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Christopher Neir speaks mostly about the life of his grandfather Robert Neir (born 1929), who worked at the tavern as a young man before moving to Washington state in the 1950s, and the evolution of the tavern under the Neir family's ownership. 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Neir's Tavern was founded in 1829 as The Blue Pump Room; it was purchased by Louis Neir in 1898 and it remained in the Neir family until 1980. Christopher Neir speaks mostly about the life of his grandfather Robert Neir (born 1929), who worked at the tavern as a young man before moving to Washington state in the 1950s, and the evolution of the tavern under the Neir family's ownership. 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Well, first of all, Chris, do you agree with the terms and conditions outlined in the Queens Memory informed consent and copyright permission form that I shared with you over email?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=0.0,14.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Mmhm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=14.0,16.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Okay. This is Kendra Kuszai with Chris Neir. We are recording on January 22nd, 2021 for the Queens Memory project. Could you say your full name and spell it please?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=15.0,33.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: My full name is Christopher Neir, uh, C H R I S T O P H E R space, N E I R.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=33.0,44.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Okay, great. Thank you. Well, hello, Chris. We are here today to discuss you and your family and the role that your family played in the history of one of New York City's most historic taverns, Neir's Tavern, located in Woodhaven, Queens. Neir's is a beloved bar here in Queens, and we would love to hear about your family's relationship to Neir's. First of all, can you tell us a little about yourself, Chris?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=44.0,78.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: I was born in Kirkland, Washington, uh, in 1990, and that was all because my grandfather, Bob Neir, Robert Neir, moved out here in the fifties after serving two years in the army. And I've only visited Queens a handful of times. Um, my first time to New York was in 2004 with family and we visited the bar. That was really cool. And then I've been a few times in the last five years, most recently last year. Is that good? Anything else you want to know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=78.0,119.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Did you grow up in Washington?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=119.0,121.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yes. I grew up in Washington state. Born and raised here. Yes. I've been here my whole life. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=121.0,128.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Okay. And so your connection, your direct connection to Neir's comes through your grandfather?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=128.0,137.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yes. Yep. Bob Neir, who was born in, uh, in Astoria, New York in 1929, right before the Great Depression. So, uh, as he said, he wrote a little biography of himself and he says, um, the positioning of the stars said it was not a good time to show up. Essentially. He was, he was born at like a week or two before the crash of 1929. So, but yeah, that's, that's my connection to Neir's and, and, uh, it, it, I know the history through him and what he's written and what he said. And that's, that's, that's how I know of the bar and all that stuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=137.0,186.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: What was your grandfather like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=186.0,188.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Um, probably my biggest role model, honestly. Um, him and my grandmother, his wife. Um, they-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=188.0,199.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: They're in the picture behind you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=198.0,200.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yes. I put that there on purpose, just, you know, so that's, that's them at their 50th wedding anniversary in 2001. Um, uh, he, it's hard to describe him. It's very hard. Um, he was kind also very firm and just generous. He never liked to be intimidated and he would always help when he could and give advice. He was very good at giving advice and, um, just, I used to write little stories when I was younger, growing up in my early teens and I would always send it to him and he would always proofread it or give me a, you know, the hardest criticism that I probably needed, but also very helpful in that as well. So he was just always around and able to lend ear, lend a hand when needed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=200.0,259.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: And a bit of a writer himself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=259.0,261.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yes, he, he wrote three or four books. Um, three officially, his biography that's kind of just for the family would be his fourth that I just got edited and published for the family for a Christmas present this year. Um, one of his, he was very, he loved the Navy. He loved the sea and Naval battles, Naval history. He was very much into that. And the only reason he couldn't get into the Navy was because he was sort of color blind. And so, um, he wrote a couple books about that fictional, and then he served as mayor of Kirkland in the seventies and was on the city council of Kirkland, um, from 1970 through 1991. And, um, you know, he was, he was very much into public service and that's another reason I look up to him and he wrote a book about the political history of Kirkland from 1955 to 1995 as well. So that, that was his big first book that he wrote in retirement.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=261.