balls (parties) Boy Scouts Catholic Church--Societies, etc. Choirs (Music) Christmas Church group work with youth--Catholic Church City council members Fasts and Feasts First Confession and Communion Folk dancing, Portuguese Girl Scouts Instrumentation and orchestration (Band) Loreto, Our Lady Of Music--Portuguese influences Musicians Nuns Police Portuguese American women Processions, Religious--Catholic Church Priests Religious gatherings Snow Veterans Wedding photography Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archives at St. Anthony's Church in Lowell, MA. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lowell (Mass.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1902-1943 Description An account of the resource This collection of items come from the Archives held at Saint Anthony's Church in Lowell, MA. These items are kept in the Rectory and were organized by PADA archivists in 2021.<br /><br /><strong>Historical Overview:</strong> <p><span>For over two decades beginning in the 1870s, when Portuguese immigration to Lowell began to rise, most of the city’s Portuguese Catholics worshipped at St. Peter’s Church, a largely Irish and Irish-American parish. By the late 1890s the pastor of St. Peter’s arranged for Rev. Antonio J. Pimentel, of Boston and originally from Terceira in the Azores, to hold services for the Portuguese in a hall across the street from the church. With the Portuguese population approaching 1,000, a number of influential community members, notably Manuel P. Mello (1867-1938), from Graciosa, sought to establish their own parish. Rev. John Joseph Williams, Archbishop of Boston, supported this effort. Aided by Rev. Pimentel, Mello formed a committee, and, in 1900, began raising money for a church. One year later the committee had collected sufficient funds to purchase the abandoned Primitive Methodist Church, a wood-frame building on Gorham Street, built thirty years earlier. Dedicated on May 19, 1901, St. Anthony’s Church opened with Rev. Manuel C. Terra, the well-known pastor of St. Peter’s Church in Provincetown, celebrating the first High Mass with several hundred parishioners in attendance.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In early 1902, Archbishop Williams appointed Joaquim V. Rosa as pastor at St. Anthony’s. Born on the island of Pico, Joaquim Vieira da Rosa (1872-1964) immigrated to the United States in 1896 and for several years he assisted the pastor at St. John’s Church in New Bedford. Rev. Rosa celebrated his first Mass at St. Anthony’s in January, 1902. </span><span> </span></p> <p><span>Soon after taking charge of St. Anthony’s, Rev. Rosa established or supported the creation of a number of parish organizations. This included the long-lived Holy Rosary Sodality and the Holy Ghost Society. In addition to his clerical duties, he also led numerous fund-raising programs. Father Rosa also ministered to Lawrence’s Portuguese and helped found that city’s Portuguese Catholic Church. </span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1904, Archbishop Williams assigned Rev. Paul L. Despouy to assist Father Rosa at St. Anthony’s and to lead in establishing a Portuguese parish in Lawrence. At the same time Lowell’s growing number of Portuguese parishioners strained the capacity of the old wooden structure on Gorham Street and the search for a new church began. Once again, Manuel P. Mello played a major role in raising funds. Within two years, he and other parishioners had collected enough money to acquire land on Central Street across from the Lyon Street public school. </span><span> </span></p> <p><span>With the purchase of property, Boston-based architect Timothy Edward Sheehan (1866-1933), designer of a number churches for the Archdiocese, executed the design of the new St. Anthony’s. On Thanksgiving Day, 1907, Archbishop William O’Connell presided over the dedication of the laying of the cornerstone.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1908, with construction funds fully expended, only the granite walls and the floor of the basement were completed, and a flat roof was installed over the largely subterranean structure. Nevertheless, in May Father Rosa then celebrated the first Solemn High Mass. Joining him was Father Pimentel, who now led St. Anthony’s parish in Cambridge, Father Despouy, from his mission in Lawrence, and Rev. Manuel C. Terra of Provincetown. Although the rectory next to the church was finished and occupied by Father Rosa in 1908, funds to complete the construction of the highly ornate Mission-style church, following the original architectural design, remained insufficient. For the next 50 years, services continued to be held in the basement structure.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1911 Rev. Rosa, suffering from poor health and fatigue, due in part to his strenuous duties in leading his parishioners, resigned his pastorate and returned to his native Pico. In an action that proved especially fortuitous for the parish Archbishop O’Connell appointed Bishop Henrique Jose Reed da Silva (1854-1930) to lead St. Anthony’s. Bishop da Silva’s life prior to his arrival in Lowell was quite unique.