| Title |
Video Clip of Interview with Tessie Tsakalos and Jim Tsakalos |
| Creator |
Weber State University, Stewart Library: Oral History Program |
| Contributors |
Tsakalos, Tessie, Interviewee; Tsakalos, Jim, Interviewee; Rands, Lorrie, Interviewer; Whitney, Brian, Interviewer |
| Collection Name |
Immigrants at the Crossroads-Ogden City Oral Histories |
| Description |
Immigrants at the Crossroads - Ogden City is a project to collect oral histories, photographs and artifacts related to the immigrant populations that helped shape the cultural and economic climate of Ogden. This project will expand the contributions made by Ogden's immigrant populations: the Dutch, Italian and Greek immigrants who came to work on the railroad and the Japanese who arrived after World War II from the West Coast and from internment camps. |
| Image Captions |
Tessie Tsakalos and Jim Tsakalos |
| Biographical/Historical Note |
The following is a video clip from an oral history interview with Tessie Tsakalos and Jim Tsakalos. "My memories were I didn't speak English. I had hard time until little bit you know, and I want to bring my sister here, but I had to be American citizen. Nobody can be American citizen until five years after you come here. I want to bring my sister and I apply for my citizenship. There was a lady that did the examination. Boy she was mean and asked me, 'Do you know the Constitution?' I said, 'Ma'am if I didn't know the Constitution of America I wouldn't be here, I'd be in Greece.' She turned me down and the second time same thing, I didn't answer all the questions. Then he turned me down and he said, 'Why you don't want to go to school?' I said, 'I have three kids.' I didn't have Jim. He said, 'Well have your husband watch them.' 'He works nights and does whatever he can to raise a family.' 'Leave them with a babysitter.' I said, 'I don't trust a babysitter.' So he turned me down again and the day for signing for the guy that said you pass it or you not, I don't know how you say it. He ask that lady, the examiner, 'Why you turn her down?' She said this and this and this and this. She has three little babies and she can't, she have nobody to trust. I don't want to leave them with babysitter and she said, then don't trust the babysitter. What better excuse you want? He said, 'I'm going to give her the papers.' And he did." |
| Subject |
Immigration; Greek |
| Digital Publisher |
Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA |
| Date |
2015 |
| Date Digital |
2017 |
| Temporal Coverage |
1925; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014; 2015 |
| Item Size |
47p.; 29cm.; 2 bound transcripts; 4 file folders. 1 video disc: digital; 4 3/4 in. |
| Medium |
Oral History |
| Spatial Coverage |
Ogden (Utah) |
| Type |
Text; Image/MovingImage |
| Conversion Specifications |
Filmed using a Sony HDR-CX430V digital video camera. Sound was recorded with a Sony ECM-AW3(T) bluetooth microphone. Transcribed using WAVpedal 5 Copyrighted by The Programmers' Consortium Inc. Digitally reformatted using Adobe Acrobat Xl Pro. |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes, please credit University Archives, Stewart Library; Weber State University. |
| Source |
Tsakalos, Tessie; Tsakalos, Jim OH16_017; Weber State University, Stewart Library, University Archives |
| Format |
video/mp4 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6eqm3ae |
| Setname |
wsu_webda_oh |
| ID |
104216 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6eqm3ae |
