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Donald was born in Massachusetts and moved to several places in the region while growing up. He attended college at Boston University and volunteered for the Army to fight in the Korean War after he graduated in 1952. His Army career eventually took him to Fort Gordon in Georgia where he worked with civilian group testers in the Signal Corps.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            Donald met his wife Kaye Robinson while in Georgia with the Army. Donald and Kaye got married on January 1, 1955. Soon after, Donald began working for his father-in-law, Sam Robinson, at the Bay Street Lumber Company. Upon Sam’s death, Donald took over the company and began expansions into other professional areas. Donald also opened Builderama with his brother-in-law, Paul Robinson.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            Donald has played a large role in the development and success of Savannah throughout his adult life. He has worked in many different fields, ranging from building, real estate, mortgage, and apartment renting. Donald also gives back to his community in full, working with a variety of organizations such as the Jewish Educational Alliance, the Savannah Jewish Federation, Union Mission, the Georgia Historical Society, and Hospice Savannah.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eIn this interview, Donald briefly discusses his life growing up and dives into his life as an adult in Savannah, Georgia. Donald tells the interviewer about his various businesses as well as the civic and community work he has done over the years.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            Donald discusses his time at bay Street Lumber Company as well as the inception of his business, Builderama, and the lifespan of that company in Savannah. Donald also talks about his involvement in numerous organizations in Savannah, including both Jewish and non-Jewish organizations. Donald talks about his time on the executive board of many organizations like the Savannah Jewish Federation, The Jewish Educational Alliance, Hospice Savannah, the Georgia Historical Society, and Union Mission.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            Donald shares his experiences with these organizations in Savannah and how he has helped shape them into what they are today as well as how they have impacted him. Donald also discusses his family life, the different hobbies he has had over his lifetime, and his collection of primitive African art. Donald closes the interview by explaining his view on Judaism.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/27941"]}},{"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":["Donald Kole (personal name)","Kaye Robinson Kole (personal name)","Bay Street Lumber Company (corporate name)","Builderama (corporate name)","Kole Management Company (corporate name)","Jewish Educational Alliance (corporate name)","Savannah Jewish Federation (corporate name)","Savannah, Georgia (geographic term)","Georgia Historical Society (corporate name)","Congregation B'nai B'rith Jacob (corporate name)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eDonald Kole was interviewed on September 3rd, 2005 at his home on East Jones Street in Savannah, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDonald Kole was born on September 20, 1930 to Beatrice and Abe Kowalsky. Donald was born in Massachusetts and moved to several places in the region while growing up. He attended college at Boston University and volunteered for the Army to fight in the Korean War after he graduated in 1952. His Army career eventually took him to Fort Gordon in Georgia where he worked with civilian group testers in the Signal Corps.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            Donald met his wife Kaye Robinson while in Georgia with the Army. Donald and Kaye got married on January 1, 1955. Soon after, Donald began working for his father-in-law, Sam Robinson, at the Bay Street Lumber Company. Upon Sam’s death, Donald took over the company and began expansions into other professional areas. Donald also opened Builderama with his brother-in-law, Paul Robinson.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            Donald has played a large role in the development and success of Savannah throughout his adult life. He has worked in many different fields, ranging from building, real estate, mortgage, and apartment renting. Donald also gives back to his community in full, working with a variety of organizations such as the Jewish Educational Alliance, the Savannah Jewish Federation, Union Mission, the Georgia Historical Society, and Hospice Savannah.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn this interview, Donald briefly discusses his life growing up and dives into his life as an adult in Savannah, Georgia. Donald tells the interviewer about his various businesses as well as the civic and community work he has done over the years.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            Donald discusses his time at bay Street Lumber Company as well as the inception of his business, Builderama, and the lifespan of that company in Savannah. Donald also talks about his involvement in numerous organizations in Savannah, including both Jewish and non-Jewish organizations. Donald talks about his time on the executive board of many organizations like the Savannah Jewish Federation, The Jewish Educational Alliance, Hospice Savannah, the Georgia Historical Society, and Union Mission.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            Donald shares his experiences with these organizations in Savannah and how he has helped shape them into what they are today as well as how they have impacted him. Donald also discusses his family life, the different hobbies he has had over his lifetime, and his collection of primitive African art. Donald closes the interview by explaining his view on Judaism.