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At the age of 15, he met and started dating her future wife, Sherry King. They married on January 25, 1950, and were married for 70 years. Alvin and Sherry had four children, Gail, Jay, Debra (d. 2010), and Martin, and nine grandchildren. He was a life-long member of AA Synagogue, an avid reader, bridge player, and enjoy golfing. In retirement, he and Sherry lived part of the year in Florida. Alvin passed away on August 13, 2020, and is buried at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs, Georgia. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eAlvin began the interview by discussing his family history. He shares his memories of his parents and being an only child. He spoke about his childhood and the activities he was involved in. He reflects on his religious experience during his childhood and into adulthood. Alvin talks about his bar mitzvah. He discusses his high school experience, his friends, and dating his wife, Sherry. He recalls summer trips to Miami, Florida and his memories of World War II. He talks about his experience attending the University of Georgia.  \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAlvin discussed getting married at 19 years and how he met Sherry. He remembers his in-laws, Louis and Ella Baum King. He spoke about his early career and starting his own businesses after returning from college. He details his wedding to Sherry and their honeymoon to Miami Beach, Florida. He discusses his and Sherry’s first home and their early years of marriage. He mentions his love of playing bridge. He shares about his four children and the values they worked to instill in them. He spoke about belonging to Ahavath Achim Synagogue and involvement with various Jewish organizations in Atlanta.  \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAlvin discusses retiring from the liquor store business and starting his import business. 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I hope to have quite a few more years and maybe you'll see that I wasn't such a bad guy up to this date.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=10.0,40.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Where were you born?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=40.0,42.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I was born in Atlanta, Georgia, April 14, 1930, at Piedmont 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I had many rich associations with him and he passed away in the early 1950's, after my first son was born. I remember that day, and he was a very fine man, and he was a very pious man. He came to the United States on his own with the intention of bringing his children to the United States, which he eventually did, but in the meantime, World War I broke out. He was unable to do this right away, and his wife died in an influenza epidemic during World War I. Around 1920, he brought his three young children to the United States, one of whom was my mother.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=110.0,190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What was his name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=190.0,192.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e His name was Louis Slutzky, in Hebrew, Levi.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=192.0,198.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e His wife's name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=198.0,200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Sarah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=200.0,202.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e That's on your mother's side. What about your father's side?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=202.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I didn't know my grandparents. My grandparents lived in a small shtetl in Poland called Gunions [Polish: Goniądz]. My father visited them in 1935, and I have many lovely pictures of his visit there. I would like to mention that when my father went back in 1935, he had already made a success in the United States. He had immigrated to the United States in 1922 when he was 16 years old. He went back for his first visit in 1935, and when he was there he had two brothers that were left in Poland and he wanted to bring the oldest brother to the United States, because things were not well, were not good in Poland at that time. But the older brother said that he would like to go to Israel, and my father said he would work toward that goal for him. But, the younger brother, who wasn't born or had just been born when my father left for the United States in 1922. He was 13 years old. Bernard Halpern said, \"I want to come to the United States.\" My father said, \"We'll work at it.\" In 1938, Bernard came to the United States, which was very fortunate because the war broke in 1939 in Poland and very few Jews made it through the war in Poland.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=210.0,328.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What were the names of your father's parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=328.0,333.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Jacob and Olga","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=333.0,337.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you know what made your father leave and come to America?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=337.0,343.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Things weren't good in Poland, and my father was looking for a better opportunity for himself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=343.0,352.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e How come his parents stayed?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=352.0,358.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e It's hard to pick up and leave someplace where that you've spent all your life. It's not easy. I think eventually he would have liked for them to have come to the United States too. But unfortunately, they were taken to Treblinka and murdered.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=358.0,381.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Did any other family members that you know of perish in the Holocaust?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=381.0,388.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e The brother that he wanted to bring to the United States, he perished in the Holocaust also. I think he attempted to escape and was killed by the Poles. My father had two sisters who were ardent Zionists, I guess you would call them labor Zionists. When they were basically young teenagers, they immigrated to Israel where they got married and formed families. I have four first cousins in Israel and many, many other relatives and I see them often and speak to them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=388.0,433.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e How did your father make it to Atlanta?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=433.0,438.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e He made it to Atlanta because he had relatives here. He had an aunt and an uncle in the United States. His aunt was Mrs. Greenberg, Mrs. Charles Greenberg, and his uncle was Nathan Esral.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=438.0,467.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Did he immigrate and arrive in Ellis Island?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=467.0,472.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=472.0,474.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What is the story? What did he tell you about his coming to America?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=474.0,485.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e My father basically was, when he got here, he lived first with one family, [then] another, and he got a job. My father was a smart man from the very beginning, and he went to night school. He worked and he went to night school. Somehow he accumulated enough money to open up a grocery store in the 1920's. He came here in 1922 and he got married in 1929, so I take it sometime between maybe 1925, 1926, 1927, he opened up a business and it worked for him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=485.0,542.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Does anybody in the family today remind you of your father's personality and looks?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=542.0,553.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Some people say that I look like my father. My father, he had a reputation, he was kind of a tough man. He was hard, but he was fair . . . I think my grandchildren admired him. My children, not my grandchildren, my children admired him a lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=553.0,576.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What did he look like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=576.0,586.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e He's not quite as tall as I was, and my father was a nice-looking man.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=586.0,592.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e His name was?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=592.0,594.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Aaron. Aaron Halpern.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=594.0,598.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Your mother. What was her name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=598.0,601.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Mary, Miriam, Mary Halpern, Mary Slutzky. It was a love match between my mother and my father. They got married when they were relatively young . . . My mother also had aunts here in the United States also. We . . . had many relatives who we were close to back in those days. I think all of my father's first cousins have all passed away in the Greenberg family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=601.0,647.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Where did your mother's family come from?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=647.0,651.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e They came from Grodno Gubernia [Belarus]. I think that was possibly Russia in those days.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=651.0,662.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me about your father's business dealings. You said he was successful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=662.0,669.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e A what?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=669.0,670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e He was successful, you said, as a businessman.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=670.0,677.