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So this is Liv with Kitty and Yuka. Can you guys share names, age if you feel comfortable, and where you live?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1.0,17.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: I'll go first.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=17.0,18.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Go ahead.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=18.0,19.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: I'm Yuka, and I live in Jackson Heights. I'm originally from Japan, and I came to the United States in 1999 for my graduate study in Madison, Wisconsin. Then I moved to New York City in 2001. Then I currently live in Jackson Heights. I moved to Jackson Heights last year from Manhattan. And by the way, I'm 53 years old.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=19.0,57.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: Do you want to go Kitty?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=57.0,59.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: I'm Kitty Katz. I'm a New York photographer, have lived in many parts of New York, most of my life, in Queens since around 1981, I believe. I began in Astoria. I'm now at Sunnyside, and Sunnyside, being so close to Jackson Heights, attracted me greatly. And I made many, many excursions there, both for photography purposes, and shopping, and restaurant sampling. It's a wonderful, extraordinary neighborhood that I like very much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=59.0,112.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: So we wanted to spend some time talking about Jackson Heights together because Kitty spent time there, I've spent time there, and Yuka lives there. And we also watched the first bit of Frederick Wiseman's Jackson Heights documentary together, which was great because there were all of these moments where the two of you knew exactly where it was in Jackson Heights and had all these memories of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=112.0,141.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: And we also have—for the recording—a stack of some photos that Kitty took of Jackson Heights, black and white film photos, mostly from the late 90s but also some from the early 2000s. So maybe we can start, Kitty, can you just talk about what a typical day of shooting in Jackson Heights might look like? Would you plan to go there on a Sunday and spend all day shooting—or just take us through one day of—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=141.0,178.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Planning ahead is not my forte. Often I would just look out the window and, depending upon the light or the cloud formations or the temperature, I would decide spontaneously to go to Jackson Heights. And one of the reasons is because it's so easy to get there from Sunnyside. It's a 15-minute bus ride. So in that 15-minute bus ride, I could be transported to another country, in a way. Jackson Heights is one of the two or three neighborhoods in New York where I literally feel like I'm out of the country—not just out of the city, but out of this country.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=178.0,241.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: And that, of course, is why I've developed such an affection for it, because I never took it for granted that I could go so far in so little time and experience something so vastly different to my familiar surroundings by just taking a bus. P.S. I love the buses [laughter]. They can get you anywhere in the city. But Jackson Heights, if I think about hopping off the bus, one of the first things that I experience is the scent of the supermarkets and the grocery stores and the stalls that are outside the grocery stores with the piles of fresh vegetables and the back scent of spices, which is all around all the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=241.0,306.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: So I just love the smell, and as soon as I get a whiff of it, I feel like, ah, now I'm here. Now I'm somewhere new. Now I'm somewhere else. And that's really something that has always delighted me. Also, what's unique about Jackson Heights, and New York in particular, is how different groups that would be enemies elsewhere in the world, perhaps, can live side by side in New York, because of their similarities.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=306.0,358.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: A lot of it is food similarities. They cluster around a commercial zone of markets that have foods from their country. So here what you have is Jackson Heights, nominally called Little India, that's—not divided but—close to another commercial street that has Pakistani-owned groceries and clothing stores, hardware stores, appliances, appliances with different electrical outlets like from Europe.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=358.0,424.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: Really?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=424.0,424.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Even different kinds of cooking vessels, all different. And Hindus and Muslims are not necessarily the best of friends back in South Asia, but here they're back-to-back neighbors, and they seem to be just fine. You also have people from Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, smaller numbers, but growing. Wherever South Asian scents attracted me, I would follow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=424.0,475.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Unlike some other neighborhoods that keep expanding, I don't think Jackson Heights has done that, the South Asian part. I think it's pretty much stayed to a—it's almost like a \"T\" formation, 74th Street and 37th Avenue forms something like a \"T.\" As you go up to the higher numbers, it transitions from South Asian to Hispanic. I often wanted to explore that too, but I was always so entranced with 74th Street that I rarely got above that. When I decided to go for Jackson Heights on a particular day, no matter what I would plan, I would be there anyway. I would just stay there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=475.0,534.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: And so, as I mentioned, you see Hindu and Muslim food and styles of dress as well—very, very different styles of dress—and women in burkas, men in turbans, either loads of color or no color. Some are very drab—black, black and white maybe—and some of the turbans were just amazing, amazing bright colors. So there's so much to see there and so much to experience, and you don't even have to go to India to experience it. I think that's what I love best.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=534.0,598.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: I was just showing you this photo of—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=598.0,599.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: —this grocery store is—it's on the corner of 37th Avenue. I shopped here often.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=599.0,608.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: What would you buy there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=608.0,611.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Tindora. Well, in the beginning, I didn't recognize a lot of the things that I saw on the outdoor stalls, so I just would stand there and watch for a while. And sometimes when a woman came and started picking the best, making her selection, I would nonchalantly ask, \"What is this? How do you cook this?\" And then I'd buy a little and try it, and a lot of things, most of the things that I tried, worked out just fine.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=611.0,651.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: And I developed a taste for tindora, which is a very small vegetable that resembles a cucumber, but it's not. It's some kind of a squash that needs cooking. And okra, which has a very mixed reception in the U.S.