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Chris Shand, Clip 1: Queens is Not "The City"

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Chris Shand
Date: Time Period: 1970 - 2010; 2010-06-22; Interview recorded: June 22 2010 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg. Dimension: Total running time: 0:01:45
Creator: Chris Shand interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:20590 shand_chris_clip1

Description: As a child growing up in Richmond Hill, Mr. Shand came to understand Manhattan and Brooklyn's status as "The City." He discusses the Jamaica Avenue elevated train, which he remembers closing down some time in the mid-1980's.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20681

Creator : Chris Shand interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1970 - 2010; 2010-06-22; Interview recorded: June 22 2010

Summary/Description : As a child growing up in Richmond Hill, Mr. Shand came to understand Manhattan and Brooklyn's status as "The City." He discusses the Jamaica Avenue elevated train, which he remembers closing down some time in the mid-1980's.

Subject : Transportation; Flushing Hospital Medical Center (New York, N.Y.)

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 Hindenburg.; Total running time: 0:01:45

Identifier : aql:20590 shand_chris_clip1

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Transportation; Flushing Hospital Medical Center (New York, N.Y.)

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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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