Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989 Page: 20
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Turner:Hotel Street, and that's where you'd go get a bed at
night, you know, for three dollars.
Is it not true that the houses of prostitution were
usually located on Hotel and Canal Streets, too?
Yes.
And I think the tattoo shops and the curio places and
all that stuff were there.
All that was down there, and jewelry shops. They had a
knack for selling sailors jewelry.
I noticed that you didn't get any tattoos.
No. No, I never did get that drunk (laughter). I was
always afraid of needles, too (laughter). No, I never
was much for getting drunk. I'd get out and drink and
have a good time with the boys. I suppose it was due to
my system. If I had two or three drinks too many, I'd
get sick, where other boys could get drunk and have a
good time. Once I got drunk, then I was sick.
Let me ask you this, and I'm sure you'd have to give me
some sort of a guess or an estimate. In your opinion,
as you look back, was there a lot of heavy drinking
ashore there in Honolulu before the war?No, not in the sailors' circles. The sailor didn't make
that much money. Now what went on in the higher
classes, if you're referring to the higher-ups, it could
have been. I was never in a situation where I could
determine that.20
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Turner, Joseph C. Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989, book, September 19, 1989; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2137897/m1/22/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.