—in the Deep South or New Orleans, certainly, the stickiness of the gumbo is prized—but in Indian cuisine, not at all. There are techniques for drying it out, so you don't get that mucilage [laughter].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=651.0,697.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: What are the—do you know the techniques?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=697.0,697.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Yes. You wash it—because you have to wash any vegetable that you buy—but then dry it completely and don't make too many cuts because then all of the inside comes out, and then you have to sear it on very high heat, initially, cook it on very high heat, and then you just get really a minimum of the sticky sauce that a lot of people, myself included, do not like. And then once it doesn't have that, you can add something wetter like tomatoes, chopped tomatoes are very good with that, and onions, and garlic. I learned a lot of different things to cook from there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=697.0,753.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: What kind of spices would you buy?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=753.0,757.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Cardamom, which you can either get whole ones in its pod or it's also sold ground, and coriander, which is the seed that cilantro comes from. Cumin is very popular. And typically in Indian cuisine, they use the spices whole and bloom them in hot oil first. Not like—Americans just kind of shake the powders into the cooking and expect it to integrate. And it does, but not as well as the way they do it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=757.0,806.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: Did you have somebody teach you those cooking techniques, or did you pick them up by talking with people on the street?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=806.0,811.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Talking with people and reading about them. I read cookbooks also. I love cookbooks. Not necessarily to follow recipes according to measurements and so forth, but just to get the whole feel of it. And I love the pictures of the food. So I would just take an armload of cookbooks out of the library and just look at the pictures. But I absorbed enough information to be able to make my kind of copies. For example, I don't really like food that's very spicy, so my adaptation would have the flavor of some of the spices, but not necessarily all the heat.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=811.0,866.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: And what about you, Yuka? Can you talk about where you live in Jackson Heights now and where you do your shopping? Have you been exploring other foods or—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=866.0,876.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: So my area is predominantly Latin, Spanish-speaking people, Latino community, and so most of the supermarkets in my area are run by Latino people, and naturally they carry a lot of Latin American cuisines and vegetables, like yuca, yuca potato, yuca plant, and—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=876.0,913.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Plantains.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=913.0,913.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Plantains. And what else? There's something that I think—anyhow—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=913.0,927.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Have you tried cooking any of those things?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=927.0,931.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: That's a good question. No, I haven't. 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I know how. Very popular in Spain. I know a very good dish.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=947.0,957.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: And Portuguese also.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=957.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Served with carrots and potato, and sometimes people add avocado. It's so interesting, and it's so new to me. Like Kitty said, it's almost like when I come home from the city, I feel like I traveled to outside of the United States because nobody, seriously, nobody on the street speaks—is speaking English. They're not. They're speaking Spanish. So I need to learn Spanish [laughter] to really communicate sometimes, because some stores, they don't have people who speak English, and I need to communicate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=960.0,1023.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Also maybe some of those products, those vegetables, they may not even know the name in English. 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And how was the food?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1117.0,1123.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: It's good. It was good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1123.0,1124.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: Did it seem like it had been influenced by Nepal, or did it feel very Japanese to you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1124.0,1133.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: I would think so. 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I've been doing this since COVID started, and I did that on the Upper West Side. And I continue doing this street cleaning thing once a month. Last Sunday, we get together and we clean on 74th Street. Then after the cleaning up, we always go to local coffee shop. So the idea of this group is to clean the community and support the local small business. So that's the idea. Then one Sunday morning after the cleaning, four or five of us got together, and then having coffee at the local coffee shop, which is on 77th Street. Espresso 77? That's the name of the coffee shop?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1160.0,1218.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: I think I know it. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1218.0,1220.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: So we were there, and this smiley Asian lady approached to us, and she asked me, \"Are you Japanese?\" And I said, \"Yes.\" And then we started conversation. Turned out she has been Jackson Heights resident for like 20, 30 years. Then she asked me what we are doing, why we are here. Then I explained what we are doing. And she's a professor of art history at CUNY [City University of New York]. Which branch? I forgot. But yeah, she's teaching at CUNY, and she got interested in what I'm doing. Then she said, \"I have a bunch of Japanese friends in Jackson Heights. I'm going to bring them over next time.\" \"Oh, that's awesome.\" Yes, I'm expanding my Japanese networking.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1220.0,1279.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Fantastic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1279.0,1279.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1279.0,1282.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: I didn't know that. I know from the past, there have been many Japanese in Sunnyside.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1282.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: Right. There's a little Japanese market not too far from here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1290.0,1293.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: But the thing is, Sunnyside got more expensive, so people are moving, you know, to—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1293.0,1302.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: —further out—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1302.0,1303.