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He grew up during the Great Depression and always held a part-time job while attending Commercial High School. After graduating, Morris served in the army during World War II. Once returning to Atlanta, he worked at General Motors and met his wife, Susie, with who he has five children. Between the time of 1950 to 1958, Morris opened several small businesses, including selling sewing machines and transmission repair shops. He also attended law school at night and became a member of the State Bar of Georgia. His greatest passion ended up being commercial real estate, in which he worked at Habif Properties until his passing in 2022. \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eHabif recounts his family history and how his family came to the United States. He reflects on his childhood and growing up during the Great Depression. He discusses his dad's struggling hat business and how he always held a part-time job. Habif reflects on his time in the army before coming back to Atlanta and working at General Motors. Habif discusses his family life before exploring his pursuit in a multitude of different businesses. Habif recalls Jewish Atlanta in regards to segregration. He goes on to give details on his passion for commercial real estate and his company Habif Properties. Habif then reflects on his time in the Boy Scouts as a child. Lastly, he discusses his interest outside of his work at Habif Properties. \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28886"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may bereproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic ormechanical, 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":["Habif Properties (corporate name)","Real Estate (topical term)","Jewish Atlanta (topical term)","Segregation (topical term)","Atlanta, Georgia (geographic term)","Habif, Morris (1927 - 1922) (personal name)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eMorris Habif interviewed by Joel Arogeti on August 16, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMorris Habif was born in 1927 in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up during the Great Depression and always held a part-time job while attending Commercial High School. After graduating, Morris served in the army during World War II. Once returning to Atlanta, he worked at General Motors and met his wife, Susie, with who he has five children. Between the time of 1950 to 1958, Morris opened several small businesses, including selling sewing machines and transmission repair shops. He also attended law school at night and became a member of the State Bar of Georgia. His greatest passion ended up being commercial real estate, in which he worked at Habif Properties until his passing in 2022.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHabif recounts his family history and how his family came to the United States. He reflects on his childhood and growing up during the Great Depression. He discusses his dad's struggling hat business and how he always held a part-time job. Habif reflects on his time in the army before coming back to Atlanta and working at General Motors. Habif discusses his family life before exploring his pursuit in a multitude of different businesses. Habif recalls Jewish Atlanta in regards to segregration. He goes on to give details on his passion for commercial real estate and his company Habif Properties. Habif then reflects on his time in the Boy Scouts as a child. Lastly, he discusses his interest outside of his work at Habif Properties.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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My\nname is Joel Arogeti, and I'm an attorney here in Atlanta with Kitchens Kelley\nGaynes. I'm with Morris Habif and on August 16, 2021. We are here ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at the Breman\nMuseum of Atlanta, Georgia, 1440 Spring Street, Atlanta. Morris, thank you for\nparticipating in the Taylor Oral History Project at the Bremen Museum. Let me\nget started with your family history, and if you would just tell us the names of\nyour grandparents, Isaac and Zemboul.\n\nHABIF: I did not know them. They were never in the United States. It was one\ngrandmother. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was my mother's mother who was here in the United States a few\nyears before she died. [I] can't think of her name. She lived with my aunt,\nBeatrice [indistinct 1:01]. She spoke no English, so I had to improve my, you\nknow [Hebrew].\n\nAROGETI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Your father's father was Isaac Habif . . . and his wife was Zemboul\nPenso, is that correct? Where was your family from originally?\n\nHABIF: My parents came from Cannakale.\n\nAROGETI: Cannakale, that was in Turkey?\n\nHABIF: In Turkey.\n\nAROGETI: That's on the west coast of Turkey, along the water?\n\nHABIF: I don't know.\n\nAROGETI: Okay. We can look that up. Do you know about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"approximately, we know\nthat your grandparents didn't immigrate to the United States. Your mother's\nmother came of your four grandparents, but I understand that none of your\nfather's parents came to this country.