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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Today is September 3,\n2005. Don, let us start, I guess, at the very beginning when you were born. Tell\nme about your parents.\n\nKOLE: Well, I was born September 20, 1930 to Beatrice and Abe Kowalsky. My\nfather was from Utica, New York, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and he was one of 12 children. His father was a\nfarmer. A trader of horses and cattle. My mother was from New York City. Her\nmother and father were in the millinery business. At a particular time in their\nlives, they owned several millinery stores in New York City.\n\nINTERVIEWER: Don, what was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her maiden name?\n\nKOLE: My mother's maiden name was Wittenberg. W-I-T-T-E-N-B-E-R-G. My\ngrandmother was Rose Wittenberg. My grandfather was David Wittenberg. My\ngrandfather died in February of 1930, just prior to my being born, so I was\nnamed after him. My grandmother married a Jewish man from Australia ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the\nmiddle 1930s and they lived fairly happily ever after, I guess, I don't really\nknow, but he was a tailor. They had a tailor shop in Bergenfield, New Jersey,\nwhich is just across the river from New York City. I can still remember, as a\nchild, driving from either Bridgeport, New Haven, because at various times I\nlived in . . . I was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. I lived in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Wilkes\nBarre, Pennsylvania, New Haven, Connecticut, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Bridgeport\nand New Haven, being rather close to New York, we would drive in on a Sunday\nmorning and take the 125th Street ferry across the Hudson River to Bergenfield\nand visit with my grandmother and step-grandfather, spend a night or two at\ntheir house. They had a nice house with a lovely orchard in the back yard. I\nused to climb the apple trees there and shake the apples from the trees. It was\na lot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fun. My formative years were actually brought up in Bridgeport,\nConnecticut. We moved there in 1939. I went to grammar school and high school\nand graduated from Central High School in 1948. In 1948 I went to Boston\nUniversity. Was graduated from Boston University in 1952. While at Boston U, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nwas a member of the Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity. I was involved with the school\nnewspaper and ended up being the Business Editor of the newspaper and got full\ntuition as payment for the editorship. I was President of the fraternity, was a\nmember of the Honor Society. This took me up to 1952 when the Korean War had\nstarted, and I knew when I got out of college I'd be drafted, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so I volunteered\nfor the army. They had a special program that I went into and did my basic\ntraining at Fort Dix in Jersey, and realized that being an infantry man wasn't\nthe smartest thing to do but I had no choice. They decided that because of my\ngreat education, I ought to become a clerk-typist. So they sent me to\nclerk-typist school for about three days when they realized that my facility at\nbeing clerk-typist was not going to work out. At that point, they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did look at my\neducation and realized that I was a math and statistical major and they sent me,\nput me into a program where I was one of just two or three soldiers in this\ncivilian group that was devising computer systems. These were the first\ncomputers that IBM came out with in the key-punch system and we did tests for\nthe signal corps. I ended up being transferred to Fort Gordon, Jersey, which was\na, sorry, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fort Gordon, Georgia, where that was the home of the Signal Corps. I\nworked with the civilian group testing instructors to see if they were efficient\nin what they were teaching the Signal Corps soldiers. While I was there I went\nto Savannah Beach once or twice and liked it. About the third visit, I had dated\na couple of girls in Savannah and about the third visit I was on the beach with\nseveral buddies and we were drinking army beer, which is not very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"strong but we\nhad lots of tin cans and we were building a big pyramid. This you girl came\nalong, she was 17, as cute as she can be. Had a black bathing suit with a zipper\nin the front that was very intriguing and I got to talking with her and ended up\ngetting to know her. Her name was Kaye Robinson and she lived on the beach with\nher mother and father and the rest is history. We corresponded, we dated, we\nmarried ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"January 1, 1955. Prior to that, my father-in-law had a, owned a small\nlumber company and, just as a matter of, worked out well, he was looking for\nsomebody to run his business for him because he really, he had another business\nin town so it worked out. I ran the company called Bay Street Lumber. The first\nday I went down there I had on a shirt and a tie and a sport jacket. Probably\nthe next time I wore a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"shirt and a tie and a sport jacket to work was about 20\nyears later. It was a small operation and I was the salesman, cashier, the\nbookkeeper, the bouncer, the everything. It was a little, small operation. It\nwas myself and Mr. Webb, the foreman, we were both white, everybody else was\nblack people. I got to know an awful lot of black people and had nothing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but\ngreat admiration for most of these self-taught people. Some of them were\nmachinists. We ran a planning mill and it was a very intricate operation. We had\nold equipment and had to remake parts for it all the time and sharpen knives for\ncutting lumber. These guys were very, very skilled. Every once in a while on a\nFriday, someone would catch an alligator and bring it in. 