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e My father, as I said previously, he was in the grocery business, but while he was in grocery business he got married in 1929 and he was born in 1906, so he was 23 years old. From practically the beginning, he took an interest in real estate and this was in the depression. The things were very bad in the United States in the Thirties, but he became a real estate investor, and he bought small parcels, and he became affluent. In 1936, he bought an apartment on Boulevard, and they put it in the newspaper. It was a big deal. People didn't have money in those days.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=677.0,736.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e How much of an education did he have? Formal education.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=736.0,741.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Formal education, I think he went to cheder in Europe, but he hadn't, as I mentioned before, he went night school and he worked during the day before he went in business for himself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=741.0,762.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Let's talk about your mother.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=762.0,764.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=764.0,766.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What kind of a person was she?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=766.0,773.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I was an only child, and my mother was always very protective of me, attempted to be very protective, but I wasn't easy to handle, actually. But my mother was a very loving person, and she had many friends, and everybody liked my mother. She also, when she came to the United States, she went to school. I have a diploma where she graduated from, where she got promoted to junior high school. She wasn't, I think she was probably older than some of the other students because she didn't have . . . She came later and she had to catch up on her education. My mother had a beautiful handwriting, I remember that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=773.0,830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e You said you were not easy to handle, even though your mother wanted to protect you. Could you explain that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=830.0,839.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e You know what a Yiddish di mame [Yiddish: mother] is. My mother was a Yidish di mame. She was a wonderful cook and she made sure that even if I didn't want it, I had to have my breakfast and she fixed me big sandwiches to take to high school and she was a loving person, my mother.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=839.0,865.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Did they ever talk about the fact that you were an only child? Why they didn't have more children?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=865.0,871.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't think my mother was able to have any more children. I was born maybe nine months after they got married, and my mother said she thought she was going to have a dozen, but it wasn't to be. They wanted more children, but they weren't able to have any more children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=871.0,895.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Where did you grow up? In what home? Do you remember where it was located?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=895.0,901.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, certainly. For the first five years of my life, we lived at 50 Ashby Street, Southwest, which was on top of my father's business, a grocery store. In 1936, as I had mentioned, my father bought an apartment on Boulevard, and we moved into that apartment. I lived there until 1946, when my mother and father purchased a home on Pasadena Avenue. We lived there, I lived until I got married in 1950. Of course, in there I went to college during that period also.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=901.0,963.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What memories do you have of the years of the depression?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=963.0,972.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I can remember when I went to school, first I went to Lee Street School in West End, and then I went to Forrest Avenue School in the Boulevard area. I can remember when I went to school, it was barefoot children. It was some children that came to school that they were barefooted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=972.0,998.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e How about your situation, your family, were you affected?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=998.0,1004.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I don't think I was affected. I always felt comfortable. I felt that my father was able to take care of his family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1004.0,1019.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you know what kind of a kid you were?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1019.0,1025.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I guess I was precocious. I was smart in school; I skipped a grade. I skipped the fifth grade when I was in school. From the age of eleven or twelve, I was always interested in athletics and not to be modest, I excelled in athletics practically all through my life. I was a very good baseball player in high school, a very good basketball player. I was captain of my school team, and I played baseball for the University of Georgia, and I won awards in basketball. I played when I was a teenager. I played at the Atlanta Alliance, the Jewish Educational Alliance which has been succeeded by the Jewish Community Center today. I think that's where I got my basketball background. I belonged to AZA [Aleph Zadik Aleph] and I enjoyed that very much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1025.0,1111.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Who were some of your friends when you were growing up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1111.0,1127.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Everybody that I was in my AZA chapter, we were friendly. Unfortunately, two of my best friends were killed in an automobile accident. They were on the way to Athens [Georgia] to go down there, which they were going to start in the next year. It had a profound effect on me. My two best friends were killed in this automobile accident. But azoy gait es. [Yiddish: That's the way it goes].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1127.0,1167.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Could you translate that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1167.0,1169.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's the way it goes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1169.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e In Yiddish, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1170.0,1171.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1171.0,1175.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Are there any family traditions from your growing up years that you can think of?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1175.0,1181.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e When you say family traditions, we always went to the synagogue on the Holy Days. My mother always lit the candles on Friday night and we always had a nice dinner on Friday night. After I got married, we always went to my mother on Friday night. We went to my mother's house on Passover and when my grandfather was living, we celebrated Passover with him at his home. He lived with my aunt.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1181.0,1232.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e If you could see a picture of that Passover, of a Passover at your grandfather's, who would be there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1232.0,1249.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Naturally, my mother and father and my aunt and her husband. My aunt got married late in life. She was in her early 40's when she got married and unfortunately she had a child who was Down syndrome. But I don't think anybody ever had any more love than Sharon, the daughter with the Down syndrome. They doted on that child. She lived to her late 20's, and I have pictures of Sharon.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1249.0,1300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Going back to the Passover Seder.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1300.0,1306.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e My grandfather, who I don't know how modern a man he was, when we had the Passover, he had his chumash. A chumash and he had a leather book that he conducted the Seder in. We had, in those days, Maxwell House Coffee and they had the Haggadahs. We had different Haggadahs, and my grandfather didn't hear well, but we got through the Seder and we enjoyed it, but I have had many, many, many Seders at my home. My mother took over from her sister and for a few years it was at her house and then somehow gradually my wife took over and at our Seder today we have 30-35 people as many as 40 that come to our Seders on Passover. In fact, when we were in . . . We live in Florida now, six, seven months out of the year, but we come back for Passover and prepare for it. That's my wife takes great pleasure in that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1306.0,1389.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you remember any dishes your mother prepared?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1389.0,1395.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother was an expert on soups. Anything my mother did, it was wonderful if she made a cabbage soup. She had many, many milchik dishes. I think growing up we used to have, maybe it was Thursday, that was, we had a milchik, we would call it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1395.0,1428.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Milchik, which means dairy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1428.0,1430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Dairy, that's right, and the dairy soups that she made, I can taste them now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1430.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Are you saying your home was an observant home?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1440.0,1447.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e It was a Jewish home. I don't know that it's a difference, but we had a Jewish home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1447.0,1457.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What about your bar mitzvah?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1457.0,1461.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I was bar mitzvah on Washington Street at the AA [Ahavath Achim] synagogue, and we had a tradition at the AA synagogue. My grandfather was a member of the AA synagogue practically from the first day he came to Atlanta. That was 1912, and we have been members of the AA synagogue continuously . . . down through the generations. My wife was the president of the synagogue, the president of the Sisterhood, which had probably twelve or fourteen hundred members. Then my oldest daughter was the president . . . of the Sisterhood and I took great pleasure in that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1461.0,1516.