Martin Fleischer, Full Interview

Collection: This recording is part of the Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Martin Fleischer and is available in digital audio.

Date: Time Period: 1964 - 1965; 2015-08-10; Interview recorded: August 10, 2015 Material: Digital audio recording made using Zoom H6 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension: Total running time: 0:10:52

Creator: Martin Fleischer Identifier: aql:18468 qmp-mf-000003

Description: Martin Fleischer was born in Brooklyn and moved to Queens around the time of the 1964-65 World's Fair. He describes his experience visiting the fair with his parents on Labor Day Sunday in 1965, mentioning how big and overwhelming it was. He remembers taking the "World's Fair Super Express" train to the fair and finding the Bell Telephone exhibition the most memorable. Martin visited the park several times after the fair and shares a fondness of the fair buildings that still remain, including the Queens Museum and the Hall of Science. The fair left a lasting impression on him, and he wishes that they would bring another fair back to the park.

Title : Martin Fleischer, Full Interview

Collection : aql:20455; aql:18488

Creator : Martin Fleischer

Date : Time Period: 1964 - 1965; 2015-08-10; Interview recorded: August 10, 2015

Summary/Description : Martin Fleischer was born in Brooklyn and moved to Queens around the time of the 1964-65 World's Fair. He describes his experience visiting the fair with his parents on Labor Day Sunday in 1965, mentioning how big and overwhelming it was. He remembers taking the "World's Fair Super Express" train to the fair and finding the Bell Telephone exhibition the most memorable. Martin visited the park several times after the fair and shares a fondness of the fair buildings that still remain, including the Queens Museum and the Hall of Science. The fair left a lasting impression on him, and he wishes that they would bring another fair back to the park.

Subject : New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.); Flushing Camera Club

Relation : This recording is part of the Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Martin Fleischer and is available in digital audio.

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

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 H6 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:10:52

Identifier : aql:18468 qmp-mf-000003