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    MBY001979
    Dolly Winger and Amy Winger
    00:00
    Dolly Winger and Amy Winger
    Ryan Murdock
    September 3, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Amy talks with her mother, Dolly, about growing up on a farm in North Dakota.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Childhood Games
    • dollhouse
    • family expressions
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Outhouse
    • personal experiences
    • piano
    • ritual foods
    • school day memories
    LMN001160
    Maureen Mahoney and Tracey Merritt
    00:00
    Maureen Mahoney and Tracey Merritt
    Nzingha Garner
    January 31, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Maureen Mahoney, 70, was interviewed by her daughter, Tracey Merritt, 44, about growing up in New York City.

    • Aunt Tini
    • Central Park
    • Childhood Games
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Hicksville
    • memories of growing up
    • Movies
    • Music
    • New York city
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • St. Paul the Apostle School
    MBY003050
    Thomas Satterly and Shelia Roberts
    42:31
    Thomas Satterly and Shelia Roberts
    Rachel Falcone
    July 27, 2007 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Shelia asked her husband Tom about growing up in Butte, working in the mines, and his family.

    • ACM
    • Anaconda Copper Mining Company
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Butte mines
    • Childhood Games
    • columbia gardens
    • confrontation
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • drift
    • Family Traditions
    • mine shaft
    • mining
    • mucking
    • Nature’s Remedy
    • NR
    MBY003117
    Merril (Mutt) Murray and Samuel D. Schropp
    39:18
    Merril (Mutt) Murray and Samuel D. Schropp
    Daniel Littlewood
    August 17, 2007 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Mutt Murray talks to his neighbor Sam Schropp about growing up with horses, farming with his family, and learning to fly small planes.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Cache Valley, Utah
    • Childhood Games
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • drilling
    • family trips and excursions
    • horse riding
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • milk factory
    • mutt and jeff
    • Olaf Nelson
    • paved roads
    • peaches
    • Richmond, Utah
    MBY000267
    Winnie Woodmansee and Fran Joersz
    40:03
    Winnie Woodmansee and Fran Joersz
    agoldman
    July 22, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    A mother and daughter talk about family history.

    • alcoholics anonymous
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • colon cancer and diabetes
    • ectopic pregnancy
    • Elope
    • family expressions
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • illness
    • illness support groups
    • Influential People
    • personal experiences
    • pregnancy and pre-natal care
    SFB000580
    Roberta Zadow and Kira Greer
    01:23:54
    Roberta Zadow and Kira Greer
    Alex Lyon
    November 19, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Roberta Zadow (70) talks to her daughter Kira Greer (32) about growing up with Polio and her time in the Haight Ashbury during the 1960’s.

    • 1960’s
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • body casts
    • Communism
    • Counterculture
    • cutting school
    • family history
    • Franklin Roosevelt
    • Haight Ashbury
    • House of UnAmerican Activities
    • Jewish Ghettos
    • Joe McCarthy
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    SFB000255
    Geraldine Johnson and Courtney Johnson Rowe
    01:21:11
    Geraldine Johnson and Courtney Johnson Rowe
    Frank Kingman
    March 29, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Geraldine, 87, talks with her granddaughter Courtney, 30, about her family’s heritage and the connection with Grass Valley, California.

    • Appearance
    • Army Corps of Engineers
    • Boy scouts
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Grass Valley, CA
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Morman Church
    • Mormans
    • Nevada City, CA
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Sacramento, CA
    MBY001258
    Charley Spining and Anne Doyle
    41:42
    Charley Spining and Anne Doyle
    pkochhar
    March 23, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Friend interviews Charley about being the piano player at a favorite hangout in Flagstaff, and about his childhood growing up in a town near the Navajo reservation, called Ganado, in Arizona.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • apprenticeships
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • lodges
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • social beliefs and practices
    MBX004658
    Angelo Kachulis and Nick Kachulis
    41:38
    Angelo Kachulis and Nick Kachulis
    whenry-lester
    December 1, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Nick interviews his father about growing up in Brooklyn and his life experiences.

