| Personal History | Recreation | Travel | Changes and Continuities | What makes a community? |
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Father's name; mother's maiden name; siblings
Birthplace/date: father; mother; siblings
Father's work; mother's work: type of work, dates of work, places of work
Narrator's education: schools and dates
Marriage (spouse[s]; date[s]; place[s])
Children (names; birth dates/places;
present location)
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• identify individual's sense of area's connections to metro area • connect individual's areal concerns to metro issues • get sense of interaction between area and the metro region • get sense of exoteric perceptions: outsider views of other areas |
General feelings about the St. Louis area
If you were going to tell someone from out of town about St. Louis, how would you describe it? what would you highlight? what would you omit? why?
When guests come from out of town, where do you take them to show off the area? Why? what areas do you avoid? why?
In terms of St. Louis' history, what are the three most important events? why?
What is most important to you about St. Louis, personally? why? The least? why?
What parts of the St. Louis area do you know the best? The least? Why?
Where would you get lost? Are there places you would not go? Why?
Where have you felt out-of-place, or conspicuous? Why?
What roads, highways, bus routes in the area do you know the best? Why?
How do you travel to work? Do you always go the same route?
Do you feel different driving your car than using some other transportation? How?
Describe your own neighborhood.
What other areas are most like your neighborhood? Why? Least? Why?When you tell people your address, do you tell them you live in St. Louis, or do you say you live in your particular area?
Where would you most like to live in
the St. Louis area? why? Away from St. Louis? why?
Travel and activities around the area
What places do you go to routinely in a typical week? With whom?
Are there places outside your neighborhood you have to go to because you don't have them inside your neighborhood? Church? Shopping? Recreation? Sports? Entertainment?
Where do you go for special occasions? what restaurants to celebrate something? what sports events? what places to hear music? where to relax? where do you take children for fun? what movie theaters? cultural events or sites? church?
Changes and Continuities
How has the St. Louis area changed in your lifetime? Have you had a part in causing any changes? how? why?
How do you see St. Louis changing over the next few years? decades?
Who historically have been the most important people in shaping St. Louis? in your lifetime?
Do you think St. Louis has become a
better or worse place to live during your lifetime? Why?
Conclusion
Is there anything I haven't covered
that you would like to talk about?
Thank you for this interview.
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