Year: 2015
People
Oral History Interview with Martin Inventor David L. Emmons
ABOVE: Dr. James Crouch, right, and David Emmons standing in front of the Elevated Site System at Martin Marietta in Orlando.
My name is David Leach Emmons and I was born and raised in Wyoming and I lived in Arkansas for...
Events
History of the Pine Castle Fire Department 1948-1981
In 1947, a group of local men formed the Pine Castle Volunteer Fire Department. They purchased a lot at 1106 East Wallace Street and began building a fire station. While their building was under construction, they rented the newly built...
People
Dr. Alzo Jackson Reddick, Oral History Interview
Alzo Jackson Reddick, born November 15, 1937 in Alturas, Florida which is a little fruit community outside of Bartow. Attended Union Academy in Bartow, Florida and moved to Orlando during the time I was in the first grade. So I've...
Organizations
Showalter Flying Service
Listen as Showalter Flying Service owners Bob and Kim Showalter share the history of the aviation company and our community in this oral history interview at Showalter Flying Service at Orlando Executive Airport on January 14, 2015.
LISTEN Part I (18:42)
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People
Donald Hickman: Oral History Interview with the Director of the Pershing Missile Project
ABOVE: Donald Hickman, left, presents a Pershing model to Brigadier General William E. Sweet Pershing Commander in Europe. VIEW Article
The trade that President Reagan made was he'd take Pershing II's out of Europe if they would decommission all the...
People
WWII Veteran Charlie Hayes: a Pine Castle Oral History
Charlie Hayes, I am from Pine Castle, Florida. I was born and raised here.
What was a typical Sunday like for you growing up?
Not getting caught in mischief. If you had energy to burn you had to expel it which mostly...
Topics
Orlando Newspapers
The history of newspapers in Orlando features prominently in books written about the history of Orlando and Orange County by William Fremont Blackman and E. H. Gore.
Blackman's book History of Orange County Florida written in 1925, 22 years prior to...
Topics
Oral History Interview with Pano John Camichos
My name is Pano John Camichos. I was born in Orlando on March 3, 1933. My name as it appears on the birth certificate is PANOYOTIS. However, I think because of the accents of my father at the time I...
People
Oral History Interview with James Buchan
In AIAA and IEEE I would tell a person that you're going to give a paper next - six months from now at this conference... And in the last strategic conference, two of my fellows gave the best paper there....
People
Jean Grafton
Longtime Ocoee resident Jean Grafton talks about growing up in Central Florida on April 1, 2015 at West Oaks Library in Ocoee.
Jean Grafton Interview part 1
Jean Grafton Interview part 2
People
Orlando's First Full-time City Surveyor: Donald R. Brant
I'm Donald R. Brant from Orlando, Florida. We moved here from Pittsburgh to Orlando in 1936. In 1936 that was during the Depression Days and my mother had a health problem when we lived in Pittsburgh and the doctor told...