    • Amos and Andy
    • Angela Lansbury
    • Bill Donovan
    • Bing Crosby
    • Brooklyn, NY
    • Childhood Games
    • clubbing/bars
    • Dodgers
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family members in history
    • FDR
    • General Stillwell
    • Giants
    • Greece
    MBX000908
    Marilyn Nolan and Scott Nolan
    01:16:01
    Marilyn Nolan and Scott Nolan
    mtivnan
    January 5, 2006 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Marilyn remembers her daughter Renee who passed away.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Brain tumor
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • dying
    • family heroes
    • memories of former times
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Saturday Night Live
    • Spouse
    • watching and listening habits
    MBX007608
    Marcus Williams and Timothy Holley
    39:46
    Marcus Williams and Timothy Holley
    Eloise Melzer
    January 17, 2011 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Friends Timothy D. Holley, 36, and Marcus M. Williams, 25, discuss comemorating Martin Luther King Day, their careers and spirituality.

    • African-American identity
    • Alabama Football
    • all-black school systems
    • all-white school systems
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Atlanta Housewives
    • Birmingham, AL
    • black identity
    • broadcasting
    • careers
    • change
    • Church
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    MBY007402
    Augustus Feather and Bette DeGraw
    33:50
    Augustus Feather and Bette DeGraw
    Beatriz Colonia
    January 17, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Augustus S Feather Jr (99) talks with his daughter Bette DeGraw (64) about his childhood, work, and meeting his wife Margarette.

    • Childhood Games
    • childhood mischief
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family naming and nicknames
    • friends
    • Great Depression stories
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • New Jersey
    • personal experiences
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    • Plants
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    • Uncles
    DDD000263
    Orsini González and Ysabel González
    40:03
    Orsini González and Ysabel González
    Yazmín Peña
    October 1, 2009 Door-to-Door Kit D

    Dr. Orsini Gonzáles (60) tells his daughter, Ysabel Y. González (29) how his parents met in Puerto Rico, about growing up in the South Bronx in the ‘60s, and how he met his wife, Ysabel’s mother.

    • 296 Fifth Avenue
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Antonia Pantojo
    • ASPIRA
    • Binghamton University
    • birth of first child
    • Bryant Avenue and 174th Street
    • Carlos
    • Childhood Games
    • City College of New York
    • college
    • Dean Doris Cintron
    • family in-jokes
    • family trips and excursions
    • Guanica
    MBX007892
    William Creasy and Susan Creasy
    34:30
    William Creasy and Susan Creasy
    Beatriz Colonia
    March 28, 2011 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    William ‘Bill’ Creasy (82) and his daughter Susan Creasy (51) talk about his childhood in Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.

    • Allowance
    • beach houses
    • Childhood Games
    • Chores
    • Family Traditions
    • Great Depression stories
    • Marbles
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • North Carolina
    • personal experiences
    • playing marbles
    • Railroad
    • sailboats
    ATL000220
    Charlee Lambert and William Hines
    40:13
    Charlee Lambert and William Hines
    aknight
    March 4, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Bill HInes, 66, interviews his mother-in-law Charlee Kambert, 87, about her life, writing and the plays she wrote and performed around the country.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • college
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • illness
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • Prejudice
    • school day memories
    • scientific beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    • video/computer games
    NPL000100
    Robert  Green and Emily Green-Cain
    40:39
    Robert Green and Emily Green-Cain
    Kate Wingate
    November 28, 2007 Nashville Public Library

    Alan and Emily came to the booth to remember their mother, Janice Sawyer Green, who passed away 14 years ago.

    • Appearance
    • Brain cancer
    • Brain tumor
    • children’s librarian
    • Day of the Dead
    • Janice Sawyer Green
    • medicine shield
    • memories of growing up
    • Morristown, TN
    • personal experiences
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    MBY003724
    Betty Jane Isaacs Moczygemba, Mary Margaret Isaacs Inselmann, and Mary Jane Moczygemba Verette
    39:57
    Betty Jane Isaacs Moczygemba, Mary Margaret Isaacs Inselmann, and Mary Jane Moczygemba Verette
    Rose Gorman
    March 6, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Betty Jane Moczygemba, Mary Inselmann, and Mary Jane Verette remember Genevieve Isaacs, Betty and Mary’s mother and Mary Jane’s grandmother.