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: —Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and Rego Park—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1303.0,1308.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: —Sunnyside is so close to the city, so it makes it more—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1308.0,1313.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: —desirable.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1313.0,1313.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: —valuable real estate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1313.0,1316.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: So, I'm happy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1316.0,1321.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: That's cool.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1321.0,1322.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Yeah, it's cool—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1322.0,1323.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Did you get her name and number and all?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1323.0,1324.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Yeah, we are hanging out, and last month her husband also joined us. And he's a writer and a poet.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1324.0,1336.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Is he Japanese also?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1336.0,1337.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: No, he's Filipino, and the couple is so cute. 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Can you describe—so one thing that's really striking about these is that they're all in front of shopfronts, and that's such a defining feature of Jackson Heights is [unclear] all the storefronts, and you were saying they totally had changed after 9/11.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=1730.0,1750.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Not exactly changed, but they added the U.S. flag as a marker of dual citizenship to say that we are on the American side, we are not the enemy, because there was some question. You know there was a lot of anti-Muslim hate, and some of it was against people who aren't even Muslim. I mean, I know they went after Sikhs with their turbans, telling them to go back to their country, Saudi Arabia or whatever they thought. People are—they don't know. They're ignorant. 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So I remember when I took a cab back then, this driver put the American flag cheap sticker on their car just to make a statement that they are American—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2097.0,2117.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: —right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2117.0,2117.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: —they're not Muslim. 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So that was something kind of interesting to me. Because in Japan, this may sound a little odd, but we are mixed feeling about being patriotic, feeling patriotic to your country. Because we know that's a tricky feeling, patriotism and nationalism, because that could lead to sometimes make you blind to what's really right or wrong.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2149.0,2211.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Everybody, before the end of the World War II, Japanese believed that they are doing the right thing. They are freeing the Asian nations that were colonized by white countries. But we were defeated, of course, and we did a lot of stuff that's wrong, that suffered a lot of hundreds of thousands of people. 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If you change your perspective—if you go to the other side [crosstalk]—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2280.0,2287.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: —[crosstalk] go to the other side, they think they're right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2287.0,2289.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Right, exactly. 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And that is—then it's really interesting to see how, if you're an immigrant to the U.S. and you're becoming a citizen, there's a lot of patriotism that you have to demonstrate in your naturalization, and you have to take these tests and know the answers to questions about U.S. history that most Americans don't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2511.0,2544.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2544.0,2544.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: It's always interesting to me how the sort of immigrant neighborhoods within New York, they bring other visions of what America is into the U.S. So if you grew up in a place where America was the bad guy, then you come to New York and you're with a bunch of other people from the same place that you are, it sort of changes how Americans think of themselves too. Jackson Heights—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2544.0,2576.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: It does.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2576.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: Were you thinking of something, Kitty?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2580.0,2582.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: I was thinking of also the type of immigrant that comes here with the dream of making a lot of money and going back. 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So then she was with her husband and her husband's cousin then—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2658.0,2706.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Oh, how nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2706.0,2708.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Yeah, so we—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2708.0,2710.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: [Big] city like this and you always meet somebody you know on the street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2710.0,2714.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Yeah. So we ended up having lunch one day. Four of us got together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2714.0,2722.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Oh, how nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2722.0,2723.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Yeah. Then she took me to this—they say that it's authentic Ecuador, a food restaurant. 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Do you remember?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2743.0,2749.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Ecuador, I didn't—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2749.0,2751.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Ecuadorian food.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2751.0,2752.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Yeah, Ecuadorian food, but she said that there's a mountainous area and a coastal area. 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So it was so good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2790.0,2794.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Good combination.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2794.0,2795.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Yeah, I loved it. One thing I noticed also is that Latino people are good tippers. They tip everybody. At the grocery store, I see that people pay in cash still. 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North of Roosevelt Avenue, Latino, South Asian.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2921.0,2930.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: There's also some in Woodside. I used to shop sometimes in Woodside at Chinese markets.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2930.0,2937.