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He had never worked in a restaurant before, but caught on quickly. Once the Fair opened, he was assigned to a burger station near the Austrian pavilion. He volunteered to cook the hamburgers and the shift required no cleaning, which he liked. While he worked, he learned his first Spanish words at the Fair (papas fritas) because nobody could communicate with the Spanish costumers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 3:\u003c/strong\u003e  Many of the teenage staff members that Robert Sullivan encountered while working at the Fair were students from Florida because the Florida schools and colleges let out much earlier than the northern schools and the Fair opened in April. The housing situation was problematic for the Florida transplants. The workers were scattered throughout the boroughs, often living ten people to a two-bedroom apartment. Everyone started to make friends, with different food pavilion employees exchanging food.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSummary of Full Interview\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Sullivan worked at the World's Fair from March to September 1964 with the Brass Rail food service and Les Puppets du Paris, the puppet show run by Sid and Marty Croft. He speaks about his experiences as a Fair worker and his first impressions of the Fair grounds.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["Interview recorded as part of the Queens Museum Oral History Project."]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["1964 (temporal)","Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, NY (spatial)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2014-07-25 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Robert J. 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