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>Born in Lisbon, where he was educated and ordained a priest in 1879, the charismatic Bishop da Silva, fluent in several languages and a sacred music scholar who possessed a fine musical voice, quickly caught the attention of the Bishop of Portalegre, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jos%C3%A9_Maria_da_Silva_Ferr%C3%A3o_de_Carvalho_M%C3%A1rtens&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1"><span>José Maria da Silva Ferrão de Carvalho Mártens</span></a><span>. In 1884, shortly after turning 30, Rev. da Silva was appointed the prelate of Mozambique and moved to Maputo. Upon his ordination as a bishop, he assumed control of the Maputo archdiocese. Three years later Bishop da Silva took charge of the Diocese of São Tomé of Meliapore in southern India.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>During the bishop’s mission, the assassination of Portugal’s King Carlos and his son, followed by the Republican revolution in 1910, resulted in Bishop da Silva becoming an expatriate. By 1911 he returned to Boston from California and accepted Archbishop O’Connell’s offer to serve as pastor at St. Anthony’s.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1916 the bishop was joined by an assistant pastor, Rev. John S. Perry from St. Peter’s Church in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Father Perry, of Azorean parentage and born in Rhode Island in 1874, quickly formed a close working relationship with the bishop. Although in good health at age 62, Bishop da Silva relied heavily on Rev. Perry for regular sacramental duties and to lead the church during his frequent absences due to his duties on behalf of Cardinal O’Connell.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1924, after being away from his native Portugal for nearly 18 years, and having reached the age of 70, Bishop da Silva quietly decided to retire from St. Anthony’s, return home, and live the remainder of his days in his beloved Lisbon. In his place, Cardinal O’Connell named Rev. Joseph T. Grillo (1885-1948) as pastor of St. Anthony’s. Born on the island of </span><span>São Miguel Father </span><span>Grillo immigrated to the United States in 1899, settling in Hudson, Massachusetts.</span></p> <p><span>Under Rev. Grillo’s leadership, several affiliated organizations were revitalized. This included the Vincent de Paul Society, the Holy Name Society, and the Holy Rosary and Young Ladies sodalities. He undertook the first significant renovation of the church, overseeing the installation of a terrazzo floor, a new brighter sanctuary, complete with new statuary. Father Grillo also re-established the annual day-long picnic for parishioners and their families. In addition, he promoted various church-sponsored athletic programs and teams ranging from soccer, baseball, and basketball to track and field, along with a fife and drum corps. He also intensified various fund raising initiatives including the popular penny sales.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>Throughout much of his pastorate, Father Grillo had no assistant pastor except for one year in the early 1930s when Rev. </span><span>Theophilo Pedro Damiao de Oliveira, from São Miguel served in this role. Finally, in early 1937, in recognition of his devotion and many contributions to St. Anthony’s parish, Rev. Grillo was named permanent pastor by Cardinal O’Connell. During the Second World War, Father Grillo was among Lowell’s leading clergymen heading the War Fund Drive. He was also instrumental in establishing a memorial in 1943 for Private Charles Perry (Carlos Pereira), who was killed in North Africa the previous year and was the first Portuguese-American serviceman from Lowell to give his life for the nation.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In the years after World War II, Father Grillo suffered from poor health that resulted in lengthy hospital stays. In his absence, priests at St. Peter’s, who were Irish-American and spoke no Portuguese, filled in for him. Likely aware of the language difficulties this presented to his parishioners, Father Grillo contacted Bishop Giuseppe Alves Matoso of Guarda, Portugal, and requested that he send priests to New England. The Boston Archdiocese supported this initiative and in March 1947, Rev. João F. da Silva, (anglicized to John F. Silva), arrived in Lowell from Portugal to assist Father Grillo. Within a few months another priest from Portugal, Rev. Manuel J. Cascais, joined Father Silva as a second assistant pastor.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>A few months after celebrating his 25 years in the priesthood, Father Grillo’s health worsened and in November, 1948, he died at the age of 63. </span><span>Rev. John F. Silva succeeded him and began a 30-year tenure as pastor at St. Anthony’s. While Father Grillo led St. Anthony’s parish through the hard times of the Great Depression and during the difficult years of World War II, Rev. Silva assumed control of the church during a period of prosperity for many of his parishioners. In 1958, over a 1,000 attended the 50th anniversary of the church on Central Street. Held at the Lowell Auditorium, the celebration featured speeches by Senator John F. Kennedy and Representative Edith Nourse Rogers. The most significant physical change occurred in 1960 when the superstructure of the church was finally constructed. Boston architect Mario V. Caputo produced the design for St. Anthony’s modeled after a church in Colombia.