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Salgado was one of the few Latinos in her neighborhood and at her elementary school (Most Precious Blood School), plus when she visited cousins who lived in a Latino neighborhood in Brooklyn, they identified her as \"trying not to be Spanish\" in order to be more accepted by her predominantly Greek and Italian peers in Astoria. In contrast, Salgado explains that she flourished at St. Jean Baptiste High School, where she was among peers who looked more like her, and later as an undergraduate and graduate student at St. John's University.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNow a school teacher for the New York City Department of Education and a longtime Bronx resident, Salgado reflects on her experience teaching and learning more about her first grade students who come from all over the world, plus her continuing affection for the borough of Queens. 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Salgado, whose parents are from Puerto Rico, recalls feeling at an early age that she struggled to fit in with people around her. Salgado was one of the few Latinos in her neighborhood and at her elementary school (Most Precious Blood School), plus when she visited cousins who lived in a Latino neighborhood in Brooklyn, they identified her as \"trying not to be Spanish\" in order to be more accepted by her predominantly Greek and Italian peers in Astoria. In contrast, Salgado explains that she flourished at St. Jean Baptiste High School, where she was among peers who looked more like her, and later as an undergraduate and graduate student at St. John's University.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNow a school teacher for the New York City Department of Education and a longtime Bronx resident, Salgado reflects on her experience teaching and learning more about her first grade students who come from all over the world, plus her continuing affection for the borough of Queens. 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Today is April 18th, 2024, and I'm interviewing Debra Salgado for the first time. This interview is taking place at Debra's residence in Bronx, New York, and this interview is a part of the Queens Memory Project. So to begin, Debra, how would you introduce yourself? Where are you from and what are you working right now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=3.0,34.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: Hi, my name is Debra Salgado. I am a school teacher for the New York City Department of Education. I am a resident of the Bronx and a former resident of Queens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=34.0,54.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: Where in Queens did you live?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=54.0,56.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: I lived in Astoria. Sometimes they call it Long Island City, but most times we called it Astoria.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=56.0,65.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: And from what time periods did you live there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=65.0,68.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: Well, I was born in Queens in Elmhurst Hospital, and I lived in Astoria from birth to about maybe I was 18 years old.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=68.0,85.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: For context, what year were you born?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=85.0,87.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: I was born in 1973, and I lived there until I graduated high school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=87.0,97.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: Very nice. And so what were your earliest memories of Queens or Astoria, Long Island City?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=97.0,104.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: Well, our family, my mom, my sister and I, we lived in a one bedroom apartment in a building, and it was a residential area, mostly two or three story houses and some mini buildings, the way I call them, they were six bedroom apartments. And my mom decided to move to Queens. She was originally from Williamsburg, Brooklyn where all her family lived. And in those times, Williamsburg in the seventies had sort of rough neighborhoods. And so my mom wanted a better life, and my father as well, decided that we should move to Queens. So we never lived in Brooklyn, even though my mother lived in Brooklyn. My father grew up in Delancey Street in Manhattan, Lower East Side. And so they decided that Queens was such a nice quiet residential area and we moved to a building in Queens and the building was very nicely kept.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=104.0,196.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: And so you said that around this time, 1970s, a lot of things going on in the country, a lot of things going on in the city especially. What was it like community-wise in Queens? What was the atmosphere like growing up as a child? Were you around community of people who looked like you? Maybe were you an outcast, maybe something different? What was it like there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=196.0,224.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: So in Astoria we lived close to Broadway and Steinway. In that area, it was mostly at the time a very Greek area with some Italians and former what we used to call Yugoslavians. And so that area didn't really have many Latinos. So in my school, I went to Most Precious Blood School for elementary school, and I think I was maybe one of three Latinos in my class. And that was a little bit difficult. I didn't find myself represented within my teachers or even in my classmates.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=224.0,292.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: Can you tell me a little more about that difficulty? How did that make you feel?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=292.0,299.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: I had very curly hair during that time and I really felt like, sort of, I would say nowadays they would call it bullied in those days because they didn't understand my hair or—I'm not a dark skinned Latino, I'm a lighter skinned Latino, but I was still darker than most of my classmates. So it was very difficult for me in that time. Unlike today, Astoria is very immersed with very—multicultural. And so you can go around the corner and get different cultural foods. And when I was growing up, I didn't see myself represented even in going to stores and being able to buy food of my culture, which I can do now if I go to Astoria. And so my mom used to cook our Puerto Rican food at home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=299.0,375.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: And when we went to Williamsburg, which we went almost every weekend to visit my grandmother, we were known as the Queens Girls in Williamsburg because we had a Queens accent. And so they would say, \"Oh, you sound weird. You sound different,\" the kids would say in the neighborhood, because they had a Brooklyn accent, but we had a Queens accent. They would literally say, \"Oh, you guys are the Queens Girls.