\n\nHABIF: That's correct.\n\nAROGETI: Alright. Can you tell us . . . ?\n\nHABIF: I don't know if they were living. I never heard of them. They were never mentioned.\n\nAROGETI: Right. Tell us a little bit about when your dad, Isaac, when did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he\ncome to the United States approximately.\n\nHABIF: Isaac was my brother.\n\nAROGETI: Isaac, what about your father?\n\nHABIF: His name . . .\n\nAROGETI: Was Nicene?\n\nHABIF: Nicene.\n\nAROGETI: Nicene. Your grandfather's name was Isaac and your father, Nicene,\nnamed his first-born Isaac after his father.\n\nHABIF: Correct.\n\nAROGETI: Alright, we got we got that down. Your father, Nicene, when did he come\nto the United States, approximately?\n\nHABIF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael has all that information.\n\nAROGETI: Right, that's fine. Michael's one of your sons, correct?\n\nHABIF: Right.\n\nAROGETI: Alright. We understand that he came to the United States around 1900,\ngive or take, a few years.\n\nHABIF: I was born in 1927. My brother Ike was born here. He was four and a half\nyears older.\n\nAROGETI: He's born around 1923? 1923.\n\nHABIF: Yeah, more or less.\n\nAROGETI: And your father had come to this country before that because he had run\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"several businesses before. If my memory is correct, your father first came from\nNew York and then went to Cincinnati [Ohio] to go into business with his\nbrothers. Is that correct?\n\nHABIF: That's correct.\n\nAROGETI: They were in the postcard business, among other things?\n\nHABIF: Right.\n\nAROGETI: Right. Then eventually your father came to Atlanta. When he came here,\ndo you know what he did? What his occupation was before he got ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"married?\n\nHABIF: He . . . they were all struggling, and they had several things that went\ninto. When . . . it was my recollection to go back to when he was a, he had a\nhaberdashery and [indistinct: 04:20]. Of course, I do remember the, I was a\nchild, but I do remember that . . .\n\nAROGETI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hat store, sold hats, and other hat accessories.\n\nHABIF: Yeah, it was little slacks and shirts and ties basically.\n\nAROGETI: Also, tell us a little bit about your mother. What was her name?\n\nHABIF: Victoria.\n\nAROGETI: Victoria, and her maiden name?\n\nHABIF: Was Tarragano.\n\nAROGETI: Tarragano. Do you remember what year your parents were married?\nObviously, you weren't born then, but what year were they married, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"approximately?\n\nHABIF: I don't know.\n\nAROGETI: We know Ike, your brother Isaac, was born in 1923, so they were\nprobably married in 1922, thereabout?\n\nHABIF: I guess 1921, 1922 around like that.\n\nAROGETI: They were here in Atlanta, is that correct?\n\nHABIF: Correct.\n\nAROGETI: They married?\n\nHABIF: Correct.\n\nAROGETI: Tell me about, how many children did your parents have?\n\nHABIF: There were three boys, three brothers.\n\nAROGETI Isaac was the oldest?\n\nHABIF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Israel.\n\nAROGETI: Your brother Israel was the middle child?\n\nHABIF: Right.\n\nAROGETI: Then you?\n\nHABIF: Right.\n\nAROGETI: Tell us a little bit what it was like for you and your brothers to grow\nup in the south on the south side of town. Tell us a little bit about your childhood.\n\nHABIF: There was discrimination, of course. In [indistinct: 05:56] Jews were\nvery close; we all live in an area ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there together. The women did not work in\nthose days. Because of the Depression [Great Depression], big Depression came in 1929 and lasted\nuntil 1941. I remember we didn't have money to buy shoes and clothing. We got\nclothing passed down from my oldest ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"siblings. Our only method of transportation\nwas walking. We all had a lot of shoes and is why several of the survivors had\nshoe repair shops.\n\nAROGETI: It was a business. I understand that here in Atlanta, many of your\nfather's contemporaries were in the shoe repair business or shoe sales business,\nis that correct?\n\nHABIF: Right. My father started off actually not as a habet. He started out just\ncleaning ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hats because he didn't have the money to buy him a haberdashery in\nthose days. I was old enough to remember we lost our house during the\nDepression. Matter of fact, I understand that the mortgage the bank had held,\nthe mortgage had defaulted, and the government took it over. It had no heart, so\nthey just kicked us out.\n\nAROGETI: You ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all had to end up renting another house or moving . . .\n\nHABIF: To another house, and the owner financed it. Of course, there's a lot of\nrepairs to be done. My father did it. My Uncle David measure this one block from\nus. They all have to do their own repairs. 