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Ferst, Jr. interviewed by Irving Schoenberg on August 19, 1992 and August 24, 1992 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eAlvin Meinhardt Ferst, Jr. was born in Atlanta in 1922 to Alvin Meinhardt Ferst, from Savannah, Georgia, and Doris Marks, from Charleston, South Carolina. Alvin Sr. worked in various advertising and manufacturing businesses in Atlanta, and Doris was active in the Dekalb League of Women Voters and Council of Jewish Women. Alvin Jr. attended Samuel Inman grade school through first grade, and then the family moved to the Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta. He attended Sunday School at The Temple, where he was a lifelong congregant. He later attended Druid Hills High School and was active in a number of activities from tennis to Glee Club. Alvin graduated high school at 16 and attended the Georgia Institute of Technology the following fall, where several of his uncles had attended. He graduated in 1943, with a degree in Industrial Engineering, merging Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management courses. After school, Alvin worked as an industrial engineer for Philco Corporation in Philadelphia for nearly a year before he was drafted to the Seabees, where he worked as an industrial engineer in Trinidad. His service ended in 1946, and Alvin moved back to Atlanta and began a career at Rich’s Department Store. There, he met his wife, Charlotte Boyette, with whom he had three daughters. Alvin worked for Rich’s for 35 years, overseeing the construction of the Store for Men and various other projects. Over time, Alvin rose up the Rich’s ranks as the business grew, eventually gaining the title of Executive Vice President and Treasurer. He oversaw the businesses expansion through desegregation in Atlanta. After his time at Rich’s drew to a close, Alvin started his own consulting firm, and remained active in the Atlanta business communities. He campaigned for Jimmy Carter’s presidential race. Alvin M. Ferst, Jr. passed away in 2009 at the age of 87.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eAlvin recalls his childhood and business life in Atlanta. He discusses family genealogies and recalls growing up in the Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta. He speaks about the film Driving Miss Daisy, which was filmed in the same neighborhood. Alvin remembers his time at Georgia Tech, and his uncles’ experiences there, and recalls the business mentorship of Frank Neely of Rich’s Department store, another industrial engineer-turned businessman. Alvin talks about growing up in the Jewish community in Atlanta and recalls various business, religious, and social clubs active in the Jewish and business communities during in his lifetime. Alvin discusses his career at Philco Corporation, his term in the Seabees during World War II, and his 35 years working at Rich’s Department Store. He recalls various business relationships and run-ins with various notable figures, including Ralph McGill, Grace Townes Hamilton, and Alfred Uhry. He discusses watching Rich’s expand in a changing South, sharing his memories of the desegregation the Civil Rights movement, and discussing how Rich’s responded. He also recalls the Temple Bombing of 1958, his relationship with Jimmy Carter, and the many changes to Atlanta’s infrastructure over his lifetime.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28003"]}},{"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":["Ferst, Alvin M., Jr., 1922-2009 (personal name)","Atlanta, Ga. (geographic term)","Rich's (corporate name)","Rich's Department Store (corporate name)","Ferst, Moses A. 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He later attended Druid Hills High School and was active in a number of activities from tennis to Glee Club. Alvin graduated high school at 16 and attended the Georgia Institute of Technology the following fall, where several of his uncles had attended. He graduated in 1943, with a degree in Industrial Engineering, merging Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management courses. After school, Alvin worked as an industrial engineer for Philco Corporation in Philadelphia for nearly a year before he was drafted to the Seabees, where he worked as an industrial engineer in Trinidad. His service ended in 1946, and Alvin moved back to Atlanta and began a career at Rich’s Department Store. There, he met his wife, Charlotte Boyette, with whom he had three daughters. Alvin worked for Rich’s for 35 years, overseeing the construction of the Store for Men and various other projects. Over time, Alvin rose up the Rich’s ranks as the business grew, eventually gaining the title of Executive Vice President and Treasurer. He oversaw the businesses expansion through desegregation in Atlanta. After his time at Rich’s drew to a close, Alvin started his own consulting firm, and remained active in the Atlanta business communities. He campaigned for Jimmy Carter’s presidential race. Alvin M. Ferst, Jr. passed away in 2009 at the age of 87.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlvin recalls his childhood and business life in Atlanta. He discusses family genealogies and recalls growing up in the Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta. He speaks about the film Driving Miss Daisy, which was filmed in the same neighborhood. Alvin remembers his time at Georgia Tech, and his uncles’ experiences there, and recalls the business mentorship of Frank Neely of Rich’s Department store, another industrial engineer-turned businessman. Alvin talks about growing up in the Jewish community in Atlanta and recalls various business, religious, and social clubs active in the Jewish and business communities during in his lifetime. Alvin discusses his career at Philco Corporation, his term in the Seabees during World War II, and his 35 years working at Rich’s Department Store. He recalls various business relationships and run-ins with various notable figures, including Ralph McGill, Grace Townes Hamilton, and Alfred Uhry. He discusses watching Rich’s expand in a changing South, sharing his memories of the desegregation the Civil Rights movement, and discussing how Rich’s responded. He also recalls the Temple Bombing of 1958, his relationship with Jimmy Carter, and the many changes to Atlanta’s infrastructure over his lifetime.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I'm interviewing the memoirist, Alvin Ferst\n-- Alvin M. Ferst, Jr. -- on the 19th of August, 1992 for the Jewish Oral\nHistory Project of Atlanta, cosponsored by American Jewish Committee, Atlanta\nJewish Federation, and the National Council of Jewish Women. I have with me\ntoday our memoirist Alvin Ferst, whose background and whose history as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he\nremembers it is going to be a very interesting addition to the oral history. Let\nme start, Alvin, with some of your earliest... life and your background here in\nAtlanta. Tell us about your earliest memories of being here in Atlanta. Were you\nborn in Atlanta?\n\nFERST: Yes, I was born in Atlanta. In fact, I was born in Atlanta when you were\nborn in your home rather than the hospital. I was born on 1155 Boulevard, which\nis now called ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Monroe Drive, and we had many illustrious neighbors around us\nthere. All the Edison family lived around there, who later moved to St. Louis\n[Missouri] and formed the Edison Shoe Company. We had the Bermans, who lived\naround the corner and the sons now run the Berman Lipton Office Supply place, we\nhad the Steinheimers down the street. 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And then we had the\npeople in the candy business, the Schlesinger family who lived down the street\nfrom us, who had the old Schlesinger candy company here, which became very\nfamous when Mr. Frank Neely, who was one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the first industrial engineers in\nthe country, married one of the Schlesinger girls, worked for Mr. Gantt... Dr.\nGantt and Dr. Taylor in Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania] in the early days of\nindustrial engineering and scientific management, came back to Atlanta, and\nreorganized the Schlesinger Candy Factory and set it up to run on modern\nprinciples. Schlesingers then became a very successful company.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Specifically, Alvin, what was the address--you remember the address\nof the house that you were born in?\n\nFERST: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1155 Boulevard.\n\nSCHOENBERG: 1155 Boulevard. Where would that be in the present circumstances\naround the neighborhood?\n\nFERST: That is on, now I think called Monroe Drive, and it's--\n\nSCHOENBERG: Is that near the Red Cross?\n\nFERST: No, it's long before. You get just between Park Drive and Orme Circle.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Okay.\n\nFERST: We lived on Boulevard until I was about seven years old. Went to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Samuel\nInman School kindergarten and first grade, and then we moved to Druid Hills. An\ninteresting highlight before we moved to Druid Hills, we had bought a house in\nDruid Hills and I was... I think it was my seventh birthday. My mother was\nplanning to move during the early part of that summer into the new house. Gladys\nHirsch, Mrs. Jake Hirsch, who was a dear friend of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family's, said to my\nmother, \"Doris, why don't you just have Alvin's birthday party at my house, so\nyou won't have to worry about running the house and you can concentrate on just\nyour move, not having to straighten up the house for a birthday party.\" The\nhouse that my seventh birthday party was held in the backyard of was on\nLullwater Road, where they filmed Driving Miss Daisy.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Interesting. Exactly what was the date of your birth?\n\nFERST: May the 6th, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1922.\n\nSCHOENBERG: 1922, okay. Tell us a little bit about your... do you have any siblings?\n\nFERST: I have three daughters.\n\nSCHOENBERG: No, brothers or sisters.\n\nFERST: I'm sorry, siblings. I have a sister, Babette, who was married to Will\nHerzfeld in White Plains, New York. I have a brother, Harold, who has lived\nvarious places around the South, and currently lives in Gwinnet County. There's\nthree of us.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Tell us ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"something about your parents. How long had they been in\nAtlanta? How did they get to Atlanta?\n\nFERST: My mother was from Charleston, South Carolina. My father was from\nSavannah, Georgia. They met when my father was in the Navy, at the Navy Yard in\nCharleston in World War One, were married after the war, and immediately moved\nto Atlanta.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And what business was your father in?\n\nFERST: My father ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"started out as a salesman for one of the uncles here in\nAtlanta, and he was in various manufacturing businesses doing a business career.\nOne of the interesting highlights was one of the early businesses he owned was\nRipley Ferst Outdoor Advertising Agency. He and Mr. Ripley formed the first\noutdoor advertising agency. My father sold the business out to Mr. Ripley, who\nlater sold it out to General Outdoor Advertising, who later sold it out to a man\nnamed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Turner. [memoirist and interviewer laugh]\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's a good start.\n\nFERST: But my father primarily been in manufactured ladies' hats, in the\nmillinery business, and had offices, sales offices, all around the United\nStates, until when I was in the millinery business, which is a long story in\nitself that we'll get into. But he was in various manufacturing businesses after that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: As a young boy, do you remember visiting the business and seeing\nwhat the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"manufacturing looked like?\n\nFERST: Yes, I...\n\nSCHOENBERG: How many people were employed?\n\nFERST: I spent a good bit of time in the factories. His millinery manufacturing\nbusiness and offices were on Whitehall [Street] and Trinity [Street], and I\nspent many an hour down there with him, killing time and being fascinated by the\nthings they did in designing and making hats.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How many people were employed, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do you think?\n\nFERST: He had about 300, between 200 and 300 people at the peak of the business.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And where was the plant located?\n\nFERST: Right in downtown Atlanta, on Whitehall and Trinity. As he went into\nother manufacturing businesses, I spent time around there, and I think this is\nwhat made me have a desire to be an industrial engineer when I later went to college.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Tell us a bit about your mother and your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father both. What kind of\nactivities were they involved in, other than your father's business?\n\nFERST: Mother was one of the first people to form... she was with the people\nthat formed the Dekalb League of Women Voters, and was very active in the\nDekalb League, probably would've been president of the Dekalb League, but my\nfather died very young. She was the vice president. When my father died, she\njust got out of all activities. Her main activities had been the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Council of\nJewish Women and the League of Women Voters, were the two things she was most\ninterested in. She had been very much interested in a lot of areas in music and\nart and attended all of the musical affairs we had in Atlanta in those days.\nWhen we were growing up, it wasn't anything like you have now.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I don't think we mentioned your father's name or your mother's name.\n\nFERST: My father... I'm a junior, so my father was Alvin M. the first.\n\nSCHOENBERG: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What's the M stand for?\n\nFERST: Meinhardt.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Meinhardt.\n\nFERST: Family name. My mother was Doris Marks. She was from Charleston, South\nCarolina. Interesting enough, her family had one of the first five and ten cent\nstores in the country. As they became successful, my grandfather and his\nbrothers decided to get out of the business, because so many of their friends\nwouldn't come in a place that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"didn't have anything over ten cents. They went\ninto the department store business and went out of business in the late 1930s\nlike many other businesses... early 1930s, excuse me. Mr. Woolworth did pretty well.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. You mentioned that you had some uncles. Who specifically are we\ntalking about?\n\nFERST: Well, my father had a number of brothers and one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sister. He had a brother\nin Savannah [Georgia] then Augusta [Georgia], and then in Atlanta were both\nFrank Ferst and Monie Ferst. Monie was the founder of Scripto, and also had a\nlarge business called M. A. Ferst Limited, which manufactured pencil leads and\nerasers for pencil manufacturers all over the country. 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I was very close to both ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Monie and Frank after my father died 40\nyears ago. While Frank wasn't like a father to me, he was because he...\n\nSCHOENBERG: Would you consider him a mentor?\n\nFERST: Oh, very much so. Started out when I lived on Boulevard. I can remember\nmy father ordered a wholesale bicycle for me when I was five years old. He had\nordered a size 24, and it wasn't until the night ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before, when he put it\ntogether, that he found out he got a 28. Wasn't anything he could do about it\nthen. Frank spent the whole day running up and down Boulevard with me, trying to\nget me to learn to ride that size 28 bicycle. My feet could only hit the pedal\nwhen it came to the top. [Irv and Alvin laugh]\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well you had a...\n\nFERST: Frank was an amazing person himself. 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He stayed on, got some more education the next year, and played\nfootball another year.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What years would those have been that he played football?\n\nFERST: Frank played football ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1918 to 1922, back with a lot of the old football\ngreats. You had to be tough to play football because you played offense and\ndefense. I was sort of disappointed when the newspapers had a ballot a few weeks\nago on all-time greats not to see him in there, cause I was too young to\nrecognize him. But all of his contemporaries said he was the toughest defensive\nman they'd ever seen. He ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"primarily was used as offense, but they said nobody\never got around him if he could get his hands on him.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, it sounds like you had a fairly good-sized family then, here\nin Atlanta.\n\nFERST: Yeah, we did. Family... we were small and we were big. I mean there are\nnot a lot of Fersts in Atlanta. There was Frank Ferst, Alvin Ferst, and Monie\nFerst. That was it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: But you had cousins?\n\nFERST: Yeah, they all had... 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So much so\nthat he and two or three other people in New York, that week before the crash in\n1928, and they sold ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everything the day before the crash. That's how well attuned\nthey were. They were up there to try to figure out what was going on.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You say Monie; I'm not sure I know that name. How would you spell that?\n\nFERST: M-O-N-I-E. He was born with another name, but when he went to school...\nhe was born as Moses Ferst. But there was another Moses Ferst in Savannah, a\ncousin, and they were both in the same class. So the teacher just turned to him\nand said, \"I can't call both of you Moses. I'm going to call you Monie.\" So ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as\nhe got to be an adult, everybody called him Monie all his life, so he just went\nto court and had his name changed to Monie.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Since this is an oral history about the Jewish community, you said\nyou went to Inman grade school?\n\nFERST: Samuel Inman.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Were there a lot of Jewish kids going to that school at the time?\n\nFERST: Well, there weren't a lot of us going anywhere at that time. Atlanta was\na pretty small city, and other than the names that I mentioned of the people in\nmy neighborhood, that was about the extent of it. It so happened that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all of us\nlived... no particular reason, but most of the Jewish people in that\nneighborhood were centered around there. If you went a little further over, to\nHighland Avenue or got over to Seminole [Avenue], St. Augustine [Place], some\nof those streets, well that was in Highland School district where Cecil\nAlexander and the Jacobuses and a lot of those people there, like my friend Joe\nRosenburg, a lot of those people lived over in there. They all went ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to Highland\nSchool. It was just another district.\n\nSCHOENBERG: If you were born in 1922 and you were seven years old and apparently\ngoing to school at that time, that would have been about 1929.\n\nFERST: Mm-hm.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was the attitude toward the Jewish population in Atlanta? Do\nyou have a feeling for that?\n\nFERST: Well, the Jewish... it was a completely different attitude. I'm sort of a\nfreak cause I never paid any attention to it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But a lot of people carried a chip\non their shoulder because the Jewish people generally kept to themselves. Dr.\nMarx at the Temple, who was as strict a disciplinarian as you'll ever know, he\nwas one of the first people to invite non-Jews to speak in The Temple. He did\nparticipate in things in the community later, but by and large most of the\nJewish people in those days did not participate in activities of town like they\ndo now ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and have in my whole business career, unless they were asked to.