\" Almost like we didn't have a name. Our identity was where we were from.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=375.0,417.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: From Queens. And so not really seeing yourself in the community, as you said, not even eating the same foods that you'd be able to have access to today, how do you feel like that made your perspective on family? Did you seem to grow towards your family and not look out, or did you seek other things because of that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=417.0,442.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: So within our family unit—we were very Puerto Rican in our family unit, but then outside I had to become a different persona. I had to be someone who can assimilate to all the different cultures that were not mine and try to be accepted. And even within my cousins, I feel like we had somewhat of a disconnect since they grew up in Brooklyn and we grew up in Queens, cuz they were in a very Latino community and we were not and sort of was seen as that person that, \"Oh, you are trying not to be Spanish.\" But it was more because we were trying to be able to survive in our school and our community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=442.0,502.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: And so like we were ridiculed sort of, not so much in Queens, but then when we went to Brooklyn, they felt like, \"Oh, you guys are not Spanish.\" So we didn't fit in any community. Within our home, we were accepted and had a good bond, and our parents made sure that we knew who we were and our cultural foods and our celebrations were always there for us to remember. And even now today, I feel like I bring those things to my children as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=502.0,559.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: And going back to traveling to and from Brooklyn, back in those days, how did you get there? How did people get around in Astoria? What was the main things that everyone traveled with?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=559.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: So certain people had cars, but my mom couldn't afford having a car, and so we traveled by train. And just thinking about what I was going to say today, I kinda fondly remember the fact that we had to use a coin, a token they used to call it, to travel on the trains. And this train token, because I never bought it myself because I was younger and my mom would purchase, looking back and finding, well, how much was the token? Because I'd never purchased it until I got older. And when I was growing up, a token, you could travel all over New York City for 50 cents and that's how much the token was.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=570.0,620.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: The token—it was like a golden token and it had a little Y that was etched inside, almost like you could see through the Y. And then we used to put the token—and sometimes there was somebody at the booth to sell you the token, unlike today—and you would put it inside and the turnstyle was wood, it was a wooden yellow turnstyle, and you would get on the train. The train in those days had a lot of graffiti, but they were older trains.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=620.0,664.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: What train lines?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=664.0,665.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: So the train line we used to take to my grandmother's house was the G. And then if we wanted to go into the city, we would take the N or the R, and those trains would take you directly into the city. It would be like maybe 5 or 10 minute ride right into 59th street. And to my grandmother's, it was also a 15 minute train ride to get there. And I remember rain, shine, very cold winters walking all bundled up in this onesie, huge coat, walking to the train.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=665.0,712.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: And some train stations didn't have a token booth for selling. They had no service people, and it would be a huge metal machine where it was like we would all shove in together and push it. And I remember pushing with all my might because I'm thinking, oh my goodness, we could get stuck in this big metal thing and no one would know we were here until the next day. So some train stations were like an automatic, you put the token in and you use these heavy machines and you would turn them and they would be, sort of like you could be trapped in it. And so that was really frightful. I would beg my mom, please, we could walk three more blocks and just get to the main train station.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=712.0,769.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: Any businesses or parks or churches in the area that you can name and remember from an early age in Astoria?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=769.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: One of the biggest—and I recently went to Astoria because I love going back there—and one of the places that I know was a pizza shop. It was a Greek pizza shop and Ernie Anastos' picture was always there. He was a reporter for the news—a Greek reporter for the news—and I guess he had frequented the place and signed an autograph. I don't remember the name of it. If you give me a few minutes, I probably could remember. But that was one of our favorite pizza shops.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=780.0,821.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: It was a little different than an Italian pizza shop. The cheese was different. It was smaller slices, maybe we got a small personal pie of six slices, and that was usually a treat for us to go there. And then, well, they had the regular that kids would have like McDonald's and Burger King and whatever. And like I said, we didn't frequent too many places because the food was not something that we were attached to because we couldn't, my mom couldn't really understand that food or what to order there. 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I believe the school is closed now, but the church is still open and it's been there for many, many years. I met somebody, when I worked at St. John's University as a student in the law school, and I met someone who was way older than me and she had been married in that Most Precious Blood Church before there was even a school. It was a pretty expensive school, a very sort of elite in that time school to go to. My parents really valued education over anything else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=876.0,938.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: And who are your parents? Where are they from?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=938.0,941.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: So both my parents are from Puerto Rico and they're oddly enough from the same town but never met there. They met here in Manhattan once they were older and they both came from Puerto Rico at the age of seven, even if their families didn't even know each other. And so they met here. My mom worked for AT\u0026T as a secretary to the engineers. She had gone to high school and finished and then shortly went after that went to work, and my father finished high school, went to the military.