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: So he grew up in Astoria, but he spent a lot of time at Neir's?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=330.0,340.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yes. He actually worked at Neir's when he was younger. Um, he would like set the pins in the bowling alley or clean up here and there. Um, I, he never mentioned it a lot. He wrote about it in his biography. And I can also send you parts of that, if that would be very helpful. I'm sure it would be. He talks about growing up in Astoria, working at the bar, his father a little bit, the Great Depression. Um, it, it's very interesting. And, and he also delves into kind of who he became as a person. He was surrounded by a lot of women because all the men were off working. So he was very, um, um, he was treated well. He was like, you know, it's hard to explain. I'm not very good at that. Um, but, um, yeah, yeah, he, he worked at Neir's for awhile, but, um, he never wanted to take over the business when it was his turn to take it. Um, because his father was never really around, he was always working busy. He would see him like once a week sort of thing. And so he didn't want that for himself. He never wanted to start a business or run the family business. And he kind of, I don't know where it came from, but he always had the inkling that he was going to leave New York and he eventually did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=340.0,427.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: So I, I did read, um, that excerpt of what he wrote that, that you shared with the Neir's 200 Group.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=427.0,436.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Good, good. Yeah. That's that was, yeah. That was what he wrote specifically about the bar itself in his biography.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=436.0,445.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Yeah. If you could tell, like maybe verbally tell the story a little bit, um, for this Queens Memory Project?.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=445.0,452.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, let me see if I can actually find it. Uh, I'll just go back to the Neir's group. If I can find it in there. Newspaper clippings... I think I found it. So you want me to recite the-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=452.0,479.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: You could just talk about it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=479.0,483.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Um, so let's see, I posted on the Neir's 200 forum group, um, an excerpt of what my - So my grandparents did a lot of genealogy in the nineties and they traveled to Germany and around Europe to figure out where the Neir family came from. And unfortunately we couldn't find, or they couldn't find anyone beyond Joseph Nia, who was the one who came over seas and immigrated. And so Nia eventually became Neir so, Nia became Neir when they came over. I don't know why it's so hard to figure out what happened before him, Joseph Nia, but that's where that ended up. And so I took an excerpt from my grandmother's notes on Joseph Neir um, um, and posted that to the group, kind of giving a little bit of the history of how the business was founded in 1898. And they believed the height of its popularity was from 1900 to 1910. Um, of course the building still stands today, which is good. Yay. And it's also noted that Mae West performed there as a child. I can not confirm or deny that, but I wasn't around then to know any better.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=483.0,566.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: That's the myth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=566.0,567.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yes. That's the myth, the legend and the lore that I would believe it would be, um, apparently Neir's Hall, which it was called back then, was the first to show silent flickers in Queens county. That's something that's been passed down. And, um, Joe Neir, who, um, is my grandfather's father, he worked there or worked either across the street or for the stables that were around there because it was Union Course. And he, his first job was cleaning the racing stables that were across the street. Yes. And then, which is now no longer there. Um, Joseph, my grandfather's dad, was also limited to an eighth grade education as his uncle Louis, who was the founder of Neir's Hall, felt it more important that he help at the bar. So that's where he ended up working and then taking over after Louis Neir died in, I forget what year. 19 something, um, 1929, actually. So the same year my grandfather was born. Um, and the story with Joseph is he was, he was like unofficially adopted by Louis Neir because, um, uh, because his father died. Yeah, that's right. His father who was also Joseph. So a lot of Josephs in the family. So my grandfather's dad, Joseph W. Neir, his father, Joseph G. Neir died in 1897 when he was only two, two and a half years old. And apparently he was very sickly and his mother Clara, um, remarried. And apparently it was too much for her to take him on and care for him. So he offered him up to Louis and his wife, Julia, and as this, I mean, Louis and Julia raised Joseph and Joseph eventually worked at the bar and he was the last Neir to manage the bar. And I think, um, Julia, I think owned the building. Yes. Julia eventually owned the building while Joseph W. Neir ran the bar up until his death in 1963, I believe. And after that, it was still, the building was still in the family. I think it was taken over by my grandfather's sister, Carolyn, I want to say don't quote me on that. I think that's her name. I'd have to look at it again, but I think it was Carolyn. Um, and she held onto it until I think it was just not financially worth it and then sold it, I think, sold it off in 1980, around there. I think that's when the building left the Neir name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=567.0,752.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: She owned it, but didn't run it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=752.0,756.