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Can you think of anyone who stood out in your mind as a youngster\nwho was a community leader, a Jewish leader among the gentile population?\n\nFERST: Well yeah, there were many of them. Walter Rich. Frank Neely is probably\nthe most outstanding one. Frank Neely is probably the only man... in those days\nwho was a member of The Temple, who was a member of the Piedmont Driving Club,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and a member of the Standard Club. He was not Jewish, but his wife was Jewish.\nThey were members of...\n\nSCHOENBERG: He covered all the bases.\n\nFERST: He did. But Sinclair Jacobs, whose family started Jacobs' Pharmacy, a\nfine old Atlanta family, and the store where the first Coca-Colas were sold over\nthe counter. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sinclair was probably the first Jewish person in our Kiwanis Club.\n\nSCHOENBERG: First name was?\n\nFERST: Sinclair Jacobs.\n\nSCHOENBERG: When you say \"our Kiwanis Club,\" I think...\n\nFERST: The Downtown Kiwanis Club...\n\nSCHOENBERG: ...Downtown Kiwanis Club...\n\nFERST: But in Kiwanis and Rotary, there were a limited number. Lawrence Fox,\nwho was the head of Fox Manufacturing Company in Rome and head of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lawrence\nFurniture Stores (it was a retail chain). Lawrence was pretty well accepted in\nthe community. Both of the Schwabs, Robert Schwab and Dick Schwab. Robert\nSchwab, who was born Jewish, actually converted to being Catholic later.\nProbably the... I guess probably the most prominent one after Frank Neely would\nhave been Harold Hirsch. Harold ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hirsch was a lawyer, fine lawyer, and his firm\nwas the old Hirsch and Smith firm which is now Kilpatrick and Cody. And they\nwere lawyers for Coca Cola. He defended the Coca Cola trademark. He defended\ntheir rights to conceal their formula, and was a real big man. He's a University\nof Georgia man, devout Georgia man. I can give a little ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"story of Harold Hirsch\nand myself. Between that summer that I finally went to work down there in M.A.\nFerst Limited, I had gone to all my father's friends. I was growing up, you\nknow, all of them would say to you, \"Well, Alvin, anytime you need anything,\njust come and see me. If I can help you, let me know.\" Well, I won't call any by\nname, but I went to see one that I thought the world of. He was a self-made man.\nHe was an orphan and he had worked for somebody. He had learned the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business,\nstarted his own business and he was very successful. And I went to see him. He\nlooked at me, and said, \"Alvin, you don't know anything.\" I said, \"Well, no. I'm\nhere looking for a job because I've got two more years in high school, and I'd\nlike to be thinking about what I'd like to do when I go to college. And if I\ndon't get some exposure to business, how am I going to know what I want to do.\"\nHe said, \"Well, I'm sorry. I can't do anything for you.\" I left there just\nfeeling terrible. The next place I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"went, the man was a head of a large company\nhe and his family had started. They later sold out to a national company. He was\na regional vice president of this big national company, made more money than he\nknew what to do with. He and his wife, my mother and father had been friends\nwith since about the first day my mother and father came to Atlanta. And he also\nhad said, \"Anything I can ever do for you, let me know.\" I had an appointment to\nsee him. I got there on time. He kept me waiting for thirty minutes, and then\nwhen I came to his office, I'll never forget it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He had an office about 40 by\n40, and his desk sat over in one corner of the office. There was this big\ncavernous office out in the front, and his door was over in a diagonal office. I\nwalked in, he looked up, he said, \"Sit down!\" I sat down over 50 feet away from\nhim, and he fumbled with papers for about 20 minutes before he saw me. And he\nsaid, \"What do you want?\" And I said, \"Well, Mr. So-and-So, you've been very\nnice, and I've known you all my life. You said if you'd ever be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"any help to me,\nyou'd be glad to do anything you could.\" And he said, \"I really wish to.\" [I\nsaid,] \"Out looking for a job, I don't care what it is, how much I make. I just\nwant to try to learn something about business so I can try to decide what I want\nto try to do with myself when I go to college and plan a career.\" He said, \"You\never work before?\" \"No, sir.\" He said, \"Well what are you doing here?\" And I\nsaid, \"Well, I just thought you might have something I could do. I could pay my\nway, make a little bit of money and I could ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"learn something about your business.\nIt's been a very successful business, and I'd like to learn something.\" He said,\n\"You're not any good to anybody. You're not worth anything. Go down to Western\nUnion. They'll give you a job. You can ride a bicycle delivering telegrams.\nGoodbye.\" Well, I walked out. I had to walk about ten blocks to meet my father.\nHe had an appointment. I told him I'd meet him at that appointment and we could\nget together. We were walking through Five Points together. We ran into Harold\nHirsch, who I'd heard my father speak of. I'd seen him but never met him. He saw\nus and said ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Alvin, how are you?\" Dad said, \"I'd like you to meet my son.\" He\nsaid, \"What are you doing downtown on a weekday?\" I said, \"Mr. Hirsch, I'm\nreally downtown looking for a job,\" and went through the same story with him. He\nsays \"You ever thought about being a lawyer?\" I said, \"Well no, sir, I really\nhaven't.\" And he says, \"You got any other appointments to make?\" \"Yes sir, I've\ngot two more.\" \"You go ahead and make those two appointments. If you don't get a\njob, you got a job at Hirsch and Smith. You'll just be an office boy. But who\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"knows, if you shuffle papers around, run errands for us, learn a little bit,\nlisten to what lawyers are doing, you might get interested. You might like to be\na lawyer.\" So the next two places I went I was so fired up because I knew I had\na job, both of them offered me a job. [Alvin and Irv laugh]\n\nFERST: But this was just the kind of man Harold Hirsch was. He wanted to help\neverybody, and he did. He put more... he got more men to play football and go to\nschool at the University of Georgia by telling them, \"You make good grades and\ngraduate, you'll have Coca Cola bottling when you come out of school.\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: Great. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's go back a little bit further in your youth. What did\nyou do outside of going to school? Did you have any athletics or any\norganizational ties?\n\nFERST: No, I was just like... a normal kid, wanting to try to do everything, try\nto play everything. I...\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did you belong to any Jewish organizations?\n\nFERST: Yes, yes and no. I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at Druid Hills School and I participated in all\nthe athletic activities. When I graduated, I was the same height I am now, and I\nweighed about 115, 120 pounds. I tried to play football. I played basketball.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Your height is what, about six...\n\nFERST: Six [feet] one and a half [inches].\n\nSCHOENBERG: And you were six one and a half then.\n\nFERST: Yeah, I was just skin and bones. I played end on football team until I\njust got broken up so bad. I just kept ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"breaking a bone a week. I played\nbasketball and I lettered in basketball for four years.\n\nSCHOENBERG: This is at Druid Hills... Druid Hills High School?\n\nFERST: Yeah, lettered in tennis. I participated in every activity I could from\neverything from the Glee Club to heading up intramural activities. I just\ngenerally tried to participate in everything. As a result, I made good friends\nwho were my friends all my life. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As a result, 85 percent of my friends when I\ngot out of high school were non-Jews. Some of my friends--my Jewish\nfriends--couldn't understand it. But they were the people I worked with, they\nwere the ones I played with. I was a member of what was called a Top Hat Club.\nYou've probably never heard of the Top Hat Club, but this was like a little high\nschool... Jewish high school fraternity. Primarily ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people at Druid Hills and\nBoys' High and Tech High.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Name a few people who were in there with you.\n\nFERST: Oh, Leman Rosenberg, Bobby Lipshutz, Carl Reisman. Three of us happened\nto have been initiated... well, let me see. Carl Reisman, Bobby Lipshutz, and I\nwere initiated in the club the same time. I'll never forget that initiation,\nwhich we won't talk about. But everybody... and Jack Eiseman was in there, and\nHenry Bloom, George Haas. I don't know if you know George or not. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't think\nCecil Alexander, I don't know why, but I don't remember Cecil being in there,\nbut Charles Aronstam was in there. Bobby Rothberg, who is since deceased. All\nthe Jewish young [unintelligible]. Louis Cummins, we called him Babe Cummins.\nYou're making me strain. That's a long time ago.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah.\n\nFERST: All the kids about our age were in there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was just a pure social thing.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How would you say that the Jewish... this was all boys? Or were\nthere boys and girls?\n\nFERST: All boys.\n\nSCHOENBERG: All boys at Druid Hills. How would you say...\n\nFERST: Well, the school was boys and girls, I'm sorry.\n\nSCHOENBERG: But how would you say that your contemporaries stacked up\nacademically, socially? I mean, did you stand out in the group or were you just\nsort of...\n\nFERST: Well, academic... I'll tell you another one who was in that Top Hat Club\nwas Billy Schwartz. I don't know if you knew Billy or not. Billy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was... you\nmade me think of it... he was at Druid Hills also. No, academically, I would say\nthat academically we mostly usually wound up a little above average. They\nusually were a little bit more of achievers, striving to better themselves.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What would you consider your most memorable thing in your high\nschool days?\n\nFERST: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, it's just a matter of what light you're looking at, for example.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah.\n\nFERST: There are all sorts of wild things. We actually wound up with not having\nfootball my senior year in high school. The junior year, so many of us got hurt\nthat we could hardly field a team. And the principal just unilaterally just\ndecided to do away with football. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You can imagine what that did to the school.\nIt was the right thing to do. He just didn't handle it properly. We, at that\ntender age, about 1936 or 1937, we decided to throw a strike. We came to school\nevery day, we sat on the front lawn, and we wouldn't go in the building. We hung\nthe principal in effigy, and we boycotted the cafeteria. Part of our ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"complaint\nwas that the food was lousy in the cafeteria, but the truth of the matter was we\nwere just mad cause we couldn't play football. And the principal handled it\nbeautifully. He just didn't do anything. After about three days, we got tired of\nsitting outside and we...\n\nSCHOENBERG:...Went back in...\n\nFERST:...First thing you know, we went back. A little sidelight to that, nothing\nto do with this particular incident, but I'll never forget it. My closest\nfriend, who was not Jewish, since is deceased, got all ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fired up with the\nprincipal. He couldn't agree on anything with the principal from that day on. As\nwe got to Christmas holidays, just before Christmas holidays, he was still\nrevved up over this business on football. And he said a few things that he\nshouldn't have. They threw him out of school. His mother and father were very\nstrict. His mother was a Baptist, his father was a Methodist, and they were both\nabout as strict in their religion as they could be. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They wanted their children\nto be good students. He sat by the phone the whole Christmas holiday, and every\ntime the phone would ring, he answered it. And when the principal called and\nasked to speak to his mother, he put the phone down and disguised the voice of\nhis mother, and he talked to the principal and said, yes, she would talk to\nThornton and see if she could get him straightened out. And about three or four\ndays later, he calls late one afternoon and wants to speak to his father, and he\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"puts the phone down and disguises his voice and talks like his father. And his\nfather pleads with him to let the young man come back to school. He's sure he'll\ndo all right. And the principal says, \"I'll give it some thought.\" The Christmas\nholidays were over, and he walked in the front door of the school five times by\nthe principal's office before the principal finally walked out and found him,\nand told him he had talked with his parents and had a very satisfactory\nconversation with them and he could return to school. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But the crowning blow that\nreally got him thrown out of school was when the principal was talking to him\nand told him, he said, \"Young man, I just don't think you like school and it's a\nwaste of time for you to be here. I don't think you want to go to school, I\ndon't think you like school.\" And he says, \"Mr. Brown, that's not true. It's not\nthe school I don't like, it's the principal of the thing.\" [Alvin and Irv laugh]\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yup. You mentioned Rabbi Dr. Marx a little while ago. You said he\nwas kind of a strict disciplinarian. What do you remember about being... were\nyou a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"student at The Temple, at Sunday School?\n\nFERST: Yes, I went to Temple from... started out... I don't guess I actually\nwent to Sunday School on Pryor Street. I remember going over to Pryor Street\nonce, but this new Temple was built on Peachtree Road [Street] when I actually\nstarted Sunday School. And they heated... overheated the building something\nhorrible. It was steam heat and they were very proud of it, and they just burned\nup the rooms. I am inclined to have horrible sinus trouble, and they just burned\nup my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sinuses so that I came home every Sunday from Sunday School with a\nhorrible headache and had to go to bed. I got to be about fifth or sixth grade,\nand my doctor just told my family to quit sending me to Sunday School. It was\njust torturing my sinuses too much, so that was as far as I got. Yeah, no I was\nnot confirmed. But Dr. Marx... I was very fond of Dr. Marx. He was a hard man to\nbe fond of. He was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"an old-school German type, who let you know your position,\nhis position, and he thought his position was much higher than your position.\nMarvelous speaker, marvelous bearing about him, but no sense of humor\nwhatsoever. Everything was all business. You know, kids just couldn't quite\nunderstand that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yup.\n\nFERST: Wonderful with his grandchildren. I remember when Sonny... ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when Mary\nLouise and Sonny had kids, how wonderful they both were with them, but you never\nsaw (laugh)\n\nSCHOENBERG: Mary Lou was who?\n\nFERST: Mary Louise... she was Mary Louise Holden, married Louis Sherman. We\nalways called him Sonny Sherman. That would be... let's see, let's get things\nstraight here. She was his -- I said Mary Louise Holden -- she was Mary Louise\nMarx. She married ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sonny Sherman.\n\nSCHOENBERG: She was related to the rabbi?\n\nFERST: Yeah, and...\n\nSCHOENBERG: The daughter.\n\nFERST: David Marx, who just died recently, was Rabbi Marx's son. He was almost\n90 years old, 89 years old, died a few weeks ago. Just a little over a month\nago. And their daughter married Louis Sherman, which we always called ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sonny\nSherman. He was great with them. And Dr. Marx was just, you know, he was a\npillar in the community. He always spoke about what was right. He was a great\nspokesman for the Jewish community, and he was very highly respected by all the\nministers around town and the citizens of the town. But he was just... to us, he\nwas a strict old school teacher.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did you attend services ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very often?\n\nFERST: Oh, yeah. He put me to sleep pretty well.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was it true that there were Sunday services, Sunday morning services?\n\nFERST: Yeah.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They didn't have them on Friday night, or they did?\n\nFERST: I couldn't tell you, cause you're straining me now. Whether there were\nany Friday night services or not, I thought there were some Friday night\nservices. But I couldn't... I don't remember going to Friday night service\nbecause I was usually playing basketball on Friday night.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you have a feeling, Alvin, or describe to me... was there any\nkind of a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community spirit in The Temple at the time?\n\nFERST: Yeah, it was a good feeling at The Temple. A good feeling in that people\nwere proud to be a member of The Temple, and nobody ever thought anything\nderogatory about you if you were a member of the Temple. Oh, a few radicals\naround here, you know, you run into those anywhere you go. The fact that you're\nJewish, some people just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"say things against you, but The Temple had a real good\nname. The members all felt good being a member of The Temple because everybody\nlooked up to The Temple as an outstanding Jewish congregation. And God knows we\nhad a wonderful physical facility there. Just watching that building be built\nwas a lot of fun.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you remember when Rabbi Marx ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"left, or did he die before he left\nThe Temple?\n\nFERST: No.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He was replaced by Rabbi Rothschild, wasn't he?\n\nFERST: Rothschild, yeah. I'm a blank. I'm sure he was... no, he lived. Oh, sure\nhe lived. He married my sister.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Who married your sister? Oh, you mean he did the ceremony?\n\nFERST: Yeah, sorry, my sister, yeah. Because even after Jack Rothschild took\nover, yeah, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he lived a number of years. And my sister preferred that he do the ceremony.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did you notice a change in The Temple under Rothschild as compared\nto Marx?\n\nFERST: Yeah, they were completely different people. The Temple was a little more\nof a relaxed place, a little more of a center of fun. It was all serious\nbusiness when Dr. Marx was around. I mean, I don't mean there wasn't some\n(unintelligible... levity?) but not in his presence. 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Most of the... you\nhad a few... once we moved out to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Brookhaven [Georgia], the Standard Club...\nmore non-Temple members started to become members of Standard Club. When it was\non Ponce de Leon [Avenue], practically everybody in the Standard Club was a\nTemple member.