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| Paul
Samperi describes his father's ownership of the Union
Club and the Continental Hotel during Prohibition and beyond.
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| Evelyn
Smith recalls the contributions of her parents, Leo
and Sarah Smith, to the Civil Rights Movement and trade unionism. |
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| Two former Girl Scouts
and Scout Leaders Lee Raines
(1924- 2006) and Catherine Ruchhovansky remember
the fun they had, and discuss the changing role of women,
opportunities Scouting afforded poor and working class girls,
and the demand for parking in Hoboken which brought about
the sale of the Girl Scout House for a robotic parking garage.
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| Hoboken educator
Amada Ortega remembers how she and her husband Manuel
were welcomed by their neighbors when they arrived from Cuba
in 1948, and recalls her years teaching at the Industrial
School and in the Hoboken Public Schools. |
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| Owner of Giorgio’s Bakery,
Giorgio Castiello,
and one of his daughters, Mary Grace, discuss Mr. Castiello’s
introduction of traditional Italian pastries to Hoboken residents. |
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Paula
Millenthal Cantor
is the great-granddaughter of one of the founders of Congregation
Adas Emuno and an alumna of Stevens Hoboken Academy. |
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| Carol
Ann Wilson discusses the after-school jobs she held
at the Maxwell House Coffee and Lipton Tea factories in Hoboken. |
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| Dorothy McNeil
worked at Club Zanzibar, an African American nightclub at
601 First Street in Hoboken. It featured performances by popular
African- American entertainers throughout the 1960s &
1970s, continuing until 1981 as a neighborhood bar. |
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| Louis LaRusso II(1936-2003) was a Hoboken-born playwright who featured the working class people of his beloved city in over half of the 70 plays he authored. |
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| Charles Kosbab
(1915-2001) was a rigger at the Bethlehem Steel Shipyard in
Hoboken (and its predecessors, W. & A. Fletcher Co. &
United Dry Docks) for 53 years. |
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Jack
Quinby (1930-1995) was a marine engineer at Hoboken’s
Lackawanna Railroad Terminal and worked as a fireman on coal-burning
tugs and ferryboats |
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| Tom Olivieri
a former tenant’s rights activist and city cultural affairs
official, has long been at the center of cultural and civic
activities in Hoboken’s broad-ranging Hispanic community. |
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| Jack O’Brien
has been playing the fife in various Hoboken fife and drum
corps for over 65 years. |
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| Marvin Stemple
is now retired as a second-generation Hoboken pharmacist. |
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| Betty Silvani one of the daughters of Schnackenberg’s Luncheonette, founded by her parents in 1931 on Washington Street. |
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| Albert “Heget”
Hegetschweiler (1914-ca. 1990) was a woodworker at the
Soborg Woodworking Company on Clinton Street, which specialized
in work for the maritime industry. |
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| Judge Charles DeFazio, Jr.
(1905-1996) was an attorney and self-described “political gadfly,” whose recollections include stories about his family’s journey from Italy to Hoboken, the city’s role as one of the ports of embarkation for troops during World War I, Prohibition, the McFeely administration, Mayor Thomas Vezzetti, and the deadly fires of the late 1970s and early 1980s. |
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