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His older sisters were Bernice and Gloria, and his brother was Billy. He graduated from Druid Hills High School after which he attended The University of Georgia for three years and was a member of the Tau Epsilon Pi fraternity. He was drafted into The Army due to the Korean War, but remained stateside for the duration of his service. Afterwards he went into the family exterminating business. He married Barbara Hartman (1933-2019), and had two daughters, Sherry and Laurie, as well as two sons, Michael and Kenny. Between them there are ten grandchildren. Sanford became president of Orkin exterminating and oversaw the sale of the company to Rollins, after which he became an investor, primarily in local real estate and the stock market. Sanford was at various times on the board of Ahavath Achim Synagogue, Pace Acadamy, The American Jewish Committee, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce and several political campaigns. Sanford was also named in suit his father filed to be declared sane reversing an earlier declaration of insanity that stripped Otto of the ability to manage his personal fortune.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eSanford opens with discussing how his family came to America and how his father got into the exterminating business. He also tells of how his parents met. Sanford then describes growing up in Atlanta, school, and then his experience in the family business. He goes on to cover his family and life after the company was bought out, and how the city, particularly the Jewish community, has changed.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28027"]}},{"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":["Orkin, Sanford (personal name)","Orkin, Otto (personal name)","Jewish businessmen (topical term)","Atlanta, Ga (geographic term)","Ashkenazi Jews (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eSanford Orkin interviewed by Kim Cohen on November 7, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSanford Orkin was born to Otto and Miriam Orkin in 1937, their third child and first son. His older sisters were Bernice and Gloria, and his brother was Billy. He graduated from Druid Hills High School after which he attended The University of Georgia for three years and was a member of the Tau Epsilon Pi fraternity. He was drafted into The Army due to the Korean War, but remained stateside for the duration of his service. Afterwards he went into the family exterminating business. He married Barbara Hartman (1933-2019), and had two daughters, Sherry and Laurie, as well as two sons, Michael and Kenny. Between them there are ten grandchildren. Sanford became president of Orkin exterminating and oversaw the sale of the company to Rollins, after which he became an investor, primarily in local real estate and the stock market. Sanford was at various times on the board of Ahavath Achim Synagogue, Pace Acadamy, The American Jewish Committee, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce and several political campaigns. Sanford was also named in suit his father filed to be declared sane reversing an earlier declaration of insanity that stripped Otto of the ability to manage his personal fortune.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSanford opens with discussing how his family came to America and how his father got into the exterminating business. He also tells of how his parents met. Sanford then describes growing up in Atlanta, school, and then his experience in the family business. He goes on to cover his family and life after the company was bought out, and how the city, particularly the Jewish community, has changed.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"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"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/099/289/small/Sanford_Orkin.jpeg?1619290193","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Orkin_Sanford.mp3"]},"duration":1285.98204,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/099/289/small/Sanford_Orkin.jpeg?1619290193","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/099/289/original/Orkin_Sanford.mp3?1610616581","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mp3","duration":1285.98204,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Sanford Orkin [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: My name is Kim Cohen, and I am interviewing Mr. Sanford Orkin on November\n7, 1996, for the Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta, cosponsored by the\nAmerican Jewish Committee, the Atlanta Jewish Federation, and the National\nCouncil of Jewish Women. Mr. Orkin, where and when were you born?\n\nORKIN: I was born in Atlanta, Georgia, October 12, 1931.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: Can you tell me your parents' names?\n\nORKIN: My father's name was Otto and my mother's name was Miriam.\n\nCOHEN: Where did your family originate? How did they get to this country?\n\nORKIN: My father was born in Latvia about 1985 [1885] and came to this country\nabout 1988 [1888]. They settled in Pennsylvania. My mother was born in New York\nCity [New York] and moved to Richmond, Virginia ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"some years later.\n\nCOHEN: What brought them to Pennsylvania? How did they choose there? Were there relatives?\n\nORKIN: I think there were some relatives there. My father's parents and all had\nbeen in the farming business over in Latvia, so they bought a farm and went into\nthe farming business.