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While living in Jersey City, NJ and working in Manhattan she decided she wanted to open a store, her cousin told her that Queens is a haven for Filipinos - they decided to open their store on Roosevelt Avenue to cater to Filipino health care workers at the nearby hospital and consulate workers who lived in Elmhurst. She talks about starting a business as an immigrant in New York, how the community grew up around the store, and some of the most popular items in the store for the Filipino diaspora (like milk fish, pastries, hamon, and Christmas lanterns). She also touches on the ups and downs of being a shop owner over time in NYC, running a store during the COVID pandemic, and how grateful she is for the store and her customers.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCC BY-NC-SA Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/search/browse/38929"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Zenaida Castillo (Interviewee)","Rosalind Tordesillas (Interviewee)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["Interview recorded as part of the Queens Memory Podcast's 3rd Season: Our Major Minor Voices."]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["1976 - 2022 (temporal)","Jersey City, NJ, Elmhurst and Woodside, Queens, NY (spatial)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSummary of Full Interview\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eZenaida Castillo is from San Jose, Batangas in the Philippines. Castillo came the US in the 1970\u0026rsquo;s and in 1976 with her husband, opened Phil-Am Food Mart, a grocery that is at the center of what is now officially \u0026ldquo;Little Manila\u0026rdquo; in Woodside, Queens. While living in Jersey City, NJ and working in Manhattan she decided she wanted to open a store, her cousin told her that Queens is a haven for Filipinos - they decided to open their store on Roosevelt Avenue to cater to Filipino health care workers at the nearby hospital and consulate workers who lived in Elmhurst. She talks about starting a business as an immigrant in New York, how the community grew up around the store, and some of the most popular items in the store for the Filipino diaspora (like milk fish, pastries, hamon, and Christmas lanterns). She also touches on the ups and downs of being a shop owner over time in NYC, running a store during the COVID pandemic, and how grateful she is for the store and her customers.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCC BY-NC-SA Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Queens Public Library"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Queens Public Library"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/010/original/Aviary_QPLlogo_192x192.png?1578574261","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Castillo-Zenaida-20220108-full.mp3"]},"duration":2900.33333,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-queenslibrary.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/165/362/original/Castillo-Zenaida-20220108-full.mp3?1661183510","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":2900.33333,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Full Transcript [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Do you agree to the terms and conditions outlined in the Queen's Memory informed consent and copyright permission form that I shared with you? Yes. Okay. Thank you. So, uh, this is, um, Ida Castilloand, um, I am Rosalind Tordesillas recording an interview you for the Queen Memory project on January 8th, 2022. Thank you so much. Um, so can we start first? Sorry to start with this, but your age.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=0.0,32.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: I'm 72.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=32.0,34.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: And, um, what pronouns do you use? Do you refer, sorry, this is a new thing that we, that we ask. Um, uh, do you refer to yourself as she, her or they, them","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=34.0,48.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Just Ida","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=48.0,50.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Okay. [laugh] all right. Um, okay. Uh, let's see. So what, um, and can you say your occupation [affirmative]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=50.0,63.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Um, I would say I am just a plain storekeeper.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=63.0,69.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Uh, and what is your connection to Queens and Woodside?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=69.0,74.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Uh, we, I would say I am very close to Queens because we started here since 1976. The first time I came here, we, uh, actually were exciting. We were residing in Jersey city, but we found this place. So from then we lived here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=74.0,96.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: And, um, when, when you first, um, started this store here, was there, what was the neighborhood like? Were there a lot of Filipinos?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=96.0,106.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Uh, I would say there are, especially by Woodside by the church, but, uh, within our street here, there is, I don't see any, any, when we first started here. Yeah. There was no Filipino in the, in the, in the, uh, grow in the, uh, street that we are.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=106.0,126.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Um, but so why did you select","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=126.0,128.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: This area? Uh, because we understand, uh, that there were, you know, a friend of ours and, uh, my cousins who used to go to bowling here, which is very close at Woodhaven, uh, told us about this, uh, you know, Queens is a haven for Filipinos. And most of the, uh, uh, I would say dignitaries from the consulate lives in Elmhurst Queens. So we decided we really wanted to open up at, at Elmhurst, but we cannot afford the rental there. So, so we looked around and, uh, we, we first started at, at, um, uh, five doors away from here. We rented a place for five years, and then we got this.