Jerry Mont and Michelle Mont
Recorded
June 20, 2009
46:04 minutes
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Id:
LMN001566
Description
Jerry Mont (72) talks to his daughter Michelle Mont (43) about his childhood in Brooklyn, his courtship of his wife, and he and Michelle’s relationship.Subject Log / Time Code
Story of his first date with his future wife. They went to the Museum of Natural History, and Jerry had to pretend to know what the exhibits were about.
Getting his fiancee to come back from Minnesota by agreeing to an earlier marriage date.
The various last minute scrambles to get ready for their wedding.
Coney Island back in its prime - they had “the best grill men in the world!”
Story of Michelle’s birth, and how Jerry woke up with a start in the waiting room exactly when she was born at 1:13 AM
Participants
- Jerry Mont
- Michelle Mont
Recording Locations
StoryCorps Lower Manhattan BoothVenue / Recording Kit
Tier
Keywords
- anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
- Bensonhurst
- Benzedrine
- birth of first child
- Brooklyn
- Catskills
- codeine
- cohorts (groups of friends)
- competitive
- Coney Island
- Dexedrin
- Drugs
- East Village
- heroin
- Luna Park fire
- marriage license
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- Miltown
- Minsk
- Money
- Museum of Natural History
- Nathan’s Hot Dogs
- new york
- NY
- school day memories
- Spouse
- White Russia
- World’s Fair