Tag: College Park oral histories

College Park Resident Neil Wittenstein My name is Neil Wittenstein and I was born on Rio Grande Street right across from Lake Silver School. My parents met in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and my grandfather [Peter David Wittenstein] came here around 1912 a ... Read more

College Park Oral History Night with special guest speakers Kathy Anderson and Neil Wittenstein. The College Park Historical Committee hosted their sixth College Park Oral History Night on September 28, 2015. The event was held at the College Park Comm ... Read more

My family moved down here in 1949. We lived briefly on Canton Street. We rented a house that was knocked down for I-4. And while we lived there my parents built the house at 913 Silver Drive so we would visit very often. LISTEN (18:51) College Park re ... Read more

ABOVE: 1950 photo of St. Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park at Christmas. St. Michael's used the storefront at 2502 1/2 Edgewater Drive, currently Top Drawer, in College Park from April 1949 to May 1951. The first service at 2499 N. Westmoreland ... Read more