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Carroll mentions neighborhood spots that were a part of her childhood like Joe Austin Park, Captain Tilly Park, and the Central Library on Merrick Boulevard, which she visited at least once a week. She also talks about the different schools she attended in the area, shopping at Gertz, May’s and later the mall on Jamaica Avenue, and how people would hang out on their stoops in the summer.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright 2020 Lynda Carroll, Linda Ganjian, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. 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/42440"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2020-10-13 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Type"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Lynda Carroll (Interviewee)","Linda Ganjian (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["Interview recorded as part of Linda Ganjian's Jamaica Flux project for Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning."]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["1970-1992 (temporal)","Jamaica, Jamaica Hills, and Flushing, Queens, NY (spatial)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eLynda Carroll, an anthropologist who teaches and lives in Binghamton NY, was born in Jamaica, Queens in 1970 and lived in her family home in Jamaica Hills until 1992. At the time, Jamaica Hills had many Greek families because of the proximity to St. Demetrius, but there were numerous ethnicities and her family had an Italian and Irish background; it was predominantly a white neighborhood until the 1980\u0026rsquo;s when it became more diverse and the families she had known were starting to move to the suburbs. Carroll mentions neighborhood spots that were a part of her childhood like Joe Austin Park, Captain Tilly Park, and the Central Library on Merrick Boulevard, which she visited at least once a week. She also talks about the different schools she attended in the area, shopping at Gertz, May\u0026rsquo;s and later the mall on Jamaica Avenue, and how people would hang out on their stoops in the summer.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright 2020 Lynda Carroll, Linda Ganjian, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. 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All right. This is Linda Ganjian. Today's October 13th. I'm with Lynda Carroll. Linda, can you say your name and spell it out?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1.0,15.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: My name is Lynda Carroll, L Y N D A CA R R O L L.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=15.0,21.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Okay. And how old are you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=21.0,23.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: I am 50 years old this year.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=23.0,26.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Okay. And your contact info, I guess maybe you can just state your address.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=26.0,33.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: I live at 47 Binghamton New York. I'm sorry, I'm at 47 Dennison Avenue, D E N N I S O N in Binghamton, New York, 13901.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=33.0,53.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Okay. Lynda, do you agree to the terms and conditions outlined in the Queens memory informed consent and copyright permission form that I shared with you over email?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=53.0,65.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: Yes, I do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=65.0,68.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Okay. So let's start from the beginning. So where and when were you born?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=68.0,74.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: I was born at Jamaica hospital in 1970. And I have lived in New York in Jamaica from 1970 until 1992.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=74.0,87.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Okay. And what part of Jamaica did you live in? Do you remember your address? Were you in just one place?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=87.0,99.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: We had a home there, a family home and we did not move. So I lived in Jamaica Hills, so I was close to Austin Park, Jamaica high school, Captain Tilly park.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=99.0,109.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Okay. And do you know, in terms of your family history, do you know what brought your family to that neighborhood?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=109.0,118.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: My family—I have on the two sides, on my mother's side, they grew up in New York City in Hell's Kitchen. And her older sister, when she got married at 18, they moved to Brooklyn, but then very quickly after that they bought a house in Jamaica. So my mother, when she eventually got married much later— it was at least 15 years after that—she decided to move to Jamaica. She bought a house two doors away from her sister. So it was basically because of family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=118.0,152.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Okay. So they were coming from New York City from Manhattan. And so your parents would have moved there, I'm guessing, in the fifties or sixties?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=152.0,166.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: In 19—I believe my mother moved there in 1963. They purchased the house but her sister had moved to Jamaica over a decade earlier.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=166.0,176.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Okay. And what is your family's racial and ethnic background?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=176.0,183.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: On my mother's side, we are Italian American. And on my father's side, we are Irish American.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=183.0,189.