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School was easier in the US compared to in Istanbul, and she later went to Jamaica High School, which at the time was one of the best schools in the city.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShe talks about the different shops and movie theaters on Jamaica Avenue in the 1960’s and going to the library on Parsons Boulevard, and what she would do as a teenager with her friends in the area. By High School her father had moved to St. Sarkis Armenian Apostolic Church in Bayside, and after a few dangerous incidents - including their house in Jamaica being broken into - the family moved to  Kew Gardens / Briarwood  in 1974 where there were more Armenians living.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAni Kelejian Esayan worked as a court interpreter for Armenian and Turkish speakers in NYC.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAni Kelejian Esayan: (18:05)\u003cbr\u003e“No, there was no such thing as a special ESL classes or anything like that. No, you just go into the class and sit there like a dummy and you do your best. But I was distinguished because of my ability with math. I know the teachers used to say, Oh, look, she knows how to do that.”\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright 2021 Ani Kelejian Esayan, Linda Ganjian, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. 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In 1960 at age 12 she and her family moved to Jamaica, Queens when her father took a job as a priest at St. Illuminators Armenian Apostolic church in Manhattan. \u0026nbsp;Esayan describes how safe Jamaica was when she moved there, and also the different ethnicities on 168th Street where she lived - there were not many Armenians, but she would look out for them at shops, and made an Armenian friend at school. School was easier in the US compared to in Istanbul, and she later went to Jamaica High School, which at the time was one of the best schools in the city.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShe talks about the different shops and movie theaters on Jamaica Avenue in the 1960\u0026rsquo;s and going to the library on Parsons Boulevard, and what she would do as a teenager with her friends in the area. By High School her father had moved to St. Sarkis Armenian Apostolic Church in Bayside, and after a few dangerous incidents - including their house in Jamaica being broken into - the family moved to \u0026nbsp;Kew Gardens / Briarwood \u0026nbsp;in 1974 where there were more Armenians living.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAni Kelejian Esayan worked as a court interpreter for Armenian and Turkish speakers in NYC.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAni Kelejian Esayan: (18:05)\u003cbr /\u003e\u0026ldquo;No, there was no such thing as a special ESL classes or anything like that. No, you just go into the class and sit there like a dummy and you do your best. But I was distinguished because of my ability with math. I know the teachers used to say, Oh, look, she knows how to do that.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright 2021 Ani Kelejian Esayan, Linda Ganjian, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. 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So I know you were born in Istanbul--\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1.0,4.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: I was trained by my mother not to ever tell \n[my age].\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4.0,9.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=9.0,9.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: I was trained by my mother, who never divulged her age.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=9.0,15.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Okay. What year were you born and were you born in Istanbul?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=15.0,23.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes, I was. In Üsküdar.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=23.0,27.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Üsküdar. Okay.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=27.0,29.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=29.0,29.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: And what year was that?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=29.0,33.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: 1947\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=33.0,35.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Okay. So tell me, how did you arrive in Queens? How did you end up in Queens or Jamaica? And how old were you?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=35.0,47.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: My father--\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=47.0,49.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=49.0,51.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: I'm born in October, so I was 12 in October. So we came in January 16, 1960. My father was here before us and, we came in a KLM airplane. Anyway, my father had a job here. He was a priest and he was assigned to St. Illuminators Armenian Apostolic church in Manhattan. It was the Cathedral. And the address is 27th street, I think it's 227 East 27th.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=51.0,112.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yes. So he came here for a job. And so his family followed him, right?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=112.0,121.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=121.0,121.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Okay. And you were 12 years old, you were saying?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=121.0,125.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=125.0,126.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Do you remember, did he have a house set up in Jamaica before you came here?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=126.0,135.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. Everything was set up for us. He was told that Jamaica was a good place for us to live. It was a safe neighborhood. And so that's where he rented the house. In fact, we were told that this was a very expensive area at that time. Other people were paying $60 a month in apartments and we were paying a hundred dollars a month. I remember that. So it was like a high rent area. It was a two family house attached on one side. So there were two buildings together. And then there was another two buildings together. We had a front porch and after the porch came the living room and then the dining room, separate dining room and kitchen. And the two bedrooms were in the back with the bathroom. There were all windows on all the sides of the house. I remember this well because our landlord used to make us wash them every week. He was German. Well, 168 was a very busy street. So a lot of dust. There was a bus going through, too. I don't know which bus it was. He used to get up on the steps, used to wash everything outside and then he used to tell us, now you have to do the inside.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=135.0,250.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: And did he live upstairs or downstairs?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=250.0,255.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: He lived next door to us, not in the attached house, but in the next two that were attached. We were on the first floor, yes. And I want to explain that the doors had locks that were very easy to open and it was all glass, you know, the pane glass doors.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=255.0,287.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Like French doors?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=287.0,291.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: No, the entrance doors.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=291.0,296.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So people could see into your apartment or did you have a curtain?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=296.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Well, no. We had a curtain that covered it. But what I'm trying to say is, now that I'm thinking, it would have been very easy for somebody to break the glass and just open the door.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=300.0,314.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. Not very safe.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=314.0,317.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: In those days my mother used to leave the door open and go pick up my sister from school. And I used to just come and open the door. I didn't have a key, I just opened the door. That's how safe we felt there.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=317.0,336.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. That's amazing. Your address was 89-19 168th street, right?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=336.0,348.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Correct. Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=348.0,349.