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=128.0,179.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: And then, so how, um, What were your challenges when you first started?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=179.0,185.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Oh, a lot of challenges. For example, we don't have car. I, we only borrowed car from my sister to make some purchases, but my, I have a cousin with, uh, we started this business us, uh, way ahead of us, uh, pro I think some seven, between seven to 12 years ahead of us. And they helped us a lot from, you know, they deliver and, uh, but it's very challenging because, you know, we, we lived in Jersey city, so every night [affirmative], we, we, we, we travel from Jersey city to here and then we do that every night.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=185.0,227.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So, and then how about getting the supplies initially? Were you, you were already, um, your main thing was getting Filipino Goods.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=227.0,236.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Oh, yes, yes, yes. With the help of my cousin they started their business, you know, they have, it's another PhilAm, PhilAm. They were the original PhilAm grocery that they have in Jersey city. So, you know, I ask them if you know, that I am interested in putting up this and they are, they were very willing. They really, really helped us, uh, from merchandise to, uh, giving, giving us, uh, some line of credit.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=236.0,275.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So how, how long hold on. I just need to, sorry, um, record it myself also, because I'm far from the mic. Um, Okay. Sorry. So, so how long did it take for you to get established? Like where you felt comfortable?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=275.0,302.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: I would say after probably five years or a little less than five years, because we have a neighbor who had been way ahead. I would say one of the very first Filipino here in Queens, they were 17 years ahead was, uh, there was one very popular Filip, uh, Filipino, Chinese, uh, grocery in, um, Manhattan, which they call the Filipino Lou. And, uh, they retired and my neighbor also retired some couple of years after, uh, because I think the lady, yeah, I, I know, I know Mrs. Spano, the lady who owns retired from, uh, doing the store. So with God's grace, we were able to get this, this slot with the help of my parents. They loaned us some money to buy this place.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=302.0,366.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So, um, so you were saying at the time there weren't too many Filipinos.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=366.0,372.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: A lot of, I would say we had a lot of Filipinos from Long island, you know, uh, doctors and everybody, they come here, they really come here just to buy Filipino foods, but because we really tried to be as complete as we could. So eventually [laugh], it gets,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=372.0,396.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: I think, overall, what would you say are the really popular things that people come here for?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=396.0,401.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Oh, the most popular things I would say are, you know, like the noodles, the, the Canton, the, the, uh, the Fish Sauce, the, you know, the vinegar and the Toyo. And I said, you know, and, you know, a lot of Filipinos were looked forward, you know, like having this, uh, all the, um, I would say the pastries, the bread, everything, everything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=401.0,433.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Do you make those yourselves?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=433.0,435.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: We do. We do go, uh, a few things like the, we cook, we cook the, the fish, you know, the, the milk fish, the marinated milk fish we used, we actually used, we used to really, I myself was doing the, all the cleaning of the fish before.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=435.0,455.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Sorry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=455.0,456.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: It's okay. It's okay. No, because of the frozen items. Oh,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=456.0,464.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: I see. So they like, yeah,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=464.0,471.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Those are, you know, I would say we try to be as complete as we can. So with the frozen items that's oh, yeah. We to bring no, no, but we have suppliers. One of the oldest supplier is the CIMEX. CIMEX Philippines. We have a lot of, you know, before, not like not, how would I describe it now? The young ones, I would say, ah, I remember I remember this, the Filipinos don't usually don't really start, you know, uh, uh, what celebrating Thanksgiving. We were so surprised that all of a sudden, just one click, this, the Filipinos is started celebrating the, uh, the Thanksgiving, but because we were used to only celebrating Christmas, no? Christmas and the new year. Okay. That's one of, one of, uh, uh, the big, uh, I would say, how do I say that? Um, We had to make a good preparation really for, for, for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year. And after the present, I think I would say, you know, Filipinos, we, I used to make this, uh, Hamon, you know, do you Philippine ham?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=471.0,557.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Mm-hmm [affirmative].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=557.0,561.