\n\nSCHOENBERG: There was an influx of Eastern European Jews. Do you recall that as\nyou were growing up?\n\nFERST: Mm-hm.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, what was...\n\nFERST: My mother... 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I know ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they went through hell over\nthere, but they got out somehow. He worked for the old Marcus clothing store\ndowntown, just as a salesman. She worked doing alterations. And they saved a\nhigh percentage of every penny they made every week. They struggled to live, to\nsave some money. He worked all before the war, early part of the war, and during\nthe war. And shortly after World War Two, he opened his own men's clothing\nstore. And at one time, he had about five of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"them scattered around town. As Max\nstarted cutting back, he gradually sold off some of his stores, he moved on the\nstreet where I lived. He knew I was a big supporter of Jimmy Carter, and I kept\nfilling him with information on Jimmy Carter. When Jimmy was running for\nre-election, I went to him and asked him if they would give 2,000 dollars for a\nparty out at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Charlie Kirbo's one night. And Max still... he'd gotten rid of a\nlot of his German accent but...\n\nSCHOENBERG: And what was his last name?\n\nFERST: Max Metzel.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Metzel.\n\nFERST: M-E-T-Z-E-L. And Max said, \"I'll make a deal with you. I'll give you the\n2,000 dollars if you'll take me.\" Cause Kirbo's farm was way out beyond\nCrabapple. It was way out in the middle of nowhere. So I... for that 2,000\ndollar donation, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"delivered him to the party and brought him home.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Good. Very good.\n\nFERST: But he was... I'd never known anybody so proud to give that money to\nPresident Carter.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was your perception of the community of Eastern European Jews\nand obviously the German Jews that were primarily The Temple group? Was there\nany kind of a difficulty?\n\nFERST: I didn't... I wasn't perceptive enough to sense it. The main thing that I\nsaw when the people were coming that was so pathetic to me was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in some of the\nyoung people, how they walked down the street and looked over their shoulder.\nWhen they got off an elevator, and they looked both ways, and they'd look around\na corner before they'd go around a corner. It just sort of broke my heart to see\nyoung people that had been brought up in such a suspicious atmosphere that even\nin this country they couldn't get out of it. We had a young man that had come\nover from Germany who wanted to go to Georgia Tech while I was in school. And\nGod knows ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"none of us had any money, but the kid couldn't afford it. Somebody was\npaying his tuition, but he had no other money. We chipped in--out of our\nallowances--money each week, so this kid could have some spending money.\nSmart... one of the smartest people I've ever known. Even though he was a\nstudent, he was smart enough to be a professor, and somebody just was very\njealous of him. The famous honor system at Georgia Tech, anybody could ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"turn in\nanybody. Somebody turned him in for cheating. This poor guy was so insulted, he\nsaid one night, he said, \"I'll kill myself before I will appear before an honor\ncommittee. I have no reason to cheat. I know my lessons. I do my homework.\" I\nwent and talked to several people on the committee, and they said, \"There's no\nway we can not call him up. If anybody's reported we say, he has to come up. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We\ndon't have to convict him.\" I said, \"You don't understand this man's attitude.\"\n\"There's just no way we can do it. The school has given us\" (and these were\nstudents and one faculty member) \"has given us the authority to rule on these\nthings. But we have to go by the rule.\" I couldn't get anybody to take his name\noff. Then one morning, they went to breakfast, and he didn't show up for\nbreakfast. And he didn't show up for lunch. So I looked around\n(unintelligible... the neighborhood?), and that kid hung himself.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh, my goodness.\n\nFERST: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You just, these young kids... that probably brought home to us more what\nwent on over there than all the stories we could read, all we could see in the\nnewsreels and everything.\n\nSCHOENBERG: There was a Progressive Club, I understand.\n\nFERST: Mm-hm... right over on Tenth Street, right there. Turner is using that\nbuilding now.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was there any mixing between the Standard Club people and\nProgressive Club?\n\nFERST: Yeah, there were members of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Progressive Club who were members of\nStandard Club, although a small percentage. As the years went on, there were\nmore and more. Standard Club had a golf course, Progressive Club didn't.\nProgressive Club had a health club, Standard Club didn't. But there was a little\nmore intermingling... a lot more intermingling as years went on. Back in the\nearlier days, back in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1930s, the old Jewish Progressive Club, I don't\nthink... I doubt if anybody in the Jewish Progressive Club was in The Temple and\nvice versa. But as years went on, there was more and more of it. An interesting\nsidelight: I was on the House Committee at the Standard Club, and I had a top\nflight chef. He did a grand job, but the members ran him away. He did such a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good job; he could break even and make money, and they were always complaining\nall the time. We'd ask them, we'd say \"What's wrong with the food? Tell us what\nyou want corrected.\" They wouldn't tell us anything wrong, but, \"You just can't\nbe doing things right if we're making money.\" Very exasperating. Well, he\nfinally... he just took it so long. He left and opened his own restaurant, made\na pluperfect fortune, and then sold out to Pano and Paul's. But who did they\nhire when he left but the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"manager of the Progressive Club. And you know who\nhired him [the manager] away from them? The Capital City Club. He now runs all\nthe Capital City Clubs. I don't know if you know Kateen? Have you ever met Kateen?\n\nSCHOENBERG: No, I don't think so.\n\nFERST: He's now in Rotary [Club], and is the manager of both the Capital City Clubs.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Great. Well, we're almost at the end of the first side of the tape,\nAlvin. And there's a lot of information I'm sure you want to give us. So let me\nstop it here and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we'll turn over to the second side and then we'll pick up from there.\n\nSCHOENBERG: This is the side two of an interview with Alvin M. Ferst, Jr. It's\nstill the 19th of August, 1992, and we've been talking about Alvin's memories\nand recollections having to do with the Jewish community in about 19... what\nyear would you say, Alvin, 1940-something? 1930s. You were talking about the\npeople who had come over from Germany.\n\nFERST: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, 1930s.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Okay. Are you about at this time ready to graduate from high school?\nWhy don't we start at that point.\n\nFERST: All right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What year did you graduate from high school?\n\nFERST: I graduated from high school in 1938.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Still at Druid Hills?\n\nFERST: Still at Druid Hills High. I had a little interlude in there, and didn't\ntell you, which doesn't make any difference. When I first... when we first moved\nto Druid Hills ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from Boulevard, where I had been in Samuel Inman School, I went\nto Druid Hills School for the second and third grades. Then my family decided\nthe DeKalb County schools weren't as good as the city schools, so they paid city\ntaxes for me to go to the city school. I went to Highland School for fourth and\nfifth grade. Then I came back to Druid Hills when the Depression got real hard,\nand they decided DeKalb County schools weren't so bad after all. I came back ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to\nDruid Hills and stayed there, and probably made the biggest mistake of my life\nin that when I came back there, I would have been in the sixth grade, and I\nstayed in the sixth grade for about a month, and the teacher and the principal\ncalled my mother in and said that I really had no business being in the sixth\ngrade. They wanted to move me to the seventh grade. Reluctantly, we did it. I\ndon't have any real regrets, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it was different, having to start to study and\nhaving to listen in class and take it very easy and learn. I had to go to work\nto make the grades from that point on.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah.\n\nFERST: Those things happen. There's nothing you can do about it. But I made up\nmy mind then I'd never let any child of mine skip a grade. I think you really\nneed that time to mature. I was 16 in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"May and went into Georgia Tech in September.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Tell us about Georgia Tech. I know you're very loyal to Georgia\nTech. Did you ever consider going to another school?\n\nFERST: Not really, because number one, times were so tough then that I knew\nthere was no way I was going to go to school outside of the state of Georgia,\nand probably outside the city of Atlanta, so it gave me a choice between Emory\nand Georgia Tech if I stayed in Atlanta. And I didn't have any desire to go\nanywhere ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"else. Tech was the only place I wanted to go.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was it tough to get into Tech in 1938?\n\nFERST: No. If you had... really then all you had to have was a high school\neducation and had to take a certain amount of math and science to get in. Not\nanywhere as tough as it is now. Tech was a completely different school then.\nThey trained you to be a completely different kind of engineer. Georgia Tech men\nwere known then ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for solving practical problems, getting their hands dirty and\nwhatever it would take to make things work. As a result, we took wood shop,\nmachine shop, foundry, learned to do things by hand. We literally... we worked\nin shop and made a pattern and took that pattern to the foundry and cast it, and\nthen took the parts that we cast in the foundry ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to the machine shop and machined\nit. And we made a quarter... learned to wind the motor, and we made a quarter\ninch, quarter horsepower motor and all the fittings to make a bench grinder. But\nthat was three different courses.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah. Interesting.\n\nFERST: Tech was a much smaller school then. It was tough to stay in. They would\ntell you when you got to the orientation that to look ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at the person on the right\nof you and the person left of you, and only one of you'd be there next year.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was that true?\n\nFERST: Yeah. They would cut the class. The class would usually get cut at least two-thirds.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What number of people would have started the class with you?\n\nFERST: They would start at about 1,000 [or] 900 people in the class. And you'd\nwind up with 300.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So you're saying two-thirds would be gone?\n\nFERST: Yeah.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It's a heavy cut. Were there Jewish fraternities at Tech at those days?\n\nFERST: There were two Jewish fraternities then. There was Phi Epsilon Pi ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Tau\nEpsilon Phi. After I got out of school, after World War Two, they put in an AE\nPi fraternity. There were three of them after World War Two. That's an\ninteresting story in itself. There was an executive vice president of Rich's\nthen, wonderful person, Ben Gordon. Ben Gordon was a Georgia ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tech graduate.\nBack up a little bit. Ben Gordon was a Georgia Tech student. He was writing a\nthesis. He went to Walter Rich, who was the president of Rich's, and asked if he\ncould do some studying and investigating around Rich's. He was trying to develop\na paper on what you would call unit control merchandise. And Walter Rich said he\ncould have free run of the store ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"if he gave him a copy of the paper when he\nfinished it. Ben Gordon finished the thesis, and Walter Rich was so impressed\nwith him, he hired him.\n\nSCHOENBERG: This would have been about what year?\n\nFERST: About 1924.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh, so several years before you went to Tech.\n\nFERST: Yeah. And Ben Gordon had a chance... he came out as a stock person,\nworked up several levels to executive vice president, and in that period he\ndeveloped this unit control system which later became ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"known as the stock control\nsystem. It was patterned all over the country. Rich's was one of the first\nstores in America that kept up with every unit of merchandise and established a\nmodel stock of how many they should have and what the reorder point was and\nreorder. And many a top executive has visited Rich's. 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And they made Ben Gordon a member and then gave\nhim the challenge of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"getting them a lot right on campus. Ben Gordon was a\nwonderful person, a super salesman. He went to Van Leer and he sold Van Leer on\nthem buying a lot from the school, which is directly across Third Street from\nthe Athletic Association, and which was supposedly protected property for the\nschool to expand that way. But once Ben sold Van Leer on it, Van Leer had given\nit... sold it to them, there was nothing they could do ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about it. That's how AE\nPi got to be at that location.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was Gordon successful in getting a computer set up for Rich's?\n\nFERST: Well, what he did, he wound up being the head of a...we were...Rich's was\na member of a whole group of stores called Associated Merchandising Corporation\n[AMC]. And he was chairman of the Electronics Committee for AMC. And nobody was\nmaking anything that could do the job. For better ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or worse, they selected RCA\n[Radio Corporation of America] to work with, and RCA made one computer, the\nBIZMAC computer, business machine.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Business Machine.\n\nFERST: You know, it was back in the days of vacuum tube computers, and it was so\ncomplicated. They put it in (unintelligible--shows?) and played\nwith it for about three years and finally gave up. By then, Rem-rand [Remington\nRand], IBM, NCR, everybody was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"trying to get into electronics business. When\nAMC pulled out of the project with RCA, RCA then just went to a one standard\nframe computer which they did very well with. Actually, Georgia Tech men sold\nmost of them for them in Europe. But then Sarnoff decided he'd get out of the\ncomputer business. That was the end of the computer business for him, but the\nprogram ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"served a great purpose even though they were ahead of the time. They\njust couldn't economically get the kind of equipment they wanted then. It served\nits purpose in educating all those store principals... executives on what you\nhad to do, the disciplines you had to establish to make something like that work.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah. Let's go back to Georgia Tech. You've entered in 1938.\n\nFERST: Yes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You talked about being an industrial engineer.\n\nFERST: Well, when I went to Tech, I didn't know what I wanted to be. And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nenrolled as a Mechanical Engineer because I thought that Mechanical Engineering\nwas really the basis for all engineering, and I wasn't sure what I wanted to be.\nI thought I'd take Mechanical Engineering. I went through three years Mechanical\nEngineering before I woke up to the fact that I really did want to be an\nIndustrial Engineer. All this association with manufacturing all my life, that's\nreally what I wanted to get into. Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy...\n\nSCHOENBERG: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Troy, New York?\n\nFERST: Yeah... Penn State, and Cal Tech were the only three schools in the\ncountry who were giving a degree in Industrial Engineering. I wasn't about to\nchange schools at the end of three years and lose half my credits. So I stayed\nat Tech and I took two years of Industrial Management in a year and a half. I\nfashioned my own Industrial Engineering course, merging Mechanical Engineering\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Industrial Management. I went to work for the Philco Corporation in\nPhiladelphia [Pennsylvania] when I got out of school as an Industrial Engineer.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Okay. 1938 you entered. You would have graduated in 1942?\n\nFERST: I graduated February of 1943, switching courses.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Okay. Well, that was during the war.\n\nFERST: Yeah.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did the military enter your life at that point?\n\nFERST: I was in ROTC [Reserve Officer Training Corps], and I in fact... have\nvery bad eyes and I could not get into Advanced ROTC, and I didn't get\npermission. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"While I was working at Philco in Philadelphia, I got a call from the\nNavy. They had heard somehow, got some input from someone... young engineers in\nPhiladelphia and they were looking for aircraft maintenance officers. They\nwanted to make me an aircraft maintenance officer. I went through all the\nphysical, and when they asked me to read the eye chart, my nose hit the wall,\nand they said, \"You go back to your job, man.\" He says, \"Nobody in service is\ngoing to have you. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You're doing a good job in defense agency; stay there.\" Three\nmonths later I was drafted.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Into the Army?\n\nFERST: Well, that was an interesting story too. I had listened to a lot of\npeople that had been drafted, and found out you never got what you asked for. I\nwent through the whole induction thing, and there was a Marine colonel there,\nand there was a Navy captain and an Army colonel. And the Marine says, \"We're\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"looking for some young engineers in the Marine Corps. How would you like to be\nin the Marine Corps?\" I thought about it, and I remembered that I would really\nlike to be in the Seabees. I turned to the Army colonel and said, \"I think I'd\nlike to be an army engineer,\" and with that the Navy captain said, \"You're in\nthe Seabees.\" I went in as a big apprentice seaman, and I got a couple months\ntraining at Williamsburg, Virginia, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a couple months training at Rhode Island\noutside of Davisville, and shipped overseas immediately.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Where did you go overseas?\n\nFERST: That was the most ridiculous night\nI ever spent in my life. We trained the whole time with carbines. The day\nbefore we were shipped out, they sent us out on the range and we trained with\n0-3's.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Carbine -\n\nFERST: Rifle.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Rifles and the 0-3 Springfield, I think it was.