\n\nCOHEN: Do you remember any stories about the farm growing up?\n\nORKIN: Very little except for the fact ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that I know that his mother was\ndetermined to see that the family progressed and succeeded in life. She would\nknit things and sell them in the community while the husband worked the farm.\n\nCOHEN: What are their names? That would be your father's parents.\n\nORKIN: My grandmother's name was Anna and my grandfather's name ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was Samuel.\n\nCOHEN: How large was their family? Were there any brothers or sisters besides\nyour father?\n\nORKIN: There were six altogether... three boys and three girls.\n\nCOHEN: They were all involved in the farming growing up?\n\nORKIN: As far as I know, they were.\n\nCOHEN: Can you tell me a little bit about your father growing up on the farm?\n\nORKIN: I do know that after a while the farm began to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have rodent problems. His\nmother put him in charge of making sure that the rodents were not available to\nthe farm. That's how he eventually got into the exterminating business.\n\nCOHEN: What was it like being Jewish then? Did you father ever say?\n\nORKIN: He never did talk about that very much in Pennsylvania. They were in a\nsmall town called Macungie, Pennsylvania ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which is very close to Allentown\n[Pennsylvania]. That's where they would go to the doctors and things like that.\n\nCOHEN: What made them decide to come to this country? Any stories of the old country?\n\nORKIN: I'm not really sure. I assume for hopefully better pasture, better living conditions.\n\nCOHEN: From when your father was put in charge of, was it rat control?\n\nORKIN: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: How did his occupation develop from there?\n\nORKIN: From there, people in the community heard what he was able to do. They\nwould call him to see if he could help them with their problems. He was able to\ndo that. He would go to the hardware store and buy the chemicals, or whatever it\nwas, and put the insecticide [pesticide] out and was able to help them ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with\ntheir problems.\n\nCOHEN: How old was your father then?\n\nORKIN: I would guess about nine or ten years old.\n\nCOHEN: My children aren't quite that industrious. Tell me, how did y'all happen\nto migrate south?\n\nORKIN: I think he was about 15 years old. He didn't finish school. He felt like\nthat he had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"something going for him. He felt like it would be better to move\nfurther south. He moved to Richmond, Virginia, where he set up a little company\nand began to give service to people who needed his services.\n\nCOHEN: He actually bought a store front?\n\nORKIN: Yes. He rented a place, bought chemicals, and serviced people with problems.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: I assume that's where he met your mother?\n\nORKIN: My mother's family had moved to Richmond also. That's where they met and\nwere married.\n\nCOHEN: Where is your mother's family from?\n\nORKIN: They were from Russia. My mother was born in New York.\n\nCOHEN: How did her family end up in Richmond, her father's . . .\n\nORKIN:... I'm not really sure. I don't know why they came to Richmond.\n\nCOHEN: How about her parents, your mother's parents. What were their names?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ORKIN: Her mother's name was Bella. My grandmother's name was Bella Berz...\nB-E-R-Z. I do not know my grandfather's name. I never met him. I don't know [it].\n\nCOHEN: You were born in Atlanta?\n\nORKIN: I was born in Atlanta. Later on, after he developed Richmond, he felt\nlike he really had something going. 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The banker told\nhim that Atlanta had an excellent railroad situation there, so he moved to\nAtlanta and started the home office here.\n\nCOHEN: Do you remember how old your father was at this time?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ORKIN: I would guess around maybe 30, or so.\n\nCOHEN: You were born here in Atlanta?\n\nORKIN: Yes.\n\nCOHEN: In what hospital? Do you know?\n\nORKIN: Piedmont Hospital... the one that is no longer [standing]. It was on\nCapitol Avenue at the time.\n\nCOHEN: Where did your family live in Atlanta?\n\nORKIN: Initially, before I was born, they moved to a high rise apartment\nbuilding on Piedmont [Avenue] overlooking Piedmont Park. 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You would hear words from time to time that were not conducive ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to\nwhat we like to hear. But for the most part, I had some very good Christian\nfriends who we socialized with, played football and basketball with them, and\nhad very little problems.\n\nCOHEN: Did your father talk any about what it was like to be in business, to be\nJewish here in Atlanta at that time?\n\nORKIN: He really didn't say a great deal about that.\n\nCOHEN: Was he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"involved in any business organizations?\n\nORKIN: The company was. They were very active in the Chamber of Commerce and the\nNational Pest Control Association.\n\nCOHEN: How about as far as in the Jewish community? Was your family involved in anything?