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In a matter\nof fact, Michael Carter, as you know, founder of the [indistinct: 08:27] museum\nwas born ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on the same day I was born four houses from my house. I mean, there's\nso many. It was just many, many Greeks there.\n\nAROGETI: Greeks that were Greek Orthodox and Jews and non-Jews lived in the same\ncommunity at that time.\n\nHABIF: I was born in the same block where the Greek Orthodox Church was and\nsays, another reason why there were many Greeks there. 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It's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"interesting that it's such a\nhigh percentage with massive success reaching their goals, whatever those goals were.\n\nAROGETI: Do you attribute that to the Depression, to drive being first\ngeneration Americans? What do you attribute that to?\n\nHABIF: I give it to the work ethic that was imparted to us from our parents.\nThey worked so hard, and they were very honest. That was important to me, and I\nattribute that to my success. 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I had a good education and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pass the bar exam on the first go around.\nToday I am the fifth oldest member of the Georgia Bar Association.\n\nAROGETI: Is it correct to say that you're a member of the Georgia Bar, but you\ndid not graduate from college, you went straight to law school?\n\nHABIF: Right. In those days, you didn't have to have an undergraduate degree to\ntake the bar exam.\n\nAROGETI: Let me ask a question, because I heard this, and I want to just verify\nif this is true. That your older two brothers ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were in the service [during] World\nWar Two.\n\nHABIF: Right.\n\nAROGETI: They wouldn't accept you into the service because your mother was a\nwidow, your father had died, and they didn't want all three of her sons to be in\nthe army at the same time.\n\nHABIF: That's correct.\n\nAROGETI: Two brothers were in the Army, and it wasn't until one of them was\ndischarged from the army before you were either drafted or were eligible to\nenroll. Is that correct?\n\nHABIF: You've done your homework.\n\nAROGETI: Thank you. I know the family. 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You can imagine the house\nwas here, [indistinct: 13:26] was over here and my dad's business was over ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here.\nI had to go there about five miles every day I would go . . .\n\nAROGETI: After school, you'd walk over to your dad's store from the Georgia\nAvenue, Capitol Avenue, Pryor Street area, all the way to West End?\n\nHABIF: That's correct. Again, that was, walking was our means of transportation.\nWe couldn't afford the trolley.\n\nAROGETI: A nickel for the trolley back then.\n\nHABIF: A trolley didn't go directly to West End. You had to go to the white hall\nin ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Broad Street and then transfer.\n\nAROGETI: Got it.\n\nHABIF: No, it wasn't convenient.\n\nAROGETI: Would you help your dad out at the store after school and then you and\nyour dad would walk home every day together?\n\nHABIF: Actually . . .\n\nAROGETI: Or would you stay in the store?\n\nHABIF: There was a bicycle shop, a guy named Sol Cohen [sp], who is well known,\nhe had a bicycle business. He had a car. He lived on Atlanta Avenue. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sometimes\nhe would give us a ride, drop us off on Pryor Street on the way home.\n\nAROGETI: That's a very sweet story. Thank you for sharing that with us. Tell us\n. . . your father passed away when you were in high school. Did that contributed\nto you having to go to work to help support the family?\n\nHABIF: What happened [was] I had to drop out of high school for one semester to\nliquidate the business. 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Then when\nI graduated, I couldn't draft me yet and again, when they released one of my\nbrothers, they sent me right away.\n\nAROGETI: You were enrolled in the Army?\n\nHABIF: No, I didn't enroll.\n\nAROGETI: I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"assume that you were drafted into the army, correct? What did you do\nas a as a draftee? What was your job?\n\nHABIF: It's interesting. In high school, we had a wonderful education,\nCommercial High School. It was very nice for business. I will tell you; it was\nequal to going to college. You had an option of two majors. One was accounting,\nbookkeeping in those days, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and the other was stenography. Fortunately, I took\nboth. When I was drafted and they saw what my credentials were, I was drafted\nfor my piercing, and they put me in the office. They kept me for 66 months and\nnot let me go.\n\nAROGETI: You were helping to run the office of Fort Mac?\n\nHABIF: Right. 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They made\nme the assistant to the [indistinct: 16:49]: possibly 'something marshall'\nreferring to a position in the military], but they wouldn't give me a promotion.