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Randy Gonzales, Clip 1: Private school in NYC

Collection: My Baryo, My Borough Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Randy Gonzales
Date: Time Period: ca. 1990; 2015-10-27; Interview recorded: October 27, 2015 Material: Digital audio recording made using a digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension: Total running time: 0:02:50
Creator: Randy Gonzales interviewed by Claro De Los Reyes Identifier: aql:34031 gonzales-randy-clip1

Description: Randy talks about his experience growing up in the 80s. He talks about his parent's attempts at making his life easier and safer by driving him around. He mentions being a Catholic school kid versus attending public school and how those two crowds interacted with one another. He lived near Thomas Edison High School and Jamaica High School, but that his parents enrolled him in Archbishop Malloy High School. At his high school they would actually get out earlier and could avoid getting jumped by other public high schools kids.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:34076

Creator : Randy Gonzales interviewed by Claro De Los Reyes

Date : Time Period: ca. 1990; 2015-10-27; Interview recorded: October 27, 2015

Summary/Description : Randy talks about his experience growing up in the 80s. He talks about his parent's attempts at making his life easier and safer by driving him around. He mentions being a Catholic school kid versus attending public school and how those two crowds interacted with one another. He lived near Thomas Edison High School and Jamaica High School, but that his parents enrolled him in Archbishop Malloy High School. At his high school they would actually get out earlier and could avoid getting jumped by other public high schools kids.

Subject : Catholic schools; Urban high schools; Nineteen eighties; Archbishop Molloy High School (Jamaica, New York, N.Y.)

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Coverage : Locations discussed: Briarwood, Jamaica, Queens, NY Jamaica (New York, N.Y.) Briarwood (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: 0:02:50

Identifier : aql:34031 gonzales-randy-clip1

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Catholic schools; Urban high schools; Nineteen eighties; Archbishop Molloy High School (Jamaica, New York, N.Y.)

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