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Jack Gehrig (1905-1985), Barber. Recorded on 8th March 1978. Part 3/3.
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SummaryJACK GEHRIG
Recorded on 4th August 1983
Part 3/3
0:32
There's the sound of snipping scissors while Jack Gehrig was talking. His boss asked Jack not to leave him because he was planning to build a "modern shop" around Andrew's Corner. Moray King worked before Jack. His first job in the morning was to fill the spittoons with sawdust from the sawmill. The customers were tobacco chewers.
7:05
Jack discusses the burial of his daughter Myra (cerebral haemorrhage) and his mother. Slab building - Grannie Carroll first licensee of the Cessnock Hotel.
11:07
Parish maps show Margaret Carroll, whose husband Michael died in 1898 aged 58, as having a grant of land. Who cuts Jack Gehrig's hair? Kenny Rix, Georgie Kirk.
13:04
Kit Burke - "no one was ever good enough for her". Jack "used to have a nice sheila who lived on the Maitland Road - Lola Monnicks(?) Her father was a bullocky. They lived past Jack Barrett. They walked out to the Barretts. Pat and Wilson Barrett.
17:30
"Capper" Gehrig worked at Neath mine - he was a contractor. He drove the tunnel. Jacky Barrett was the winch driver in the tunnel. It was an air tunnel. The brickworks.
20:10
Interruption by visitors. Veronica Gallagher organising the First Friday Mass. The original Gallagher place.
27:10
Jack Gehrig begins to trim Jack Delaney's eyebrows. The barber shop as part of the social structure - a news centre - information gathering and sharing. They discuss the movie about Phar Lap. Jack Gehrig talks about visiting a crippled fellow to cut his hair. The equipment used. Daily shave costing 6d.
35:37
The generation before used to cut their own hair or they just let it grow. They used dressmaking scissors.
39:32
End (Tape 99/Side A) part 3 of 3.
SubjectBullockies -- New South Wales -- CessnockCoal mines and mining -- New South WalesBarbershops -- New South Wales -- CessnockCessnock (N.S.W.)Gehrig, John Patrick, 1905-1985PersonJack DelaneyDepicts or Relates ToJack BarrettWilson BarrettDelaney, Jack, 1919-2010PlaceCessnock, NSWLocation[1] Cessnock Hotel, Cessnock, NSW[2] Neath Colliery, NSWIdentifier099A
Recorded on 4th August 1983
Part 3/3
0:32
There's the sound of snipping scissors while Jack Gehrig was talking. His boss asked Jack not to leave him because he was planning to build a "modern shop" around Andrew's Corner. Moray King worked before Jack. His first job in the morning was to fill the spittoons with sawdust from the sawmill. The customers were tobacco chewers.
7:05
Jack discusses the burial of his daughter Myra (cerebral haemorrhage) and his mother. Slab building - Grannie Carroll first licensee of the Cessnock Hotel.
11:07
Parish maps show Margaret Carroll, whose husband Michael died in 1898 aged 58, as having a grant of land. Who cuts Jack Gehrig's hair? Kenny Rix, Georgie Kirk.
13:04
Kit Burke - "no one was ever good enough for her". Jack "used to have a nice sheila who lived on the Maitland Road - Lola Monnicks(?) Her father was a bullocky. They lived past Jack Barrett. They walked out to the Barretts. Pat and Wilson Barrett.
17:30
"Capper" Gehrig worked at Neath mine - he was a contractor. He drove the tunnel. Jacky Barrett was the winch driver in the tunnel. It was an air tunnel. The brickworks.
20:10
Interruption by visitors. Veronica Gallagher organising the First Friday Mass. The original Gallagher place.
27:10
Jack Gehrig begins to trim Jack Delaney's eyebrows. The barber shop as part of the social structure - a news centre - information gathering and sharing. They discuss the movie about Phar Lap. Jack Gehrig talks about visiting a crippled fellow to cut his hair. The equipment used. Daily shave costing 6d.
35:37
The generation before used to cut their own hair or they just let it grow. They used dressmaking scissors.
39:32
End (Tape 99/Side A) part 3 of 3.
SubjectBullockies -- New South Wales -- CessnockCoal mines and mining -- New South WalesBarbershops -- New South Wales -- CessnockCessnock (N.S.W.)Gehrig, John Patrick, 1905-1985PersonJack DelaneyDepicts or Relates ToJack BarrettWilson BarrettDelaney, Jack, 1919-2010PlaceCessnock, NSWLocation[1] Cessnock Hotel, Cessnock, NSW[2] Neath Colliery, NSWIdentifier099Aloading google map....
Delaney, Jack, 1919-2010, Jack Gehrig (1905-1985), Barber. Recorded on 8th March 1978. Part 3/3., [099A]. Living Histories, accessed 06/12/2023, https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/55665