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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0094-accs
  • Summary(0:20) Growing up in Marcy Projects hearing the Pfizer whistle -- (1:25) Children activities and games -- (2:02) Remembering all the stores around the neighborhood -- (5:45) Being a ‘Brownie’ Girl scout -- (6:18) Marching on Brooklyn Day -- (8:39) Going to sunday school at St Georges -- (9:29) Saturdays at her grandfather's house -- (10:08) The trains -- (11:22) Remembering the stores downtown -- (13:03) Riding buses -- (15:54) Marcy Day -- (18:19) McCarren Pool in Greenpoint in the 1960s -- (20:21) Rules for staying out -- (21:17) Family in Brooklyn -- (22:06) Visiting the Tompkins Park library and other branches -- (23:59) Missing the family oriented and united community she remembers -- (25:50) Staying at Chancey Street.
  • Date2016-03-08
  • Physical Description1 sound file (27 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorClark-White, Roseanne and White, Randolph
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Digital Public Library of AmericaThis item is represented in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
  • Formatsound recording-nonmusical
  • GenreinterviewsMP3
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on March 8, 2016, by Taina Evans and Carmen Lopez at Boys and Girls Highschool. 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.
  • SubjectMarcy Houses (New York, N.Y.) Pfizer Pharmaceutical ; Double dutch (Rope skipping) ; Punchball ; Games--New York (State)--; Summer schools--New York (State)--New York ; J.H.S. 33 ; ANC ; Stores and shops--New York (State)--New York ; Grandparents ; Saint George's Protestant Episcopal Church (New York, N.Y.) ; Candy ; Drugstores ; Girl Scouts ; Marches (Band) ; Sunday schools ; Shopping ; Macy's (Firm) ; Record stores ; Woolworths ; Fox Theatre (Brooklyn, N.Y.) ; Buses ; Subways--New York (State)-- ; Facebook (Electronic resource) ; Nineteen sixties ; Libraries ; Dance parties
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Bushwick (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Greenpoint (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
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  • TitleOral history interview with Roseanne Clark-White and Randolph White on 2016 March 8.