About This Item
- Call NumberOSOS_OH_0104
- Summary(1:18) Calling from Bushwick -- (2:53) Applied for unemployment in March, still waiting -- (3:19) Fiancé owns Williamsburg Pizza; pizzerias doing well during COVID -- (3:50) Pizzeria operations during COVID -- (6:03) Pizza queen & champion -- (8:15) Met fiancé at International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas. Wedding planned for April 2020 Expo, canceled due to COVID -- (9:47) Shealyn is pizza judge at competitions, many now canceled -- (10:47) Pizza-themed wedding rescheduled for fall -- (16:17) “Women in Pizza” movement -- (27:21) Remote acting auditions -- (31:43) Airline travel -- (33:40) Gives away homemade pizza monthly to neighbors -- (38:10) Misses going to bars, orders to-go cocktails -- (42:15) Quarantine birthday -- (42:42) Hopes for future.
- Date2020-05-12
- Physical Description1 sound file (44 min) : digital, WAV
- CreatorBrand, Shealyn
- CollectionBrooklyn Covid-19 Stories
- Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- Digital Public Library of AmericaThis item is represented in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
- Formatsound recording-nonmusical
- Genreinterviews
- NoteAudio interview conducted on May 12, 2020, by Julia DeAngelo. Collected for the Covid-19 Oral History Project through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is a partnership with Services for Older Adults and the Brooklyn Collection.
- SubjectQuarantine ; COVID-19 (Disease) ; Epidemics ; Coronaviruses ; Pizzerias ; Pizza industry ; Weddings
- PlaceBushwick (New York, N.Y.)
- RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
- TitleOral history interview with Shealyn Brand conducted on 2020 May 12.