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Okay. So tell me what you remember about growing up in Jamaica, Jamaica Hills, you said, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=189.0,199.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: My mother worked in Jamaica Center during the 1970s, so she worked for the family court. So I do have this mixed memory of most of my time as a child or when I was alone or playing with people or cousins, was north of Hillside Avenue. So that that's, that's part of my experience, but then I also have very fond memories and it was a special occasion to go to my mother's work, which we defined as south of Hillside Avenue. So, really in terms of Jamaica, Hillside Avenue is the dividing line in my memory. Yeah. So places that I could go on my own up until I was a young teen, and then places where I would go with my mother either to visit her for work or when she would bring me to Jamaica Avenue to do things. So she spent five days a week, at least in that part of Jamaica, but I spent most of my time north of there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=199.0,262.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. What did your mother do in the court?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=262.0,267.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: She was a clerk. She was a clerk and she worked in the family court until the early eighties, I believe it was 1981 or 1982. She transferred to Queens County court system over on Queens Boulevard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=267.0,283.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Okay. And what do you remember of Jamaica Hills, in terms of physically? What was it like in terms of the ethnic and racial makeup?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=283.0,295.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: Well, during the 1970s, my neighborhood, my block was very close to St. Demetrius. So many of my friends had Greek ancestry. The ethnic background was always mixed. So on the one hand, there were, I would have a lot of Greek friends, but then I would also know that I would have friends who were from Brazil and I had friends who didn't even talk about their ethnic background. So, it wasn't always a question for me. The only thing that I really do remember was the Greek community. And then of course, my cousins who had that Italian background.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=295.0,335.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. And would you say it was predominantly white in Jamaica Hills?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=335.0,340.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: It was probably predominantly white up until the early eighties. And then it did start to change. It did start to change. There was more diversity. What I did notice was that people from the Greek community started to move out and it was at that point. And even though the church was an anchor, right. So a lot of people stayed in that community because of that. There were people who then moved out and there was more diversification that came in during the early to mid eighties. And by the time I left, it was very mixed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=340.0,374.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: And you left in 1992, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=374.0,377.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: Yeah. My father remained there until he passed away in 2009. So I would visit and go back home. But that's basically when my connection to Jamaica ended.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=377.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. Were there any highlights from your childhood that you want to talk about—things you did for fun, things in the neighborhood?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=390.0,401.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: There were a couple of things. My family, my cousins, there were two boys and they were very much involved with the community sports. I don't know if you know the history about Joe Austin and Joe Austin Park. But basically right next to Jamaica high school, there is a dedicated park called Joe Austin Park. And Joe Austin was during the 1950s and sixties; he was just a volunteer guy who loved children. And he basically put together local baseball teams and sports teams. So I always remember, even though that wasn't part of my activities, that was always part of the family conversation. So that's one of the locations we would spend time in, to visit people playing. And then eventually, I think it was in the 1980s, the park was dedicated to him and his memory. But the parks, for example, where I used to go—I used to go to Goose Pond park, and Goose Pond park later was renamed to Captain Tilly park.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=401.0,466.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: So, but for me, it was always Goose Pond park and then Tilly Pond park. Okay. So we had these very localized names for it. And I remember when I was young, we used to go there, especially during the winter time, because there was a giant hill and we would sled down that hill, but the summer times—it was an interesting transition in the late seventies. During the late seventies when I was preteen, the park was starting to get very run down. And I remember there being shopping carts dumped in the pond. I remember that it wasn't the place that really we wanted to go anymore. So, children stopped going there. The only times I would go there was in the early eighties when I started to branch out a little bit more. I would spend a lot of time at the public library on Merrick Boulevard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=466.0,523.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: So that would be my route. I would walk through Tilly Pond, even though my parents were concerned because it had started to get a reputation before the transition, before the renovation before they, they actually renamed it and they started to invest more in the park. It was a little bit sketchy, to use that phrase. So, but I do remember spending time there just reading or going, just to hang out. I remember my cousins used to like to skate, ice skate in the pond, even though eventually that became not something that you'd do. And eventually they started putting up signs, danger, do not skate here, but during the seventies kids still did that. Yeah. So that was, I would say that was a place where I spent some recreation time. But it wasn't a place that had a lot of—I remember there were children, but during the seventies, it was that transitional period. Eventually it was turned around when they renovated it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=523.0,592.