[Wallingford Jubilee 325 oral history project]
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Wallingford CT : Wallingford Public Library, [1995].

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10 sound cassettes (6 hrs, 22 min.)

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Tape 1, Side A: May Wooding - memories of growing up on South Elm Street 1900-1938; an old quarry; Jones, Greenwood and Ward Builders. Tape 1, Side A & B: Charles Wooding - childhood memories of High Street and North Main Street; children's games; radio shows; ushering at Wilkinson Theatre; George Washington Broadwell, a black Civil War veteran. Tape 2, Side A: Mrs. Uria (Johanna) Fishbein - childhood interest in entertainment; involvement in numerous town celebrations; career as dance instructor. Tape 2, Side A: Leslie Arthur Prowse - Eastern league basketball (Wallingford team played the Boston Celtics); Wallingford in 1927; schools; ice houses; Silver Pond; icemen; trolley cars. Tape 2, Side A&B: George Mushinsky - businesses located on Center Street c. 1940; Mushinsky's Tailor Shop; old bandstand; Choate Rosemary Hall; Dr. and Mrs. George (Clara) St. John. Tape 2, Side B: Barbara Hocking -Yalesville School, ethnic mix of Yalesville; Elizabeth Kirtland, Principal.Tape 3, Side A: Stephen Knight - move to Wallingford in 1986; experiences as Town Council member. Tape 3, Side A: Iris Freeman Papale - move to Wallingford in 1936; memories of shopping, schools, Foote's Ice Cream Parlor; Town Council experiences. Tape 3, Side A&B: G. Randolph Erskine - war rationing attorney during World War II. Tape 4, Side A : Susan Aiello Fresina - WWII Army Nurse Corps, Visiting Nurse Association in Wallingford; Peter John Fresina - Wallingford Fireworks Company, Charles Gammerino Fireworks, M. Backes Sons, WWII Navy experiences taking troops to Japan after Hiroshima; Raymond J. Rys Sr. - Mr. Rys tenure on the Council. Tape 5, Side A : Brian McDermott - Irish immigrant parents; political career as currently the youngest (at 27) State Senator and the second youngest ever. Tape 6, Side A: Lydia Cavallo - Tangers Shirt Factory, ; Wallace's; Gary Wills; dressmaking; growing up in the Italian section of Wallingford. Tape 6, Side B : Virgina Isakson - working as a chemist at American Cyanamid during WWII; commuting from Branford; teaching at Lyman Hall High School. Tape 7, Side A : Ted Moynihan - growing up in Yalesville in 1938; the Corner Store in Yalesville; consolidation of town and borough; Route 68, Church Street; Madeline Erskine - League of Women Voters, Wallingford; change in town government from selectman to mayor. Tape 8, Side A :Betty Matiskella - Jubilee 325 float made by staff members of the Wallingford Public Library; Andre Gallagher - Jones Farm; Wallingford's change from industrial to tourist town. Tape 9, Side A: - Mayor William Dickinson - town government; accomplishments; waste management; Library Board; Land Trust;downtown renovation. Tape 10, Side A: William Neal MacKenzie - his life on North Main Street prior to World War I; father's career as Town Engineer; Connecticut Water Company; magazines for boys.

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Oral history -- Connecticut -- Wallingford.
Wallingford (Conn.) -- Biography.
Wallingford (Conn.) -- Business and industry.
Wallingford (Conn.) -- Celebrations.
Wallingford (Conn.) -- History.
Wallingford (Conn.) -- Politics and government.

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Susan I. Smayda, interviewer.

Participants/Performers

Persons interviewed: May Wooding, Charles Wooding, Johanna Fishbein, Leslie A. Prowse, George Mushinsky, Barbara Hocking, Stephen Knight, Iris Freeman Papale, G. Randolph Erskine, Brian McDermott, William Dickinson, William Neal Mackenzie,Lydia Cavallo, Virginia Isakson, Susan Aiello Fresina, Peter John Fresina,Raymond J. Rys, Sr. Ted Moynihan, Madeline Erskine, Betty Matiskella,Andre Gallagher.

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(1995). [Wallingford Jubilee 325 oral history project]. Wallingford Public Library.

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1995. [Wallingford Jubilee 325 Oral History Project]. Wallingford Public Library.

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[Wallingford Jubilee 325 Oral History Project]. Wallingford Public Library, 1995.

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[Wallingford Jubilee 325 Oral History Project]. Wallingford Public Library, 1995.

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