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Your bar mitzvah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1516.0,1518.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, my bar mitzvah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1518.0,1520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Was there a party?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1520.0,1521.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh yes. I mentioned I was bar mitzvahed at the AA and the next day my father had a, we had a big party at the Progressive Club. I think at that time it was the custom . . . when we had the party that I stood up on a chair and I gave mine bar mitzvah speech.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1521.0,1553.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Who prepared you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1553.0,1559.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Mr. Ginsberg, he was a private tutor, and he prepared me. I can remember how nervous I was that day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1559.0,1576.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Who was the rabbi standing next to you when you read?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1576.0,1580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Rabbi Epstein, Harry H. Epstein of blessed memory.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1580.0,1588.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Where did you go to high school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1588.0,1592.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I went to Boys High School. I started Boys High School in 1944 and I graduated in 1947.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1592.0,1602.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e How was high school for you? Did you enjoy it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1602.0,1607.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e High school was great for me, I enjoyed it. I played athletics there, and like I said, I was very successful in athletics. I was looked up to in school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1607.0,1621.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Academically.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1621.0,1624.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Academically, my early promise was . . . I wasn't as good as I had previously been in school because I was sidetracked. I guess. I had many outside interests, you could say. I found girls. I started dating my future wife when I was 15, before I was old enough to drive a car. I used to go, she didn't live close to me, she lived in a part of town called the West End and I used to catch the trackless trolley to go see her.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1624.0,1692.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Who were some of your friends during your high school years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1692.0,1697.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Leon Shulmeister, Richard Garber, Richard Carl, Morris Galanti, and Walter Cowan, Malcolm Minsk, Alvin Minsk—I can name you a lot of them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1697.0,1722.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Were there any teachers who had a special influence in your life during this year?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1722.0,1730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, when I was at Boys High School and played athletics, I was under the influence of various coaches. The best coach that I ever had was at my senior year at Boys High School. He came back from the service, and his name was Joel Eaves. I was friendly with Joel Eaves for the rest of his life. He went on to great success. He became the head basketball coach at Auburn University. Then he was made athletic director of the University of Georgia. He and his wife had a special love for me, actually. I visited him down in Athens. I went to several football games and I went over to their house when he was the athletic director and I had a great admiration for that man.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1730.0,1794.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e How did you have fun, aside from athletics, what did you do?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1794.0,1803.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e During the summer, I played American Legion baseball, and we always went on a vacation. My parents always went on a summer vacation, mostly to Miami [Florida]. We went to Miami every year.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1803.0,1827.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Where? Where in Miami?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1827.0,1828.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Miami Beach. We stayed at many nice hotels and my mother and father liked to dance. They liked to dance and they belonged to the Progressive Club. They used to have dances at the Progressive Club. In those days, like 1945-1946 in Miami, Cuban music was hot. In fact, before I got married my father knew that we planned to go to Miami on our honeymoon and my wife had never been to Miami. He said that we couldn't go to Miami if we didn't know how to rumba. We took rumba lessons before we went to Miami and to this day I'm very good in South American music and my parents were good and my wife is a good dancer. In fact, I have a picture where my mother and I won a rumba contest at the Progressive Club. That was a, I think it was a Mother's Day, and we won a rumba contest.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1828.0,1924.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e When you were growing up, World War II was going on in Europe. How much did you know about what was happening?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1924.0,1937.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I wasn't real aware of that, somehow I can't reconstruct that I was aware of the Holocaust. My father didn't talk about it much and my mother and father didn't talk about it much. Maybe they talked in private, but they didn't talked too much about that. The brother that my father brought over, he came in 1938. He lived with us, and he was like my brother. He went to the service, and I guess he was called up in 1942 or 1943.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1937.0,1986.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What was his name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1986.0,1987.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Bernard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1987.0,1992.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e You mentioned him before. What happened after high school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1992.0,1998.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I went to the University of Georgia. I became a member of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity and I lived at the fraternity house and I loved it. It opened up new vistas for me and I met a lot of people who are my friends today at the University of Georgia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=1998.0,2030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Such as?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2030.0,2033.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e A lot them were from Savannah [Georgia] and I see them in Florida. When my daughter was running for Court of Appeals. They had a rally for her at Savannah and I went down there and I met all these friends of mine and it was wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2033.0,2061.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Were there any subjects that interested you in particular?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2061.0,2068.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Any particular subjects? I was contemplating being an English major, which . . . I don't know if you can make any money being an English major, but I've always been interested in literature. But I hadn't gotten into my major, and I left the University of Georgia after two years. My wife and I got married, and I've said it, from that time on I've been working.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2068.0,2106.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Did your parents have something in mind for you? Something in particular, career-wise?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2106.0,2116.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e They wanted me to be a businessman, some kind of a businessman and I was.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2116.0,2124.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e You left school after two years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2124.0,2132.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e A lot of people, they don't want their children to marry too early, especially these days, but my parents encouraged me because they realized that Sherry was a special person and they encouraged me to get married, actually.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2132.0,2156.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e How old were you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2156.0,2158.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I was 19 when I got married, almost 20. They had a song in those days. They tried to tell us we're too young, too young to really be in love. [Interviewee sings] That was our favorite song until Sherry heard me sing it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2158.0,2194.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e How did you meet Sherry?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2194.0,2198.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's a good question. The way I met Sherry is the Progressive Club. In those days . . . it had a large membership, the Jewish Progressive Club. I used to go swimming there practically a lot of days and I saw this beautiful girl with this candy-striped bathing suit and I just opened up my eyes and I said, Wow,\" and we took it from there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2198.0,2236.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What did you like about her?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2236.0,2242.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Listen, I was a teenage boy, I don't say that I liked her for her mind. [Interviewee laughs] But we . . . fell in love right away.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2242.0,2262.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e How did your relationship evolve? Can you talk about that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2262.0,2268.