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Betty Blunnie, Clip 1: Moving to Sunnyside

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Betty Blunnie
Date: Time Period: 1962 - 2011; 2011-08-03; Interview recorded: August 3 2011 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg. Dimension: Total running time: 0:01:15
Creator: Betty Blunnie interviewed by Kyoko Aoki Identifier: aql:20638 blunnie_betty_clip1

Description: Ms. Blunnie moved to Sunnyside in 1962. She lived in Midtown Manhattan, and got married to a man from the Bronx. Her husband didn't want to live in Manhattan and they couldn't find an apartment there, so they moved to 49th Street between Skillman and Barnett Avenues. At the end of the street was the private Sunnyside Garden Park. After 16 years in their first home, the moved to 41st Street across from PS 150. She has been there for 33 years.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20658

Creator : Betty Blunnie interviewed by Kyoko Aoki

Date : Time Period: 1962 - 2011; 2011-08-03; Interview recorded: August 3 2011

Summary/Description : Ms. Blunnie moved to Sunnyside in 1962. She lived in Midtown Manhattan, and got married to a man from the Bronx. Her husband didn't want to live in Manhattan and they couldn't find an apartment there, so they moved to 49th Street between Skillman and Barnett Avenues. At the end of the street was the private Sunnyside Garden Park. After 16 years in their first home, the moved to 41st Street across from PS 150. She has been there for 33 years.

Subject : Moving, Household; Neighborhoods

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: Sunnyside, Queens and Manhattan, NY Sunnyside (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.) Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg.; Total running time: 0:01:15

Identifier : aql:20638 blunnie_betty_clip1

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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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