    • American Revolution
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Benjamin Hammond
    • cemetery traditions
    • Christopher Hammond
    • Clower Street (San Antonio, TX)
    • egg dyeing parties
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Genevieve Isaacs
    • illness
    • Ireland
    • John Gibson
    • memories of growing up
    NPL000232
    Virginia McCarthy and Mary McCarthy
    01:27:43
    Virginia McCarthy and Mary McCarthy
    Cindy Murphy
    March 22, 2008 Nashville Public Library

    Mary McCarthy interviews her mother, Virginia McCarthy.

    • Accidents
    • Aesop’s Fables
    • alcohol
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Chicago house
    • Chicago, Illinois
    • Childhood Games
    • Church
    • college
    • crossword puzzles
    • fedora
    • G.K. Chesteron
    • Garfield Park
    • honesty
    • Mary Kenter
    GCT004804
    John Lauer and John Lauer
    37:07
    John Lauer and John Lauer
    Steven Thrasher
    March 8, 2008 Grand Central StoryBooth

    John Lauer, Jr. interviews his father John “Jack” Lauer, Sr. about growing up in a coal town in PA and about how he met his mother.

    • 45 degree Fllen
    • apprenticeships
    • Ashland, PA
    • Beer
    • breast weighing contest
    • breasts
    • Briser Fullen
    • Buzzer Graber
    • Coal
    • community worthies
    • death of mother
    • Dopey Umlauf
    • DuPont
    • Empire State Building
    • English
    MBX001812
    Mohammed "Breem" Breem and Susan Baxter
    43:23
    Mohammed "Breem" Breem and Susan Baxter
    Maddy Nussbaum
    September 2, 2006 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Kurdish artist talks about leaving his homeland, Syria, and coming to United States.

    • Appearance
    • Assimilation
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • culture difference
    • first impression of America
    • immigration
    • Kansas City
    • Kurdish
    • Lebanon
    • Maine
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    MBY003613
    Marie Gray and Rachel Gray-Castro
    30:20
    Marie Gray and Rachel Gray-Castro
    Yuki Aizawa
    February 9, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Marie tells her daughter Rachel about her parents and their strength and dedication serving their country and raising a family

    • Appearance
    • Brownsville TX
    • CCC
    • Chemotherapy
    • City Year
    • Civil Conservation Corps
    • Croatian heritage
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Granite City IL
    • illness
    • luck and fate
    • memories of growing up
    • Mortality
    • personal experiences
    MBX006392
    Betty Olliff and Emily Capes
    36:26
    Betty Olliff and Emily Capes
    Sara Culver
    March 1, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Emily Capes (33) interviews her good friend, Betty Olliff (82) about her life - her family, her husband, and her faith.

    • Alabama
    • Appearance
    • Bach
    • Bakery
    • Baptist Church
    • Beethoven
    • birth of first child
    • Bob Olliff
    • Brett Olliff
    • Chattanooga, TN
    • Church
    • Classical music
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • economic beliefs and practices
    MBY004963
    Milena Muzquiz and Stephanie Taylor
    37:58
    Milena Muzquiz and Stephanie Taylor
    Nina Porzucki
    January 29, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Milena Muzquiz (31) is interviewed by her friend, Stephanie Taylor (37) about growing up and her move to the U.S. from Tijuana when she was in elementary school.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Art School
    • Childhood Games
    • college
    • family expressions
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • fresas
    • Influential People
    • Injuries
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • mexico
    MBY006523
    Maria Leyba and Angélica  Turrieta
    40:45
    Maria Leyba and Angélica Turrieta
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    May 20, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Maria L. Leyba (60) talks with her daughter Angélica Turrieta (33) about her childhood life in a prison, growing up in New Mexico and the death of her brother Ramón.

    • Albino
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apache
    • Appearance
    • Ascension, Chihuahua
    • Barelas, NM
    • Celestino Barrola
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • historical events/people
    • Influential People
    MBX004737
    Edith Johnson and Jaimie Johnson
    01:18:24
    Edith Johnson and Jaimie Johnson
    Nina Porzucki
    December 20, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Edith E. Johson, 80, is interviewed by her granddaughter, Jaimie Johnson, 26.

    • 500 Club
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • army photographer
    • birth of first child
    • Boot Lake
    • Bridge Club
    • card parties
    • Childhood Games
    • Christmas code
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Dancing
    • Davenport, IA
    • dying
    • economic beliefs and practices
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