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Sanford-Ross also recalls the layout of her family's second floor apartment in Electchester, the neighbors she had, and her father's career as an accountant who worked in Midtown Manhattan. She explains that Electchester residents at that time were largely Jewish, Irish, and Italian families, while the nearby Pomonok Houses had a large residential population of African Americans and other people of color. 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Today is October 31st, 2023. I am interviewing Lori Sanford-Ross, formerly Lori Levine, for the first time. This interview is taking place on Zoom. This interview is part of the Queens Memory Project. Hi Lori. Thank you for joining me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=3.0,28.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=28.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: So let's start with the very unique place that you grew up in called Electchester, Queens. Can you tell me where that is, the boundaries?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=30.0,42.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: Well, it's interesting because new boundaries for New York City just came out yesterday but it is still considered Flushing. Maybe on the, well, I don't want to say where, but it's in kind of the middle of Queens, about 20 minutes from downtown Flushing. So we're sort of on the edge of Fresh Meadows and Jamaica. When I grew up, it was just Jamaica and Flushing and Forest Hills. Those were the only neighborhoods we really talked about.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=42.0,78.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: Thank you. Interesting. So how did your family find themselves there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=78.0,86.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: Well, my family had lived in Brooklyn, always. All over Brooklyn. They moved a lot. Bay Ridge and Flatbush, like all over the place. Around Ocean Parkway, further in. But then when my parents met, they met in 1952 and six months later they were married. So within that six months someone told them about a new development and if you were newly married you should move out to Queens. So it was very neighborhoody around there and people knew things. So there must've been an electrician around there and told them that there was union housing. Although my dad was not a union person. He was a white collar accountant. He somehow got in and they were the first people to move into Electchester in '52. I'm sorry, '53. I mean they got the place in '52 but as young marrieds, I believe they moved right into Electchester, which would've been January '53.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=86.0,157.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: So your father was not an electrician?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=157.0,159.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: No, my dad was not an electrician. I don't know how he ever got in. And to tell you the truth, growing up there I didn't even meet any electricians. Everyone was kind of either blue collar or kind of lower white collar, people who were lawyers or professionals. Within 10 years they moved out of Electchester and moved out to Long Island. But when I was growing up, there were people who were mechanics and I don't know, in newspapers, when you work on the press, that you do the ink, whatever they're called, printers. It was pretty much everybody had the same kind of income and you were either had a job, a hands-on blue collar job or a low level white collar job. That's what I remember. So might not be true, demographically.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=159.0,213.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: What was, describe where you lived. What did it consist of, look like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=213.0,219.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: It was so different than say, where I brought my daughter up because first of all there were tons of kids. So many kids and there were groups of buildings. There was first housing, second housing, third housing -- I forget what I am, I think we were third housing. But it was about 10 blocks in the middle. It had been a golf course. It had hills, it had trees. Next to us was public housing which was Pomonok and Pomonok also looked like Electchester in terms of six story buildings. Electchester had six story apartment buildings and three story apartment buildings. All the buildings looked alike. They all had playgrounds in the back. There were places to park your car so there were driveways and garages. I don't remember Pomonok having as many garages but like every building area had its own playground and there were paths around going from building to building and you could take your bicycle out and bicycle around all day and never really have to cross the street. And there were lots and lots and lots of kids.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=219.0,298.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: That sounds wonderful. Tell me about the kids. Who were your best friends?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=298.0,304.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: My best friends were people who pretty much lived in the building next door to us. My mother, as a young mother, Ruth Levine, immediately met up with two other mothers 'cause they all had babies at the same time, Yetta and Marilyn. Yetta Fishman and Marilyn and they brought the three of us up together. They all had girls. So there was Jamie and Audrey and the three of us from very little I have pictures of us playing in the snow together in front of the buildings. As we got older, there were so many mothers with carriages. It was a really big deal when you had because all the dads apparently went to work. So it was very women's oriented place growing up in the fifties and the sixties and whenever somebody had a new baby, they would come out and the baby would be in a carriage and all the mothers would run over.