Levent Cimkentli Clip 1: Significance of the World's Fair
Collection: Queens Museum Oral History Project Records at the Archives at Queens Library: Levent Cimkentli
Date: Time Period: 1964 - 1965; 2014-10-05; Interview recorded: Oct 5, 2014
Material: Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Adobe Audition. Dimension:
Total running time: 0:01:46
Creator: Leven Cimkentli interviewed by Deena Bak
Identifier: aql:18362 cimkentli_levent_clip1
Description: Levent Cimkentli's parents were refugees in World War II and emigrated to the US in 1963, where they lived in Indiana briefly but moved to New York to find work in the immigrant community. His father's first job was a janitor at the Ford pavilion at the World's Fair. Although he has no personal recollection of the Fair (he was only a year old), he remembers his parents' and siblings' sense of the “promise of tomorrow†and how important the Fair was to them.
Creator :
Leven Cimkentli interviewed by Deena Bak
Date :
Time Period: 1964 - 1965; 2014-10-05; Interview recorded: Oct 5, 2014
Summary/Description :
Levent Cimkentli's parents were refugees in World War II and emigrated to the US in 1963, where they lived in Indiana briefly but moved to New York to find work in the immigrant community. His father's first job was a janitor at the Ford pavilion at the World's Fair. Although he has no personal recollection of the Fair (he was only a year old), he remembers his parents' and siblings' sense of the “promise of tomorrow†and how important the Fair was to them.
Subject :
New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.)
Relation :
Queens Museum Oral History Project Records at the Archives at Queens Library: Levent Cimkentli
Rights :
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Coverage :
Locations discussed: Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, NY Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
Oral history
Format :
Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Adobe Audition.; Total running time: 0:01:46
Identifier :
aql:18362 cimkentli_levent_clip1
Rights Notice
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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