{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/ff3kw58h82/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Koplan, Irwin"]},"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":["2007-08-06 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Video"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eIrwin Koplan interviewed by Sandy Berman on August 6, 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eIrwin discusses his family’s origin in Georgia. He talks about his mother’s birth in Rome, Georgia in 1915. He explains that his maternal grandparents, Isaac and Ida Miller, left Poland and settled in Rome, Georgia when they arrived in the United States. He says his paternal grandparents, Isaac and Anna Kopetovske, were from Russia and settled in Chattanooga, Georgia where his father Leo Joshua Kopotovske was born in 1907. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin explains that when his father was in his twenties, he changed his surname from Kopetovske to Koplan.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin tells how his father and mother met and married in 1935. He says he was born on May 21,1937 and three months later his family moved to Dalton, Georgia. He remembers his father owning several different retail stores when he lived in Dalton: Dalton Furniture Company, Koplan Furniture Company, Burt’s, and Economy Department Store. Irwin discusses other Jewish retailers in Dalton. He talks about the history of the two major industries in Dalton, the chenille bedspread industry and the carpet industry.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin tells about the synagogue that his family attended in Dalton, Temple Beth El, which is a conservative congregation. He says he was the second boy to have his bar mitzvah in the synagogue’s building that was constructed in the 1940’s. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin discusses his family’s Jewish observances during his childhood. He says for a while his mother kept strictly kosher, including during Passover, until his brother was born. He tells about the kosher butcher and the kosher deli in Chattanooga. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin describes race relations in Dalton. Irwin tells how Dalton integrated its public schools during the Civil Rights Era without any incidents. He recalls that every Jewish household employed African American help. He discusses his mother’s black housekeeper Maggie Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin tells about joining Boy Scout Troop 60 at the First Methodist Church. He recalls with pride his achievement of Eagle Scout rank and membership in the Order of the Arrow.  He also mentions attending different summer camps: Camp Skylake near Helen, Georgia; McCallie Camp in Chattanooga; and Camp Sidney Dew.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin recalls wishing he lived in a larger city as a child. He tells about attending professional baseball games and dating Jewish girls in Chattanooga, a larger city with a larger Jewish population. Although Irwin grew up isolated from a larger Jewish community, he says he was raised with the expectation that he would marry a Jewish girl.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin discusses moving to New York City after college, where he began his sales career and met his wife Joan Jacqueline Berger. Irwin says he was married by Rabbi Emanuel Feldman—the rabbi at Congregation Beth Jacob—at the home of Gloria and Fred Glusman in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin talks about returning to Dalton where he continued his sales career and where he currently resides. He talks about his daughters, Kara, who lives in Atlanta, and Heather, who lives in Los Angeles, California. He discusses how the membership of Temple Beth El in Dalton has dwindled from its heyday of 90 member families. Irwin expresses concern about the future of Temple Beth El and its ability to continue employing a rabbi unless the congregation can attract more Jewish families to settle in Dalton and become members.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)","\u003cp\u003eIrwin was born on May 21, 1937 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was the son of Leo Joshua Koplan—originally Kopotovske—and Minnie Louise Miller Koplan. Irwin had two siblings: Stephen Joseph Koplan and Allan Koplan. Irwin was married to Joan Jacqueline Berger and had two daughters, Kara and Heather.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the age of three months, Irwin lived in Dalton, Georgia. His father was the owner of a series of retail stores in Dalton: Dalton Furniture Company, Koplan Furniture Company, Burt’s, and Economy Department Store.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin attended public schools in Dalton and Baylor School for Boys in Chattanooga. Irwin’s family attended Temple Beth El in Dalton, where he was bar mitzvahed. Irwin was a long-time member of the Boy Scouts of America. He was an Eagle Scout and was inducted into the Order of the Arrow, Boy Scouts of America’s national honor society. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin began his sales career in New York City with American Photocopy Equipment Company, (APECO) during the 1960’s. He eventually returned to the Dalton area where he continued working as a salesman in the photocopy industry.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin was a board member of Temple Beth El in Dalton, serving as Second Vice-President.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28865"]}},{"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":["Dalton (Ga.) (geographic)","Koplan, Irwin (personal name)","New York (N.Y.) (geographic)","American Photocopy Equipment Company (corporate name)","Temple Beth El (Dalton, Ga.) 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He remembers his father owning several different retail stores when he lived in Dalton: Dalton Furniture Company, Koplan Furniture Company, Burt\u0026rsquo;s, and Economy Department Store. Irwin discusses other Jewish retailers in Dalton. He talks about the history of the two major industries in Dalton, the chenille bedspread industry and the carpet industry.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin tells about the synagogue that his family attended in Dalton, Temple Beth El, which is a conservative congregation. He says he was the second boy to have his bar mitzvah in the synagogue\u0026rsquo;s building that was constructed in the 1940\u0026rsquo;s.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin discusses his family\u0026rsquo;s Jewish observances during his childhood. He says for a while his mother kept strictly kosher, including during Passover, until his brother was born. He tells about the kosher butcher and the kosher deli in Chattanooga.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin describes race relations in Dalton. Irwin tells how Dalton integrated its public schools during the Civil Rights Era without any incidents. He recalls that every Jewish household employed African American help. He discusses his mother\u0026rsquo;s black housekeeper Maggie Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin tells about joining Boy Scout Troop 60 at the First Methodist Church. He recalls with pride his achievement of Eagle Scout rank and membership in the Order of the Arrow. \u0026nbsp;He also mentions attending different summer camps: Camp Skylake near Helen, Georgia; McCallie Camp in Chattanooga; and Camp Sidney Dew.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin recalls wishing he lived in a larger city as a child. He tells about attending professional baseball games and dating Jewish girls in Chattanooga, a larger city with a larger Jewish population. Although Irwin grew up isolated from a larger Jewish community, he says he was raised with the expectation that he would marry a Jewish girl.