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=304.0,362.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: It was a very big deal to take your new baby out for the first time, which I remember for my brother, it was like a rite of passage. You bring your baby to the playground where there were benches and everybody would come and look at your baby. So for the kids, Audrey and Jamie moved when I was about in the third grade to Long Island. And then I became friendly with the other kids in the neighborhood. A girl who lived in my building, Vicky, a girl who lived in the next building, Louise, and then we all went to P.S. 200. Everybody either went to P.S. 200 or Holy Cross and in P.S. 200 -- there were a lot of kids in my building who went to Holy Cross. But the rest of us, I mean we all went to P.S. 200, and that's where I met my friends and we did stuff, but they weren't my beloved friends like Audrey and Jamie. They were more like school friends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=362.0,431.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: What sorts of things did y'all do together though?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=431.0,434.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: When we were little we would be in the playground and there were seesaws, there were swings, there were monkey bars, total pavement. I was always a little bit afraid of the seesaw because as you went up and down, somebody when they were down might walk away and then you go [imitates falling noise], to the bottom. It was a very uninteresting playground, but there were like nooks and crannies around like you could play in the playground and next to us was just this undeveloped area by the garage. So you could go and play in there and dig things. In winter we had so much snow back then in New York City, so we had so much snow. So what they would do is when they cleared the parking lot, they would build these huge mounds of snow. So I clearly remember just taking my sled out, having my boots encased, well, my feet and pants encased in plastic, boots on top. Going out, walking up the snow mounds, coming down, the snow mounds.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=434.0,511.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: They were very high, very icy. Tons of kids, including all the Holy Cross kids, which were a little tougher. And just going up, falling down and being out there for hours. Coming out with my feet, totally frozen, my mother and snow pack. My mother, having to pull my boots off. There was also a place in Electchester called Suicide Hill. I don't know if that's familiar to you. We had Suicide Hill, which was a few blocks away. So I was a little bit older, after maybe around fourth grade. And the hill is still there, but you can't snow, you can't ride a sleigh, you can't go down the hill anymore. It was called Suicide Hill because it was a very high hill near some parking lots on 164th Street between, say, Jewel Avenue and the Long Island Expressway. And you would be on the top of this hill and go down, and if you couldn't stop, you'd go into traffic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=511.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: So I don't know if anybody was ever killed, but it was just exhilarating and there would be so many kids with their sleds and you would be out the entire day. So I remember summers as being out alone on my bicycle, biking all around Electchester. When I left Electchester 'cause they were private houses right in between, say the Long Island Expressway and where Electchester started. So it was just a whole 'nother world over there, these private houses. But I always came back home to Electchester which felt really good. My mother was never, ever, ever scared of me. There was an ice cream truck in summers and all the kids would stand in front of their windows and scream up, \"Ma, the ice cream is here.\" His name was Tony. \"Ice cream truck is here, send me down money.\" And mothers, I don't know what they were doing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=570.0,625.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: I guess they were making dinner. 'Cause they were all in the house apparently. They would just send down money. So later I babysat. But growing up it was mostly playing in the playground. Being outdoors all the time. When I was older at P.S. 200, we would hang around the P.S. 200, I dunno, whatever they're called, outside of a school where the kids line up and where they have basketball and you can play games. I want to say playground also. But anyway, it was fenced in. You'd go there and we would walk around, especially in the sixth grade, well, starting in the sixth grade, there were boys, so you'd want to go there because you'd see boys. But we were all in a play, a school play called Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan. And we really walked around all day long singing the songs of Pirates of Penzance in groups of kids. So different. But that's what we did. We walked around all day long and the guy, Christopher Carranza, who played the pirate of Penzance, would sing -- [sings] \"I am the captain of the Pinafore\" and everybody would join in. That's what I remember the most.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=625.0,713.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: That sounds wonderful. It was fun? Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=713.0,718.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: It was fun. Yeah, we had fun.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=718.0,721.