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Sherry used to come to my games. She couldn't come to the basketball games because they were at night, but she came to my baseball games. She left Girls High, where she went in those days, and she came to that. You say, how did our relationship evolve? I told you that I met her when I was 15. As soon as I was 16 and I got my driver's license, then I was able to court her more extensively. I had the use of the . . .This was right after the war and my father had bought a new car and he had the old one and so I had the old car was kind of like my possession and so I can remember when I first got my driver's license and I went over to pick up my future wife up at her house and to take her to the movies. It was a gear shift in those days and I struggled to pick her up. I took her to a drive-in and it had a steep hill and I had a hard time navigating up that hill with the gear shift, but I managed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2268.0,2353.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e You took her to the drive-in movie.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2353.0,2356.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e No, not a drive-in movie. We'd go to the Fox Theatre or the Loew's Grand and after you took a girl to the movies you would take her to get a slice of watermelon, which was around the corner.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2356.0,2374.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e How did Sherry's parents look at the relationship?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2374.0,2381.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I think they liked me. It's too late now. They liked me and I liked them. They were the salt of the earth. They were great people, and they were hard working people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2381.0,2399.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What were their names?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2399.0,2402.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Louis and Ella King. I didn't know my father-in-law as well as I learned to know and love my mother-in law. My mother- in-law lived to 103, and she only died in the year 2000. She lived in three centuries. My . . . wife has many of the characteristics of her mother.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2402.0,2439.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What was she like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2439.0,2447.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e She was, I guess you'd say that she had a gutte neshuma [Yiddish: good soul]. What would be the Yiddish expression, she had a good soul and she worked with her husband and they had a grocery store in West End. She was the heart and soul of the business and my father-in-law became sick and he had a stroke. Up until that time, my mother-in-law didn't know how to drive a car. I guess maybe when she was 65 years old or something like that, 60 or 65, she took driving lessons and she drove the car. She was a businesswoman, and a very practical woman, and a very thrifty woman. She was one of five sisters. My wife had four aunts and they were very loving and they loved Sherry and I. We were very close to them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2447.0,2521.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Were they born in this country?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2521.0,2527.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e All the aunts were born in this country. My mother-in-law was born in Russia and she came here when she was five years old.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2527.0,2537.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Your father-in-law?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2537.0,2543.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e He came from Russia. He came from a town in Russia called Kobryn, and I think that was part of Russia. He was a scholarly man and he had a good basic knowledge of Hebrew. I remember that I was given some type of part, something at the synagogue, and he helped me with it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2543.0,2587.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you know what the maiden name of your mother-in-law was?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2587.0,2594.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Baum. Her name was Ella Baum King, and my wife was Sherry King before she got married.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2594.0,2602.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you know how they got the name King?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2602.0,2605.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e It was changed from Koenig . . . My mother-in-law's, Ella's father, he was a well-known man in Atlanta. He never made much money, but he was Meshie Baum. He known to everyone as Meshie Baum, Morris Baum. He lived to a ripe old age, and his wife lived longer. He had a booming voice, and he was a goodwill man for one of the dairies in Atlanta. But I really liked him and his wife.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2605.0,2661.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Let's go back to you and Sherry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2661.0,2663.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2663.0,2665.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you have an engagement party?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2665.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e We got engaged in September of 1949, and I gave her the ring. I didn't have ten cents to buy a ring. My father arranged for me to have . . . He got the ring, and it was a very nice ring. I gave it to Sherry . . . We went to my parents' house and I sprung it on her and she was surprised.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2670.0,2711.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you have to ask for her hand?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2711.0,2714.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, I did, I think it was pretty obvious that we were going to get married when we both left college. I immediately went to work when I left college. I started a little business. I was a tobacco and candy job and I did that during the summer and then I went to work for Capitol Foods. Capitol Fish Company as it was called in those days and I worked there until April 1950.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2714.0,2759.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e In what capacity? What did you do for them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2759.0,2761.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I sold frozen foods there, and fish, and I worked there. I got married in January 1950, January 25, 1950. In April 1950, I opened up a launderette, which was a pretty popular thing to do in those days. I didn't know anything about washing machines, but I soon learned. I was 20 years old and I was running this business and I did a good job with it. My father owned this building on Boulevard and we put these washing machines in there. I made a success of it right away. Couple of years later I opened up another one and I had a couple of washaterias.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2761.0,2827.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Did they have a name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2827.0,2829.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I think it was Alvin's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2829.0,2832.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Where were they located?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2832.0,2835.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . One was on Boulevard near Edgewood Avenue, and the other one was on Auburn Avenue, not far from the Ebenezer Baptist Church, which you probably are familiar with. In fact, the Reverend Dr. King, Martin Luther King's father, I went over his house one day to fix his washing machine. Today, I don't know doodly-squat about a washing machine, but I was very active fixing them at that time. My father had gone into the liquor business about 1945, and in 1960 I went into the liquor business also. I gave up the washaterias and I sold them. I started in the liquor business and we bought a liquor store and it worked out well. I was very successful in that and I built another store and another store, and another store. I . . . did well in the liquor business.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2835.0,2921.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What about the business or about your talents created this success?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2921.0,2931.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e My first store was in a black area, and I've always had an affinity that I got along with minority people, and they liked me. I thought they liked very much over there. I was like the mayor of where I was at that time. I was already 30 years old at that time. I did well there. It's not, I worked hard. I worked very hard. I worked Friday nights and Saturday nights. In the meantime, we had a family and I had four children at that time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2931.0,2983.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Let's go back to your family life for a moment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2983.0,2986.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2986.0,2988.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me about your wedding.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2988.0,2992.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e My wedding was like a happening in those days. It was the biggest thing that my in-laws had ever done in their lives when their daughter Sherry, which was their youngest daughter. Their oldest daughter got married during the war and she married a serviceman, somebody that was in the service and they didn't have a big wedding. But when I got married in 1950 . . . I guess we had, there was over 400 people at our wedding. It was at the Progressive Club, and like I say, that was the high point of their life, that wedding.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=2992.0,3032.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Who married you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3032.0,3035.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Rabbi Epstein married me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3035.0,3037.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e He had married?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3037.0,3039.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e He had married my mother and father in 1929. He married me, Sherry and I, in 1950. He married my oldest daughter in 1970. We were the first second generation and they were the first third generation that he had ever married. I don't know if you know but he was a rabbi at AA for well over fifty years until he retired.