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin discusses moving to New York City after college, where he began his sales career and met his wife Joan Jacqueline Berger. Irwin says he was married by Rabbi Emanuel Feldman\u0026mdash;the rabbi at Congregation Beth Jacob\u0026mdash;at the home of Gloria and Fred Glusman in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin talks about returning to Dalton where he continued his sales career and where he currently resides. He talks about his daughters, Kara, who lives in Atlanta, and Heather, who lives in Los Angeles, California. He discusses how the membership of Temple Beth El in Dalton has dwindled from its heyday of 90 member families. Irwin expresses concern about the future of Temple Beth El and its ability to continue employing a rabbi unless the congregation can attract more Jewish families to settle in Dalton and become members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIrwin was born on May 21, 1937 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was the son of Leo Joshua Koplan\u0026mdash;originally Kopotovske\u0026mdash;and Minnie Louise Miller Koplan. Irwin had two siblings: Stephen Joseph Koplan and Allan Koplan. Irwin was married to Joan Jacqueline Berger and had two daughters, Kara and Heather.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the age of three months, Irwin lived in Dalton, Georgia. His father was the owner of a series of retail stores in Dalton: Dalton Furniture Company, Koplan Furniture Company, Burt\u0026rsquo;s, and Economy Department Store.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin attended public schools in Dalton and Baylor School for Boys in Chattanooga. Irwin\u0026rsquo;s family attended Temple Beth El in Dalton, where he was bar mitzvahed. Irwin was a long-time member of the Boy Scouts of America. He was an Eagle Scout and was inducted into the Order of the Arrow, Boy Scouts of America\u0026rsquo;s national honor society.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin began his sales career in New York City with American Photocopy Equipment Company, (APECO) during the 1960\u0026rsquo;s. He eventually returned to the Dalton area where he continued working as a salesman in the photocopy industry.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIrwin was a board member of Temple Beth El in Dalton, serving as Second Vice-President.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/159/878/small/Koplan_Irwin.mp4_1652812317.jpg?1652812318","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Koplan_Irwin.mp4"]},"duration":4987.483,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/159/878/small/Koplan_Irwin.mp4_1652812317.jpg?1652812318","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/159/878/original/Koplan_Irwin.mp4?1652812313","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":4987.483,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Irwin Koplan [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BERMAN: Today is August 6, 2007. My name is Sandra Berman. I'm with the William\nBreman Jewish Heritage Museum. Irwin Koplan has agreed to do an interview for\nthe Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project of the Museum. I know that's\na mouthful but I have to say that for the purposes of the tape. Thank you so\nmuch for agreeing to do this. I'd like to begin by just asking you to go back in\ntime a little bit and tell me about your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"background, how you ended up in Dalton,\nGeorgia, or how your parents ended up in Dalton, Georgia.\n\nKOPLAN: Okay. My mother was born on November 28, 1915 in Rome, Georgia. Her\nparents, my grandparents, were Isaac and Ida Miller. I think the name was\nformerly 'Pinchuk.' I'm not sure of that. [It was] changed to Miller. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My\ngrandparents came from Poland. I don't know the location in Poland. I've been\nwanting to do a lot of genealogy, but I just don't have time. I'm going to call\nsome of my cousins to see if they've done it already. Anyway, they settled . . .\nafter getting off the boat, they came to Rome, Georgia.\n\nBERMAN: Why Rome?\n\nKOPLAN: I'm guessing about 1880 to 1885. Why Rome? I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"would love to know that\nmyself. However, during that period there was quite a bit of Jewish migration to\nRome, Georgia, with Jewish immigrants moving to Rome. It would really surprise you.\n\nBERMAN: Did you know why? What the appeal was? Did they have friends there?\n\nKOPLAN: It could be that another relative preceded them there. There were some.\nI have some great-aunts and [great]-uncles that I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"never met. I visit the\ncemetery every once in a while there in Rome where my grandparents are buried\nand several of my uncles and aunts. Rome was a small flourishing town in the\nlate 1800's after the Civil War. It is [where] two rivers come together. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What is\nit? I don't know the word.\n\nBERMAN: . . . converge.\n\nKOPLAN: The Etowah and the Oostanaula [Rivers] come together there and actually\nthere's been shipping. River barges have come up as far as Rome. I've read a\nlittle bit of history. There were several big mills there back in this time. It\nseemed to be a prosperous city during that period. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My mother was the youngest of\neight children. She was born in 1915. I know the oldest was probably 18 to 19\nyears older, maybe 20 years older than her. That's when I figured that my\ngrandparents came.\n\nBERMAN: Her name, your mother?\n\nKOPLAN: Minnie Louise Miller. That was her maiden name.\n\nBERMAN: What did your grandparents ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do in Rome?\n\nKOPLAN: I understand my grandfather was a shoemaker. He had a shoe repair shop\naround the main street. He passed away before I was born. I never knew him, but\nmy grandmother, my mother's mother, lived until I was around 7 or 8 years old. I\nhave a pretty good memory of her.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BERMAN: Your mother was born in Rome. She grew up there?\n\nKOPLAN: She grew up there. She met my father when I think she was 17 or 18. I\nthink it was a rather short courtship. I think they got married when she was 19.\nI believe that's correct. She was 21 when I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was born. My dad was born on\nDecember 19, 1907. You may have to pardon me, when I was going through all these\nboxes I pulled up some stuff I didn't even know existed.\n\nBERMAN: You can stop this tape any time you want. I know it's difficult to\nsometimes go back like this. Anytime, we can ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hold it for a second.\n\nKOPLAN: I appreciate it. He was born, like I say, December 19, 1907. He was\nabout eight years older than my mother.\n\nBERMAN: His name?\n\nKOPLAN: His name is Leo Joshua. He was born Leo Joshua Kopetovske.\nK-O-P-E-T-O-V-S-K-E. I thought it was \"I\" but in looking at some records, it was\nspelled with an \"E.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"His mother and father, my paternal grandparents, were Isaac\nand Anna Kopetovske from Russia. What city, I don't know.\n\nBERMAN: They came to Rome?\n\nKOPLAN: No, they came to Chattanooga [Tennessee]. My daddy was born in\nChattanooga in 1907. My mother was born in Rome in 1915.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BERMAN: And they met . . .\n\nKOPLAN: I think I once heard how they were introduced. I do know how they were\nintroduced. A very extremely close friend and lifelong friend was Abe Goldstein.\nHe had met a girl from Rome, Ruth Lesser. They were dating and he got my dad a\nblind date ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with my mother, when he went down . . . Back in those days it would\ntake a couple of hours to drive from Chattanooga to Rome. I don't even know in .