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yeah. I, from what I understand, she owned the building, but did not run the bar at that point.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=756.0,761.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Do you know what it was like in the seventies when she owned it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=761.0,766.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yes. Or I think she owned it while Joseph worked there. She was, she owned the building even while Joseph was alive. Um, she finally sold off the property in 19, around 1980. Someone who would be, who would know more about that side, uh, would be, um, John Foley or the Foley family, because Carolyn married into the Foleys. So if you know any Foleys or can reach out to them, they would, they would know more of that side. But yeah, that's just, my general understanding is around 1980 is when it was sold off the building itself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=766.0,805.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: And in the piece that your grandfather wrote, he described a little bit about how it was over the years when it was in your family. And I thought that was very interesting. How, how the different time periods.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=805.0,825.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yes. And how the Depression kind of affected, um, the bar kind of shut down, but apparently he might've seen, you know, bottles up in the attics and was wondering about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=825.0,836.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: But in the heyday, let's talk a minute about the heyday. So the building was much more than a bar.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=836.0,844.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: It had a dance hall, it had a ballroom, it eventually had a bowling alley. It encompassed more than what it is today. It had the adjacent bottom floor more or less. I don't know what's there now, but it encompassed both sides of that. And then eventually during the decline, because of the Depression, and then eventually as television radio came into play, it was on a slow decline up into the fifties and they sold certain parts of it off. Or they became a storage room first, sort of thing. I don't know the timeline exactly. But yeah, eventually it just became what it is now in size. It was more of a restaurant than just a bar back in like the fifties and such.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=844.0,901.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: And, um, he also, you know, that the part that he wrote about out, when it started slowing down business and your grandfather would put on vaudeville shows for people for 25 cents with other neighborhood kids for the patrons. Did he ever say anything about that? He was a musician too?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=901.0,929.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yes. He loved to play the piano. His mother, um, had him take music lessons when he was a kid. He hated taking music lessons and eventually got his way out of taking them when he was like 12. But, um, he enjoyed playing the piano and he said, uh, I interviewed, so I'll finish the piano bit. But, um, he enjoyed playing the piano more after stopping taking lessons. And he would go on to play piano at, um, the church he worked at before college, even during college, he'd play for people. He most recently volunteered at the Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland and would play the piano and he racked up not hundreds, thousands of hours and got a little pin for it as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=929.0,982.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Oh my goodness. That must have been a thrill to have the mayor playing piano to entertain you at the-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=982.0,988.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Every Christmas was a treat because he would just play the piano. And I have fond memories of him playing the piano. And I have video of him playing the piano, which is extra special because you can now go back and watch those segments. Fun fact. Well, a little tidbit is, uh, since I was about 13, I filmed a lot of my family gatherings. So I have thousands upon thousands of hours of footage, of family gatherings and a lot of good memories. And I've turned them into videos here and there. So-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=988.0,1023.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: At family gatherings, do people talk about the Neir's Tavern at all?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1023.0,1030.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: I'm sure they did before my time. Eventually, my grandfather kinda, um, was out of that, but the most recent time he did go back once and I don't know if another uncle of mine or one of his sons would know better. Um, the last time he went out to New York was 2012 from, for my cousin's graduation, from West Point. And they traveled to the bar. There's a photo of them in the bar, um, with some of the Foleys, some of the Neir's. Um, and he also took a visit to his old house. His childhood home, couldn't go in, but, you know, he saw it nonetheless. So as far as talking about it, it didn't come up casually all the time, except here and there through email, like when the bar was saved or when it appeared in a movie like Tower Heist and stuff like that, you know, he still held on to, you know, like, it's still going on. It's still good, all that sort of stuff, but unless you specifically asked him something, I don't know if he would have brought it up. Like the history of it in that sense. But if you did ask some question, you had a whole story to go along with it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1030.0,1107.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Can we talk more about when, when you visited? You visited Neir's, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1107.0,1115.