\n\nORKIN: My father was a contributor, as far as financial needs were concerned. He\nnever really got involved ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"actively, personally, a great deal. He would go to\nsome meetings and things like that, but he would never head up anything.\n\nCOHEN: Tell me how the company got into termite control.\n\nORKIN: It was later on. It was in the probably middle to late 1940's when the\ncompany decided to go into the termite business. 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We were able to make some changes and get some personnel in\nthere that helped us to grow to what it is today.\n\nCOHEN: Growing up, did y'all belong to a synagogue?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/transcript/22220/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ORKIN: We belonged to AA [Ahavath Achim] synagogue and also the big Temple [The\nHebrew Benevolent Society, also called the Temple]. We primarily as children\nwent to Sunday school at AA. I did go to the Temple, I think one year for Sunday school.\n\nCOHEN: Who was the rabbi at the time?\n\nORKIN: Rabbi [Harry] Epstein was at the A.A. 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Can I take a few pictures?\n\nORKIN: Sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=1260.0,1290.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/annotation_set/422","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Sanford Orkin [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/annotation_set/422/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eOtto Orkin was a Latvian immigrant who founded Orkin, one of the largest consumer services companies in the U.S.  Known as “Otto the Rat Man,” he began by selling rat poison door to door.  Orkin established his first office in the American National Bank Building in Richmond, Virginia.  Eventually he moved to Atlanta and went on to build the largest pest control company in the U.S. In 1964, Rollins purchased Orkin for $62.4 million.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/annotation_set/422/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eOrkin is an Atlanta-based company that provides residential and commercial pest control services. 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The planned community was conceived by Joel Hurt, and developed with the effort of Atlanta's leading families, including Coca-Cola founder Asa Candler.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/annotation_set/422/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eTau Epsilon Phi (TEΦ, commonly pronounced ‘TEP’) is a fraternity founded by ten Jewish men at Columbia University in New York in 1910 as a response to the existence of similar organizations which would not admit Jewish members.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/annotation_set/422/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAhavath Achim was founded in 1887 in a small room on Gilmer Street. 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My mother was born in New York City [New York] and moved to Richmond, Virginia some years later.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=0.0,212.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/index/47316/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta, Ga","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Otto Orkin","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pennsylvania","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=0.0,212.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/index/47316/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Formation of Orkin, LLC","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=212.0,344.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/index/47316/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cohen: How did his occupation develop from there?\nOrkin: From there, people in the community heard what he was able to do.  They would call him to see if he could help them with their problems. He was able to do that. 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Everybody knew one another. Socializing was great. It was simple. They had Bingo  every Saturday night. At various times they had big bands come in, dancing, and that sort of thing.  The food was excellent.  In those days, Atlanta did not have a lot of good restaurants.  the Mayfair Club was probably the best place to eat in town.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=744.0,1208.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/index/47316/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ashkenazi Jews","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"German Jews","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mayfair Club","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Progressive Club","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rabbi David Marx","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rabbi Harry Epstein","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Standard Club","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Synagogue Ahavath Achim","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=744.0,1208.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/index/47316/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Orkin, further continued","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289#t=1208.0,1285.9298"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31184/file/99289/index/47316/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We sold it in 1964 to the Rollins Company.   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