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  • 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.