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: I just want to state that. So as a twelve-year-old, do you remember any details, like from a different country to Jamaica? What struck you when you arrived?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=349.0,368.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Our house was perfectly furnished for us. Our rooms were made just perfect. I mean, we had beautiful white furniture with pink walls. Everything was just so. My father had even bought us toys and dolls and things like that. So when we entered the apartment, it didn't feel like our apartment, but it was perfect. I mean, there was nothing missing. The kitchen was up to— The only thing that struck me was that everything looked so old in this apartment. We came from a brand new apartment house in Istanbul. And we had the latest fridge and all that stuff. When we came here though, it was like an old fridge and we were so surprised. We thought in America, everything should be so different, but I think my father wanted to make sure that we don't feel strange when we came in and that we had everything.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=368.0,439.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: I'm sure he wanted you to feel that. What do you remember about the neighborhood?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=439.0,446.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: The neighborhood was very nice and very clean because my German landlord used to sweep the streets and wash it every single morning. As soon as I woke up, I'd see him outside just cleaning and washing. And next door in the attached house were Greek immigrants. And my father spoke perfect Greek because at the time Istanbul was full of Greeks when he was growing up, but they were not very friendly people. So I was very surprised. I know there were some Jewish people, I know in one of the houses. And there were a lesbian couple in one of the houses. But I didn't know this because I didn't know what a lesbian was. But later one night there was a horrible commotion out there. Cops came and all those things and they were fighting about some other woman. It was a jealousy issue and they were beating each other up on the street. So that was one commotion. And my sister and I, we learned about lesbians.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=446.0,547.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: OK. From that incident?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=547.0,554.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Right across from us, right directly across was a church, a church building actually. So it's not like one of those storefront churches. A regular church and with a parish house. And I don't know what denomination it was, but it was a black church, an African-American church. They used to come in beautiful cars, Cadillacs, and really classy cars and dressed to the hilt every Sunday. So that was like watching a fashion show.across from us, right directly across was a church, a church building actually. So it's not like one of those storefront churches. A regular church and with a parish house. And I don't know what denomination it was, but it was a black church, an African-American church. They used to come in beautiful cars, Cadillacs, and really classy cars and dress to the hilt every Sunday. So that was like watching a fashion show. Quiet, no noise, nothing. It was—\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=554.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. And did you say? go ahead.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=600.0,604.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: I am very curious now. I tried to find it to see what church that was and I couldn't.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=604.0,612.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Oh. I will look on Google maps and I'll let you know if it's still— I imagine it's still there. There's a lot of churches still in Jamaica.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=612.0,622.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Well, the building itself must be there or they took it down and built something else. I don't know.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=622.0,627.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Did you say your father knew the priest there?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=627.0,635.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: They used to greet each other, but I know that my father used to go down to South Jamaica because he used to get invited to these places and he used to go and be part of whatever they were doing.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=635.0,654.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Like he'd be invited?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=654.0,656.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. Like Martin Luther King, all these holidays or whatever it was. When he got invited, he went. He was a very friendly person.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=656.0,669.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: That's great. And did they know that he was Armenian? Like, did they understand where he was from?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=669.0,677.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yeah, I don't know if they knew where he was from, but they knew he was part of the Armenian church, yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=677.0,686.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. So they saw him as a religious man or appreciated him.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=686.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. I never went to these things with him, so I don't know, but I had seen pictures and other things and when he died, people came to his funeral and from then, I knew.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=690.0,706.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. That's so interesting. Do you remember physically what the neighborhood was like when you walked around? 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So she used to dream that this was her house in Istanbul and she was looking out the window and seeing the sea, the Bosphorus. \n[laughing]\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=724.0,791.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So in 1960, what was the neighborhood like demographically? What was the makeup? Was it white?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=791.0,803.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: It was \n[white]. Besides the black, the African-American church across from us. It never occurred to me to think about it like that. It was just there and no, there were no other—I don't know, there was no Hispanics and there was no other—I think we were the only strange people there. \n[laughing] Immigrants, I guess.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=803.0,836.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: You were probably the only Armenians in Jamaica at that time. Did you feel that way?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=836.0,842.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: At that time, yes, that's the way we felt, but I went to junior high school 217 and that's like two stations away from where we lived. Of course I had a pass to go on the subway, but I never did. I used to leave early in the morning and walk and someplace along there, I found an Armenian store, a cleaning shop. They were a very old couple, I don't remember their names, but it was like I looked for Armenians, you know? And the other incident was I walk into Macy's with my sister and I hear somebody talking Armenian there. And it was a mother on the phone with her son. And she was at the beauty section; she was a sales lady and my God, we were so happy. And we immediately went and asked the lady if she was Armenian. And of course, who else is going to speak Armenian but an Armenian.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=842.0,920.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. That's funny,\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=920.0,927.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Close to Sutphin Boulevard on Jamaica Avenue, there was a furrier called Suzanne's \n[phonetic] Parisian Furs. They were Armenian. They were a couple that came from Marseilles, France—originally, of course, from a Western Armenia.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=927.0,952.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. So there were some Armenians around, but not many,\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=952.0,959.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Not like a neighborhood because these people I know lived in Kew Gardens. Their business was there and, from what I understand, they owned a lot of real estate there.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=959.0,975.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: I see. Interesting. What do you remember if anything of your elementary school and then junior high?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=975.0,986.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: I went to junior high directly.