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yes. A few times. Uh, most recent was last year after my sister's wedding. Um, some of the Neirs went down to meet Loycent, the owner of the bar. Um, and that was cool. I got some video footage of that. I don't think any of the brothers or the sons of my grandfather had been to the bar since maybe the seventies or sixties. I can't remember, um, maybe late sixties. Um, but they wanted to experience the bar and kind of see how it was because it had just been saved like the month prior. We just had the celebration of my grandfather's life and the day of, or the day before Neir's was saved. So it was kind of just, you know, kind of a coincidence and sort of a nice thing to wake up to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1115.0,1173.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Maybe he had something to do with it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1173.0,1175.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yeah. It's one of those kinds of things. Um, even though he didn't want to take it over, it's like, he didn't want to let it go either.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1175.0,1182.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: It's family!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1182.0,1183.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yeah, that was a lot of fun. So Loy talked about what he had done to save it, why he had saved it. The family looked around the bar, chatted. It was very nice. I took photos of them there as well. It was, it was a nice visit. And then I on my own went and visited my grandfather's childhood home and just took a photo from the outside. So that was kind of cool.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1183.0,1215.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: How did it feel to be in Neir's, did you feel like \"this could have been my life?\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1215.0,1219.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Um, I didn't feel that, it was like stepping into history. It was like, wow, this building has been here for this long and it hasn't changed that much. People I don't know, that are a part of my family, have walked through these doors or have worked here or, and, or been here. So to me that felt special, kind of surreal. And at the same time, um, I don't know. I like history and, like I said, it's hard to describe you just feel a sense of wonderment kind of like this has been here for almost 200 years. The building has been a part of Queens for who knows how long. It's just history, you know, it's important.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1219.0,1277.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Yeah. Your family's blood, sweat, and tears went into that place.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1277.0,1282.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yeah. And who would have thought it would still be here today? I don't think they would've thought that! Who would've thought!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1282.0,1292.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: It's a different kind of place now. Well, I don't know if it's, I know how it is now because I go there and I bring my family. It's a place where kids are welcome and everyone socializes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1292.0,1308.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yeah. I was 14 when I went there the first time and I couldn't have any drinks. I don't really drink anyway, but I got a lemonade. Kids welcome.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1308.0,1317.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Yeah. Our kids have run around the tables and nobody ever yells at them. They don't run too much, but-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1317.0,1326.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yeah. And it's just crazy to think my grandfather played there, like, performed there. And that in itself is kind of just surreal. Like you just think of grandpa's the, the old wise guy and, you know, he had a whole life too, and it's hard to kind of imagine that- or picture that- because you weren't around. But then you walk through it and you're kinda like, you know, he saw this when he was younger, he was here when he was younger.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1326.0,1354.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Did, you see the whole building? Did you go up and-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1354.0,1358.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: I have only seen the first floor. I have not seen all of it. So I haven't seen the next door or what was upstairs. I know a family member lived upstairs. I think it was Julia. I think it was, but I can't remember. And I think she had to move out for some reason. I think she couldn't pay it or something. I can't remember. Yeah. Well, I have the text on his aunt, Julia. So the, the wife of, was it the wife of Joseph? She lived upstairs in the apartment above the store. She inherited the business. That's right. She inherited the business and my grandfather's dad ran it. That's what happened. Okay. And Julia was the mother, not real mother, but mother of Joseph when they adopted him. Got it. Okay. Got it. I mean, I hopefully didn't confuse you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1358.0,1418.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: A real family place.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1418.0,1423.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yeah. That's very cool.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1423.0,1428.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Before we finish up, do you have any other anecdotes or stories that you can remember?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1428.0,1435.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Uh, no stories for me personally, just of what my grandfather might've written down. And I can send those along or send more of like his growing up in Queens itself or a story as well, if that would be beneficial to you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1435.0,1451.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Yeah, that would be great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1451.0,1455.