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She was the second child born to Alexander and Sadye Steinberg Meddin. She had an older sister Adele, and a younger brother David. Phyllis grew up in Savannah and spent her summers on Tybee Island, outside of Savannah. Her father and her uncles operated Meddin Meat Packing Company, which later became Meddin Enterprises. Her family belonged to several synagogues including Congregation Mickve Israel and Congregation B'nai B'rith Jacob. She was a lifetime member of Congregation Mickve Israel.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e      She graduated from Savannah High School and attended Armstrong Junior College in Savannah. Phyllis later attended nursing school at the University Hospital of Nursing in Augusta, Georgia. While in Augusta, she met her future husband, Dr. Maurice Fields, an Army captain stationed in Augusta. After he returned from serving in the Philippines, they married on November 21, 1945. They then moved to New York City, where Maurice was a dentist.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e      In 1952, they moved to Savannah, where Maurice started his dentistry practice. Phyllis was active in her community, volunteering at her daughters' schools and being a Girl Scout leader. She was also known for her love of bird watching, thunderstorms, and being a storyteller. Phyllis and Maurice had two daughters, Doris and Jean and one son, Robert. They had eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Maurice passed away in 1999, and Phyllis passed away in 2016.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003ePhyllis begins the interview by discussing her parents and her siblings. She shares how the family business, Meddin Meat Packing Company got started and how her father and her uncles worked in the business. She remembers going to the Fat Stock Sales and being at the slaughterhouse. Phyllis recalls how spending time at the slaughterhouse prepared her for nursing school. She talks about the preservation of the meat and how the business sold kosher meat. She discusses her memories of the city market and the street vendors that sold at the market and at her home. She also briefly discusses her memories of the business in the warehouses adjacent to the city market.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e      Phyllis talks about her grandfather trying to teach her Hebrew, attending Congregation Mickve Israel, and memories of synagogue growing up. She recalls Rabbi George Solomon, what she learned in her Sabbath School and the choir at the synagogue. She talks about her non-Jewish activities and her dislike of going to school. She discusses her parents belonging to three synagogues and attending services at Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob. Phyllis mentions belonging to the Harmony Club for a short time and her opinions of the group. She shares how much she enjoyed growing up Jewish in Savannah and attending events like AZA. She discusses her childhood and the freedom they had. She also recalls how her parents helped those in need in her neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e      Phyllis shares her memories of the Jewish businesses on West Broad Street. She also talks about what Savannah was like in the 1930’s and attending polo matches on the outskirts of the city. She recalls living in the Ardsley Park neighborhood, going to Johnny Harris, and attending school. Phyllis details her summers on Tybee Island and all the activities she and her friends participated in. She recalls tourists coming to Savannah to visit Tybee Island. She also remembers how the people dressed on the beaches during the summer and swimming in hotel swimming pools. She talks about her memories of the civil rights movement on Tybee Island and Savannah.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e      Phyllis discusses how she met her husband and getting married. She also shares about her three children and their families. She remembers her sister-in-law, Roberta Peters, who was an opera singer. She recounts how her family ended up moving to The Landings, a gated community in Savannah, and how they were treated as Jewish people living there. She remembers how she was treated as a Jew by non-Jewish people. She details the challenges she had in adjusting to life in New York City. Phyllis ends the interview by sharing how she and Maurice returned to Savannah and her love for Savannah.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29279"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Fields, Phyllis Meddin (1924-2016) (personal name)","Fields, Dr. Maurice (1916-1999) (personal name)","Meddin, Alexander (1892-1971) (personal name)","Meddin, Sadye Steinberg (1894-1994) (personal name)","Schneider, Adele Meddin (1920-2009) (personal name)","Schneider, Dr. Meyer M. 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She was the second child born to Alexander and Sadye Steinberg Meddin. She had an older sister Adele, and a younger brother David. Phyllis grew up in Savannah and spent her summers on Tybee Island, outside of Savannah. Her father and her uncles operated Meddin Meat Packing Company, which later became Meddin Enterprises. Her family belonged to several synagogues including Congregation Mickve Israel and Congregation B'nai B'rith Jacob. She was a lifetime member of Congregation Mickve Israel.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; She graduated from Savannah High School and attended Armstrong Junior College in Savannah. Phyllis later attended nursing school at the University Hospital of Nursing in Augusta, Georgia. While in Augusta, she met her future husband, Dr. Maurice Fields, an Army captain stationed in Augusta. After he returned from serving in the Philippines, they married on November 21, 1945. They then moved to New York City, where Maurice was a dentist.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; In 1952, they moved to Savannah, where Maurice started his dentistry practice. Phyllis was active in her community, volunteering at her daughters' schools and being a Girl Scout leader. She was also known for her love of bird watching, thunderstorms, and being a storyteller. Phyllis and Maurice had two daughters, Doris and Jean and one son, Robert. They had eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Maurice passed away in 1999, and Phyllis passed away in 2016.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhyllis begins the interview by discussing her parents and her siblings. She shares how the family business, Meddin Meat Packing Company got started and how her father and her uncles worked in the business. She remembers going to the Fat Stock Sales and being at the slaughterhouse. Phyllis recalls how spending time at the slaughterhouse prepared her for nursing school. She talks about the preservation of the meat and how the business sold kosher meat. She discusses her memories of the city market and the street vendors that sold at the market and at her home. She also briefly discusses her memories of the business in the warehouses adjacent to the city market.