TitleOral history interview with Ada Lydon on 2016 October 22.
Summary(0:34) Got her first library card at age 8 so she could read Mary Poppins -- (2:14) The library rules and it’s appearance in the 1950s -- (4:37) Didn’t have time for the library when working and starting family -- (5:39) Returning to the library and still visit often -- (6:25) Working for Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company at 16 -- (10:15) Remembering Finnish and Irish neighbors followed by an expanding Puerto Rican community since the 1960s -- (11:45) Supermarkets closing -- (12:59) Grew up visiting Green-Wood cemetery -- (1449) A period when the cemetery was closed for the public -- (15:48) Events and tours at the cemetery -- (16:41) The crypts -- (17:59) Music and dance performances -- (20:41) Sunset Pool, Sunset Park and changing neighborhood names -- (23:49) Still using the library.
NoteAudio interview conducted on October 22, 2016, by Taina Evans at Sunset Park Library. Collected through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is a partnership with Services for Older Adults and the Brooklyn Collection.
SubjectGreen-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.) ; Performance art--New York (State)--New York ; Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company ; Comptometers ; Libraries ; Steinway, Henry E., 1797-1871 ; Finnish Americans ; Irish Americans ; Puerto Ricans ; Cemeteries ; Sunset Park (New York, N.Y.)--History
Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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