{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/057cr5nq6n/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Weiller, Margaret Strauss (1995)"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["1995-09-20 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eMargaret Strauss Weiller interviewed by Sharon Greenblatt on September 20, 1995 and December 13, 1995 in Atlanta, Georgia. \u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Weiller was born in Atlanta, Georgia to Oscar Richard Strauss Jr. and Margaret “Peggy” Hirsch Strauss on November 10, 1933 at Emory University Hospital.  She was a part of the fourth generation of her family to live in Atlanta.  Her grandparents helped found the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, now known as the Temple and are buried at Oakland Cemetery. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret is related to the Rich family of Rich’s department store fame.  Her family life was closely associated with the store for a number of years.  Her father worked there and the family took part in company events.  Her father later started his own furniture manufacturing business before moving to Florida to represent another furniture company.  Her family was dedicated to the Atlanta community as a whole and the Jewish community, volunteering or donating to Grady and other hospitals, the Red Cross, as well as schools.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1952 Margaret married William (Bill) Weiller.  After spending a year in Baltimore, Maryland while he was in the Air Force during the Korean War they returned to Atlanta, where Bill worked with her father at his company.  Margaret and Bill had three daughters: Deborah (Bock), Margo (Edlin) and Beth (Arogeti).  During this time, Margaret, in conjunction with her sister-in-law who was a member of Ahavath Achim, became more observant than she had been growing up in a secular family.  After her children were grown, Margaret returned to work.  She eventually became the Women’s Division Director at the Atlanta Jewish Federation, where she worked for 17 years before retiring.  After that she continued to volunteer in many Jewish and civic organizations while spending time with her husband, children, and nine grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eMargaret begins by discussing her family and her childhood in Atlanta.  Her family was Reform and belonged to the Temple, but was not religiously observant.  The Strausses were prominent in not only the German-Jewish community, but in Atlanta society as a whole as they were related to the Rich’s of the famed department store.  Her great-grandfather was Emanuel Rich, who was one of three brothers who founded the store.  She mentions the various prominent families with which her family was friends, including the Elsases, Ashers, Frohsins, and various members of the Rich family.  She reminisces about how Rich’s played a large role in her life as her father worked there for a number of years.  The family was involved with its operation and went to a number of its ceremonies and public functions, including the lighting of the Great Tree, riding the Pink Pig, and other events.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret also recollects her young adult life in Atlanta, including spending time on a farm in what is now Dunwoody, the dating scene while in high school, meeting her future husband (Bill), attending University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, race relations, Jewish clubs,  antisemitism, and Alfred Uhry, who was a friend of her brother’s.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret talks about her professional career, including starting a business with Lois Blonder called Culture Links that introduced women to a cultural event or place once a month. She also recounts her time working at the Federation as Women’s Division Director (17 years) which entailed community outreach and mission trips, and her relationships with co-workers.  She details her volunteer work and her immediate family and their involvement in the community.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28393"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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This is Tape 1, Side 1.\n\nWe're going to start off talking today. Let's just get a little bit of\nbackground. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Can you tell me your birthday and where you were born first of all?\n\nWEILLER: My birthday is November 10, 1933.\n\nGREENBLATT: Where were you born?\n\nWEILLER: In Atlanta at Emory University.\n\nGREENBLATT: Was it called Emory University Hospital then?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: 1933. That makes you . . . ?\n\nWEILLER: . . . almost 62.\n\nGREENBLATT: . . . almost 62, a 'youngie.' You're the youngest person that I've interviewed.\n\nWEILLER: I wondered why they were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"doing it. I thought, maybe I was older than I am.\n\nGREENBLATT: No, it has nothing to do with age, actually. There is a list.\n\nWEILLER: I have it here.\n\nGREENBLATT: I won't even tell you that then. I guess I don't need to ask you\nyour religious background.\n\nWEILLER: You can. I came from a very Reform background. I grew up at the Temple.\n\nThat's how that was.\n\nGREENBLATT: Do you still consider yourself Reform?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: Can you give me your parents' names and their birth place? If they\nare funny names, can you spell them?\n\nWEILLER: My mother's name was Margaret, although she was called 'Peggy' Hirsch.\nH-I-R-S-C-H . . . Strauss . . . S-T-R-A-U-S-S. She was born in Atlanta.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: She was born in Atlanta?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: What year was she born, do you know?\n\nWEILLER: Yes, 1910. Born on Washington Street. No, sorry. Capitol Avenue.\n\nGREENBLATT: She moved to Washington Street?\n\nWEILLER: No, my dad was born on Washington Street.\n\nGREENBLATT: What's your dad's name?\n\nWEILLER: Oscar . . . O-S-C-A-R . . . Richard ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Strauss, Jr.\n\nGREENBLATT: Where was he born?\n\nWEILLER: In Atlanta on Washington Street.\n\nGREENBLATT: Do you know the year?\n\nWEILLER: 1908.\n\nGREENBLATT: Are they still alive?\n\nWEILLER: No.\n\nGREENBLATT: What about your immediate family?\n\nWEILLER: I've been married almost 43 years to . . .\n\nGREENBLATT: . . . the same person?\n\nWEILLER: . . . yes. 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He came to Georgia Tech [Georgia Institute of\nTechnology--Atlanta, Georgia] in 1947.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: And children?\n\nWEILLER: I have three daughters. Do you want their names?\n\nGREENBLATT: Please.\n\nWEILLER: Deborah. You want ages or just names at this point? Or do you want\ntheir birth years?\n\nGREENBLATT: Why don't you just give me their ages?\n\nWEILLER: Forty.\n\nGREENBLATT: What's Deborah's last name? Still Weiller?\n\nWEILLER: No, not now. It was. 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She's 39.\n\nGREENBLATT: Who is she married to?\n\nWEILLER: Shiel Edlin.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[general discussion]\n\nWEILLER: They are three brothers.\n\nGREENBLATT: He's one of the three? He's married to Karen, one of your\nson-in-law's brothers?\n\nWEILLER: Yes. Andy's the youngest. Shiel is the oldest.\n\nGREENBLATT: Andy is who Karen is married to?\n\nWEILLER: Right. Todd is in between.\n\nGREENBLATT: Margo Edlin.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: You've got Edlin. She's 39. Beth, who is 37. She's married to Joel\nArogeti. A-R-O-G-E-T-I.\n\nGREENBLATT: Lucky.