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=986.0,991.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Oh, yes, because you were 12.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=991.0,993.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: It was different from our schools, of course. We were freer. We were not that disciplined, like we were in Istanbul and, of course I went to Armenian school there. But I was very good in math, which I wasn't in Turkey \n[laughing]. Only because we just knew more. I mean, everything that we learned, we already knew algebra and everything else that came along. So I didn't even have to speak English. They just thought I was a genius.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=993.0,1045.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: That's funny.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1045.0,1046.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: But I could tell you that I was not, I just knew more. And it was very helpful because I also had taken French, so I didn't have to learn a new alphabet. The Turkish alphabet is the same as English. So it was not difficult at all. I learned English quickly. And even when I didn't know, I was able to pass the test because I could detect the verb. I could separate the things because of the other languages I knew.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1046.0,1084.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Were there special classes?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1084.0,1085.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: No, there was no such thing as a special ESL classes or anything like that. No, you just go into the class and sit there like a dummy and you do your best. But I was distinguished because of my ability with math. I know the teachers used to say, Oh, look, she knows how to do that.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1085.0,1114.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: And do you remember, Were there other kids who were also recent immigrants?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1114.0,1119.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Oh yes. There was one Turkish girl whose parents were doctors. But she was there a long time before me and she wouldn't speak to me in Turkish. Because she told me that if she speaks to me in Turkish, I'm not going to learn English. Anyway, she was a snotty thing. \n[laughing] But when I told my parents, they invited the parents over to our house, made a big dinner and all that. And I think we had gone— but I quickly made other friends, so she was not important to me.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1119.0,1166.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: And what do you remember of your other friends?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1166.0,1171.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: They were mostly friends that I didn't invite to the house only because they did not live in my neighborhood. So they were far away. And by the time we came out of school, it was already late, you know, and I had another life with the Armenian community. But at school, I noticed a girl, because we used to get on line outside before we entered the school. So as I'm waiting, I noticed a girl and I said to myself, now that girl looks Armenian. So I see her a few times. And then I decide, wait a minute, I'm going to go and talk to her. If she says, I'm not, what's the big thing. So I went over and I said, are you Armenian? She looked up at me. And she said, yes. And her name was Beatrice Hayrabedian \n[phonetic]. She was a recent immigrant from Romania. At that time, they had a lot of Armenian Romanians coming here, Armenians and Romanians and Bulgarians. I mean, they were Armenian. There was an organization called ANCHA that brought Armenian immigrants here from Soviet countries.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1171.0,1264.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: I didn't know about that. What was it called?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1264.0,1271.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: A N C H A, I think.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1271.0,1275.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: And that's an acronym for something.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1275.0,1277.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. They used to come to the cathedral on 27th street church. They used to bring them and then they used to keep them there for a few days, feed them and everything, put them in hotels and then they try to find them jobs, apartments and all that. So most of these people ended up in Sunnyside, New York.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1277.0,1304.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Exactly. Yes. I know there's a big community there.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1304.0,1307.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: So there was a big community. They were all originally from Romania or Bulgaria.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1307.0,1316.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So you found her at —do you remember the name of your middle school?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1316.0,1326.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: It was junior high school 217.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1326.0,1331.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: 217. So was it called—\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1331.0,1334.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Sutphin Boulevard? No, we didn't have IS—those things. My sister went to PS 95. That was in the seventies. It was pretty far away from us, and there was bus service, but the first day that she was on the bus, the bus driver let her off at the wrong spot. And after that, my mother used to go pick her up.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1334.0,1367.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: But you went to PS 217. And do you remember anything else from that school?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1367.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: We had cooking classes, sewing classes. That was very different for me. I enjoyed it because I entered this huge place and they had separate kitchens and we learned a few simple things to make, which I still use. I learned how to make jello there and very simple Italian tomato sauce. I mean, these things are ingrained in me now.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1380.0,1416.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. That's very good. Very basic.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1416.0,1419.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: So we used to cook. And then we used to sit down and have dinner, how to set a table—you know, certain things that are important in life.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1419.0,1431.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: That's great.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1431.0,1433.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Oh, the other thing with this school was there was a huge property with a beautiful house in there. It was sort of dilapidated, but I could see that it's an old house, but beautiful. And they had children there who were, they didn't have fathers and mothers. It was like an orphanage or whatever you call them, I don't know. But I remember that these kids came and they were not dressed well, they were not really clean. And they were always in trouble, somehow.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1433.0,1475.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. So they came to your school?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1475.0,1479.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. It was right next door, really, the building. And I used to wonder, I couldn't imagine why did these children not have parents. 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Did you feel like a foreigner?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1534.0,1540.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: I didn't feel. No. No, because it didn't take me long to learn English and, I didn't come from a very strange culture. You know, my mother was educated, my father was educated. 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And one of the little old ladies came to me and said, \"You see? You do this and the light goes on.\" And she showed me the switch. \n[laughing] And I never forget that because they had come from, I don't know where, during the \n[Ottoman era Armenian] massacres, a village some place. So I was saying, \"yes, we had electricity.\"\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1571.0,1615.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: That's so funny. So do you remember what would you do after school or weekends, I know you probably went to church with your father, I imagine every Sunday, right?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1615.0,1630.