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    MBX004731
    Rosa Rio and Tara Schroeder
    00:00
    Rosa Rio and Tara Schroeder
    Nina Porzucki
    December 19, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Rosa Rio, 106, is interviewed by her friend, Tara Schroeder, 45.

    • 802 Union
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • card parties
    • cbs
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Cole Porter
    • community worthies
    • Eleanor Roosevelt
    • Feminism
    • historical events/people
    • Hollywood
    • Influential People
    • Mary Martin
    • memories of former times
    MBX004727
    Violet Hittle and Doreen Myers
    00:00
    Violet Hittle and Doreen Myers
    Nina Porzucki
    December 19, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Violet Hittle, 97, is interviewed by her granddaughter, Doreen Myers,50.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • birth of first child
    • Bowling
    • card parties
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Dancing
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • German
    • Germany
    • Lifesavers
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    MBY000536
    Frank Hanawalt, Kathy Hanawalt, and Bill Hanawalt
    00:00
    Frank Hanawalt, Kathy Hanawalt, and Bill Hanawalt
    skramer
    September 18, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    25 year old woman and her husband interview her grandfather-in-law about his heart for social justice.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Garfield High school
    • historical events/people
    • Japanese Americans internment camp
    • Letters
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • Prejudice
    • Seabeck
    • Seattle, Washington
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Social justice
    • Spouse
    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
    MBX000249
    Sue Shellenbarger and Dan Shellenbarger
    00:00
    Sue Shellenbarger and Dan Shellenbarger
    cbancroft
    July 7, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Dan Shellenbarger interviews his mother, Sue, about her activist work.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • birth of first child
    • Childhood Games
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • historical events/people
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    SCK000165
    Linda Frontera and Kari Frontera
    00:00
    Linda Frontera and Kari Frontera
    No Facilitator
    November 27, 2005 StoryKit

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family doctor stories
    • family feuds
    • family in-jokes
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • illness
    • luck and fate
    • memories of former times
    MBY004804
    Lois Harvey Gatchell and Laurie Gatchell Green
    00:00
    Lois Harvey Gatchell and Laurie Gatchell Green
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    November 28, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Lois tells stories about growing up in South Dakota, studying journalism and her many carriers throughout her life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Aunt Kitty
    • blind date
    • college
    • Community Relations Commissions of Tulsa
    • Deacon
    • Defense Department
    • Democrat
    • democratic national convention
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • high jumping
    • Journalism
    • Kennedy Foundation
    • Letter writing
    MBX004642
    Catherine Miceli, Joseph Miceli, and Roz Luongo
    00:00
    Catherine Miceli, Joseph Miceli, and Roz Luongo
    whenry-lester
    November 26, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Roz interviews her parents for their 50th wedding anniversary and tells them things the family has said about them.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Brooklyn, NY
    • Childhood Games
    • family characters
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • Father’s Day
    • gift
    • Grandkids
    • Gymnastics
    • Honeymoon
    SFB001031
    Pat Hasslinger and Solana Henneberry
    01:18:56
    Pat Hasslinger and Solana Henneberry
    Frank Kingman
    October 24, 2010 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Pat Hasslinger, 63, talks with Solana Henneberry, 38, about Solana’s mother who passed away in 1994.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Automobile Accidents
    • Bicycle riding
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • family characters
    • family heroes
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Horseback riding
    • illness
    • Influential People
    • Kaaren Keldsen
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    MBY008187
    Mardelle Brutzman and Ken Brutzman
    37:27
    Mardelle Brutzman and Ken Brutzman
    Virginia Lora
    August 15, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Ken Brutzman, 56, interviews his mother, Mardelle J. Brutzman, 77, about her life growing up in the Tri-Cities area and about her parents.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • college
    • family naming and nicknames
    • gas station
    • Kennewick
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • Pasco
    • personal experiences
    • Public Utility District
    • PUD
    • Pullman
    • Railraod
    • school day memories
    DDA000860
    Mabel Pappas and Mary Pappas
    42:38
    Mabel Pappas and Mary Pappas
    Yazmín Peña
    May 23, 2010 Door-to-Door Kit A

    Mabel Pappas (87) and her daughter Mary Pappas (52) talk about Mabel’s childhood moving around different towns in Wisconsin, how she met her husband, and about her experience in the Service Industries.

    • Age difference
    • Alpha Delights Bakery
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Bakery
    • Bolongies Tavern
    • Box Socials
    • C.C.C. Camps
    • Civilian Conservation Corps Camps
    • draftees
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Favorite Foods
    • first drink
    • Greece
    • Green Bay, WI
    MBY008401
    Joseph “Don” Doub and Paige McAfee
    40:28
    Joseph “Don” Doub and Paige McAfee
    Beatriz Colonia
    October 7, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Joseph Donald Doub (72) talks with his daughter Paige Elizabeth McAfee (41) about his childhood, their family home, and his career.

