Betty Blunnie, Clip 2: Sunnyside Gardens Arena

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Betty Blunnie

Date: Time Period: 1962 - 2011; 2011-08-04; Interview recorded: August 3 2011 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg. Dimension: Total running time: 0:01:16

Creator: Betty Blunnie interviewed by Kyoko Aoki Identifier: aql:20648 blunnie_betty_clip2

Description: Ms. Blunnie describes changes in the Sunnyside neighborhood. There is a Wendy's fast food restaurant on Queens Boulevard between Locust and 45th streets. This site used to be owned by a family who built a tennis court as well as the Sunnyside Gardens Arena, a popular boxing venue.

Title : Betty Blunnie, Clip 2: Sunnyside Gardens Arena

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20658

Creator : Betty Blunnie interviewed by Kyoko Aoki

Date : Time Period: 1962 - 2011; 2011-08-04; Interview recorded: August 3 2011

Summary/Description : Ms. Blunnie describes changes in the Sunnyside neighborhood. There is a Wendy's fast food restaurant on Queens Boulevard between Locust and 45th streets. This site used to be owned by a family who built a tennis court as well as the Sunnyside Gardens Arena, a popular boxing venue.

Subject : Real estate development; Fast food restaurants; Arenas; Boxing matches

Relation : Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Betty Blunnie

Rights : This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Sunnyside, Queens, NY Sunnyside (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg.; Total running time: 0:01:16

Identifier : aql:20648 blunnie_betty_clip2