\n. . they had the old Model-T's, I'm sure.\n\nBERMAN: It's interesting how the different cities would look for other Jewish\npeople to get those folks together. I'm sure that . . .\n\nKOPLAN: Rome got a big head start on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dalton in the early growth of the Jewish\npopulation in each city. Dalton, I don't even know if maybe they only had one or\ntwo Jewish families at the turn of the century. I know of one, but Rome already\nhad quite a few.\n\nBERMAN: The synagogue was founded early.\n\nKOPLAN: Early.\n\nBERMAN: Did your father move from Chattanooga?\n\nKOPLAN: Yes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They were married on February 3, 1935. My dad had a shoe store in\nChattanooga. He owned . . . to my knowledge my dad never worked for anyone in\nhis life. He was always self-employed. They had a shoe store in Chattanooga, or\nmy daddy did, when they were married. I was born on May 21, 1937. Three months\nafter I was born in Chattanooga ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Children's Hospital . . . shortly thereafter,\nthree months later, they moved to Dalton.\n\nBERMAN: Why?\n\nKOPLAN: I think I know why. I wished to G-d I had asked these questions you're\nasking me 20 or 30 years ago. I had two aunts that lived in Dalton in the\n1930's, my dad's sisters: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ida Deitch [sp] and my Aunt Lily Dubrof. My uncle, Joe\nDubrof, died very young. [Aunt Lil] married a Mr. Specter who also preceded her\nin death. In fact, my Aunt Lil just died last year at 100 years old. She was\nliving in Atlanta when she died. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You asked what my mother's father did, but you\ndid not ask what my father's father did. I understand he had a shoe store, but\nwhen he first came to Chattanooga, which had to be in the late 1800's--I know it\nwas, because my dad was the fourth of five children and he was born in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1907--he\nwas a peddler. He had a horse and buggy and he traveled out of Chattanooga\nthrough Ringgold [Georgia]. The route was Dalton, Ringgold, Dalton, Rome, then\nback up through Summerville [Georgia] and Lafayette [Georgia], selling his\nwares. That was around the turn-of-the-century. He must have discovered that\nDalton was a good business ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"town. It was and still is. I had two aunts that lived\nin Dalton. One had a dress shop, Aunt Lily [Lilly's Style Shop]. My Aunt Ida, I\nthink, had a restaurant. I'm not sure of that or another ready-to-wear shop of\nsome kind. My dad knew of Dalton. I think that's why he moved to Dalton, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for\njust a better business opportunity.\n\nBERMAN: What did he do when he got . . .\n\nKOPLAN: He moved to Dalton when I was 3 months old. They rented a house on East\nWillow Park Drive and made plans to build their home a little further out of\ntown. My dad went into business with Joe Sussman. They opened a furniture store,\nDalton Furniture Company, in 1937. After two or three years, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my dad . . . Mr.\nSussman, he's dead, let him rest in peace, but he had a drinking problem. Dad\nsold out to him and just started Koplan Furniture Company. Now he's always\npronounced it 'Copelan' but over the years I answer to Koplan about 80 percent\nof the time . . . my professors, my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"teachers, my customers, everybody. You look\nat the name you think 'Koplan.' But he preferred 'Copelan.' Koplan Furniture in\nthe early 1940's . . . I'm guessing around 1941 because that's the memory. I can\nremember as a kid getting in the way and riding the delivery truck when they\ndelivered their refrigerators and the stoves and the furniture. He sold a lot of\nappliances back ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in those days. That's my first memory of work, getting in the way.\n\nBERMAN: Koplan's must have been like a . . . everyone went to Koplan's and\nDalton for their furniture?\n\nKOPLAN: Yes. He was not the only furniture store in town. He had competition. My\ndad was a good businessman.\n\nBERMAN: How big did it get?\n\nKOPLAN: Better than I'll ever be.\n\nBERMAN: How big did the store get?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KOPLAN: He grew to a point where, I would say . . . he was next door, I\nremember, to Hill Furniture which was double or three times the size, so he had\nto compete with them. He was right next door. I believe it was Hills that he\nfinally sold to. He only had Koplan Furniture, I think, around five years or six\nyears. I believe it was Hills he sold to because they just put a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"doorway between\nthe wall and they just expanded their business. At that time, he went into\nbusiness with Jack Braver who had a store called 'Burts.'\n\nBERMAN: B-E-R-T-S? . . . B-U-R-T-S?\n\nKOPLAN: B-U-R-T-S. It was B-U-R-T-S. It was a men's, women's, children's\nready-to-wear clothing store. The retail merchant business was the choice of\nabout 80 percent of all the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"early Jewish settlers in Dalton.\n\nBERMAN: Were there a lot of those kinds of stores in Dalton?\n\nKOPLAN: Yes. Lots and lots.\n\nBERMAN: Can you name a few of the other ones?\n\nKOPLAN: Sam Stock, he passed away. Mrs. Stock ran Stock's Department Store.\nBraver's Department Store, which they had before they merged with my dad's to\nform Burt's. There was the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Economy Department Store which was [owned by] Simon\nGinsburg. That's a history lesson in itself. Mr. Ginsburg made millions and back\nwhen $1,000,000 in 1940 and 1950 was a lot of money. He was, in fact, a\nmillionaire from a ready-to-wear store.\n\nBERMAN: What was his secret?\n\nKOPLAN: He was a dynamic salesperson. 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He had thousands of customers and he knew them ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all by name. That\nwas his major draw.\n\nBERMAN: That's amazing. Did your mother work in the store?\n\nKOPLAN: Yes, my mother worked in the store, but in 1950 my dad sold his interest\nin Burt's and bought Ginsburg out. He bought the Economy Department Store. Here\nis an interesting bit of history. At the turn-of-the-century--again I'm ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"guessing\n1900--my grandfather Isaac Kopetovske, along with Mr. Alper from Chattanooga,\nfounded the Economy Department Store. He was a peddler. Then he decided to open\na business in Dalton with Mr. Alper. I believe he was more of a silent partner,\nmy grandfather, and Mr. Alper ran the business. About 1919, Simon Ginsburg\nbought that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business from my grandfather and Mr. Alper. In 1950, my dad actually\nbought the business back that his dad had co-founded.\n\nBERMAN: That is a great piece of history. When did the name change to 'Koplan'?\n\nKOPLAN: I'm guessing when my dad was about 24 to 25 years old. I never got the\nexact figure on that or information. I could--I've got an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"aunt that's still\nalive, my father's younger brother's wife, Aunt Bessie. She would know.\n\nBERMAN: Do you know why they changed it?\n\nKOPLAN: In the South back in those years . . .\n\nBERMAN: What year would that have been?\n\nKOPLAN: He was born 1907 and 1920 . . . probably around 1933. It was before my\nmother and father got married in 1935. Anywhere from 1930 to 1933 is when I\nassume he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"changed the name legally.