About This Item

  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0168-accs
  • Summary(00:04) Childhood street games -- (3:17) Butcher’s shop delivery job -- (4:24) Movie days on Sunday -- (5:34) Movie theaters in Brooklyn in the late 1960s -- (8:15) Parents’ background -- (9:47) Beginning of the movie ratings system in 1968 -- (10:43) Working as a candy boy -- (13:21) “First run” movies -- (18:27) Childhood liberties -- (20:43) Collecting movies from the late 1960s and early 1970s -- (23:24) Popular eateries in high school -- (24:18) Family atmosphere at the movie theater -- (29:15) Specialty stores -- (32:27) Listening to transistor radio -- (34:50) Popular TV shows of the time -- (35:28) Assassinations of the 1960s -- (36:49) Disappearance of Brooklyn movie houses -- (38:18) Revival of the Kings Theatre
  • Date2015-01-03
  • Physical Description1 sound file (49 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorLopes, Orlando
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Digital Public Library of AmericaThis item is represented in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
  • Formatsound recording-nonmusical
  • GenreinterviewsMP3
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on January 3, 2015, by Kathy Gerber at Flatbush Library. Collected through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is a partnership with Services for Older Adults and the Brooklyn Collection.
  • PlaceFlatbush (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
  • TitleOral history interview with Orlando Lopes on 2015 January 03.