\n\nFERST: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, that afternoon they checked us out with arctic gear, the most\nbeautiful blue gabardine stuff with some fabric with plastic lining and fleece\nand stuff and everything in it. We were all admiring that. At seven o'clock at\nnight, they came in and told us to turn that back in for tropical gear. And\nabout midnight, we got an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"0-3 to go to the arctic, we got a carbine to go to the\ntropics, and at midnight we turned it back in and we got arctic gear again. At\ntwo o'clock in the morning we got tropical gear again. We got tropical gear with\nan 0-3. So we wound up going down to Trinidad as a maintenance unit. There's a\nbig Navy base down there. They thought they were going ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lose after the African\ncampaign. Thought it was going to back up the Caribbean. We went down there to\nfinish building that base, built a repair base, supply dock zone, and hospitals,\neverything to take care of the casualties, and the war backed up in the Caribbean.\n\nSCHOENBERG: This all in 1943?\n\nFERST: This was in... yes, latter part of 1943 and early... really 1944. 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We wound\nup converting the place to a peacetime base before we left.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You spent the war in Trinidad?\n\nFERST: Yeah.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Interesting.\n\nFERST: But when we got down there, boy the Nazi subs were just thick as flies.\nThey'd sit outside of nets twenty minutes after a ship ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"went through the net. If\nthey were going to get hit, it got hit. We were catching. They were bringing\nsubmarines in there for a long time after V-E Day, and still finding subs in\nthe water after V-J Day. The Germans would surface those little U-boats and go\non an island and pick at leaves and berries to live off of. And then sink during\nthe day and come up at night ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and go on the island and scrape anything to eat.\nThey were savage when they captured them. They tried to eat... I saw one try to\neat a Marine. Didn't have any meat so he started gnawing on his arm.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And this was after the war was over?\n\nFERST: Yeah.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Gracious. I think we skipped a little bit. You didn't tell us about\nhow'd you get to Philco. You left Atlanta and you went to Philadelphia.\n\nFERST: Yeah. When I was at Tech, I participated in a lot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"activities on\ncampus, and it was sort of interesting that the placement officer, Assistant\nDean of Students, arranged a lot of interviews and talked to people. I was\ninterviewed for Oak Ridge, but they wouldn't tell me it was Oak Ridge, they'd\njust tell me it was a project in Tennessee that they couldn't talk about. Well I\nwasn't about to take a job you couldn't talk about. The main thing I was\ninterested in was getting experience. I wasn't interested in going to go to work\nnot knowing what ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was going to do. We interviewed any number of corporations. I\nwas interviewed by Philco Corporation, and I was really impressed. They sent\nsome live wires around. They couldn't tell you exactly what you were going to\ndo. They told us they wanted to get us into production, to learn about\nproduction and help them make their plants more efficient. And actually, three\nof us who were officers at one civic organization on campus, all wound up at\nPhilco. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was the luckiest person in the world. I got an assignment to work with\nsome other senior engineers to develop a technique and design a manufacturing\nfacility to produce something in mass production that had never been made in\nmass production before. It had always been made one at a time, and we had to\nturn out 17,000 a week. And we started out 92...95 percent reject.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What kind of an item was it?\n\nFERST: We were making high frequency ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"quartz crystal oscillators.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was this for the defense effort?\n\nFERST: Yeah, it was for the Signal Corps. So an airplane or any communications\ncould just plug this thing in and it would lock them in on that frequency, and\nthat's all. You just tune exactly to that frequency. And I worked 16, 20 hours a\nday. I wound up working... studying in this lab. We designed a pilot plant, and\nthen I made the studies in the pilot plant to find the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"needs for the production\nfacility. Then we took the old regional Philco storage battery facility and\nconverted that into a manufacturing facility. I worked... got that production\ndown pat where we were producing (unintelligible). We\nsubcontracted to Western Electric. And we were producing three times as much as\nWestern Electric was when I went in the service. But we did some of the things\nthat we were taught at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tech. Western Electric was spending 200,000 dollars to\nhave a special saw made to cut the quartz. We couldn't see why they had to do\nthat. We went into a hardware store and bought a terra cotta brick saw and spent\nabout 700 dollars and two days on fixtures converting it. It did the same thing\nas that 250,000 dollar saw.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, you said earlier that it was a school that taught you how to\ndo things, right? You applied some of that.\n\nFERST: That engineer came over from--I'll never forget it--came over from\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Western Electric and looked at what we did, and he just shook his head. He said,\n\"I wish I could teach our engineers to be practical. They think everything has\nto be conceived for every job we do.\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: Okay. Let's see if we can get the time frame. Graduated in 1930...\nno, 1943.\n\nFERST: February of 1943.\n\nSCHOENBERG: 1943. And when you went to work for Philco, right after that?\n\nFERST: Right. I went immediately.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And how long were you at Philco?\n\nFERST: I was at Philco just a little under a year, nine months or so.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And then you went to Trinidad, got into the service? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay. Have you\nmet Charlotte yet?\n\nFERST: No.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Where did you meet Charlotte?\n\nFERST: Well, I met Charlotte after I went to work at Rich's. She was a buyer at\nRich's. Charlotte was actually the youngest buyer Rich's ever had. She went to\nwork as a teenager there and while she was still a teenager, she was made a buyer...\n\nSCHOENBERG: In what department?\n\nFERST: She bought in the children's area.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was Charlotte's maiden ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"name?\n\nFERST: Charlotte Boyette, B-O-Y-E-T-T-E.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Boyette.\n\nFERST: We met at Rich's. My sister was a buyer at Rich's. They were pretty good\nfriends. My sister actually introduced us, and we dated for several years and\nthen married. We've been married for forty-two years now.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Good. Let's... we've got to get things back into the right sequence\nnow. What year did you get out of the service?\n\nFERST: Out of service in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"April of 1946.\n\nSCHOENBERG: 1946. And somewhere in your life you met up with the Rich's\nCorporation. Tell us how that happened.\n\nFERST: Well, I had had letters from a lot of companies while I was overseas. And\nPhilco that I had worked for wanted me to come by to see them. They made an\noffer of a job, a very good job, and told me where I should be in a couple years\nand where I could ultimately be. I didn't have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"confidence in Philco Corporation.\nI enjoyed my work. I learned a lot there, but I didn't think they were solid\nenough to stake your future with. They were primarily a sales-oriented company.\nThey weren't solid in their research. They would usually try to find out\nsomething somebody else was doing and then try to jump in and research and try\nto beat them at finishing. I don't know. I just didn't feel comfortable. I had\ninterviewed all around the country, and I just couldn't find exactly the job I\nwanted. I finally decided I'd really rather work in the South. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was born right\nin the South, I knew people all over the South, and I interviewed with companies\nall around Atlanta and Georgia. Nobody knew what an industrial engineer was in\nthose days. I'd go talk to somebody, \"Well we put you to work with the rate\nsetter.\" And I said, \"I don't mind doing motion time studies to start with if\nthat's what you need. But I'm not going to come in just to be a motion time\nstudy man the rest of my life.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was talking to somebody who I had a very high\nopinion of one day and was asking if he could help me, and he had made a few\nappointments for me. I told him that I really wanted to be doing industrial\nengineering work. He said, \"Well, this fellow named Ebersole at Davison's is\nlooking for an industrial engineer.\" I said, \"I don't want to work in the retail\nindustry.\" I said, \"If I was going to work in the retail industry, I'd rather\nwork for a live, progressive firm like Rich's, not Davison's, but I really don't\nwant to work in the retail industry.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He picked up the telephone and calls Frank\nNeely and makes an appointment for me to see Frank Neely the next day at ten\no'clock. I said, \"You sorry SOB [son of a bitch], I just told you I don't want\nto work in the retail business.\" He said, \"Frank Neely knows everybody in the\nUnited States. He is... he was an industrial engineer just like you. He knows\nall the industrial engineers. If anybody can find you a job in the South, he\ncan.\" So I went in to see Mr. Neely, and he brought Dick Rich ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in, two or three\nother people. He set up appointments for me the rest of the day. I said, \"I\ndon't feel right taking up all your time. I'm trying to make it clear to you I\ndon't want to work in the retail business.\" He said, \"What do you want to do?\" I\noutlined what I had done and what I thought I'd like to do. He said, \"Oh, hell,\nwe'll put you to work right here.\" I spent the day talking to five different\npeople. At the end of the day, they offered me a job. I said, \"You don't seem to\nget the message. I don't want to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"work in the retail industry. I've enjoyed the\nday, it's been a lot of fun, but it's not what I want to do.\" And this guy, he\nknows me, big fellow, he's a personnel director, and he said, \"Just do me a\nfavor. Don't tell me no.\" I said, \"What are you talking about?\" He said, \"You\nhave some more interviews to make?\" I said, \"Yes sir, I do.\" \"How long will it\ntake you?\" I said, \"Oh, two or three weeks. Some of them are out of town. Some\n(unintelligible). Some of the people are traveling.\" We said\nI'd get back to him in a few weeks. Well, I called ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"him in a few weeks. I said,\n\"I'm sorry. I still haven't been able to see some of the people. Just tell Mr.\nNeely I'm not coming to work.\" He says, \"Alvin, please don't say that.\" I said,\n\"What are you talking about?\" He says, \"Mr. Neely's told me you're coming to\nwork for Rich's, and if I don't hire you for Rich's, I'm fired.\" I said, \"Tough\nluck, fella, because that's not where I want to work.\" He said, \"I'm serious!\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, what finally convinced ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you, Alvin?\n\nFERST: I could not find a job that was really what I wanted. So I finally\ndecided I had had some production experience at Philco, I had had construction\nexperience in the service, and I thought I'd get a couple years of retail\nexperience, and then I'd open a consulting firm. 35 years later I finally did\nopen a consulting firm.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So what did they have you do at Rich's?\n\nFERST: Well, I came in there... ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I spent a little while just working in every\ndepartment in the store, just trying to get a little feel of the store. And then\nthey had about six or seven warehouses scattered all around Atlanta. And the old\nCandler Warehouse was out there on the south side of town. The government had\nhad them all during the war, and they were giving them up.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Those were the old cotton warehouses on Stewart Avenue, I believe.\n\nFERST: Yes. The operating superintendent at Rich's had leased ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about 250 [to]\n300,000 square feet of space to combine all the warehouses in. So, a fellow\nnamed Bruce Smith was their chief industrial engineer. He and I went out there\nand walked over the building, and we started preparing plans. Well, then the\ntime schedule got so tight on the project that we worked night and day. I mean,\nwe literally... we had an eight-foot drawing board, and we would roll out a\npiece of paper on it, and Bruce and I would stand in the middle of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"talk. He'd\nget at one end and I'd get at the other, and we'd start drawing, and when we'd\nmeet in the center we'd discuss it again and throw another piece of paper on and\nstart again. We prepared all the plans. I'd hate for anybody to know I drew any\nof those drawings, cause we were just going as fast as we could. We got this set\nof plans together and couldn't get a contractor to do the job in the time frame\nwe required. So I was picked just to see that he [a contractor] was picked to go\nout there and run the project. Ira Hardin... Ira was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"running the business,\nHardin Construction ... he agreed to do it on a cost-plus basis. He wouldn't do\nit on a contract basis. I had to stay out there and ride herd on them. And as we\nstarted getting about 80, 75 percent completed, they asked me to prepare a\nbudget on the move from all the warehouses to this one warehouse. I did, and\nsubmitted it to my boss. We had lunch one day, and I asked him if he got that\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"budget approved. He said, \"Well, I got a pay budget approved but it's one-third\nof what you recommended.\" I said, \"Well, don't ask me to do it.\" I said,\n\"There's no way it can be done for one-third. You might shave some money off of\nit, but you can't shave two-thirds off and do the job right.\" But he said,\n\"That's all they're going to give me.\" I said, \"Well, don't ask me to do it. It\njust can't be done; no sense in me trying to do something that can't be done.\"\nSo he took over the job of handling the moves. And when he built a chute ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out of\nthe side of one of the buildings that had mattresses in it, and they\njust--rather than men handling the mattresses--they slid them down into trucks.\nWell, that worked so well they started doing that with furniture. And you can\nimagine the condition of that furniture when it came, and I just didn't want to\nlook. I turned my back on it. Well, he lost his job over that, and I had to stay\nout in the warehouse for a while and straighten that out. It was about the time\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we were getting ready to start building the Store for Homes, so I came back in\nfrom that job. I was made assistant research and planning engineer to try to do\nall the interior planning for the Store for Homes, and then remodeling the\nfashion store once we established the Store for Homes. Well, that time schedule\nwas so ridiculous. There was no way fixture people could do it. We had fixture\npeople. Abrams just went in business; we had them do a little work. We had\nWomack. We had everybody around doing work for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"us. There just wasn't enough\ncapacity to do it. So we took the sixth floor--that was Store for Homes--and we\nset up a cabinet shop. We had three shifts a day running that shop. We were\nliterally... I'd bring drawings over off the drawing board, we'd detail them and\nbring them over to them, and they'd build them on the four to twelve shift and\nbuild them out and cut them, and then start assembling them on the twelve to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"eight o'clock. And we'd be gluing them together the next day, and they'd be in a\nfinished room the next day. I never dreamed that that stuff would stay together,\nI mean, we were finishing things before the glue dried. But every bit of it held\nup; it's unbelievable. We got the job done. After that, they had spent more\nmoney on those projects than they planned to, and the economic picture didn't\nlook quite as good as we'd been projecting before. They ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wanted to cut the\nplanning office back to my boss and myself. Course they didn't talk to me about\nit, they talked to my boss. We had about 30 people in the office, and he just\nknew the job couldn't be done. He resigned. So they decided to close down the\nplanning office. I worked two years as assistant general manager of the Store\nfor Homes, a nice assignment. My assignment was one, to make the store\nprofitable; and two, give better service.\n\nSCHOENBERG: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So you're really in the retail business now.\n\nFERST: It was about as two contradictory assignments that I ever had in my life.\nBut apparently I decided to try them, and a few years later I got transferred\nover to executive office to report to Mr. [Ben] Gordon and [Dick] Rich and\n[Frank] Neely. They didn't tell me what I was coming for at first, and then we\nwent through all the figures, analyzing the economics of Atlanta and everything.\nWe built the Store for Men, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1950 and 1951, and that was my project. I handled\nit, planning of it, setting up and everything. I continued in that vein on...\nlet's see, after the Store for Homes, that opened, I took one after the Store\nfor Men. I took a vacation, and then they gave me the responsibility for\nmaintenance for all the properties in addition to all the development. Then I\ndid... I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hired a person that I knew, Phil Hammer, to be our economic\nconsultant. We started... we mapped out Atlanta and divided Atlanta up into 11\nzones. We updated that information every year to try to keep up with the\neconomics of all those zones, trying to look toward when something should happen\nto the suburbs. In the meantime, we bought a store in Knoxville [Tennessee] and\nhad to sort of drop everything. Bought two square blocks, had to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"plan and build\nand open a store in a year. We built the warehouse underground with five levels\nof parking on top, and then connected a tunnel underneath...\n\nSCHOENBERG: Sounds to me like you're now a construction engineer.\n\nFERST: We got that job done, and I came back. They just kept giving me operating\nresponsibilities. In the final analysis, I wound up running all the...\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everything but the merchandising. I ran all the non-selling functions. I was\nExecutive Vice President and Treasurer at the time. Had everything from computer\noperations to warehouses and everything in between.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Very interesting.\n\nFERST:... It was a lot of fun.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How well did you know the Rich's family, the Rich family?\n\nFERST: Got to know them pretty well. I didn't know them at all when I went to\nwork there, but all of the executives of the store were very nice to me. I had\nonly been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at the store... I guess I had been there about four or five years... a\ntotal of five years when my father died, and they were all very wonderful to me.\nDick was one of the most amazing people I've ever known, Dick Rich.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Describe him a little bit.