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: Neighbors. Who sticks out to you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=721.0,726.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: Well, the nice thing about Electchester was you kind of got to know everybody. I don't know how, but I guess the people who didn't move really stayed. So there were the people in the little building, which was the three story buildings. Those were always called the little buildings. So in our neighbor -- in our building on our side, 'cause there were two sides of the six story buildings. So there was your side and the other side. So you would say, \"Oh, y'know, I saw so-and-so today, lives on the other side of the building.\" So there was the other side of the building. And earlier our neighbors were Ann who had a kid. She had every Broadway album in the world, and she would lend them to me carefully and I could play them. Above us was Pearl upstairs. Pearl and Leo, who had two daughters. The walls were extremely thin, so you heard everything. Pearl and my mother were friends. Then there was Pearl in the back who was on our side. Pearl on the back was very strange because she had a schedule. She had two kids. She had a schedule. Monday was laundry day, Tuesday was window day, Wednesday was shopping day. She never deviated. She was a little odd. She didn't let her kids out to play.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=726.0,818.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: Upstairs was Oscar and Marian, and then some of these people, and by the way, there were Jewish and Irish and Italian families, mostly in the building. All the buildings. There were no African-American families at that time, but everyone seemed to know each other. Some of the women who had come from -- the Jewish women had actually come, not from Brooklyn, but the Lower East Side. So they were always seemed a little more crass. Like they would be screaming out the windows at their kids. My mother had more class 'cause she was from Brooklyn. So she wouldn't be screaming [imitates] \"Lori!\". She would just stand there and go, \"Okay, here's your money.\" A little classier. But everybody sort of had -- there was Pearl in the back, there was Oscar and Marian upstairs. Everybody either had an upstairs, other side of the building, the little building, and they knew each other. When you went shopping --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=818.0,884.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: the shopping center was on Parsons Boulevard and Jewel Avenue. When you went shopping, you had to walk up a hill and all the kids did shopping for their mothers. So you would be schlepping with a shopping cart at maybe eight years old up this hill and go shopping with a shopping list. But if you went with your mother, you were stopped 10 times because everybody would say hi to each other and everybody knew each other and it was nice. It was boring. You'd have to stand for the small talk. One other thing that you said, \"What did you do growing up?\". There were a lot of parties. Kids had a lot of birthday parties with so many kids. And the parties would all be -- Electchester had like a basement or yeah, it was like in the basement. And in the basement was the scary laundry room and also a rec room. So all the parties would be in the rec room and sometimes they would be at a restaurant called Lido's, a pizza restaurant in the shopping center. So the Electchester Shopping Center. I have photos of all these things for some reason. So you went to a lot of parties and you got dressed up. Everybody was always like wearing nice, not nice clothes, but they would, you know, women were in dresses, you had makeup on, girls wore dresses.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=884.0,974.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: It wasn't like, now as you know, you got dressed up to go shopping, put on lipstick and earrings to go shopping. The moms.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=974.0,989.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: You said the Electchester Shopping Center. Yeah. How far was it from the house? What was the transportation situation?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=989.0,1000.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: Well, you walked, not everybody had a car. My dad had a car 'cause he was disabled, so we had to have a car. Plus we had relatives in Brooklyn, all of them. So every week we went to Brooklyn. So we needed a car. But to go shopping, you never took your car to go shopping. There were two places to shop. There was -- I don't think it was Grand Union. Was it Cracker Barrel? I don't remember. But there was a place on 164th Street in the middle, kind of near Suicide Hill. And that took green stamps. So if you collected green stamps and you'd get something, you would go -- green stamps were, whenever you bought kind of like points today. You would go shopping, you'd buy food and they'd give you a stamp and you'd put your stamp in a little book. And I guess if you got enough stamps, you could get like a prize.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1000.0,1058.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: So green stamps were important, so sometimes we would go there, but you would walk with your shopping cart or you would walk holding your brown paper bags. It's kind of crazy, you know, that there were no bags like to put over your shoulder. I mean, I just remember like being so tired like I want to put the -- it wasn't one bag, you'd be like two bags, but most of the time you'd have a shopping cart, so you'd take your shopping cart. There was the green stamps place which was a little bit out of our building vicinity, but the Electchester Shopping Center was our main place, and that was Pomonok's main place. So you didn't know everybody in the actual store. And that's where we saw a lot of people of color because I'm not sure what the demographics were, but many people, families of color, white also, lived in public housing in Pomonok.