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Childhood Friends on John Street

Collection: StoryCorps Collection at The Archives at Queens Library
Date: circa 1949; 1944 Material: Black and white photograph Dimension: 5.63 x 5.91 inches; 400 dpi
Creator: Sal Porio Identifier: aql:22250 scc-sp-000002 scc-sp-000002.tif

Description: Sal Porio (4th from the left) sits with his neighborhood friends on John Street in Astoria. The street was only a block long and it was a favorite spot for street games, near the intersection of 21st Street and 28th Avenue in Astoria. Porio describes it in the interview he did with his daughter, Laura, in 2008.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:22325

Creator : Sal Porio

Date : circa 1949; 1944

Summary/Description : Sal Porio (4th from the left) sits with his neighborhood friends on John Street in Astoria. The street was only a block long and it was a favorite spot for street games, near the intersection of 21st Street and 28th Avenue in Astoria. Porio describes it in the interview he did with his daughter, Laura, in 2008.

Subject : Portraits; Neighborhoods; Children; Teenagers; Boys

Rights : Produced by John White with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org; Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Astoria, Queens, NY Astoria (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Black and white photograph

Format : Black and white photograph; 5.63 x 5.91 inches; 400 dpi

Identifier : aql:22250 scc-sp-000002 scc-sp-000002.tif

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Subject:
Portraits; Neighborhoods; Children; Teenagers; Boys
Rights Notice
Produced by John White with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. www.storycorps.org; Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.


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