INTERVIEWS WITH CENTENARIANS:

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To see a short video clip (1 minute 17 seconds) taken from a one-hour interview conducted last year with Mr. Ben Levinson of Los Angeles (when he was 103), click on one of the following choices:

• low-resolution version (~ 2 MB); or
• high-resolution version (~5 MB)

By the way, Ben still has an active California Drivers License and celebrated his 104th birthday on the NBC-TV Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Click for a similar clip of an interview with Mrs. Amy Rubison (104 years old in July 1998). Sadly, we have just learned that Mrs. Rubison passed away on April 23, 1999 peacefully in her sleep. "She was lucid to the very end," said her neighbor, Mrs. Lena Coffman. "She was an inspiration to many in our retirement community."