\n\nBERMAN: Go on with that \"in the South at that time\" . . . with that thought.\n\nKOPLAN: I grew up in Dalton, and you experience some mild antisemitism. I say\n\"mild\" because I never took it very seriously. It was mostly verbal. I never got\npunched or hit. I did get . . . 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From\nthat point on he never said another word.\n\nBERMAN: How old were you when that happened?\n\nKOPLAN: That was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"around [age] 18.\n\nBERMAN: Was that a prevalent problem for you growing up, or a problem for your parents?\n\nKOPLAN: It wasn't so much. It must have been for my father. My father grew up in\nChattanooga and there were a lot of Jewish people that did not change their . .\n. they were maybe simpler names. I mean 'Goldstein' is simpler to say than\n'Kopetoske,' right?\n\nBERMAN: A better name for a store, Koplan's or . . .\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KOPLAN: I think it was just a matter of convenience. Again, I never asked my dad\nand he never told me.\n\nBERMAN: What were some of the other people in Dalton? There must have been a lot\nof Jews involved in the carpet industry as well.\n\nKOPLAN: Yes. The forerunner of the carpet industry was the chenille bedspread\nindustry. 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Catherine Whitener\nwas considered ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the founder of the chenille industry. It was what they call a\nhome-based business then. The mills would kind of farm out the work and you\ncould have your sewing machine at home and fill the order. That drew several\nJewish families, the Hurowitz's . . . most of them came from New York and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"New\nJersey, a few from Philadelphia, and a few from Chicago. They came to Dalton.\nLabor was cheap. It was a good business town. Dalton was not so small during the\nCivil War. There was a lot of Civil War history when [General William Tecumseh]\nSherman came through in Dalton. It's an old town. It's an old city. It began to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"boom with the advent of the chenille business. There were two or three big\ncotton mills there around 1900.\n\nBERMAN: Who were some of the other families involved in the carpet business?\n\nKOPLAN: The Hurowitz's. I remember distinctly the Hurowitz's, Sam and Ella\nHorowitz . . . Blue Ridge Chenille . . . Blue Ridge Spread Company.\n\nBERMAN: When did the Saul's come?\n\nKOPLAN: The Saul's came about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the same time that my father came.\n\nBERMAN: What year did they all come, did it all start?\n\nKOPLAN: I think the Saul's may have come in 1938 or 1939. I think my dad was . .\n. but Mr. Harry Saul opened a clothing store. He didn't originally get into the\nchenille business. He opened a clothing store in the same block that the Economy\nDepartment store was in that my dad bought in 1950. He used to have the Boy\nScout franchise. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What'd they call it? They'd ship whatever, to handle the Boy\nScout franchise, whatever. I remember as a Cub Scout getting my uniform from Mr. Saul.\n\nBERMAN: Saul?\n\nKOPLAN: At some point--I don't know exactly when it was--he decided to get into\nthe chenille spread business . . . 'Queen,' using the name 'Queen,' 'Queen\nChenille.' 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However, my parents\ndecided to further my education ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a little better. They sent me then to private\nschool. In the ninth grade in 1951, I entered the Baylor School for Boys, which\nwas a private boy-only military school in Chattanooga. It's a beautiful campus.\nI only had one Jewish classmate in my class in Dalton. That was Lewis Millender.\nThe name Millender you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"might know from Atlanta, but from Dalton, too.\n\nBERMAN: What was that like, growing up with so few Jewish friends?\n\nKOPLAN: I don't know. It wasn't too bad really. I miss not having more Jewish\nfriends, but I was accepted. I was in the Boy Scouts, as I told you. Cub Scouts,\nBoy Scouts. I was in Troop 60. I was sponsored by First ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Methodist Church. I was\nwell accepted there. Lewis was also. We both were in the troop. I became an\nEagle Scout. I accomplished some things that I'm very proud of and also was\ntapped into the Order of the Arrow which is a fairly exclusive.\n\nBERMAN: Scouting.\n\nKOPLAN: In scouting, yes. There ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wasn't really . . .\n\nBERMAN: There was a synagogue in Dalton. Let's talk a little bit about that.\nThen we can talk about how you did find some Jewish . . .\n\nKOPLAN: . . . that would be the next step.\n\nBERMAN: . . . a Jewish social life as well. Tell me about the synagogue.\n\nKOPLAN: The synagogue was formed in the 1940's in a house on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cuyler Street. If I\ntake you to Dalton going back, I'll be glad to show you if you needed a picture\nor whatever. It's only two blocks from the center of the town. The synagogue\nwasn't started until1949, maybe 1948, because I was the second bar mitzvah in\nthe current synagogue. The sanctuary upstairs was not finished so my bar mitzvah\nwas in the social hall of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"first floor. Lewis Millender, who I just alluded\nto, Lewis was the first. He was two months older than me.\n\nBERMAN: And the synagogue name?\n\nKOPLAN: Temple Beth El. Largely, back in those days, Orthodox. Always an\nOrthodox rabbi. Kind of a mixed congregation, but it was considered a\nConservative congregation.\n\nBERMAN: What is it today?\n\nKOPLAN: What's left of it today would still be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"considered Conservative, but the\nrules have been lax. We've had to bend a lot of the rules--the bylaws--to\naccommodate the dwindling local membership. Now a lot of the members that have\nmoved away still pay dues. They're still a member, but you can't count on them\nfor a minyan.\n\nBERMAN: At its height, how many members were there in Dalton?\n\nKOPLAN: There were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"approximately 80. At one point there was close to 90 in the\nheyday of--let's call it--the temple membership. There were approximately 90\nfamilies or affiliates. There were some traveling people. That was the height\nthat was the beginning of the carpet industry. There were a lot of traveling\npeople that would come in and maybe stay awhile in Dalton.\n\nBERMAN: Were your parents ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"founders of the synagogue?\n\nKOPLAN: Yes. My dad was a founder. He was one of the early presidents of the synagogue.\n\nBERMAN: It must have been important for them to have this Jewish part of your\nlife, too. Was it difficult growing up in Dalton and having that, as well?\n\nKOPLAN: Yes, I was always fortunate. If you have time and want me to show you, I\ncan show you the first rabbi . . . let's go back to the first rabbi in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the\n1940's, late 1940's. He was there as the temple was being built. The\ncongregation rented a house as a synagogue to get started. I went to cheder. I\ntook Hebrew from Rabbi [Ferenc] Hevesi. He was enticed to Dalton. I don't even\nknow . . .\n\nBERMAN: How do you spell that?\n\nKOPLAN: I'm going to go with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"H-E-V-E-S-H-I or H-E-V-E-S-H-E.\n\nBERMAN: Do you remember his first name?\n\nKOPLAN: No. He was one of the senior rabbis from the main synagogue in Budapest.\nI said Poland. He's from Hungary.\n\nBERMAN: Hungary.\n\nKOPLAN: He was. He came to Dalton in the 1940's . . .