\n\nWEILLER: Aren't I lucky? Three Atlanta boys.\n\nGREENBLATT: Beth Weiller. I thought she was my age. I should know her.\n\nWEILLER: You probably ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do. You just don't realize it.\n\nGREENBLATT: Just a little bit older. Any grandchildren?\n\nWEILLER: Nine.\n\nGREENBLATT: Wow! Lucky you. What are their names?\n\nWEILLER: You really want all of them?\n\nGREENBLATT: Yes.\n\nWEILLER: Aaron . . . A-A-R-O-N . . . 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I went to the University of Michigan [Ann Arbor, Michigan].\n\nGREENBLATT: So you all met . . . ?\n\nWEILLER: . . . before. He's five years older than I am. We met while I was in\nhigh school.\n\nGREENBLATT: We'll come back to that story. Where did you go to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"high school?\n\nWEILLER: I went to North Avenue Presbyterian [Church Day] School. Bet you didn't\nknow that one.\n\nGREENBLATT: No. I just learned about all this Boys' and Girls' High,' North\nAvenue Presbyterian . . .\n\nWEILLER: It was not high school. It was just school, because it went from\nkindergarten through 12.\n\nGREENBLATT: Did you go to preschool here in Atlanta ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before then?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: Where did you go?\n\nWEILLER: It was Miss Matthews' on Oakdale Road.\n\nGREENBLATT: Miss Matthews. Is that the name of a school?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: Over in Virginia Highlands, that area?\n\nWEILLER: Yes. When I was growing up, it was 'Highland Virginia.'\n\nGREENBLATT: I like that. Did you have Miss Matthews?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: Sure, of course. I think there was only one teacher.\n\nGREENBLATT: Only one class?\n\nWEILLER: No, I think there was more than one class, but . . .\n\nGREENBLATT: . . . she ran from class to class?\n\nWEILLER: I don't remember that much, actually. I do have my certificate, though.\nIt's in the [Breman] Jewish Museum Archives.\n\nGREENBLATT: When did you donate stuff to them?\n\nWEILLER: Probably about nine years ago.\n\nGREENBLATT: The Jewish Archives, where? Here or in . . .\n\nWEILLER: Here. 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It\nwill be part of that.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: Did you donate pictures and stuff?\n\nWEILLER: Yes, I did.\n\nGREENBLATT: Let's go back now. Tell me a little bit about your parents and how\nthey came to Atlanta. They were born here. What about their parents?\n\nWEILLER: My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"maternal grandmother was born in Savannah [Georgia]. My maternal\ngrandfather was born in Richmond [Virginia]. They married and moved here. My\ngrandfather was already living here. He was in the box business. Corrugated\nboxes. My father's parents . . . my grandfather was born in Austria. My\ngrandmother was born in Atlanta.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: How did they meet?\n\nWEILLER: Actually, I'm not sure how they met, but he came to Atlanta with his\nolder brother.\n\nGREENBLATT: He came to Atlanta from Austria and met your grandmother in Atlanta.\nAnd they stayed in Atlanta?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: That's how you all ended up here?\n\nWEILLER: My maternal grandparents were here, too. They weren't born in Atlanta.\n\nGREENBLATT: Savannah and Richmond.\n\nWEILLER: They moved here, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: They came to Atlanta. People say that it's so weird when they meet a\nnative Atlantan. They're so surprised to hear there's really a lot of us walking around.\n\nWEILLER: Absolutely. As a matter of fact, my grandmother--my father's mother's\nparents--are buried at Oakland Cemetery. I really go back four generations, even\nthough they weren't born here.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: You said that your grandfather was in the box business? What did he do?\n\nWEILLER: Yes. He owned the company. I think it was called Empire Box. I'm not\npositive about that, but I can look it up. I think that was the name of it. My\nother grandfather had a furniture company.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: A furniture company here in Atlanta?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: What's the name of it? Do you know?\n\nWEILLER: I don't remember at this point.\n\nGREENBLATT: Do you remember where it was located in Atlanta?\n\nWEILLER: No, but the archivist knows all this. I can look it up and let you know\nnext time.\n\nGREENBLATT: That's okay. Did you know your grandparents pretty well when you\nwere little?\n\nWEILLER: Yes. My grandfather on my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dad's side died when I was six. My other\ngrandparents lived for a long time. I knew them very well.\n\nGREENBLATT: Did you all celebrate holidays and everything together?\n\nWEILLER: We did not do much celebrating of Jewish holidays. As I said, we came\nfrom the Temple and it was ultra-Reform. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They moved very near us, in\nfact on the same street. When my grandfather died when I was six, we moved into\nmy grandmother's house which was just down the street.\n\nGREENBLATT: What street was that?\n\nWEILLER: Fairview Road.\n\nGREENBLATT: Where is that near?\n\nWEILLER: It's in Druid Hills. It runs off of Moreland [Avenue] and it ends up at\nPonce [de Leon Avenue] right across from where Lullwater [Road] starts. 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I remember during the war [World War II], she was in the Red Cross.\nShe did all kinds of things for them.\n\nGREENBLATT: What did she ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do? Did you ever go with her?\n\nWEILLER: No. It was . . .\n\nGREENBLATT: You were pretty young.\n\nWEILLER: Yes. Not that young. But she always was doing what they called then\n'charity work.'\n\nGREENBLATT: Is that where you got it from? Followed in her footsteps?\n\nWEILLER: Right, and my kids are the same way. I'm so glad.\n\nGREENBLATT: You must have passed that on pretty well then.\n\nWEILLER: I must have.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: There are so many people who don't do anything.\n\nWEILLER: I know. I don't understand it. I really don't. Later when my dad\nstarted a business, she also worked for him.\n\nGREENBLATT: What kind of business?\n\nWEILLER: I don't think I mentioned this before. My great-grandfather on my\nmaternal grandmother's side was one of the three Rich brothers who ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"started\nRich's. My dad always worked for Rich's until he was about 40 or 45 maybe. Then\nhe started a furniture business. That's when my mother worked.\n\nGREENBLATT: What kind of furniture business did they have?\n\nWEILLER: Occasional tables. Modern.\n\nGREENBLATT: So ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your father was related to the Rich's of Rich's Department Store?\nTell me once again how they are related.\n\nWEILLER: My grandmother was a Rich. In other words, her father, Emanuel Rich, is\none of the three Rich brothers. That's the one that's Gary.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: I didn't realize it was started by three brothers. I knew it was the\nRich's family. Your grandmother was the daughter . . . ?\n\nWEILLER: . . . of Emanuel.\n\nGREENBLATT: Did you get a discount at Rich's?\n\nWEILLER: Yes. We can't figure out why, but we do. There are not very many of us left.\n\nGREENBLATT: Now that it's sold, seems like it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: We're not arguing.\n\nGREENBLATT: I don't blame you. Your father worked in Rich's in some capacity\nuntil he opened his own furniture store.