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Phyllis talks about her grandfather trying to teach her Hebrew, attending Congregation Mickve Israel, and memories of synagogue growing up. She recalls Rabbi George Solomon, what she learned in her Sabbath School and the choir at the synagogue. She talks about her non-Jewish activities and her dislike of going to school. She discusses her parents belonging to three synagogues and attending services at Congregation B\u0026rsquo;nai B\u0026rsquo;rith Jacob. Phyllis mentions belonging to the Harmony Club for a short time and her opinions of the group. She shares how much she enjoyed growing up Jewish in Savannah and attending events like AZA. She discusses her childhood and the freedom they had. She also recalls how her parents helped those in need in her neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Phyllis shares her memories of the Jewish businesses on West Broad Street. She also talks about what Savannah was like in the 1930\u0026rsquo;s and attending polo matches on the outskirts of the city. She recalls living in the Ardsley Park neighborhood, going to Johnny Harris, and attending school.\u0026nbsp;Phyllis details her summers on Tybee Island and all the activities she and her friends participated in. She recalls tourists coming to Savannah to visit Tybee Island. She also remembers how the people dressed on the beaches during the summer and swimming in hotel swimming pools. She talks about her memories of the civil rights movement on Tybee Island and Savannah.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Phyllis discusses how she met her husband and getting married. She also shares about her three children and their families. She remembers her sister-in-law, Roberta Peters, who was an opera singer. She recounts how her family ended up moving to The Landings, a gated community in Savannah, and how they were treated as Jewish people living there. She remembers how she was treated as a Jew by non-Jewish people. She details the challenges she had in adjusting to life in New York City. Phyllis ends the interview by sharing how she and Maurice returned to Savannah and her love for Savannah.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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Today is December 14, 2006. Phyllis, you\nare a Savannahian. Why don't you start out telling me about your parents and\nwe'll progress.\n\nFIELDS: My mother was from Augusta [Georgia]. She had a big family. Somehow or\nother, my grandfather in Savannah [Georgia] and my grandmother ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Augusta were\nrelated from the old country and remembered. There was a flood and a fire. This\nmust go back to the early 1900s. Anyway, they sent my father up to Augusta to\nsee if the family needed anything and were they all right. My father went over\nand stayed. My grandmother was a terrific cook, and when Daddy ate over there,\nhe said, \"I'm going have to marry one of these girls ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because I am not accustomed\nto such good food.\" My mother was next in line, and she already had two married\nsisters, so my father married my mother. Now this is the story they'd tell me,\nI'm sure it was not quite like that, but they got married in 1917. [They] lived\nin Savannah. My sister Adele was born in [1920] and I came along in 1924. My\nbrother David, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think was born in 1939, 1934 or something like that. I'm about\nten years older than he is, so that's about it. For a while after I married a\nYankee, I had to go live in New York, and I figured out a way to get back to\nSavannah. It was very easy. I just cried every night.\n\nMEYERHOFF: The Meddin name is synonymous with the meatpacking company. Tell me\nabout your father, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"his brothers in the business, and how that got started.\n\nFIELDS: I don't know how it got started, except my father [had] gone in business\nwith a man named Johnny Peters to sell whiskey. They were doing fine. But my\ngrandmother and grandfather weren't very happy with Daddy doing that. Somehow\nUncle Ike and Daddy, Uncle Ike was the oldest, got Daddy together and they\ndecided to go into the meat business. I don't know exactly how that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"happened,\nbut as each boy grew up, they went into the business with them. There was Asa\nand Hymie and Elliot. Elliot stayed here, and so did Asa. Hymie went over to\nCharleston [South Carolina], and he's got his family over there. The rest of us\nare here.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Where was the company located?\n\nFIELDS: The one in Savannah was out on . . . Oh, gosh, what's the name of that road?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: The Louisville Road.\n\nFIELDS: Louisville Road. I can remember going out there as a little girl. They\nhad, I hate to say this, fat stock sales . . . Daddy would take me, and I would\nusually take a friend and Daddy would turn us loose. He said, \"Just don't get\ninto the pens with the animals and don't leave the building.\" I remember going\nwith Helen Schmalheiser Cranman and couple other kids, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and we would slide in the\nmanure. Helen's mother was not happy about that when we got home, and she busted\nDaddy. Daddy says, \"Well, she didn't have to get off the fence. She got into it\nherself.\" But that's the way I grew up. I had a charmed childhood. I was happy.\nMy parents were good, and my sister and brother were fine, and I had a good time.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What was the slaughterhouse like? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where did the meat come in from?\nWhat can you remember?\n\nFIELDS: The farmers all over Georgia would come in and bring their cattle there.\nThey had fat stock sales where they auctioned the beef off. When they wanted it\nprocessed, they had the slaughterhouse and I used to go up and watch them. I\nhate to say it this way, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but it really didn't disturb me because I knew that\nthey were just cows, and I went to nurses school after I graduated. No, I didn't\ngraduate. When I finished high school and had one year of Armstrong [Junior\nCollege], I decided to go to Augusta and go to nursing school. I think it really\nprepared me very well, that slaughterhouse. I enjoyed that, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was a good nurse.