\n\nBERMAN: That must have been a culture shock.\n\nKOPLAN: . . . with his family. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. The congregation rented the house. It's\nstill standing out in East Dalton. That's where I used to go to study for my bar\nmitzvah, along with the house that was used as the synagogue. And he had his\nwhole family.\n\nBERMAN: Were they survivors from the war?\n\nKOPLAN: I remember ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he had his wife [Magda Rottenstien Hevesi], a daughter--it's\nfunny I don't remember the husband--and a granddaughter, the baby was around one\nyear old. It's a custom in Hungary, I guess. They never had her clothes on her.\nShe was naked. Maybe it was a Hungarian . . . but at one year old, I guess, they\nfigure what difference does it make? 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My brother Alan, [who was] four years younger, was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bar mitzvah by Rabbi Max Zucker. Rabbi Hevesi only\nstayed in Dalton for five, six years, I'm guessing.\n\nBERMAN: Do you think your parents were at all concerned that you didn't have a\nlarge group of Jewish friends or that there were not . . .\n\nKOPLAN: . . . yes, because I had one Jewish sweetheart, I guess she was. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dated\nRaina Stein. She was a year younger than me. I, at 17, 18 years old, wasn't\nready for any serious relationship, anyway, so Reina and I . . . in fact, I saw\nher last fall for the first time in about 40 years. She came down for a reunion\nbecause she graduated Dalton High School . . . the fiftieth reunion. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes, they\nwere concerned and that was one of the reasons they decided to send me to Baylor\nPrep[aratory] School in Chattanooga.\n\nBERMAN: What year was that?\n\nKOPLAN: In 1951.\n\nBERMAN: You were back in Dalton during the height of the Civil Rights Movement\nin the late 1950's and early 1960's. What was it like here?\n\nKOPLAN: I was a dorm ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"student, but I got to come home on weekends if I kept my\ngrades at a certain point. There were several boys form Dalton that went to\nBaylor. We were boarding students. They also had a big day student class.\n\nBERMAN: What was it like here during that time period?\n\nKOPLAN: Absolutely, you wouldn't even know it was going on. In Dalton, they\nassimilated. They integrated the schools. There was not a single problem. 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And when I . . .\n\nBERMAN: Were there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"private schools?\n\nKOPLAN: When I alluded to my . . . and . . . I told you it was very mild.\n\nBERMAN: Were there any private schools that sprung up because parents were\nafraid of sending . . .\n\nKOPLAN: . . . no, not at all. Not in Dalton. I don't know what the ratio of\nblacks--African Americans--to the whites were in the early 1960's. I can tell\nyou one thing. Every Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"household had an African American maid or\ngroundskeeper. That much I remember.\n\nBERMAN: Do you remember the . . .\n\nKOPLAN: I remember Maggie. I remember my mother's own . . .\n\nBERMAN: Tell us about her.\n\nKOPLAN: Maggie Lewis was a frail middle-aged black lady that would come and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do\nthe washing, ironing, cooking, take care of us--my brothers and me--when my\nparents wanted to go out for the evening. She was a character, let me tell you.\nThe one thing I remember the most . . . this even went on into my after-college\nyears, because after college as you'll see on my notes that I made for you, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\ndid come back home and live some at home. When I worked for my dad and I was\nstill single, she'd say, \"Irwin, you better hurry up. You better hurry up.\" You\nknew what she meant. \"Get married and have kids.\" That's what she was telling me.\n\nBERMAN: That's a great story.\n\nKOPLAN: Yes. She loved to watch the soap operas during the day ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"while she was\nironing or whatever.\n\nBERMAN: Did she also cook for the family?\n\nKOPLAN: Yes, some. My mother was the best cook this world has ever known. My\nmother still persisted in doing most of the cooking for the family. But she\nwould have Maggie make some sandwiches for us. She really didn't do any regular cooking.\n\nBERMAN: Did you mother cook mainly Southern dishes, Jewish dishes, or a combination?\n\nKOPLAN: Combination. My mother made everything. Everything.\n\nBERMAN: How was her fried chicken?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KOPLAN: Just absolutely delicious. She had this special fryer, a deep fryer, I\nremember. She didn't make fried chicken all that much. She made about every\nother type of chicken, baked or broiled.\n\nBERMAN: Was shabbat a special meal for you?\n\nKOPLAN: When I was young, she kept kosher. It was a kosher household. 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Someone would then\ngo drive up to Chattanooga and buy the meats ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"particularly for the Sabbath. Then\nin later years it was shipped out of Atlanta by Greyhound bus with dry ice,\nfrozen. I can remember that because actually I had a sister-in-law that did keep\nkosher up until . . . she was married to my youngest brother. My youngest\nbrother died very unexpectedly about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"six years ago.\n\nBERMAN: I'm sorry.\n\nKOPLAN: He's eight years younger than me. Florence kept kosher and that's how\nshe would get her meats. But then Kroger opened a big store. Now it's a little\ndifferent because they have a little kosher section at Kroger.\n\nBERMAN: Were all the holidays celebrated, the Jewish holidays?\n\nKOPLAN: Yes, definitely. Every holiday.\n\nBERMAN: At the synagogue?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KOPLAN: Yes, at the synagogue. On Passover, my mother always had the seder at\nhome two nights and we'd have the guests over for the seder. In later years, it\ngot a little easier because we'd have a community seder.\n\nBERMAN: Was it the family or just friends for seder?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KOPLAN: Friends.\n\nBERMAN: Friends?\n\nKOPLAN: Yes and family. I had an aunt. My mother's sister lived in Dalton, Aunt\nand Uncle Myron and Aunt Tillie. They were always over.\n\nBERMAN: You keep mentioning your siblings. Can you tell us their names . . .\n\nKOPLAN: Yes. I have a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"brother, Allan [Koplan]. He's four years younger than me.\nAllan is an oral surgeon in Birmingham, Alabama. He went to the University of\nAlabama [Tuscaloosa, Alabama]. He graduated Dalton High. He didn't go to private\nschool like I did. He fared a little better than me later on. It goes to show\nyou. Private school is not always the answer. It took him nine years from the\ntime he graduated high school to get out of dental school. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He wasn't the\nbrightest star in the class, I got news for you. But he made it and he's lives\nin Birmingham. He married Anita. He married a girl he met in college. They had\nthree children. They were married about 25 years, I guess, and then they\ndivorced. He married again, a non-Jewish gal. It didn't last long. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He's married\nfor the third time. He has been married several years to a gal from Israel who\nwas living in Alabama.\n\nBERMAN: That's interesting.\n\nKOPLAN: Yes. He kind of went from one extreme to the other. We're not close, not\nat all. It's a shame really, but I blame him more than me. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Our differences\nmainly have been in the care of my mother.\n\nBERMAN: Your mother is still living?\n\nKOPLAN: My mother is still, if you want to call it that. She's still breathing.\nShe's in a home. Dementia's got to a point where I don't know if she really\nknows who I am when I go in. I think she hears me and maybe deep down she knows me.\n\nBERMAN: You're probably right.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KOPLAN: She's 91.\n\nBERMAN: Is she in Dalton?\n\nKOPLAN: I couldn't find a bed in Dalton for her condition. I tried when it\nbecame apparent. I had to make a move in a hurry. I had caregivers around the\nclock in her home. I began to see things missing from the house. I was stupid. I\nshould have taken an inventory. I should have taken some things out and I\ndidn't. I said, \"I've got to get her in a home.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The only bed was,\ncoincidentally, ten minutes from my house in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. It's a\nwonderful home. I'm very happy with the care that she gets there.\n\nBERMAN: If we could go back a little bit to your childhood again. How would you\ndescribe--if you could just put it into words--your growing up? Your childhood\nin Dalton?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KOPLAN: My first interaction with other kids was probably when I was four and\nfive because I entered the first [grade]. Mrs. Hugey, a German lady living in\nDalton for years, had a kindergarten right next door. Each morning I could walk\nover across the driveway into her home. She had it upstairs in a loft-type area.\nI was extremely ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"shy as a kid. I was very introverted and shy and I . . . where I\ngot that from I don't know because my parents were certainly not that way. I\ndon't know, but I was. I never will forget. If you want little just incidents\nthat I can remember, I was late one morning. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went in and you had to go up the\nsteps to the loft where she had the kindergarten. The door was already shut. I\nstood there. I was afraid. I wouldn't knock on the door or just go on in. I was\nso embarrassed to be late. I went back home and my mother then brought me back\nand made sure I went on in. I did not know pictures existed. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's one good thing\nthat you brought about, even though it's been emotional for me. I found pictures\nof that kindergarten class in my little boxes. I didn't even know my mother had them.\n\nBERMAN: Did you like growing up in Dalton?\n\nKOPLAN: I did. Well, no. There were times that I wished I was from a bigger\ncity, lived in a larger city, or with a larger Jewish group. 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We spent a lot of time at Engel Stadium\nwatching some big names like Harmon Clayton ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Killebrew and Bob Allison. Even Babe\nRuth played in an exhibition game there. These are things that I remember. In\nthose years, too, they would get me dates with Jewish girls in Chattanooga\nbecause there weren't any in Dalton. For that reason it was kind of an\ninconvenience. I'd always wished I was from a larger city . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"even\nChattanooga, the size of Chattanooga, which is a mid-size city. It's not a big city.\n\nBERMAN: Did you ever move away? Or have you been here . . .\n\nKOPLAN: Yes. I moved, finally. After college I went back. I went to work for my\ndad because he had some health issues there and he had bought a pretty\ngood-sized store. I worked six years. Really, it wasn't my cup of tea, the\nretail business. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"knew the time was coming when he wanted to retire. He asked\nme one day if I was interested and I told him, \"No.\" To take it over, I\ncouldn't. I would run it right into the ground. I left home and moved to New\nYork to see what the big city was like in February of 1966. [starts getting emotional]\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BERMAN: Do you want to take a minute?\n\nKOPLAN: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: You went to New York, you enjoyed the Big Apple?\n\nKOPLAN: Yes. I had a great time. I went up there without, believe it, without\nany job. I did look. I tried for a whole week. I knew I wanted outside sales, or\nmarketing. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went from one agency to another, but with my Southern drawl and\nstill wet behind the ears I wasn't hirable. With my tail between my legs, I was\nready to come back. I had driven. I just decided to call an old friend of the\nfamily. This was Stuart Rosenthal who grew up largely in Dalton. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"His father,\nPhil, and Pauline Rosenthal . . . there was another early, early chenille . . .\nthey were in the chenille business, very early. He died very young, Stuart's\nfather Phil did. He died in Dalton. We didn't even have a Jewish cemetery then.\nHe had to be buried in Rome [Georgia]. Aunt Pauline . . . I call her aunt\nbecause they were such close [friends] . . . they moved back to New York [City].\nI called Stu and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I told him I'd been up looking for a job. He said, \"Get your\ntuchas [Yiddish: rear end, backside] here. I'll get you hired.\" He had just gone\nto work for American Photocopy Equipment Company, known as APECO. Sure enough,\nhe pulled some strings and got me hired there. I cannot tell you what I had for\nlunch yesterday or where I went last week, but I remember the office was at 3310\nQueens ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Boulevard and that was in 1966. Stu is a dynamic salesman. He had already\nbeen hired more or less as a sales manager. At that time, that was in the\ninfancy of the copy machine business. They put me up in Westchester County [New\nYork] as my first sales territory. They figured that's more like Georgia than\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Manhattan [New York] or even Queens [New York]. It's more rural. I didn't do too\nwell. I literally had stomach pains. I know what it is to be hungry and not have\nmoney to buy food. I know. I've experienced that. One day after about 5 months\nor 6 months, they were about to let me go because I wasn't meeting quota and Stu\ncouldn't save my job. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Clouds parted and the sun started shining through. I got\nmy first big sale, Harrison High School in Harrison, New York in Westchester\nCounty. From that point on, I began to do well. I began to catch on and I did\nwell. As a matter of fact, I was hired in with about 20 guys. These were all\nsharp New York ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"salespeople. These guys knew the ropes. They knew the streets.\nThey knew. Here I was from the South. By the time I left New York three years\nlater, I was the only one of two left out of that class. All the others had\nflunked out. I was still there. They'd dropped out.\n\nBERMAN: But you came back home?\n\nKOPLAN: I had met my wife to be . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . her name?\n\nKOPLAN: . . . in that third year I was there, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Joan Jacqueline Berger.\nB-E-R-G-E-R. I met her in the first part of June of 1968. Her mother had just\npassed away. I never knew my mother-in-law. She had moved in with her father in\nManhattan on the Lower East Side. One day after work [me and] one of my buddies,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ron Borenstein, went out to get a pizza after work. We walk in and there she is.\nShe was helping. She wasn't even getting paid. She was behind the counter. She\nserved me a terrible soda. It was warm and it had no fizz. I complained and she\ngave me another. I said, \"Would you like to come join us?