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. Do you know when that was? Was that in the eighties?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=592.0,595.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: It was in the early eighties when they gave it the new name, I believe. And when they started to repair things. So for a while, the benches were very dangerous. You didn't want to sit in them. So it did fall into some disrepair for a number of years, but I don't know exactly how long that was.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=595.0,617.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. What kind of schools did you go to? I'm not sure if your family was Catholic or not. Did you go to Catholic schools?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=617.0,626.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: We went to, I went to a Catholic religious release. But my—I went to PS 117 and then 217 for junior high. I was zoned for Hillcrest high school, but my family sent me to Townsend Harris high school. Part of that was because my sister, who was five years older than me, was not very successful at Hillcrest. She had gone to Stuyvesant high school for a while, but she became very interested in punk rock culture of the early eighties. And so she dropped out of high school. So for her, I mean, I'll say that she eventually went on to get a master's degree. It wasn't her thing in the early eighties, early in the mid eighties, school was not for her. So she dropped out and my family was concerned that sending me to Hillcrest, they did not want me to follow in her footsteps, not realizing that there was no way I was going to. They wanted me to go to a magnet school, but they did not want me to go to one of the—they didn't want me to commute outside of Queens. They wanted me to stay as close to home as possible. So I went to Townsend Harris high school that was in Flushing, New York. It was walking distance from my house. So that's where they wanted to send me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=626.0,711.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. And what were your elementary and middle school like—the public schools?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=711.0,717.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: PS 117: I have some vague memories of that. I remember 217, my junior high school, much more. And I'm trying to think of what I did. What were the activities? I know that I played in the band. I remember being a drummer in the band. And I remember having a close group of friends. It was a small group of friends, but I remember one of my friends, she was Chinese American, the other one was Brazilian American. And I became very close with my friend who had that Brazilian heritage. She lived on Normal road, so very close by in Jamaica as well. And I remember spending a lot of time with her family during the eighties. In the mid eighties, my mother passed away, so I did not spend very much time at home in my high school and junior high years; I spent more time either with my aunt, who was two doors away, so that extended family group, or with my friend who had that Brazilian family heritage.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=717.0,787.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. Great. So, in terms of, do you have any shopping memories or I guess family shopping habits from when you were a kid or, or we can start talking about Jamaica center?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=787.0,808.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: So I remember since my mother worked in the family court, so she was in Jamaica center every day. I remember that on the weekends, she didn't often go to Jamaica center, but when she did, it was a special occasion. So we would go shopping. I know we went to Gertz, but there was another shopping store across the Jamaica Avenue. And I want to say that it was Mays for some reason.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=808.0,839.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: So, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=839.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: Yeah. I think we saw Gertz as being a little bit too expensive for my family. So we didn't go there as often. That was more of a special treat, but we went to Mays whenever we needed, especially housewares or clothing for the children. So that, that was where we would do that kind of shopping, but that would only happen maybe once or twice a month at most for me. So I wasn't there as much, but then as I got older and was able to move around on my own again, during the early eighties, mid eighties, Jamaica Avenue became the place that you wanted to go for shopping. That was the place locally where you would get the cool thing, right. [inaudible] And I remember in the eighties, the neon colors were very popular.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=840.0,891.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: If you wanted to go there or get the rubber bands for your arms, those were very popular at the time. That's where you would go. You would—I don't remember spending a lot of time going there for music, although every once in a while, you could go and find some [inaudible] music. I spent, I did more of my shopping, I would commute. I would go down to the F train on Hillside and I used the F train more than the E train. But we would go into Manhattan in order to do that kind of shopping, but for just local clothing or things that you needed in a pinch: stockings, or if you needed gloves or something, just a very quick shopping episode, you would go down to Jamaica Avenue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=891.0,933.