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=941.0,988.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: He was drafted for Vietnam War and once he came out he worked for New York Telephone [Company], which was before AT\u0026T. It used to be called New York Telephone. And so my mom and him worked in the same place in different floors and they met one day outside. But my mom continued to work for New York Telephone, which turned into AT\u0026T and she retired there. And my father worked for the United States Post Office as a clerk, a window clerk.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=988.0,1040.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: Very nice. And your other family, how did they support you growing up? Were they also from Queens or they were all in Brooklyn and other places.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1040.0,1053.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: Are you talking about my mom and my dad? Were they originally from Queens?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1053.0,1057.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: No, no. Your other family members. More distant family members.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1057.0,1062.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: Oh, so more distant family members. I had aunts who lived in Brooklyn. I had a grandmother who lived in Brooklyn. And then my father's side, cousins, aunts and uncles all lived in Manhattan in the Lower East Side. Actually, my grandmother was the first Latina to be able to buy a small restaurant in the markets, the original markets that were in the Lower East Side, and she was the first one to be able to purchase.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1062.0,1102.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: She would make food at home, she started her business, she would make food at home and come over to the small business until she was able to buy kitchen appliances like a stove, refrigerator. And she did all of this without speaking English. She was a very great business woman, and not being able to speak English because she was cooking cultural food, Puerto Rican food, she knew her talents and she was able to make a business out of it enough to pay for a house in Puerto Rico.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1102.0,1141.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: What a beautiful story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1141.0,1142.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1142.0,1143.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: Now speaking about people and—what are some different characters you remember from your neighborhood? What were some people that stood out to you in your memory?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1143.0,1154.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: So characters that stood out to me in my neighborhood were the older Italian ladies. They always used to come up to us thinking that we were Italian and would come up to us speaking Italian and asking for help. And I would be like, I sort of understood them because Spanish is very closely related, is romance language like Italian. And so I was able to understand them. Some big characters that I remember are the nuns because there were a lot of nuns in my time teaching in the Catholic school that I went to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1154.0,1202.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: And some of them were pretty tough. I mean, I remember growing up and maybe in second grade or first grade was when the paddle was not, was stopped allowed to be used, so they would paddle children before that. And so in my first grade, I remember the sister Mary Ellen was my first grade teacher, and I remember her having a paddle. I don't remember her using it, but I remember her having it—a paddle. So I feel like most of the time we spent in school and I think that the nuns made a big impression on me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1202.0,1253.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: Now I remember going back, you mentioned how it felt to be sort of an outcast. You were the only Latina in a world with people who didn't look like you, didn't share the same culture, but did share something that you guys are all immigrants or children of immigrants. So what was a common struggle in your neighborhood that you saw in other people or in your peers?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1253.0,1285.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: Well, in that time I think that, I don't know if I saw it because I was too young to seeing a common struggle, but I know that in that area it was a more elite area. So people who lived there, most of them either had houses or had their parents owned buildings in that area. So I don't know if they were experiencing a struggle or they said—they seem to have more cultural support in their neighborhoods.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1285.0,1323.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: So I feel like they all gravitated and were able to have a support within themselves and that you saw community within themselves. And in those days your parents just, they worked, you came home, you went to school. There were really very limited activities. I remember there was the Girl Scouts, but my mom worked too much and she wasn't able to take me to the Girl Scouts even though I really wanted to. And I always wanted to do dance. And then the dance school was maybe two or three blocks from us, but I couldn't do that either because those things required money and time and we didn't have that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1323.0,1378.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: Going further into your life, moving into high school, did you go to high school in Queens?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1378.0,1384.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: No, actually most of the students in my school went to St. John's Prep [St. John's Preparatory School]. I wanted to do something a little different. I kind of was thirsting for the desire to have people that looked like me. And I felt that that also influenced that negatively on me because I didn't do so well in grammar school because of it. And so I decided on my own because my parents had asked me, \"Where would you like to go to high school?\" And my sister Christine, who's older than me, she's two years older than me, she went to St. Vincent Ferrer [High School]. And that was in, I think 57th Street in Lexington or somewhere around there. And so I decided that I had seen several schools in Manhattan. One of them was Cathedral [High School], the other one was St. Vincent, and the other choice was St. Jean Baptiste [High School].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1384.0,1455.