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Give, give him a minute. [laugh] Okay. Sorry. It's okay. It's okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=561.0,576.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So you were Saying about the Philippine ham,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=576.0,578.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: the Philippine ham. That's, that's a must that, you know, I would say the Filipino Filipino store should be selling, but eventually, you know what, I think what helped us more is when this rest ran, especially this one here, the IHA one, when they started that, you know, a lot of Filipinos really go there and, you know, from all over from Connecticut bus, Massachusetts Jersey, Philadelphia, we have some Filipino customers also coming from, from Phil, Philadelphia, Boston, not like, but you know, this Christmas, I would say not much of from, from out of state, but we used to. Yeah. Or they really come here. Yeah. And this, uh, you know, that long term that I get from the Philippines,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=578.0,638.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: the parol?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=638.0,639.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: the parol. Yeah. We used to yearly. We have that. Wow. And I, I started doing it by myself doing it myself. I, I, I do the purchasing there before, because before I just buy it from, you know, wholesaler also since then I decided to do it myself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=639.0,658.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Yeah. Right. So you make it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=658.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: No, no, no. I, I go to, to Pampanga. Ah, okay. Wow. To make sure that you have it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=660.0,666.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: You make regular trips back?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=666.0,667.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Oh yeah. Yeah. I, I love to travel [laugh] I love going back home. I really miss home now, especially now I was, I, I was locked down for a year and year and four months almost in the Philippines because my husband doesn't want to travel and I don't want to, that my children doesn't want me to travel too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=667.0,693.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So yeah. So Joe told me about that. So in the beginning of the lockdown you were stuck there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=693.0,699.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Yeah. I was stuck there,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=699.0,701.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: But, but normally how long do You spend there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=701.0,705.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Uh, before I stay, it's like a week, two, two weeks. That's most, but when my parents, uh, uh, requested me to accompany them, then I started staying there for a month and then my husband comes, picks me up. And then I go back again. After a couple of weeks, I practically stayed in the Philippines, uh, for some time, but, you know, we, I like every three months I come, I go, I come.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=705.0,737.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: every three months? Wow. That's a lot, honey. Better.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=737.0,741.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: That's true.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=741.0,741.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Um, so, uh, see, um, yeah, Joe was saying that, um, when, when he was growing up, he spent a lot of time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=741.0,754.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Oh, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=754.0,754.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Working in the store.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=754.0,755.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Yeah. Yeah. Because you know, my children, I didn't, I, I, I really made sure that they know how, how, how, how we worked, you know, I don't see, I couldn't, uh, uh, say anything about having them, like on weekends that we go, oh, you know, I have not experienced with them going fishing now. I did not have that because, you know, I believe that I didn't even, first of all, I was really very tied up my money and I, you know, like those on vacation, well, how do they say, how do they call that? Like, uh, on summer break, summer break, uh, they, they put their children to summer camping summer camp. I, I have, my children did not experience that because of, you know, we're very short of money. So the only thing that, the thing that I can remember is that, uh, when he was not in school, yet I put him to something like a daycare, because I wanted him to learn how to English.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=755.0,827.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: I put her to make sure that he, he, he goes to Catholic, uh, daycare. There was one Filipino care in here in Queens, in, uh, Woodside beside, uh, beside, um, church. So my son, my two boys attended there like three days a week, or maybe a half day basis. Cuz you know, it's, I couldn't three afford. I wanted to put them to, to Montessori school in T, but we cannot. So I, I looked for school [inaudible] was, was, uh, the tuition fee was kind of high, like 1,800 while over here it's only 800 St Mary's. So I put them together. And then, you know, my dad, $15, $15,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=827.0,884.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: 15, sorry you were saying,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=884.0,888.