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My father-in-law was an extremely good businessman and\ncommunity leader ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and a great handball player. He was the City Handball Senior\nChamp for several years. Unfortunately, in May of 1963 he had a major heart\nattack and died instantaneously, so I was left with the business to run and then\nthe business in town to run. Luckily, because of what he had taught me, I had\nlearned a good bit about the real estate business, the mortgage business, and\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the lumber business and it worked out very well. My brother-in-law, Paul\nRobinson, was a child, he was 14 when I married Kaye, so in 1963 he was about\n21. He had just graduated college as an architect from the University of Florida\nand he did not want to come into business. 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We ended up in business being\ncalled the Retailer ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the Year. Nationwide Retailer of the Year. We were\nnominated by the trade magazine. Kaye, myself and Paul went up to Chicago and we\nmade speeches and has a, it was a big to-do. This was around 1982, 1983, 1984,\nsomething like that. Shortly thereafter, Paul's mother, my mother-in-law, died.\nShe was in her late 70s. 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We\noperated the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business and the business was very good business. In the meantime,\non a personal level, my wife and I were blessed with, we had, Kaye had several\nproblems with having, with conceiving and we ended up adopting a young, cute\nlittle girl named Debbie. Debbie brought us great luck and we ended up with a\nJeffrey. 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We lived there for several years\nand then bought a house in Habersham Woods and lived there for many more years,\nuntil the kids graduated high school and college and then, when Kaye and I were\nempty-nesters, we'd always been wanting to live ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"downtown and we ended up moving\nto 219 East Jones Street and we've been here ever since, which is about 13, 14 years.\n\nINTERVIEWER: Don, let's go back to Builderama. First of all, tell me how the\nname was conceived.\n\nKOLE: Well, very basically. When Paul and I decided to expand the Bay Street\nLumber Company, we bought a piece of property further out on Bay Street. It was\nreally almost virgin territory, out near something called the Traffic Circle. We\ndidn't want to call it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bay Street Lumber Company because we were expanding our\nbusiness into other areas, selling paint and hardware. It was more than just\nlumber. We just wanted to come up with an exciting name and we tried all kinds\nof names and Paul said, \"Let's try Build-er-ama.\" We said that just hit the spot\nso that was how Builderama came to be. This was, our Builderama, our first store\nand the other stores we put in Savannah, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that is, on Abercorn Street and then we\nhad one on Victory Drive. We were really the first home center chain in Georgia.\nThis was before Lowe's had home centers. It was before, there wasn't even any\nsuch thing as a Home Depot. We were the very first and we were recognized as the\nfirst. That's how we became one of the Home Center of the Year Award recipients.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Our business expanded. At one time, after we had expanded, we had about 450\nemployees in several cities and just enjoyed a good reputation. To this day I\nget people saying to me, \"Why don't you go back in business? We liked\nBuilderama. There's nothing, never been anything like it.\" Because we did give a\nlot of personal service. We had a lot of help in each store. To this day if I go\ninto even Home Depot, about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"half the people, especially the first one, used to\nwork for Builderama and they were trained by us. We were very innovative. We\nended up opening the kitchen business, the remodeling business. We built homes.\nWe did, we did all kinds of things other than operate a retail building material\nhome center chain. The experience with Builderama really gave me the basis I\nneeded to go into the commercial real estate business, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which is what I'm in now.\nGoing back just a minute to the army, the most interesting thing had happened to\nme in the army, was that after I had been in Augusta and had met Kaye and had\nfallen in love, she went back to college and I got transferred to Fort Monmouth,\nNew Jersey, which was the headquarters of the 1st Army. It was a beautiful base.\nIt was the show place. Whenever visitors would come to New York, they would ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"take\nthem to Fort Monmouth. It was a magnificent facility. The general there was\nGeneral Zwicker. General Zwicker was accused by McCarthy of being a Communist.\nHe went to Washington and all people like myself, I was in what was called, at\nthat time I was in something called Troop Information. I would explain to the\ntroops what was going on everywhere. All of us who were in Troop Information\nwould watch on television, as I knew General Zwicker was grilled by McCarthy.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"General Zwicker just gave it to McCarthy backwards, forwards, and upside down.\nIt was like going to a football game and cheering because he didn't take any\ncrap from McCarthy. That to me was really one of the highlights. The other\nhighlight was, I used to play a lot of golf when I was in the Army. I had a real\ntough time. Anyway, going forward, my father-in-law, Sam Robinson, was a\ncommunity leader as I say, he was involved with the YMCA ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and, more importantly,\nwith the Savannah Jewish Federation and he was the President of the Savannah\nJewish Federation. So it became natural for me to get involved with Jewish\naffairs especially and I ended up doing things for the Educational Alliance and\nthe Federation. I became President of the Federation first, I guess this was in\nlate 1960s. I was the President of the Savannah Jewish Federation ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for two years\nand shortly thereafter I ended up being President of the Jewish Educational\nAlliance and the Executive Director of both organizations was a fine gentleman\nnamed Irv Geffen, Giffin. It was a Giffin, not a Geffen. He was a Giffin. G-I-F.