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>During Father Silva’s pastorate, a number of priests assisted him, including Rev. Joseph L. Capote (1949 to 1950) and Rev. Antonio Pinto (1952 to 1954). In late 1972, Rev. Eusebio Silva, a cousin of Father Silva, arrived from Portugal to serve as his assistant. Father John Silva successfully led opposition to a proposed extension of the Lowell Connector highway that would have obliterated a large part of the parish neighborhood.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 1978, Father Silva retired from the priesthood and Cardinal Humberto Medeiros appointed Rev. Eusebio Silva as administrator of St. Anthony’s. When Father Eusebio assumed the pastorate of St. Anthony’s in Cambridge, Rev. Antonio Pinto was appointed interim priest. During this time, Deacon Richard Rocha also served at Saint Anthony's, starting from his ordination in May 1983. In 1990, Rev. </span><span>José S. Ferreira assumed the leadership of the church and was assisted by the Rev. Ronald Gomes. In 1995, Father Ferreira was transferred to St. Anthony’s in Cambridge, and Rev. Francis M. Glynn, the first non-Portuguese priest of the parish, became pastor. Father Glynn served during a period of a growing Brazilian community in Lowell, but also at the time of a major strike in the city at the Prince Pasta factory, which employed dozens of his parishioners. Father Glynn supported the striking workers and their families, but despite his efforts and many others, including Representative Martin Meehan and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the corporation that owned the plant shut it down. </span><span> </span></p> <p><span>In 2004, following Father Glynn’s assignment to a parish in Waltham, Massachusetts, Rev. Charles J. Hughes, became the pastor at St. Anthony’s. Father Hughes’ tenure proved a challenging time with declining parish membership and church closures in the wake of the numerous clergy sexual abuse cases in the Archdiocese. As with many other parishes, St. Anthony’s had no connection to any of these cases; however, it shared with many other churches increasing financial struggles and a continued drop in membership. Following Father Hughes’ departure in 2016, St. Anthony’s became part of the Lowell Collaborative in which it was joined with Immaculate Conception Church and Holy Trinity Church under the leadership of Rev. Nicholas A. Sannella. This administrative arrangement remains in place with Rev. Deacon Carlos DeSousa serving as a key clergyman at St. Anthony’s. </span></p> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only: This Work has been digitized in a public-private partnership. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG PDF TIFF Language A language of the resource English Portuguese Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Physical Object Text Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 11th Annual Convention, Portuguese American Civic League (1941) Subject The topic of the resource Balls (parties) Portuguese American women Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archives at St. Anthony's Church in Lowell, MA. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1941-08-30 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context StAnthonys_Booklet_011 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lowell (Mass.) Cambridge Council No. 1 Central Cafe Central Street Lunch Colonial Band Dighton Council Dona Maria Amélia Society Fall River Ladies and Men's Council Falmouth Council Joe's Central Service Joseph A. Costa & Sons Lawrence Junior Girls' Baton Team Lawrence Ladies and Mens Council Lusitania Bakery Luz Brothers Monument Madeira Protective Union Mary Mello & Co. Mello Upholstering Service New Bedford Ladies Council New Bedford Mens Council Neyman Furniture Company Nossa Senhora d'Ajuda Society Peabody Council Picanso's Cafe Pioneer Quality Market Plymouth Council Portuguese American Civic League (Lowell, MA) Portuguese American Civic League of Massachusetts Portuguese American Democratic Club Portuguese American Musicians Association Provincetown Council Rehoboth-Seekonk Council Revere Cash Market Saint Anthony's Church (Lowell, MA) Saint Anthony's Portuguese Benevolent Society Saint Joseph's Benefit Association Santos and Sons Wholesale Meats Sears Dairy Silva Bros. Somerset Council Somerville-Cambridge Ladies Council Spinney's Garage Taunton Ladies' Council Taunton Men's Council Westport Council Worthmore Farms https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/42465/archive/files/0aecbcb91806f866ddabd97e610f754c.JPG?Expires=1789603200&Signature=MriEEfM5%7EYU0RFF4IPGFfd13ijJdqPfaHuMrQx4mj9J1Y41FW0YzUesEcUrEVJgQ5VunRxK1G2lUgLz1VNxoJ5yx4jCL-FJZtNR59wWPtQNdSP3Pj2KxzNHXlE0riezyzQNtEOYILYDhYz2MlQxHVQmryOvuep6n3F5oq5AWcwvFMoWqfNE898q1-pE7bJEe44BswRY981kJyFrfcmkaUKUBKygroPej0LsqHrTW0-FeZyN9zA0OEMw8B-3nxK9Pf80smMlzvUJj85RTs9fz3T3ed2G6%7EAWwOuGC9EYc3k4qyh2eAb-xdJD%7ELLp%7EEWCh8Qt4NRFDMPO1Rc9bXVdBPQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 