\n\nFERST: Dick was probably one of the best executives I ran into, in a certain\nsense. 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He ran the War Production\nBoard, for the Southeast during the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"war. He was on the Hoover Commission. Went\naround and started the army supply distribution system all over the world, and\nmade recommendations to the Secretary of the Army to streamline supply. Neely\njust... he was a rare one. Dick knew how to use people about as well as anybody\nI know. He didn't know something, he'd get a hold of the person that knew it and\nhe'd learn about it. He'd speak with authority. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And he could turn it off and\nforget about it when it happened and go to the next thing. As a result, he was\nable to handle an awful lot. He had a secretary that had been with him since the\nday he came to Rich's. She was a high school girl and needed a job.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you remember her name?\n\nFERST: Yeah, Dorothy Levine. Dorothy lives right down here, Huntington Road.\nAnd Dorothy just... she was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"great secretary for him. She was on the phone any\ntime he took a phone call, listened to what was going on, where she could follow\nup. The whole time she was sitting there typing letters like she was listening\non the phone. She had one of those special phones where she could turn it on and\nwouldn't pick up any noise. She was able to do, you know, two or three things at\none time. She'd write... letters would come in and she'd know what he was\ngoing... how he'd answer them. She'd just type them up and give them to him.\nGive him the letter and give him the answer.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And he'd sign it.\n\nFERST: But Dick was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a real executive. Neely... Neely made Dick what he was. I\ndidn't know Dick as a young man, but apparently he was a little wild. Neely let\nhim know to keep his nose clean, and to do things right if he was going to be in\nthe public eye.\n\nSCHOENBERG: But, when you say Dick--talking about Dick Rich--that wasn't really\nhis name, was it?\n\nFERST: No, Dick was Dick Rosenheim. His mother was Rich. And Walter Rich... Dick\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"worked in the store as a young man before he went to college and while he was in\ncollege. Mr. Walter asked him to change his name to Rich cause he said he wanted\nto come in the business. He [Walter] wanted somebody to carry on the Rich name\nin the business. And he carried it on in great tradition, to the extent that he\neven wore a mustache like his grandfather, Morris Rich. He loved Rich's. I\nmean, he just ate and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4770.0,4800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"slept Rich's.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So how many years was he with the store?\n\nFERST: Dick came... I guess Dick was with the Rich's stores 50 years. He came in\n1922, I think, and died...\n\nSCHOENBERG: But you remember the old man, Walter?\n\nFERST: Yeah, Walter was an amazing gentleman. He was a merchant, and he was the\nquality guy. He was the guy, you know, who wanted to feel the goods. He was a\ngood merchant. I didn't know Mr. Walter. I didn't meet him that first day. I met\nhim (unintelligible... on the first?). And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was working out at\nCandler warehouse (unintelligible... on the first?). Frank Neely\nwanted to see me. I had some people coming, manufacturers meeting me up there. I\ncouldn't leave. The secretaries were driving me crazy. I said, \"I'll be there as\nsoon as I can, but I've got these people from out of town to meet me on a\nproblem. I can't walk off and leave them.\" So I finished. I got in my station\nwagon and flew downtown, and flying into the executive office. In those days,\nthey had a double pair of double doors, and they had little settees in between\nthem. Don't ask me why. I went through that first ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4830.0,4860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"set of doors flying in to see\nMr. Neely over an hour after he had called, and Mr. Walter Rich was coming\nthrough the door. \"Young man, how are you today?\" \"I'm just fine.\" About that\ntime, I was so fed up with my job I was ready to throw in the towel. \"Sit down,\nI want to talk to you,\" he said, \"I've heard some good reports on what you're\ndoing for the store. I want to know how do you feel about your job?\" Well, I\nreally was about as low at that point as I'd been in years, but I wasn't about\nto tell Mr. Walter. I knew Mr. Neely was sitting there waiting to see me and had\nbeen waiting for an hour to see me. I said, \"Oh, everything's just fine. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4860.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I love\nit here.\" \"Well, tell me, are they adequately paying you for the job? I\nunderstand you're working a lot of hard hours; you've done a real good job. Do\nyou think they're paying you?\" Well, I thought I was the most underpaid guy in\nthe store, but how was I going to tell Mr. Walter Rich that when I had never\ntalked to him but once before. But he kept me there for 30 minutes! Talking to\nme about me and my job. He was that sort of person.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That made an impression on you.\n\nFERST: Oh, yeah. He'd go around the store when we had a rainy day, and crowds\nwould sluff off. He'd go around the store and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4890.0,4920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"go to sales people, \"Here, take\nthis quarter. Go up to the Rialto and see the movie. Tell your boss I said go to\nthe movie.\" And he knew they weren't going to do any more business that day. Why\nshould the girl be standing behind the counter? Cute story, parallel to that, we\nhad a merchandise manager that had a great sense of humor, Adolf Bryor. And Ade\nknew Mr. Walter had done this a lot. One day, it was pouring rain outside, and\nhe said, the hell with it. If Walter Rich can ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4920.0,4950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"send people to the movie, I'm a\nmerchandise manager, God damn it, I'm going to a movie. He put on his raincoat\nand told his secretary he was going out of the building and he'd be gone for a\ncouple of hours. Went to the Rialto and went to the movie. He sat down, just\nenjoying the devil out of the movie. In those days, when the movie was over,\nthey turned the lights on and everybody walked out, and they'd turn the lights\noff and start it again. Turned the lights on, he got ready to get up, and who's\nsitting next to him but Walter Rich. [Alvin and Irv laugh]\n\nSCHOENBERG: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Anything happen as a result of that?\n\nFERST: Mr. Walter just laughed. He thought it was the funniest thing in the\nworld. Ade said his legs were trembling the whole time Mr. Walter was laughing.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, there were some other pretty good retail outfits here in\nAtlanta about that time. Did you get to see much of them? Do you know how they\nwere operating?\n\nFERST: Well, of course, everything was downtown then, except for Sears and...\nactually, Davison's was really no competition in those early days. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=4980.0,5010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"By their own\nadmission, they had a president. I won't call him by name, but he was on the\nboard of Macy's in New York and he went up to the directors' meeting. They\njumped all over him about his business one day. And he said, \"For God's sakes,\nget off my back.\" He said, \"I'm doing everything I can. I can't make any\n(unintelligible) down there.\" He said, \"Every time I try\nsomething new, those people at Rich's just raise that Confederate flag and start\nmarching ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5010.0,5040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"again, and I'm licked.\" They tried everything. It wasn't totally very\nrecent years that made any real stride. J.P. Allen was a super special shop.\nIt's a crime; you probably never knew J.P. Allen. Peter Stelling ran it for the\nAllen family at one time; they did a great job. George Muse was a wonderful old man.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Were there any other Jewish merchants in downtown?\n\nFERST: Yes. Hirsch Brothers was founded the same day... ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5040.0,5070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not same day, the same\nyear as Rich's. Morris Hirsch's father started the business, and Morris took it\nover. Morris ran a great men's store. Marcus was another men's store, was a\ngreat men's store. Before that, there was Eiseman's. And in between there was a\ngreat store, Lou Adler's. Lou Adler had a quality store. He had Lebow suits,\nyou know, back in the 1920s and 1930s, when the Lebow suits sold for 35 dollars,\nand 35 dollars in those days was big money. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5070.0,5100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But one by one, those individual\nmerchants dropped out. But we had... Zachary's was a great store. Mr. Zachary,\nAl Zachary was a fabulous citizen. He participated in everything in town. The\nbeauty about Atlanta in those days was that most everything was owned in\nAtlanta. If something needed to be done in the town, you could generally go for\nbreakfast or lunch, decide something needed to be done, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the decision was\nreached right then. If money was required, they'd all chip it in, and it was\nsettled and they'd do it. The leaders of Atlanta in those days didn't give a\nhoot about how it affected their business. They sincerely believed that anything\nthat was good for Atlanta would eventually be good for their business. And they\nweren't as protective as people are today, trying to figure out, well, why\nshould I contribute to this? It doesn't do my business any good. You never had\nany of that. Regenstein's was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5130.0,5160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"great store.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah. Would you say it was a longer-range view that those people had\nin those days?\n\nFERST: Much more, and a much more sincere interest in the town; the people of\nthe town and the health of the town. I'm sure you've heard the stories, but back\nin the Depression when the city school system couldn't pay the teachers, they\nissued scrip. Rich's took the scrip. And Rich's wasn't the big company they are\ntoday. But they had faith that the city was going to have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"money ultimately, and\nthose teachers couldn't eat scrip. And they could bring the scrip down. First,\nthey could just buy things at Rich's, and then they realized well they had to\neat too. They could bring the scrip down there and exchange it for money at\nRich's. Everything had a heart in those days. During World War Two, they had a\nbig garrison of troops out at Fort McPherson, and all of a sudden they had to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5190.0,5220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"deploy them. All the money, all the cash in the banks had been locked up and it\nwas a time lock. Nobody could open it until...\n\nSCHOENBERG: This is Irv Schoenberg, interviewing Alvin Ferst on the 24th of\nAugust 1992, for the Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta, co-sponsored by\nAmerican Jewish Committee, Atlanta Jewish Federation, and National Council of\nJewish Women. This is the second session. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5220.0,5250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We are starting with tape two on side\none, and we will now proceed with the interview of Mr. Ferst. Alvin, you said\nthat there were some friends of your family that you hadn't mentioned in the\nprevious interview. Go ahead.\n\nFERST: Yeah, some people were Harry and Rebecca Gershon. Harry and Rebecca\nGershon were two of my mother and father's closest friends, and spent an awful\nlot of time with my entire family. Myself, my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5250.0,5280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sister and my brother. Harry was\none of the early top life insurance salesmen. He was a member of the Million\nDollar Round Table back in the early 1930s when you were lucky if you could sell\nany insurance, much less sell over a million dollars a year. He was a very\npersonable person, a person with very high moral character everyone ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5280.0,5310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"believed in\nand liked. Rebecca was a most unusual person in that she had a very good\neducation, graduated from Smith College, I think, and continued to further her\neducation all during her life. She was constantly reading about things, not only\nin literature but things all over the world. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5310.0,5340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rebecca grew up in Chattanooga,\nTennessee, and her closest friend when she was growing up was Ralph McGill.\nAnd Mr. McGill many times mentioned that some of the greatest insights that he\ngot in the world were as a result of being in the Mathis family home. She was\nRebecca Mathis before she married Harry Gershon. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5340.0,5370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ralph said that that had more\nto do with the development of his mind and the broadening of his mind than any\nexperience he went through. I would imagine also that that probably was Harry's\nfirst... excuse me... was Ralph McGill's first exposure to life in a Jewish\nfamily. And he was fascinated by all of what they stood and the values for which\nthey stood. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5370.0,5400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I grew up to have a great respect for Ralph McGill and knew him as a\nresult of my contacts with Rebecca Gershon, and had many an interesting\ndiscussion and many different activities with Ralph as a result of it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Give us an example of your activities with him.\n\nFERST: Well, I can remember shortly after World War Two when three or four young\nkids got in some trouble ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5400.0,5430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Atlanta and were arrested for some pranks that they\ndid. And the newspapers just would not get off their back, I mean. It went...\n\nSCHOENBERG: Black children, white children, Jewish children?\n\nFERST: These were white children, some Jewish, some non-Jewish, from very\nwell-to-do fine families, good upbringing, and therefore the newspapers I think\nfelt like they had to crucify them cause of the trouble they got into. Finally,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5430.0,5460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went to see Ralph one day. I said, \"Ralph, you know, I'm not going to tell you\nhow to run your newspaper.\" I don't think I said Ralph because everybody was Mr.\nSo-and-So then. I said, \"Mr. McGill, I'm not going to tell you how to run your\nnewspaper, but I really can't understand why you won't get off these kids back.\nThey know they did wrong, and a couple of them actually went to the police and\nconfessed. And you've written on them just as hard as the ones that didn't\nconfess, and enough's enough.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5460.0,5490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He said, \"I agree with you, Alvin.\" He said, \"Let\nme talk to Tarver.\" He was just turning over a lot of the responsibility of the\npaper to Jack Tarver.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Excuse me, Alvin. What year would this have been?\n\nFERST: This would have been about 1947, 1948, somewhere in there. We got\ntalking. I was getting ready to walk out of the office and he said, \"You know,\nAlvin, I just was thinking. Those kids are all fine kids, and there's not a lot\nof difference between those kids and you and I.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5490.0,5520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He said, \"As a matter of fact,\nthere's probably only one difference.\" And I said, \"Yes, Mr. McGill, what was\nthat?\" He said, \"Well, they got caught and you and I didn't.\" And this humanness\nof McGill was something that came out all the time. In Rebecca Gershon's\nhousehold, I met black people, I met progressive-thinking people, before anybody\never thought of inviting a black person into their home. Grace [Towns] Hamilton\n, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5520.0,5550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who later became very prominent in Atlanta, worked in the Urban League and\nthen in the state Legislature, I met at Reb Gershon's house when I was a kid\nbecause Grace Hamilton was a well-educated black person. Her husband was\nteaching at the time at the black universities here and their house. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5580.0,5610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I slept in their home the night she sat in the hospital with him when\nhe died. One of the eeriest feelings in my life as a young kid, sitting in a\nhouse knowing a person I'd revered all my life...\n\nSCHOENBERG: What year did he die, Alvin?\n\nFERST: He died about 1935 or 1936.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So you were relatively young at that time.\n\nFERST: And I sat there on the telephone taking phone calls from these people\nthat would call and find out about him. Me, a little kid, not knowing whether to\ntell them, well I didn't think he'd live through the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5610.0,5640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"night because I didn't know\nwhether I had a right to say that even though I'd been told that. People... it\nwas interesting, the people who called that night. That was the beginning of...\nthe early part of the period when some of the people escaped from Nazi Germany\nwere coming over. I cannot remember, I'm ashamed to say, I can't remember the\nman's name who wrote a book, Barbed-wire Surgeon, a doctor who came here. But\nhe called that night. His wife called. All these people that Reb had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5640.0,5670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"befriended,\nnew to town as well as the oldest citizens of the town, calling to find out\nabout Harry. They just were rare people, way ahead of their time.\n\nSCHOENBERG: But you said he was an insurance salesman. Did he have affiliation\nwith any organizations, with clubs, societies or anything of that sort?\n\nFERST: Yes. He was... primarily was working in the business community with the\nnational Round Table for the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5670.0,5700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Million Dollar Round Table. He was one of two\npeople in Atlanta, I think at the time, that were members of the Million Dollar\nRound Table in the whole state of Georgia. He was active in those things. I\nthink he was active in B'nai B'rith. Reb was president of the Council of Jewish\nWomen, both for Atlanta and for the Southern Regional. And Rebecca was involved\nin everything. League of Women Voters, you name it, anything that a woman ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5700.0,5730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"could\nget involved in. Sometimes she stuck her nose into things that women hadn't been\ninvolved in.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You called her Reb, and I presume that's not rebel, that's Rebecca.\n\nFERST: Rebecca. But Rebecca lived until about, oh... about four years ago.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So she remained a very close friend of your family during the whole\ntime that you knew her?