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3039.0,3077.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you happen to remember what was the first dance?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3077.0,3085.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e The first dance. No. You want to talk about music. I know that when we used to go to dances, we always used to have the last dance was the song by Hoagy Carmichael. Are you familiar with that song? I just got through reading the book about the famous composers of the twentieth century. “Stardust” was the name of the song. We always, when we went to teenage dances, and even in college, I think that was a tradition, that was the last song, “Stardust.”","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3085.0,3149.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Where did you go on your honeymoon?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3149.0,3152.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Miami Beach. I drove to Miami Beach in a new Plymouth convertible that I had had for a few months. When we came down the coastline and saw the hotels in the distance, my wife was, she was just exhilarated and overjoyed and had never seen it before. I got a lot of pleasure out of her that she was so excited about it. We had a good time in Miami for the week that we were gone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3152.0,3202.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Where did you stay?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3202.0,3204.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Stayed at the National Hotel, I guess you would call it, Ocean Boulevard, Ocean Drive. It was, it's still standing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3204.0,3218.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e You came back to Atlanta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3218.0,3221.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3221.0,3222.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Where was your first home?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3222.0,3226.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e My first home was a small home that my father had purchased for me and he made the down payment and I finished making the payments. It was on Fordham Court. Fordham Court is a small street adjacent to the Morningside School and Rock Springs Road. We lived there until 1955, and we were very happy there when we got back from our honeymoon. We moved right into Fordham Court. When we got back from our honeymoon, it was cold. It was like February, and the furnace wasn't on. But we wanted to stay in our house, so that first night, we half froze, but we lived in our house.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3226.0,3291.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e On what date did you get married?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3291.0,3293.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e January 25, 1950.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3293.0,3299.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Could you describe the inside of that house? How was it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3299.0,3305.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Fordham Court. It was a honeymoon cottage. It was two bedrooms, one bathroom, and a living room, dining room. It was very attractive. We had two children there, Gail and Jay, and Debra was born in 1955, and I think we had already moved when she was born.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3305.0,3352.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e In terms of your relationship, was there any difference between courting and being married? Any different challenges?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3352.0,3368.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e In those days, when you got married, you weren't looking to disagree. My wife and I have always had a very amiable relationship, mostly with love, and I didn't find that there was any difference. As long as she did what I said, it was okay. I'm kidding.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3368.0,3395.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What would she say if I asked her that question?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3395.0,3400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e In her later years, my wife has become, she's become her own woman. I always, she always tells the story. I always preach to my daughters, you can be anything that you want to be. It's nothing that you can't do, it's nothing too good for you, and I didn't know my wife was listening.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3400.0,3428.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Obviously you have had a successful relationship, is there a secret to that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3428.0,3439.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Look, we get mad at each other, more so playing bridge than any place else, but it never lasts a day. We forget. I guess my short-term memory is not good. We've always got along.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3439.0,3467.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e You spend a lot of time playing bridge together these days.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3467.0,3471.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes we do. We play, I played several days a week with my wife here in Atlanta at the bridge clubs. In fact, we just got through playing yesterday and the day before in a couple of bridge tournaments. Yesterday was Labor Day and the day before, we played, and we won in the division that we played in. We've done quite well together. We also play in Florida. We play a couple nights a week in Florida, and we were lucky enough we had the right partners. We won a couple of tournaments, regional tournaments in Florida.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3471.0,3529.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Can you remember a challenging moment between you and your wife as bridge partners?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3529.0,3541.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Challenging moment. I can't say. I think I've always been a good bridge player. Just not being modest. I played bridge in college. I was on the bridge team at the University of Georgia. I've been a good bridge player. I lost it for a few years that we didn't play, but then we went and took some lessons in the new systems, and I started playing and enjoying it again. My wife started playing, and we played as partners. My wife has developed into a good player. We do well when we play.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3541.0,3592.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Let's go back to the early years of your marriage. What kind of what were you doing at that time, right after you got married?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3592.0,3602.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I was in the laundry business and we had our children, they came out every other year, every odd year. My children were born in 1951, 1953, 1955 and 1959. We took a rest for a couple of years from it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3602.0,3631.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Your first child was born?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3631.0,3633.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e She was born in 1951, May 1951. Gail.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3633.0,3642.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What was it like to become a father?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3642.0,3652.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Gail was, I guess . . . maybe she was a toy. She cried a lot, but my parents were so happy, their first grandchild.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3652.0,3673.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e How did you pick the name Gail?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3673.0,3677.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e She was named after my father's mother. Her name, her Jewish name was Uggie. We just determined that that was the closest to Uggie that we wanted to come to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3677.0,3696.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e How old were you when you became a father?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3696.0,3701.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Twenty-one. I see my grandchildren today, they're 21, 23, 25 and they're not ready to be married and have children. It was different, but I wasn't overwhelmed by that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3701.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e When you look back, do you feel you were mature enough to be a father?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3720.0,3727.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't know whether mature is a matter of perception. I don't know how mature I am today at 77. I've always looked upon myself as a boy, but all of a sudden, it happened to me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3727.0,3745.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Your first child was born, did you participate much in the care of that child?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3745.0,3751.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I think I did help with Gail. I did help. I changed diapers, but my wife was the force and she's been the force in the raising of our children. I was working a lot and she did a very good job because I think we have four wonderful children. I've had many compliments on my children. They're all different and we're proud of all of them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3751.0,3789.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Who came after Gail?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3789.0,3793.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Jay. My son Jay, and he was born in 1953, and I think we had the bris at our house.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3793.0,3807.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Who performed it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3807.0,3811.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Reverend Werbin of blessed memory, and he didn't use any modern methods in those days. He could scare you to death the way he performed the bris, but he got it done.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3811.0,3827.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Who has Jay name for?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3827.0,3829.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e His name is Jacob Halpern, who is my father's father.