{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/7h1dj58v84/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Portman, Benjamin"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["1998-05-18 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Colletion","Savannah Jewish Archives"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Portman was interviewed by Harriett Meyerhoff on May 18, 1998 at the Savannah Jewish Archives in Savannah, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Herzl Portman was born in 1915 to Sam Portman and Rachel GarelikPortman. Ben’s family originated from Russia and immigrated to the United States between 1903 and 1905. The family lived in New York and Virginia before finally settling in Savannah, Georgia, where the Jewish community welcomed them with open arms. Ben’s family included two older brothers, Mose and Harry, two sisters, Dora and Annie (who died when she was two years old). Ben was the fifth child and he had a younger brother named Nathan. The family moved around a few times once in Savannah, living in houses on Pine Street and Indian Street. The family owned a pawnshop that Ben worked at from the age of 10. Rather than going to college himself, Ben let his father use the money to send his brother Harry to medical school and decided to stay and help his father run the pawnshop in Savannah. Eventually, the family acquired a second pawnshop from a friend, and Ben took control and ran that shop on his own. Later in life, Ben ventured into other businesses and opened a music shop. Ben and his family were very involved with the Jewish community in Savannah. They regularly attended services at their shul, the Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob, and Ben spent a good deal of time at the local Jewish Educational Alliance. Ben was even a service leader for the junior congregation at the B. B. Jacob. He was also an active member and president of the local HGH Society that loaned money to Jewish families in the area. He passed away in October 1998 at the age of 83.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThe interview begins with Ben telling the interviewer about how his family came to the United States from Russia between 1903 and 1905. Ben recalls how his family arrived in New York and eventually traveled to Virginia and finally Savannah, Georgia following his father’s work opportunities. Ben discusses his childhood and what it was like growing up in Savannah, mentioning the places he regularly played with friends and where he went to school. He also talks about the various businesses the family had, including a small grocery store where his father sold schnapps and a pawnshop that he worked at from the age of 10. Ben tells the interviewer what his home life was like, explaining how they always had animals around and how his mother had cows, dogs, chickens, and turkeys that they raised. He also talks about how the sister that was two years older than him died when she was young. During the interview, Ben discusses his experiences working in his father’s pawnshop, as well as when he ran his own pawnshop and eventually the difficulties he had when he opened up his own music shop later in life. Ben recounts his involvement in the Jewish community, commenting on the HGH Society and the different things the organization did to help the Jewish people in the Savannah area. He also talks about his involvement at Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob, his leading of the junior congregation services, the traditions held at his shul, and how the Jewish Educational Alliance was the center of social life growing up as a Jewish kid in Savannah.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/27948"]}},{"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":["Portman, Benjamin H., 1915-1998 (personal name)","Ellis Island (geographic term)","pawnshop (topical term)","Hebrah Gemiluth Hesed Society (corporate name)","Congregation B'nai B'rith Jacob (corporate name)","Savannah, Georgia (geographic term)","Jewish Educational Alliance (corporate name)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Portman was interviewed by Harriett Meyerhoff on May 18, 1998 at the Savannah Jewish Archives in Savannah, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Herzl Portman was born in 1915 to Sam Portman and Rachel GarelikPortman. Ben’s family originated from Russia and immigrated to the United States between 1903 and 1905. The family lived in New York and Virginia before finally settling in Savannah, Georgia, where the Jewish community welcomed them with open arms. Ben’s family included two older brothers, Mose and Harry, two sisters, Dora and Annie (who died when she was two years old). Ben was the fifth child and he had a younger brother named Nathan. The family moved around a few times once in Savannah, living in houses on Pine Street and Indian Street. The family owned a pawnshop that Ben worked at from the age of 10. Rather than going to college himself, Ben let his father use the money to send his brother Harry to medical school and decided to stay and help his father run the pawnshop in Savannah. Eventually, the family acquired a second pawnshop from a friend, and Ben took control and ran that shop on his own. Later in life, Ben ventured into other businesses and opened a music shop. Ben and his family were very involved with the Jewish community in Savannah. They regularly attended services at their shul, the Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob, and Ben spent a good deal of time at the local Jewish Educational Alliance. Ben was even a service leader for the junior congregation at the B. B. Jacob. He was also an active member and president of the local HGH Society that loaned money to Jewish families in the area. He passed away in October 1998 at the age of 83.