\n\nFERST: Very true, and she outlived them all. But she was the kind of person that\nshe studied up. After Harry died, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5730.0,5760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she studied up about various parts of the\nworld, and she planned her own trips. First to South America and Mexico, then to\nEurope, then to Russia. And she was one of the first people I ever knew to go\ninside of Russia not too long after World War Two, when Americans were afraid to\ndeath to be over there. But she somehow had a way of getting along anywhere in\nthe world, primarily on her brain power and her charm too. Enough said about them.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Okay. When I entered the room not too long ago, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5760.0,5790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Alvin, you were\nlooking over your family tree. And it occurred to me that in our first\ninterview, we really didn't talk much about your grandparents. We talked about\nwhere your parents had met. If I recall correctly, your father had met your\nmother in Charleston [South Carolina].\n\nFERST: Correct.\n\nSCHOENBERG: When he was at the naval yard.\n\nFERST: Right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was he in the service then, Alvin?\n\nFERST: Yes, he was in the Navy at the time. And the Weil family... ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5790.0,5820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"let's back\nup. My father's father was Aaron Ferst, and he was married to Ida Weil. The Weil\nfamily came from Mannheim, Germany.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What... the spelling on Weil?\n\nFERST: W-E-I-L.\n\nSCHOENBERG: W-E-I-L.\n\nFERST: They came from Mannheim, Germany, and settled in Savannah [Georgia] way,\nway back.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Have any idea about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5820.0,5850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what year it might have been?\n\nFERST: That particular date we don't know. Someone wrote down that they arrived\nin this country shortly before the beginning of the war.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Of the Civil War ?\n\nFERST: It would have to have been the Civil War, but they... the Weils started\nin Savannah. The Ferst family also came from Germany and settled in Savannah.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You remember what part of Germany they would have come from?\n\nFERST: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5850.0,5880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I should know the name where the Ferst family came from. It just won't\ncome to me now.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Now these would have been your grandparents coming to the United\nStates before the Civil War?\n\nFERST: Right. My Grandfather [Aaron] Ferst had a wholesale business in Savannah.\nI gather it was general wholesale to begin with but wound up being more\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5880.0,5910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wholesale produce later. I don't know what the Weil family started out other\nthan I know they started the temple in Savannah because I visited Savannah years\nago and was amazed to see all the Weils listed on the group that formed the\ntemple in Savannah. It was on a brass plaque in there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5910.0,5940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The Ferst... there were a\nwhole raft of Ferst children. One son died at birth. The second one either died\nor was killed in World War Two, that was Harold. Monie was the next oldest. My\nfather, Alvin Sr., was the next oldest. And then there came Leon, a daughter\nnamed Mazie, and then ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5940.0,5970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Frank.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was it that attracted them to Atlanta from Savannah?\n\nFERST: Well, I think there was just much greater opportunities in Atlanta. Both\nFrank and Monie went to Georgia Tech. I think Harold attended Tech for a short\nwhile before he went in the service. I think they got exposed to Atlanta. As it\nturns out, both Monie and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=5970.0,6000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Frank married Atlanta girls. Monie married Helen\nMontag and Frank married Sylvia Montag.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Were they sisters?\n\nFERST: First cousins.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They were first cousins.\n\nFERST: Sylvia and Helen were first cousins. Amazingly enough, Aunt Helen is\nstill alive at the tender age of 100. And until the last couple of years, she\nwas moving around and active and her mind was just as clear as it could be.\n\nSCHOENBERG: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6000.0,6030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So what years would that have been that your two uncles came to\nAtlanta to go to Georgia Tech?\n\nFERST: Monie graduated in 1911, so it means he probably came about 1905 or 1906.\nFrank went to the University of Georgia a year and then to Tech for four years,\nso I guess he came... I don't know whether he finished his last year in 1922 or\n1923 at Tech. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6030.0,6060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He came up somewhere around 1917 or 1918. And my father and mother\ncame here shortly after they were married, which, they married in 1918.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well your family... at least part of your family was probably here\nduring the Leo Frank period. Do you as a youngster remember hearing anything\nfrom them about it, or did you feel any backlash or any ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6060.0,6090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pressure as a result of\nwhat happened during that period?\n\nFERST: I didn't feel any. I guess as the years went on and you learned more and\nmore about it... you know, you didn't have the coverage in the media that you\nhave today. By the time they had gone through that over and over again on\ntelevision as many times as they have now, it's thrown it all out of proportion.\nBut ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6090.0,6120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the business that... where the murder occurred was a pencil business, and\nMonie happened to be in the pencil business, so that brought up a lot of\ndiscussion. I was too young to, you know, have any comprehension of it then. And\nlater on... it's really only been since after World War Two that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6120.0,6150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it's gotten the\nprominence and the play that it has gotten. I'm sure it did at the time it\nhappened, but... I think most people feel like it's... too much has been said\nabout it. You keep talking about something like that like you could do something\nabout it. It's all happened and nothing is going to change now.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The other event that Atlanta has received some notoriety about or\nbeen in the newspapers about was the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6150.0,6180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bombing of The Temple. That was in 1958, I believe?\n\nFERST: Somewhere around there, 1957, 1958.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What are your recollections of that?\n\nFERST: Well, I was sitting at home when it happened and heard about it\nimmediately, and I went over to The Temple immediately. And when I got there,\nMayor Hartsfield was there. Mayor Hartsfield and [Rabbi Jacob] Jack Rothschild...\n\nSCHOENBERG: What day of the week was that, Alvin?\n\nFERST: It was a week night. I could not tell you.\n\nSCHOENBERG: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6180.0,6210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But it was not during a... there may not have been services going\non? The Temple was empty at the time?\n\nFERST: My recollection is that it was... I think it was a Friday night after\nservices. I'm guessing. It's hard for me to remember now. I went over and they\nhad temporary lights strung all around the building. Rabbi Rothschild and Mayor\nHartsfield were walking around. I seem to recall Joseph Heyman being with them\nfor some reason. 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It's all happened, and we're going to\nleave it up to the professionals to try to see what they could figure out what\nhappened.\" And Chief Jenkins was there and all of his people of authority,\ncombing through the debris trying to see if they could get any clue as to what\ncaused it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And you were at Rich's at the time, were you not?\n\nFERST: Uh-huh.\n\nSCHOENBERG: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6240.0,6270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did you see anything, feel anything in the company, in the store, in\nthe organization?\n\nFERST: No. It was... not particularly in the business. It was...\n\nSCHOENBERG: It was well known that Rich's...\n\nFERST: It was talk all over Atlanta, I mean...\n\nSCHOENBERG: But it was well known that Rich's...\n\nFERST: Nobody could even believe that it had happened in Atlanta. We had\nalways... we knew there were always radical groups around, but we sort of\nfigured they were using up their energies in these little beer joints and places\nthey were showing off on. I don't think anybody really expected anything like\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6270.0,6300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that, other than the fact that Rabbi Rothschild and a few other people had seen\nthese strange faces sitting in the balcony of The Temple on several occasions at\nservices, on Friday night services, and sort of wondered what the devil they\nwere doing there. But nobody connected them at that time to this specific group\nthat... which I can't even remember the name of the group. They had a name they\nwent by then.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The reason I ask is that Rich's was known to be a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6300.0,6330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish business,\nand that was a Jewish affair, so did you feel anything there at the company?\n\nFERST: No. We didn't feel it any more than anybody else in town. It was... it\nwas the talk of the town, just couldn't believe it. You read about those things\nhappening at other places, but we just never dreamed anything could happen like\nthat in Atlanta.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Give us some thoughts, if you would, Alvin, on Civil Rights in\nAtlanta. Anything that you had direct connection with or your observations ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6330.0,6360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in\nthose days that Civil Rights was becoming a very talked about subject.\n\nFERST: Well... I guess, I had relatives in Montgomery [Alabama]. And when Rosa\nParks first started her defiance in Montgomery, and Martin Luther King and his\ntroops started moving in there, I was very pleased ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6360.0,6390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and surprised to find some of\nmy relatives in Montgomery were standing up for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther\nKing. Most of the town were just dead set against them in Montgomery. I guess my\naunt and uncle, Henry and Madeline Weill... Madeline was my mother's sister, and\nthey were W-E-I-L-L. 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On the\nother hand, when you have been brought up all your life seeing white signs and\ncolored signs on restaurants and seeing whites eat in one place and blacks eat\nin another, whites in one school and blacks in another school, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6420.0,6450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it's a little\ndifficult for you to accept it right away. I don't care what the courts have\ndecreed, anything. When you've lived with it, you've really got to back away\nfrom it to get your perspective. Most of my friends, I would say, in Atlanta,\nwere far more tolerant of the movement than I would have expected. There were\nbusinessmen... ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6450.0,6480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm talking about presidents and chairmen of the boards of\nbusinesses... who had been as redneck as they could be all their lives, who all\nof a sudden woke up to the fact. 'Wait a minute. This is something bigger than\nAtlanta. This is something if the law... this is the law. Even if I've felt this\nway all my life, I've got to change.' And by the same token, it was very\ndifficult to get businesses to agree on that. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6480.0,6510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Many of my friends who were\nlawyers, who could always tell me and knew what you should do in your business,\nbut that wasn't what they were doing in their business. Everybody could give\nadvice what the other person could do. When it came to their business, then they\nwere a little slower at moving. I was at Rich's which was the big target. And Martin...\n\nSCHOENBERG: Explain that when you said \"big target.\"\n\nFERST: Well, Martin Luther King realized that if he was going to change anything\nin ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6510.0,6540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta, he had to change Rich's. We got together and discussed this\ninnumerable times with other business leaders. And we decided, rightly or\nwrongly, that the most important thing to do was keep the schools open.\nTherefore it was decided that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6540.0,6570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we wanted to find what was the way that you could\npeacefully integrate the schools. We felt if you once can take that step in the\neducational field, then the other things will... follow. Well, of course, they\nwanted everything at once.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They meaning the black?\n\nFERST: Blacks wanted everything at once. There are people who were students at\nthe black universities, never had heard of, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6570.0,6600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who stepped forward in this\nmovement, who developed careers as a result of it. We had rough times at Rich's.\nBut Frank Neely, who was then chairman of the board of Rich's, a big,\nbroad-shouldered man, he came from Rome, Georgia. He had... fallen about ten\nyears before and broke his hip. While he recovered, the doctor had made him walk\nwith a cane. I think he would have been just as happy to take that cane and hit\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6600.0,6630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Martin Luther King over the head a few times with it. And we determined we\njust... Mr. Neely was going to have nothing to do with any discussions. He was\nwith us a hundred percent in what we were trying to do to get things peacefully\nintegrated, but he had a short fuse. It took a lot of patience to work with him\nbecause what you were trying to work out doing over a period of months or maybe\na year, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6630.0,6660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they wanted done tomorrow. And no matter how painfully you could show\nthem how you had to take this step, this step and this step to get it done, they\ndidn't want to hear that. They wanted everything done tomorrow.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you remember who the leaders might have been at that time, the\nblack leaders?\n\nFERST: Well...\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was Martin Luther King directly involved?\n\nFERST: He was, in moving forward in the confrontations, but there was a\ngentleman ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6660.0,6690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"named Mr. Milton who ran a drugstore down Decatur Street. Mr. Milton,\nMr. Scott who ran the newspaper, Atlanta Daily World and I cannot... there was\none other black man. It just won't come to me now. The three of them determined\nto work a little more reasonably with some of the white business leaders. 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He and Ivan Allen ... this was long\nbefore Ivan was mayor, but he was... he was very active in the chamber, both the\nstate chamber ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6750.0,6780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and the local chamber at the time. He and Mr. Robert Troutman and\nIvan Allen and Dick Rich, and I cannot remember the fourth person on this...\nwon't come to me now. They sort of took the leadership on this and tried to\nrepresent the business community. That doesn't mean that the whole business\ncommunity wasn't involved, but you had to have somebody that could sort of act\nlike a steering committee. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6840.0,6870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They were the older people, and the younger blacks wanted to just take\neverything in their own hands now. The real thrust of it all still has to be\ngiven to Martin Luther King and all the Andy Youngs, the John Lewises, and all\nof the other people that were working with him. They came in and gave us as much\ntrouble with our... we closed. We wound up closing all of our food operations at Rich's.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What about the soft goods, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6870.0,6900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"other merchandise in the store? Was\nthat always available to blacks to purchase?\n\nFERST: In fact, we always had an unwritten policy that if a black came in a\ndepartment, try to give them the best service of any person in the department.\nWe did not want them to think he was not wanted at Rich's. We had a shoe store,\na fine shoe store on our third floor, expensive shoes. 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I don't care if Mrs. Got Rocks from West Paces\nFerry Road is in there, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6930.0,6960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we don't want any blacks to think that they're not\nwanted in Rich's.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did it drive away any of your white customers? Did you notice that?\n\nFERST: No, it's very interesting. You would think it would cause problems, but\nit usually brought a smile and a nod from the person to the sales clerk in there.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, you said you opened up the general departments, but you were a\nlittle slow in opening up any of the eating facilities.\n\nFERST: No, we closed down ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6960.0,6990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all the eating facilities.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What about the restrooms, Alvin?\n\nFERST: Well...\n\nSCHOENBERG: We've always talked about the white and the colored.\n\nFERST: The restrooms... I can't keep the timing straight in my mind, but when\nthis thing all got started, we appropriated some money to rebuild all the\nrestrooms in Rich's so that when the day came that they were integrated, there\nwould be plenty of facilities. You can't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=6990.0,7020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"visualize the difference in the way the\nstores were in those days and today. We had days when we had 200,000 people in\nthat downtown store. We had days--the day after Thanksgiving and a few sale\ndays--when we literally had to put like traffic cops at the escalators to keep\nthe traffic from piling up on them. 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We didn't... and we wanted to have enough facilities we\ncould keep them pluperfect clean, that we'd have surplus facilities where maids\ncould be in there, could be cleaning those so there wouldn't get an incident\nstarted by a white ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7050.0,7080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"person getting mad because a black person left something\nmessy or vice versa. So we had some of the biggest restrooms you've ever seen,\nand we just went on a methodical program just to more than double the size of\nall the restrooms.