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yeah. And I have pictures to go along with it too. Any parting words, one small story. It's very small. I visited the bar on a work trip in 2017. It was January and I was going to leave out of JFK. So I decided to stop by the bar on my way to the airport. And I had a meal there, I think I got it for free 'cause I was a Neir, I was like, \"Oh, thank you.'\" I chatted with someone there. I gave him my Metrocard cause I didn't need it anymore. And he was very grateful for that. He was a teacher. Um, but when I went outside, I called my grandfather and I was like, \"Where, where was the old Neir's Hotel?\" Or where was that? Oh, and then, you know, he was like, okay, you go down the street, a few buildings and it should be right there. And I was like, oh wow, that's cool. So, you know, you ask him a question, he knows exactly whatever.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1455.0,1523.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: So the Neirs did have a hotel and I can't remember who ran that per se. But I have photos of it and the building's still there. I took a photo of it last year. I forget what's there now. It's a white, it's painted white now, but it's literally, you come out of Neir's, you go left and either go down a block and it's just across the street. So you're going down the block, you look to the right to cross the street and it's painted white right now, but that used to be the old Neir's Hotel. And I don't know how long that was a thing. Um, and I think that was a different part of the family that kind of ran that. Another tidbit is apparently someone in the family died from the top floor.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1523.0,1565.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: I think it was from the Neir's Hotel. I can't remember who off the top of my head. A lot of history. But no, that was kind of cool to call him up and you know, \"Where was this? Where's that?\" you know, and then be able to tell me. Those little things will stick with you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1565.0,1586.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Thanks for sharing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1586.0,1586.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: It's great that the bar is continuing. That it was saved and you know, it is a part of the history of Queens now. I'm sure when they started the business in 1898, they had no inkling of how long it would last or the historical impact it would have. I mean, how can you predict those things? You can't really, especially back then. I would imagine dealing with the Depression and trying to stay afloat, even.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1586.0,1617.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: With all those ups and downs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1617.0,1619.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yup. And the 18th amendment. I mean, that kind of puts a wrench into business, especially when you're a bar and a social hall.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1619.0,1629.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: And you don't know anything about those years except a rumor of-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1629.0,1634.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yeah. That they probably- I don't know anything. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1634.0,1636.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: A still?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1636.0,1639.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: That's all my grandpa would, would let out, I guess.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1639.0,1645.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Honest. Honest, good people. No still.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1645.0,1647.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yeah. So who knows what went on behind closed doors, but the fact that they survived is good and the building and the bar survived to this point as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1647.0,1663.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Yes. Well, thank you so much, Chris. This was a really great interview.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1663.0,1668.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yeah, I thank you for having me. I don't know how much I can contribute. I wasn't there, but my connections with my grandfather. Most of that is through his writing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1668.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: And you have a really special perspective and it sounds like your grandfather was a wonderful person who was formed from that environment. And it's really so interesting to hear, so thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1680.0,1696.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yeah. His childhood was very interesting. Apparently he was in a gang. So that was fun to learn.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1696.0,1705.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: I guess that was normal back then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1705.0,1708.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yeah, it kind of was, he mentioned in his book, it was, it was much different back then, you know, there was no, it was like pocket knives and stuff, or just, you know, fists. You had a street corner, had some blocks that you would kind of be all- the tough guys, you know, this is our area. It's like, oh, wow! I had no idea. He's lived through a lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1708.0,1737.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kendra Kuszai: Thank you, Chris.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1737.0,1738.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330/transcript/48936/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christopher Neir: Yeah, no problem. Happy to help. Happy to lend a voice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/105562/file/206330#t=1738.0,1645.95329"}]}]}]}