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Uh, you know, before, when you put the, your children to Catholic schools, the more the merrier because the more, you know, if you have three kids, one is almost free, but if you, you have two kids, it's like you pay one and a half. So I have to put them there because the tuition fee was like, I'm only paying 1000 total, 1,800 in their elementary years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=888.0,915.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So, um, can, can we go back to when you first decided to, to the us mm-hmm [affirmative] um, what was your life like in the Philippines?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=915.0,925.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Oh, in the Philippines. I, I, I graduated, you know, They're talking about the, the Christmas tree, the Christmas, Christmas, uh, lantern,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=925.0,949.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: And you're still selling","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=949.0,950.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Even. No, no, no more. We, we, I, we were, I, I had, I bought, I brought hundreds and hundreds. I just don't know, probably less than a thousand pieces, except from aside from the 300 pieces of the very small ones, it did not even reach December. Oh, I put it out September. You know, we were asking me about what I, what I was doing in the Philippines before, and I was helping my parents in their business. And then,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=950.0,985.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: sorry, can you say that again?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=985.0,987.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: I used to help my parents in their business. Uh, they have grocery and, uh, some of fruit, fruit, uh, like in the farm farming farming, I would say, oh, to describe it like farming. And then when I got married, I came first, I came back, I came here in 1970 and then I went back and got married when I got married. After I got, after I got married, my parents wanted not me not to come over here because I have a sister, I have two sisters already here. And I said, I wanted to go to the states and my husband, when we got married, he, he wanted to come over. So we decided even if my father was his stopping me, my father wishes me to stay and continue the business that I have. And they were offering me to put up a poultry farm, which is a very, very popular and a very, I would say, a very demanding business or a very, you know, Philippines is, this is the capital. Our town become the Philippines, egg capital of the world of the Philippines, which town? San Jose, San Jose Batangas. Yeah. And then we started here. I worked first, first I worked, uh, in, you know, because I didn't, I didn't have paper before. Uh, I worked, I worked in, um, Toy Center in the, at 23rd street and Park avenue. I worked there for, for a couple of months. And then I said, I really wanted to put up a store. So I asked my [inaudible] if they could help me. And they asked my parents if they could provide us some funding. And at the beginning, I cannot remember, but I think it's like, we started at $5,000.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=987.0,1106.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: That was your whole investment","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1106.0,1108.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: 5,000. Yeah. But you know, we were, you know, the merchandise were, were, we were given 30 days, so, and the rental was not, was not expensive. Yeah. I think from 5,000, and then I was able to get my sister, I put up, uh, another 2000 and we were able to, we were from there, we were able to make it grow [laugh] I would say,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1108.0,1142.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Yeah, it's really grown. So like, I, I would say that the, most of the Filipino community, in the greater New York area in those, this place.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1142.0,1153.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Yeah. I'm very thankful about that. I'm very thankful about that. And, uh, even my suppliers who are very happy with us, because I wanted to make sure that I pay first before I do anything [laugh].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1153.0,1166.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So, so in all the years that you've been here, what would you say are like the highest, highs and the lowest lows,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1166.0,1173.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Lowest, like, uh, the lowest low was, I would say in 19, something between 85, 86 when there was a, um, when the economy went down and I think, you know, the real estate really think it's, I'm not very, very sure, but I think it's probably between 85, 87, 89, actually, I, I was thinking already on doing this, uh, delivery business because I think that's the only thing that would make us survive. The rental would be not, would not be very high. So I, I was thinking of that. I was praying, I prayed very hard, you know, to, to, to guide, to guide us what to do next, you know, because it's like when they had all these big, big groceries, the Hong Kong and all these Chinese groceries that opened up, but I believe is this is what I believe. And I hold onto that, you know, as long as you are sincere and what you're doing, you are honest to the fullest that we can, you know, you cannot, you cannot avoid some complaints, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1173.0,1246.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: And I said, you know, it has been my policy that when people wanted to return something, I don't ask for receipt. Sometimes they bring the merchandise. I looked at them, there were, there were several instances. They were returning something to, to us, but they did not purchase and ask. And, you know, luckily the label is still there where it, they bought it. I said, I said to me, you don't like my, who knows everything is completed up. That's what I believe. You know, some could be taken away from you, but if, as long as you're doing it, the right thing, you're very honest with what you do. We try to be as honest as we can and to even treat our people. My, one of my, that I am very thankful for. We have people here who started now, I would say 38 years with us. [affirmative] I have one here that is already 40, 40 something years with us. 43, 42, 43 years. Since we started two, three years after we started, he was implied. He was with us to this minute. I'm very lucky that I get people who are hardworking, trustworthy, very trustworthy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1246.0,1340.