\n\nWEILLER: Correct.\n\nGREENBLATT: Would you know where his furniture store was?\n\nWEILLER: Yes. It was on Howell Mill Road, right near the [Atlanta] Water Works.\nNot a store, a manufacturing company. He manufactured tables.\n\nGREENBLATT: Did he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like doing that?\n\nWEILLER: Yes, he did.\n\nGREENBLATT: Did they do furniture in Rich's at that point?\n\nWEILLER: Yes. In fact, when he worked there, he did everything at Rich's. He\nstarted in advertising. In fact, he started the Atlanta Ad Club.\n\nGREENBLATT: What is the Atlanta Ad Club?\n\nWEILLER: Since I'm not in advertising, I don't know. 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Then we'd go\naround the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whole store. We could have everything we wanted. We'd get to my\ndaddy's office and he would ring it up the next day. It was fun.\n\nGREENBLATT: It sounds great.\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: Where was Rich's? That was the one downtown?\n\nWEILLER: Yes. That was the only one.\n\nGREENBLATT: The only one? Let's get back. 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I guess they didn't have\nweddings in hotels then.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: You have pictures from when they got married?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: They got married at that church on Peachtree in 1930. How many\nbrothers and sisters do you have?\n\nWEILLER: I have one brother.\n\nGREENBLATT: What's his name?\n\nWEILLER: Oscar Richard Strauss III.\n\nGREENBLATT: I thought that Jews didn't name after . . .\n\nWEILLER: . . . this is a very prevalent [thing] with German Jews . . . Reform.\n\nGREENBLATT: I think the Sephardics do, too.\n\nWEILLER: Yes, they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do.\n\nGREENBLATT: Oscar Richard III. Does he still live in Atlanta?\n\nWEILLER: No. He lives on the West Coast.\n\nGREENBLATT: Where does he live? In California?\n\nWEILLER: The State of Washington.\n\nGREENBLATT: Are you all close?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: Does he have kids?\n\nWEILLER: He has two kids here.\n\nGREENBLATT: Is one of them Hannah?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: Do you see them a lot?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: There was the two of you all. 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When I\ncame back to Atlanta, it was the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"first year that all the schools were changed,\nwhen Girls' High and Boys' High became co-ed. My parents just felt like there\nwas a lot of turmoil in the schools and they wanted me to go to a private\nschool. I had cousins that had also gone there. It was a girls' school. Very\nold-fashioned, but we learned a lot. It was a very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good school. They merged with\nWashington Seminary which is another girls' school. That became Westminster\nabout three years after I graduated, in 1951.\n\nGREENBLATT: Were there any other Jewish children at school?\n\nWEILLER: Very few.\n\nGREENBLATT: How did that feel?\n\nWEILLER: It felt ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not great all the time, but I had a lot of wonderful friends.\nThey accepted me, but it was hard. I remember the year that everybody went into\na sorority. They don't have them now, but they had sororities in high school.\nThat was very hard because, of course, I couldn't be asked into that.\n\nGREENBLATT: How terrible.\n\nWEILLER: Right. But actually I would say it was definitely a positive\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"experience. I was very popular and I did a lot of things in school . . .\npresident of this . . . and I just did everything.\n\nGREENBLATT: Did you ever feel antisemitism?\n\nWEILLER: Oh yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: Do you remember any of those incidents?\n\nWEILLER: The one year when everybody was in sorority that was very hurtful.\n\nGREENBLATT: Did they just tell you?\n\nWEILLER: No. You knew it.\n\nGREENBLATT: You just knew?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: Yes. Then there were times when the teacher would . . . we had to take\nBible. Actually, I learned a lot about Judaism because we studied the Old\nTestament a lot. But I also studied the New Testament. At that time in my life\nit didn't bother me that much. It would now.\n\nGREENBLATT: How would you feel if one of your grandkids was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going to . . . I\ndon't know if they have that any more. Even Westminster has Jewish children now.\n\nWEILLER: They always have, but I wouldn't like it. I'm very thankful I have four\nof my grandchildren at the Epstein School. I couldn't ask for anything more.\n\nGREENBLATT: You said you were involved with the newspaper and president of . . . ?\n\nWEILLER: . . . like student council, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"those kinds of things.\n\nGREENBLATT: What about the dating scene back in high school?\n\nWEILLER: I did date very few non-Jewish boys, but mostly I dated Jewish boys.\n\nGREENBLATT: Where did you meet them?\n\nWEILLER: Emory [University--Atlanta, Georgia] and [Georgia] Tech were all boys,\nso it was a dream situation for Atlanta girls. Believe me.\n\nGREENBLATT: I have heard other people say that.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: I can remember at age 13, I went to a party at the AEPi [Alpha Epsilon\nPi] house at Emory. I can't believe it. I would never let my kids do that, I can\nassure you. But it was just the way it was, because when you graduated from high\nschool, the girls left town. There was no one for them to date except high\nschool kids. So that's what we did.\n\nGREENBLATT: What do you mean, the girls left town?\n\nWEILLER: When you graduated from high school, they all left. All that were left\nin Atlanta were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"girls that had not finished high school. So that's who they dated.\n\nGREENBLATT: Where did all the girls go?\n\nWEILLER: They went away to college.\n\nGREENBLATT: Because there were no girls' colleges in Atlanta?\n\nWEILLER: They are actually, but they didn't go.\n\nGREENBLATT: They didn't seek those people?\n\nWEILLER: No. Nurses sometimes, but not then. But it was heaven, it really was. I\ndated at Tech, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Emory, and [University of] Georgia [Athens, Georgia]. I think\nthat's why I got married so young, because I had dated for so long.\n\nGREENBLATT: BBG [B'nai B'rith Girls], did you all have that? Was that popular?\n\nWEILLER: Yes, it was popular, but the Temple girls were not really invited to\nthat. 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That was really\nhard for her to leave, particularly since I had children by then.\n\nGREENBLATT: Was your brother still in Atlanta at that point, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or had he already moved?\n\nWEILLER: No, he did not move until about five or six years ago. He and his wife\nlived here until they divorced, and then he moved. I think he's been gone about\nsix years.\n\nGREENBLATT: What about the parks? 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My grandfather's\nsister lived next door, and beyond him my grandmother's brother lived.\n\nGREENBLATT: That's a real extended family, all right there.\n\nWEILLER: It was very nice.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: You said you didn't do a lot with Jewish holidays, but did you spend\na lot of. . .\n\nWEILLER: . . . other kinds of holidays. Yes, we did.\n\nGREENBLATT: Hang on. I just want to check the time.\n\nGREENBLATT: This is Side 2, Tape 1. I'm interviewing Margaret Wheeler.