\nI was doing the work of a master sergeant, but because I was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"draftee, they\nwouldn't promote me. I was making $70 a month. I will tell you that I worked as\nhard, working for $70 a month as I would... I did stuff with that in my own\nbusiness. Again, work ethic. I will tell you this, in my opinion, no matter\nwhere I work . . . [After] the Army, I went to work for General Motors, in the\naccounting department. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was the only non-graduate college graduate in the\ndepartment. I will tell you that I produced more than any other man\n\nAROGETI: Where was that job? Here in Atlanta or somewhere else?\n\nHABIF: That was Atlanta. The assembly plant over there on Sawtelle Boulevard.\n\nAROGETI: Over near what is now the federal penitentiary? Not far . . .\n\nHABIF: Across the street.\n\nAROGETI: Across the street from the federal pen. 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Did you do any service overseas or. . .\n\nHABIF: No.\n\nAROGETI: . . . tours of duty, you were here stateside.\n\nHABIF: I was due to go overseas, but, again, I was taken aback by issues\n[indistinct: 18:16]\n\nAROGETI Alright, so after the war, you worked for General Motors for a period.\nWhat did you do next?\n\nHABIF: Well, I worked there for two years, and I really outperformed all ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the...\neverybody in the department. Now what's interesting... not once... did the\nmanager, who had a stone face... he would walk by... never told me I was doing a\ngood job, which I was. [The manager would] never thank me, do anything, never\ngave me an increase in salary, and I went into business for myself.\n\nAROGETI: When you were at General Motors, did you experience any anti-Semitism\nor when you were in high school? Or in the army?\n\nHABIF: No, at that time, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my brother Ike was there. He was working as well in\nMars. Habib was also... [he] remained at General Motors until he retired,\nactually. I don't know if you're aware of that.\n\nAROGETI: My dad used to give him the nickname Pontiac. That was his nickname,\nPontiac. Alright, and I remember Mr. Habib.\n\nHABIF: Yeah.\n\nAROGETI: Alright, did you experience any anti-Semitism in high school or\nelementary school or growing up in Atlanta as a young boy, that you remember?\n\nHABIF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nothing really serious. It was always there. The only time it really came\nhome was . . . I used to skate a lot, and I was skating on Georgia Avenue. I\nremember, to this day, a young boy and his sister attacked me, because I was\nJewish. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They didn't beat me up too bad, but they hit me a lot. That was the only\nincident that I remember. A real serious incident.\n\nAROGETI: Tell us a little bit about what was life like. I know we've jumped\naround a little bit but going back to your childhood . . . your teenage years,\nyou were working. Your father passed away. What organizations or communal groups\nwere you a member of? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Was your family a member of Congregation or Shalom?\n\nHABIF: Oh of course, yes.\n\nAROGETI: That was the Sephardic synagogue here in Atlanta?\n\nHABIF: Of course, after I got married, had children, we were still members. We\nthen, we moved over to northwest side and switched over to the synagogue.\n\nAROGETI: Let's talk a little bit about your wife and what was her name and how\ndid you meet?\n\nHABIF: Her name was Suzanna. She was known as Susie.\n\nAROGETI: What was her maiden name?\n\nHABIF: Her name was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Salinas.\n\nAROGETI: Salinas?\n\nHABIF: Salinas. [It's] kind of an interesting story. I met her. I had relatives\nin Cuba. When Ike, my brother, and he was married to Louise Ellis. 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We have a friend we want you\nto meet, not me.\" They ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[indistinct 21:59]. She decided to come, and she was\ngoing to stay with Ike and Louise. The date when she arrived, she was out with a\nshikha, so I had [indistinct 22:17]. That's when I first met her. We had sort of\na rocky romance. Ultimately, after a couple of years, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we decided to get married,\nand five children came later.\n\nAROGETI: We're going to talk about that. You and Susie got married. What year\ndid you all get married in?\n\nHABIF: Well . . .\n\nAROGETI: You got out of the war in 1946.\n\nHABIF: I'll tell you when it was. 1959. No, wait a minute, 1950.\n\nAROGETI: 1950.\n\nHABIF: 1959 was [indistinct 22:51].\n\nAROGETI: Right, so you got married in 1950 and you just mentioned earlier you\nhad five children. Let's talk ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about them. I'll start in [birth] order. Your\nfirst oldest was a son, right, Larry?\n\nHABIF: Larry.\n\nAROGETI: Your second child was Michael.\n\nHABIF: Correct.\n\nAROGETI: . . . third child, a daughter . . .\n\nHABIF: Valerie.\n\nAROGETI: Valerie, who's got her Ph.D. in psychology. Is that correct? Then the\nnext child . . .