Following the closure of Camp Jened, Larry Allison went on to serve as the Deputy Director at the New York City Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities until 1991.

Afterward, he worked with the state of New York to make polling places accessible. "I was given a shot at, 'OK, 25 percent of the city's polling sites are accessible; the other 75 percent are not. Your job is to make them accessible," he recalled in Denise's interview. By the time he left the post in 1994, he says, "over 99 percent of all polling sites were accessible."

Then, he says, he turned his attention to off-track betting. "I went from handicapped to handicapping," he explains. "I was the press guy, the government relations guy, the community affairs guy. We did some interesting things," he says adding that all in all, "it was a hard five years."

After his time in off-track betting, Larry taught special education classes in Brooklyn for a couple of years to put his two children through college.

Larry passed away in 2014, and his memories of Camp Jened were always "tremendously romantic," he said to Denise, humorously adding, "I mean, how many women did I marry from that place? At least two."

It was a place where "you worked hard, you partied hard, and it was just a romantic place, and you couldn't wait—it said something about maybe our life in that there was a real thirst and hunger to do something that made you feel that this is something worthwhile, that this is worthwhile, that this is not just a selfish whatever. It has its own reward as a result."

Larry's colorful and vivacious spirit lives on in Crip Camp, now streaming on Netflix.