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: And when I walked into St. Jean Baptiste—it was on 77th Street or something like that, I can't remember exactly—I remember that I walked in and I saw people for the first time that looks like me and that made me very excited. St. Vincent seems more like Italian, Irish, Asian. But then when I went to St. Jean's, I saw people that looked exactly like me and I had decided I want to come here. I absolutely did so much better than I did in grammar school. I felt connected and I also felt like community and no one questioned my hair and no one questioned my skin color because everybody understood it. And so that made me feel like I was, what I would say, normal in that school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1455.0,1518.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: And I do know that you went to St. John's [University].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1518.0,1523.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1523.0,1523.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: And you did come back to Queens, but that was a little different. Can you explain why?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1523.0,1529.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: So I went back to Queens because I applied to St. John's and I was accepted at St. John's. And back then my parents weren't able to really, they wanted me to go to college, but they were not able to help me. We didn't go see the school. But once I got onto the campus, I just knew I had made the right decision to go there. Again, the community in the area seems very something that I felt very comfortable in Queens. And I always say, even though I live in the Bronx and I've lived in the Bronx for many years, I am always saying there's nothing better than Queens. And I tell my family all the time that I'd much rather be living in Queens than in the Bronx. My heart is in Queens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1529.0,1600.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: And so when you went to St. John's, you were living in Astoria still?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1600.0,1604.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: So I was living in the Bronx and I commuted to St. John's University without a car, and I commuted and it took me two hours on the bus to get all the way to St. John's University every day and back. Two hours going and two hours back. But it was so worth it. I really enjoyed being at St. John's. I found a great group of community and I joined a sorority and I found a great group of friends there. And it was honestly something that I probably one of the better years of my life in school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1604.0,1660.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: And you studied what?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1660.0,1662.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: I studied psychology. Originally I wanted to be an English professor, and since I was a little girl, I always said I was going to be a teacher. And my mom remembers that more than I do. And then I got my master's in administration. But I originally wanted to be a dean at St. John's. And I worked at St. John's as a student for four years and I worked for the law school and I worked with older ladies who saw me as their daughter and they really took care of me. And my boss loved me so much that she actually got me a full-time job. So I worked for two years at St. John's full-time in the School of Law Alumni Relations right after I graduated so I would be able to reap the benefits of getting a master's degree.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1662.0,1739.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: And now you're a teacher, you work with children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1739.0,1743.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1743.0,1743.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: So how does that help add to your perspective of community and one that's supposed to foster—and really with the highlight towards your upbringing in Queens and in Astoria?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1743.0,1758.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: So I am a school teacher and I work with first grade students. In the community that I work in is mostly children from Yemen, from Bangladesh, from Ecuador, mostly the rural areas of Ecuador, the mountainous areas, and some children from Mexico. And so even I think my upbringing and the fact that I didn't see myself represented at school, I try my very best to learn about all cultures, make the students feel like they are seen.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1758.0,1811.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: And because I ask questions, I talk about their celebrations, and so they feel connected to and they have a big community within themselves. 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Who did you look to as a role model or as support?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1850.0,1868.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: So I have to say that my grandmother on my father's side, the lady who owned the small business, I felt it was so astounding that someone who came here with very little education and didn't know English and was able to have her own business was something that I looked up to. I looked up to the fact that she had a life here and she had a life in Puerto Rico. And then it also touches me to the point where she used her talents. She was able to develop her talents and use her talents to start a business.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1868.0,1919.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: And I feel like everyone, as an educator, I always try to see, and as a mom, I always try to see, let's help you point out what your talents are because if you do that, then you'll have a more successful trajectory. And so I feel that my grandmother, seeing her strength and her valiant personality, because she could have just decided I'm just going to stay home and cook for my family and not do anything else. Why start a business? And she didn't. She opened two businesses at the same time with both of her talents, cuz she used to crochet and she sold her crochet stuff, things that she made, her artwork, to others.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1919.0,1982.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: And so I feel like she was definitely somebody that I looked up to always. And I continue to look up to her in the sense where I look at her as somebody who's full of strength. And I always say that both of my grandmothers were very strong women, and my mom as well is a strong woman. And I feel like if anytime I think that I can't do something, I think about did they even have the opportunity to think about whether they could do something or not, and that pushes me as a person.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=1982.0,2030.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: Was that always an active motivation in your mind or would you consider that to be more subconscious motivation throughout your life?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2030.0,2042.