\nI liked it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Obviously, the preserving was very different then than it is now. The\nfreezers . . . when I think of the commercial freezers today, it's not like it\nwas then. How did they keep a big supply of meat available?\n\nFIELDS: They didn't. Not too much. They did have some and that was down in the\nCity Market. 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They also sold\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kosher meat. Mr. Kaplan used to go down and kosher the meat.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Do you remember his first name?\n\nFIELDS: No, I do not. I just remember seeing him with Grandpa a lot. I remember\nI didn't like the way they koshered the meat because they didn't hit [the\nanimals] on the head first, the way they did with Daddy's meat. But sometimes\nthe animals would slip by a little bit, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it bothered me.\n\nMEYERHOFF: You remember the City Market.\n\nFIELDS: Oh, yes.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Tell me everything you can remember about it.\n\nFIELDS: The best things about it is upstairs you could get anything you wanted\nto eat. Every Saturday morning, my father would go up there before he came home\nfor breakfast because he'd leave the house at five in the morning to open up a\nbusiness. Then he'd come home for breakfast about 8:30. 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These black women would get\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"vegetables and flowers and fruit, and they put them all in a huge basket and put\nthem on the heads. They would walk up and down the streets. I can even remember\nthe cry that they would sing.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Can you remember it?\n\nFIELDS: Yes. \"Eight crab. Eight crab. Get your crabs here.\" That was for the\ncrabs and the shrimp and the fish if they have it. The vegetable man's name was\nIsaac. I haven't thought of that in a long time. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He would come in an old truck.\nHe would have corn and beans and peas and any kind of squash, any kind of\nvegetables you'd want. He had his customers, and he would come by our house and\ncall Momma. She'd come out, buy what she wanted. That's the way we grew up.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did these ladies work for a company who sent them out?\n\nFIELDS: No, for themselves. They were black.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: How did they preserve perishables because I remember . . .?\n\nFIELDS: . . . They didn't have . . .\n\nMEYERHOFF: . . . I remember some selling shrimp or srimp as they would say.\n\nFIELDS: If you did srimp. If you didn't get it early, you shouldn't buy it. But\nthey would put ice in it. It would drip down and keep them nice and cool. It\nwould sell out fast because they sold all over the city.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What was the other part of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"City Market like? The warehouses that are\nnow tourist shops. Were those open as . . . ?\n\nFIELDS: You're talking about the other street. I'm only talking about the building.\n\nMEYERHOFF: But the other buildings adjacent . . .\n\nFIELDS: They were warehouses because I can remember going in some of them. There\nwere plumbing supplies and furniture. I really don't know. I just know that . .\n. one of them was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Alexander Company, and I used to go with a son. They sold\noveralls, made overalls and sold them. I don't really remember that brings me up\nto my teens. I haven't thought of those things in so long. But . . . everybody\nwent to Sunday school or Hebrew school or something. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My grandfather tried to\nteach me to read Hebrew. After about three weeks he called up Daddy. He said,\n\"Please tell her not to come anymore\" . . . I couldn't learn it. It was just\nimpossible. I was having a hard time in school with arithmetic, and I just\ncouldn't deal with it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Your family, your father grew up in the BB [B'nai B'rith Jacob], and\nthen you changed to the Temple [Temple Mickve Israel]. 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They weren't born yet.\n\nMEYERHOFF: At the time that you were growing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"up around there. Were you friendly\nwith the other non-Jewish or did you feel . . . ?\n\nFIELDS: Not until I . . . We went to Gwinnett Street after that. When I was\ngrowing up and had to go to school. I just played in the neighborhood with\neverybody and there was no problems with religion at all.\n\nMEYERHOFF: You were saying that you changed from the BB to the Temple\n\nFIELDS: Because we lived across the street from it. 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I used to go to the JEA ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the afternoons and we would play basketball and\nwe would just hang out.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Was there a social hall prior to the Fifties social hall?\n\nFIELDS: We had parties or dances, but no, I didn't start going there until the\nwar broke out.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Was there a social hall behind the Temple? 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That\nyou see, I learned Jewish history. The Orthodox kids didn't have any place to go\nexcept for cheder, and that was just Hebrew. They were bar mitzvahed or bat\nmitzvahed. I don't even think they even bat mitzvahed the girls then and just\nbar mitzvah. 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They'd say, \"We got\nenough money after the movie to either ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have a Coca-Cola or ride the bus home.\"\nIf I had on comfortable shoes, we walked.\n\nMEYERHOFF: From downtown to Ardsley Park?\n\nFIELDS: Yes, two miles. We walked it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Do you remember going to Johnny Harris or any of . . . ?\n\nFIELDS: That was the only place mother would let us go when we started to grow\nup, because she said it wasn't fun. She knew they would not let us have whiskey\nand we didn't. 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My Aunt Matilda\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and my cousin Audrey, her family lived there. The Schmalheisers were next door\nto us . . . I grew up with these kids. I was born with them, and I still see them.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What was life like at the beach during the day?