Richard Post, Full Interview
Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Richard Post
Date: Time Period: 1968 - 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: 0:39:24
Creator: Richard Post interviewed by Jennifer Sanchez
Identifier: aql:19421 qmp-rp-full-000005
Description: Richard Post is a World's Fair historian and an ardent advocate for Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. He first visited the 1964-65 World's Fair at age 10, which he describes as the "perfect age" to be inspired by its grandeur and optimism about the future. When he returned to the park as an adult in the 1970s and 1980s, he was shocked and dismayed to see remnants of the fair lying in ruins. Richard has worked tirelessly to preserve and rehabilitate both the surviving elements of the fair and the park itself, and believes things are finally headed in the right direction.
Creator :
Richard Post interviewed by Jennifer Sanchez
Date :
Time Period: 1968 - 1965; 2015-08-10; Interview recorded: August 10, 2015
Summary/Description :
Richard Post is a World's Fair historian and an ardent advocate for Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. He first visited the 1964-65 World's Fair at age 10, which he describes as the "perfect age" to be inspired by its grandeur and optimism about the future. When he returned to the park as an adult in the 1970s and 1980s, he was shocked and dismayed to see remnants of the fair lying in ruins. Richard has worked tirelessly to preserve and rehabilitate both the surviving elements of the fair and the park itself, and believes things are finally headed in the right direction.
Subject :
New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.); Preservation and restoration; Moses, Robert, 1888-1981; Oats, David
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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: 0:39:24
Identifier :
aql:19421 qmp-rp-full-000005
Subject:
New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.); Preservation and restoration; Moses, Robert, 1888-1981; Oats, David
New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.); Preservation and restoration; Moses, Robert, 1888-1981; Oats, David
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