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe interview begins with Ben telling the interviewer about how his family came to the United States from Russia between 1903 and 1905. Ben recalls how his family arrived in New York and eventually traveled to Virginia and finally Savannah, Georgia following his father’s work opportunities. Ben discusses his childhood and what it was like growing up in Savannah, mentioning the places he regularly played with friends and where he went to school. He also talks about the various businesses the family had, including a small grocery store where his father sold schnapps and a pawnshop that he worked at from the age of 10. Ben tells the interviewer what his home life was like, explaining how they always had animals around and how his mother had cows, dogs, chickens, and turkeys that they raised. He also talks about how the sister that was two years older than him died when she was young. During the interview, Ben discusses his experiences working in his father’s pawnshop, as well as when he ran his own pawnshop and eventually the difficulties he had when he opened up his own music shop later in life. Ben recounts his involvement in the Jewish community, commenting on the HGH Society and the different things the organization did to help the Jewish people in the Savannah area. He also talks about his involvement at Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob, his leading of the junior congregation services, the traditions held at his shul, and how the Jewish Educational Alliance was the center of social life growing up as a Jewish kid in Savannah.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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Ben,\nfirst of all tell me, was Portman the original name?\n\nPORTMAN: No. My family came from Russia, there's a little town near Minsk, Minsk\nGuberniya they called it. I think Minsk would be the city and a certain state,\nbut ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"after that the family said Bibroisk, Uyez. Uyez must be the state. We, our\nfamily came here -- my father and mother and my oldest brother, Mose. Pop's name\nis Sam Portman and my mother's name is Rachel. Rachelia, but everybody called\nher Rachel Leah, which is a Hebrew name or Yiddish name. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All her grandchildren\nand all the kids call her Rachel Leah. Mose was three years old when they came.\nSomewhere I went to Ellis Island, to an exhibit they had there, and they said\npeople who have arrived in this country between 1903 and 1905, look in this\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"group. So I looked and it was in there, now whether they came in 1905 or 1903, I\ndon't know.\n\nWhen they came to this country they went to, immigrated to New York, we had some\ncousins there. The first thing that Pop did was to go out and get a job. When he\nwas in Russia, he was a sort of a, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not really a, he was what we call a Gabbai,\nan assistant to the Rabbi. He wasn't a cantor or anything, some of the other\nthings that they could do, but he had a beautiful voice and he helped with the\nservices and helped with the synagogue there. The reason they came here was\nbecause they were putting all the Jewish men ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"into labor camps and into the army.\nA lot of them cut off fingers or toes so they could get out and come back as an\ninvalid. I don't know how Pop got out, but he had nothing wrong with him when he\ncame out. One of the things they would tell us about, on the trip over, somebody\nwas eating bananas and they couldn't understand what it was, they'd never seen a\nbanana. When they found out about it, it was a big joke.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Continuing, when he got to New York he got a job on a street gang that built all\nthe streets in New York. Most of those people are real big, huge Irishmen and\nthey picked on this little Jewish boy, but Pop had a good personality and he\nquickly learned to be friends with them. Several weeks after he was there, they\nhad a call -- one of the people would pick up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all these fellows, laborers I\nguess you'd call them, called for a carpenter and Pop put his hand up. That\nlasted about three or four different jobs when they found out he was not a\ncarpenter, but they were real nice and real cooperative, so Pop talked to some\nrelatives and found out we had family in Richmond, Virginia. This cousin in\nRichmond, Virginia, had a shoe repair shop. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He said, \"Come here, work with me.