‘Working’ Then And Now: Terkel Talks To Car Parker Known As ‘One Swing Al’
By Radio Diaries‘Working’ Then And Now: Terkel Talks To Car Parker Known As ‘One Swing Al’
By Radio Diaries
WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information.
Sign up for our newsletters
to stay up to date on the stories that matter.
Radio Diaries, along with Project&, combed through the recordings author Studs Terkel made for his bestselling book, Working. Terkel traveled the country in the 1970s with a tape recorder, interviewing regular people about what they did for a living. Here, Lovin’ Al Pommier, tells Terkel about being a parking lot attendant in Chicago.
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit
NPR.
9(MDI0OTI1MTAyMDE0NjY3ODA3NjRjOTNhZg000))