Richard Hourahan, Clip 5: 1970s in Flushing

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Richard Hourahan

Date: Time Period: 1900 - 2010; 2010-07-06; Interview recorded: July 6 2010 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg. Dimension: Total running time: 0:01:40

Creator: Richard Hourahan interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:20600 hourahan_richard_clip5

Description: Mr. Hourahan relates that in 1970, his wife's cousins used to go to a Japanese store on Main Street to buy rice. Most of the other stores were boarded up, and the area was empty at night. Past Roosevelt Avenue the area seemed derelict.

Title : Richard Hourahan, Clip 5: 1970s in Flushing

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20667

Creator : Richard Hourahan interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1900 - 2010; 2010-07-06; Interview recorded: July 6 2010

Summary/Description : Mr. Hourahan relates that in 1970, his wife's cousins used to go to a Japanese store on Main Street to buy rice. Most of the other stores were boarded up, and the area was empty at night. Past Roosevelt Avenue the area seemed derelict.

Subject : Grocery shopping; Abandoned buildings; Recessions

Relation : Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Richard Hourahan

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: 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: 0:01:40

Identifier : aql:20600 hourahan_richard_clip5