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Natalie Mansbach Clip 1: Class Trip to the World's Fair

Collection: Queens Museum Oral History Project Records at the Archives at Queens Library: Natalie Mansbach
Date: Time Period: 1964; 2014-07-30; Interview recorded: Jul 30, 2014 Material: Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Audacity. Dimension: Total running time: 0:02:27
Creator: Natalie Mansbach interviewed by Abigail Banks Identifier: aql:18427 mansbach_natalie_clip1

Description: Natalie Mansbach has both positive and negative memories of the 1964 World's Fair. She describes the experience of taking her first middle school class from Brooklyn to the Fair. At the end of the day, Ms. Mansbach did her student head-count only to find one student missing. She panicked about what to do and worried she would lose her job over it. They searched for the student, who they later learned had caught the train home without telling anyone. Her positive memories include her first taste of Belgian waffles at the Fair.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:18354

Creator : Natalie Mansbach interviewed by Abigail Banks

Date : Time Period: 1964; 2014-07-30; Interview recorded: Jul 30, 2014

Summary/Description : Natalie Mansbach has both positive and negative memories of the 1964 World's Fair. She describes the experience of taking her first middle school class from Brooklyn to the Fair. At the end of the day, Ms. Mansbach did her student head-count only to find one student missing. She panicked about what to do and worried she would lose her job over it. They searched for the student, who they later learned had caught the train home without telling anyone. Her positive memories include her first taste of Belgian waffles at the Fair.

Subject : New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.); School field trips

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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 Audacity.; Total running time: 0:02:27

Identifier : aql:18427 mansbach_natalie_clip1

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