Reminiscences of Bernard Shor : oral history, 1975.

Biographical Note

Restaurateur; interviewee known as "Toots"

Scope and Contents

Philadelphia childhood; sales work; bouncer, greeter for New York City speakeasies during Prohibition; construction, financing, management of two New York City restaurants, 1940-1970; unionization of restaurant employees; impressions of celebrity friends; travels; Kefauver Committee Hearings, 1954

Subjects

• Ellis, Edward Robb, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Prohibition--United States.
• Restaurant management.
• Restaurants--Employees--Labor unions.
• Restaurants.
• Restaurateurs--Interviews.
• Shor, Toots, 1903-1977.

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