'working' then and now: terkel talks to car parker known as 'one swing al'

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. This interview and others

that Terkel recorded for his 1974 book are part of a series, _Working_ Then And Now. Thanks to the WFMT Studs Terkel Archive and the Chicago History Museum. More stories from the series are

also available on The Radio Diaries Podcast. Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.