Gary Savage, Full Interview
Collection: Queens Museum Oral History Project Records at the Archives at Queens Library: Gary Savage
Date: Time Period: 1964; 2014-10-19; Interview recorded: Oct 19, 2014
Material: Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Adobe Audition. Dimension:
Total running time: 0:04:52
Creator: Gary Savage interviewed by Abigail Banks
Identifier: aql:18392 savage_gary_full
Description: Gary Savage describes his trek from the far reaches of Brooklyn to Queens for the World's Fair. He talks about watching people fall off the escalator headed toward the Hawaii Pavilion and the lifelong influence of the World's Fair pen pal program. He talks about how he became interested in Japan because of the Fair, which ultimately resulted in meeting his wife. He also talks about meeting his Japanese pen pal from the Fair and briefly talks about Disney's World of Tomorrow exhibit.
Creator :
Gary Savage interviewed by Abigail Banks
Date :
Time Period: 1964; 2014-10-19; Interview recorded: Oct 19, 2014
Summary/Description :
Gary Savage describes his trek from the far reaches of Brooklyn to Queens for the World's Fair. He talks about watching people fall off the escalator headed toward the Hawaii Pavilion and the lifelong influence of the World's Fair pen pal program. He talks about how he became interested in Japan because of the Fair, which ultimately resulted in meeting his wife. He also talks about meeting his Japanese pen pal from the Fair and briefly talks about Disney's World of Tomorrow exhibit.
Subject :
Exhibitions
Relation :
Queens Museum Oral History Project Records at the Archives at Queens Library: Gary Savage
Rights :
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Coverage :
Locations discussed: Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, NY Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Japan 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: 0:04:52
Identifier :
aql:18392 savage_gary_full
Rights Notice
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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