{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/6m3319s74x/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Helen Ries Oral History"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/010/original/Aviary_QPLlogo_192x192.png?1578574261","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClip 1: \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHelen Ries describes a typical scene on a Ridgewood street. She talks about the horses and wagons coming down her cobblestone block. A vegetable peddler would come around for the ladies to stock their vegetables. She describes how milk was brought to their homes and was then stored in an \"icebox.\" An ice man would bring ice and lift the ice to their window using a dumbwaiter. Families would place a sign on their windows to let the ice man know how much ice they needed and he would send that amount of ice up for them. She explains that before the building of houses and factories, Ridgewood was mostly farmland. She also recalls watching with other school children out the windows as the elephants walked down Cypress Avenue when the circus would come to town.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClip 2: \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHelen Ries recounts the history of the Vander Ende-Onderdonk House located in Ridgewood. The house was built in 1709 and the original owners of the Onderdonk house were the Vander Ende family who sold it to the Onderdonk family. Most of the land around the house was farmland and slowly the area shifted into a more industrial setting as time progressed. When the city needed more land to build, they decided to take down the Onderdonk house. However, the people of the community got together and started the Greater Ridgewood Society and collected money and saved the house to preserve its history. Soon after, in 1975, the Onderdonk house suffered from a disastrous fire and later the whole house was rebuilt exactly the way it was before thanks to the existence of the original building plans.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 3: \u003c/strong\u003eHelen Ries recalls the days when trolley transportation existed in Ridgewood. Not many people owned cars and as a result, trolleys were widely used. A ride in the trolley cost a nickel which is much different from today's transportation fare. Some trolley tracks still exist today and can be seen under some train lines. Helen Ries' father worked as a trolley operator. During the winter when there were heavy snowstorms, the trolley cars would get snowed in and Helen's father would be forced to stay back in the trolley for one to two days to clear out the tracks. The trolley system ended in 1950 when buses and train lines were introduced.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSummary of Full Interview\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHelen Ries was born to parents of Gottscheer ethnicity who emigrated from present day Slovenia. In this interview, Helen discusses her Gottscheer heritage as well as her life during the Great Depression, World War II and the postwar era. Following graduation from high school, she worked as a stenographer before marrying her husband in 1946. Although she grew up in Ridgewood, Helen has also lived in Forest Hills and Glendale, where her children grew up. She has a son, born in 1949 and a daughter, born in 1952. Eventually, she moved back to Ridgewood, where she became an active member of the Ridgewood Historical Society. She has given numerous presentations in the historic Onderdonk House on how life was like in Ridgewood during the early 20th century.\u003c/p\u003e (general)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCC BY-NC-SA Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2013-04-28 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Helen Ries (Interviewee)","Leslie Tu (Interviewer)","Dan Brenner (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["Ridgewood, Forest Hills and Glendale, Queens, NY (spatial)","1930-2013 (temporal)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English (primary)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003eClip 1: \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003eHelen Ries describes a typical scene on a Ridgewood street. She talks about the horses and wagons coming down her cobblestone block. A vegetable peddler would come around for the ladies to stock their vegetables. She describes how milk was brought to their homes and was then stored in an \"icebox.\" An ice man would bring ice and lift the ice to their window using a dumbwaiter. Families would place a sign on their windows to let the ice man know how much ice they needed and he would send that amount of ice up for them. She explains that before the building of houses and factories, Ridgewood was mostly farmland. 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The house was built in 1709 and the original owners of the Onderdonk house were the Vander Ende family who sold it to the Onderdonk family. Most of the land around the house was farmland and slowly the area shifted into a more industrial setting as time progressed. When the city needed more land to build, they decided to take down the Onderdonk house. However, the people of the community got together and started the Greater Ridgewood Society and collected money and saved the house to preserve its history. Soon after, in 1975, the Onderdonk house suffered from a disastrous fire and later the whole house was rebuilt exactly the way it was before thanks to the existence of the original building plans.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eClip 3: \u003c/strong\u003eHelen Ries recalls the days when trolley transportation existed in Ridgewood. Not many people owned cars and as a result, trolleys were widely used. A ride in the trolley cost a nickel which is much different from today's transportation fare. Some trolley tracks still exist today and can be seen under some train lines. Helen Ries' father worked as a trolley operator. During the winter when there were heavy snowstorms, the trolley cars would get snowed in and Helen's father would be forced to stay back in the trolley for one to two days to clear out the tracks. 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