Helen Van Dam DiBella, Full Interview
Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Helen Van Dam DiBella
Date: Time Period: 1935 - 1954; 2013-07-14; Interview recorded: July 14, 2013
Material: Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Audacity. Dimension:
Total running time: 0:35:59
Creator: Helen Van Dam DiBella
Identifier: aql:20428 qmp-hvdd-full-000004
Description: Helen Van Dam DiBella grew up in Bayside as one of six siblings. She describes her childhood as "poor but happy", with street games, radio shows and the movies for entertainment. World War II was most apparent to her in the neighborhood air raid drills, the ration stamps she took to the market to buy sugar, and the Victory Garden in which her father grew vegetables. Both of her brothers served in the Army during the war years, and she recalls the many soldiers stationed at Fort Totten who spent their off-duty hours strolling on nearby Bell Boulevard.
Creator :
Helen Van Dam DiBella
Date :
Time Period: 1935 - 1954; 2013-07-14; Interview recorded: July 14, 2013
Summary/Description :
Helen Van Dam DiBella grew up in Bayside as one of six siblings. She describes her childhood as "poor but happy", with street games, radio shows and the movies for entertainment. World War II was most apparent to her in the neighborhood air raid drills, the ration stamps she took to the market to buy sugar, and the Victory Garden in which her father grew vegetables. Both of her brothers served in the Army during the war years, and she recalls the many soldiers stationed at Fort Totten who spent their off-duty hours strolling on nearby Bell Boulevard.
Subject :
Neighborhoods; World War, 1939-1945; Ethnic relations
Rights :
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Coverage :
Locations discussed: Bayside, Queens, NY; Wantagh, NY Bayside (New York, N.Y.) Wantagh (N.Y.) Nassau County (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: 0:35:59
Identifier :
aql:20428 qmp-hvdd-full-000004
Rights Notice
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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