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    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
    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
    MBY006712
    Susan  Moinester, Arielle Moinester, and Margot Moinester
    45:00
    Susan Moinester, Arielle Moinester, and Margot Moinester
    Eloise Melzer
    July 21, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Margot Moinester, 22, and Arielle Moinester, 30, ask their mother, Susan Moinester, 56, about her parents who survived the Holocaust.

    • 1950s
    • 1970s
    • Abe Diamond
    • adaptations
    • Admiration
    • American holidays
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • aphorisms
    • Appearance
    • Appreciation
    • Bad memories
    • birth of first child
    • Brooklyn, NY
    • celebrating heritage
    • close-knit families
    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
    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
    wtc000266
    Viola Garcia Garza, Maria Solone Peck, Diana “Didi” Garza, and Alma Coplen
    00:00
    Viola Garcia Garza, Maria Solone Peck, Diana “Didi” Garza, and Alma Coplen
    cbancroft
    November 26, 2005 World Trade Center Booth

    Three sisters interviewed by daughter/niece about growing up on a cattle ranch in south Texas as a Mexican-American family. Stories about their university educations, traditions, pranks, and life on the ranch.

    • Appearance
    • Cattle ranching
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • dress-ups
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family heroes
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • luck and fate
    • memories of growing up
    • Mexican-American
    MBY001166
    Jean Garcia and Kenneth Garcia
    00:00
    Jean Garcia and Kenneth Garcia
    pkochhar
    February 27, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    son interivews his mom about how she single-handedly raised her three sons once her husband got very ill. until then she’d always been dependent on her husband. very nice interivew.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family expressions
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • favorite hangouts and haunts
    • historical events/people
    • illness
    • magical beliefs and practices
    • memories of former times
    MBX004119
    Georgie Walker and Sonia  Walker
    01:08:20
    Georgie Walker and Sonia Walker
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    July 26, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Georgie talks with her daughter Sonia Walker about growing up in Buffalo, the illnesses Georgia has suffered and the strength and perseverance they have learned as family.

    • 1943
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • Buffalo, NY
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Fort Benning, GA
    • gall bladder
    • heart trouble
    • historical events/people
    • Lutheran
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • political beliefs and practices
    MBX006244
    Luz Gomez and David Carter
    38:14
    Luz Gomez and David Carter
    Lilly Sullivan
    January 17, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    David Carter (38) interviews spouse Luz Gomez (35) about her father, Carlos Ignacio Gomez Arriola, who died three years ago.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Basque
    • Brazil
    • CAL
    • carpet-laying business
    • carpets
    • Club
    • college
    • Colombian
    • crossing self
    • Cuban
    • diesel parts
    • European
    • export
    LMN000883
    John Hsia, Sarah Hsia, and Jonathan Hsia
    01:25:06
    John Hsia, Sarah Hsia, and Jonathan Hsia
    Kevin Oliver
    November 16, 2008 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Jonathan Hsia and his sister Sarah Hsia interview their father John Hsia about their family in China and how he met their mother.

    • Appearance
    • China
    • clubbing/bars
    • college
    • Communism
    • Dancing
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • heritage
    • Interracial marriage
    • Japanese
    • memories of former times
    MBX004521
    Moses McCrimager and Steven Blay
    01:21:17
    Moses McCrimager and Steven Blay
    Nina Porzucki
    October 29, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Moses McCrimager, 91, is interviewed by his friend Steven Blay, 35.

    • 10 horse farm
    • 1926 Hurricane in Miami
    • 1936 Chevrolet
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • apprenticeships
    • Brooksfield, FL
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Gainesville, FL
    • halfcropper
    • historical events/people
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • mining
    MBY006305
    Barbara Martinez and Renee Martinez
    37:26
    Barbara Martinez and Renee Martinez
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    March 12, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Barbara D. Martinez (76) talks with her daughter Renee Martinez (49) about her life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family expressions
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Lewistown
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • multicultural
    MBY005608
    Ara Arakelian and Lisa Forsberg
    42:17
    Ara Arakelian and Lisa Forsberg
    cscott
    June 23, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Ara Arakelian (79) is interviewed by his daughter Lisa Forsberg (29). Ara shares his experiences as a child and as a soldier in the Korean War where he won a bronze medal of valor.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Armenian language
    • bazookas
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • emergency plane landing
    • Explosions
    • family heroes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • flame throwers
    • flying planes
    • Influential People
    • killing enemy soldiers
    MBY007707
    Emma Akalonu and Marquita James
    40:40
    Emma Akalonu and Marquita James
    Lilly Sullivan
    April 11, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Emma Estella Person Akalomu (Bobbe) (77) talks with facilitator Marquita James (25) about her cousin Daisy’s hat, which to her is like a symbol of strength and resilience.

