“If I'm going to get up over this big bum so I can shoot, I'm going to have to jump.”
Former NBA player Kenny Sailors, 87, tells his friend Anne Brande about pioneering the jump shot.
Recorded in Laramie, WY.
Category: Work
“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.
“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. 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.
“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. Click here for more from Historias.