\n\nWEILLER: Weiller.\n\nGREENBLATT: As soon as I said it, I turned around and looked at you. Today is\nSeptember 20 [1995]. We were just talking about old Atlanta. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But\nhe ran in the same crowd. He belonged to the Standard Club and the Temple, so we\nalways knew one another.\n\nGREENBLATT: You all are about the same age? I thought he was older.\n\nWEILLER: He's older. A little.\n\nGREENBLATT: You hung out with older boys.\n\nWEILLER: Right.\n\nGREENBLATT: What did you do at the Standard Club? 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The Standard Club was in the same block, but across\nthe street.\n\nGREENBLATT: What did you do when you used to hang out at the Standard Club?\n\nWEILLER: In the summer we went swimming.\n\nGREENBLATT: You could swim in that pool?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: Jewish people didn't have polio?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: Yes, they did actually. No, there were times when we couldn't. They\nwould close the pool. But we played tennis and just sat around flirting, and\nwhatever. We would go there every Saturday night after we went to a movie, or\nwhatever we did.\n\nGREENBLATT: Like on your dates, or your groups of friends?\n\nWEILLER: Yes, dates. 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Then over ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the Fourth of July, I think we all went to\nBirmingham for the same kind of thing. That was called 'Jubilee.' There was\nanother one in Memphis [Tennessee] or Mobile [Alabama], or somewhere. That's the\nway you got to know people from all over the Southeast. Really fun.\n\nGREENBLATT: During the Ballyhoo, it didn't matter if you were in BBG or sorority\nor Temple or . . .\n\nWEILLER: No, it did. 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He was my brother's age, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so he was friendly with\nmy brother. His sister and I are still friends. He is writing a play to open at\nthe Alliance Theatre during the Olympics. The name of it is [The Last Night of] Ballyhoo.\n\nGREENBLATT: How exciting. Has he called on all his old friends to recount\nmemories? Did he call on you?\n\nWEILLER: No, he has a good memory and what he doesn't remember, he makes up.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He's very talented.\n\nGREENBLATT: Yes, and very creative. Definitely. Do you know that house where\nthey . . .\n\nWEILLER: . . . filmed?\n\nGREENBLATT: . . . are you familiar with that house?\n\nWEILLER: Yes. A friend of mine lived there.\n\nGREENBLATT: Did you go to the opening or anything?\n\nWEILLER: No.\n\nGREENBLATT: Is your brother older or younger than you?\n\nWEILLER: He's three years younger.\n\nGREENBLATT: Alfred Uhry is his age?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: I think I knew he was from Atlanta, but I don't think I ever put it\ntogether. What other famous people do you know? Sam Massell . . .\n\nWEILLER: [unintelligible.]\n\nGREENBLATT: Old Atlantan?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: There are people who have definitely made an impact on Atlanta. Rich's Department Store.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[general discussion]\n\nGREENBLATT: Atlanta has changed a lot in 30 years, but I can only imagine.\n\nWEILLER: It's just a different kind of city. It's a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"big, big city.\n\nGREENBLATT: You never really lived anywhere else since you all went to Baltimore\nand came back?\n\nWEILLER: No, just Jacksonville and Baltimore. Pretty boring, huh?\n\nGREENBLATT: No, I wasn't thinking that.\n\nWEILLER: No. I think it's great to move around, but I'm glad that I'm here,\nparticularly with my kids.\n\nGREENBLATT: Especially for now.\n\nWEILLER: I'm so lucky to have everyone here.\n\nGREENBLATT: That's very unusual.\n\nWEILLER: They all live right around me. Debi lives a half a block from me.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: That's great. Where did you go to camp? You said something about\nsummer camp.\n\nWEILLER: I went to Maine for eight weeks, the same camp my mother went and all\nmy aunts.\n\nGREENBLATT: What was the name of it?\n\nWEILLER: Tripp Lake Camp. Tripp . . . T-R-I-P-P . . . Lake Camp. It's in Poland,\nMaine. It was the best time of my life.\n\nGREENBLATT: Poland, Maine?\n\nWEILLER: P-O-L-A-N-D, as in the country. Maine has a lot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"countries as the\nnames of cities. I don't know why, but they do. It's just a fabulous place.\n\nGREENBLATT: Did a lot of your friends go there?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: So a lot of Jewish kids went?\n\nWEILLER: It was a Jewish camp. It wasn't a religious camp, but all the kids were Jewish.\n\nGREENBLATT: Kind of like [Camp] Barney [Medintz]?\n\nWEILLER: No. They have religious things there. This had nothing.\n\nGREENBLATT: Nothing? But all the kids were Jewish?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: They didn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"serve ham, did they?\n\nWEILLER: Yes, they did. That was the way we were all brought up. Not now, but\nthat's the way we did it.\n\nGREENBLATT: Did you go there for years?\n\nWEILLER: Five.\n\nGREENBLATT: Was it an all-girls camp?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: Was there a boys' camp that matched it?\n\nWEILLER: No. It was unusual. Most of them did, but this one kept to women ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"only.\nThere are still Atlanta girls that go there. Most people don't want their kids\nto go away for eight weeks.\n\nGREENBLATT: So far. That's very far.\n\nWEILLER: Yes. It was fun, though. I took the train.\n\nGREENBLATT: From Atlanta to Maine?\n\nWEILLER: From Atlanta to New York. Then they had a special train that went from\nNew York.\n\nGREENBLATT: I bet that was beautiful.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: It was gorgeous. It really was.\n\nGREENBLATT: Where did the train leave Atlanta?\n\nWEILLER: Brookwood [Station]. I don't think it left from downtown. I think it\nleft from Brookwood. I don't remember well. There were two stations downtown.\nOne was Union and one was something else.\n\nGREENBLATT: The Union Station? Where was that?\n\nWEILLER: Near where Rich's is downtown. It was a beautiful station. They should\nnever have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"torn it down. Just gorgeous. There was another one, too. I can't\nremember the name of it. Then there was Brookwood right near the [Jewish]\nCommunity Center.\n\nGREENBLATT: Yes, that's the one that I've seen.\n\nWEILLER: That's the only one left.\n\nGREENBLATT: I know you had a car when you were 16. Did you take buses before that?\n\nWEILLER: Yes, we did. Because we lived near Ponce [de Leon Avenue]. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Absolutely. They all ended up on Virginia Avenue. You know where\nthat hill is going down to Monroe [Drive]? That was the trolley barn, right\nacross from Grady Stadium.\n\nGREENBLATT: The trolley would take you anywhere you needed to go?\n\nWEILLER: No, it was on the tracks.\n\nGREENBLATT: I know that, but I mean . . .\n\nWEILLER: Sure. 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Any outstanding thoughts that you can really\nremember? Anything about the war?\n\nWEILLER: Before my dad went into war, he was the regional manager for OPA, which\nwas the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Office of Price Administration. They were the ones that decided what was\ngoing to be rationed. Of course, he wasn't able to tell anybody what was going\nto be rationed next because people would hoard it. I never will forget my\ngrandmother and how furious she was because he did not tell her that sugar was\ngoing to be rationed. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That\norganization brought young German-Jewish boys to Atlanta and placed them on\nfarms so that they would learn a livelihood so they could come to this country,\nbe able to work and they'd be out of Germany.\n\nGREENBLATT: How old were the boys he brought over? D you know?\n\nWEILLER: I imagine they were in their teens. I'm pretty sure. 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You said that she was always\nvolunteering and stuff.\n\nWEILLER: She did.\n\nGREENBLATT: What kind of stuff did she do?\n\nWEILLER: She and a friend of hers, Arlene Frohsin, started a women's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"service\ngroup. It was called the Service Guild and it's still in existence. They did all\nkinds of things from a clinic at Grady [Hospital] for indigent mothers and just\nall kinds of things like that, not necessarily in the Jewish community, but they\nwere all Jewish women that did it.\n\nGREENBLATT: All the people she rallied with?\n\nWEILLER: Yes. 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She really was.\n\nGREENBLATT: You think she'd be looking down thinking proud things?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: Yes. I think she is looking down. I'm just sad she didn't get to see my\ngrandchildren and children. She died when she was very young. She was 50.\n\nGREENBLATT: I'm sorry. That is young.\n\nWEILLER: She's been gone a long time. I'm sure she was an inspiration. All of\nthe women, all of her friends, did things. It was not like she was unusual. They\nall . . .\n\nGREENBLATT: . . . that's what they did.\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: Did any of them ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"work?\n\nWEILLER: No, not at all. I don't know any one that worked.\n\nGREENBLATT: You said you were working in . . .\n\nWEILLER: . . . Baltimore . . .\n\nGREENBLATT: You were the only one who was working. When you came back to Atlanta\n. . .\n\nWEILLER: When I came back . . .\n\nGREENBLATT: . . . was that the same?\n\nWEILLER: Yes. Then, after I had Debi I didn't work again until 1970. I went back\nto work part-time at the Atlanta Jewish Federation.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: That's a long time, though. That's still 25 years.\n\nWEILLER: I worked there 17 years. I started as sort of a part-time flunky for\nMarilyn Shubin. I ended up being the Director of the Women's Division. 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I loved it.\n\nGREENBLATT: For somebody who is Reform, was that kind of . . .\n\nWEILLER: Actually, there were two things that made me really want to be \"more\nJewish,\" because I really don't feel like I got a good Jewish background ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at all.\nI learned a lot at the Federation, but I also have a sister-in-law who taught me\nso much about how to run a Jewish home. It was because of her that I started to\nbe Jewish. I was Jewish but . . .\n\nGREENBLATT: . . . you wanted to practice.\n\nWEILLER: Right. 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Margo ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"belongs to the AA. Beth belongs\nto Or VeShalom.\n\nGREENBLATT: Kind of runs the gamut.\n\nWEILLER: Yes, absolutely. I'm proud of them, because that's exactly what I had\nhoped. Bill is not at all. He is irreligious. 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Then\neach ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"trip is a different amount. It depends on whether we go out of town or in town.\n\nGREENBLATT: What kind of stuff have you done, culturally?\n\nWEILLER: We do a lot with artists. We go to their studios. We've been all over\nthe state.\n\nGREENBLATT: Once a month?\n\nWEILLER: Once a month. We go to museums or we go to people's homes. We've had\narchitects' days where they take us to their favorite house that they've\ndesigned, or an interior designer's house. 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We have done some out-of-town trips, like to Washington [D.C.],\nChicago [Illinois], Philadelphia [Pennsylvania], ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and we have invited men to go\non those. Right now, we're not doing any out-of-town trips.\n\nGREENBLATT: They're only the invited guests.\n\nWEILLER: Yes. Otherwise my time is definitely taken up with volunteering.\n\nGREENBLATT: What else are you doing?\n\nWEILLER: I've been chair of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum for. I was\nfor three years, four years. 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He is still working.\n\nGREENBLATT: He's an engineer?\n\nWEILLER: Actually, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"no. He's a salesman. He's never really done engineering,\nalthough what he sells, he uses a lot of his engineering background.\n\nGREENBLATT: What does he sell?\n\nWEILLER: He sells plastics and paper. He's with Fulton Paper Company. He designs\na lot of things for his customers, different kinds of napkins or boxes. All\nkinds of things like that. 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It was hard, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but I loved it.\n\nGREENBLATT: I've been thinking about doing one.\n\nWEILLER: You should. It's the best. In fact, Debi just got back. Debi and David\njust got back. They didn't go to Israel, but they went on a mission.\n\nGREENBLATT: Where did they go?\n\nWEILLER: They went to St. Petersburg [Russia], Poland, and Copenhagen [Denmark].\nIt was great. They loved it.\n\nGREENBLATT: That sounds marvelous.\n\nWEILLER: Yes. It was really outstanding. I love Israel. It's a neat place.\n\nGREENBLATT: What do you see yourself ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"doing in the next 10 years?\n\nWEILLER: Probably the same thing.\n\nGREENBLATT: Volunteering and keeping busy?\n\nWEILLER: Yes, I do. You know, it's very rewarding. I've gotten a lot out of it,\na lot more out of it than I put into it. I'm supposed to be working for the\nOlympics, but they don't quite have their act together so nobody's said a word\nto me. I volunteered two years ago. I've had two interviews. They keep saying,\n\"Don't worry about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it.\" But I haven't heard a word so we'll see.\n\nGREENBLATT: Yes. I volunteered through Scottish Rite and haven't heard anything.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[general discussion]\n\nWEILLER: There are a lot of things I would like to do, but I have no idea what\nI'll end up doing. My husband's going away for the month. He doesn't want to be\nhere. He's not going to be able to work. He's right. He rented a house.\n\nGREENBLATT: In Maine?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: No. He would like that. In Highlands [North Carolina]. It's not a\nhouse, it's a little cabin.\n\nGREENBLATT: North Carolina. How nice. That's a good thing to do.\n\nWEILLER: Absolutely.\n\nGREENBLATT: Do your grandkids ask you a lot about old Atlanta?\n\nWEILLER: Only when they have to write a paper. That's the problem.\n\nGREENBLATT: Then they are, \"I know someone I can ask.\"\n\nWEILLER: That's right. Yes. I try to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tell them. When you have nine\n[grandchildren], it's hard to get them one-on-one. I try to do that, but it's\nhard. Once they're in school, you never see them. I saw one yesterday, one of\nthe little ones.\n\nGREENBLATT: Fortunately, the holidays are . . .\n\nWEILLER: . . . yes, I'll see plenty of them this weekend.\n\nGREENBLATT: . . . coming.\n\nWEILLER: Plenty of them.