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Wally Rosenthal, Clip 1: Playing in Flushing

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Wally Rosenthal
Date: Time Period: 1950 - 1960; 2011-03-19; Interview recorded: March 19 2011 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg. Dimension: Total running time: 0:01:27
Creator: Wally Rosenthal interviewed by Tess Hartman Identifier: aql:20613 rosenthal_wally_clip1

Description: Wally Rosenthal remembers growing up with a lot of other children to play with in his Flushing neighborhood. They played stoopball, boxball, stickball, tag, and touch football. They would also venture onto the Queens College campus where he remembers a wooded area and a farm where John Bowne High School's farm was later developed.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20678

Creator : Wally Rosenthal interviewed by Tess Hartman

Date : Time Period: 1950 - 1960; 2011-03-19; Interview recorded: March 19 2011

Summary/Description : Wally Rosenthal remembers growing up with a lot of other children to play with in his Flushing neighborhood. They played stoopball, boxball, stickball, tag, and touch football. They would also venture onto the Queens College campus where he remembers a wooded area and a farm where John Bowne High School's farm was later developed.

Subject : Outdoor games; Play; Farms; Children; John Bowne High School; Queens College (New York, N.Y.)

Rights : This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

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

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg.; Total running time: 0:01:27

Identifier : aql:20613 rosenthal_wally_clip1

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Outdoor games; Play; Farms; Children; John Bowne High School; Queens College (New York, N.Y.)

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Rights Notice
This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.


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