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“Hank had a girlfriend, Eddie had a girlfriend, I had no girlfriend...”
Ben Finn, 82, and his wife Bernice Finn, 79, remember meeting on a blind date in 1946.
Recorded in New York, NY.
“We had a lot of seventh grade-style dates.”
Andrea St. John (R) remembers her fiancé Kevin Broderick, to his brother Thomas (L). Kevin died from Ewings, a rare form of cancer, in May, 2008.
Recorded in Saranac Lake, NY.
“My nickname is the Human Computer.”
New York City cab driver Oleg Roitman (L) tells fellow cab driver Andrew Vollo (R) about entertaining passengers.
Recorded in New York, NY. Click here for more taxicab driver stories.
“It's an easy job. One street goes uptown, one goes downtown.”
Hyman Bloom (L) tells fellow taxicab driver Andrew Vollo (R), about driving a cab for over 30 years. Hyman Bloom retired in 2007.
Recorded in New York, NY. Click here for more taxicab driver stories.
“I spent a couple of years overcompensating as a father.”
Joseph Natale (L) tells his son Greg (R) about raising three children after the death of his wife.
Recorded in Buffalo, NY.
“He just won't get out of my mind...”
10 year-old Frankie DeVito remembers his grandfather, Bill Steckman, in an interview with his mother Diana. Bill Steckman was killed in the World Trade Center on September 11th.
Recorded in Baldwin, NY. Click here for more 9/11 stories
“The avenue was full of two things: bars and churches.”
Betty Esper talks to her friend Mark Fallon about life in Homestead, before the U.S. Steel mill closed in the 1980s.
Recorded in Homestead, PA.
“We really didn't know what we were doing.”
Brooklyn-born Joe Spano tells his son Joe Jr. about opening a small Italian restaurant in Texas.
Recorded in Abilene, TX.
“We saw the searchlight from the patrol boat...”
Gustavo Mestas talks to his daughter, Ileana, about escaping from Cuba to the U.S. in 1963.
Recorded in Georgetown, DE.
“The evening that I met her, she had 'Babs' written on her sweater.”
Walter Sonneborn and Babette, his wife of 67 years, remember the summer they first met.
Recorded in Saranac Lake, New York.