\"\nPop didn't know too much about making shoes or where they did that, so in\nscouting around he found the fellow in, what we call now, the metals business,\nbut it was actually a junkshop. He worked in there and worked himself up to be a\nbuyer and finally they asked him would he travel? And he agreed to do it and\nthat's how we came to Savannah. 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In Richmond, the few years that he spent\nthere, and I don't know how long, my brother, Harry, the pediatrician was born\nand a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sister was born. I heard, however, that some kind of white fever epidemic\nor something, and it took her life away. That's why he wanted to come to\nSavannah, he thought it was too dangerous up there. In Savannah my sister, Dora\nwas born, I think. I haven't really got any real details. I think she was born\nhere because she now lives in California. I've seen her recently, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and she said\nthat she thinks she was born in Savannah at the same time Hilda Bluestein was\nborn. Hilda was the sister of George and Yank Bluestein that we all know. Asked\nYank. When I asked Yank, Yank, of course, is deceased now, I asked George and he\nsaid he didn't know too much about it and his sister had deceased, but we take\nfor granted that they were born the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"same time. Dora's four years older than I\nam. There were four years gap between all the children. Number one was Mose, the\noldest, and four years younger than him was Harry Jacob, the doctor. Four years\nyounger than him was my sister Dora, and four years younger than her was myself.\nThen four years younger than me was my younger brother, Nathan. 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Now you know the house that they call Scarbrough House in my day\nthere ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was actually the West Broad Street School for Negroes. We used to play in\nthat school, but that school had Georgia grey brick, two big . . . a square, a\ncircle, encircled this play yard back in the back, and that's solid brick. I\nthink it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about two feet wide and six feet tall. That didn't stifle us, all\nthe kids used to play in there when they closed the school and then play on the\nschool when the school was closed. Across the street from us at that time was\nthe Bluestein's little confectionary shop. We used to go there and buy sour\npickles and candy and all kinds of stuff. On the corner from them was the\nSeigels used to live there. 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She made the Ku Klux Klan ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"uniforms. What she would do, it cut out the\npatterns and we'd take them and spread them out in the right place and then\nshe'd come and put them together and sew them up. I never there saw a Ku Klux\nKlanner, but we had a pawnshop on Broughton and West Broad, they used to march\nthat way and we used to run in the stores where they couldn't bother us.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did your mother know what you were doing?\n\nPORTMAN: Oh, yeah. She knew. I mean Mama ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was from Russia, she was not\nanti-shvarts or shvartser, this was the way --\n\nMEYERHOFF: But you were also a Jewish boy doing that.\n\nPORTMAN: Yeah, oh yeah. See, coming from Russia they didn't know too much about\nthe Klan, any of the stuff, the goyim that we had. Her best friend was a black\nfamily that lived next door. Every Yom Tov she'd bring them all kinds of stuff\nto eat and whenever they made anything special, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know, they'd call us kids to\ngo have something. Of course, treif Mama wouldn't eat. Some of the treif, I\ndon't know whether it was treif or not and I didn't care, at that time.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Ben, you said you lived on Pine Street. Where would that be today?\n\nPORTMAN: That's Congress and --\n\nMEYERHOFF: Congress and what?\n\nPORTMAN: Pine is the first block west of Congress. No, Pine Street is West\nBroad, the continuation of Congress below West Broad. Then there's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"little\nstreets like Fahm Street and Ann Street, you know, across the horizontal\nstreets. But talking about right now, the modern way of calling that street\nwould be Congress, West Congress and also Scarbrough House we just spent\nthousands of dollars and threw it at the city, the city threw it away down there\nto renovate the school and make a house out of it. At one time it was somebody's\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mansion and it was Scarbrough or whoever it was owned it, but we spent many a\nnight and many a day playing with the colored kids. Our school was Montgomery\nStreet School, which is about situated across from the old shul, the old\nsynagogue. The square there was called Liberty Street Square and of course, the\nwhole building there now is the county jail. 