\n\nHABIF: Marlene.\n\nAROGETI: Marlene. She's married to . . .\n\nHABIF: Mark Haber.\n\nAROGETI: Haber, a doctor here in town. The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"youngest?\n\nHABIF: Nancy, [who] married another doctor.\n\nAROGETI: Married another doctor, Doctor Kleber. You've got two son in laws that\nare doctors. The older two boys are in the business with you, correct?\n\nHABIF: Well, Larry was . . . somewhat [indistinct: 23:48]. He had Asperger's and\nI put him in check [indistinct: 23:56]. He was good at that because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he didn't\nsocialize, but he he liked money and he was very careful who, where cash [was]\nat. He was successful with that. Then he came, he gave that up. I put him to\nwork doing some, working on some problem real estate that we had.\n\nAROGETI: Your son Michael got his law degree and then eventually came in to work\nwith you, is that correct?\n\nHABIF: Yes, I think he practiced law for about four years with one of the major\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"firms. He was in international law and decided that he'd be better off coming\nwith me in those days. I was in transmission parts which I was in for 50 years,\nby the way.\n\nAROGETI: We'll talk about that in a minute. . . . Michael married to Gail, and\nthey have three children, I have to believe, or two.\n\nHABIF: They have two children.\n\nAROGETI: Two children.\n\nHABIF: Yes. Craig, who now works with us ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and his daughter [who] is also married\nto a doctor.\n\nAROGETI: Then your daughter, Valerie, married Neal Wasser, who's a lawyer here\nin town.\n\nHABIF: That's correct.\n\nAROGETI: They have four sons.\n\nHABIF: Right.\n\nAROGETI: Alright, that's beautiful. What a great story.\n\nHABIF: One of them just got married this past weekend.\n\nAROGETI: Oh, congratulations. That's a beautiful story.\n\nHABIF: He's an attorney also.\n\nAROGETI: Alright, and you mentioned earlier that you were in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the transmission\nparts business. Let's kind of go back to after you left General Motors and you\ndecided to go out and work on your own. Tell us a little bit about that.\n\nHABIF: I knew . . . I thought I knew what all I needed to know about being in\nhaberdashery. I was in Miami, and I saw a store that interest me called Slack\nBar. All they sold was slacks and ties. 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The thing that I miss is\nhaving, being able to tell my teachers how well they taught me because they did\na wonderful job and that's all contributed to my success.\n\nAROGETI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"After you worked for the woman that owned the infant business sales,\nwhat did you do next?\n\nHABIF: I was drafted and . . .\n\nAROGETI: Then you were drafted, came back. You went to work for General Motors.\n\nHABIF: General Motors.\n\nAROGETI: Then after General Motors, you had the Slack business.\n\nHABIF: No . . .yeah, that's right. That's right.\n\nAROGETI: Then after the Slack business, what did you do next?\n\nHABIF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":". . . I think I worked some [indistinct: 28:08], hat stores and always\nsold more hats than anybody else.\n\nAROGETI: You remember the days when your father had the hat store?\n\nHABIF: Yeah, yeah, yeah.\n\nAROGETI: You were familiar with that product?\n\nHABIF: Every man would never be seen on the street without a hat in those days,\nessentially. I don't know if you knew.\n\nAROGETI: That it was part of a person's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wardrobe back in the fifties.\n\nHABIF: Right, yeah.\n\nAROGETI: Forties and fifties. Then eventually you decided to go out on your own\nand get into the vehicle transmission business.\n\nHABIF: No, that's not what happened.\n\nAROGETI: Tell us about what happened.\n\nHABIF: What had happened, Susie was working for Momar Chemicals. I was working\nwith Metro Chemicals, which is the Harris family. 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I remember the guy that owned it was a guy named Stanley Spiegel, and he\nhad several of these ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stores. I couldn't sell chemical, but I sold hell a lot of\nsewing machines. . . . After about a month, I was a leading producer of 12 guys\nsaying because I just [indistinct: 30:47]. After about two years again, Stanley\nagain would walk through there. Never recognize me, never say thank you, never\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"showed any appreciation for what I had accomplished. Yeah, I guess in those\ndays, I just didn't think it was a lesson for me. I do it now. Will anybody do\nanything for me? I always tell people when they do a good job. Anyway, after a\ncouple years, I said, \"I can do this on my own.\" I went on Anthology, and it was\nvery successful. As a matter of fact, later on, Victor ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Masri [sp] had finish\ncollege, were looking for something to do. . . . Shows you what being honest,\nintegrity. That helps. A finance company was financing the payments for [in\ndistrict: 31:45]. That business was starting to fade a little bit. 