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. Of course we had to. \n[laughing] No, but it wasn't a bad experience because we had lots of grandmas and grandpas there and aunts and uncles, but Jamaica was a vibrant place and we shopped at Food Fair.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1630.0,1664.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Was it a grocery store, a big supermarket?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1664.0,1665.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. It was a big supermarket next to the precinct. And right next to the store, there was Macy's no, excuse me, May's Department store, yes. So that was partially our entertainment. The big food store was amazing for us because we had never seen anything like that. In Turkey, it was all specialty, you know? And I'm not talking about now. That many years ago, we had separate butchers and you know, everything was separate. This was like one place you enter and everything is there. And everybody knew us because my father was very friendly, blessing everybody. \n[laughing] And he was also so proud of his white \n[religious] collar that he put up, no matter what. I was looking at some pictures, even when he's barbecuing in the yard, he still had his collar on.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1665.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So he never took it off.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1740.0,1743.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes, even at home, I remember when we sat down for dinner, he was always dressed up and that white collar was so important to him because he was not allowed to use it in Turkey. \n[Interviewee's note: \"In the 60s most Armenians that came to the USA from Istanbul were financially secure. They came because they wanted religious freedom.\"]\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1743.0,1765.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: He never worked as a priest in Turkey? You said—\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1765.0,1768.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: He did.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1768.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: But he couldn't wear the collar in public?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1770.0,1772.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: No. I don't know what happens now, but in those days you were not allowed to. I remember when we went out \n[in Turkey], we were told to put our crosses inside \n[our clothing]. Make sure you don't show your cross, make sure you don't show it or speak outside in Armenian. So you were warned all the time. So the freedom that you feel here, that you could speak and do whatever you want, it was a big deal for us.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1772.0,1805.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. I can imagine.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1805.0,1807.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: So Jamaica, the other place of course was Mays. Then we used to go to Lanston \n[phonetic]. I think it was right next to Mays.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1807.0,1822.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Lanston \n[phonetic], what is that?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1822.0,1825.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Lanston \n[phonetic]? Yes. It was a place like Woolworth, like a five and 10 dime store.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1825.0,1832.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Oh. Like a five and 10. And was Mays a department store. Did it have everything?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1832.0,1840.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Mays was a department store; it had everything. I'm not going to say bargain, but it was a more affordable place, but they did have imported things from Italy that my mother used to pick. But the most important store there was the Gertz. That's where our furniture had come from. And for special occasions, like for Easter and Christmas, our outfits came from there.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1840.0,1891.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So that was the most upscale.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1891.0,1898.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: That was like sort of the end of Jamaica for us. Once you got to Gertz, things changed from there. But at that time, the library was on Parsons Boulevard. So we used to walk to the library with my mother. She was an avid reader. So we were there all the time in the library and we had librarians helping us with whatever we needed. So then, I think right before we moved out of there, the library came very close to us, where the bus terminal was. Is there a bus terminal still there?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1898.0,1952.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. It's on Merrick Boulevard.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1952.0,1956.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: So whenever I wanted— Well, on Sundays after we came home, sometimes my father used to send me out, listen to this, to buy him cigarettes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1956.0,1968.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Oh! And where would you buy them from?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1968.0,1972.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Well, it's right in the bus terminal. There was like a magazine and they sold magazines, papers, soda and things like that. So he used to give me money and I used to go and ask for Kent 100s.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1972.0,1999.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: And at that time there were no laws about selling cigarettes to young girls.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=1999.0,2006.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: So I bought magazines. That was the big thing, magazines and also comic books.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2006.0,2012.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Okay. Do you remember any comic books that you bought?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2012.0,2016.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes, those Veronica and Archie comics. I had so many of them piled up in our basement in Jamaica. When we moved, foolishly, I just put them in the garbage. Now my son is telling me those things are collected.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2016.0,2037.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. Collector items. Do you remember any of the theaters?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2037.0,2048.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. Yes. Valencia and right across from Valencia, there was, I can't remember the name, but there was another theater with a nice front, but nothing like Valencia.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2048.0,2063.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: It was the Alden. I think the RKO Alden?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2063.0,2068.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Maybe. Yes. I remember going from—my mother was crazy about Paul Newman and there was a movie playing, a Paul Newman. I don't even know the name, which one it was, but there was a Paul Newman film in both of them. So I remember being very bored, but she took me from one to the other. We finished watching one and then we crossed the street for another. But it was a very boring film. I think it was Hud.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2068.0,2109.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Okay. I don't know it. So was one of them at the Valencia?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2109.0,2114.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. One was at Valencia and the other one was across the street.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2114.0,2118.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Okay. So did you go to the Valencia often?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2118.0,2124.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. Very often. So everybody knew us there, but Monday's was my father's day off. And if we had no school he used to give us money, and also my friend Beatrice, and we used to go and sit there and watch two movies and cartoons. Eat hot dogs, all sponsored by my father. But I don't remember now how much it was. 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That was sponsored by my father. I don't know, junk stuff, probably. Oh, records, records, those 45 records. And I don't know, I might have wanted something that I saw, that I didn't ask my parents to buy me. I don't remember now what. We did eat with my sister at different places. With the family, we used to go to the Trio \n[phonetic] diner. I don't know if it's still there.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2193.0,2234.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: I haven't seen it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2234.0,2236.