I remember my brother, Charlie, gettin' older, he got a job, he was 14 years old, and, as...
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Catherine Scorsese:
I remember my brother, Charlie, gettin' older, he got a job, he was 14 years old, and, as I says, we had to go out to work, and he got a job working for JP Morgan, I think it was, as a messenger boy, 14 dollars a week, something like that. And, of course, we started to, you know, little by little, one brother started to work and the other brother started to work and the sister and we started accumulating some money and I remember one Christmas my brother finally told my mother that they wanted a proper tree. And we were thrilled. So, he bought the tree and he put the, whatever you call it, candles, I think they used candles at the time, we didn't have no electricity. And, we put up a tree! But, there was no such thing before that. I mean, we never had a tree
I remember my brother, Charlie, gettin' older, he got a job, he was 14 years old, and, as I says, we had to go out to work, and he got a job working for JP Morgan, I think it was, as a messenger boy, 14 dollars a week, something like that. And, of course, we started to, you know, little by little, one brother started to work and the other brother started to work and the sister and we started accumulating some money and I remember one Christmas my brother finally told my mother that they wanted a proper tree. And we were thrilled. So, he bought the tree and he put the, whatever you call it, candles, I think they used candles at the time, we didn't have no electricity. And, we put up a tree! But, there was no such thing before that. I mean, we never had a tree
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I remember my brother Charlie getting older
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He got a job He was 14 years old
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And as I says we had to go out to work
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and he got a job working for j P Morgan I think it was as a messenger boy
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Fourteen dollars a week something like that
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And of course we started to you know little by little
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one brother started to work and the other brother started to work
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and the sisters and we started to accumulate some money
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And I remember one Christmas
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my brother finally told my mother that they wanted to put up a tree
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And we were thrilled
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So they bought the tree and they put the whatever it was
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Candles I think they used to use candles at the time
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We didn't have no electricity
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And uh we put up a tree
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But there was no such thing before that I mean we never had a tree
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Movie Summary
Martin Scorsese interviews his mother and father about their life in New York City and the family history back in Sicily. These are two people who have lived together for a long time and know each other very well.