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The landlord would\nnot extend the lease anymore on going to Spring and Simpson Street We had to\nfind another ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"building. As luck would have it, we found a building on Marietta\nStreet. It was very depressed. Joe operated out of there until he died. The good\nthing was Joe was there any time a building was available for sale. Joe would\nsay \"Morris, come check into it.\" We bought a lot of property: Marietta Street,\nLucky Street. You know what happened there when the aquarium was built? That we\nown all that [indistinct: 34:28]. We have parking ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lots and just one building\nthere. That was a result of having been in the, that business. Joe was very successful.\n\nAROGETI: Tell us a little bit about your business acumen. When did you, when did\nthe auto parts transmission parts business really take off?\n\nHABIF: It kept growing. 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I just mentioned in one of the articles [indistinct:\n35:53] they would come to the land to replace what they had sold the week\nbefore, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on the weekends when they had business. They would just go. Most of them\nwere specialty, like socks, underwear, tires, shirts, whatever. They were\nworking in very primitive conditions. They . . . it didn't have loading docks.\nYou're working out a silo front. 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You as the patriarch, your son,\nMichael, and one of Michael's son, Craig, is also in the business.\n\nHABIF: Right.\n\nAROGETI: Are you guys grooming any fourth generation or they're too young right now?\n\nHABIF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Craig only been with about three months, doing a great job.\n\nAROGETI: That's fantastic.\n\nHABIF: He was at the Ponce Market. He was the first manager that they had there.\n\nAROGETI: Ponce City Market?\n\nHABIF: Ponce City Market.\n\nAROGETI: that's wonderful. Let's talk a little bit about sort of as a young\nadult and what was Jewish Atlanta like in the late 1940's and 1950's and 1960's.\nThey'll be a lot of people that listen to this tape that weren't from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta or\nweren't familiar with what was going on in Atlanta at that time. Think back for\na few minutes. It's after the war, you're working, eventually you marry Susie in\nthe 1950's, early 1950. 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It was going up Pryor and Richardson.\nI remember that was across the street ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from the Orthodox Greek Orthodox Church. .\n. . Life pretty much . . . my uncle Dave [indistinct: 40:15] had a little\ngrowth. He imported food that Greeks and safaris had in common, like feta\ncheese. I think ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all that. Something, though, Philadelphia, I mean, that's\ntypical. It's like a [indistinct 40:41] so you also show recognition, but very\nsmall store and . . .\n\nAROGETI: After you and Susie got married, where did you all live? What was your\nfirst apartment or your first home? You'd live on south side on town or . . . ?\n\nHABIF: We lived on a . . .\n\nAROGETI: You move a little further north?\n\nHABIF: We live in a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"group of apartments, which is now I think on Monroe. I\nforgot what the name of it [was]. It was developed by a Jewish attorney. I can't\nthink of his name. It was all brand new. We move there. That was our first residence.\n\nAROGETI: Is that over near Georgia? 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Okay, Monroe and near Piedmont Road in Atlanta, which is now\nthe Morningside area of Atlanta.\n\nHABIF: Right.\n\nAROGETI: Morningside Virginia Highlands.\n\nHABIF: It would, I guess 50 percent those [there were] young Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"families\njust recently married just like us. I'm trying the account of having his name.\nIt was Minsk. What's his name?\n\nAROGETI: Malcolm Minsk . . .\n\nHABIF: Yeah.\n\nAROGETI: . . . and Donald Minsk. Burnberry [sp].\n\nHABIF: Burnberry.\n\nAROGETI: Henry Burnberry?\n\nHABIF: Yeah, he was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there. I see stories on the side. A cell phone answering\nservice, which was something new in those days and . . .\n\nAROGETI: You were hustling. You were always . . .\n\nHABIF: Always.\n\nAROGETI: Always looking to do something else.\n\nHABIF: Always had to have two jobs. I guess we made as we meet.\n\nAROGETI: Morris, I want to I want to pause for a moment and reflect back a\nlittle bit, because Atlanta in the 1950's and 1960's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was an interesting time. It\nwas the post-World War Two boom, but yet there was also segregation and some\nintegration. You were talking a little bit about growing up on Pryor Street in\nthe 1930's and the 1940's. You said that the Jews and the Greeks live right next\nto each other. You lived across the street or around the corner from the Greek\nOrthodox Church. What about the African Americans? Did they also live ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in your\nneighborhood or near your neighborhood?