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1058.0,1123.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: So everybody would meet in the middle here. And there was -- in this strip, kind of like a strip mall, there was a store called Pink and Blue where everybody bought their boys and girls clothes. I got my first bra there, my first bathing suit with a bra there. It was a rite of passage to go to Pink and Blue. There was a Woolworth's that had a pharmacist who, if you had a splinter, he would take out your splinter. If you had something in your eye, he would take it out. You'd stand there like that. And he would go, and I don't even know if he was a pharmacist. When I broke out at 12 years old, my mother took me up there. I am pretty sure it was the pharmacist in Woolworth's. It could have been a pharmacy next door, I don't remember totally. But he gave me something called Propa pH, P-R-O-P-A P-H.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1123.0,1180.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: Who knows what was in that, but it cleared up every pimple. I never had a pimple again. And Woolworth's also is where I became -- I learned how to steal things. I would steal -- they had these really nice little ceramic animals and anyway, I love to draw them so I would steal them. So I never got caught. And there was a lunch counter where you could get banana splits. I did get caught stealing from the candy store, and my mother made me go back and apologize and give the man the money. But in terms of how shopping worked, you walked up there, your mom would give you money. I had a list. I only remember girls. I don't remember boys, but I remember kids shopping for their mothers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1180.0,1234.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: I caught you saying you'd love to draw the animals in Woolworth's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1234.0,1239.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: Yeah, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1239.0,1239.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: They were like -- I remember they had a ceramic squirrel and then a ceramic chipmunk. But I mostly -- birds, they'd have ceramic birds. They were fabulous. They're about as big as your hand, and I guess they were, I don't know how expensive they were, but I know I definitely stole a few of them. I know I did. I don't remember if my mother gave me money later, but I would bring them home and I would draw them. I loved drawing them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1239.0,1269.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: Tell me a little bit more about the drawing of them. The drawing of them at home. What your mom or dad -- did they notice?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1269.0,1278.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: Yeah, I've been drawing at a very early age, and I've been singing at a very early age. And the drawing, I know I always drew. I know when my grandfather died, I had colored pencils and I remember being at the house, I guess it was a Shiva Call. When someone dies and you get together at someone's house, you pay Shiva. It was a shock. And I think it was Borough Park. My mother was hysterical. My grandfather had like had a heart attack. And I just remember sitting there with the colored pencils and growing up I would sit at the dining room table with the colored pencils, just drawing all the time. I liked to draw clothes. I liked to draw little outfits.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1278.0,1330.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: And later when I got the ceramic animals, I would also draw the ceramic -- [imitates accent] draw. I'm saying that with such a Queens accent -- [imitates accent] draw. I can't say the word draw. I would basically with a pencil and colored pencils. My dad, as an accountant, would bring home something he would call pads. And there were these thick binders of paper, and on one side would be all of the accounting, all the math, everything, just y'know debits and credits. But the other side would be blank, and he would bring home these pads for me. It must've been because he knew I liked to draw, so it'd be a really big deal. Like every couple of months he'd come home and he had crutches because he had a wooden leg. So he would come in and he -- I'm like on his arm \"Pads, he had pads!\". So I had the pads and I would do all of my drawing with colored pencils on pads. I have so many of these drawings. My mother like kept them all [laughs] and I have them. I have the pads, I have everything. I have so many drawings on these papers. My dad worked for a company called U.S. Plywood. So it was probably all like all different kinds of woods and the prices and whatever.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1330.0,1427.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: Actually, that's where I was gonna go with where your dad worked. Was it in Queens or was he traveling?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1427.0,1436.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: My dad at first, before he got married, he took a ferry. U.S. Plywood was a company owned by one or two -- owned by a family, and he would take the ferry to New Jersey from 42nd Street. Back then there was a ferry. By the time I came along that I remember, the company had moved to Manhattan and the company became more and more successful. And eventually he was working right on, I think it was between 53rd and 54th Street on Third Avenue, which was very exciting. 