2c12b6873d2761620f3a9e4926cf6599 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Santos Family Collection [1938-1968] Subject The topic of the resource Postmasters--United States Portuguese American women First Confession and Communion Education Graduation (school) Wedding photography School photography Basketball teams Baseball teams Marching bands Veterans World War, 1939-1945 United States. Marine Corps. Marine Division, 3rd Military sketching United States. Navy. Wedding attendants Meat industry and trade Proms Politicians Religious gatherings New Year Hunting Antique and classic cars Priests Post office buildings Fairs Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital scans donated from the collection of Patricia Santos Nickles. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1938-1968 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Santos Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lowell (Mass.) Andover (Mass.) Boston (Mass.) Description An account of the resource This collection contains images related to the Santos family, who lived in Lowell, MA. There are 101 items, dating from 1905-1972, that focus on the life of Charles Santos Jr.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note:</strong><br /><p>Charles R. Santos Sr. (1901-1964) was born to a Portuguese immigrant family on Charles Street in Lowell. His father, Alberto (Albert) Santos, was born in the Azores (likely on the island of Graciosa) and married Aldina Silva, his mother. Charles Sr. attended Lowell public schools but left upon completing elementary school. He married Mary Farley of Lowell (1903-1939) who was of Irish-Catholic heritage. He worked for a few years in a small foundry in the Ayer’s City section of Lowell and purchased a house near the foundry on 32 Marriner Street. After his employment as a meat department manager at Saunders Market on Gorham St. in Lowell, he began a successful family-run wholesale meat company, Charles Santos &amp; Sons Inc. <br /><br />As the first of Charles Sr.'s seven children (two girls and five boys), Charles R. Santos Jr. (1923-1990) was born in Lowell and educated in Lowell public schools. He graduated from Lowell High School in 1940 and worked briefly as a welder at the Charlestown (Massachusetts) Navy Yard. During WWII, he left to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps in the South Pacific. After sustaining combat injuries related to his participation in the liberation of Guam, he returned to Lowell, graduated from Northeastern University, and worked as manager/president in the family meat business. During this time, in the 1950’s, Santos became involved in local Democratic politics, working as a campaign treasurer for the campaign of Attorney James L. O’Dea for District Attorney of Middlesex County, and then for John F. Kennedy’s Senatorial and Presidential campaigns. From 1962-1967, he was employed with General Services Administration as a liaison officer for the federal government. He was appointed U.S. Postmaster of Lowell in 1967, serving in this position for 12 years before receiving a promotion in 1979 to District Manager. of Middlesex-Essex, Massachusetts. He concluded his career with promotions to District Manager/Postmaster of Honolulu and the Pacific Region (1981), and then to District Manager of the Boston District (New England States) in 1983, before his retirement in 1986. His daughter, Patricia [Santos] Nickles, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1950. Her mother, Ruth E. (Cassidy) Santos (b. 1923) was from an Irish-American Catholic family.</p> Language A language of the resource English Relation A related resource <a href="https://umlportuguesearchives.omeka.net/items/show/28">Patricia [Santos] Nickles Oral History Interview</a> Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Spinney family at Spinney's Garage Description An account of the resource Garage was at the intersection of C St. and Powell St. in Lowell, MA. Left to right: Irene Spinney is seen holding her son, Tommy. Jimmy Spinney on right. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived From the collection of Patricia Santos Nickles. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). 