FULL TRANSCRIPT: SUBJECT: Bobby Oakes, Bartender @ Arnaud Restaurant’S French 75 Bar 813 Rue Bienville New Orleans, LA 70112 DATE: March 31, 2005 @ 8:45 P.M
FULL TRANSCRIPT: SUBJECT: Bobby Oakes, bartender @ Arnaud Restaurant’s French 75 Bar 813 Rue Bienville New Orleans, LA 70112 DATE: March 31, 2005 @ 8:45 p.m. LOCATION: Rue de la Course coffeehouse on Magazine St. INTERVIEWER: Amy Evans LENGTH: Approx. 55 minutes NOTE: Various sounds occur throughout this interview. Rather than mention them individually and interrupt the flow of the conversation, they are noted here: the coffeehouse is crowded, so many voices can be heard in conversation; classical music plays in the background continuously; various mechanical sounds are heard occasionally as employees make coffee drinks. When the occurring sounds are an obvious interruption to the interview, they are noted in the transcript. * * * Amy Evans: It’s Thursday, March thirty-first, two thousand and five. This is Amy Evans for the Southern Foodways Alliance, and I’m in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Magazine Street at Rue de la Course coffeehouse with Bobby Oakes from Arnaud’s Restaurant. And it’s about a quarter to nine o’clock [at night]. And, um, Booby, would you mind introducing yourself to the recorder here and also stating your birthdate, please. Bobby Oakes: Okay. My name is Bobby Oakes, obviously. Um, my birthday is June 28, 1960. Um, and like, uh, like Amy said, I’ve been a bartender at Arnaud’s for a little over nine years. AE: All right, well how’d you get started in the bartending business in the first place? BO: Um— AE: Let’s start there. BO: My—my wife made me do it. AE: [Laughs] BO: I had decided [loud banging noise in background], um, I was in my thirties and decided I wanted to go back to school [banging noise again] and finish—um, talked to some friends about it, and one of them suggested—because what I wanted to do, ultimately, required a competitive entrance to a program.
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