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: This was on Hillside Avenue. It was a Greek diner. Very upscale, very delicious fish. I mean, at that time we used to go there to eat shrimp and fish, with the family and even alone. After we grew up a little bit, my parents were always busy—wedding, this and that. And we used to be alone and we used to walk, let's go to Trio. Everybody knew us there.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2236.0,2268.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So you had freedom as a teenager to go out?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2268.0,2273.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Freedom in those things. No dating. But otherwise my parents were not strict and my mother wanted us to know everything. She said that will build character. And also it will be good in, we could judge others that way. So there were no secrets or things like, you can't do this, you don't do that. The only thing was no dating. Boys were out of the question.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2273.0,2308.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Let me see. Did you ever go to the Merrick movie theater? Do you remember that one? It has a really beautiful facade.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2308.0,2316.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: I went there, but it was for regular movies. It wasn't like Valencia. The other thing with Valencia was when we first got there, they used to have a young guy standing in front of the movie house with a cloak that was lined with red, dressed formal. And he used to welcome people. And there were a lot of religious movies in those years that played, like Moses movies and, I don't remember the names, but I often see them on TV.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2316.0,2358.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Were they the Charleston Heston movies.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2358.0,2360.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. So when we used to go as a family, they would let us in free. They used to let my father and you know, my father blessed everybody and we walked in. They wouldn't take money from us. \n[laughing\n[\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2360.0,2379.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Oh, that's so funny. Oh my God. Do you remember, there was a store next to Gertz called Kurtz, G Kurtz with a K, K U R T Z.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2379.0,2397.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Was it furniture?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2397.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: It was more furniture, I think. Yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2400.0,2402.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. It was furniture. Yes. I don't remember being there because my mother liked Gertz and that's where our original furniture had come from. 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There's some beautiful banks on Jamaica Avenue?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2423.0,2434.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: No, because there was a bank, the bank I went to was not that beautiful. It was on the same line as Macy's. So what street is that. Is that 164th street?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2434.0,2448.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Something like that. Yeah. The Macy's became the Colosseum mall, right?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2448.0,2455.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yeah. It's a mall now, but before there was traffic there.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2455.0,2463.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Okay. Okay. Yeah. I'm not sure. I think it's 165th.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2463.0,2468.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: There was Baker's shoes. I don't know if you've ever heard of it. And there was a men's store, Wallax \n[phonetic]. Maybe. I'm not sure if that's the right name. And there was a Singer store. I bought a used \n[sewing] machine in there.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2468.0,2499.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: This was all on the same block as the Macy's?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2499.0,2504.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Same block as Macy's. Yes. Now that you're saying it's the mall.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2504.0,2508.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. Now it's a pedestrian corridor.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2508.0,2513.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: It wasn't then. Plymouth Shops. Did you ever hear of that?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2513.0,2521.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2521.0,2525.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: That's when I became a teenager, that was the place. I used to buy clothes, beautiful clothes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2525.0,2535.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: And the quality?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2535.0,2539.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Later on, leather goods, they used to have French bags, handbags and everything. I still have one. Beautiful leather bags and also they had wallets from Germany, I remember. Accessories of all kinds, jewelry, fake jewelry. That was the place to go to it. Wasn't just in Jamaica. It was in many other places.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2539.0,2581.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. I've heard of it. What would you do for fun with your friends as a teenager.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2581.0,2596.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Went to the Trio diner. What else did we do? Movies.Of course again, mostly Valencia. But then we also used to walk to Sutphin Boulevard. There was a movie \n[house] there that had foreign movies. It was not luxurious, like the Valencia or anything. It was just like one of those very dark and dreary places. But they showed foreign movies, Italian movies, French movies. 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So it was a top, top school. And there were three kinds of diplomas you could get. If you wanted to go to college, you had to get the academic diploma, which required Regents. And then there was a commercial diploma, which many people took, but you actually came out as a secretary, shorthand and typing and all that. And then there was general diploma that anybody could get. I was all in special classes. By then, what were they called? You had to have above 90 average to be in them—honors classes. Yes. Mostly because I was very good in French. I read a lot. I loved English and that was one of the things that was a rude awakening. When I went to college, my first English course, she gave me a C. I was going to die. I thought I was perfect in everything. \n[laughing] I guess I wasn't.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2650.0,2762.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: But you feel like Jamaica high school was pretty rigorous. The education?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2762.0,2767.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Very. Well, for what I was doing. I mean, you could be in other classes that didn't require all that, like the general diploma.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2767.0,2774.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2774.0,2777.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: And there were no African-Americans in my classes. My sister, who came there after four years. I think it became more and more.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2777.0,2794.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. So this is the mid sixties I'm guessing.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2794.0,2801.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2801.0,2801.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So what year did you graduate from the high school?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2801.0,2805.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: 66\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2805.0,2809.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Okay. But were there African-Americans in the other programs or they just weren't in the school at all?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2809.0,2818.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: No, there were some, but it wasn't like predominantly. And, I don't remember even seeing them in the cafeteria or anything. It just never occurred to me to know that, you know, they're supposed to be there.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2818.0,2839.