Jim Sheridan, Clip 3: Family Legacy at the West Side Tennis Club

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Jim Sheridan

Date: Time Period: 1930 - 2013; 2013-08-09; Interview recorded: August 9, 2013 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Adobe Sound Booth. Dimension: Total running time: 0:04:42

Creator: Jim Sheridan Interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:19441 qmp-jm-clip-000003

Description: Jim Sheridan's father, Owney Sheridan moved to New York from Ireland in the 1920s. He started as a grounds worker at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills around 1932 and worked his way up to the head groundskeeper position where he worked until retirement in 1978. Jim began working at the club in 1964 as a 14 year-old and continued working there throughout his high school and college years. He graduated with a horticulture degree from Cornell and worked first for the government and then for Fordham University before returning after his father's retirement to serve as the groundskeeper for the West Side Tennis Club for 20 years. He left his full time post at the club in 2000 to start his own business, but continues to work with the club as a grounds consultant.

Title : Jim Sheridan, Clip 3: Family Legacy at the West Side Tennis Club

Collection : aql:20455; aql:19471

Creator : Jim Sheridan Interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1930 - 2013; 2013-08-09; Interview recorded: August 9, 2013

Summary/Description : Jim Sheridan's father, Owney Sheridan moved to New York from Ireland in the 1920s. He started as a grounds worker at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills around 1932 and worked his way up to the head groundskeeper position where he worked until retirement in 1978. Jim began working at the club in 1964 as a 14 year-old and continued working there throughout his high school and college years. He graduated with a horticulture degree from Cornell and worked first for the government and then for Fordham University before returning after his father's retirement to serve as the groundskeeper for the West Side Tennis Club for 20 years. He left his full time post at the club in 2000 to start his own business, but continues to work with the club as a grounds consultant.

Subject : Children of immigrants; Tennis clubs; West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y.

Relation : Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Jim Sheridan

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

Coverage : Locations discussed: West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, Queens, NY Forest Hills (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Adobe Sound Booth.; Total running time: 0:04:42

Identifier : aql:19441 qmp-jm-clip-000003