Carino, Theodore: Patricia Carino Pasick collection of Johnson Street Filipino-American oral histories: NYU Special Collections Finding Aids

Scope and Contents

In the interview, Carino discusses his father, a Filipino who worked for the U.S. Navy and immigrated to the United States, growing up in Philadelphia and the Downtown Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn, street games he played growing up, juvenile gangs in Brooklyn, the multi-ethnic composition of working class neighborhoods, and his time in Brooklyn schools (PS 5 and Erasmus Hall High School). The interview was conducted by Carino's daughter, Patricia Carino Pasick, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Carino's daughter-in-law, Caroline Carino, was also in attendance during the interview and occasionally interjects.

Please note that the transcript includes only the first forty minutes of the interview. In the remaining portion of the interview, Carino further discusses growing up in Philadelphia.

Biographical note

Theodore Carino was born in 1920 in Brooklyn to a Filipino father (from Bauan, Batanaas) and a mother of Norwegian-German descent. As a young boy his family lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and then moved back to Brooklyn. He lived on Johnson Street in the Downtown Brooklyn neighborhood, Emerson Place in the neighborhood of Clinton Hill, and later moved to the neighborhood of Flatbush. He attended PS 5, Erasmus Hall High School, and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. After attending college for several years, he joined the Army Air Corps. Carino then had a long career as an engineer in the defense and aerospace industry, working for industry leaders such as Sperry Rand and Lear Jet. He was briefly married to Alice (Tomkins) Lamont, with whom he had one daughter, Janet Stephanie (Carino) Seibel. He met his second wife, Imogene "Jean" Rainey while he was stationed in Tennessee with the Army Air Corps. They lived in Brooklyn, then Queens, West Islip (Long Island), Grand Rapids (Michigan), and finally Florida, where they retired. They had three children, Patricia, Peter, and Phillip.

Subjects

Organizations

Floyd Bennett Field (New York, N.Y.); United States. Navy

People

Carino, Imogene; Carino, Theodore; Pasick, Patricia

Topics

Places

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); Johnson Street (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.); Philadelphia (Pa.)

Carino, Theodore, 2007 June