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    MBX000407
    Saul P. Arsht and Michelle Stiennon
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    Saul P. Arsht and Michelle Stiennon
    cbancroft
    August 12, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Saul talks about growing up in Detroit, his childhood memories, and working in the junkyard business.

    • birth of first child
    • Childhood Games
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Family Traditions
    • Great Depression stories
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • Salesmen
    • schoolyard games
    LMN000377
    Marion Kaslon, Karen Schlam, and Terri Gilbert
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    Marion Kaslon, Karen Schlam, and Terri Gilbert
    Brianna Hyneman
    June 29, 2008 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Marion Kaslon talks to her daughters, Karen Schlam and Terri Gilbert, about her family history in Brooklyn, her father’s business savvy and meeting and marrying their father.

    • Austria
    • birth of first child
    • Brooklyn, NY
    • Business School
    • Childhood Games
    • clubbing/bars
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Dancing
    • dry goods store
    • E. Side Drive
    • Ellis Island
    • family characters
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • FDR Drive
    NPL000401
    Larry Keyes and Martha O’Brien
    01:16:47
    Larry Keyes and Martha O’Brien
    Kate Wingate
    July 30, 2008 Nashville Public Library

    Larry tells Martha about his family and the impact his father and uncle had on his life.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Boxing
    • Childhood Games
    • Circus
    • Clinton, MI
    • clubbing/bars
    • De Molay
    • Deleon, TX
    • Edwin Bledsoe Keyes
    • family characters
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    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
    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
    MBX003906
    David Kuhl and Abigail (Abby) Wheeler
    00:00
    David Kuhl and Abigail (Abby) Wheeler
    Michelle Swinehart
    May 25, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    David Kuhl and Abby Wheeler talk about their family get-togethers and how everyone seems to truly enjoy themselves.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • BB gun
    • Birthday Celebrations, Birthday Cake
    • Childhood Games
    • Christmas, Christmas Eve
    • Cold War
    • family characters
    • Family gatherings
    • Family Legacy
    • family members in history
    • Family Traditions, Rites of Passage
    • Fireworks, Firecrackers
    • Great Depression stories
    • Independence day
    • memories of former times
    MBX005978
    Zand Bakhtiari and Rosemary Bakhtiari
    40:24
    Zand Bakhtiari and Rosemary Bakhtiari
    Anna Walters
    October 25, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Zand Bakhtiari (18) and his mother, Rosemary Bakhtiari (50), remember Rosemary’s father, Frank Firek, by recounting their favorite stories from his life.

    • asbestos
    • cemetery traditions
    • Childhood Games
    • college
    • Eastern Europe
    • family characters
    • family members in history
    • Family Stories
    • Family Traditions
    • Great Depression stories
    • historical events/people
    • memories of growing up
    • Norfolk
    • Notre Dame
    • Pennsylvania
    SPP000845
    Wilfred Bank and Myrna Gardner
    38:57
    Wilfred Bank and Myrna Gardner
    shaas
    October 1, 2004 Sound Portraits Productions

    World War II stories; story of falling in love with wife at first sight.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • family characters
    • Great Depression stories
    • historical events/people
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • schoolyard games
    • Spouse
    NPL000300
    Theresa Hogan and Maureen Schlacter
    01:19:35
    Theresa Hogan and Maureen Schlacter
    Martha O'Brien
    May 14, 2008 Nashville Public Library

    Theresa Hogan tells memories of her happy life growing up in Canada to her daughter, Maureen Schlater.

    • bikes
    • birth of first child
    • card parties
    • Childhood Games
    • Dancing
    • Detroit, MI
    • family trips and excursions
    • fiance
    • Great Depression stories
    • Great grandchildren
    • hopscotch
    • James W. Hogan WWII Pacific
    • Memories of Children
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    wtc000066
    Richard DeVenezia and Debra DeVenezia Faherty
    02:41:27
    Richard DeVenezia and Debra DeVenezia Faherty
    mramberg
    July 31, 2005 World Trade Center Booth

    father tells daughter about growing up near an amusement park; daughter remembers commuting to WTC on 9/11/01

    • Childhood Games
    • family trips and excursions
    • Great Depression stories
    • luck and fate
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    GCT004736
    Karen Cathers, Nikki Pison, and Justin Peone
    53:47
    Karen Cathers, Nikki Pison, and Justin Peone
    Michelle Swinehart
    February 9, 2008 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Karen Cathers tells her kids, Nikki Pison, Justin Peone, Christina Pappalardo about her childhood growing up with Communist parents during the Cold War, marrying an older man when she was 17, and feeling determined to be a “perfect” mother for...

    • 4th Grade
    • birth of first child
    • capitalism
    • Childhood Games
    • Communism
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Great Depression stories
    • May Day Parade
    • memories of former times

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