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: But I also have, during that time, when I was in high school, I had a lot of Turkish friends. Actually, they were from Crimea originally and their parents were taken to German camps. So Turkey took them back into Turkey after the camps. And so they were allowed to come into the United States with green cards with no problem. Their parents had found work in the apartment buildings; they were supers. So the children were attending Jamaica high school. So when this group came in, they sought me out—the school itself—and asked me if I would help these because they thought that I speak Turkish. By that time, my Turkish was very rusty because at home we spoke Armenian and outside, I spoke English, but because I was helping them, I improved with my Turkish.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2839.0,2919.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: That's good. So it was a refresher course.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2919.0,2923.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. It was\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2923.0,2925.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Were they nice to you. Were they friendly?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2925.0,2929.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Oh, they adored me. Of course I was there to help them out, right. So there was nothing better than me there. So it was a group mostly. And I did have one very good friend. She was Turkish. But you have to realize that these were not real \n[Turks]. These were Tatars. So they were a little different, but I didn't feel strange being with them. Regardless of what, we had the same foods, the culture was similar, you know, but I knew that I don't become overly friendly with the boys. All those things we knew. 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There were no bad people in this world.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=2997.0,3022.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: He sounds very open-minded. Do you remember anything else from high school that stands out, like social life or activities?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3022.0,3035.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Everything was available at Jamaica High School. I didn't take too much advantage of everything, but we had swimming. They had the worst bathing suits. You had to wear what they had. They were old and stretched out and horrible. But thank God, the boys and the girls were separate. \n[laughing]\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3035.0,3067.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So wait, was there a swimming pool in the school?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3067.0,3070.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Oh, yes. Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3070.0,3072.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: And was it like everyone took swim classes?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3072.0,3077.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: You had to pass. It was one of the requirements. 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So I don't know how I learned, but one day I was swimming because my mother was a great swimmer. My God, she would swim for hours. We used to go to Lake George in the summer and she used to do the whole perimeter of the Lake.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3088.0,3117.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: That's great. That's great. Um, any other activities?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3117.0,3124.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Like I said, by the time I was in high school, I sort of got involved outside of the school. So the activities that were offered to me in school were not that important.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3124.0,3142.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. So what were you involved in outside of that?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3142.0,3147.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: There were so many clubs and so many things in high school. I mean, it was all there and available. Well, by the time I was in high school, my father was in Queens at the church; he was in Bayside, Queens. The church was established—I think—I can't remember, but he was the first priest there. There was a whole community of Armenians that were coming there from Long Island and some from Queens. So it was like a mid point, Bayside.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3147.0,3200.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: What is the name of the church? Do you remember?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3200.0,3206.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: St. Sarkis. And it's still in existence because the old church was Episcopal or Methodist. It was the first church built in Bayside. So it was bought by the Armenians from this other denomination and, so it was a nice church, but it was Armenianized. Well, they couldn't \n[change the architecture]; it was made from wood, but more or less, they repaired the inside and of course they changed the interior, not outside. And it was on 42nd Avenue, right by the train station. So even if people couldn't drive, they used to take the train and come from Sunnyside and other areas. And from Jamaica, I could take a bus. I think it was Q30 or Q31, right by Mays. And it used to take me all the way there. It was the Fort Totten bus.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3206.0,3287.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Okay. So did you go there after school sometimes?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3287.0,3298.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: I used to go there to help my father because he used to put out a paper every, \n[unclear]. And at that time, you know, I don't know. We used to use stencils. Do you know what that is?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3298.0,3311.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah, of course.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3311.0,3313.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yeah. So I used to do typing for him and do little things here and there, and sometimes help him with the English because he spoke English and wrote, but very stylized. So I used to try to change the writing to make it more friendly.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3313.0,3337.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: I see. Yeah. More informal.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3337.0,3340.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yeah. He didn't realize that the way he was talking with too formal. It was not incorrect. It's just that it wasn't like everyday language.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3340.0,3363.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So, let me see, I'll just ask you a few more. Oh, I'm just going to ask you just in general—\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3363.0,3372.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Oh, let me tell you, I just remembered the King's Park.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3372.0,3379.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: I was going to ask you about it. Were you aware of the historic house? It's a museum.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3379.0,3387.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes, but when we were there, that historic house was just a dump, not a museum. We were able to go in and out of there playing. It was empty, but there was also, on Saturdays, there was music there, and dancing. My mother used to enjoy just listening to the music and right behind that park, there was Mary Immaculate hospital. Right now, in front of the park, there is the Queens Family Court. Yes. So as a translator, when I go there, I used to sit waiting for my case to come up and just watch the park. And I used to tell people, Hey, I used to play here when I was a kid. There were many beautiful churches around there too. Old and beautiful churches. And nobody could understand, Oh, you lived in Jamaica. They used to think that it was a horrible place.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3387.0,3465.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Do you remember what kind of music did they play?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3465.0,3471.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: If I am correct, it was German oompah like music, but people used to dance.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3471.0,3477.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: That sounds nice. So you didn't know about the Rufus King house?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3477.0,3487.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: No. That was later on, I think that they fixed it. The house was there. I knew that there was a house and there was a story there, but it was not a museum then.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3487.0,3504.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. I was going to ask you, what year did you leave Jamaica and how did you perceive it as changing over the years?