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So, um, yeah, Joe was telling me about, um, how you got through the, you know, just the past two years with The, with the pandemic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1340.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Oh yes. Yes. Uh, we decided to close for a month. We were in my thoughts in my mind, we probably will be closing for some more months. And I'm very, very thankful for the government assistance that they give us, you know, the PPP they assisted, you know, like for payroll, we, we even, even when we were closed, the payroll of my employees are the same, not less their insurance and very, I'm very, very thankful that, you know, the government ask us, you know, like everybody, they ask everybody to what your payroll are, what your insurance, health insurance, how much you pay for your health insurance. And they covered that up, whatever loss we have. And I think they me gave us a little more than what the insurance, they estimated that you so we could survive. Otherwise, I, I, I, I, it, it would be very hard. I have to cut down on so many things we did not know as of today. I hope that God continues to bless us. You know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1350.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So, um, thinking about the, the community community here, do you feel that, um, so you talked about the government assistance when you really, really needed it, but just sort of, um, with everyday issues, do you think that they they're supported by the, by the government?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1440.0,1461.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Of course. Yeah. I think the people, you know, like every, I think everybody's getting got 1000 and the 1006 and the $400. That's why I think, you know, what, what we have noticed. Uh, It's very hard to get people now like drivers and everything. Why? Because they have, they're getting aid from the government. They're getting more aid from the government than when they work. That's what my suppliers are complaining about. That's I, I, I really don't know. I'm not, I'm not very familiar with it, but that's what I hear. But that's what I have been hearing to our suppliers that they're having hard time in getting drivers. They could not, you know, the deliveries can, they cannot do the deliveries on time because they're run. They don't have drivers. Probably they're, they're sick. We don't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1461.0,1523.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: But you also notice during the pandemic and there were probably other businesses that didn't do so well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1523.0,1533.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Yeah. But there are, but there are a lot of Filipinos who are very, I would say, how do I say that in English? Uh, I would say AIB, they, they do home cooking. That's why, you know, a lot of like one of, one of the guy who used to work here, he, he knows how to cook. So he, he, he said, if he could quit, I said, it's okay, good. Do, do something that you could help you better. So, and I think he's still doing that. And a lot of Filipinos are doing that. A lot of Filipinos are doing that, even baking, you know, especially this holiday. I, a lot, a lot. I know. I, I, I, they buy a lot. They cook, they deliver.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1533.0,1589.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So, um, I, I think, um, so I I've heard like some, um, over the years there've been these new stories about, um, uh, you know, gentrification development in the neighborhood. Do you think that's an issue in, in this neighborhood? Like, are there small businesses that are being pushed out or,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1589.0,1612.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Uh, there are so many people that it's like, just a lot of businesses that is just, it's like mushroom that all around. I mean, that's okay. I mean, it's good. Everybody has to survive. I mean, for me, it's okay. As long as it'll probably, there are things that are taken away from you, but other things, as long as I have, so to have something to be for my employees, you cannot, you cannot get them all. You cannot please them all. So let's share. That's how I believe over the years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1612.0,1655.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Have you ever been worried about getting pushed out by bigger businesses?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1655.0,1660.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Oh, 19. I told you, 19 86, 87, 88, 89, almost in the nine until the nineties. Oh my goodness. We were selling like, we were, we were selling milk fish for 1.29, a pound. And you know, the Chinese are selling it for 99 cents. We didn't even pay, we even pay more. But the thing, the good thing is, are selling a fish from the Philippines. And I'm, I'm always very proud of it. I tell them those are from Vietnam. That's why, if I am going to get that, probably I could sell it also because, you know, I tried getting that and we were only payings I think 19 70 cents, 68 cents, 79, 70 cents per pound. So I could, you know, I could compete, but I said, no, I will. As long as there a supply, a Philippines supply, I'll never sell this, uh, Vietnamese, uh, milk fish, but that was a big, big competition. Now they have, galunggong. They have at tilapia, they have, you know, the milk fish, the bangus, they have all this, um, almost all kind of fish. This moon fish, the [inaudible] we call it HEOA they call it bilong, bilong in Bisaya.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1660.0,1742.