Stories in the 'Work' category
“A lady puts a cat in my cab...”
New York City cab driver Jerry Tierstein (R) tells fellow cab driver Andrew Vollo (L) about a memorable passenger.
Recorded in New York, NY
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“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
“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
“My mother, of course, spoiled me...”
Tom Domingue, who had polio as a child, tells his wife Dotty, about coming home from the hospital.
Recorded in Georgetown, DE
“I wasn't very nice...”
87-year-old Kay Wang tells her granddaughter, Chen, and her son, Cheng, about her childhood.
Kay Wang died of cancer shortly after this interview. Cheng and Chen recorded a second interview to remember her.
Recorded in New York, NY
“It was a filthy job.”
Mark Sullivan remembers working summers on a tobacco farm in the late 1950s.
Recorded in Hartford, CT
“He made me his little helper...”
90-year-old James Lacy tells his daughter, Jamie Breed, about his father's general store in Comanche County, Texas.
Recorded in Abilene, TX
“Jimmy, tell me how it all started.”
Tim Russert interviews fellow Buffalo-native, James T. Malloy, retired doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Recorded in Washington, DC