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My biggest thrill, I was kind of large for my age, and one of the big\nbullies who used to catch every kid going through there, they lived in a big,\none of these houses that the governments have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that so many families lived in a\nplace on the corner of which was State, on the corner of State and West Broad on\nthe northeast corner. We had to go past that corner going down into Yamacraw\nwhere we lived, in the Jewish section, which was either on Bryan Street, West\nBryan, or East Bryan, in that section where most of the old timers used to live.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of course, high class people for that time lived on West 36th Street. That was\nthe goal of every Jewish family, \"Let's move to 36th Street.\"\n\nMEYERHOFF: What area, what time period is that you're talking about?\n\nPORTMAN: To move?\n\nMEYERHOFF: Yes.\n\nPORTMAN: That was, I guess, well, I was born in 1915 and this was probably ten\nyears after that, or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"12. For a number of years we lived over the pawnshop after\nwe moved from, well, we moved from Congress, West Congress or West Pine Street,\nwe moved not to Bay. What's the next street after Bay? Not River.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Randolph.\n\nPORTMAN: Randolph. But it wasn't Randolph down that way, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't think. Where\nthey lived was there, it was a block north of Bay. It's very interesting that we\nlived there because one of the things that happened there was that Pop opened up\na little grocery store and some of the, a block above River Street. When the\nseamen came in, they traded groceries for schnapps. 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The thing about it is, we lived\non, we lived across there for about five or six years, something like that.\nUnderneath the house, which is the interesting part, Pop had a little cave or\nsomething dug out and Mama and I, I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"still a little boy then, Mama used to\ncome under there with a lantern. We'd crawl under there. She'd pull the hatch\ncover off and drop me down in there and point out what kind of whiskey they\nneeded to sell, to bootleg. 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They would take the cows, you can imagine taking a\ncow over a railroad track, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean, I don't know how they did it. But then they\nwould graze in the field over there and they'd keep them there a few hours and\nthey'd come back and we sold milk and everything there. Like I said, we had, I\nremember way back, when Mama used to feed the turkeys, she'd make a little thing\nabout this big, it was about as big as a little football, about one inch in\ndiameter and she'd put it on the neck of the turkey and force it down. 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But this child was still older than me, but she never was anything more.\nShe's now buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery and I've gone there several times.\nThey had a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"little thing there for her, little stone there. I think Pop put it\nup. I wanted to move it one time, move her to Bonaventure and the Rabbi said,\n\"No, you don't do that.\" What are you going to move after all that time?\n\nSo, anyhow, when Nate was born, Nate was born, I know, on Indian Street. 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The father was by\nname Balcom and Frankie had a son named Frankie and I got to be real good\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friends and then he had a sister but I don't know what her name was. They had a\nliquor shop.\n\nMEYERHOFF: How do you spell that last name?\n\nPORTMAN: B-A-L-C-O-M. Balcom. It wasn't Yiddish. But we knew all, everything,\nevery little place, every wrinkle, I'd say, every little, tiny place that you\ncould hide in. We used to play all the games down there. We made games, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you\nknow, including when we went to the West Broad Street School, we'd play \"King of\nthe Mountain\" that most of the kids played then. We'd climb up to the top, rough\nthings, rough playing but nobody got hurt. But we played rough.\n\nFrom there we moved to the second story of the pawnshop. 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All of us went through it, Pop had been a president, Barney had been a\npresident, I've been a president, but we all went through ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the ranks. This is the\nsociety that when you needed a loan without money you'd go to one of the members\nand he could recommend to the trustee committee to make that load. You paid, it\nwas like $400 you paid, $40 per month for 10 months. No interest. If you took a\nlittle longer that was all right too. 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Pop used to give them him and then tell them to go see the Rabbi\nand they'd work out something -- a donation to his company, to whoever he's with.\n\nA lot of them came collecting who looked like a mashulach and what they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were was\nsomebody that had some kids and had a daughter that wanted to get married and\ndidn't have the money to give her a dowry, so they came through with that one\nand all kinds of stories, not legitimate, but Pop could soon see through it.