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: But, but what what's really important, the view is through really bring the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1742.0,1746.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Filipino mm-hmm [affirmative]. And before years back, I myself used to cut the fish. I do the cleaning and everything until the owner of that, Saranggani came over and asked me, why do you, why do you sell so much milk fish? And I told them, I showed, this is what I do. I cut them. I do everything until they decide, they told me you're not going to do that anymore. We'll send you all this fillet, everything that you know, we have now, those one are one. Those are, that's a big, big plus on the Philippine Philippine. I would say Philippine fisheries, because it's all over now. Even the Philippines, you, if you wish to, to, to buy the, just the belly, you can just buy the belly. You can just buy the back, the sliced and everything. You can buy the, uh, what do you call that? Smoked everything you want boneless. It could be boneless. If you want with bone, it can be with bone, everything. Saranggani has developed that kind of a very, very good market.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1746.0,1824.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So, um, one of the things that I in the past year or so, so this community has been here for a really long time. Right. But, but I, uh, there've been some initiatives that have really, but I made it more just people are trying to make it more visible.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1824.0,1848.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Yeah. I think one of the factors here are the restaurants. I would say us, probably. The Philippine National Bank that they put here. Uh, that was a big move among the Filipinos. When they put up this, uh, remittance here, the sad thing is they don't, they, they don't open up, you know, like a regular banking that would have been a big help if they have that, you know, especially with the remittance, excuse me, In a few minutes. Okay. Everything is okay. Bye-bye","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1848.0,1893.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Have you heard anything about, so can I ask you about your reactions to, um, well, one of the big things that happened recently, is yung street co-naming. 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That sounds okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1907.0,1912.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Do you think it'll make a difference to the community?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1912.0,1916.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Maybe. I think it would. I think it would. I think it would in,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1916.0,1922.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: In what way","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1922.0,1923.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: In, I, a way that, uh, you know, a lot of Filipinos, like the first, the newcomers newcomers, usually, where can we go to a Filipino, you know, from restaurants to groceries and everything? Probably. I think, I think, and it's not probably, I think I'm sure I'm sure that, you know, that we help little more popular, like, like, you know, the one, the one in Jersey city, the Manila Manila, something like Manila avenue. Yeah. The Manila avenue, I think. Yeah. Those are apartment houses.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1923.0,1965.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So it, it makes A difference.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1965.0,1967.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: I think it would make a difference also among, you know, like a lot of newcomers, like from not even only newcomers, but you know, like people","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1967.0,1978.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Moving, Can you say,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1978.0,1981.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: okay, it will. I think that will have an impact, you know, because like for example, uh, Filipinos coming from the west coast, they, they always ask, you know, and, and, and, and from that, if there is something, any happenings, any happenings, especially in the Philippines, they always come here, the newscast comes here, you know, the local, local newscasters come here and, you know, do the interviews.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=1981.0,2018.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So do you, do you feel like they, they tend to bother you when there are things going on in the,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2018.0,2026.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: uh, not really. They ask, they're very considerate. You know, they ask very few questions. Like you have relatives, you have, you know, how are, how you affected? Are there Filipinos who, from here that we're affected by, you know, not, not, not, not really.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2026.0,2046.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So whenever","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2046.0,2046.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: There's big political event, political event in the Philippine Typhons and everything, and you know, and the, there are shows, Philippines shows, you know, uh, we years back when there is like shows in Manhattan or anywhere the actors and the actresses come here. Sharon had been here several times. I don't know, you know, those popular Piolo Pascual, those Pops Fernandez, even, even Mrs. Marcos, even Gloria Arroyo, they've been here. They've been here several times. Mrs. Marcos came here several times, Gloria Royal. When he came to New York, they, she came here, You know, looking for Filipino community. I remember that when Sharon Cuneta came, oh my God, it was a case here. We had to open the door here because you know, the Filipinos were, so we had her pass here at the back door. Filipinos. Crazy, crazy. so crazy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2046.0,2133.