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Title A name given to the resource UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1976-2018] Description An account of the resource These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1976-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell. Subject The topic of the resource Azorean Americans Children of immigrants Cultural assimilation Mills and mill-work Portuguese American women Madeirans World War, 1939-1945 Veterans United States. Navy. Factories Education Depressions--1929 Immigrants Christmas Immigrant families Ethnic food New Year Balls (parties) Community organization Civic leaders Baking Bakeries Bakery employees Tradition (Theology) Music Ethnic neighborhoods Boardinghouses Folk dancing, Portuguese Music teachers Civil engineering Urban renewal Park facilities--Planning Fasts and Feasts Portuguese language Instrumentation and orchestration (Band) Engineering Religious gatherings Police Portugal--Emigration and immigration Immigrants--Cultural Assimilation--United States Dance teachers Female impersonators Entertainers Musicians Suicide Cleaning compounds Tenement houses Rug and carpet industry Entrepreneurship Irish Americans Politics and government City council members Campaign management Community development, Urban Music--Portuguese influences Catholic Church--Dioceses Catholic Church--Societies, etc. Priests Code switching (Linguistics) Soccer Cooking Composition (Music) Portuguese teachers Women in community organization Labor unions Ethnic groups Fathers and sons Bars (Drinking establishments) Desegregation Military bands Track and field coaches Language teachers Brazilian Americans Bullfights Bullying in schools Conflict of generations Earthquakes Evening and continuation schools Volcanos Meat industry and trade Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 Christmas cooking Community schools Marriage Radio programs Sewing Angola--History--Revolution, 1961-1975 Agriculture Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976-2018 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lowell (Mass.) Boston (Mass.) Manchester (N.H.) Graciosa (Azores) Capelinhos Volcano (Azores) Faial (Azores) Lawrence (Mass.) Terceira Island (Azores) São Miguel (Azores) Madeira (Madeira Islands) Pico Island (Azores) Lisbon (Portugal) Azores Hudson (Mass.) Cambridge (Mass.) Tyngsboro (Mass.) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ali, Mehmed Denatale, Doug Fertig, Barbara Fitzsimons, Gray Holden, Maria Miller, Marc Norkunas, Martha Page, Paul Perkins, Carole MacDougal Reis, John M. Spandagos, Olga Strobel, Christoph Szewczyk, Kimberly Taylor, David Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Participants Names of individuals or groups participating in the event Belarmino Leite Frannie Furtado Eddie Silva Fr. Grillo Mary Leite Richie DeFreitas Melba Leite Melba MacLeod Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource John Leite Oral History Interview #1 Subject The topic of the resource Azorean Americans Children of immigrants Immigrant families Music Music--Portuguese influences Instrumentation and orchestration (Band) Mills and mill-work Community organization Civic leaders Boardinghouses Veterans Description An account of the resource First part of oral history interview with John Leite on August 10, 1999.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note:<br /></strong>Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1933; parents from Graciosa, Azores, immigrated to the U.S. ca. 1926; both parents worked in textile mills in Manchester and Lowell; father a loom fixer, mother a spinner; they settled permanently in Lowell ca. 1936; members of St. Anthony Catholic Church, they had three daughters and one son, John J. who was educated in Lowell’s public schools; his father was a trombonist who played in and managed Lowell’s Portuguese Colonial Band; Mr. Leite joined the band as boy, playing the trumpet and later the trombone; after serving in the U.S. Army in post-war Europe, he returned home and matriculated at Lowell State Teachers’ College; after graduating from the college he taught in the area’s public schools, performed as a professional trombonist in well-known local bands, and formed his own band; beginning in the 1970s Mr. Leite became secretary/treasurer of the Lowell local of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), AFL-CIO, and after its merger with other locals in 1995, he was elected president of AFM Local 300.<strong><br /><br /></strong><strong>Scope and Contents:<br /></strong>Interview conducted by Gray Fitzsimons. Mr. Leite discusses growing up in Manchester, NH, his parents' journey to the US, mill work, work on local farms, elementary school memories, how he fell into music, playing with the Portuguese Colonial Band, time spent in the military band, education at ULowell, Music Union, experience with multiple bands and as back-up horns. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fitzsimons, Gray Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1999-08-10 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Leite, John Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource UMass Lowell Portuguese American Oral Histories [1976-2018] Description An account of the resource These oral histories with Portuguese immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Lowell area were conducted between 1976-2016. Topics covered include the experience of immigration, working conditions, family life, and more. These oral histories were funded by the Lowell National Historical Park, the American Folklife Center, and UMass Lowell. Subject The topic of the resource Azorean Americans Children of immigrants Cultural assimilation Mills and mill-work Portuguese American women Madeirans World War, 1939-1945 Veterans United States. Navy. Factories Education Depressions--1929 Immigrants Christmas Immigrant families Ethnic