The Best Thing
Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library
Date: 2016
Material: Essay manuscript Dimension:
8.5 x 11 inches; 2 pages
Creator: Robert Mehrer
Identifier: aql:33644 qmp-mehrer-bob-essay qmp-mehrer-bob-essay.pdf
Description: Bob Mehrer writes about growing up in Sunnyside in the 1950's. He describes a wood lot on the corner of 43rd Street and Skillman Avenue, where all the kids from ages 5 - 15 used to paly until it was razed for housing development. He also gives other snapshots and descriptions of characters in the neighborhood at the time, an organ grinder, Halloween nights, and more. [Robert Mehrer is Joanna (Mehrer) Kapner brother]
Creator :
Robert Mehrer
Date :
2016
Summary/Description :
Bob Mehrer writes about growing up in Sunnyside in the 1950's. He describes a wood lot on the corner of 43rd Street and Skillman Avenue, where all the kids from ages 5 - 15 used to paly until it was razed for housing development. He also gives other snapshots and descriptions of characters in the neighborhood at the time, an organ grinder, Halloween nights, and more. [Robert Mehrer is Joanna (Mehrer) Kapner brother]
Subject :
Biography; Children; Urban parks; Meher, Robert
Rights :
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Coverage :
Sunnyside, Queens, NY Sunnyside (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
Essay manuscript
Format :
Essay manuscript; 8.5 x 11 inches; 2 pages
Identifier :
aql:33644 qmp-mehrer-bob-essay qmp-mehrer-bob-essay.pdf
Subject:
Biography; Children; Urban parks; Meher, Robert
Biography; Children; Urban parks; Meher, Robert
Rights Notice
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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