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Right. There's a Korean market too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=2937.0,2939.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: And Korean markets. Very, very good, ridiculously good prices. Like from them, you'd think you were in the 1980s [laughter]. 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Where I used to enjoy eating in Jackson Heights was not the better known restaurants, although I've been to them when I go with friends. But if I would go by myself on a shooting day, I'd stop into one of the lunch places where workers came in and where they typically had a hot table, sometimes behind the counter, sometimes not. There was one in particular. 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Naan? Roti—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3044.0,3045.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: —dosa?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3045.0,3046.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: No, that's filled. Just the plain ones. Roti, maybe?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3046.0,3052.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: Roti, naan, or dosa [crosstalk]—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3052.0,3053.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: —[crosstalk] Naan, I know, but it was roti, the flat, flat ones that look just like tortillas. Anyway, but that's not what they're called. And there'd be this lady making them one after another after another. And they came with your lunch. You could select, let's say, three different types of dishes with rice, with roti, with a little salad, with a little dressing, and so inexpensive. And it was all so tasty, to me anyway. Maybe people who were used to something more elegant or homecooked, it wouldn't be. But to me, it was just fine. I was always happy with that, and I liked the idea of being among ordinary people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3053.0,3114.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: Did you meet people when you were in those restaurants? 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It's so interesting. Depending on where you go. And in the health store—there's a health store on 37th, it's kind of pricey. I go there just for specific item because they only carry that thing, but otherwise I wouldn't go. 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You had been doing it where you were living before—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3668.0,3671.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: —yeah, since COVID started.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3671.0,3671.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: —and then as soon as you moved to Jackson Heights, you just started it up there. 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I have a good friend who is also doing it, or was, I'm not sure if she still is, but very similar to—did you meet Sokie?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3729.0,3741.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Sokie, yeah. I met—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3741.0,3742.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: She was doing that in her neighborhood.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3742.0,3745.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Awesome. First I joined that group, and I learned how to do it, and so I kind of branched out after COVID. 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Once you start—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3795.0,3796.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: —even though they still live in Manhattan?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3796.0,3799.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3799.0,3799.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3799.0,3800.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Once you start—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3800.0,3802.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: —that's weird.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3802.0,3802.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: —once you start doing it, it's fun. 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Stand up and down, up and down. 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I think one of the reasons that Sokie may not be doing it now is because—in a lot of organizations like this—there's a very small core group that does most of the work, and the others are just fringe people who show up when they have nothing better to do, but they're not really committed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3931.0,3961.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Yeah. 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Not always. It always varies, like with you. It's always different.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3979.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: I wanted to ask, do you know Jacob Riis's photography?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3990.0,3995.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Yes. How the Other Half Lives? Lived [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3995.0,3999.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: Yeah, so I was just at my—a couple of weeks ago, I had just finished teaching a class at LaGuardia in Long Island City, and there was a stack of books for free in the hallway, and that book was in there. And you were talking about the Lower East Side.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=3999.0,4017.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Lucky you. You took it, didn't you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4017.0,4019.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: I definitely took it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4019.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4020.0,4022.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: Was that something that had inspired you, or when did you come across that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4022.0,4032.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: In the late 1980s, early 90s, when my focus was Lower Manhattan, Chinatown, and the Lower East Side. 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It seems so remote. It's so long ago looking. Right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4088.0,4103.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4103.0,4106.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: But in the grand scheme of things, not that long ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4106.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: Yeah. And did you do that kind of research for Jackson Heights when you were going out?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4110.0,4116.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: No, I didn't, actually. Ayurveda piqued my curiosity, but other than that, Hindu religion, like almost every other religion, didn't interest me. 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I don't even know if there was an Indian community at the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4154.0,4188.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: But where they lived, it was a beautiful building. It was immaculately maintained. The floors in the hallway were kind of like a linoleum—black, but with such a high polish that they almost looked like the mirrors. It was always like that. And then there were beautiful interior gardens, which are typical of that area. So I read some stuff about that, but not really that much more about Jackson Heights. 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I can't really think of anything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4338.0,4343.