food New Year Balls (parties) Community organization Civic leaders Baking Bakeries Bakery employees Tradition (Theology) Music Ethnic neighborhoods Boardinghouses Folk dancing, Portuguese Music teachers Civil engineering Urban renewal Park facilities--Planning Fasts and Feasts Portuguese language Instrumentation and orchestration (Band) Engineering Religious gatherings Police Portugal--Emigration and immigration Immigrants--Cultural Assimilation--United States Dance teachers Female impersonators Entertainers Musicians Suicide Cleaning compounds Tenement houses Rug and carpet industry Entrepreneurship Irish Americans Politics and government City council members Campaign management Community development, Urban Music--Portuguese influences Catholic Church--Dioceses Catholic Church--Societies, etc. Priests Code switching (Linguistics) Soccer Cooking Composition (Music) Portuguese teachers Women in community organization Labor unions Ethnic groups Fathers and sons Bars (Drinking establishments) Desegregation Military bands Track and field coaches Language teachers Brazilian Americans Bullfights Bullying in schools Conflict of generations Earthquakes Evening and continuation schools Volcanos Meat industry and trade Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 Christmas cooking Community schools Marriage Radio programs Sewing Angola--History--Revolution, 1961-1975 Agriculture Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived All items can be found at the Center for Lowell History in Lowell, MA. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976-2018 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lowell (Mass.) Boston (Mass.) Manchester (N.H.) Graciosa (Azores) Capelinhos Volcano (Azores) Faial (Azores) Lawrence (Mass.) Terceira Island (Azores) São Miguel (Azores) Madeira (Madeira Islands) Pico Island (Azores) Lisbon (Portugal) Azores Hudson (Mass.) Cambridge (Mass.) Tyngsboro (Mass.) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ali, Mehmed Denatale, Doug Fertig, Barbara Fitzsimons, Gray Holden, Maria Miller, Marc Norkunas, Martha Page, Paul Perkins, Carole MacDougal Reis, John M. Spandagos, Olga Strobel, Christoph Szewczyk, Kimberly Taylor, David Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Participants Names of individuals or groups participating in the event Abel Alves Frank Ares Joe Capiche Annibal Casseli Joe Ferreira Fr. Grillo Joe Freitas Frannie Furtado Armand Gaoles Luis Gomes Frank Leandro Belarmino Leite Wilhelmina Leite Joe Miguel Frank Peixe Eddie Silva Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Leite Oral History Interview #2 Description An account of the resource Oral History Interview with John J. Leite, February 20, 2016<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note:</strong><br />Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1933; parents from Graciosa, Azores, immigrated to the U.S. ca. 1926; both parents worked in textile mills in Manchester and Lowell; father a loom fixer, mother a spinner; they settled permanently in Lowell ca. 1936; members of St. Anthony Catholic Church, they had three daughters and one son, John J. who was educated in Lowell’s public schools; his father was a trombonist who played in and managed Lowell’s Portuguese Colonial Band; Mr. Leite joined the band as boy, playing the trumpet and later the trombone; after serving in the U.S. Army in post-war Europe, he returned home and matriculated at Lowell State Teachers’ College; after graduating from the college he taught in the area’s public schools, performed as a professional trombonist in well-known local bands, and formed his own band; beginning in the 1970s Mr. Leite became secretary/treasurer of the Lowell local of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), AFL-CIO, and after its merger with other locals in 1995, he was elected president of AFM Local 300.<br /><br /><strong>Scope and Contents:</strong><br />Interview conducted by local historian Mehmed Ali covers John Leite’s family background, growing up in Lowell’s Portuguese neighborhood “Back Central” in the 1930s and 1940s, activities at St. Anthony Catholic Church, Portuguese music and musicians in Lowell, and Lowell’s changing musical culture. There is a great deal of material on the personalities and musical playing styles of a number of prominent Portuguese musicians in Lowell from the 1950s into the 1990s. [For more on John J. Leite and his role in the American Federation of Musicians, Local 300, see “Oral History with John Leite, 1999,” interview by Gray Fitzsimons, Historian, Lowell National Historical Park] Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ali, Mehmed Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-02-20 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Leite, John Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Leite_John_002 Subject The topic of the resource Azorean Americans Children of immigrants Mills and mill-work Ethnic neighborhoods Music Fathers and sons Civic leaders Portuguese language Cultural assimilation Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Graciosa (Azores) Lowell (Mass.) 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