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3829.0,3842.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Then came . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3842.0,3844.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Debra, and who she's named for, I don't remember. She was born in 1955. She's always been a joy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3844.0,3865.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e You had one more child.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3865.0,3868.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Marty. Martin Halpern. He was born in 1959 and I can remember the day that we brought him home from the hospital. Debbie was out. She was out in our walkway and when she saw the baby, she wet her pants. I think it was a little traumatic for her. But she raised that boy. Debbie raised Marty. She was born in 1955 and he was born in 1959, she was four years older than he was, and she took him under her wing. She took him to the movies, she wouldn't let him be left out of anything. She was, that's just the way she's always been.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3868.0,3921.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What kinds of values did you try to give your children as you were raising them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3921.0,3929.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e We tried to live a good life, and we tried to inculcate them with lessons to . . . We try to live by example. I guess you would say that. They all went to religious schools and naturally they went to public schools and some were smarter than others but they all managed to get to college or go to college and graduate etc.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3929.0,3975.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e How about Judaism in your home?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3975.0,3983.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I may have been a little lacking in Judaism in our home, I think. We always went Friday night to my mother for the Friday night dinner. I'd say that that was the feature that we, and I always made the kiddush. I have the little book that I made the kiddush in, I still have it. Yom HaShishi Vayechulu hashamayim. [Hebrew: The sixth day. The heavens and the earth and all their hosts were completed.] I made the kiddush every Friday night.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=3983.0,4026.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Holidays.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4026.0,4030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Holidays, we used to dress our children up in their finery and we would go to synagogue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4030.0,4041.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What has been your synagogue? Your synagogue, what has it been? Where have you belonged?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4041.0,4049.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I've always been a member of AA since I got married. I've been a members of the AA synagogue continuously.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4049.0,4062.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e This AA is going through some hard times now. Do you want to comment on that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4062.0,4072.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I know that they've had hard [times]. I don't know that hard times . . . They've lost membership. I think that may be part of what's going on all over the country. We've lost two or three hundred members to another synagogue, but I think we'll survive. Maybe we won't be as big as we have been, and we've got a fundraising drive going on. I've always contributed my part to the synagogue, and I intend to help them in the future, because it's tradition.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4072.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What other causes have you supported?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4110.0,4115.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, we have a whole list of charities that we give to, the Federation. My wife is a . . . I don't know, what do you . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4115.0,4131.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . A board member.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4131.0,4132.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e No, she's not a board member. She's a, it's certain level that you achieve as a giver of the . . . I can't recall what it is, but we've always done our share at the Federation and the Jewish Home, Jewish Family Services, and many other organizations that we belong to. I myself have not been a . . . I haven't done what I could probably in the community. I make excuses for myself, but I would like to do better. Maybe I'll still have a chance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4132.0,4187.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Let's talk about your business one more time. We left at the point where you were involved in the liquor store business. When did you retire?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4187.0,4210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I retired in 1987, supposedly, at the end of 1986 I retired. I sold a store that I had on Ponce de Leon and in the meantime I had two other stores. I had one at Toco Hills and one on Memorial Drive. I took my office to Memorial Drive and about six months later I built a big wing of offices in the liquor store and I was there, but I didn't have any actual job that I had to get up and work at. But I was involved in the liquor business. A few years later, we built another store. I found a property and built a building. It turned out to be a very good business. My sons were with me in the liquor business. We were very successful at it. Shall I talk a little bit about the import business to you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4210.0,4306.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, please.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4306.0,4308.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e When . . . I was in the liquor business, I was always looking to maybe have an entrepreneurial spirit, more or less, to see what was around the corner . . . I'm a little ahead of it. When I still had my liquor stores, my daughter-in-law and a friend were looking to do something, and I was selling a lot of sunglasses in my liquor stores. One of the glasses that were real hot at that time was something called a pouch. It was a fold-up sunglass and it went into a little leather pouch. I think that they sold for about $30 a dozen and they retailed for $60 a dozen. I got fascinated with that and I went to New York and I made arrangements. I went with my friend Milton [Saul], he . . . use to go on buying trips and I went with him to New York and I bought these sunglasses for maybe $18 or $20 a dozen I gave these to my daughter-in-law and her partner. They were so hot. They went out and they, I don't know, they sold 10, 15 dozen of these glasses. They we're making good money selling those glasses. They were selling them a lot. The people that they was taking these glasses too, they said, \"We could sell some other glasses. Do you have anything else?\" I said, \"No.\" I said, \"I'm going to go buy you some more glasses.\" I went back to New York, and it's a place on lower Broadway . . . where this was sold, and I bought them a lot of sunglasses. I bought a lot sunglasses. Of course, they paid for them eventually, and they cried, \"We'll never sell these sunglasses.\" It didn't take them long. They sold those sunglasses, and they got an arrangement with an agent in Taiwan. They started importing themselves, sunglasses over a period of several years and they built up a big business. Playa del Rey is the name of their business. We share a warehouse now with Playa del Rey. They have about, they have almost half our warehouse in the sunglasses. My daughter-in-law's partner unfortunately passed away. Now she's running a business and owns the business. I have an interest in it, but I don't need it. She runs the business, and so we've got a knowledge of the import business that way through her, actually. I noticed in the liquor stores, we were selling a lot of cigarette lighters. Then I said, \"We could do something with that business.\" A salesman became available who was working for Scripto at that time. He had a lot of accounts. He sold various things to wagon jobbers. I found where the cigarette lighters, they were coming from China or Hong Kong. I said, \"I'm going to take a trip to, I'm retired, I'm going to take a trip to Hong Kong and see if I can find where these cigarette lighters come from, like the ones that we're selling.\" I said, \"Milton, you want to go with me?\" Milton, he's up for traveling. We went to Hong Kong, and I had to go to three or four different places until I saw the place that I wanted and the lighter that I was looking for. I bought a container of lighters, which a container of lighters was, I think in those days a container would hold about 850,000 lighters. I bought a container of lighters and they came in and we put them in the back of our warehouse in the liquor store and we were in business. We . . . were officially in business, but it was a homemade operation. My son was running a liquor store, and he was the sales manager, and I was the bookkeeper. That business grew, it grew and grew and grew until we had to get a warehouse for the lighters. Then it kept growing and growing and we said, \"This warehouse that we had taken didn't have enough room for what we needed.\" We built a building, bought a lot over on Amwiler Road and built a  big warehouse, and when we built it, we made room for Playa del Rey, and we're both together in the warehouse, my son and his wife are there running businesses, and it's been fun. I can't, I don't say that I want to quit, I may be still looking for businesses. While . . . we were early in our business, we got a fax machine. They were a novelty in those days, a fax machine. Milton visited me in my office one day and he saw the fax machine running, and orders coming in and he said, \"Wow,\" he says, \"I'd like to do something like that.\" He was, in the meantime, he had retired from, he'd been in the record business and done very well. He had various other things, Milton's an entrepreneur, you could call him a venture capitalist, and so we took a trip. We went to Malaysia and Taiwan, we were looking for something to sell. We said, \"What can we sell? We're going to be in business together\" . . . Finally we hit upon LCD [Liquid-crystal Display] watches. That's the first thing that we brought in, LCD watches, cheap watches. But we built up a business in that. But LCD watches, they're a fragile kind of thing, and we eventually gravitated into calculators and jewelry and luggage and so forth and so on. Milton is running that business, World Import, he's full time, he loves it. He's not a youngster, but he's doing a good job with it. We've got some big customers in that business, Walmart, Family Dollar, Dollar General. We also sell to the same people in our business in Halpern Import, we got into the work glove business. That's the way it is, traveling east west.