\n\nFIELDS: Wonderful. Everybody went to the beach at 10:00 in the morning and you\nhad to get the sun. The vitamin D was very important. The mothers would roll the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bathing suits down so that we would get the vitamin D, of course we got sunburn,\ntoo. We were allowed to go into the water. Momma and her friends would sit on\nthe beach, but they had lifeguards out by then. Every block there was a\nlifeguard. Every summer, at the beginning of the summer, the lifeguards would\nteach these kids to swim. I remember Mother giving me $0.50 for a lesson, and\nthat's how I learned to swim. He took me out on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"his arm and said, \"Okay, swim,\nno kick harder. Swing your arms harder.\" That's how I learned to swim.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did you have concerns about undertows then?\n\nFIELDS: Oh, sure. We had them and he says, \"Put your feet down, lean into it and\nstick your toes in the dirt and hold still. Don't try to swim . . . Don't try to\nmove. Or if you can't hold it, then swim and angle off. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But don't try to swim\nback in as you're going out.\" These are the lessons we got and none of us drowned.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What about crabbing? Do you remember crabbing?\n\nFIELDS: Went every summer. It was really neat. We all went with a crab basket\nand a net. But it was a bushel basket and hunks of bones and meat.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What kind of bones?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FIELDS: Oh, beef bones. Daddy would bring them home from the market and off we'd\ngo. You could tell when there was a crab on it because it was pulled the line.\nYou pull it in slowly, then you pull it up a little bit. When you see the crabs,\nput you net underneath it and take it in to shore and put it in a basket.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Why were people afraid of going in there barefooted, into the water\nif the crabs were there?\n\nFIELDS: Who was?\n\nMEYERHOFF: No, I am saying why weren't you. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No?\n\nFIELDS: No. I don't think anybody ever got bit by a crab . . . the only thing we\nget were what they call sea nettles, which were probably little things that you\nsee on the television now that would break loose and come up on a wave. It would\nhit your ankles and you'd get a red mark and you'd run out of the water\nscreaming. They put some soda on it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or something, calamine lotion, whatever they had.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Was the amusement park there?\n\nFIELDS: Not the amusement park, just the pavilion. The pavilion was where we\nwent every afternoon. All the kids went there . . . They had a place where you\nget Coca-Colas, ice cream, waffles, the kind that [were] on a prong thing.\nThey'd dip into this batter and then they dip it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"into the hot fat, and it would\nbubble up and come off the things. Then they turn them over and then take them\nout and put them in a basket to drain and put powdered sugar on them. Now you\ncould get, this is what I liked best. You could get . . . one for a nickel and\nthree for a dime . . . we always got a nickel every afternoon . . . if I could\nget my cousin or somebody else to go in with me, we'd get waffles. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Otherwise,\nwe'd go over to Salm's Hotel and get a Coca-Cola. Every now and then we put it\nin the slot machine, which were wide open, and we would always lose our nickels,\nbut it was worth a try.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Were the kids impressed with the lighthouse or played there or . . . ?\n\nFIELDS: We weren't allowed to go there. It was two miles. It was a long walk up\nthere and I don't know that they would have even let us in.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: What about the Tybee Theater?\n\nFIELDS: That was good, except there were no screens on the doors or windows and\nthe mosquitoes would eat you up. But if there was a good movie and we could get\na ride down, now this was when I was a teenager, we would suffer with the\nmosquitoes. Sometimes my mother or daddy would take us down there and drop us,\nbut we had to walk home. That was a nice long walk. But if it was a good movie,\nwe did it anyway.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Now, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when the big bands came and played at the pavilion, were you there?\n\nFIELDS: Yes.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Do you remember that? Tell me about it.\n\nFIELDS: I was young, and we didn't know how to dance, but we went.\n\nMEYERHOFF: There was no age limitation.\n\nFIELDS: I don't think so. I think you paid a quarter to get in and that was all.\nBut we would get in for nothing. I don't know how we did that, except we were\nyoung kids. They'd let us in, but we would sit . . . on the pavilion in the\nafternoon when they were practicing. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"These were the big bands. The big band era.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Do you remember any of the names?\n\nFIELDS: Guy Lombardo was one. I can't remember now. If I'd thought about it, I\nmight have been able to remember . . . This was one of the stops, they would\nsell out and people would come from town. We had a train that would come from\nSavannah to Tybee. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They had a turntable and all the kids in the afternoon would\ngo down to the turntable and help the conductors turn the engine around. That's\nhow they had to turn it around. It would disconnect from the things, and then it\nwould ride up the track next to it, then back up and hook onto the cars and then\ngo back to town. That was a treat to ride the train to town or back.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Do you remember any of the steam ships ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that came in, or was that too\nlong ago?\n\nFIELDS: They came in from New York because I had relatives who lived in New\nYork. They use to come down every year.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Where did it dock?\n\nFIELDS: Somewhere in the, I think, Hudson River. In New York?\n\nMEYERHOFF: No. Where would it dock at Tybee?\n\nFIELDS: Not at Tybee, it would dock in town.\n\nMEYERHOFF: But people came for the pavilion or Tybee as a . . . summer resort.\n\nFIELDS: Oh, yes. I guess . . . most of them were Savannah people ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or a lot of\npeople from Augusta or the country towns would come out there. You'd rent a\ncottage for a week or two. Now, we always rented them for the summer and\nsometimes two or three families would rent the whole cottages together. These\nare still my friends.\n\nMEYERHOFF: How did men and women dress in clothes in the summer on Tybee beach?\n\nFIELDS: No problem. They had sun dresses, and they didn't wear much under it.