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: I can imagine, oh","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2133.0,2135.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: My goodness, Maricel Soriano, name, name, name, the popular actors. And actresses. Piolo Pascual came here several times, Kuh Ledesma, Boyet de Leon, what can I say?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2135.0,2154.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So to Shop or did they come to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2154.0,2158.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: no, they came here to be just to, to, to. The promoters bring them here. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2158.0,2169.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Okay. Speaking of promotion. Um, one of the big things also is this the mabuhay mural, like, um, it seems like that, I think that promotes the neighborhood also. What are your thoughts on that,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2169.0,2189.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: How do I say that? You know, I'm very happy to see that that's the, that's, that's the, you know, it's like introducing that this is a Filipino community, something like that, but I don't think it's, it's nice. One thing that is definite. It's very nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2189.0,2218.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Speaker 3: [affirmative]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2218.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: They, they, I think they even ask us once because Joseph called me the Philippines about putting, you know, something like that also, but it's more visible over there. It's more visible over there because they have a big, big street. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2220.0,2240.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: When, when you first saw it, do you remember your reaction?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2240.0,2243.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Yeah. I said, oh, I didn't realize this it will be this nice. You know, I thought it was just, you know, like a regular painting, but it's, it's really nice. It's very professionally done.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2243.0,2259.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Does it, um, bring any, um, memories to you or any, any, uh,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2259.0,2265.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Uh, honest to goodness? Not much because probably because I'm always in the Philippines too. I think that's, that's the reason I'm always in the Philipp. That's why now","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2265.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: I, you don't really have time to miss it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2280.0,2283.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: No, that's right. [laugh] now I miss, because I, since July, I have not been home. I have not been to the Philippines.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2283.0,2291.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Um, so can, um, for people who don't know, can you explain what Mabuhay means?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2291.0,2300.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: I am not a very good how mabuhay is like. For me, that's the best word that you could ever say to any individual, to anybody, even the most, the very Filipino it's the, it's one of the best, uh, I would say wish that you could ever say it's, uh, there is no other word that would substitute to that, uh, to that I would say bati? How do I say that in English? Like greeting, I think that's the best greeting that an, there is no substitute. I think that's the best.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2300.0,2353.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So yeah, I think, Um, um,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2353.0,2356.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: you covered everything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2356.0,2356.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: I pretty much covered, Uh, what I wanted to ask you, was there anything you wanted to share to make sure that's preserved on, you know, for future people who listen to this?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2356.0,2374.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: I think it's, I, I, I, I, I believe, I believe that, you know, every Filipino family should always have something for their children to look back. Uh, sometimes I think they should also teach children. It's not because this is my business. You know how long I would be doing this business. We don't know. No, but I think we should always have something that the, our children could be proud of that we have, we have some food also that we can be proud to share with the a or other, other nationality. Because if you don't, you cannot say anything about any food that you could, you know, pancit is very plain, adobo's, very plain. So I think, I think we should also like try to feed our children with something Filipino.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2374.0,2439.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Joe was telling me that you really made an effort to make sure He learned,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2439.0,2444.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: oh yes. Oh yes. Because you know, I, up to now, a lot of people are admiring him because he makes mano, that is one thing that he, he, he never, never both on my two boys on my two boys. They make mano, every time they, before they leave, they make mano also. And I, when they were very small and you know, like when Joseph was talking to me in English, I don't answer him. He pulls my clothes. I said, no, Hindi ako magsasalita ng ingles dahil hindi mo, ayaw ko ng, because I don't want to answer them. I don't want them to answer back yeah. What, So they know how to answer, po, po. What can I say? Very thankful to God. We are graced with this, with this, what we have, But we really work very hard, very hard. It's like seven days a week. Now I started a few years back, maybe 10 years now, eight, 10 years ago, I started the, the program of closing up ruin Wednesday. We close up Wednesday so I can have time to clean my house. And, uh, I used to now, I, I wanted to go home like a little earlier than the time, because we're the very last one to go home before. Now I'm trying to, you know, because I said at, at my age, I think I need some break. 