\n\nAROGETI: No.\n\nAROGETI: Okay, alright.\n\nHABIF: Serious segregation.\n\nHABIF: Tell us about your first memories and experiences in dealing with the\nAfrican American communities here in Atlanta. 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They had their own\naera own area where they live, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it worked. It was pretty serious segregation.\n\nAROGETI: Tell me from your experiences, what was the first time that you were\nsort of aware of [segregation]. You're aware of segregation as a young child\nbecause you knew that the African American hope that had worked for you didn't\nlive in your immediate community. 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I would peek\nthrough the shade in my house because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was very young, scared to death. It was\nfrightening . . .\n\nAROGETI: Was there any event that precipitated them parading or marching or\ndriving down your street?\n\nHABIF: Not that I was aware of. That's just what they did.\n\nAROGETI: Was it done to try to intimidate people?\n\nHABIF: I'm sure. I'm sure that's what it was about.\n\nAROGETI: What about when you were older? Fast forward a little bit older as a\nyoung adult or as an adult. 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They, of course,\nwere ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"second class citizens and. They were treated as such. We didn't have any\nracial strife that I remember. Yeah.\n\nAROGETI: What about in your automobile transmission parts business? 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That money was invested in\nreal estate.\n\nAROGETI: You got out of the automobile transmission business and now you're in\nthe business of owning real estate, leasing real estate, managing risk.\n\nHABIF: We went in from the very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"beginning there when you, it was deserted.\n\nAROGETI: It's fascinating that most of your properties that you least initially\ndescribe were in either East Atlanta over in the Grant Park area, or they were\nin downtown Atlanta or they were in the West End on the west side of town. 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As there are over a period of time, I wound up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with about 29 to 30\nproperties down there and still have properties.\n\nAROGETI: Morris, I think . . . you are how old today?\n\nHABIF: 94.\n\nAROGETI: 94 years old. You've seen Atlanta transform from a very small, sleepy\nsouthern town to an international town with an international airport. Tell us a\nlittle bit about over the course of your lifetime, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what were some of the things\nthat have really impressed upon you or has made it memorable in your life?\n\nHABIF: It was a slow thing. It didn't happen overnight, of course. I was exposed\nto what was going on because I was buying up all the real estate that I could.\nWe have a model . . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We buy distressed properties and bring them back up to\nrental properties. That's how we accumulate so much property. Just to give an\nexample, just recently I got into the truck parking business and I told you I\nhad 30 acres over there, which was a fluke . . . . 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I'm not just sitting there twiddling my thumbs.\n\nAROGETI: I was going to say that just for the audience that are watching this or\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"reading this for the first time, you're still active in business. You go to work\nevery day.\n\nHABIF: Oh, absolutely. I go to work six days a week.\n\nAROGETI: You're fully engaged in the business?\n\nHABIF: Absolutely. We just bought a property on I-75 near the airport. It was a\nsmall truck area. We converted to a . . . it was on the expressway, so you can\nimagine. We have a moving company today and we have an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"auto repair shop there.\nWe have a body shop there and it produces quite a bit of income. We've only had\nabout six months. That's what we do, that's our model. Nobody else wanted to buy\nthat. It was really run down. We spent a lot of money bringing it up to. Being\nrentable. That's our model and we're sticking to it.\n\nAROGETI: Morris, it's evident from our discussion today that your work ethic ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is\na defining part of who you are. I think it's a product of your parents and the\ntimes that you were raised in. When you weren't working, and I know you worked a\nlot. Tell us a little bit about what was your interest in the community in this\ngreater Atlanta, Jewish or non-Jewish community? What were some of the things\nthat interested you outside of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"work?