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The men had to wear tops to their bathing suits so they couldn't go . . . on the\nbeach. But they had big cut outs and low necks and no sleeves. That's how they\nwould go swimming.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What about the men wearing linen suits in the summer on the beach?\n\nFIELDS: If they did, they were crazy. 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My father ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was mayor pro tem at Tybee. He ran for office, and he\nwanted to change it. He could not see any reason why blacks could not swim in\nthe ocean. I was right with him . . . . I had a maid, my mother had a maid who\nused to bring her little daughter. I would put a bathing suit on her, one of\nmine and one of my daughters when it was later. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'd take that little black child\ninto the ocean, and I stood up to [them]. The police came up one day and said,\n\"She can't swim here.\" I said, \"Why not?\" He said, \"Because she's black.\" I\nsaid, \"If you go across the ocean, you're going to come to Africa where all the\nblack people are. How are you going to cut off the water from coming here?\" He\ncouldn't answer that one. I said, \"Let me tell you something, this child is\ngoing to swim here, as long as she wants to, as long as I'm here to watch her.\nNow, what are you going to do about it?\"\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Do you remember in particular when the police came down, there were a\ngroup of blacks who tried to go into the water?\n\nFIELDS: My father and I went down to the beach, too. We fought that. My daddy\nwas . . . mayor pro tem. He said, \"You cannot do this. This is wrong.\" He says,\n\"If you take them off this beach, I am going to take them a little farther up\nwhere they can swim in front of my house.\" Daddy wouldn't put up with that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I\nwouldn't. It was wrong.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did you . . . have any problems with friends or other people at Tybee\nwho disagreed with the way you thought?\n\nFIELDS: No. Not my friends.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What about any of the racial riots or marches on MLK [Martin Luther\nKing]? Do you remember any of that?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FIELDS: Yes. As a matter of fact, two of my friends went and marched with them.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Who were they?\n\nFIELDS: Lorlee Tenenbaum, I believe, was one. Who was the other one? 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In those days, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you could\nget a hotel room and they were staying at a place. My future in-laws had . . .\ntwo hotels down there, in New York City. They told my husband . . . to make a\nlong story short, somehow or other, they got to one of my husband's families\nhotels and they let them stay as long as they wanted because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this man was taking\na course at Columbia University, and it was going to be six weeks. He was in the\nservice, and he couldn't get out. Mom and Dad had four boys in the service, and\nthey let them stay as long as they wanted. When I went to nursing school in\nAugusta, they heard that Maurice, my husband . . . who was in the Army in the\ndental corp [would] be stationed in Augusta. They had him look me up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I took\none look at him and went right to the telephone that night, called my mother and\nsaid, \"I met the man I'm going to marry.\" I fell in love just like that. Spent\nthe afternoon with him and he took me out for dinner, and that was it. And I\ndid. I wrote to him for two years when he was overseas and he came home, we were\nmarried a week later.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Where were you married?\n\nFIELDS: At home. At our house, rabbi came out and married us.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did you have a reception?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FIELDS: I had Helen Schmalheiser Cranman, who is my best friend. She came with\nHerman, I think was home at the time. No, we just had family and I didn't care.\nI didn't want a wedding. I just wanted to get married. Was best thing I ever did\nwas to marry that man.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Your children. Tell me about your children.\n\nFIELDS: I have three, and the oldest is Doris. I don't know if you know her or\nnot. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She's married to a doctor and lives in Alabama, Tuscaloosa, where her\nhusband teaches in medical school and practices. She has three gorgeous boys all\nover six feet tall. My second child is Robbie, and he's an attorney who lives in\nNew York and has a family. The last one is Jeannie, who's my fighter. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She didn't\nlike being Reformed, so she is Orthodox, and we had an awful time with her. I\nknew all the rabbis in the city. I had to go talk to all of them because they\ndidn't want . . . She could not walk to synagogue from my house on Washington\nAvenue at night. She could walk in the daytime if she wanted to walk to shul,\nbut she could not walk at night. She was not very happy, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so I had to talk with\nall the rabbis. Because they didn't know what to do with me. One of them said,\n\"She just cannot ride in the car.\" I said, \"If she's not driving it, she's not\nstarting it. She's not firing it up.\" [He said,] \"Well, maybe. We'd rather have\nher come than not come because of that, so how about letting her ride while you\ndrive the car.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"Okay.\" He said, \"But does a light come on in your car\nwhen you open the door.\" I said, \"Yes.\" He said, \"Can you unscrew it.\" I said,\n\"No.\" [He said,] \"You roll the window down and let her climb in.\" This is the\nOrthodox rabbi. I said, \"Okay.\" That's what she did. I would take her and she'd\nclimb out. Sometimes she would go to a friend's house until . . . the second\nstar came out and she would call up and I would go get her. Now, I was very\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lucky if my child's going to do something, at least she did it in my own faith.\nI couldn't fight, but I didn't like it. It wasn't my religion. But from there,\nthis child took her 11th and 12th grades of high school together so she could\nleave Savannah and go to what's the name of the . . . very religious college.\n[tape pause and resumes]\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: What was the name of it again?