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well it seems then that Rich's did make a determined effort. What\nwould you say about other businesses in town? How did they approach it?\n\nFERST: They approached it the same as we did, but just a little bit more ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7080.0,7110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"slowly.\nThey wanted us to... they wanted Rich's to bear all the brunt of it, and then...\n\nSCHOENBERG: And do you feel they did?\n\nFERST: Yeah.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That Rich's did bear the brunt?\n\nFERST: But I don't think it hurt in the long run. I think we got just as much\ngood out of the bad.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you feel that maybe Judaism had an effect, I mean, the fact that\nthis was a Jewish store? 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7140.0,7170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They didn't hesitate to call all hours of the day and\nnight, tell us what we should do and when we should do it. But it was very\ntrying times. I tell you what. I don't mean this as critical as it sounds, but\nwe were mighty glad to see the Commerce Club open when it did.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Why is that?\n\nFERST: Commerce Club opened in 1954 or 1959. That was right at the height of all\nthis sit-in foolishness. When we had all of our food facilities closing, at\nleast we could ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7170.0,7200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"walk down the street to the Commerce Club and get a decent meal.\nThe Commerce Club was... it accepted blacks from the time it was organized.\n\nSCHOENBERG: In 1959, approximately.\n\nFERST: Small number, initially. The Commerce Club accepted blacks, and shortly\nafter it opened, it accepted women. They accepted women before they had a\nladies' room. When the restaurant closed, they had to go down on a lower floor\nto go to the restroom.\n\nSCHOENBERG: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7200.0,7230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well I know, Alvin, that you've always been very loyal to Georgia\nTech. Talk about Georgia Tech a little bit, how it's played a part in the\ndevelopment of Atlanta, how you observed it and what you feel about Georgia Tech.\n\nFERST: Well, depends on how long you want to listen. Georgia Tech's always had a\nbig impact on the city and the state. It was... the whole reason for starting\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7230.0,7260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Georgia Tech was the hopes that it would generate industry for the state.\nThere's no doubt that it did and it has. At the time the school was started to\nthe time I went through Georgia Tech, it was a hard, practical school. We were\ntaught theory. We were taught how to apply the theory. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7260.0,7290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The best professor I had\nat Georgia Tech was Dr. D.M. Smith, and I took many a mathematics course from\nhim. Dr. Smith would come... you come in his class, he would usually give you a\nquiz on what the homework had been the night before. And then he would start\nlecturing on today's subject. He would give you the whole theory: exactly how\nthe formulas were derived, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7290.0,7320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what led up to them, and then what examples he could\nshow of using, and then practical examples of how it could be applied in the\nreal world. If you kept notes in Dr. D.M. Smith's class, you had a textbook. And\nincidentally, Dr. Smith went, during the early 1930s, he went to Europe, to\nGermany, to take an advanced mathematics course. He got over there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7320.0,7350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and his\nGerman professor announced, he said, \"Well, all of you are learned professors\nbut,\" he said, \"we have to use some paper or textbook as a guide to this course.\nAnd we will use the paper prepared by Dr. D.M. Smith, the Georgia School of\nTechnology in Atlanta, Georgia,\" not knowing Dr. Smith was sitting in the class.\nMany things happened at Tech that led this area. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7350.0,7380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The Textile Engineering School\nis one of the few and maybe the only textile engineering school left in the\ncountry. Textile school, as far as teaching textile engineering and giving a\ndegree in textile engineering, Georgia Tech is one of the few left. And it has a\ngreat deal to do with the whole textile industry in the South. Members of the\nfaculty at Georgia Tech did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7380.0,7410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"consultation in the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s to the\nlargest industries in America. Dr. Case, who really ran the machine shop at\nGeorgia Tech, taught us machine shop, was a consultant to Chrysler Motors. He\nactually designed and developed the fluid drive that was the first automatic\ntransmission perfected to work smoothly for automobiles. You go through all the\nschools over there and you hear the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7410.0,7440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"same thing. The aeronautical school, the\naeronautical engineering ranks with the tops in the country and always has,\nbecause they were... they had real dynamic leadership there. It wasn't the\ncomplete reason... Georgia Tech wasn't the complete reason the Bell Bomber Plant\nwas built here during World War Two, but it had something to do with it cause it\nled on to what is now Lockheed plant out there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7440.0,7470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You can go on and on and on with\nwhat it's meant to practically every textile industry in the South; it all leads\nto Georgia Tech. Dr. Harrison came in at Tech in the late 1950s, and he saw the\nneed to diversify the curriculum. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7470.0,7500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He saw the need to integrate the school. And\nincidentally, Georgia Tech had absolutely no problem with integration. The\nreason they had no problem with integration is Dr. Harrison said, \"We'll take\nanybody in this school that is scholastically qualified, and we'll take blacks\nif they're not quite scholastically qualified.\" He held a meeting weekly with\nthe entire student body, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7500.0,7530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not to start talking about integration, but it was the\nprimary thing on peoples' mind, and he would answer any questions anybody asked.\nWe had professional troublemakers from all over America sent in to make trouble\nwith integration at Georgia Tech. When he answered their questions in front of\nall the students every week, they finally ran out of questions to ask him,\npacked up their duds, and left.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The man who answered the questions, had the meeting, was who?\n\nFERST: Dr. Edward Harrison, who was the president of Georgia Tech.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He was president at the time? Okay.\n\nFERST: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7530.0,7560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dr. Harrison was followed by one man for a short length of time, and then\nhe was followed by Dr. Joseph Pettit. And Dr. Pettit saw the great research\nwork being done at Georgia Tech. He saw the value of building up the whole\nresearch program at Tech. One, to get the best brains on the faculty; and two,\nto serve industry throughout the United States. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7560.0,7590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For several years, Georgia Tech\ndid... ranked anywhere from first to second place in total research work done in\nuniversities. Ranked number one in public universities. That enabled them to\nbuild up the school with more sophisticated, up-to-date brains working...\nlooking toward the future.\n\nSCHOENBERG: In some parts of the country, Alvin, there were... at least some\npeople ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7590.0,7620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"perceived there to be a quota for Jewish students, for example. Did you\nexperience any of that or are you aware of any quotas?\n\nFERST: No, there has never been any quotas for the Jewish students or any\nstudents at Georgia Tech.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Were there Jew...\n\nFERST: For years, they gave a high priority to state of Georgia students, to the\nexclusion of out-of-state students. In more recent years, they've been going on\nthe basis of the SAT's. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7620.0,7650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And there've been a lot of people who paid state taxes\nwho criticized them for not taking enough from the state of Georgia because some\nof the other states have got more brains.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So if there was no restriction on Jewish students, were there Jewish\nfaculty members at Georgia Tech?\n\nFERST: Yes, there have always been Jewish faculty members. I can't think of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7650.0,7680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"any\nperiod, and I've been exposed to Tech for 50-some odd years. I can't ever think\nthat there have not been important positions filled by Jewish faculty members. I\nhelped Rabbi Sandmel.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Rabbi who?\n\nFERST: Rabbi Sandmel. He was assistant rabbi to Rothschild at one time. He was a\nfull rabbi but Rothschild was in charge, he was second man. I helped him get a\nHillel organization ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7680.0,7710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going on the campus, cause he felt the need for it for all\nthe Jewish students. There have always been... there were always two Jewish\nfraternities on campus. For the last 40 years, 45 years, there have been three\nJewish fraternities on campus. I can't say that the school is absolutely devoid\nof prejudice any more than you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7710.0,7740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"can say so in the city of Atlanta or the state of\nGeorgia. But it was never very prevalent.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I don't know whether this is just a coincidence, but is there a\nFerst Drive here in Atlanta?\n\nFERST: There just happens to be.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Is it connected with your family somehow?\n\nFERST: Yes. When one of our uncles died, they called me and wanted to know if I\nthought he'd like to have a building named after him. And I said, \"Well, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7740.0,7770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think\nit would be fine. I think you ought to check with his widow before you do it.\"\nWell, they have a committee that meets to make selections and recommendations on\nnames. They called me back... there was only about four, about five people on\nthe committee. Three people on the committee at different times had called me\nand said they had had some discussions and rather than name a building after\nthat person, they would like to name... they thought they'd like to name a\nstreet, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7770.0,7800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this Ferst Drive. I said, \"Well, I don't think that's right.\" Monie\nFerst had died, and Monie had been a great supporter of Tech, and I felt like\nthey should name... if it's a street or building, it should be Monie Ferst Drive\nor Monie Ferst Building. Well, they said the committee had already met and\ndecided, whatever they were just going to name it Ferst. They named the Ferst\nDrive; I told them that was Ferst family (unintelligible).\n\nSCHOENBERG: I believe on Ferst Drive there is a thing called Georgia Tech\nInstructional Center. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7800.0,7830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Are you aware of that?\n\nFERST: Georgia Tech Instructional Center? No.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It's on Ferst Drive. I thought maybe you may have had some influence\non establishing that.\n\nFERST: No. There's a Ferst Place in the Student Center.\nThey called me on that. They had a little food operation in the Student Center\nand were trying to think of a name, and several of the students said, \"Well the\nStudent Center's on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7830.0,7860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ferst Drive, why don't we name it Ferst Place.\" They called\nthat little food operation Ferst Place.\n\nSCHOENBERG: While we're talking about naming buildings and knowing that you'd\nbeen an employee at Rich's for so many years, the Rich Building over in Emory\nUniversity is the Business School.\n\nFERST: Business School, and that started when money was given by the Rich\nFoundation, and Mr. Walter Rich was chairman of the foundation. The Rich\nFoundation has continued to give money to organize the program of the Business\nSchool. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7860.0,7890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"By the same token, they endowed the computer center at Georgia Tech,\nwhich is known as the Rich Computer Center, and gave heavily to that to get that\nComputer Center started back in the 1950s and 1960s and 1970s when the computers\nwere blossoming out. They have a... I mentioned Frank Neely the other day.\nThey've got a Neely nuclear reactor on the Georgia Tech campus and named after\nFrank Neely. He went to Washington [D.C.] and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7890.0,7920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"got the approvals on that, and he\ngot the governor to give the money required for it. The reactor is just these\nlast couple of years being put to the use he originally wanted it for. He wanted\na reactor in Atlanta so Georgia Tech could use it, so Emory could use it for\nmedical research, and for the University of Georgia could use it for\nagricultural research. It's taken all these years for the other schools to\nfinally get around and start using it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7920.0,7950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Back in our first session, Alvin, we... I think you brought up the\nsubject of Miss Daisy, Driving Miss Daisy. Obviously you were familiar with\npeople that were portrayed in that movie. Give us some thoughts on the family\nand what your reaction to the movie was.\n\nFERST: Well, I enjoyed the movie. I enjoyed it probably for a reason different\nthan other people. I really think that Alfred Uhry, even though he says he\nwrote that about his grandmother, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7950.0,7980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/267","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the woman to me is far more typical of Mrs.\nSigmund Montag than it is of the Ms. Lena Fox, his grandmother. So I... each\ntime I went to the play when it opened here, and I've watched [it on] television\nseveral times, I own the tape. And, each time I look at it, I still feel like\nit's more typical of Mrs. Sig Montag than it is Ms. Lena Fox.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And what was her relationship to you, Mrs. Sigmund?\n\nFERST: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=7980.0,8010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm really not any relation to Mrs. Sig Montag. Monie Ferst's wife, Aunt\nHelen, the one who is still alive, is a hundred years old. Her mother and father\nwere Sig and Clementine Montag. Always called her Miss Clemmie. And it's Miss\nClemmie that it reminds me of more than his grandmother, Miss Lena Fox. But they\nall were quite different people than we're used to today. They were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8010.0,8040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/269","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a lot more\ndefinite, a lot more outspoken. They didn't talk a lot. When they talked, you\nknew exactly what they meant and what they thought.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you feel that the movie really portrayed those people very well?\n\nFERST: Well, I think what Alfred is trying to get over in there was that all the\npeople who had good servants in those days really thought of them like their\nfamily. We had a person in my family, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8040.0,8070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Annie Jones. Annie Jones...\n\nSCHOENBERG: This is Irv Schoenberg interviewing Alvin Ferst on 24 August, 1992,\nfor the Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta, cosponsored by American Jewish\nCommittee, Atlanta Jewish Federation and National Council of Jewish Women. This\nis side two of the second tape. Alvin has been talking about the treatment of\nblacks in Rich's store, particularly.\n\nFERST:... working? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8070.0,8100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Came over to me the night before I was leaving, and shook\nhands with me and said, \"Mr. Ferst, I'm sure going... I'm really going to miss\nyou. I don't know how we'll get along without you.\" I said, \"What are you\ntalking about, Willie? You got Mr. Whiteman, you got so and so and so on, all of\nthem have been here much longer than I have.\" I said, \"They're all your\nfriends.\" He said, \"No sir, Mr. Ferst.\" He says, \"When they come in the morning,\nthey says 'good morning' and just keep going. When you come in the morning, you\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8100.0,8130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"said 'good morning' like you mean it. If I need something, I know to come to\nyou, not to come to them.\" There's a black man in the North who felt the same\nempathy that we generally had with the black people that we were close to in the\nSouth. I think that's one of the main things that Alfred Uhry puts over in that\nplay. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8130.0,8160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't know that the public in general gets that around the country. But\nI know any number of people in the South recognize it every time they see it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes, it had some good psychological reaction, I think.\n\nFERST: Yes, it really did. It's a great job. I'm so pleased for him, to see him\nget success, cause this kid's been writing plays since he was in college. Most\nof his plays have been in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8160.0,8190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"some little off-Broadway theater, some little theater\nsomewhere, and they'd last for a few weeks and die off. Maybe they'd go on for a\nlong time on these small theaters, but he never could get recognized. And by\ngolly, when he got recognized, he hit the jackpot. He worked all his adult\ncareer at something he loved to do. When you have talent, you're going\neventually hit it. He did. I'm very pleased for him. His...\n\nSCHOENBERG: What would you...\n\nFERST: His mother is one of the great ladies of Atlanta. I don't know if you\never met Mrs. Alene Uhry, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8190.0,8220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but she's a great lady. And she did a wonderful job\nwith those kids. Of course, you know his, Alfred's sister, cause you worked with\nher husband.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Right. Sister would be Ann Uhry Abrams ?\n\nFERST: Right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Correct?\n\nFERST: Correct.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And her husband is Edward Abrams.\n\nFERST: I think... I take my hat off to Alfred. I'm sure he worked long and hard\nputting that together, but he did a superb job. Course I got a big kick out of\nit. 