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: So you'll get a chance to catch up. If they were to ask you, your\ngrandkids, \"What is one of your favorite memories of old Atlanta?\" What do you\nthink you would tell them?\n\nWEILLER: I probably would tell them . . . I don't know. I have such great, happy\nmemories of family and Rich's, and all of that. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"School, I loved school.\n\nGREENBLATT: Tell them that. Stay in school.\n\nWEILLER: They love school. I know the two boys won't go there, but the other\nboys, David's kids, there's another, my step-grandchildren, but I hope they all\nend up in [Jewish] day school.\n\nGREENBLATT: It's pretty expensive, among other things.\n\nWEILLER: Yes, but worth it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: I think we're going to stop here for now.\n\nGREENBLATT: Hi. This is Sharon Greenblatt interviewing Margaret Weiller. I was\nvery correct to say it this time. Today is Wednesday, September 13.\n\nWEILLER: December.\n\nGREENBLATT: December 13 [1995]. Our first interview was on September 20. This is\nTape 1, Side 2, halfway through.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: I had called you on the phone and told you that we had just a few\nthings that we wanted to try and get some more information on. One of those\nthings I wanted to talk to you about was your parents' friends and your parents'\ngrandparents' friends, if you can remember any of them. Their names? Possibly\nanything about them that sticks out in your mind?\n\nWEILLER: You want to start with my parents?\n\nGREENBLATT: Whoever you want to start with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"will be great.\n\nWEILLER: I probably know more about that, so I'll start there. I guess my\nparents' best friends were Helen and Joe Asher, A-S-H-E-R. They were the parents\nof Tom and Norman Asher who both still live in Atlanta. They were really more\nlike family than family in a lot of cases. We were very, very close. 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Let me think who else. Virginia [Rich Barnett] and Dick Rich,\nwho was a cousin of my dad's. By the way, his name was not really 'Rich.' It was\nchanged to 'Rich.'\n\nGREENBLATT: What was his name?\n\nWEILLER: Rosenheim, R-O-S-E-N-H-E-I-M, but my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"great uncle, my grandmother's\nbrother, Walter Rich, asked my dad and Dick to change their name to Rich. My dad\nwouldn't do it, but Dick did. We were very friendly. My family was friendly with\nthem and mother was also friendly. Arlene and Leon Frohsin. 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Is there anything that you can remember that happened in the\nformation of Rich's, maybe before you were born, that you heard stories about?\n\nWEILLER: I just heard that my grandfather and his brothers came to Atlanta, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nguess, before that they were peddlers. They opened this store called M. Rich and\nBrothers. That was after Morris Rich, the oldest brother of the three brothers .\n. . it just grew. 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I guess that rubbed off into the\nfamily as a whole.\n\nGREENBLATT: That's a good thing to rub off.\n\nWEILLER: Right.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=5010.0,5040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GREENBLATT: So first they had this smaller store. As it became more popular and\n. . .\n\nWEILLER: . . . right. It grew and grew and grew . . .\n\nGREENBLATT: . . . to what it is now.\n\nWEILLER: Right. Which is not locally-owned, of course, anymore.\n\nGREENBLATT: Federated.\n\nWEILLER: Federated Department Stores owns it.\n\nGREENBLATT: That was just sold, wasn't it, recently?\n\nWEILLER: No, not just. Probably about 10 or 12 years ago\n\nGREENBLATT: Up until that point, it was just family held?\n\nWEILLER: Yes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=5040.0,5070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There were stockholders besides family. It was a publicly held company.\n\nGREENBLATT: I like that story you told me last time about the . . . because to\nthis day I have never been on that Pink Pig, and now it's gone.\n\nWEILLER: Now it is gone, yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: Are you going to get any pieces of that, or anything?\n\nWEILLER: No, I don't think there are even any pieces available. 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Maybe the ones that you grew up with?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: Two of my really good friends also happen to be cousins of mine. One\nwas Virginia Rich [Barnett], who everybody knows as being a famous dancer in\nAtlanta with the Atlanta Ballet, and then other companies. The other was my\ncousin Gail Oberdorfer. 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I still see some of them.\n\nGREENBLATT: What about as far as Gail and Virginia, do you still ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=5220.0,5250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"see them?\n\nWEILLER: I don't see Virginia very much, and Gail lives in . . .\n\nGREENBLATT: These are women your age?\n\nWEILLER: Yes. Gail lives out of the city, so I don't see her a lot, either. But\nwe're still close.\n\nGREENBLATT: One of the things that we're interested in is the Jewish\norganizations. You talked a little bit about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=5250.0,5280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"being involved with Federation and\nMarilyn Shubin. Can you tell me a little bit more about that and how you got\nstarted in it?\n\nWEILLER: I guess I have to go back a little ways to where I really got started\nin working with community organizations. All during high school I was very\nactive in a lot of things. After I got married, which was very young, I started\ndoing work with my Sisterhood ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=5280.0,5310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at the Temple. Then I got involved with the\nNational Council of Jewish Women. That's where I met Marilyn and worked with her\nfor a lot of years there. I guess I got . . .\n\nGREENBLATT: What were you doing at that point?\n\nWEILLER: Raising children.\n\nGREENBLATT: No, I mean with the National Council of Jewish Women.\n\nWEILLER: Just volunteer projects.\n\nGREENBLATT: Like what?\n\nWEILLER: I was one of the first ones to start Bargainata. 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It was very demanding, though. It really was. Then in 1985,\nI was lucky enough to have my first grandchild. I stuck it out two more years,\nbut I just really loved being around my children and grandchildren.\n\nGREENBLATT: That wasn't a paid position, was it?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=5580.0,5610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEILLER: Yes. After I went to work there, it was a paid position.\n\nGREENBLATT: It wasn't a paid position when Marilyn was there. It wasn't until later?\n\nWEILLER: While I just volunteered. But then when I started working more and\nmore, I was paid. That's the only paid position. 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They really\nhave not been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=5670.0,5700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"active in National Council of Jewish Women. I don't know why not,\nbut whatever they do, it doesn't matter.\n\nGREENBLATT: As long as they're doing something.\n\nWEILLER: Absolutely.\n\nGREENBLATT: I know that you are no longer in that position. Are you still\ninvolved in organization?\n\nWEILLER: Yes, definitely. I sit on a lot of committees. I'm always involved in\ncampaign. 