    • Accidents
    • Aerospace Engineering
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Bibles
    • Cameras
    • childhood mischief
    • childhood pranks
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • dogs
    • Doub family
    • Duke University
    • Engineering
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Firecrackers
    • free flight vehicle
    MBX005470
    Pauline Curry and Christine Hemmings
    01:14:58
    Pauline Curry and Christine Hemmings
    Nina Porzucki
    June 25, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Pauline Curry (64) is interviewed by her daughter, Christine Hemmings (40) about her lifetime love of the Dolly Copp campground.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Berlin, NH
    • birth of first child
    • camp fire
    • camp songs
    • Camping
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Dancing
    • Dolly Copp Campground
    • family characters
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    MBX003599
    Stella Hager and Leena Frace
    01:16:53
    Stella Hager and Leena Frace
    Jenna Weiss-Berman
    February 29, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    A woman talks about the deaths of two of her three children, and growing up in a poor Spanish speaking family.

    • alcoholic
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • college
    • H.I.V.
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    SFB000035
    Valkyrie Choy and Holly Cost
    01:17:29
    Valkyrie Choy and Holly Cost
    Patricia Hemphill
    November 6, 2008 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Kanani Choy, 57 is interviewed by her good friend Holly Cost 53.

    • African Americans
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Asian Art Studies
    • Barack Obama
    • college
    • community colleges
    • cultural translations
    • Family Traditions
    • fine arts
    • first impression of America
    • Gambling
    • Hawaii Electric
    • Honolulu, HI
    • Las Vegas, NV
    MBY004268
    Russell Dale and Serena Stickney
    39:23
    Russell Dale and Serena Stickney
    Sasha Rodriguez
    July 28, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Serena Stickney interviews Russell Dale, reunited after twenty years. They talk about who they were in the third grade, who they are now, and what they want to be in the future.

    • Alamosa
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Facebook
    • family expressions
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • luck and fate
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • mexico
    • Orphanage
    • personal experiences
    • Prejudice
    • religious beliefs and practices
    SFB000834
    Phyllis Lyon and Margie Adam
    01:43:36
    Phyllis Lyon and Margie Adam
    Sarah Geis
    June 6, 2010 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Margie, 63, interviews Phyllis, 85, about her work in the lesbian rights movement and the influence that she has had on Margie’s life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Anne Fergueson [pen name for Phyllis Lyon]
    • Appearance
    • Betty Friedan
    • Boo Price
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Coming Out
    • community worthies
    • Council on Religion and the Homosexual
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • cross dressing
    • Daughters of Bilitis
    • Daughters of Bilitis National Conference
    • Del Martin
    • Dr. Blanche Baker
    GCT003273
    Rhea Lowell and Scott Lowell
    01:17:41
    Rhea Lowell and Scott Lowell
    lspero
    October 15, 2006 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Scott interviews his mother about growing up, living with her grandparents when her father left for world war two, and having/adoption children.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • childbirth
    • Childhood Games
    • college
    • family characters
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • pregnancy and pre-natal care
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    MBY000205
    Gregory Pancratz and Steve Conlin
    44:25
    Gregory Pancratz and Steve Conlin
    agoldman
    July 5, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Greg and Steve talk about their friendship, which has spanned three decades.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • family characters
    • Family Traditions
    • Influential People
    • knife throwing
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • reel to reel recording
    • school day memories
    • social beliefs and practices
    • World Series 1987, Spring Training
    SPP000978
    Dorothy Jumper Rodgers and Dale Ann Chimel
    38:52
    Dorothy Jumper Rodgers and Dale Ann Chimel
    zbarr
    January 11, 2005 Sound Portraits Productions

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • WW2
    ATL000235
    Charles Warner and Julie Miccichi
    37:48
    Charles Warner and Julie Miccichi
    aknight
    March 11, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Julie Miccichi, 40, interviews her father Charles “Bob” Warner, 79, about his life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • carving
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family heroes
    • making furniture
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    • Uncle Jim
    ATL000498
    Lucas  Church  and Emily  Kader
    34:13
    Lucas Church and Emily Kader
    libitoye
    September 25, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Emily (30) interviews her husband Lucas (31) about his life family, and memorable moments in his life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Boone, North Carolina
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • fiction writer
    • illness
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • Spouse
    MBX001454
    Stephen Karas and Joseph M. Karas
    01:19:26
    Stephen Karas and Joseph M. Karas
    Nadja Middleton
    June 10, 2006 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Stephen talks about his life in the service but manily about his family.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Infertility
    • Marriage Proposal
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    MBY007381
    Christopher McPherson and Matt Hinrichs
    40:28
    Christopher McPherson and Matt Hinrichs
    Dana Glass
    January 14, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Christopher McPherson (51) and his spouse Matt Hinrichs talk about how they met and their marriage in 2008.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Arizona
    • cats
    • dogs
    • family trips and excursions
    • first dates
    • gay
    • Gay marriage
    • Husband
    • Journalism
    • LGBT
    • Men
    • personal experiences
    • Phoenix
    • Phoenix sun
    MBY003614
    Curtis Gray and Rachel Gray-Castro
    43:25
    Curtis Gray and Rachel Gray-Castro
    Rose Gorman
    February 9, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Curtis Gray tells daughter Rachel Gray-Castro his Mexico stories.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Carnival
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • construction methods
    • Dos Equis/XX (beer)
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • memories of former times
    • mexico
    • Mexico Project 1968
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • San Antonio, TX
    • Siesta Festival
    • social beliefs and practices
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