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: No, I think I always was very proud of them growing up. I always admired them enough to even write a college essay about them because I admire them so much. And I always thought, wow, she achieved so much. And that motivates me even today to do so much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2042.0,2076.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: What's changed in the area? You come back to Astoria often, what do you find most surprising about the changes there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2076.0,2086.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: Well, I absolutely love that you can go to one side of the street and get something to eat that's totally different from the other side. And I think that is so astonishing. I really love the diversity that there is, that it's like a huge melting pot. You can find all different people. You close your eyes and you hear one language and then you hear another. And I feel like that's New York. And I really feel like the story [unclear] embodies all of that [unclear] so diverse, that melting pot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2086.0,2128.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: There's so much has changed. Just the most that sticks out to me is the people, you know, cuz sometimes you see the stores, Steinway has always been Steinway with loads of stores and you could go anywhere, buy anything on Steinway, cuz that has always been the same. And so is Broadway. Broadway was full with a lot of mom and pop stores. Still today some of them are still in existence, like some delis that have been there for years. And there was a shoe store that has been there for decades. And you can just look around and you see some of the history still there. But a lot of it is mostly the people that have changed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2128.0,2189.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: Is it an area that you'd want to come back to and live right now? Is it, if you were to do it all again, would you want to grow up in this Astoria or did you like the Astoria you grew up in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2189.0,2202.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: I probably would have enjoyed living in the Astoria that [it is] today because it [is] more representative of what I, of myself. But I don't regret—I think it showed me how to be a person who was able to be resilient and someone who was able to adjust to other cultures. Because sometimes I feel that if I was just only immersed in my culture, I may not be as diverse or a person that would be tolerant to other cultures. But since I learned that from birth, having to adjust to other cultures, I feel I'm more open as a person because of that experience.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2202.0,2260.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: And I like traveling and looking at different cultures because of it, because I was always open to that. And I don't necessarily see that only the Puerto Rican culture is something that I value, but I value every culture in their diversity. And I always am able to see the beauty of different cultures because I grew up that way seeing multiple cultures. And I think it has made me who I am, somebody who likes to see and experience other cultures through travel.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2260.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: Oh, travel. What places have you been to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2310.0,2313.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: I've been to Spain, Italy, Turkey. I've been to England and Greece and Portugal. Mexico. I've been to just many diverse and European cultures. I really enjoy the history that I see. And also I enjoy seeing different parts of Catholicism and also Muslim—different religions while I visit and how the different influences of different cultures make that one culture today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2313.0,2372.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: And so for a final question, what are some misconceptions about Queens or what is one misconception about Queens that you'd like to clear the ground on?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2372.0,2385.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: [laughs] Well, so I guess one of them, it is funny because even when I went to St. John's University, we had a Queens accent. In Queens you could hear it. And so a lot of times they would say, \"You sound like Fran Drescher.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2385.0,2410.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: Who's that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2410.0,2410.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: The Nanny. Its the show The Nanny.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2410.0,2410.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: Oh, yes. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2410.0,2411.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: And so she talks through her nose. So Queens people mostly talk through their nose. And so I think people think that the accent in Queens is a very whiny accent. So we don't whine. We're very loyal to the Mets regardless of win or lose. And even the other day I'm walking around, it was sports day in my school, and everybody's giving me the eyes cuz you're supposed to be a Yankee fan. And when I said, \"Oh, no, I grew up and was raised in Queens\" and they're, \"Oh, okay, then you could be a Mets fan.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2411.0,2453.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: But the Mets were a big deal growing up in school with all the boys and the girls alike. And so that's pretty much what I think about a misconception. Maybe sometimes people think you're a little bit more snobbish because you're in Queens. And I don't know of any other misconceptions that people would say except for those.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2453.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: And I know I said it was the last question, but we have one last actual question. When you identify yourself, you've lived in two boroughs and you are a New Yorker, so where do you identify yourself as in terms of New York state-wise? Where are you from?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2490.0,2513.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: I'm a Queens girl [laughs]. I'm the Queens girl.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2513.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Justin Salgado: Yeah. So that's all we have for the interview for the Queens Memory Project. Thank you so much Deborah for sitting down with me here and telling me about your life story. I really loved how you were able to vocalize and tell us about your struggles growing up, but also the good memories and everything in between. So thank you for your time and that's all we have.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2520.0,2548.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656/transcript/76491/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Debra Salgado: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/142473/file/263656#t=2548.0,2550.33469"}]}]}]}