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parking areas space for 35,000 cars, I saw the first television set at the fair, the men in the building trades made a lot of money the last month before the opening, I also worked for Salson Construction Co. Jamaica they did work for the Long Island Rail Road at the Morris Park shop in Richmond Hill, Flatbush station, Brooklyn, Penn station - New York and several stations on the island. About 1943 our house on Valley Streams Blvd. was foreclosed we lived in rent for almost two years at $3500 per month, that was the reason we didn’t look for another house when the house was sold we had three months to move, we moved to Cliff and Virg’s basement, I made a kitchen in the rear it had a wood floor and made a cozy small apartment, Cliff was in the service