\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She did. She came\nfrom behind the counter. She was 17 at the time. We talked and believe it or\nnot, he asked her out first. She went out with him one time, with Borenstein.\nThat was it. She didn't care for him at all. I called her, or she called me\nbecause I gave her my number, and we started dating. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was in June and in\nJuly . . . the reason she lived with her father is her father and mother had\nseparated before her mother died. She grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey, near\nRiver Edge [New Jersey]. She grew up in River Edge which is near Hackensack.\n\nBERMAN: Was it important to you to find someone or meet someone who was Jewish?\n\nKOPLAN: That was one of the reasons I felt if I couldn't meet someone in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"New\nYork City. I'll never meet anyone. Right?\n\nBERMAN: Right.\n\nKOPLAN: Let's face it.\n\nBERMAN: Was it important to your parents?\n\nKOPLAN: I dated other Jewish girls. That was important to my parents.\nDefinitely. Yes.\n\nBERMAN: You knew it was something that . . .\n\nKOPLAN: . . . yes, it was something that they wanted, and I wanted, if nothing\nelse, because my parents wanted it. I had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"enough Jewish upbringing to want to\nmarry a Jewish girl. I knew I wanted to. I had dates with many non-Jewish girls\nin those six years in Dalton. They were proposing to me. I had several. I\ncould've been married five times to non-Jewish girls. I didn't want it.\n\nBERMAN: Why were they proposing to you?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KOPLAN: I guess they figured I was a good catch.\n\nBERMAN: How did you end up back in Dalton again?\n\nKOPLAN: Actually, during that period, on July 2, 1968 I left for 3 weeks . . .\nspending most of that time in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Israel. That was my first and only trip to Israel.\nI left her there with her father. She could not stand her stepmother. I'm trying\nto think. Her father had remarried this Ruth, an opera singer in New York, a\nvery eccentric type of woman. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I got along with her okay because I get along with\neverybody. She resented Joan. Joan couldn't stand her. When I got back from\nIsrael we were doing some serious dating. Her grandmother, who lived in\nBrooklyn, moved to Miami Beach [Florida] and wanted Joan to go live with her.\nJoan did. Joan went down and then I decided. I didn't really care to live in\nMiami. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"transferred with the company to Atlanta . . . American Photocopy\nEquipment Company, better known as APECO. That was in November of 1968. It was\non Plasters Avenue. I never will forget.\n\nBERMAN: Exactly where it's at.\n\nKOPLAN: You know where Plasters Avenue is? You have got to go under the\nInterstate [I-85]. It's in that complex there.\n\nBERMAN: Armour Drive and Plasters Avenue.\n\nKOPLAN: That's right. The building is still there. All of those buildings are\nstill there. I worked out of there and we corresponded. I would run down to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Miami and finally, in the spring of that year of 1969, we got engaged. We\nmarried on June 8, 1969. We got married in Atlanta.\n\nBERMAN: Who married you?\n\nKOPLAN: Rabbi Emanuel Feldman from . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . Beth Jacob . . .\n\nKOPLAN: . . . [Congregation] Beth Jacob on LaVista Road. Of course, it's all in\nthe boxes. We got married, though, not in the shul, but in my cousin ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Gloria and\nFred Glusman's home about a block from the shul there.\n\nBERMAN: I know Fred.\n\nKOPLAN: You know Fred?\n\nBERMAN: Yes.\n\nKOPLAN: He's my cousin.\n\nBERMAN: That's funny.\n\nKOPLAN: He married Gloria, my first cousin, so he's a cousin by marriage. We\nmarried in their home. I was working for APECO. I don't know if you want all\nthese details. I got into some trouble ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with the company because I was doing some\nselling on the side, so to speak, having knowledge of all the customer lists. I\nwasn't the only one. They put some pressure on me to cease and desist that\naction. They wanted to get ugly about it and take me to court. I said, \"I'm\ngoing home.\" We had just rented a beautiful apartment on Buford Highway. I said,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"We're out of here. Don't bother to sue me. I'm gone. I won't bother you\nanymore.\" I moved to Dalton at that time. Joan and I moved to Dalton.\n\nBERMAN: What did you do once back in Dalton?\n\nKOPLAN: I continued on in the business, not in competition. As long as I got 50\nmiles away from Atlanta or 100 [miles], I was okay. I started a new business\nthere with the brother of the gentleman, the fellow in New York that got me the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"job in the first place in that business.\n\nBERMAN: That's great.\n\nKOPLAN: That was Morton Rosenthal, an older brother of Stuart who was living in Chattanooga.\n\nBERMAN: Was your father's business still in existence?\n\nKOPLAN: It was still in existence, but it was going down. Dad had sold when I\ndidn't want to take it over. He sold to a gentleman who owned several stores\nthroughout Georgia. The same gentleman . . . I can't remember his name, I wish I\ncould because I'd love to see some of those old ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"records. My dad didn't leave any\nrecords from the business that I've been able to find. The gentleman bought my\ndad out. He bought Cannon's which was an old-time department store in Dalton,\nalso. Both are now gone, out of business. There's not a single business in\ndowntown Dalton left anywhere in the retail clothing business.\n\nBERMAN: What happened?\n\nKOPLAN: You got shopping centers beginning to get built. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You got big stores with\nGoody's and J.C. Penney moving in. You got Walmart finally moved in. That killed\nthe merchants that thrived for all those years in downtown Dalton. None of them\nevidently were smart enough or wanted to go and start competing. I don't know\nwhy they had to die out or be killed by the competition. They're all gone.\n\nBERMAN: Do you think it's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a good thing for Dalton?\n\nKOPLAN: I remember when he closed it, the gentleman that bought it from my dad.\nDalton is continuing economically. It's still prospering. I don't think it hurt\nwith the big boys coming in and taking over. I really don't. It created some\nmore jobs. No, I don't think it hurt any. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I really don't. The first shopping\ncenter was Bryman's Plaza.\n\nBERMAN: I think we need to change [tapes]. [tape pauses and then resumes] I have\nso many more questions. I want to ask you again, go back again a little bit to\ngrowing up in Dalton. What did you do on a particular weekend day? Where did you\nhang out?\n\nKOPLAN: From an early age, Saturday was the big day. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My dad's stores were closed\nSunday, at least in those days. My dad put me to work at a young age. I had to\ngo down to the store and help out. As a young kid, I remember the furniture\nbusiness. When I was around 10 years old, I generally on Saturday would go to\nthe store. In the fall of the year . . . my dad was a big sports fan. Every once\nin a while he would just break away. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We went to Knoxville to Tennessee\nVolunteers, the Neyland Stadium . We would go see [Georgia Institute of]\nTech[nology--Atlanta, Georgia] and a few times or the University of Chattanooga,\nwhich is now UTC.