In the early 1970s, author Studs Terkel interviewed the owners of Duke & Lee's Auto Repair in Geneva, Illinois, for his bestselling book, Working. He went to talk to them about fixing cars. What he found was a story about fathers and sons working together, and the tensions within a family business.

We went back to Duke & Lee's four decades later and found the family business still intact—tensions and all.

That was nine years ago. Recently, we heard that the family, and the auto shop, had gone through some big changes. So we got back in touch.

This week, the story of a family and their business at three moments in history.

When you spend so much of your life moving around, getting to the next chapter, what's it like to find yourself in the last place?

This week, we revisit audio diaries from a retirement home.

Eighty years ago, on July 28, 1945, an Army bomber pilot on a routine ferry mission found himself lost in the fog over Manhattan. A dictation machine in a nearby office happened to capture the sound of the plane as it hit the Empire State Building at the 79th floor.

Fourteen people were killed. Debris from the plane severed the cables of an elevator, which fell 79 stories with a young woman inside. She survived. The crash prompted new legislation that—for the first time—gave citizens the right to sue the federal government.