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4308.0,4821.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e If someone came to you and said, \"You are a successful businessman, what advice can you give me? I would want to become one.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4821.0,4834.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I've always talked to Jay and Marty. I said, \"We can outwork anybody. Let's just work hard. If we work hard and take care of business, we could be successful. If not, it's not our fault. We can do it.\" What we've done is not big business. It's small business, and you have to take care of the details. I've always managed to preach that we're going to pay our bills on time, and I've lived my life that I'm not going to buy anything that I couldn't afford, and I've lived my life the same way in business.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4834.0,4880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Have you always been independent, an independent businessman, or have you ever been employed?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4880.0,4886.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I was employed for six months when I left college. Like I mentioned, that's the only time I've ever worked for anybody else. I've always had my own businesses. I . . . mentioned that my father was in real estate, he was dealing in real estate and I invested with my father. We were like fifty-fifty from the point that I went in real estate and we did pretty well in that. As I indicated, my father was a smart man, and we did pretty well in real estate, but after my father passed away in 1989, we had a lot of apartments, and I sold most of them. I didn't want to be in that business.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4886.0,4953.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e I want to change the subject for a moment. What kind of connection have you had with Israel through the years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4953.0,4967.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I've always been a supporter of Israel, but I have a large family in Israel. I had two aunts in Israel. Sherry and I visited Israel quite a few times. At one time I was trying to go there every other year to see my family. I've got four first cousins there. One on a manner, she died last year of breast cancer, but she had a nice family, nice husband. I'm . . . really close to them. I've done everything I could for them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4967.0,5019.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What are some of their names?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5019.0,5024.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e The one that maybe I'm the closest to in Israel, his name is Yoram Raviv.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5024.0,5030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e He lives?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5030.0,5031.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e He lives in Tel Aviv [Israel]. He was a director of an insurance company for a lot of years, and he's retired now. He has three boys, three sons, and one of the sons came to Atlanta. He saw what we were doing in the import business and in the sunglasses and we kind of gave him the input and information and he started a sunglass business in Israel and now he's the biggest in the country. He's very successful at it and I'm so proud of him. He's got a nice, fine home, and he's got three boys, and the other part of the family, the other two, that was Yoram's mother lived in Tel Aviv, and she passed away maybe seven, eight, ten years ago. A real nice person, very smart, very bright and very smart. Her other sister took another path. She married a man who was very idealistic. They lived in a kibbutz and he was like a director of the kibbutz or the bookkeeper of the kibbutz. The kibbutz that they eventually lived in, it's called Maoz Haim, it is in the Jordan Valley. It is very hot there and I visited them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5031.0,5156.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Their name is?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5156.0,5158.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Their name is Rachel, my aunt is Rachel Ruckel Halevi, and her husband was Menachem Halevi. They had two daughters, and the two daughters were basically raised on the kibbutz, because the kibbutz, they had nurseries for the children, and those daughters were raised on the kibbutz and those daughters had children and I'm close to their children. One of the, especially one of the daughters there . . . I've become real close to her. I've helped her some and she's like a child psychologist.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5158.0,5217.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e When you look at the way our society is going today, what comes to your mind? Do you have any concerns? Are you optimistic, pessimistic?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5217.0,5235.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e You mean in the Jewish society or the society in general?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5235.0,5242.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e In general.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5242.0,5243.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I guess I'm optimistic. I don't see anything to be pessimistic about. I'm not happy with George Bush, but other than that, he's not going to be our president forever. This is a beautiful, rich country. We have some, many fine people in this country, I don't see any reason that we won't continue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5243.0,5269.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What about the future of the Jewish people?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5269.0,5274.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's another question. In Israel, I just in the near term, I . . . think Israel's going to be alright. In the long, long, long term, I don't know, I can't say. I could not be pessimistic about that. I think they've made some mistakes, but they don't have anybody to deal with in Israel.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5274.0,5317.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What about Atlanta as a city?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5317.0,5321.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Atlanta is growing, you can't, well the traffic is horrendous. It really is horrendous. You mentioned community work, my son, my youngest son started a project, it's called One Good Deed. He got that idea . . . we all went to Israel about 18 months ago on a mission, almost two years ago. We visited this community center. When the older people had anything that needed to be done, they had handymen that would come in and do work and help them. He got the idea that we could do that in Atlanta, and he organized an organization. This is Marty. [He created] an organization, and they got volunteers, and they've got people, and they've done a lot of good deeds. His sister-in-law . . . takes all the calls and runs it, and Federation is, I don't know if Federation is involved in it or not. They're very interested in it and most of the work that they've done has been in the Beth Jacob area.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5321.0,5431.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e I understand you're a person who has many interests, who likes to cultivate himself. Could you talk about that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5431.0,5443.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e If . . . you ask me . . . how do I spend my time and what do I enjoy doing and what am I most interested in, I would say that a big part of my life is reading. I enjoy reading and being knowledgeable about what's going on in the world in literature, art, science, music. Those interest me. I enjoy sports, I play golf, I have been a good golfer, and now I'm a golfer. The club where I play, I tell them, I said, \"I used to be a good golfer,\" and they said, \"Everybody here used to a good golfer.\" That about summed it up, that summed it up for me, but I was a good golfer . . . I've been a good athlete in more things than baseball and basketball. I was a good ping pong player, I was the campus champion at the University of Georgia. I'm a good, nothing to brag about, but I'm good pool player and many of the little extras.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5443.0,5546.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What kinds of books interest you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5546.0,5550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I read the New York Times on Sunday. They come out with the book section, and I get ideas from that. I've seen several reviews that have interested me, and I've bought the books that have interested me. The last couple of books that I've seen about that is one of them is the giants of the twentieth century like George Gershwin and Irving Berlin and Harold Arlen and Hoagy Carmichael, that particular book. Then I, about four or five months ago, I saw a review by Michael Chabon, the Jewish policeman's union. It was a book that I enjoyed very much. It . . . was a mystery of sorts, but it had a lot of things that I liked about it. I enjoy reading . . . books with Jewish content in it, but not necessarily. I'm interested in financial news. I read Forbes Magazine. I read Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and various financials. I take the financial news. I take The New York Times. I read it every day. Also, the local paper. I keep myself busy. When I get up in the morning, the first thing I do is I get the newspaper. I can spend an hour or two with the newspaper and if I'm not playing bridge that day, I go to the office and I have lunch with my grandson and my son. I try to stay busy. I would like to exercise more. Something that I don't think we mentioned, I travel a lot. I've taken many cruises, these days mainly on the Crystal Line. We've taken many trips with Milton and Virginia Saul.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5550.0,5742.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What about trips with your children, any memorable ones?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5742.0,5747.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I used to take my children. I use to take them on vacations when we would go. We would seldom go without taking our children and I took my children on a cruise in the Caribbean one year . . . We went on a Federation trip in November of 2005 I would say, November of 2005. I offered to take anybody that wanted to go and I think it was about 12 of us went on that trip and it was a wonderful trip.