'Cause it was a real office building. It's still there. The same sculpture is still in front of it. And he worked for years. And because he was disabled, he did not want to change his job. He was kind of a nervous speaker. What they did do at U.S. Plywood was when they found out my dad needed an operation for when they found out it was cancer on his leg, he'd always had trouble.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1436.0,1508.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: But they found out in 1957, so I was three, that he had cancer and that he needed a serious operation. They didn't know how serious yet. But the chairman of Plywood, and I have his name, [laughs] somewhere, the whole book. They saved everything. When my mom passed, she passed in 2020 and she saved everything. And I went like, \"Oh my God, here's a brochure of U.S. Plywood from 1961.\" But anyway, they set him up. They were a wealthy upper class family, and they called my father up. He'd been with them since maybe he was 18. He was 4-F, so he wasn't in World War II. He would've been. So he was 4-F because he had problems with his leg. And 10 years later they called him up and the president of the company said, \"Who's gonna -- I hear you need an operation. Who's gonna do it?\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1508.0,1565.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: And my dad said, \"I don't know, Coney Island Hospital\" or something. And he said, \"No, go to this person.\" And it was a doctor at New York Hospital. And it turned out my dad needed a major operation, his entire leg and part of his hip back then, and quite sudden, quite emotional, quite shocking. And he was charged nothing. And later this doctor became the doctor of President Kennedy for his back problems. But anyway, he saved my dad's life at New York Hospital. We love New York Hospital. Weill Cornell Hospital now. And so that's what my dad did. So he always worked in the city. He had to drive in because there was no American with Disabilities Act, so he couldn't take the bus. Later, there was an express bus. So what you had to do, where we lived, which was on the outskirts of Flushing, kind of, you had to take a bus at Jewel Avenue to Forest Hills. Forest Hills, Continental Avenue and Queens Boulevard. And there you could get the subway. But my dad, my father couldn't take the subway or he could barely get up the bus. And so he drove to work every day, but later they had an express bus, hallelujah, to Manhattan. And he found a way to do that. People were so nice. Y'know it always took him a while to get onto the bus and everybody -- it was never like -- everyone knew each other. Same people at the bus stop, seven in the morning and they just waited. Bus driver knew him, sit in the front. Anyway, that's what he did. Going on too long, probably.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1565.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: No go on as long as you need, but I'm actually --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1680.0,1683.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: Yeah, he was a musician also. He was a -- he sang on the radio. He was a -- forgot this important part. He wanted to be y'know a singer and a musician. He played piano and he pursued that for a while. He met my mother 'cause he was in a band playing up at the Catskills, but then he got married and we always had a piano in the house.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1683.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: That's what I was actually wondering about. Your actual apartment that you lived in. Can you describe that and how your family, you know, the dynamics of your -- the apartment in Electchester.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1710.0,1723.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: It was small. Electchester, y'know, being more of a family place. I think most of it were two bedroom apartments. I don't remember one bedroom apartments, but I'm sure maybe. But most of them were two bedrooms. If you were very, very fortunate, you got a three bedroom. Pearl, in the back, had a three bedroom apartment. Some apartments might've been a little smaller. Our apartment was, I think 900 square feet. One bathroom. You walked into a little tiny vestibule, the hall, well, you walked in from the hall. There was an incinerator there. There was an elevator that went to the basement and then to the sixth floor. In the hall there was a window. So you could stand at that window and look out. It was very exciting to go to the sixth floor and look out the window from the hallway. There was an incinerator right next to us --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1723.0,1782.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: who knows what we grew up breathing -- with a fire at all times. You opened up the incinerator, there was like a flame. And we lived -- it would be like three apartments next to us and next door, and me and my family, 2B. And then next to us was a family, Marilyn, who was a little younger than my mother and had babies and I babysit. They were very cool to me. They were Scott and Marilyn. They were very good looking. But it was small. You heard everything. People would take the broom if you were too noisy and knock up. We heard Leo yelling at his family all the time. You walked into a small vestibule. There was the living room which seemed big to me then. With the living room looked out on Electchester. We were on the second floor. There was a fire escape. Then there was a small kitchen, a tiny dining room.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1782.0,1846.