\n\nFIELDS: Stern College. This child was going to go to Israel. She wanted more\nreligion than I had given her. She liked it. I could not stop her. Fortunately .\n. . what was the name of the family from Savannah who lived over there [someone\noff tape provides the name] . . . Rosensweigs were there and I got in touch with\nthem. They said, \"We will watch out for her. Let her come.\" This child was\nafraid of nothing. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She went with the soldiers. She would ride in the trucks with\nthem wherever they went. She traveled all over Israel by herself. She came home\nafter two years or a year it was. I said, \"Come home. You've had enough.\" She\ndid, but she was not coming back to Savannah. She went to New York, where my\nhusband, Maurice, had a cousin who was not married, and she would bunk in with\nhim ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"if she . . . wanted to get out of school for the weekend. One day she'd gone\nover to Russell's house and the doorbell rang and she answered it. Here was this\nhandsome, blond haired man who asked where Russell was, and she says, \"He's not\nhere yet.\" He says, \"I'm Russell's cousin. Can I come in?\" He and Jeannie fell\nin love and married and are still married, have [two] grown children. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You just\nnever can tell, and I love him. He is just a fine young man, and not so young\nanymore. My oldest daughter married a doctor from Alabama. His family was from\nAtlanta, and his daddy was a doctor. But I never met him, he had died. My son\nwent up to New York ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to work and went to school and met a girl and married a girl\nfrom New Jersey. All of them married out of town people and they all got\nwonderful children. Thank goodness, knock wood. [memoirist knocks on something]\nNone of them have been in troubled. They are all fairly healthy. My son has\nadopted a Chinese little girl, and she is not well. But they're doing the very\nbest they can for her. She cannot walk. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She can hardly talk. But they didn't\nknow this. They got her when she was five months old, beautiful child. Then they\nhave an older son and then a younger daughter. They live in New York, a little\nways north of the city. I forget the name of the city. Doris lives in Alabama\nwith her husband. Her three children are grown ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and gone. Jeannie is in North\nCarolina with her husband and her son and her daughter. Her daughter is\nsomething else. She is an individualist, an artist, a very talented artist. She\nmakes almost as much money as her father does, drawing pictures, illustrating\nthe things that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he writes up. He's a . . . when you buy something, it comes with\ninstructions. That's what he does, and she does the illustrations for it.\nThey're doing fine. They pick up stray dogs and cats and find them homes or keep them.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Tell me about Maurice's sister.\n\nFIELDS: Doesn't have any. He's one of four boys. You talking about Roberta?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Yes.\n\nFIELDS: She's a daughter and a sister-in-law.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Tell me about.\n\nFIELDS: She's married to Bert. That's son number three.\n\nMEYERHOFF: All right, for the record, tell me about . . .\n\nFIELDS: . . . Roberta Peters. When I first met her, I was taken aback because\nshe's beautiful.\n\nMEYERHOFF: First of all, who is Roberta Peters?\n\nFIELDS: Roberta Peters . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is an opera singer. She sang at . . . [tape pauses\nand restarts] They come down to visit me all the time.\n\nMEYERHOFF: She sang at Carnegie Hall.\n\nFIELDS: Yes. She is very talented. She's retired now, but she still sings . . .\nto her grandchildren. They live in Florida. They've had a wonderful life. She\nwas married to the third brother, Bert. Is married to him. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They come and visit\nme on the way to New York and then back down to Florida. It's wonderful because\nI'm really very fond of them.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did you attend many concerts to hear her sing?\n\nFIELDS: We did. We used to get tickets and we would go to any new one that she\ndid. But they have these concerts all the time, but the singers only sing a\ncertain amount of concerts. They don't know them all. The ones that she knew she\nsang. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[She] didn't learn any more after she started singing though.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did she ever sing or perform in Savannah?\n\nFIELDS: Yes. She would come down for concerts.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Where?\n\nFIELDS: At the auditorium. The city auditorium. As a matter of fact . . . my\npicture was even in the newspaper because they didn't know who I was, and I was\nstanding with her. [memoirist laughs] She's a wonderful person. She and Bert\nlive . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Florida. I forget the name of the place, it's up north of Miami\n[Florida]. Anyway, she's happy. She has two boys who are married to two\nwonderful girls, and I don't know how many grandchildren they've got. I think\nsix. Maurice's other brothers, one of them die, the one next to him, had two\nboys. They're fine, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have their families. Then the third boy is Irwin, and he\nlives in Florida, too. It was a great family. We had a wonderful time. I love\nbeing a part of it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Getting back to your life and moving to different locations. You were\nadventurous because your family moved to Ardsley Park when that was still new\nland. Then in 1979, you moved to The Landings, which was still very new. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That\nwas quite a move, an adventure. Tell me about life then at The Landings.\n\nFIELDS: We moved out there as soon as the bridge opened up, because I'd been\nbroken into three times when we lived on Washington Avenue. If we were out and\nmy children were there with a babysitter, the other part of the house was broken\ninto. Nobody ever heard it with three screaming kids and a babysitter and the\ntelevision going. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They just came in and robbed. We had a big safe that Daddy had\ngiven us, and we kept jewelry in it, what little we had. Robbie had worked all\nsummer and made $50, and he had that in 50 one dollar bills in the safe. Some\nthree boys from Savannah High had broke into the house, took the safe out and\ntook it down to one of the canals and took an ax and broke it open. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They found\nall our insurance papers and birth certificates and stuff that we had in that\nsafe. I said, \"That's it. I'm not going to stay on Washington Avenue anymore.\nI've had it.\" When the bridge opened, I came out, I found a lot, and we built a\nhouse, and that was it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: The Landings was very new. How was it then in the Seventies with very\nfew Jewish people living there?\n\nFIELDS: It didn't bother me a bit. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had grown up with non-Jews. I'd gone to\nnursing school with non-Jews. They were no different, except they went to\nchurch, and I went to synagogue. The boys I went with were not Jewish, and they\nwere perfect gentlemen, much more so than the Jewish boys who got fresh. I had\nto pop a couple of them. But I never had a problem. Only once was I embarrassed.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had been going with a non-Jewish boy and he asked me to go to his graduation.\nHe was a medical student and asked me to go to his graduation dance with him. I\nsaid I would go, and his mother and sister came up for graduation. During\nintermission he took me to meet them. I was dressed in a lovely dress that my\nmother had bought me. His sister, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this boy's sister, said, \"My dear, what church\ndo you go to?\" I realized what was happening right then. I said, \"I don't go to\nchurch. I go to synagogue, I'm Jewish.\" I saw my date go like this. He knew what\nhe was in for, and I knew this could not go on. I really liked this boy. He was\na real fine young man. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"After we left, after intermission, I went with him and I\nsaid, \"I cannot date you anymore. I won't date you anymore.\" I said, \"There's no\nneed in getting your mother and your sister upset because there's no future in\nit.\" I said, \"I have met a very fine Jewish man who is overseas and I'm going to\nmarry him when he comes back.\" That was the end of that. Then about a few months\nlater, the war was over, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Maurice came home and he said, \"When are we getting\nmarried?\" I said, \"Any time you want.\" This must have been on Saturday, because\nwe were married the following Wednesday in my mother's house. Maurice never got\nto go up to Tennessee to see the other girl he'd been dating, and that was that.\nWe went to live in New York because that's what you did when you married a man\nfrom out of Savannah. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I did not like that city. I had a whole lot of things . .\n. I had to learn to live there. Living in New York was an experience for me\nbecause I didn't know how you lived up there and I didn't know how to go buying\nin the stores. They heard my Southern accent, and all tried to cheat me. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was\nsmart enough to realize that I had to grow up. I can remember once I bought a\ndozen eggs from a dairy market and when I went up to fix an omelet from Maurice\nand opened the first egg there was a chicken in it. I put it aside and I took\nout the second egg and . . . had a chicken, wasn't quite as bad as the first\none. I took out the third egg and . . . it had been fertilized. You could see\nthere was a red thing in it, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I put them all back in the carton, went back\ndownstairs, went back to the market, took out the first egg and laid it on the\ncounter. I said, \"Your eggs were not fresh.\" He said, \"Oh, yes, ma'am, they\nare.\" I said, \"Well, look at the chicken in this one.\" He said, \"Oh.\" I took out\nthe second egg and I laid it out and I said, \"Look at this one. It's not quite\nas bad, but it's got a chicken in it too.\" He says, \"Oh.\" I took out the third\negg. This one I smashed. I said, \"Now I've got nine more to go. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'll smash every\none on your counter unless you give me fresh eggs.\" He did and he said, \"Lady,\nwould you do me a favor?\" I said, \"If I can.\" He said, \"Don't ever come back.\" I\ndidn't, that took care of that. But I learned the policeman on the block because\nI got a taxi one day when I was trying to get pregnant. I had some sterility\nproblems. They said to go across the park to see this doctor. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Coming back, it\nwas on a Monday that I would go out. I had my $10 allowance that Maurice gave me\nin the $10 bill. I hand this taxi driver the $10 bill and he said, \"Lady, don't\nyou know better to get in a taxi in New York with just a $10 bill.\" I said,\n\"Take it or leave it. That's all I got.\" He took it and he gave me change. He\nsays, \"Don't ever do this again. Before you get in a taxi, make sure you have\nchange.\" Now, this is New York City with how many taxis. 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He looks at me, he said, \"Lady, didn't I have\nyou last week?\" I said, \"Yes.\" He said, \"You got changed for that $10 bill.\" I\nsaid, \"No.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He cut that $10 bill in half, and he gave me half and he threw the\nother half out the window. I said, \"Your loss is my gain.\" I pick them both up\nand I didn't get him again. If he was there, he didn't pick me up, let's put it\nthat way. I had some funny things happen. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He did. I waved to him and came home. Didn't get raped.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Can you think of anything else before we close that you might want to\nadd about Savannah or yourself or your family?\n\nFIELDS: It turns out that my brother-in-law got home from overseas and he did\nOB-GYN. He decided to live in Savannah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Your brother in law?\n\nFIELDS: My brother-in-law decided to practice OB-GYN in Savannah after the war.\nHe rented a building on this side of Forsyth Park and Abercorn Street. I forget\nthe name of the street that's on the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/transcript/63133/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"other side. It was a big, beautiful old\nbuilding, and he had two empty rooms on his floor. He called Maurice up and he\nsaid, \"How would you like to practice in Savannah?\" Maurice said, \"I can't. I\ndon't have a Georgia license.\" He said, \"Go down in June and take the Georgia\nexam. If you pass it, come on down. Practicing in Savannah is fine. I've just\nopened my office and I can help you with your patients.\" That's exactly what we\ndid. 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That's where he is, he's with the Southerners.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=3810.0,3840.