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Going to the Movies

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library
Date: 2016 Material: Essay manuscript Dimension: 8.5 x 11 inches; 4 pages
Creator: Steven Wolfe Identifier: aql:33683 qmp-sw-essay-05 qmp-sw-essay-05.pdf

Description: Steven Wolf describes four movie theaters in Sunnyside in the 1950's; he gives their locations, describes them physically, writes what types of films each showed, and talks about movies he saw and incidents that happened to him at each. He writes about his first date at the Bliss Theatre, Seeing "Limelight" at the Sunnyside Theatre, the second run theatre The Center, and the 43rd Street Theatre.

Collection : aql:13844; aql:33733

Creator : Steven Wolfe

Date : 2016

Summary/Description : Steven Wolf describes four movie theaters in Sunnyside in the 1950's; he gives their locations, describes them physically, writes what types of films each showed, and talks about movies he saw and incidents that happened to him at each. He writes about his first date at the Bliss Theatre, Seeing "Limelight" at the Sunnyside Theatre, the second run theatre The Center, and the 43rd Street Theatre.

Subject : Neighborhoods; Motion picture theaters; Children; Teenagers; Nineteen fifties

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

Type : Essay manuscript

Format : Essay manuscript; 8.5 x 11 inches; 4 pages

Identifier : aql:33683 qmp-sw-essay-05 qmp-sw-essay-05.pdf

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Neighborhoods; Motion picture theaters; Children; Teenagers; Nineteen fifties
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