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5747.0,5798.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Where did you go?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5798.0,5802.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e We stayed in Jerusalem [Israel] and we took trips outside of Jerusalem. While I was there in Israel, one of my cousins had a party for us and we got a bus and we went to Tel Aviv in the bus. We had a jolly good time all the way around. I think that that trip created a love for Israel in some of my grandchildren who hadn't been there, and that made it all worthwhile. It was sponsored by the Jewish Federation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5802.0,5845.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What can you say about your religious faith?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5845.0,5854.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . With my religious faith, I'm still in transition, I could say. I love the Jewish people and I loved tradition. So far as my faith is concerned, I have reservations and I don't really care to comment further about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5854.0,5896.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Is there something you would . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5896.0,5899.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . I'm not being a hypocrite.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5899.0,5903.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e If I ask you, what is your legacy to society at large?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5903.0,5912.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/267","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I think we're not in this world alone. We have to make a place for other people and people less fortunate. We owe it to society to try to live our lives and create institutions that will benefit society and we have very fine organizations here in Atlanta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5912.0,5954.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Is there something you would like to add?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5954.0,5959.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/269","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e To this interview. I've enjoyed this. It's given me a chance to reflect on my life. I hope I've lived my life, I haven't always lived it as I would like to have lived it, because I've had to make some compromises along the way. Early, maybe it was I had to some financial compromises. I think that we all have to make compromises in our life every day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5959.0,5999.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e Could you talk a little about the nature of those compromises? What exactly happened?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=5999.0,6007.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e We can't always have our way. Our grandchildren, they have minds of their own, and our children have minds their own. Maybe they wouldn't do things as perhaps I would like it. But I learned what's acceptable, what was unacceptable yesterday, we accept today, we tolerate today. We like it in the future, and in that regard, I just go with the flow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=6007.0,6047.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e If I asked you, what is your greatest accomplishment?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=6047.0,6054.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e I haven't had any great accomplishments. I've had things that have given me a lot of satisfaction. I think one of the high points of my life was when my daughter got elected to the Court of Appeals [in the] state of Georgia. She was the first Jewish person ever elected in the state of George statewide. The campaign that she ran, it seemed like it was going to never end. They had elections, and then they had reruns. Some of the other people appealed that the votes weren't counted right. Anyhow, she prevailed. She deserved it because she a has very great knowledge of the law. She was an assistant district attorney in Cobb County for many years and her expertise was appeals and she did all the appeals for Cobb County and she went to the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals herself and she made a name for herself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=6054.0,6138.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What do you think is the most important thing in life?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=6138.0,6143.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e Family. For me, it may be religion for others, I don't know, that's their problem. But for me, family is the most important thing. My wife, my children, my grandchildren, they're very important to me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=6143.0,6173.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What would you like to tell generations to come? In general, I'm not talking about your family, the future. What would be your message to them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=6173.0,6194.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . I would say that we have created in our own way a small family dynasty here in Atlanta. My children and my grandchildren and I would hope to see that grow and prosper and continue and it would make me happy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=6194.0,6226.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGHITIS:\u003c/strong\u003e What do you want to tell your loved ones? You have prepared a statement.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=6226.0,6234.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/transcript/92273/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eHALPERN:\u003c/strong\u003e The statement, okay, yes. If you'll excuse me, I wrote a few words and I would like to read it if it would be okay. That's about it, right? I've lived a goodly number of years in the cycle of life, and I've seen many of those I held near and dear pass away. Parents, relatives, and many friends. But that's the game as we play it. The biggest break I ever had was finding Sherry King at the age of 15 and never letting her get away. We had to struggle early raising four beautiful children. We both worked hard, and I think we're ahead of the game at this point. Our children and their mates have made us proud. They're well thought of in the community and known as persons of integrity. As for my grandchildren, I wish for you a long, happy, and fertile life. I hope to see much naches [Hebrew: special joy] from you now and in the future. If any future generation see this film, know that we have a proud name and I expect you to uphold our traditions. Shalom [Hebrew: peace].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=6234.0,6328.5"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/annotation_set/2437","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/annotation_set/2437/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSherry King Halpern (b.1930) is an Atlanta, Georgia native. She is the youngest daughter of Ella Baum King and Louis King. Sherry attended Girls High School and the University of Georgia. She met her future husband; Alvin Halpern at the Progressive Club when they were teenagers. They married in January 1950 and were married for 70 years until his death in 2020. They were members of Ahavath Achim Synagogue, and she has served as president of the Sisterhood. Sherry and Alvin have four children, Gail, Jay, Debra (d. 2010) and Martin.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=10.0,40.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/annotation_set/2437/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAtlanta, Georgia is the capital and largest city in the state of Georgia. During the American Civil War it was a strategically important city for the Confederacy until it was captured in 1864. The city was almost entirely burnt to the ground during General William Sherman’s March to the Sea. After the war, the city rebounded and became a national industrial center.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=42.0,53.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/annotation_set/2437/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003ePiedmont Atlanta Hospital was founded in 1906 as the Piedmont Sanitarium. 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Eighty percent of the town was destroyed in World War II. The Germans occupied the town for ten days in September 1939 and burned the synagogue before handing the town over to Soviet forces. The town was reoccupied by the Germans in 1941. On November 2, 1942, the SS drove out most of the Jewish inhabitants to a transit camp in the village of Bogusze. From there, they were sent to Treblinka extermination camp and Auschwitz concentration camp and most of them were murdered on arrival. 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The Russians left the border freely open to traffic until the end of October 1939. From then until the end of 1939 a small number of persons still crossed the border. After that, it was completely sealed. Some refugees still attempted to sneak across the heavily guarded border, often at great danger. Those caught trying to cross between occupation zones or trying to flee without papers faced arrest and arbitrary violence at the hands of both Russian and German border guards. 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Although Zionism existed before the nineteenth century, in the 1890s Theodor Herzl popularized it and gave it a new urgency, as he believed that Jewish life in Europe was threatened and a State of Israel was needed. The State of Israel was established in 1948 and Zionism today is expressed as support for the continued existence of Israel.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=388.0,433.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/annotation_set/2437/annotation/298","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIda Elizabeth “Lizzie” Esralsky Greenberg (1887-1940) was born in Poland and immigrated to the United States in 1913. She was married to Charles Greenberg, and they had five children, Rose, Miriam, Aaron, Irving, and Sol. 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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. In 1991, it was renamed the William Breman Jewish Home to honor and recognize its third president, Bill Breman, as the prime motivator of the modern-day facility.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542#t=4132.0,4187.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/168125/file/305542/annotation_set/2437/annotation/370","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJewish Family Services of Atlanta was an organization that began its life in 1890 as the Montefiore Relief Association. Its name and focus changed multiple times. It became a constituent agency of the Jewish Federation of Atlanta. 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