\nAnyway, Irv was a, had been a member, not a member, but an Executive Director\nfor several years. I got to know him well, and his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wife and kids. He was a very\nnice guy. But, just as I became the President, he had a major heart attack. It\nwas terrible. I mean, the whole thing, it was a much smaller organization then\nand the whole community was sort of devastated by Irv being incapacitated. I\nended up having to sort of take his place and run the Alliance for, I was the\nPresident of the Alliance and Doris Lukin was the President of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fededration.\nBetween us, she ran her organization, I ran my organization and it was every day\nI was down there for sometimes three or four hours every day. As a result of\nIrv, he got better and came back to the office. Then he had another relapse and\nfinally had to retire. So what was going to be a two-year term for me with the\nJEA ended up being a three-year term. I guess I'm the only, let's see, Raymond\nRosen was a three-year termer and I'm a, was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"three-year termer. I stayed on\nuntil we got Stan Ramati to become the Executive Director. Thank goodness, I was\nable to get out of that. But I've remained active in both the Federation and the\nAlliance ever since. With Eric Meyerhoff being the architect and my being the\nchairman of the building committee, we remodeled, rebuilt the Jewish Educational\nAlliance to what it is today. It's a great facility. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's something that both\nEric and myself are proud of. Both of us watch over it like mother hens. Let's\nquit for a second. Because my family was very lucky that things were going very\nwell for us with Builderama, then we had a mortgage business and that was going\nwell, and we were prospering and I really felt that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had to give something more\nto the general community along with the Jewish community, so I started getting\nvery active in civic affairs. One of the friendships that Kaye and I had was\nwith Charlie and Anne Stewart. At this time Anne Stewart had conceived the idea\nof Hospice Savannah. This is going back about 24 years ago. She asked me to\nbecome the Treasurer of Hospice Savannah, which I did. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For several years I was\nthe Treasurer. As the organization got very large, I decided when we started\ngetting into Medicare and things like that, it was beyond my capacity and my\ntime. I stepped aside on Hospice Savannah and then many years later when Hospice\nSavannah, I was asked to ne, Hospice Savannah started to grow and, I guess, it's\nfive or six or seven years ago now, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was asked to run a Foundation. They formed\na Foundation that the principal thing to do was to come up with the money to\nexpand Hospice Savannah, so I became the Chairman of the Foundation and worked\non that for several more years. Harriet Meyerhoff was one of our people who\nhelped us raise money and things of that sort. So I've always been involved with\nthe Meyerhoffs too, in nice ways. Anyway, I got very active in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hospice Savannah\nand the thing has been very well received and it's a very fine organization.\n\nI also got very involved with the development of the Broughton Street, got\ninvolved with something called Savannah Development Renewal Authority and ended\nup doing well with that. Or rather the street did well, not me. And also got\ninvolved with organizing a radio station. I've always had really good ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friends.\nSome of my friends in the radio station were Joel Lynch and Aaron Buchsbaum and\nLeonard Kantziper and a lot of other people but we ended up stewing from\nscratch, raising the money, getting the equipment and opening WSVH radio\nstation. Also got involved with the Georgia Historical Society. That was really\na by-product of being married to my wife, who is not only a genealogist but she\nis involved with history, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"especially Jewish history. She got involved and became\ncurator of Georgia Historical Society. When she got out the Treasurer at the\ntime was, had Lou Gehrig's disease and they asked me if I'd go on as curator and\nTreasurer. So I've been Treasurer of Georgia Historical for about 10 or 11\nyears, which is much too long. I've been active and involved with that and it's\nbeen a satisfying experience. I've learned a lot about Georgia history and I\nenjoy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going to the lectures and I enjoy the fellowship of meeting Georgians from\nall over the State. One of the things I've always noticed about being a Yankee\nand being down here, I don't have a lot of knowledge of a lot of people here,\nthat people who grew up and went to college here or high school here or grammar\nschool here, you know, people like, who are natives, know a lot more people.\nThey used to know people from social circles and all that. My way of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"getting to\nknow a lot of these people was through Georgia Historical, because we would have\nmeetings all over the state over the years. So, Georgia Historical, I'm still\nvery active in that. I'm still semi-active in Hospice, more as listening to\npeople cry on my shoulders about this going wrong or that going wrong and I just\nput my two cents in. I've also been very heavily involved with Union Mission\nwhich, to me, is one of the most satisfying experiences I've ever had. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I've been\non Union Mission board for 11 or 12 years. I've been on the board longer than\nanybody else. I'm the grand old man at Union Mission. I'll tell you, to this\nminute it's been a very satisfying experience for me. Michael Elliott is just an\noutstanding man. Not only is he a minister but he's a great administrator and\nhe's a visionary and, on top of that, he's just a nice ordinary guy. I want to\ntell you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the times I've been involved with Union Mission have been some of the\nmost satisfying civic duties I've ever had. I've been involved with other things\ntoo. With Armstrong College. With Savannah State and so forth and so on, but\nI've had a very satisfying civic career. I've had a very satisfying career with\nthe Alliance and the Federation, although sometimes our Jewish organizations can\ndrive you a little crazy. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I sometimes wonder why it is that we, who are such\nsmart business people and Jewish men are smart and Jewish women are smart and\nsometimes we get things so mixed up at the Alliance or Federation that I just\nwonder, when I see, when I work for Union Mission or Hospice and I see how much\nsmoother things go sometimes, I have a hard philosophizing as to why things are\nthe way they are. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What else do I want to say?\n\nINTERVIEWER: I want to if there was anything either historical or significant\nthat happened while you were active with any of these organizations?\n\nKOLE: You know, one of the things that I did want to mention was, when I was\nPresident of Federation, the Memorial Hospital, at that time it was a much\nsmaller hospital. I mean, it was much smaller but it did have the main building,\nwhich I guess was about six stories tall. At ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christmas time, between\nThanksgiving and Christmas, they would light up the building in the form of a\ncross. There would be vertical lights all way up and down and then horizontal so\nit looked like the cross celebrating the Christian Christmas season. I was\nPresident of Federation and I just thought this was a public building and this\nshould not happen. So I asked, as President of the Federation, I wrote letters\nto the administrator of, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"administration of the hospital and asked them not to do\nit. Well, several Jewish doctors, including my doctor, came to me infuriated\nthat I would so such a thing. They said, \"That's all you're doing is causing\ntrouble,\" and so forth and so on. But anyway, after a lot of hassle and to do\nthey stopped doing that. They realized that there was a separation of church and\nstate. But that was my personal friend and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"doctor, he was infuriated with me. I\nwon't mention his name. You can figure that one out. That was a very interesting\nsituation. When I was still, I sold Builderama in 1986 to an English company.\nThe reason I did was that my two children, Debbie and Jeffrey, neither of them\nhad any interest at all in the very prosperous company and I said, \"Well, if\nthey're not interested in it, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then let's get somebody else who is.\" So I gave,\nit was an investment banking operation out of Atlanta, part of Robinson Humphery\nand I gave them all the details and said, \"You go see if you can sell, find\nsomebody to buy the company but I'd like to stay with the company.\" Right after\nI gave them all the information and they prepared some booklets and they sent\nthem out all over everywhere. At this time Kaye and I went up to New York City\nand we were staying at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Marriott on Times Square, just as we got in the room\nthe phone rang and it was my investment banker telling me we got somebody that's\nso interested in wanting to buy your company, we've got to do something. So I\nstayed on the phone that whole afternoon just talking about it and all that. We\ncame back to Savannah and within about two months we had sold the company to an\nEnglish company called Ward White. Ward White was a conglomerate in England who,\nbecause they were so big in England, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they want to keep investing and growing,\nthey had to do it outside of England. England has certain rules of competition.\nSo anyway, they invested in a company from New Orleans who had a hundred shoe\nstores and that hundred shoe stores was not doing very well, so they bought\nBuilderama to boost the stock of the shoe companies. A little complicated.\nAnyway, I ended up, Builderama ended up being bought by a company in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"New Orleans\nwho was owned by the English company, but in essence the English company owned\nBuilderama. Every quarter I would have to go to New Orleans and we stayed at\nthis magnificent hotel called the Windsor Court Hotel. It was the best hotel in\nNew Orleans, magnificent. These Englishmen would come in, it would be the\nPresident of the company and all of his cohorts and they would fly in from\nEngland for these quarterly meetings and end up coming to the hotel at six in\nthe afternoon. I'd meet them at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"seven o'clock for drinks in the cocktail lounge\nand they would drink scotch from seven o'clock till ten o'clock at night. They'd\nuse this broad English humor and every cocktail waitress that went by they would\nmake little comments and stuff. Ten o'clock they'd start eating while still\ndrinking scotch. By 11 o'clock I just couldn't stand it and I'd excuse myself.