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3504.0,3521.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: You know, since I was already in college, and I was going to the Fashion Institute \n[of Technology], it was very taxing. It was not one of those colleges that you had fun. I used to be there at eight o'clock and I was there till 5, full time working because we had to keep up with the regular curriculum, like English, science and all these, plus I had to do all the artwork and the sewing and everything else that came along with the fashion. So it was not a fun college, but I enjoyed it immensely anyway, but there was not much time left. When I came home, I used to work till about 3:00 AM in the morning to do all my artwork.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3521.0,3571.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. So you commuted there from Jamaica?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3571.0,3577.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yeah. No big deal.The E train/F train were one block away from me, just walk straight down towards Hillside Avenue. So we were between Jamaica and Hillside. So, you know, and I got off at 23rd street in Manhattan and that was it. At that time, 23rd street was a big entertainment for me, all the used books and magazines. The whole street between Seventh and Eighth Avenue was full of bookstores, used bookstores. Oh, there was a used bookstore in Jamaica, also.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3577.0,3622.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Where was it?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3622.0,3625.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: I don't know the exact spot, but you had to pass Gertz. It was closer to Sutphin Boulevard.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3625.0,3633.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Okay. So it was on Jamaica Avenue?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3633.0,3638.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. Yes. Dusty, dusty place full of books piled all over the place. Wonderful, wonderful place for me and my mother, she used to love looking \n[laughing]. I also remember an art supply store that belonged to an Armenian. So when I decided to go to the Fashion Institute, I had to get ready. And my father took me there and bought me all the paint and everything else I needed for my projects.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3638.0,3677.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. Was it in Jamaica?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3677.0,3682.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Again, around Sutphin Boulevard someplace, before you got there, but I think it was on Jamaica Avenue.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3682.0,3699.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So you lived in Jamaica. When did your family move and why did they move?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3699.0,3707.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Well? All the time, as soon as we got here, people were saying, Oh, you're paying too much rent there. You know, you could buy your own house and all the money would go towards the house instead of \n[towards rent]. So we were always on the lookout for a house. And most Armenians at that time were living in the Forest Hills area, all the newcomers, new immigration, especially from Istanbul and also from Iran, Persia. They all had bought houses around there. So we were always looking at houses here and there, but really never making a decision because we did have a nice place to live.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3707.0,3756.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: But, Jamaica changed, I don't know, I would say overnight. When the new library was built, I remember going to the library and as I came out and I told you that Plymouth Shop had these beautiful handbags. So I had just bought a beautiful handbag and three young men actually approached me. They squeezed me into a doorway and tried to take the bag away from me. Stupid me wouldn't let them have the bag. There was nothing in the bag, no money, I was poor, but I wouldn't let them take it. And I fought it. And when I came home, I told my sister not to tell my father and mother it because I said, they're not going to let me go out of the house. And I told my sister, but eventually she told them, she told the story. And they were mad at me. They said, What, the bag! You should have given the bag. What if they killed you? Another incident was, I am in Macy's and I was wearing these very old boots. And my father had given me money to buy new boots. So I went in there and I bought new boots. Brand new boots. And I didn't want to put on the old boots. So I wore the new boots. It was Christmas time. I came out with this big bag. So my old boots were in the box, instead of the new boots that I'm wearing. I came out and I'm walking on that strip and all of a sudden from behind me, somebody pushed me, grabbed the bag from me and ran away.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3756.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: They must've been disappointed.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3900.0,3902.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: I know. And I was so happy. I got rid of that thing. I didn't have to go home and wear it again. But all these little things that started happening that eventually— And one day when we're sitting right in the house, watching television, and I went all the way. So the bedrooms are all the way in the back and also the bathroom. So it was like a half a block you have to walk to go to the bathroom. So I go in there, it was night. I go to the bathroom, but I see something happening in my mother's bedroom. I put the light on and there was a man there going through the jewelry box. I yelled, I screamed, of course. And he jumped out the window and left some jewelry that were mismatched, like cufflinks for my father, one cufflink there and the other one he took. And we called the cops, of course. And I think after that, some sort of fear came on and we were more active in looking for a house. And so that's how it worked.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3902.0,3992.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So was there a sense of poverty and people being desperate?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3992.0,3999.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: No, there was no poverty, not at that time. Later on, one day, I asked my husband, I was married by then, so it must be in the eighties. I asked my \n[husband] to drive. We were in that vicinity somehow. Can you drive through 168? Oh did I say my father, my husband, is correcting me—my husband. So, I couldn't recognize the house, that house that was immaculate. The door was sort of, there was like plywood on the door, I guess, instead of the glass door that we used to have. It looked like a dump. I said, Oh my God, what would Mr. Mayor \n[Interviewee's note: Mr. John Mayor, the German landlord] think of? He would have been very upset. But I think things are changing now because later on about five years ago or so, my sister lived on Utopia Parkway. So if I used to go with the subway to visit her, I would have to take the bus from Sutphin Boulevard, and it went all through the Jamaica streets and it went down 170 or 171. And I saw that there was some repair going, lots of houses were renovated. Maybe not to my standard, but they were repaired and clean and the yards looked nice, you know? So new immigrants have come in and they had fixed up the place. So I don't know what 168 Street looks like, but probably they have improved there too.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=3999.0,4120.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. I think there has been some revitalization. When did your family leave the neighborhood?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4120.0,4137.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: 1974\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4137.0,4141.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Okay. So you lived there for 14 years.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4141.0,4143.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: I don't remember years very well. I'm not good with years, but I only remember because my nephew was born that year, so we moved in April. April, 1974. Yes. I moved to Kew Gardens. And at that time, Kew Gardens, there were more Armenians there and actually it was through an Armenian that we were told about this house. \n[Husband's voice saying \"Briarwood\"] But we called it Kew Gardens. I never called it Briarwood. Anyway, she was instrumental in getting—she was called the mayor of Kew Gardens. She used to walk around and see if there is a property and she used to try to get Armenians to buy it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4143.0,4223.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: She was the mayor?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4223.0,4226.