Sal Porio, Clip 1: Childhood
Collection: StoryCorps Collection at The Archives at Queens Library
Date: Time Period: 1940 - 1950; 2008-06-29; Interview recorded: June 29, 2008
Material: Digital audio recording made using a digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension:
Total running time: 0:07:052
Creator: Sal Porio interviewed by Laura Porio Silence
Identifier: aql:22317 scc-sp-clip-000001
Description: Sal Porio recalls stories of friends and boyhood mischief when growing up in Astoria. He tells anecdotes about his landlord, Willie "The Ice", who he believed to be a bookie with high-roller clients, his family dog that they had to give up, a teacher who taught him and his friends for six years, and how he met his friend Jimmy at P.S. 7.
Creator :
Sal Porio interviewed by Laura Porio Silence
Date :
Time Period: 1940 - 1950; 2008-06-29; Interview recorded: June 29, 2008
Summary/Description :
Sal Porio recalls stories of friends and boyhood mischief when growing up in Astoria. He tells anecdotes about his landlord, Willie "The Ice", who he believed to be a bookie with high-roller clients, his family dog that they had to give up, a teacher who taught him and his friends for six years, and how he met his friend Jimmy at P.S. 7.
Subject :
Children; Bookmakers (Gambling)
Rights :
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.; 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
Coverage :
Locations discussed: Astoria, Queens, NY Astoria (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
Oral history
Format :
Digital audio recording made using a digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:07:052
Identifier :
aql:22317 scc-sp-clip-000001
Rights Notice
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.; 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.; 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
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