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    GCT003419
    Jim Curtis and Anna Zolner
    01:20:45
    Jim Curtis and Anna Zolner
    awright
    December 9, 2006 Grand Central StoryBooth

    daughter interviews her father about his life

    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • family naming and nicknames
    • father’s store
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • Proposing
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    • Wishes for daughter
    • wishes for grandchildren
    wtc000035
    Diane Spindler and Stephanie Romeo
    01:23:44
    Diane Spindler and Stephanie Romeo
    Nick Yulman
    July 21, 2005 World Trade Center Booth

    A woman interviews her sister about escaping from WTC on 9/11.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • family characters
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • historical events/people
    • Injuries
    • luck and fate
    • Merchant Marines
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    MBY004733
    Mary  Issacson and Julie Summers
    00:00
    Mary Issacson and Julie Summers
    cscott
    November 13, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Mary Isaacson (46) and Julie Summers (46) discuss their time spent with the CampFire organization. They have been involved in some capacity since high school and are both current Board Members

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • CampFire, Camping, camp scott murders, merchandising, occupational therapy, spiritual leadership, camp counselors, board members, cancer, bonds formed during camp,
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Influential People
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    MBX004651
    Edward Guczek and Jennifer Sawyer
    00:00
    Edward Guczek and Jennifer Sawyer
    Nina Porzucki
    November 29, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Edward Guczek, 87, is interviewed by his granddaughter, Jennifer Sawyer, 21, about his life.

    • 1935 Ford
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • Butterfly Ballroom
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Commerce High School
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Diabetic
    • Dialysis
    • Eddie’s Service Station
    • Elmer’s Tune
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • Lebanese
    • Lincoln Zephyr
    • memories of former times
    MBX000763
    Velora Anderson and Charlotte Mayo
    01:15:48
    Velora Anderson and Charlotte Mayo
    Nick Yulman
    November 5, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Charlotte interiviews her mother Velora about her childhood on a farm in illinois.

    • 4h
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • factory workers
    • family characters
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • preserving food
    GCT001897
    Barbara Perlmutter and Lisa Perlmutter
    38:52
    Barbara Perlmutter and Lisa Perlmutter
    skramer
    August 10, 2005 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Woman talks about living in Madrid as a young woman and meeting her husband, the interviewer’s father.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • learning languages
    • personal experiences
    • socializing
    • Spain
    • Spouse
    • Studying abroad
    MBX000845
    Willie King, Debbie Bond, and Rick Asherson
    01:21:59
    Willie King, Debbie Bond, and Rick Asherson
    mtivnan
    November 21, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Willie King tells his friends about the person who most impacted his life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Band
    • blues music
    • clubbing/bars
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • community worthies
    • family expressions
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • favorite hangouts and haunts
    • Fred Frayser
    • historical events/people
    • juke joints
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    GCT004051
    Shelley Benezra and Jessica Weitzman
    01:36:26
    Shelley Benezra and Jessica Weitzman
    Nzingha Garner
    July 15, 2007 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Shelley and her daugher, Jessica had a conversation about Shelley’s life growing up in Coney Island in an extended family and close neighborhood.

    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Dancing
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family feuds
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • pregnancy and pre-natal care
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    sck001263
    Rose Eleanor  Schultz, Anne Marie Weitzel, and Martha Rose Martone
    00:00
    Rose Eleanor Schultz, Anne Marie Weitzel, and Martha Rose Martone
    September 30, 2008 StoryKit

    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Dancing
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    Jackie Doty and Marilyn Morris
    44:32
    Jackie Doty and Marilyn Morris
    Marilyn Morris
    May 24, 2022 App Interview

    Jackie is 99 years young and still full of life.