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/316","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: I just wonder how much longer Jackson Heights, what it is now can go on as it is now. Because everywhere else change is coming. 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Because my friend who's a realtor said that in the Bronx right now, it's so much going on in the area development-wise. So the property value is shooting up. 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Then meanwhile, even in Manhattan, East Harlem—West Harlem is so much gentrified already—but East Harlem is still not that developed, and the reason is that there's a community there. 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But the south part of the Bronx, it's, the community didn't get together to fight for the development, and at least that's what I heard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4476.0,4491.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/325","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: That's very interesting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4491.0,4492.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/326","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: So maybe Jackson Heights has a strong—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4492.0,4498.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/327","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Well, I'm sure that that's part of it. And the other part of it, of course, is how attitudes in society have changed to emphasize cultural and ethnic pride as opposed to just blending in and leaving everything behind. 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If they weren't, then probably that would certainly weaken the whole thing. 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I wanted you to look at the one with the women and headscarves walking in and out of the jewelry store with the American flag on it, and there was—I think I maybe took it back—but I had handed you when you were talking about all the fresh vegetables—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4591.0,4609.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/332","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Oh, yeah, I think it's here also.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4609.0,4611.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/333","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: I had handed you a photo you'd taken of a bunch of tomatoes in front of a—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4611.0,4615.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/334","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: —here it is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4615.0,4616.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/335","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: —an Indian grocery store.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4616.0,4617.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/336","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: —tomatoes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4617.0,4618.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/337","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: I think I said this already, but I was just struck that—and maybe this is true of your Chinatown photos also—but the ones in Jackson Heights, they're always sort of staged by these variety of storefronts. That's the scene for everything is jewelry stores, sari shops, little grocery stores, are the sort of frame behind everybody.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4618.0,4649.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/338","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: It's the underpinning of the community. It's what keeps the wheels turning, the commerce. 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Early in the morning, a few people maybe walking a dog, going up to the boulevard to catch the subway. But during the day, you don't see any kind of street life whatsoever.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4678.0,4703.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/341","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: That's nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4703.0,4707.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/342","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Not so nice for me, actually. I really miss all that chaos—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4707.0,4717.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/343","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Really?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4717.0,4717.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/344","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: —of people shopping. Well, because I didn't live in the middle of it. I went as a visitor. And it's like being a grandparent. They always say it's better to be a grandparent, because when you get tired, you give the kid back. Well, with these busy, busy, over-busy neighborhoods, when I had my fill, I just went home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4717.0,4743.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/345","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4743.0,4746.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/346","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: No, I don't think I could live in there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4746.0,4749.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/347","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: It's so loud. Especially my corner, there's a very popular Colombian restaurant and a bar.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4749.0,4763.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/348","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Noisy?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4763.0,4763.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/349","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: —oh my God, noisy. Yeah. Especially summertime. There's an outdoor dining space.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4763.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/350","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: —windows open, doors open.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4770.0,4773.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/351","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yuka Yamashita: If there's a soccer game, oh my God [laughter].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4773.0,4779.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/352","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: Funny. I think of Jackson Heights with a lot of affection. Just going into the supermarket was an adventure for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4779.0,4804.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/353","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: It's a wonderful place.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4804.0,4810.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/354","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: And Flushing is, of course, hugely chaotic and very Asian dominated. But it doesn't have the same kind of village feel to it. It's too broad and dispersed. It's interesting, but it's too much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4810.0,4835.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/355","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Liv Veazey: Interesting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4835.0,4837.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248/transcript/74393/annotation/356","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kitty Katz: I never liked it as well. 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Thank you for listening.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140820/file/260248#t=4855.0,4859.064"}]}]}]}