    • Africa
    • Ancestry
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Church
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Daisy
    • department store
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Harvard
    ATL000389
    Sybil Brown and Joseph Brown
    41:12
    Sybil Brown and Joseph Brown
    aknight
    July 15, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Joseph Brown, 29, talks to his mother Sybil Brown, 67, about her life growing up in rural Georgia, her education in Athens, GA., and her move to and life in Atlanta, GA.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Edison, GA
    • ESOL teacher
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    MBY006539
    Patricio Baca and Lilly Sullivan
    39:34
    Patricio Baca and Lilly Sullivan
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    May 23, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Patricio E Baca (66) talks with facilitator Lilly Sullivan (26) about his family’s genealogy and the “Baca” name in his family.

    • Alonzo Baca
    • Ana Pacheco
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Antonchito
    • Appearance
    • Battle of the Bulge
    • Childhood Games
    • Colorado
    • community worthies
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Elvin Court
    • Execution
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    SFB001161
    Eve Roberts and Patty Siskind
    45:43
    Eve Roberts and Patty Siskind
    Liam Pierce
    January 20, 2011 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Eve Roberts (81) by Patty Siskind (60) about Eve’s life pursuing theater, and general life appreciation.

    • Appearance
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family characters
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • social beliefs and practices
    NYD000005
    Rosann Sinti and Rosamund  Looney
    36:59
    Rosann Sinti and Rosamund Looney
    John White
    July 15, 2009 New York Door-To-Door

    Rosann Sinti is interview by Rosamund Looney about growing up in Soho as a child, her family’s ethnic. background, work, and her son and daughter.

    • Appearance
    • Broome Street
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Greenwich Village
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • New York city
    • Paper Box Factory
    • personal experiences
    • push cart vendors
    • Salesmen
    • scientific beliefs and practices
    • street patterns
    • Thompson Street
    GCT003350
    Zoe Mizuho and Hugh Ryan
    01:15:30
    Zoe Mizuho and Hugh Ryan
    Ryan Murdock
    November 14, 2006 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Zoe tells Hugh about his quest for self-naming and his choice to identify as a man.

    • Appearance
    • Civil liberties
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Jewish culture
    • self naming
    • Sexual orientation
    • transsexuality
    LMN001224
    Marian (Mitzi) Faye, Elliott Faye, and Poppy Gordon
    45:35
    Marian (Mitzi) Faye, Elliott Faye, and Poppy Gordon
    Daniel Littlewood
    February 17, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Mitzi (84) and Elliott Faye (83) talk to their granddaughter Poppy Gordon (29) about their family background. They then tell stories about their times living in Europe.

    • Amsterdam
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Daimler-Benz
    • dry cleaning
    • europe
    • expat
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • fig tree
    • Germany
    • GI Bill
    • goat milk
    • Israel
    • Jaguar
    mbx002658
    Dolores E. Daluz and Jane Lowey
    39:47
    Dolores E. Daluz and Jane Lowey
    npumilia
    May 30, 2007 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Jane Lowey interviews her friend, Dolores, about growing up in Dover, DE during segregation, her mother and father, the poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and her husband.

    • 1940
    • Appearance
    • Cici Henry
    • college
    • Dover, DE
    • Ducky Massey
    • family expressions
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • flour sacks
    • ghost stories
    • Influential People
    • memories of growing up
    SFB000696
    Erica Hymen and Adamn Arenstein
    00:00
    Erica Hymen and Adamn Arenstein
    Alex Lyon
    February 18, 2010 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Erica Hymen (29) and her husband Adam Arenstein (28) talk about their relationship, how they met and what the future holds.

    • Appearance
    • Babies
    • birth of first child
    • Challenges
    • Chicago
    • Cinquaterra
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • family expressions
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • favorite pictures
    • fond memories
    • Grateful
    ATL000394
    Mark  Richards and Sarah Richards
    37:24
    Mark Richards and Sarah Richards
    aknight
    July 17, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Mark Richards, 31, talks to his wife Sarah Richards, 30, about his birth in Colombia, his adoption, growing up in New Jersey, their meeting, marriage and new-born baby.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Dancing
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • Hanukkah
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    MBY006289
    Alfonso Garcia and Renee Sanchez, ESQ.
    18:34
    Alfonso Garcia and Renee Sanchez, ESQ.
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    March 8, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Alfonso Castillo Garcia (84) talks with his granddaughter Renee Sanchez (36) about his life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • brick layer
    • construction
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • labor movements and unions
    • Local 300
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • picket lines
    • political beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    MBY001026
    Juventiho Garcia Mata Mata and Sonjia Eshell Mata Mata
    56:27
    Juventiho Garcia Mata Mata and Sonjia Eshell Mata Mata
    pkochhar
    January 28, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Mexican American granddaughter brings her 85 yr old grand father, who raised her, to the booth on his birthday.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • descendants of mexican revolution
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • favorite hangouts and haunts
    • first impression of America
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
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