    • Alaska
    • Bridge
    • Canyon Rim
    • Canyon Rim
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Family
    • Family trips
    • finding happiness
    • Marriage
    • Military service
    • Salt Lake City
    spp000962
    Thomas Ziegler and Emily Feit
    00:00
    Thomas Ziegler and Emily Feit
    rpeltzman
    December 23, 2004 Sound Portraits Productions

    Retired FDNY speaks about experiences in the fire department

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Injuries
    • memories of former times
    • personal experiences
    • social beliefs and practices
    • street patterns
    MBY000434
    Mark Solomon and Jeanne Clothiaux
    42:21
    Mark Solomon and Jeanne Clothiaux
    jangelos
    August 27, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Wife interviews husband about the building of thier home on the top of Moscow Mountain, activism, environmentalism, and his making of a giant mobile steel fire-breathing dragon

    • 14 foot snows
    • ancient cedar trees
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • arcosanti
    • blacksmith
    • boy dylan
    • buidling of home on Moscow Mountain
    • canyons, mountains, wheatfields, rivers
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • county commissioner
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • creating fabricated steel dragon
    • dragon man
    • ecology
    • environmentalism
    NYD000281
    Jason Banrey and Anna Nowak-Banrey
    38:06
    Jason Banrey and Anna Nowak-Banrey
    Tomas Rios
    October 28, 2011 New York Door-To-Door

    Anna Nowak-Banrey (AB) and Jason Banrey (JB) discuss how they met, their relationship and their experiences together in New York.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • cross-country trip
    • England
    • first impression of America
    • hotel
    • Journalism
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • Poland
    • Spouse
    • travel
    SFD000257
    Yvonne Rodriguez and Jesús Pando
    01:20:44
    Yvonne Rodriguez and Jesús Pando
    Carolina Correa
    October 2, 2010 San Francisco Door-To-Door

    Friends Yvonne Rodriguez (47) and Jesús Pando (54) talk about going to college in their 30s, majoring in Physics, their ethnic backgrounds and their family.

    • Academic life
    • Achievements
    • Appearance
    • apprenticeships
    • birth of first child
    • Chicana
    • Chicano
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • Family Traditions
    • Guilt
    • Master
    • memories of former times
    SFD000188
    Ruth Tringham and Eric Blind
    01:21:23
    Ruth Tringham and Eric Blind
    Sarah Geis
    June 26, 2010 San Francisco Door-To-Door

    Eric, 35, interviews Ruth, 69, about her career as an archaeologist and her more recent involvement with The Presidio.

    • Adobe
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • Archaeology
    • Barbara “Barb” Voss
    • California
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • community worthies
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • El Polin
    • excavation
    • foghorns
    • Fort Scott, San Francisco, CA
    • General Pershing
    SFD000165
    Dolores Huerta, Camila Chavez, and Lori Huerta de Leon
    02:01:37
    Dolores Huerta, Camila Chavez, and Lori Huerta de Leon
    Rose Arrieta
    June 8, 2010 San Francisco Door-To-Door

    Dolores Huerta, 80, speaks with two of her daughters, Camila Chavez, 34, and Lori Huerta de Leon, 57, about being a labor leader and organizer and being a mother.

    • 1961
    • AB1
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Bill
    • birth of first child
    • businesswoman
    • Cesar Chavez
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • commodities
    • Community Service Organization
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • CSO
    • Dancer
    • Delano
    MBY000946
    Bea Wain Baruch and Brandon Baruch
    40:11
    Bea Wain Baruch and Brandon Baruch
    jgoodrich
    January 10, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Brandon, 21, interviews his grandmother, Bea, 89, about her singing career, starting as a 5-year-old child singing on the radio, to featured singer with big bands in the 1930s and ‘40s.

