• “We had a lot of seventh grade-style dates.”

    Andrea St. John (R) remembers her fiance.

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    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.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “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.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “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.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “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.

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    Recorded in Buffalo, NY

  • “There were people above that were in much more dire need than the rest of us...”

    Steve Giacchi remembers evacuating Tower One of the World Trade Center following the first impact of the plane on September 11, 2001.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Recorded in Saranac Lake, New York