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/annotation_set/1260","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/annotation_set/1260/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Educational Alliance (JEA) is the name of Savannah, Georgia's Jewish Community Center. It was founded in 1912 and continues to serve the Jewish and general communities in Savannah today.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/annotation_set/1260/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAugusta, Georgia is located on the South Carolina border and sits on the Savannah River across from North Augusta, South Carolina. The city was founded in 1736 and named for Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, the wife of Frederick, Prince of Wales. Today the city is known for hosting The Masters golf tournament every spring at Augusta National Golf Club.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/annotation_set/1260/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSavannah is the oldest city in the state of Georgia. It is a coastal city, separated from Charleston, South Carolina by the Savannah River. The city and the colony of Georgia was founded in 1733 when General James Oglethorpe and settlers arrived. During the Revolutionary War the city was the southernmost commercial port and during the Civil War it was the sixth most populous city in the Confederacy. City officials negotiated a peaceful surrender of the city in 1864, saving the city from destruction by General Sherman’s army. The city is known for its historic district with its 22 parklike squares, which was based on a design known as the Oglethorpe Plan.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/annotation_set/1260/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003ePhyllis is likely referring to the Augusta fire of 1916. The fire occurred on March 22 and destroyed much of the city. It was blamed on an unattended iron in a tailor shop. It was worst fire in Augusta’s history and caused $10 million in damages. No one was killed, but 3000 were left homeless and 600 residential and commercial buildings were destroyed.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/annotation_set/1260/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAlexander Meddin (1892-1971) was a Savannah, Georgia businessman, who owned and operated Meddin Meat Packing Company with his brothers. He also served as alderman for Tybee Island from 1945-1964, and also served as mayor pro-tem during part of this time. Meddin was a veteran of World War I, member of Temple Mickve Israel, the Jewish Educational Alliance and B’nai B’rith. He was married to Sadye Steinberg Meddin, and they had three children ˗ Adele, Phyllis and David.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/annotation_set/1260/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSadye Steinberg Meddin (1894-1994) was born in Sparta, Georgia and moved to Savannah, Georgia after her marriage to Alexander Meddin in 1917. She and Alexander had three children ˗ Adele, Phyllis and David.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/annotation_set/1260/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAdele Meddin Schneider (1920-2009) was a Savannah native and the oldest child of Alexander and Sadye Steinberg Meddin. She was a life-long member of Temple Mickve Israel and initiated a docent program at the synagogue. She was also a member of the Savannah Historical Society, the Medical Auxiliary, and was a life member of Hadassa. Adele was married to Dr. Meyer M. 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David was married to Polly, and they had two daughters and a son.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/annotation_set/1260/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Meddin Meat Packing Company was located in Savannah Georgia on Louisville Road. The business was started in 1917 by Isaac (Ike) and Alexander. Over time three more brothers Auzer (Asa), Hyman (Hymie) and Elliot (Itchy) joined the business. Hymie eventually expanded the business by moving to Charleston, South Carolina and opening a packing plant there. The company supplied meat to much of southeast Georgia and coastal South Carolina.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/annotation_set/1260/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003ePhyllis is likely referring to John A. Peters Sr. (1895-1967) was a Savannah, Georgia native. He was President of Savannah Distributing Company, which was started in 1938. He was married to Ida Melton Peters, and they had a daughter and son.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/annotation_set/1260/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIsaac Meddin (1891-1972) is the eldest son of Abraham and Hannah Jarinkes Meddin. He was born in Belarus and immigrated to the United States in 1901. He started Meddin Meat Packing Company with his brother Alexander in 1917. Isaac was married to Matilda Kaplan, and they had one son, Gerald.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/annotation_set/1260/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAsa Meddin (1902-1973) was the son of Abraham and Hannah Jarinkes Meddin and a Savannah, Georgia native. He worked with his brothers in the family business, Meddin Meat Packing Company. Asa was married to Reba Stein, and they had a son and daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/annotation_set/1260/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHyman “Hymie” Meddin (1906-1989) was the son of Abraham and Hannah Jarinkes Meddin. He was born in Savannah, Georgia but later moved to Charleston, South Carolina. He operated the family business, Meddin Meat Packing Company, in Charleston. 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The American Civil War started in Charleston Harbor with the Confederate army firing on the Union’s Fort Sumter.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/annotation_set/1260/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eLouisville Road was established by the Colonial Assembly in April 1770. It connected the early settlement of Queensboro, at the head of the Ogeechee River navigation, with Savannah, Georgia. 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The original building burned in 1820 and was replaced a year later. In 1876, a brick building was built; it is an ornate structure with arches and large circular windows in the Romanesque style. The market survived two fires, the Civil War, and the hurricane of 1896. Today the market has been preserved and is part of the Savannah Historic District and popular with tourists.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/119739/file/224727/annotation_set/1260/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKashrut\u003c/em\u003e is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jews are permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish law. 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