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Interview with Judge Roger A. Barker
Born in Orlando and a graduate of Orlando Senior High School, Circuit Court Judge Roger Atmar Barker served for 22 years on the 9th Judicial Court in Orlando. Listen to oral history interview below with Judge Roger A. Barker conducted on...
People
Helen Garfinkel Greenspun World Ort Union Vocational Training School Diploma
Holocaust survivor Helen Garfinkel's World Ort Union Vocational Training School Diploma which she earned while living in Displacement Camp. Helen Garfinkel lived at  the Ainring, Germany Displaced Persons Camp from 1946-1949. The  displaced persons  cam...
Events
Sells Brothers' Circus - Orlando 13 November 1895
ABOVE: The November 1, 1895 edition of the South-Florida Sentinel includes the above advertisement for the Sells Brothers' Circus - "The Greatest Show on Earth," and an article written by the newspaper staff. BIGGEST HOLIDAY EVER KNOWN IN THE HISTORY OF...
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Holocaust Survivor Helen Greenspun Visits Chmielnik, Poland
July 25, 2008, Heritage Florida Jewish News (Page 2) special on Holocaust survivor  Helen Greenspun's journey from Orlando, FL to Chmielnik, Poland, her childhood home. In 1942 German Nazis took Helen and her siblings Bela, Nsathan, Regina and Sonia from C...
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Holocaust Commemoration Day Reflections with Lawrence Kolin of Orlando
I come every year because I'm a...survivor. And so I come to pay my respects. And I wouldn't be here today if my family hadn't escaped. So, I'm always very solemn on this day and thankful that some folks in...
Organizations
R. L. Hyer & Company Livery
Messrs. R. L. Hyer & Co., have sold their entire livery business to Menefee & Palmer and W. M. Matthews of the Orlando Transfer Company, Mr. Matthews buying two-thirds and Menefee & Palmer one-third of the outfit. The transfer took...
People
John H. (Jack) Porter
John H. (Jack) Porter was born here in Orlando in 1899.  He discusses the Curry Ford Polo Grounds; Harper's Race Track; wolves; deer; working the citrus groves; Slemon's store; bird hunting; fishing; rattlesnakes. This interview was conducted on March 2, 1...
People
The Musical Life of Sister Mary Catherine Brennan
ABOVE: 1980's photo of Sister Mary Catherine Brennan who was the Music Director at Saint James Cathedral in downtown Orlando for many years. Sister Mary Catherine Brennan served as Director of Music for Saint James Cathedral in downtown Orlando for many...
People
Sheriff Jim Black
Jim Black came to Orlando at the age of 17 in 1908 to work for the Orlando Water and Light Company which was owned by Judge John Moses Cheney.  Subjects he discusses in this interview are:  wife's family - the...
People
Displacement Camp Photo of Holocaust Survivor Helen Greenspun
Photo of Holocaust survivor Helen Garfinkel at  the  Ainring, Germany Displacement  Camp where she lived  from 1946 to 1948. The  displaced  persons  camp  (DP Camp) was a former German Air Force base located  near Freilassing  ten miles from Hitler'...
Organizations
WMFE-TV Channel 24 - Tower Collapse June 8, 1973
ABOVE:  I believe this was given to my husband when he graduated with his Masters Degree from Florida Technological University (now University of Central Florida) and took a job at Ted Johnson Productions in Jacksonville, Florida in 1975.  It was...
People
Carlos Roberts
WATCH as Carlos Roberts, a Washington Park native  as he  shares his fondest and happiest memories of the Washington Park Community. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P9Inedq8D0&feature=youtu.be[/embed]