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: And I remember in the mid eighties, they opened up a mall, some kind of, it was an indoor mall. And I don't remember the name of it, but I do remember it was one of these multipurpose malls with lots of little stores. And we would go in there. It was very close, I believe, to the library. That's what I remember, finding it on my way to the library one day and then exploring those stalls there. And then that would be the place that you would go just for very quick shopping. So that wouldn't be for getting my school clothes for the year, but it would be, I need a pair of gloves. Where am I going to find it? You go to Jamaica Avenue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=933.0,973.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah, yeah. And I'm sure a lot of the department stores were probably closing like towards the end of your time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=973.0,980.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: Yeah. So I remember Mays. I remember Mays I think that was the name of it. But I remember that in my early childhood, but I don't remember that at all from when I was a teenager. So 1970s is when I have those memories.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=980.0,996.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. Yeah. And I imagine a lot of the stores there now are completely new.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=996.0,1003.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: So I did go onto Google Earth and I did look at some of the maps and took a look of those satellite pictures of Jamaica Avenue to prepare for this. And it's very different. I would not recognize it and I probably would not be able to navigate it the same way. Yes. It's a very different landscape.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1003.0,1022.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. Yeah. Can you talk about the library? What did the library mean to you as a kid?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1022.0,1030.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: Oh the library was my home away from home. I used to spend at least one day a week at the library. I had interest in science and I had interest in especially astronomy and I would go during junior high school. I would go there usually on a Saturday, a Saturday morning, and I would take out a couple of books and bring them home. Sometimes I would stop at the park and read some of those books, but it was interesting because when I would, when I would take the books home, especially during the summertime, local children would make fun of me that I had to be going to summer school. Cause you wouldn't otherwise be reading. Right. So I kind of didn't spend a lot of time then during the early eighties, but I did use to go to the Queens— there was a Queens room, there was a local history room in the library that I vaguely remember.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1030.0,1092.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: And I don't know if it had just been opened up at that time or if I had just discovered it at that time. So, I was exploring, the microfilm room, for example. For some reason, I was very interested in looking up New York Times articles from the 1920s and thirties. And it was just something that I had this little hobby of looking at old microfilm. It's not surprising I became an archeologist. This was something that I used to do for fun. But I also remember discovering the stacks. Okay. So the library— the fact that there were books in the library that not everyone could access. That was mysterious to me, the idea that there's something hidden that only certain people can do. So I remember going there, and this was before there was—I don't even know if there was any kind of computer catalog system.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1092.0,1152.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: I remember the old card catalog system, and I remember finding things and it would say that it's located in the stacks and then realizing, oh, this must be something special, unique, and only certain people can access it. So that became a challenge for me. So I would go over to the stacks. I remember that was in a different part of the library. And, I have this in my imagination that you would fill out a form and you would hand it to them. And in my imagination, there was a secret tunnel that they went into to find those books. And I'm sure that that's not what it was, but there might have been an elevator. There might've been an elevator or a downstairs space that might have given me that idea. But I can remember it was very mysterious. And the stacks, when I found something I wanted to read that specifically said it was, you had to access it that way, that was always special to me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1152.0,1207.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. Yeah. That's so funny. It's like this magical, like a portal to another...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1207.0,1212.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: Yeah. Yeah. Maybe I'll do something Harry Potteresque, you know, I could write a book.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1212.0,1222.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: The library is still there. I think on Merrick Boulevard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1222.0,1224.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: Yeah, I believe so. But I haven't used it or accessed it since the mid-late-80s.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1224.0,1229.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. I had a question about the neighborhood changing. I know you've mentioned that Jamaica Hills became more diverse. Were you aware of if—is there anything else you want to say about how the neighborhood changed ethnically racially? I know you mentioned the park getting more run down.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1229.0,1255.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: But then that turned around. So it—I am not sure. I wasn't keeping track so that, you know, that's part of the issue. The things that I did noticed are new restaurants started to pop up. There were, I remember, especially on Parsons Boulevard down towards the F train, there was a switch over there. I don't know if these are still there, but there was a corner shop that changed hands a couple of times and eventually became a barber shop during the mid to late eighties. And that was catering mostly—it was a barber shop. So it wasn't a hairstyling place. It was a barbershop, but it was, I think it was, predominantly African-American. And I also started to notice more Latinex community members who started to move into that area.