\nThrough the years when Pop passed away, they made me the care giver, or whatever\nyou call it, to give money. What we'd do, is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"if they were going south, we'd give\nthem a ticket to Jacksonville or sometimes Augusta. Going north we'd give them a\nticket to Charleston and a place to sleep and a couple of dollars to eat. If\nthey were legitimate. If they were not, we had so many fakes come through that\nsome were born on the east side of New York and knew a lot of Yiddish, might\nhave been Italian, looked like -- he'd come through and give us this, what I\ncall a bowling lesson to, fairy tale, you know, hard luck story.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There was a story that Pop, when he first saw him, Robert Mitchum was one of the\nbums that came through with a Jewish guy. They had him in jail, they had jumped\none of the trains. They caught them in the railroad tracks and put them in jail.\nPop got them out. Mitchum had said that he served on the Georgia chain gang ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but\nI think he died, didn't he? Didn't Robert Mitchum die?\n\nMEYERHOFF: Yeah. Yeah.\n\nPORTMAN: Pop always told about it. He said, \"I know, I know.\" The judge, Pop\nalways made shalom with the judges here. On Christmas he'd send them a turkey or\nsomething like that and kept behind them just for the sake of being able to plea\nand get them out. They all knew him real well.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In the pawnshop business we had Mr. Harry Blumenthal, Mr. George Richman, and\none time a fellow by the name of Goldberg, the Sutkers had a pawnshop. Benny\nLitman I think there was a Litman had a pawn shop. At one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time when, after Pop\nhad passed, we had 13 Jewish pawn brokers here. And the pawn broking business is\naltogether different than what it is now. Now it's like getting, making a sale\ninstead of a loan, and the legitimate part is altogether different. We couldn't\ndo some of the things they do today, but --\n\nMEYERHOFF: Ben, do you know how the idea of the pawnshop balls that were outside\nof the store got established?\n\nPORTMAN: Well, the store we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"got, it's actually the Medici family in Italy. This\nwas their sign. They had to be gold, not just anything, you know. In Savannah\nthe police made us, if we're a pawnshop, we had to put the balls up there. We\nhad some that big around that was way up, hitched on to the house that we were\nliving in. The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"small ones were down lower, about eight inches. The big ones were\n12 or 15 inches big, I mean they were that big and actual gold leaf covered. In\nthose days what was gold.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did it mean anything, or did it just symbolize a pawnshop?\n\nPORTMAN: It came out to a point where it was two to one you'd never take them\nup. Two to one you'd never take your loan up. I don't know. That's the thing\nthat happened and as far as I know from my looking around, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I heard about the\nMedici family and I looked it up and sure enough they have that. Them being a\npawnshop, that's house coat of arms, I think. It might have been changed around\nsomehow. But their coat of arms was three balls. That's how they got that.\n\nNow, where were we? You saw how Pop got into, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean I told you how Pop got into\nthat business. Somebody talked him into, Pop always got rid of, oh, he made a\nloan with HGH to get in, but before that, before he got in the pawnshop\nbusiness, before he got into the liquor business, when they first came here they\ngave him a nut. He went and bought him a horse and buggy, knew nothing about\nhorses or nothing else. They gave him a bunch of stuff, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think they got them\nfrom Slotin \u0026 Company. You know, staples. Thread and pieces of cloth and maybe\nsome little bits of underwear and things like that. He'd go peddle it in the\ncountry. He'd go all the way up to Sylvania. You know, in the horse and buggy,\nwhich is 60 miles. Anybody in Savannah, he knew everything.\n\nWe used to go riding around on Sunday, he'd take us and tell us all about these\nplaces. At that time we had a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"big four-door open Buick, like the roadsters\ntoday. Had four doors, a big folding top, he had a big Buick. He'd take us\naround and tell us all about it. I tell you a funny thing that happened one\ntime, when they opened up Route 17, I was already a teenager, a big shot. We'd\nride. When they opened up 17 it was a big mud hole, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all the way, because they\ntold you not to go but people went. Everybody went and they got their cars\nmuddy, slipping and sliding everywhere. So I told him, I said, \"Pop, go a little\nfaster.\" I said, \"Because, you know, if you go faster, you hold on the road\nbetter.\" My buddy, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm not going to tell you something else. Pop said, \"Listen,\nyou can get out and walk if this is too slow.\" So I jumped out and walked\nthrough the mud for about a mile. Finally, I was so exhausted Pop, Mama, I said,\n\"Father.