Carol Lee Whiting, Clip 2: Shopping on Main Street

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Carol Lee Whiting

Date: Time Period: 1943 - 1960; 2012-03-27; Interview recorded: March 27 2012 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity. Dimension: Total running time: 0:03:17

Creator: Carol Lee Whiting interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:20632 whiting_carol_lee_clip2

Description: Carol Lee Whiting describes the shops that lined Main Street, Flushing, in the 1940s and 50s. Bakeries, 5 & 10 cent stores, and "mom and pop" stores predominated, and nearly every business was closed on Sundays.

Title : Carol Lee Whiting, Clip 2: Shopping on Main Street

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20685

Creator : Carol Lee Whiting interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1943 - 1960; 2012-03-27; Interview recorded: March 27 2012

Summary/Description : Carol Lee Whiting describes the shops that lined Main Street, Flushing, in the 1940s and 50s. Bakeries, 5 & 10 cent stores, and "mom and pop" stores predominated, and nearly every business was closed on Sundays.

Subject : Shopping; Neighborhoods; Stores, Retail; Store hours

Relation : Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Carol Lee Whiting

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 Audacity.; Total running time: 0:03:17

Identifier : aql:20632 whiting_carol_lee_clip2