    • Andre Baruch (her husband)
    • Bea and the Bachelors
    • Benny Goodman
    • Big bands
    • Brill Building, New York
    • child singer on radio, parties
    • cofounder, Society of Singers
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Deep Purple
    • Diinah Shore
    • Dorothy Kirsten
    • Frank Sinatra
    • Fred Waring
    • Ginnie Mancini
    • grandson
    DDC000507
    Robert Tainsh and Cynthia Tainsh
    38:18
    Robert Tainsh and Cynthia Tainsh
    Kate Brown
    February 25, 2009 Door-to-Door Kit C

    Cynthia Tainsh (50) talks with her husband, Robert Tainsh (49), about moving to Florida from New England and their experiences having twins and then triplets.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • anesthesiology
    • birth of first child
    • child delivery
    • cleft palette
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family doctor stories
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Florida Hospital
    • Furniture
    • Golden Retriever
    • Harvard
    • illness
    MBY007498
    Clayton Bradford and Janice Bradford
    34:11
    Clayton Bradford and Janice Bradford
    Jorge Rios
    February 18, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Clayton Bradford, 24, tells his mother Janice Bradford, 54, about his experience in the United States Marine Corps and his two deployments in Iraq.

    • beliefs on military
    • Chico, California
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • ex-girlfriends
    • family characters
    • family heroes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • fellow soldiers
    • historical events/people
    • military enlistment
    • Military families
    • Military life
    • military release
    LMN001585
    Sally Dorst and Jensen Wheeler Wolfe
    43:00
    Sally Dorst and Jensen Wheeler Wolfe
    Jalylah Burrell
    July 3, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Sally Dorst, 70, is interviewed by her employee Jensen Wheeler Wolfe, 48, about her love of the arts.

    • Alice Tully Hall
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Ballet
    • Classical music
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Einstein on the Beach
    • Family Traditions
    • Florida
    • Glamour Magazine
    • Hillbilly Hank
    • historical events/people
    • Influential People
    • Lincoln Center
    • memories of former times
    • Money
    LMN001566
    Jerry Mont and Michelle Mont
    46:04
    Jerry Mont and Michelle Mont
    Daniel Littlewood
    June 20, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    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.

    • 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
    LMN001459
    Martin Blank and Jairo Alcantara
    01:17:50
    Martin Blank and Jairo Alcantara
    cscott
    April 17, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Martin Blank (72) is interviewed by his friend Jairo Alcantara (17). Martin discusses with Jairo the vast differences between being homosexual when he was young and being homosexual now.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Coming Out
    • Commitment
    • Community support
    • Denial
    • dysfunctional families
    • family feuds
    • Family Traditions
    • fantasies
    • flamboyance
    • gay high schools
    • Gay Relationships
    • Homosexuality
    • Influential People
    MBX001432
    Richard B Stone, Deborah Poznansky, and Nancy Stone Pozanansky
    01:16:00
    Richard B Stone, Deborah Poznansky, and Nancy Stone Pozanansky
    Nadja Middleton
    May 28, 2006 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    The family talks about their father/ grandfather/ great grandfather who is nearly 100 years old.

    • Aliyah (Israel)
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Courtesy
    • Creativity
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • employee loyalty
    • family hotel
    • Family reunions
    • historical events/people
    • memories of growing up
    • Miami
    • Money
    • Mottos
    • personal experiences
    GCT001729
    Maureen Mei Ling Sur and Douglas Sur
    36:16
    Maureen Mei Ling Sur and Douglas Sur
    jgoodrich
    July 3, 2005 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Douglas (41) interviews his mother, Maureen Mei Ling (70) about her experiences growing up in China, her family, her philosophy

    • annual reunions with college mates, who are millionaires
    • birth of first child
    • Chicken pox
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • electric lights as cigarette lighters
    • enjoys life
    • escape from China to Taiwan in 1949
    • escaped being sent by Japanese to camp to be killed
    • ethical principles
    • historical events/people
    • kindness is important
    • left behind younger sister
    • longed for bananas
    • memories of former times
    MBX006942
    Mikey Riley and Jared Busch
    38:54
    Mikey Riley and Jared Busch
    Jorge Rios
    July 24, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Self-described “best friends forever” Mikey Riley, 23, and Jared Busch, 23, talk about their friendship and Mikey’s battle with drugs and multiple sclerosis.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • drug rehabilitation camps, youth ministries
    • drug rehabilitation, childhood, puberty, adolecence
    • family characters
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • multiple sclerosis, drug addictions
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • religious work
    • school day memories
    • social beliefs and practices
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