\n\nHABIF: Of course, there was little time really to be involved with\nOrganizations. I was in the Boy Scouts.\n\nAROGETI: Tell us a little bit about your experience in the Boy Scouts. You were\nas a young child, as a teenager you were in the Scouts?\n\nHABIF: Young.\n\nAROGETI: Younger, maybe even single digits in elementary school.\n\nHABIF: I start to tell you that there was a photo that I had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that found it\ndigging through the archives. It was me and three other young Jewish boys. I\ngave it to Mena Ron [sp]. It was involved with her, as you remember. This would\nbe of interest. I'm loaning this to you. I'm not giving it to you, I'm loaning\nit. You'll make a copy of it and bring me back. I never saw.\n\nAROGETI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We'll look for it because we have access to the executive director of\nthe Bremer Museum. We'll make sure that we look for that photo. Tt was a\nphotograph of you and several other young Jewish scouts. Tell us a little about\nwho was your scoutmaster.\n\nHABIF: Well, course, Josiah was one.\n\nAROGETI: That's Josiah Benatar.\n\nHABIF: Leon Blum was at one time.\n\nAROGETI: This was a Boy Scout troop through Congregation or Shalom, if you\nremember. Or was it some other . . . ?\n\nHABIF: Josiah . . . 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We didn't do anything serious, but typical Boy Scout\nstuff, yeah.\n\nAROGETI: As a as an adult, I know, again, we talked about your work ethic was\nwas tremendous, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what were some of the causes that were important to you as a\nyoung adult? What kind of things now are you interested in things you support as\nsort of your legacy?\n\nHABIF: To this day, I don't watch TV. I'm home, I'm busy going through business\njournals with these investments and pretty much ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with real estate. I come home\nlate, but I have my dinner and I have a housekeeper. Good for me, she's been\nwith me 30 years . . . . I owe my longevity to the fact that I continue to work\nis my belief. What do you attribute your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good health to? Two things. Number one,\nexercise. I walk two miles every other day, and in between that I have a gym in\nthe house/ I work out in the gym, and I'm challenged every day. Every day I'm\nknow always a new challenge and that has with keeps my mind and working and\nstill wheeling and dealing and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"creating, developing real estate. It was\nfortunate that Craig would come along because Michael and I maxed out. If\nsomething happens to one of us, there was nobody really take over the business.\nIt's a very specialized feel that we're, in where we do it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We were fortunate to\nbring Craig in. He was already well positioned to assume that responsibility.\n\nAROGETI: Morris It's been an absolute delight and privilege to speak with you\nthis afternoon for you to share your story and your experiences growing up here\nin Atlanta from a classic American story of from rags to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"riches, from poverty to\nto a position where you now are a third-generation business here in town. It's\nour privilege on behalf of the Richmond Museum and the Taylor Oral History\nProject. I want to thank you very much for this opportunity to share your story.\n\nHABIF: I want to thank you for what you've done ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for the museum. I've got a\nquestion for you. You may or may not have an answer.\n\nAROGETI: Go ahead, but usually at this point, we cut off the . . .\n\nHABIF: That's okay, I mean we don't have to . . .\n\nAROGETI: No, no. Go ahead.\n\nHABIF: What has interested me is it when the Jews left Spain and they went to\nvarious countries as you know, Turkey, Greece that we know of. They went to\n[indistinct: 59:28]. 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I never figured that out.\nYou ever thought of that?\n\nAROGETI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Morris it's a great question about, people say that language is sort of\na key to your culture. When you lose your language, you lose your culture. I\nhave to believe that when the Jews many Jews immigrated to North Africa and\ncountries in the in the Orient around Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and for many,\nmany years, they did keep that culture alive, their language ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76663/file/163024/transcript/39117/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"alive. I think in\nthe more recent history, in the last 50 to 70 years, a lot of that was lost.\nThere are very few Jews living in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon. Almost to the\npoint in North Africa where they're just they count them on single digits, which\nis which is just a shame, but it's a loss of humanity. 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