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Jim Pignetti, Clip 2: Candy store

Collection: StoryCorps Collection at The Archives at Queens Library
Date: Time Period: 1960 - 1965; 2011-11-02; Interview recorded: November 2, 2011 Material: Digital audio recording made using a digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension: Total running time: 0:03:48
Creator: Jim Pignetti interviewed by Steve Zeitlin Identifier: aql:22315 scc-jp-clip-000002

Description: Jim Pignetti describes his father's candy store where he spent much of his time in the early 1960's, when he was coming of age. A popular teen hangout, the store had a soda fountain and jukebox. He offers wonderful details about the styles and music of that era.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:22325

Creator : Jim Pignetti interviewed by Steve Zeitlin

Date : Time Period: 1960 - 1965; 2011-11-02; Interview recorded: November 2, 2011

Summary/Description : Jim Pignetti describes his father's candy store where he spent much of his time in the early 1960's, when he was coming of age. A popular teen hangout, the store had a soda fountain and jukebox. He offers wonderful details about the styles and music of that era.

Subject : Popular music; Soda fountains; Teenagers

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.; Produced by John White with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org

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

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using a digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:03:48

Identifier : aql:22315 scc-jp-clip-000002

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Popular music; Soda fountains; Teenagers

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Rights Notice
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.; Produced by John White with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org


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