\nThis went on quarter after quarter after quarter. It was the same routine. I got\nso tired of it. But at seven o'clock in the morning these guys were bright eyed\nand ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bushy tailed and ready to go. It was, I really got to the point where I love\nNew Orleans and I loved going there, of course, today is a heck of a time to be\ntalking about New Orleans because things are so bad there.\n\nINTERVIEWER: Let me inject that what you're talking about is Hurricane Katrina.\n\nKOLE: Today right. Hurricane Katrina. Anyway, New Orleans was a great place to\nvisit and I used to make every excuse I could to duck out of having these\ncocktail dinner meetings with these people.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This was in 1986. I worked for them until 1989. I had a three-year contract. As\nit came to be, my contract was ending the same time the company, Ward White, was\nbought out in a stock fight with another English company called Booth. Booth is\nlike a Walgreens or CVS. It's a major drug company in England and they too had\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to diversify because they couldn't expand any further. Anyway, they bought out\nthe company that bought me out and they decided that they didn't want my\nparticular operation so they cut off all credit to us. In the meantime I was not\nin the business anymore but I had worked on a lot of the Builderama properties.\nI personally built the properties. In one or two cases Paul Robinson ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"built them\nwith us, so we had to find some other tenants. We had to find some cash to pay\nfor the mortgages. This was a very tricky thing. This was around 1990. We lost\nthe leases to Builderama because Builderama went out of existence. So we had to\nscramble and one of the things that happened was that Margie Gordon, a very fine\nrealtor, came to see me and said, \"I've got some apartment complexes that you\nmight want to look at.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"Cash flow can help me with my problems with\nBuilderama. Builderama properties will be interested in.\" That's basically how I\nended up in being in the apartment business. I needed to invest in something\nthat would throw ready cash out to pay to keep the Builderama properties until\nwe did something with them. So I ended up being in the apartment business . . .\n\nINTERVIEWER: . . . being Jewish and active in so many non-Jewish organizations,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were there other situations that you can mention?\n\nKOLE: Well of course, going very, very, way, way, way back to the beginning when\nI was first in the lumber business in 1955. This was a lumber business, this was\na mill, it wasn't anything like what you see today. It was an old shack of a\nbuilding and we would have people, country people bring in lumber that had just\nbeen cut and we'd stick, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we'd stack it, dry it and then plane it into various\nshapes in 2x4s or 2x6s or various mold shapes. Anyway, I was dealing with\npeople, country people, country folk who, they didn't know what a Jew was. I\nmean, to them a Jew was a guy walking around with horns. It was very\ninteresting. I had a very, very good relationship with most of these people. If\nthere were ever any comments, it was because, frankly, Jews were just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"strangers\nto them. The concept of a Jew was, especially in the South, was something very\nunusual in the 1950s and to do business with them. But we got along nicely. I\ndid have one or two instances of some nasty business where we got in some\nshoving matches and pushing matches with a couple of rednecks who really got\nnasty and I got nasty back. Other than that, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my relationship with the white\ncountry people was very good and I think they got to respect me and respect my\nfather-in-law. It was a good situation. As far as the black people was, I have\nalready mentioned, I have nothing but really a lot of respect for the people\nthat worked for Bay Street Lumber Company. I got very, got to know an awful lot\nof black people because we were in a black part of town and we had a lot of\nblack customers. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"To this day there are people that I still see and we talk about\nthings. I recently as at a SCAD reception and this man came up and said, \"I want\nto introduce myself. You knew my father whose name was Herman Brown.\" I said,\n\"You're Herman's son?\" \"Yes.\" Herman was a contractor who I was very close with\nand the son had just recently had a divorce and rented from me, one of our\napartment complexes. So, you know, our relationship with some of these people go\nway back. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I can walk down Broughton Street and some guy will be, \"Hey Mr. Kole,\nremember me? I used to work for you.\" It makes me feel real good when they\nremember me. Especially when they say, \"You haven't changed much.\" I say, \"Man,\n. . . changed.\" Anyway, another interesting thing, every once in a while I would\nhave somebody come into Bay Street Lumber Company and they say we need some\n60-penny nails. Well, 60-penny nails is a nail that's about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"six inches long and\nit's very thick. It's a very big nail, huge nail. Every once in a while they'd\ncome in and ask for this. Finally, I said to him, this particular man was a\npreacher. I said, \"Why're you getting all these nails?\" He said, \"Well, we're\nhaving a revival and we use these nails to hang Jesus on the cross.\"\nInteresting. I said, \"Okay.\"\n\nINTERVIEWER: The crossing of cultures. They learn from you and you learn from them.\n\nKOLE: Right. So that was very interesting. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Getting back to the more current\ntimes. Where am I? Oh, let's talk about my children. As I say, Debbie came to us\nin 1957 and Jeff in 1960 and they have been a, Debbie has showed up a new way of\nlooking at life. She's had a lot of interesting experiences, not necessarily\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very good when she was a teenager. Used to drive us up the wall and over the\nwall. But she turned out to be, married Chuck Shelton and Debbie is a very with\nit. She's au courant and everything. She's been everywhere and done everything\nand is still doing it. As a matter of fact, as I speak with Harriet right now,\nshe's in California in the wine country drinking lots of wine. Jeff, my son, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is\n. . . Debbie went, Debbie graduated Boston University, the same place I\ngraduated and she was a product of the local school system. When she graduated\nhigh school we didn't think she even had the capabilities to go to college but\nwe did get her in, we did a lot of investing and got her into Boston University.\nShe ended up graduating with Honors and getting a Master's in social work from\nthe University of Georgia, which was just a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"marvelous achievement for her and\nvery, very. Kaye and I are very proud of that. Jeff did quite well in school and\nhe ended up going to Brandeis and graduated Brandeis, became a reporter and,\nsubsequently, an editor of a newsletter covering public radio and television\nwhich . . . He would call up and hear we were having some problems at the radio\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"station but he would not interview me but he would interview Uncle Aaron and\nUncle Aaron Buchsbaum. Anyway, Jeff got married to a very lovely lady named\nLeeAnn Altman. I won't say more than that. When they had a child he decided\nthat, you know, maybe he would consider coming into business down here. He\ndidn't know if he would like it or not, but he and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LeeAnn came down here and he\nworked at Kole Management Company for several weeks and realized that he really\nliked being in the real estate, commercial real estate business and so they\nmoved here. Jeff has taken over the business more or less. I just do very few\nthings but he does almost everything and I keep wanting, more and more, I keep\nturning over more responsibility to him and he's just a superb businessman.\nDebbie is a superb mother and she does a lot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good work in the Atlanta area.\nDoes some very fine volunteer things. Jeff has turned out to be a great\ncommunity leader in Savannah. He's past president of the Jewish Educational\nAlliance. He's head of the Savannah Federation's annual fundraising campaign. I\nhave four grandchildren who are all lovely and all the light of our ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"life. We're\nvery lucky. We're very, we're very pleased with everything.\n\nINTERVIEWER: Why don't you mention their names?\n\nKOLE: Okay. The grandchildren, our first born is Amy Kole, the next one is\nMcKenzie Shelton. Amy is 12. McKenzie is 11. Amy will be bat mitzvahed in\nDecember of this year. McKenzie will be confirmed, I believe, in 2007. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Our next,\nour first grandson is Jeremy, who is an absolute livewire. There's nothing he\nwon't do. He's a great baseball player. He's a karate king. He's a great dancer.\nHe's got a sparkle in his eye like nobody's business. Of course, our youngest is\nZachary, who is, he's a gift. He is just, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he is the most warm, the warmest\nlittle kid in the world and we love him dearly. All four, we love all four\ndearly and each one is different and each one is great.\n\nINTERVIEWER: Don, you are truly one of the significant movers and shakers of\nSavannah. You've done so much and you've skimmed on this interview. Is there\nanything that you would like to go back and review and mention?\n\nKOLE: Hmmm. Okay. Just to fill in some of the blank spots. One of the, I've\nalways been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a collector and a hobbyist. I've collected, well, part of the\ntravels we've done, Kaye and I have done a lot of traveling in foreign countries\nand South America and Central America and I got, we got hooked on collecting\nCentral American artifacts, especially masks and pieces of pottery and\npre-Columbian artifacts ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from Mexico and Guatemala. In the collecting of that I\nthen got involved with collecting masks and all from Peru and other places in\nSouth America. Fell in love, one time I was in Washington and went into a shop\ncalled the Artifactory and there I saw African art, primitive African art. I\njust fell in love with it and, frankly, I've been, I'm a junkie on African art\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and collected it for many years now. My collection I think is getting relatively\nlarge. I don't know if it's significant, but it's large. I've enjoyed that. It\ntakes a lot of time and a lot of effort, but now that I'm in my 70s I feel like\nI can devote time to it. It's exciting to me and I just love it. I love looking\nat it. I'm looking at it right now. I've collected African art and this is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"West\nAfrican art from below the Sahara and above South Africa. I've got a lot of it.\nI've got a big collection in my office and a fairly good collection at home, but\nthey intermingle. I keep switching them back and forth.\n\nI've also collected stamps. I do some photography. I used to be a gardener. When\nI lived in Habersham Woods I did a, spent hours every weekend working in the\ngarden. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Here we've got a little pisher garden so I don't send time at it and my\nwife drives me crazy about the colors. So I've done, I've done, you know, I've\ndone a lot of other thigs too. What else?\n\nINTERVIEWER: Well, you have done so much and you lucked, or walked into a retail\nbusiness. What would you have done if Builderama, if the Bay Street Lumber\ndidn't come around?