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1255.0,1318.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: But it wasn't so pronounced that I was shocked. Okay. However, as I mentioned earlier, during the 1980s, there was this, this trend of families moving away from the neighborhood. So, some of the community during the 1970s that I had grown up with, they seem to move out towards Long Island. Okay. So there was a white flight you might say. And at that point I didn't understand what that meant, but I think that that's during the 1980s, that's when I started to see it at least subtly. And I started to hear people talking about the neighborhood is changing, therefore we're moving. And I'm not sure whether or not that was the overall shift. But I do remember during the eighties, many neighbors did move out, but again, I didn't know exactly why, so I don't know if it's because they were trying to get out of the city. So sometimes it's the feeling of the neighborhood changing, but sometimes it's simply economic situations changing. And during the 1980s, during those Reagan years where people were experiencing a little bit more economic comfort or, more credit or ability to borrow, people were moving out of New York City and moving out to Long Island or New Jersey.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1318.0,1411.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. That makes sense.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1411.0,1414.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: Yeah. So I, again, I don't know if there's any underlying racial tensions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1414.0,1419.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't know the motives,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1419.0,1422.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: No, I have no idea.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1422.0,1422.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. Okay. Let me see. So back to Jamaica, Oh, I wanted to ask you, this is pretty specific, but did you ever go to King Manor as a kid or school? Did you do field trips or...?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1422.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: We never did field trips. We never—I never went there until I was in college. Okay. So in college I took and I went to Queens college. So in college I was studying archeology. And one of the courses that I took, it was an independent study, was on historical archeology. And there had been recently, some archeologists had done some explorations around the King Manor house. So I did visit during that time. And it was interesting because I felt embarrassed that I did not really know that space, even though it was part of my neighborhood. So, but during the late eighties, I did start to appreciate the Manor house. But I don't feel that it was part of my growing up; we didn't go to visit it. That was not part of what I saw as local history.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1440.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: I remember learning about Jamaica being at one point was more farm land, and that was fascinating to me. And that was something that our parents would talk about—that look at how many apartment buildings there are here now. But I remember when my mother would talk about why she wanted to move to Jamaica and her sister and she saw it as the country. Okay. So even though there were—the house that they lived in was built in the thirties, it was still a relatively recent development of these houses. They were separated houses, but they were still part of that 1930s movement into Jamaica. So there were a lot of houses that were built during that time and that first move from Manhattan into Long Island or into Queens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1500.0,1561.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. I mean, you could say it was a suburb in a way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1561.0,1564.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: It was considered to be a suburb and it was considered too... and they used to call it the country that they moved out to Jamaica to live in the country. And of course, coming from Hell's Kitchen, that really was a dramatic change. To have your own backyard, for example, was—and, you know, that's something else that was always interesting because on my block, the houses were separated. So we had driveways and we had a small plot of land. It was big enough that we had like an above ground pool growing up. But I remember across the street, there were newer houses and they might've only been about 20 to 30 years more recently built. So they were probably built in the 1950s or early sixties, but those were all attached houses.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1564.0,1612.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: And I remember my mother always used to complain about them, that she saw them as being something that—she used to say things like I moved out of Manhattan because I didn't want to be in an area with attached houses. So it felt, even though they were single family houses, they reminded her of city living with apartments. So in those, in those contexts, there were no driveways or the plot of land behind them was not as much garden space. So she really appreciated the fact that she had a garden up front. It was a small garden, but the front garden and the backyard was exceptionally important for her. And the other thing, and again, this might have nothing to do with what you're interested in, but one of the things I do remember during the 1970s and eighties was what I like to call a porch culture.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1612.0,1669.