Block 51 of Jitu Weusi Weeksville Oral History (Q25893)

Jitu Weusi: At a certain point, yes. Initially they didn’t pay that any mind, because [hypothetically speaking] ‘…who was The East?’ But after a while, when the word started getting out that there was this place, that the musicians really played there, and you could hear the music, they [audience] didn’t do no talking, wasn’t no bottles clinking, wasn’t no noise… people were into the music, th...