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: Then you walked a little, it was almost like a railroad. You walked down a little more, and then there was a small bathroom and then two bedrooms next to each other. And we were lucky. We had a bay window 'cause we were on the second floor. So later when I was 12, my mother switched rooms and divide -- 'cause I had a brother five years younger. I guess she felt I shouldn't be sharing a room in puberty. And she kind of put a divider between the rooms, which really did not work, but -- [laughs] it didn't. But it was a very small apartment. There was no privacy. For privacy you went into the bathroom, closed the door, made a phone call. My mother made sure to have a phone call -- a phone cord that reached all the way to the bathroom. She would sit in the bathroom, talk to your friends, for any kind of privacy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1846.0,1898.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: I used to tell stories. I'd sit in the bathroom and tell stories until a neighbor told me I was weird. Privacy was the bathroom, which is amazing, isn't it? Even my dad used it for the bathroom. My mother colored her hair in that bathroom when her father died, which I talked about a minute ago. She was in hysterics in the bathroom. Later when a grandmother died, she was hysterics in the bathroom. The bathroom was a place of privacy. So, but everybody had one bathroom. Everybody, even later when I was in junior high and I had friends, it was always the bathroom.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1898.0,1942.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: [laughs] I can definitely, I can relate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1942.0,1946.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: [laughs] Can you though?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1946.0,1946.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1946.0,1947.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: [unclear] bathroom. I dunno how we did it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1947.0,1948.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: Yeah. We have about five minutes left, Lori.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1948.0,1954.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1954.0,1957.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: Anything you want to add? Any last thoughts in the next three minutes? Something you want to tell me? I may have missed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1957.0,1965.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: I think that my school, P.S. 200, Mrs. Gruberg was the principal. She was horrible person, but we did have -- I mean, she really was nasty and mean. But we did have a very robust arts program. We had assemblies where we sang every single week. We did, for example, \"Pirates of Penzance\". Every Wednesday afternoon we had an art teacher come. I would say it was a very artistic school, and that's where I really kind of -- we had talent shows. People, teachers recognized that I was a good singer, that I was a good artist. We had painting of the month. I won painting of the month. We had a Junior Journal. So when a teacher would write on your paper, \"This is for the Junior Journal. Write with good penmanship.\" It was fantastic. They split us up in Electchester, up for junior high. Half went to Parsons, half went to Campbell. So that was like the end of childhood in a way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=1965.0,2033.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: But yeah, then I went to Campbell and made new friends and went to John Bowne High School and made new friends there. But it's amazing how clear those memories are of P.S. 200, middle school, lots of kids. It was great. Oh, one more thing. I do remember when during civil rights, which was '63, '64, well, when we became aware of it, my Jewish family. I remember when the very first Black family moved in and I remember at the window, and I remember, because remember we saw people in Pomonok all the time, people of color. But I remember this really pretty woman in pedal pushers, an African American woman. I remember the car stopping and I remember looking out the window and her walking up and I remember thinking -- I don't know. It was a change. It was a real change. And of course now it's totally mixed, diverse, a lot of Asian families. And there's a Black family living in 2B. I do know that. I want to go and ring the bell at some point.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=2033.0,2108.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: That was your apartment?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=2108.0,2109.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: It was our apartment. I went in a couple of years ago. I forgot why. Somehow I got in the building and I saw a neighbor and he said, [imitates man] \"Oh, it's a lovely African American single mother with a son.\" And I really wanted to ring the bell. And I still feel like maybe I could get in there and put a note under and say, [uses high pitch voice] \"I used to live here. Can I visit? And my name's Lori.\" So maybe I'll still do it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=2109.0,2132.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: Lori that was wonderful. I think that was just a beautiful ending to this conversation. The picture you painted of Electchester was just really wonderful and vivid. It was so great talking to you. I want to thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=2132.0,2148.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: Thank you very much for the Queens Memory Project.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=2148.0,2151.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christine Leotta: Yes, yes. And have a good night.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=2151.0,2153.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709/transcript/65731/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori Sanford-Ross: Good night.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/126552/file/236709#t=2153.0,2156.096"}]}]}]}