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: Okay. I think it at least and this is an American shift. This is not only in Jamaica Queens, but I remember growing up where everyone used to spend, especially summer evenings sitting out on the front porch. And these are not the kinds of porches that I find here in upstate New York, where you can fit four or five people and it's the country, old fashioned Victorian kind of porches. They were stoops. They were literally just stoops where you could fit two or three people if you're lucky, if you're thin and lucky you can fit two or three people on a step. And then maybe down below, you could have two or three other people, but you would have the whole family that would sit on the porch and then we'd be close enough to the neighbors that we could just yell things across the street to one another. So there was a lot more of that conversation. Part of. For me, the fact that my family lived two doors down, that was, I was able to just spend a lot of my times sitting out on the front porch. We would catch fireflies or the, especially the boys would be playing baseball or football in the middle of the road. And that, I think that's really changed. You don't see that as much. Part of that is because there's just more traffic, but it's also people have shifted to backyards. .. So, Patio furniture.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1669.0,1754.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Or indoors, or under air conditioning or yeah or watching screens or,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1754.0,1762.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: Yeah. And I remember one of the things that always interested me. My family and on my block, we would sit out on the front porch. But I remember growing up one of my closest friends who she was part of the Greek community. And I remember every once in a while I would go to her house to, maybe once a month I would eat dinner with her family or spend my time with her family, sleepover, that sort of thing. And I remember going to her Yaya's house, her grandmother's house. And, I always remember what struck me was that the center of their life was in the backyard. This was even before that time. They would—they had grape leaves and grapevines in the backyard underneath the arbor. And we would sit around drinking Greek coffee and things like that. So I always remember that being this cultural difference that I was aware of early on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1762.0,1821.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. So are you setting it up as a front yard backyard thing?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1821.0,1827.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: I thought that way. It was front yard for my family and my block. But her family, they were, she lived on the same block, but her grandparents lived a couple of blocks away and they were backyard people. Right. So they spend more time in the backyard and more—it was more private space, I guess. But it wasn't that they were isolated from their community because they would have friends and neighbors who would come over. It was, it was just a little bit more, it was more private to their family. Right. Yeah. So they had extended families where they would all come and visit or friends from the church from St. Demetrius.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1827.0,1873.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. Yeah. That sounds really nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1873.0,1875.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: It was really nice. And I always remember that as one of those differences.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1875.0,1881.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. Interesting. So let me see another, just very specific question relating to Jamaica center. Oh, did you ever go to the movies in Jamaica center?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1881.0,1894.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: I did not. Yeah. I know that there's that tabernacle, so it was converted. And I honestly, I didn't even know about it. I didn't even know about that until I moved up to Binghamton and I started to subscribe to—there's, I don't remember his name anymore, but he used to do explorations of historic spaces and he would post them on Facebook and post them on his website. And that was one of the spaces that he discovered or that he posted. And it was interesting because I remember distinctly looking at it and thinking my gosh, that's in Jamaica Avenue. I had no idea it was there. So even though I feel that that's where I grew up, there were all these spaces that I just had no idea about.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1894.0,1946.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. Yeah. I think that often happens. We take for granted our [inaudible]. Another weirdly specific question. Did you do any banking on Jamaica Avenue? Do you remember any of the old banking buildings?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1946.0,1960.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: No, I did not. I did not. I know my family also did not. My family did bank in, I want to say Fresh Meadows and I'm not a hundred percent sure. And that was beyond, that was, I was too young to be banking.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1960.0,1974.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. Okay. I think I'm pretty much done. Is there anything else that you'd like to talk about or that comes to mind? Did you go to church? I don't know if you want to talk about religious experiences?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1974.0,1992.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: In the 1970s, we went to St. Nicholas of Tolentine. So that was north of Grand Central Parkway. So technically that would be in Flushing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=1992.0,2006.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=2006.0,2008.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lynda Carroll: And I went to religious school there, but by the mid eighties, I had already removed myself. And it was interesting because my mother also, even though she was a very strict Catholic and she was very, very much a believer, as she was getting older, her health started to fail. And so that was also the time when, you started to see a lot more church services on TV. So she started to attend mass at home. So that that's, and that was part of the reason why I stopped going, because she was no longer dragging me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904#t=2008.0,2044.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/45807/file/118904/transcript/42115/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Linda Ganjian: Yeah. Okay. So, I'm going to stop the recording. 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