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I keep a close tab on it.\n\nGREENBLATT: Kind of like your baby?\n\nWEILLER: Yes.\n\nGREENBLATT: Out of all those ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=5760.0,5790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years of volunteering, getting paid, and doing all\nthat stuff, what's your most memorable experience with the National Council of\nJewish Women?\n\nWEILLER: It would have to be the Kahn Home. I feel real good about that.\n\nGREENBLATT: How many people do they have there?\n\nWEILLER: I think about eight or nine. They're building a new facility, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=5790.0,5820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think\nfor 23 or 24 people.\n\nGREENBLATT: Where is that going to be located?\n\nWEILLER: It's going to be at Zaban, near the Weinstein Center, so they can both\nuse it. It's going to be a great concept. I'm excited about that.\n\nGREENBLATT: They're going to kind of combine them?\n\nWEILLER: No. They won't be combined, but they will be doing programming\ntogether. Weinstein, I don't think, has people living there all the time. I\nthink they have just weekend respite. 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I'm glad I'm able to do those things.\n\nGREENBLATT: In September ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=5880.0,5910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you had talked about being interviewed for the Olympics\nto do some volunteer work. Did you ever hear anything?\n\nWEILLER: Yes. Actually, I'm working there tomorrow.\n\nGREENBLATT: What are you going to be doing?\n\nWEILLER: Probably stuffing envelopes. Nothing exciting, but I'm trying to make\nsome contacts. Maybe I'll be doing something a little exciting for a little bit.\n\nGREENBLATT: If you had your dream Olympic job, what would it be?\n\nWEILLER: I'd like to be able to be with the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=5910.0,5940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/transcript/21493/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"athletes or their families,\nsomething like that. We'll see.\n\nGREENBLATT: Do you speak any foreign languages?\n\nWEILLER: No, unfortunately not.\n\nGREENBLATT: I guess you're not leaving the city.\n\nWEILLER: No, I am not. Not under any circumstances.\n\nGREENBLATT: I don't think I have anything else I wanted to ask you.\n\nWEILLER: I have enjoyed this.\n\nGREENBLATT: I have, too. I've learned a lot. Do you have any parting thoughts\nyou'd like to leave with the next generation? 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Historically it began in the nineteenth century. In general, the Reform movement maintains that Judaism and Jewish traditions should be modernized and compatible with participation in Western culture. While the Torah remains the law, in Reform Judaism women are included (mixed seating, bat mitzvah and women rabbis), music is allowed in the services and most of the service is in English.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/annotation_set/434/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Temple, or ‘Hebrew Benevolent Congregation,’ is Atlanta’s oldest Jewish congregation. The cornerstone was laid on the Temple on Garnett Street in 1875.  The dedication was held in 1877 and the Temple was located there until 1902.  The Temple’s next location on Pryor Street was dedicated in 1902. The Temple’s current location in Midtown on Peachtree Street was dedicated in 1931. The main sanctuary is on the National Register of Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/annotation_set/434/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe area of Atlanta mentioned here is the Washington–Rawson neighborhood which was a center of Jewish community in the city. By the mid-1870’s, Washington Street was becoming one of the city’s finest residential streets. The neighborhood was wealthy at the turn of the twentieth century: Encyclopedia Britannica of 1910 listed Washington Street as one of the finest residential areas of the city. The neighborhood included the area that is now the large parking lot north of Turner Field, until 1996 the site of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. It also included the intersection of the two streets for which it was named. That intersection’s location is now the site of the I-20-Downtown Connector interchange.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/annotation_set/434/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe North Avenue Presbyterian Church Day School was established in 1909 with 20 boys and girls.  It stressed scholastic training, daily Bible Study, and Christian precepts.  In 1920 the school moved to Ponce de Leon Avenue and grew.  In 1942, reorganization occurred with resulted in the school becoming the ‘Napsonian School.’  In 1950 it merged with Westminster School.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/annotation_set/434/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBoys’ High School was founded in 1924 and is now known as Henry W. Grady High School. It is part of the Atlanta Public School System. It has had many notable alumni, including S. Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A. It is located in Midtown Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/annotation_set/434/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eGirls’ High School was one of seven schools that were part of the original Atlanta public school system. It opened in 1872, and was the only public school in the area exclusively for girls. It was a superb school academically, and had 104 rooms including science halls, laboratories, sewing rooms, a library, and outdoor classrooms. In 1947, Atlanta high schools became co-educational and Girls’ High was renamed ‘Roosevelt High School.’\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/annotation_set/434/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAntoinette Johnson Matthews (1894 – 1989) was born in DeKalb County, Georgia to Daniel and Willie Johnson. She was married to William Collins Matthews of Atlanta, Georgia in 1925. Her grandfather was John Gerdine Johnson (1817-1883) who owned most of the land where the Druid Hills neighborhood is now situated. She was the founder and headmistress of the Out of Doors School, the first private kindergarten in Atlanta. Many prominent Atlantans including Sam Massell and George and Jack Adair attended the school which she ran out of her home. Matthews wrote Oakdale Road: Its History and Its People, a pictorial presentation with commentary on past owners of the homes along Oakdale Road in the Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/annotation_set/434/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, M. William Breman gave the lead gift, ensuring the creation of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.  In 1996, the museum opened at the Selig Center on Spring Street in Midtown Atlanta. The Museum features a permanent exhibit called Absence of Humanity: The Holocaust Years, 1933-1945 as well as exhibitions about Southern Jewish history and Jewish culture. The Breman Museum also includes the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, the Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education, and a library of research materials.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/annotation_set/434/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eOakland Cemetery is the oldest cemetery and one of the largest green spaces, in Atlanta. Many notable Georgians are buried at Oakland including Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind; Joseph Jacobs, owner of the pharmacy where John Pemberton first sold Coca-Cola as a soft drink; Bobby Jones, the only golfer to win the Grand Slam, the United States Amateur, United States Open, British Amateur and the Open Championship in the same year; as well as former Georgia governors and Atlanta mayors.  