\" He said, \"Get back in the car.\" So I got in then. Boy, I didn't say\nnothing no more that day. Pop used to take us in the countryside and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"show us\neverything. Occasionally we'd go riding up to Victory Drive which was the end of\nthe city at that time and ride Victory Drive, you know --\n\nMEYERHOFF: The end of the city when? About what time was that?\n\nPORTMAN: Well, we got married in 1937. 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At that time, I was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"senior in\nhigh school, Savannah High School, and had arranged to go to a co-op course at\nTech. Pop came to me and said, \"Listen, I can't afford to send Harry to the\nmedical school, it's a lot of money, and you have--\" Frankly, I stayed in the\nstore more than the rest of them. I helped out in the store since I was 10 years\nold so I knew a lot about it. 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But\non the afternoons I played football, I had to come to the store, finish things\nand get on my bicycle and ride to Washington Avenue and, what street that is?\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That Savannah High is on now?\n\nMEYERHOFF: Atlantic Avenue.\n\nPORTMAN: No, yeah. Atlantic? I told Pop, I said, \"Listen, Pop.\" I said, \"I'm\njust at the beginning and Harry's already there.\" I said, \"Maybe I can come back\nanother time and take a co-op course.\" Co-op course means three months of\nschool, three months of work, which I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thought would alleviate everything but I\ndidn't realize that much money had already come down. And Pop said, \"Come on.\"\nSo I stayed in the store and my brother went to Augusta Medical.\n\nWolf's Pawnshop, which is right down the street, run by Mr. Lewan who is uncle\nof Herbie and Milton Lipsitz. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He passed away and Mr. Lewan got Milton working\nand Milton and I were very, very close friends. We were into everything\ntogether. He called me and said, \"Ben, we can't run this thing now, we don't\nknow anything about it. Why don't you get your dad to buy this place.\" I said,\n\"And then what are we going to do?\" He said, \"You run it.\" So I approached Pop\nand first thing he wanted to know was, \"Who's going to run it?\" I said, \"Daddy,\nI'll try it.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He said, \"No trying. If you can run it, okay. You tell me you can\nrun it, I know you can run it.\" I said, \"Okay, I'm going to run it.\" So we\nbought it, as it was and we had the store. A lot of Jewish people came in and\nwent in the store during that time, and one of them was Manny Shensky who was\nthe brother of Meyer Shensky who used to be a lawyer ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here in town. The other was\nHarry Udinsky who was my cousin and the father of Burton Udkinsky who runs the\nLiberty Plumbing Shop. Somewhere I have a picture of that, too, by the way.\n\nAnyhow, to go on from that, my idea all along was to go into some business that\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we'd call legitimate. I was in DeMolay then and went through all the stages of\nDemolay, all the classes, and I was a senior master counselor and I wanted to\nget into the Masons which was said to be the next step. They said I couldn't do\nit because I was a pawnbroker and they wouldn't take a pawnbroker or a liquor\ndealer. At that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time Mr. Philip Boblasky whose father had Dixie Pawnshop and ran\nand worked there with his dad like I did. Mr. Louie Black alav ha-shalom whose\nbrother-in-law was George Richman and he worked there, but he was also making\nwine and selling that on the side and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they kept him. But Dad Brown who happened\nto be Jewish too and a member of the temple was a good friend of mine. He said,\n\"Let me tell you something. The goyim here will give you a blackball in a minute\nfor any reason they can think of. Once you get that then as far as masonry,\nyou're through.\"\n\nThe odd thing about it is, when my brother joined, Mose, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who had been in the\npawnshop before me but he went out in some other business, they took him in and\nhe ended up being one of the chanters in the Shrine. I mean he went way up. I\nwouldn't ever say anything about that. In fact, I don't even know if they knew\nthat we were brothers. But I wasn't jealous. I mean he told me not to do, I said\nI'm going to listen to you and I'm not going. 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He was the agent\nfor the music store, for the family. One, it's so hard to tell you all these\nthings and not go into a little meises of what happened. What happened during my\ntime there, in 1960, a gentleman of the minority stole a car on Montgomery\nStreet, about a mile down the street, and came flying down the street. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meanwhile\nthe police kind of had him surrounded and one of them was coming up, one of\nthem, well a car came up from Bay Street and at Broughton Street swung left and\nwent right into our store. Ended up in the store with the car. There's a pipe\noutside, about a six or eight inch diameter and it help up the front of the\nstore. He went in and the whole front dropped down. A walking patrolman, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"walking\nup to see what all the excitement was on Broughton Street. Here comes this\nfellow walking down the street all torn, bloody. They said that nobody could\nhave come out of that. They looked all, they searched the whole store, in and\nout, up and down, couldn't find nothing. So they finally brought him in and they\nidentified him. The police in Savannah knew him.\n\nAt that time is when I decided I'd try to buy the store. As it was, it was a\nwreck, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"landlord, the people who owned it, the owner said, \"You go ahead and\nrepair it, put it any way you want to and we'll work it out.\" I said, \"No, I'm\nnot going to do that.\" I'd had too much experience with landlords. So we decided\nto modernize it. At that time Fine's and us were the only ones that modernized\nthe buildings. We took what would have been a 1960 southern mansion and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they\nmade it into a building on the Commercial Building. Of course, Joe Cohen, when\nhe came in, he just finished changing it around. We found out that years ago it\nwas a house, a home, and they had eight smokestacks all around it. The way I\nfound out about the smokestacks, I wanted to change the air condition and they\nneeded an outlet for the heater part. They, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"contractor, went upstairs and\nfound all these openings and said, \"We can put it in any one of those openings.\"\nI said, \"When you do that close all the rest of them up.\" Which they did.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Now you're talking about the house, your building on Broughton and\nMontgomery was a home but you don't know who lived there?\n\nPORTMAN: No. It was somewhere, somebody else asked me about it and I vaguely\nremember maybe the name Stewart being there, but I don't know. I tell you\nsomebody in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the arts and whatever it is is working on that. In fact, he\nquestioned me quite a bit about how long we were there and who was there before\nme. I don't know. He started quoting me some of the stuff in the records that he\nhad already, that he looked into. But in 1960, I then decided to go. I was sick\nand tired, during the war we saw all kinds of military things and all like that\nand I was in the Coast Guard Auxiliary ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and you know, we got a lot of good\nbusiness from that. My brother, Nate, was in there. So was my brother, Harry,\nwas with Patton. So we were all busy, you know, with something. Mose, he\ntraveled on the road and got down to Florida and got into a big hotel there and\nhad a nightclub and they had some of the old timers. I don't know if you\nremember ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or heard the name, Ben Blue. Ben Blue was a Jewish comedian but he was\nactually acted like one of the funny guys, like Mack Sennett type of a person.\nHe was a thing that did things without saying anything, but all kinds of shtick\nand he was funny. But Mose went down with the Florida boom, Florida, not boom,\nthe other thing. It broke down.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I got in the store and worked, Pop and I were partners in both stores. We kept\nthem separate all the time. We did real well. We found out that Lewan had worked\nhimself into the white trade mostly while we were mostly black because we were\nright across from Yamacraw and it was easy for them to walk in. Most of those\npeople pawned on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Monday, took them out on Saturday. That was good business. So\nwe took in everything in the world that you could think of. But Pop was well\nknown among the bankers and the doctors, lawyers in town who were all people\npawned quite a bit with expensive things. Didn't want to go to a bank and\npotchke around with them, so they came to Pop and Pop was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one of the honest\npawnbrokers they knew. There are other honest, too, there are a couple of them.\nI won't mention no names, that weren't honest.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Ben, tell me your early recollections of the B. B. Jacob life.\n\nPORTMAN: Well, it was so easy for me to be within the boundary you might say of\nthe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"congregation B. B. Jacob because we lived over the store and there was a\njunior congregation that all the kids in my group went to. In fact we called\neach other by our first names. Gilbert Kantor alav ha-shalom was one of the\nmembers. Gedaliah b'rev Hymie was Gilbert, son of Heyman. Others were the same\nway. Everybody called me Benyamin Herzl which was my Hebrew name. But that's the\nthing that we did. