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Annalou Christensen, Clip 6: Businesses in downtown Flushing

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Annalou Christensen
Date: Time Period: 1920 - 2010; 2010-06-22; Interview recorded: June 29 2010 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity. Dimension: Total running time: 0:01:00
Creator: Annalou Christensen interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:20471 christensen_annalou_clip6

Description: Annalou Christensen describes the businesses that used to exist in downtown Flushing. There was Abramson's Department Store, little specialty shops, shoe stores, book stores, and Miller and Mack which sold men's clothes - all the boys from Flushing High went there. There were no restaurants, but there were ice cream parlors- one called Jahn's was located next to the Prospect Theater.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20659

Creator : Annalou Christensen interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1920 - 2010; 2010-06-22; Interview recorded: June 29 2010

Summary/Description : Annalou Christensen describes the businesses that used to exist in downtown Flushing. There was Abramson's Department Store, little specialty shops, shoe stores, book stores, and Miller and Mack which sold men's clothes - all the boys from Flushing High went there. There were no restaurants, but there were ice cream parlors- one called Jahn's was located next to the Prospect Theater.

Subject : Stores, Retail; Shopping; Ice cream parlors; Bookstores; Shoe stores; Motion picture theaters; Jahn's (Restaurant : Richmond Hill, New York, N.Y.); Prospect Theatre

Rights : This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Waldheim, Flushing, Queens, NY Flushing (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity.; Total running time: 0:01:00

Identifier : aql:20471 christensen_annalou_clip6

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Stores, Retail; Shopping; Ice cream parlors; Bookstores; Shoe stores; Motion picture theaters; Jahn's (Restaurant : Richmond Hill, New York, N.Y.); Prospect Theatre

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This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.


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