\n\nKOLE: Alright. That's a good question. You know, when I, when Kaye and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I fell in\nlove and I proposed and she accepted, I originally had a job in New York City\nwith a company, Vick's Chemical Company. I was going to be involved with market\nresearch up there. So, when I proposed to Kaye, I told her mother that we were\ngoing to move up to New York and I was going to go work for this big company. My\nwife, my mother-in-law said, \"No, you won't. If you want to marry Kaye, you're\ngoing to have to come work for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sam Robinson.\" That's how I ended up in the\nlumber business. I was, I had a pretty good training and I was pretty skilled in\nmathematics and in particular, statistics. That's what I really did in the army\nwas statistics. So, my mother-in-law said, \"Well, you're going in the lumber\nbusiness.\" As I said, then I went to work with a shirt and a tie on and never\nwore them again. Little did I know what I was going to do. I suspect if ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had\nstayed up North, I would end up in New York City. There was a man up there that\nI always read a lot about named Bill Zeckendorf. Bill Zeckendorf was probably\nthe first great real estate developer in New York City in the modern era and I\nalways thought that someday I would go apply for a job with him but I ended up\nin the real estate business in Savannah in some ways. Probably the last thing I\nwant to talk about a little bit is myself and my view on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Judaism. Personally, I\nam absolutely, unfortunately, I wish I was different, but I'm not a religious\nJew. I go to the synagogue for family occasions, for family celebrations. I go\nto the synagogue for celebrations of other people's simchas but as far as, I\nwish it . . . 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Jacob and I hear the chant where all\nthe men rise and together chant in prayer, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I just like, fell the continuity of\nhistory. The continuity of eons of Jews celebrating together. I wish I could do\nit on an individual basis, but I do take, I do enjoy the experience from time to\ntime of listening to the vast number of Jewish people singing and chanting and\npraising the Lord together. Although I'm probably close to being a deist,\nmeaning ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/transcript/22045/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that although I don't think that God watches over us every day and that\nGod doesn't control our lives, I do think there is a Being somewhere that you\nhave to answer to at some point in your life. So I've tried to live my life as a\ngood Jew and as a good person and I hope I have. End of conversation. Goodbye.\nThat's it!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=2700.0,2730.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/annotation_set/417","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Donald Kole [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/annotation_set/417/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Savannah Jewish federation is the focal point of the Jewish community in Savannah, Georgia. The Federation is dedicated to preserving and enriching Jewish life throughout Savannah and perpetuating the Jewish identification with the State of Israel.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/annotation_set/417/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Educational Alliance (JEA) was chartered August 2, 1912 to meet the leisure and Americanization needs of the Jewish community in Savannah. In the original charter, objectives were outlined for promoting the English language and for providing a building for such endeavors as a kindergarten, a library, classes promoting domestic and professional skills and recreation. In 1914, two years after the original charter, the JEA leased a building on the northeast corner of Barnard and Harris streets. The JEA opened its own structure January 27, 1916, located at 328 Barnard Street at the corner of Barnard and Charlton streets. World War I disrupted activities, but after the war, the JEA had become a strong social force in the Jewish community offering family nights, dances, socials, plays, contests, lectures, concerts and sports. The JEA also offered social services such as transient relief, unemployment and social case work that were later taken over by the Savannah Jewish Council, now the Savannah Jewish Federation. In December 1950, the JEA purchased 11 acres on Abercorn Street just north of DeRenne Avenue for their second building which opened in the spring of 1955.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/annotation_set/417/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHospice Savannah was established in 1979 and has grown over the years to serve patients and their families throughout Savannah.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/annotation_set/417/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Savannah Development and Renewal Authority was established in 1992 by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia to develop recommendations to City Council for revitalization of Savannah’s downtown, including comprehensive planning, beautification, marketing, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/annotation_set/417/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eUnion Mission works to prevent and end homelessness one person at a time by providing a pathway to self-sufficiency and independent living. Union Mission goes beyond shelter and utilizes supportive services such as employment training and mental health counseling to address the root causes of homelessness in the greater Savannah area.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29287/file/96945/annotation_set/417/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAu courant is a French phrase meaning in the current. 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