Oakland is an excellent example of a Victorian-style cemetery and contains numerous monuments and mausoleums that are of great beauty and historical significance.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/annotation_set/434/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAn organization of volunteers and advocates who turn progressive ideals into advocacy and philanthropy inspired by Jewish values. 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In 1929, the company was reorganized and the retail portion of the business became simply, Rich’s. Many of the former Rich’s stores today form the core of Macy’s Central, an Atlanta-based division of Macy’s, Inc., which formerly operated as Federated Department Stores, Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/annotation_set/434/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe High Museum of Art in Atlanta is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States. Located on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the High is a division of the Woodruff Arts Center. It was founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association and renamed after the High family donated their house as an exhibit space in 1926. 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Their programs include preschool, camping, fitness and sports, Jewish life and learning, arts and culture and social and educational programs.  It was named in honor of Bernard Marcus, one of the co-founders of Home Depot, who gave a major gift to the capital campaign.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/annotation_set/434/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Standard Club is a private, country club, with a Jewish heritage dating back to 1867. The club originated as Concordia Association in Downtown Atlanta. In 1905 it was reorganized as the Standard Club and moved into the former mansion of William C. Sanders near where Turner Field is now located. 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Uhry’s early work for the stage was as a lyricist and librettist for a number of musicals.  Driving Miss Daisy (1987) is the first in what is known as his Atlanta Trilogy of plays and earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He adapted it into the screenplay for the 1989 film which was awarded the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. The second of the trilogy, The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1996), received the Tony Award for Best Play when produced on Broadway. The third was a 1998 musical called Parade. The libretto earned him a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.  Uhry wrote the screenplay not only for the film version of Driving Miss Daisy but also for the 1993 film Rich in Love.  He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film Mystic Pizza.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/annotation_set/434/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eDriving Miss Daisy (1987) is the first in what is known as Alfred Uhry’s Atlanta trilogy of plays which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  Uhry adapted it into the screenplay for the 1989 Academy Award winning film of the same name. The film starred Jessica Tandy (Daisy Werthan), Morgan Freeman (Hoke Colburn), and Dan Aykroyd (Boolie Werthan). The story of ‘Miss Daisy,’ a Southern Jewish widow and Hoke, her black chauffeur, is set in Atlanta between 1948 and 1973 as their 25-year friendship reflects the social changes in the American South.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[1] The Alliance Theatre is a theater company in Atlanta, Georgia, based at the Alliance Theatre, part of the Robert W. 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The play is set in Atlanta on the eve of World War II in an upper class German-Jewish community as Adolph Freitag and his sister and nieces look forward to attending Ballyhoo, a lavish cotillion ball sponsored by their country club.  The Last Night of Ballyhoo was inspired by Atlanta-native Alfred Uhry’s childhood memories and is the second of what is known as his “Atlanta Trilogy” of plays.  The first is Driving Miss Daisy and the third is Parade.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/annotation_set/434/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1996 Summer Olympics, unofficially known as the Centennial Olympic Games, took place in Atlanta from July 19 to August 4, 1996. 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The Lighting of the Great Tree on Thanksgiving night became a major long-standing holiday tradition. Later, the tree was perched atop the bridge that connected the original store with an addition on the opposite side of Forsyth Street. Rich’s downtown store closed in 1991 and the tree was moved to Underground Atlanta. From there it was moved to the Rich’s at Lenox Square mall, Following the merger with Macy’s, the Rich’s name was eventually dropped and the tree is now known as the Macy’s Great Tree.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/annotation_set/434/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSince 1953, the Pink Pig train ride has been delighting generations of Atlantans over the Christmas holiday season. Originally named ‘Priscilla the Pink Pig’ the ride was first located at the Rich’s in Downtown Atlanta.  A second pig, Percival, was added in 1964 to increase ridership.  Now located just outside of Macy’s at Lenox Square, the Pink Pig is still a popular attraction and is open from the end of October through early January.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/34937/file/103848/annotation_set/434/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThis was the Georgia Farm School and Resettlement Bureau, a non-profit agency founded in 1939 with the resettlement and retraining of Jewish refugees as its mission.  Because of Georgia’s agricultural economy, it was thought that refugees should be trained for eventual placement on area farms.  The bureau soon discovered that many refugees were not interested in farming, and the organization modified its emphasis to a general resettlement and training program assisting newcomers in finding employment in a variety of fields and helping to meet social, medical, dental, and educational needs. As the situation of Jews in Europe deteriorated, the Bureau worked with the National Refugee Service to disseminate information regarding immigration possibilities for Jews in occupied territories.  Other Atlanta area organizations also offered support including the Atlanta Section of the Council of Jewish Women, Gate City lodge #144 B’nai B’rith, The Temple Sisterhood, the Atlanta Federation for Jewish Social Service and the Atlanta Free Loan Association. 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Formerly the Jewish Home, it first opened in1951 at 260 14th Street, NW, on land that had been donated by real estate developer Ben J. Massell. The Home’s growth called for a larger, updated facility, leading to the construction of a new building at 3150 Howell Mill Road, NW. The second Jewish Home opened on February 16, 1971. 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She was active in the National Council of Jewish Women in both Cleveland and later Atlanta. In 1970, Marilyn started to work professionally as the Director of the Women’s Division of the Atlanta Welfare Federation and appointed director of the welfare campaign in 1978. 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