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: No, we used to call her the mayor, not because she was the mayor. She was an Armenian lady who was from Ankara. She didn't know much Armenian, but she was a hundred percent, a thousand percent Armenian. But she used to want every house to be full of Armenians or the apartment buildings. She used to get people.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4226.0,4259.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So I think that's pretty much it, Ani. Is there anything else that you remember about Jamaica? Oh, you were telling me you had a friend who was of mixed race and brought her home.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4259.0,4276.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. She was half German; her mother was German. Her father was African-American, but I'm not sure if he was from the islands or what. That's when I think my Greek neighbors stopped talking to me. They told my mother that. Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4276.0,4316.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So do you remember how old you were?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4316.0,4317.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Then they moved away. \n[I was ]11, 12.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4317.0,4324.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Okay. So it was pretty early on after you arrived?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4324.0,4327.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: I didn't know I wasn't supposed to do that. So, but anyway, it didn't last long because they moved out. They were very uncomfortable. I don't know exactly where they lived, but the other people were giving them a hard time in their neighborhood.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4327.0,4351.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: I see.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4351.0,4355.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yeah. That was like a very rare thing to see a black and white couple in those years.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4355.0,4360.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Were you aware of the kind of white flight happening in the neighborhood, like of whites moving out, more African-Americans moving in?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4360.0,4377.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: You know, the strip that I was on was just a few houses and big apartment building that they built later on. Across the street, there was only church and we had the two big parking places, the municipal parkings, so there weren't that many houses. And when we moved, Mr. Mayor was still there. The only thing that happened that was significant was he had four sons and they were all firemen. So they lived in his second floor, the apartment above him. So as they got married, they left. So he started letting out the house, the second apartment that he had above him, as a rooming house; he was using it as a rooming house. So all kinds of people were coming in and out. And then that person \n[thief] that came into our apartment that I told you, he was from his building.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4377.0,4447.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Oh, so did he ever get caught?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4447.0,4452.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4452.0,4456.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So how did they figure it out?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4456.0,4461.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Because he was doing it to other people in that strip. So we had all yards In the back.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4461.0,4473.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Oh, it was a common, a shared yard?.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4473.0,4476.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: No, we didn't share it, but my house had a yard in the back, the next door, everybody had it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4476.0,4486.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. So the house became more of a boarding house?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4486.0,4494.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. And we weren't always happy with the people that come in and were coming and going from the second floor above us. At first, they were families, and then later on, he \n[the landlord] was also doing the same thing, letting them out to different people. And we still were paying high rent, I think at that time. So my father was saying, I'm paying all this. Why should I feel so insecure?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4494.0,4531.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. of course. Okay. I'm going to stop the recording.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4531.0,4540.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: During the summer, if I was not in Istanbul or Catskill mountains or Rockaway beach, I used to work there. There was a laboratory called Torigian laboratory, Armenian place.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4540.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Can you spell that? What was it called?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4560.0,4567.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: T O R I G I A N. Laboratories. I used to fill vials.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4567.0,4582.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Was this in high school? Like a high school summer job.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4582.0,4585.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. He liked me so he used to call my father and say, send her in when she has more time from school. So I used to sometimes go in for an afternoon or whatever, if he had a special job that has to get out. And we had to wear a uniform. We had a white, like a nurse's uniform that we used to wear. And I bought that in Jamaica. That was also the store where they sold it. They sold uniforms, right where Macy's is. Nurses' shoes and different things like that.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4585.0,4624.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So was that a fun thing for you as a teenager?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4624.0,4627.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: It was fun for me. Yes. Because there were some other Armenians working there and the machines were all old and dilapidated and used to break, but this guy used to like me, so he fixed it. He was there standing right on top of me to make sure that I get the right amount of stuff that I'm supposed to get finished for the day. So he kept on repairing the machine for me.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4627.0,4660.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: So you got the special treatment?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4660.0,4663.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Yes. Yes. I felt very special there. And the boss was a strict Armenian who would never laugh, but everybody knew that he liked me. So I felt very special. Very \n[unclear]. They used to tell me, go ask him this. If they wanted something, go ask him.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4663.0,4694.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: —Horseback riding, but that was Manhattan not in Jamaica. The social security office, not the one that they have now, the big elaborate, building, which is, I think, on Parsons Boulevard. This was a one floor office on Hillside Avenue and 166 street, I think. And I remember walking in there and asking for working papers because I wanted to work at this Torigian laboratories. And they didn't ask me for ID. They didn't ask me for anything. They gave me a social security card with just the information I'm giving them. They didn't tell me, bring your mother here.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4694.0,4747.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: That's amazing.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4747.0,4750.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: Those were the days.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4750.0,4751.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. And it's not there anymore. You're saying it was just at that time.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4751.0,4757.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAni Kelejian Esayan: At that time. That's where it was. But now they build this new, I don't know how old it is. It must be at least 20 years or 30 years. And maybe they built, they have a big office on Parsons Boulevard. I think they call it Jamaica Center now. Next to, right by the park.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4757.0,4782.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905/transcript/30471/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLinda Ganjian: Yeah. There's a lot of government buildings there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45808/file/118905#t=4782.0,4787.82"}]}]}]}