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My husband wouldn't ah, here hate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2568.0,2574.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Oh, [laugh].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2574.0,2577.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Since he started doing this, when I left, when I accompanied my parents because I'm away like a month or so he was the one who's handling this. So he calls me every now and then we talk between five to seven times a day When you're in the Philippines, when I'm in the Philippines five to seven times,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2577.0,2604.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: [laugh]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2604.0,2607.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: What I cannot complain. I cannot complain. I am very, very thankful. I'm very thankful to God with all this graces. I would say I'm not, I wouldn't say I I'm just, I would say I'm just comfortable. You know, I didn't have much fight with the supplier I didn't have, because if I don't like the, if you know, if they are not honest enough to me, I just pay them and bye, bye. That's it. No more not talking. I don't need you. So you see","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2607.0,2649.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: What's the most fulfilling part of,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2649.0,2657.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: I'm very happy that I feel, I feel I've been good enough with my people. I have always treated them. Right. That's how I feel. I don't know how the feeling is much, but that's what I know. I, when my people, some of them do not really have papers, but at least now thankful, um, as long as you're good, because you don't have paper and he has paper, I will treat you different. I now, no, you take, you do work well and make sure that you have you compensated well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2657.0,2699.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: And, and what about customers? Do you have memorable customers or","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2699.0,2703.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Uh, oh, yes. Yes. You know, when I first came with, after the pandemic. Oh my goodness. I, I, I hear several praises. Oh, thank God. You're [inaudible] oh, thank God. You're around, you know, being, we cannot ask your husband where you, what happened to you or, you know, something like that. And then I said, and I, I feel so very, very happy whenever I see the, my customers from 30, 40 years ago. I'm very happy. I, you know, whenever I see them, like after the pandemic, I, oh, I let me embrace you. And thank you that you, we are all still around. And I give them little something, you know, like a bag of cookies, a bag, because you know, you never know, you know, but I have several customers that were, you know, like feeling crying. Oh my God. Tita Ida. You know, we are so happy to see you. We could not ask your husband because you know, we don't know what happened to you. [laugh] I said, and I was telling there was Joan. Oh, bad girls never die. [laugh] and then we just laugh. I know that it's, it's true. You know, when I first saw them, I, God, my customers from, I have a lot of customers who passed away too, because of this. COVID a lot. Nurses, very young ones, doctors, God, people, I know well, have you spoken to, or have you, they will just tell me, you know, my God [laugh] it's nice. It's nice. I thank God, always. I always thank God for this. Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2703.0,2814.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Okay. Thank you so much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2814.0,2815.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: You're most welcome.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2815.0,2816.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: sharing. Your experiences Is very, and you know, as a long time customer myself, I've lived in New York since 69, and I've been coming to fill ever since. And just very grateful to get to talk","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2816.0,2829.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: To you. Thank you. Same here. Thank you. And I, until Joseph tell, I said, oh no, I don't like, I'm not on that. And he said, I talk to her because this is not something that will flaunt you, but this is something that, you know, that could be written and you know, your children's grandchildren's, children's go probably look at this and they say, okay, okay. Just make sure that it's quick. [laugh]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2829.0,2862.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: And it's very important that our, you know, the library is trying to preserve, you know, the history of what's with our neighborhood been going through and important with the Filipino communities.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2862.0,2874.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zenaida Castillo: Yeah. And I remember that, you know, my, when my, when Joseph and, uh, Anthony, my Anthony was studying like in the graders in the elementary years. Oh, we are always at the Queens library over here. We are go there. You know, they forget to, to, to, to pay to what you call it to return. We are penalized [laugh]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2874.0,2898.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362/transcript/39445/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: It's okay. So I'm going to stop and.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/78079/file/165362#t=2898.0,2900.33333"}]}]}]}