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I even walked down the street in New York [New York] a couple years ago\nand thought to myself, \"Gosh, every time I come ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8370.0,8400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to New York, I usually run into\nsomebody that I know on the street, and I haven't seen a soul.\" And the next\nblock, I ran into Milt Lincoln, who for years had worked for the Atlanta Chamber\n. We stood there in front of Pennsylvania Station and just talked 20, 30 minutes\ntogether. He was sort of glad to see somebody, too.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, sort of in the way of summation, Alvin. You saw Atlanta. You\nwere born in 1922, and you lived in Atlanta for, except for perhaps a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8400.0,8430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"couple of\nyears that you were in Philadelphia and in the service. Tell us what you... how\nyou perceive or your opinion of the changes that have come about since the\nmiddle 1920s to the early 1990s.\n\nFERST: Well, it's very dramatic. You know, when I moved out in Druid Hills, for\ninstance, Briarcliff Road, North Decatur Road and Springdale, Oakdale, Oxford,\nLullwater Road, had one strip of blacktop down the middle and cobblestones ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8430.0,8460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on\nthe side. And that was ample for transportation. There weren't many cars then.\nWhen you see a city that has grown like Atlanta, you can't help but be proud of\nits growth. Some of it's been handled beautifully, some of it has not been\nhandled so well. But somehow, the end result has worked to where we have a very\npleasant ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8460.0,8490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"city. We've maintained some of the old charm. It's a crime to me that\nsome of the... a few of the old nice buildings we had were not saved. Sherman\ntook care of a lot of them. But there were some nice buildings that could have\nbeen kept and would have left a lot of charm in this town. Nothing we can do\nabout it now. I think transportation... Atlanta's always been a transportation\ncenter. It got started because of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8490.0,8520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"railroads. Thank goodness Bill Hartsfield had\nthe vision as mayor to fight, fight, fight for everything, the development of\nthe airport. You can't visualize, when I was in high school, my closest friend's\nfather was a regular Air Force officer. We used to go out there and meet him at\nCandler Field. Believe it or not, the commanding officers in those days would\ntake a train to the airplane manufacturing plant and pick up a new plane ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8520.0,8550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and fly\nit back to the outfit and check it all out before they'd turn it over to\nanybody. So he landed at Candler Field before it would be sent somewhere else.\nCandler Field was nothing but red clay. Had a cyclone wire fence about forty-two\ninches high dividing where we parked our cars and where the airplane was.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Where was Candler Field?\n\nFERST: Candler Field was right where the airport is now.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Where Hartsfield is now?\n\nFERST: Yup. It was... well, I don't know how long have you been in Atlanta, but\nthe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8550.0,8580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"old terminal, not the recent one torn down, but the previous terminal prior\nto the 1950s was a big hanger that had been converted. And it was adjacent to\nthe little terminal building which, you know, was probably a 10,000 square foot\nbuilding. But the airport was just a big red clay field. 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Number one, Mr. Neely had met the engineer from New York\nwho designed all the viaducts ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8610.0,8640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"down around Grand Central Station, where they\nleveled out around there and brought everything up to level with the railroad\ntracks. He brought this man to Atlanta and had him develop a scheme to do the\nsame thing in Atlanta. You can't visualize, but everything south of Five Points\nused to be on a lower level than it now is. And they developed a scheme for\nviaducts, and then they started building, first ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8640.0,8670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Alabama Street, Whitehall\nStreet and the Courtland Avenue [Street] bridge, and then they later built the\nSpring Street viaduct. Of course, Hunter Street viaduct back on Martin Luther\nKing [Boulevard] and Techwood viaducts, they were just built back in the 1960s.\nBut that got the roads started. The other thing Neely did, Neely went to\nWashington when the Eisenhower ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8670.0,8700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"administration... when the Interstate Law was\nbeing passed, read it over and discussed it with the people in Washington, came\nback and got the Fulton County Commission to start buying right away for\nexpressways and perimeter highways around this town. Everybody thought it was\nnuts and the county said, \"Oh, we can't do that. The laws says anything acquired\nprior to the bill signing, you can't be reimbursed for.\" \"Here, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8700.0,8730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here's the\nletter. Bureau of Public Roads in Washington saying Atlanta's the exception.\nThey got such bad traffic problems, we'll reimburse you for anything that you\nbuy ahead of time.\" Right after, Neely was the one, he was the head of the War\nProduction Board, he was the one that located the Bell Bomber plant out in\nMarietta [Georgia], had roads rebuilt, ran city water out there to take care of\nthe Bell bomber plant. During World War Two, he got government money... during\nthe Depression, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8730.0,8760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"actually, he got WPA [Works Progress Administration] money to\ncome in and survey all the utilities in downtown Atlanta, locate the water lines\nand sewer lines. They didn't know where any of the lines were, just kept tacking\non and adding on to them. He had maps prepared and located. Then during the WPA\ndays, he got the water lines and sewer lines extended by the Federal Government,\nand that's what enabled Atlanta to grow after World War Two, because the water\nand sewer had been updated and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8760.0,8790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"extended so that we could have growth in the city.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You're saying, I believe, Alvin, that Neely and Hartsfield are two\npeople that really deserve a great deal of credit.\n\nFERST: They do, and Frank Neely has not been recognized at all. He never wanted\nany credit. He always gave credit to other people. He was that kind of leader.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What year did he die?\n\nFERST: Oh, Mr. Neely didn't die 'til about... oh, about 1980. I guess around\n1982. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8790.0,8820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He was close to 100 years old. 95, 96 years old when he died.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Right behind you I see four photographs, one of whom is our former\nPresident, Jimmy Carter. Why don't you make a comment just about each of those\npeople, and how they touched your life.\n\nFERST: Well, the one in the upper right-hand corner is Frank Neely, and he's the\nman who talked me into coming to work at Rich's when I really hadn't planned to,\nand who I learned one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8820.0,8850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hell of a lot from during my whole business career, and I\nmentioned many times in our conversation. On his left is Dick Rich, who comes as\nnear as being Mr. Atlanta as anybody ever has, because he participated in\neverything in this city. It didn't make any difference what it was, if it was\nfor the good of the city he was working on it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Walter Rich or Richard?\n\nFERST: Richard Rich.\n\nSCHOENBERG: This is Richard.\n\nFERST: This is Richard Rich. Mr. Walter ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8850.0,8880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/297","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was a different ilk. Mr. Walter Rich was\nthe old-time merchant, and he spent... he was a good citizen. Don't get me\nwrong, he really was. But he did not get... wasn't quite as visible in the\ncommunity as Dick was. Dick was literally involved in everything. I think I\nmentioned earlier he was aide to the Secretary of the Army, and where that's\nnormally a few years appointment, I think he had it for about 15, 18 years. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8880.0,8910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/298","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It\nseemed sort of ridiculous to anybody to hire anybody to succeed him. If there\nwas a problem, they'd see if he could give them the job. He took everything he\ndid seriously. Both of those gentlemen were real friends to me, and I owe them a\nreal debt of thanks.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So you had more than one mentor?\n\nFERST: Absolutely. On the left-hand bottom is Jimmy Carter, who, interesting\nenough, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8910.0,8940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/299","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he says he knew me before I knew him. We worked hard for him, to get him\nelected Governor. We worked hard for him to be elected President. We would have\nbeen on the Peanut Brigade, but Charlotte fell and broke her leg three places,\na week...\n\nSCHOENBERG: Charlotte's your wife.\n\nFERST: My wife. A week before we were to leave on the first trip. We usually got\non the telephone ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8940.0,8970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before the Peanut Brigade went anywhere and called people we\nknew and then told Bobby Lipshutz and Stu Eizenstat and... what was the guy's\nname who was his right hand then, was working on the...\n\nSCHOENBERG: Ham Jordan?\n\nFERST: Hamilton Jordan, told them who to call on and use our name, and they'd\nexpect to hear from us. We worked very closely with President Carter all the\nway. He was very nice to have us in the White House any number of times ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=8970.0,9000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"while he\nwas up there. When Jimmy Carter came back to speak at Tech--I guess it was\nduring the 100th Anniversary--he made an important speech. He turned to a couple\nof people and he said... and I walked up to say \"hello\" to him and he turned to\nthe governor and he said, \"You know, I've known Alvin longer than he's known\nme.\" And I said, \"You better explain that to me, Mr. President.\" He said, \"Well...\n\nSCHOENBERG: Jimmy was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=9000.0,9030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"President at that time? When he came back to Georgia Tech?\n\nFERST: Yeah. And he said, \"Well,\" he said, \"Alvin, when I was a freshman at\nTech, you were a senior. And,\" he said, \"the freshmen knew all the seniors, but\nthe seniors didn't know all the freshmen. So I've known you a long time.\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: So his 100th Anniversary of Georgia Tech would have been what year, Alvin?\n\nFERST: That was in... well, it stretched over a period from... we had\neverything... the school was founded in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=9030.0,9060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1885.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So this would've been 1985, approximately.\n\nFERST: Yeah. It was in that period, in there, when he came in. But he was an\namazing guy. I take my hat off to him. With the retirement he had from Governor\nand being President, he could have gone down to Plains [Georgia] and been a\nfarmer and taken it easy for the rest of his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=9060.0,9090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"life. But he surely has not elected\nto. You have to take your hat off to him for all the good he's trying to do in\nthis whole world. And I think he's set a pattern for future presidents that\nthey'll have a hard time living up.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, there's one more individual over there in that group.\n\nFERST: On the lower right hand is Harold Brockey who was... also I worked for at\nRich's. And Mr. Brockey came to Rich's in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=9090.0,9120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1950s, had been with Macy's all\nalong. And I had... trying to think. He came in the early 1950s, and was in the\nstore for homes for a number of years. And then in the mid-1950s, when we\nfinished building the store in Knoxville [Tennessee], 1955, he moved over to\nSenior Vice President in charge of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=9120.0,9150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"merchandising. And then later was made\nExecutive Vice President and then President and Chairman of the Board. I worked\nwith Harold very closely. He and... I had the pleasure of working with he and\nDick on formulating the biggest part of Rich's expansion program.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How long was Mr. Brock... B-R-O-C-K-E-Y?\n\nFERST: Right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How long was he with Rich's then? You said he came in when you were\nthere, and then...\n\nFERST: He came in at about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=9150.0,9180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/307","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1951, about 1951, and... no... yeah... about 1951 and\nhe left Rich's about 1974, I guess.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Retired from Rich's in 1974? Okay. Well, we've ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=9180.0,9210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/308","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"covered a lot of\nterritory, Alvin.\n\nFERST: I will give to you copies of these family trees, if they're worth\nanything to you.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I'm sure they will be.\n\nFERST: I think I've got them straight. Actually, these family trees were\nprepared by Oscar Strauss after he retired. We actually have here a family tree\nfor the Rich family, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=9210.0,9240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/309","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the Hirsch family, the Strauss family, and the Weil family.\n[shuffling papers]\n\nFERST: The Weil family is where the whole Ferst family come in since Grandmother\nFerst was a Weil. Miss Ida Ferst was Ida Weil. And he also made one up of the\nSartorius family which gets into the Jacobses, and that was done cause it shows\nhow the Jacobses and the Strausses are all ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=9240.0,9270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/310","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tied together. If you trace these far\nenough back, you can entwine most all of them. I have here something I don't\nthink would be of any value to you, but I got a few years ago to make some\nadditions on the Weil family, just shows some changes and some later additions.\nIt just shows some children and so forth that were added on a Weil family tree\nthat my daughter put together on her computer for the reunion we had with the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=9270.0,9300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/311","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Weil family a couple of years ago in Savannah.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, Alvin, let me thank you on behalf of the Project of Atlanta,\nthe Jewish Oral History, the American Jewish Committee, the Atlanta Jewish\nFederation, the National Council of Jewish Women. Your recollections and your\nknowledge of the city of Atlanta and the Jewish community here have, I think,\nhave shed some interesting light.\n\nFERST: Well, Irv, I thank you. I'm glad to do it. I did not prepare any notes. I\ndid not make any outline, so I'm sure it's very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=9300.0,9330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/transcript/22009/annotation/312","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rambling. And I'm sure there are\na lot of voids that I could have filled in. If anybody's reviewing it and\nanybody has any question, wants me to fill in anything else, I'll be glad to.\nCause I could go on for another 40 hours and still not give everything -\n\nSCHOENBERG: Cause you enjoy it! Thank you again, Alvin.\n\nFERST: You're quite welcome.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=9330.0,9360.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/annotation_set/392","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/annotation_set/392/annotation/313","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eEdison Brothers Stores, Inc., was a retail conglomerate based in St. Louis, Missouri. It operated numerous retail chains mainly located in shopping malls, mostly in the fields of shoes, clothing, and entertainment, with Bakers Shoes as its flagship chain. The company began in 1922, when brothers Sam, Harry, Mark, Irving, and Simon Edison opened their first shoe store, Chandler’s, in Atlanta, Georgia. The brothers opened up a second shoe store, called Baker’s, the next year. By 1928, the brothers operated 12 Chandler’s stores. The company was liquidated in 1999, though some of the chains it operated continued under different owners.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/annotation_set/392/annotation/314","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eH. L. Schlesinger Candy Factory in Atlanta, Georgia was owned by Harry Louis Schlesinger (1856-1920). The factory manufactured candy \u0026amp; crackers.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/annotation_set/392/annotation/315","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eFrank Henry Neely (1884-1979) was an American mechanical engineer, consulting engineer, and President of Rich's Department Store in Atlanta. A graduate of Georgia Tech, he is known for his civic activities in Atlanta, and was recipient of the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal in 1952.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/annotation_set/392/annotation/316","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRachel \"Rae\" Cohen Schlesinger Neely (1883-1980)\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/annotation_set/392/annotation/317","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eFrederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was an American mechanical engineer who worked in scientific management and helped to develop the modern field of industrial engineering.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32292/file/101041/annotation_set/392/annotation/318","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHenry Laurence Gantt (1861-1919) was an American mechanical engineer. 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The trial was the catalyst for a great outburst of antisemitism led by the populist Tom Watson and the center of powerful class and political interests. Frank was sent to Milledgeville State Penitentiary to await his execution. Governor John M. Slaton, believing there had been a miscarriage of justice, commuted Frank’s sentence to life in prison. This enraged a group of men who styled themselves the “Knights of Mary Phagan.” They drove to the prison, kidnapped Frank from his cell and drove him to Marietta, Georgia where they lynched him. Many years later, the murderer was revealed to be Jim Conley, who had lied in the trial, pinning it on Frank instead. 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