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eventually we worked up, we had older people that used to\ncome down. Mr. Ben Silverman used to be a hazzan for us. Mr. Joe Geffen was one\nof the hazzans that came down and helped us learn and to do things. We always\nhad young people. The old men came down and we had to do some learning on the\nholidays. We had services every holiday, we had services every Friday night,\nevery ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Saturday morning. Eventually, we had a little choir too. But that didn't\nhold up too long. The ones that came all the time were myself and --\n\nMEYERHOFF: Kaplan?\n\nPORTMAN: Yeah. Norman Kaplan. Norman Kaplan and I. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Norman was the son of Philip\nKaplan, had a grocery store on Broughton, I mean on 36th and Jefferson Street, a\nlittle grocery store. And Norman and I were good buddies. So we conducted the\nservices. There were others from time to time, back and forth, but we were the\nold reliable. Once, twice a year we went into the junior-senior congregation and\nconducted ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all the services there. It was very nice. I mean, we were accepted.\nOne of the things that was sort of a rule in the senior congregation, you didn't\ngo into the senior congregation and fool around like some of the kids do today.\nIf you went to the senior congregation you were there with your parents or you\ndidn't go to services. You went downstairs where everything was nice and quiet\nand everybody enjoyed it and we learned all the little songs to sing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"along on\nshabbos, a lot of the things that the senior congregation does they don't\ninclude all the extra little things that we thought were so cute. But we managed\nsomehow and when our junior congregation did the services, we had a mob there.\nEvery kid and every parent came to see their, little boys, little Hymie ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and\nlittle girls you know, take part. Of course, we kept them separate the same as\nwe would. At that time, we were in the old building, the old congregation B. B.\nJacob then. It was a lot different than that it was, than it is today. Still we\nhad a mechitzah downstairs that we had for the girls and then upstairs, of\ncourse, they had an upstairs and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"downstairs.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did the HGH Society begin in Savannah?\n\nPORTMAN: Yes.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Do you know who organized it?\n\nPORTMAN: Well I, frankly, don't remember the names. If I looked on there, I\ncould tell you.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Okay.\n\nPORTMAN: But there are other Hebrew lending societies elsewhere. We never did\njoin with them because we didn't want to have any real strict rules about what\nyou ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did or didn't do. Ben Silverman was our number one man in making loans,\nbeing an attorney, and getting good property for us. We would go check out the\nproperty but whatever he said was good and charged a small interest which was\nhow we kept going. We tried not to compete with anybody else. Like I said, a\nmember could borrow up to $400 with no interest.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Ben, as you grew up in the B. B. Jacob downtown on Montgomery Street.\nWhere was the conservative shul in the earlier days?\n\nPORTMAN: The conservative shul, all those members were members of B. B. Jacob.\nAll of them. They pulled out and they started a thing called \"The Minyan.\"\n\nMEYERHOFF: When was that?\n\nPORTMAN: I don't know. It might have been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before I was active in the shul. I\nwould say in the 1920s.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Do you know what caused it?\n\nPORTMAN: What caused it was that 90 percent of these people were working people.\nThey were not store owners like we have. Some of our people were a little better\nfinancially and they could do things, take their time about it. They didn't care\nabout having a hazzan. We had a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"full, fulltime hazzan which we paid and took\nexpenses. They wanted, two things they wanted to do was to be able to go to\nservices, get through with it, get out. They wanted less, to pay less dues. Some\nof our most prominent people were there in our shul and came out, were active in\nour shul and went there.\n\nEventually, what they took was a little house that was, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29403/file/97085/transcript/22222/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"again was where the\ncourthouse was built, between York and Oglethorpe. There was a room, rooms, a\nlittle home, I think it was in a big apartment house that they went into and\nbecause I remember it well, I used to go there all the time when they had\nservices. Of course, we were always friends between us all. 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Built in 1819, it is nationally significant as an early example of Greek Revival architecture, and is one of the few surviving American works of architect William Jay. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973. It is now home to the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, and it has been largely restored to an early 19th-century appearance. 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