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Richard Post, Clip 3: The World's Fair Was the Place To Be

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Richard Post
Date: Time Period: 1966 - 1965; 2015-08-10; Interview recorded: August 10, 2015 Material: Digital audio recording made using Zoom H4 digital recorder and Digital audio . Dimension: Total running time: 0:08:00
Creator: Richard Post interviewed by Jennifer Sanchez Identifier: aql:19420 qmp-rp-clip-000003

Description: Richard visited the fair when he was 10 and 11 years old. He remembers the positive techno future it represented and felt he was the perfect age to really appreciate the fair. He has spoken to others who were the same age for the 1939-40 World's Fair who had a similar reaction. Those who were 16-18 were more interested in dating and getting into trouble at the fair.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:19468

Creator : Richard Post interviewed by Jennifer Sanchez

Date : Time Period: 1966 - 1965; 2015-08-10; Interview recorded: August 10, 2015

Summary/Description : Richard visited the fair when he was 10 and 11 years old. He remembers the positive techno future it represented and felt he was the perfect age to really appreciate the fair. He has spoken to others who were the same age for the 1939-40 World's Fair who had a similar reaction. Those who were 16-18 were more interested in dating and getting into trouble at the fair.

Subject : New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.); Technology

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Coverage : Locations discussed: Flushing Meadow-Corona Park, Queens, NY Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (New York, N.Y.) Flushing (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using Zoom H4 digital recorder and Digital audio .; Total running time: 0:08:00

Identifier : aql:19420 qmp-rp-clip-000003

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