Gladys Weaver Clip 2: Shopping and Home Delivery
Collection: Gladys Weaver Oral History

Date: Time Period: 1940s; 2013-04-25; Interview recorded: April 25, 2013
Material: Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth software. Dimension:
Total running time: 00:04:05
Creator: Gladys (Simpkins) Weaver interviewed by Marguerite Luizzo and Barbara Deyoung-Ezell
Identifier: aql:16150 weaver_gladys_clip2
Description: Gladys Weaver (nee Simpkins) describes the stores on New York Boulevard (now Guy Brewer Blvd), the main street in Jamaica, Queens in the 1940s. Bread, fish, produce and milk were all delivered by trucks to the neighborhood.
Creator :
Gladys (Simpkins) Weaver interviewed by Marguerite Luizzo and Barbara Deyoung-Ezell
Date :
Time Period: 1940s; 2013-04-25; Interview recorded: April 25, 2013
Summary/Description :
Gladys Weaver (nee Simpkins) describes the stores on New York Boulevard (now Guy Brewer Blvd), the main street in Jamaica, Queens in the 1940s. Bread, fish, produce and milk were all delivered by trucks to the neighborhood.
Subject :
Grocery shopping; Trucks; Small business
Rights :
Contact the Archives at Queens Library (718-990-0770) for research and reproduction requests.
Coverage :
Locations discussed: Guy Brewer Boulevard, Jamaica, NY Saint Albans (New York, N.Y.) Jamaica (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
Oral history
Format :
Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth software.; Total running time: 00:04:05
Identifier :
aql:16150 weaver_gladys_clip2
Rights Notice
Contact the Archives at Queens Library (718-990-0770) for research and reproduction requests.
Contact the Archives at Queens Library (718-990-0770) for research and reproduction requests.
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