\n\nBERMAN: Where the Crackers playing then?\n\nKOPLAN: Yes, the Atlanta Crackers at Ponce de Leon Park there on Ponce De Leon\n[Avenue]. I saw several games there he would take me to. The right field had\nthree walls in tiers. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Chuck Tanner . . . and I remember the Crackers. They were\nthe big rivalry with Chattanooga in those days.\n\nBERMAN: Who did you root for?\n\nKOPLAN: I always root for Chattanooga.\n\nBERMAN: Saturday was a really big day.\n\nKOPLAN: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: Was that the day the farmers came in also from outlying areas?\n\nKOPLAN: That was the farmers and the gals with the cotton in their hair. All the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mill chenille workers, the women, would get all that lint. They'd come in and\nyou could tell they just got off work. That was usually on Friday afternoon,\nFriday after four o'clock or five o'clock, and all day Saturday was the day. If\nyou didn't make it on Saturday you weren't going to stay in business. Monday and\nThursday was pretty slow.\n\nBERMAN: Did your father give credit?\n\nKOPLAN: I'm amazed that you ask me that question. I truly am. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm going to give\nyou some of my amazing story. My dad bought the Economy Department Store. Simon\nGinsburg had built a big clientele. Let's face it. Fifty-seven years ago people\nwere basically honest. Today they're basically dishonest, right? You wouldn't\njust go out and give somebody a $50 loan on the sidewalk that you didn't know,\nright? In those ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"days a lot of them came in, maybe two or three times a year,\nthat had big families . . . the farmers, when they sold their crops. Prior to\nthat, my dad would extend them credit. What they would do, they would pile up\ntheir shoes--he did a tremendous shoe business--their overalls, their shirts,\ntheir hats, and their socks . . . and the women, their ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dresses and skirts. He\nwould run an adding machine tape that totaled $230, which was a lot of money\nback then. You would write down socks, shirts, skirts, and shoes by each figure.\nHe would then take it over . . . usually, we were too busy to do it then, but he\nwould put them in a shoebox. At the end of the day you would then go over to a\nledger book. 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I got taken a few times, not by friends but\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"generally guys that came in with one of our good customers. You figure if he's\n[good], they're good for it maybe. That didn't work out too well, so I got\nscolded a few times on that.\n\nBERMAN: Was your dad a good salesman?\n\nKOPLAN: Yes, he was a good salesman. He was. I was never that good. He would\ncome in and he would take the babies out of the mother's hands, and kiss them,\nand hold them up. 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That's where I got a lot of\nmy training and my merit badges toward credit toward Eagle Scout.\n\nBERMAN: Are you active in the Boy Scouts today?\n\nKOPLAN: No, but I've gotten a letter or two asking me to become ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"active. I went\nto an Eagle Scout reunion about a . . .\n\nBERMAN: We are winding down. I wanted to talk to you a little bit about your own\nfamily, your children and . . .\n\nKOPLAN: We were married as I told you in 1969. Our first child was born in 1983.\nWe had some problems. Finally figured out what we were doing wrong. 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She's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"graduated school.\nShe went to Dalton State College [Dalton, Georgia]. When she started dating\nhim--he lives in Alpharetta--she moved to Atlanta and went to Georgia State\n[University--Atlanta, Georgia]. Then decided on cosmetology. She got a part time\njob as a receptionist for one of the salons there. She didn't really know what\nshe wanted. She just moved to Atlanta to be near him. She graduated the Aveda\nSchool of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cosmetology there. It's right at Piedmont Road and Peachtree Street.\nShe's now with Van Michael Salon in Buckhead. She does color. She specializes in\ncoloring. She says she's doing well. How well it is, I don't know. She never\nasks for money, so I guess she's doing okay. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Quickly, we had another one 17\nmonths later. Heather. Heather is a piece of work. My daughter Heather and I, I\nguess you probably know . . . maybe you did not. Her picture is plastered all\nover the waiting room out there. She is out living in L.A. [Los Angeles,\nCalifornia] in West Hollywood [California]. She had dreams like thousands of\nother girls, but it's not working out. She's now going to shift, maybe, toward\nmodeling. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She has a nice figure. Kara is 24 now and Heather is 23. She will be\n23. She was born in December of 1984. She will be 23. She is single also. She's\nmet a lot of guys out there.\n\nBERMAN: No chance of them coming back to Dalton?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KOPLAN: No. I'm going to make a comment, not about my daughters. If\nhalf--literally half--the kids that I grew up with, or within ten years of me\nbecause I'm older . . . I'm one of the older ones . . . if half the kids that\ngrew up in Dalton and were bat or bar mitzvah in Dalton, whose families lived in\nDalton for many years . . . if half had stayed in Dalton, we would have a nice\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"congregation, assuming they would still be active. None, absolutely none, have\nstayed except Henri Lorberbaum and myself right now. His sisters are the only\nthree that have actually stayed in Dalton as adults, having grown up as kids.\n\nBERMAN: Even the ones in the carpet business?\n\nKOPLAN: Julian Saul, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he's in Dalton but now he's retired. He merged with Shaw\nIndustries. I don't know what his network is now. He still has his home in\nDalton but he does a lot of traveling now. He supports the synagogue.\n\nBERMAN: How many families are left at the synagogue?\n\nKOPLAN: Active, there are only around 19 now. There are some living out of town\nin Florida. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's Temple Beth El South in Florida. A lot of them still pay\ndues; some, out of town dues. We never see them anymore.\n\nBERMAN: Are you worried about the building?\n\nKOPLAN: Definitely. Honestly, unless there is still big support from . . .\nthere's two, the Lorberbaums. Jeff Lorberbaum . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't know what he's\nworth, but he's worth plenty of money. He and Julian make an annual big\ncontribution to the temple. But on our dues structure now we'll have to close in\na year or two years.\n\nBERMAN: Are there services now?\n\nKOPLAN: There's a gentile family that gives a lot of money. They are called the\nPattersons. Every year they give generously. 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I was wondering if there's anything you would like to add that we may have\nforgotten, anything you want to say about your life in Dalton, and something you\nmight want to pass on to anybody who might hear this.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KOPLAN: Yes. Some of you Atlantans that are fed up with the traffic, the fight,\nthe fumes, and the big city life, we'd love to have you move up toward Dalton.\nWe need you badly. I was in favor . . . I've been a board member for about 3 or\n4 years now and I'll be installed as second vice-president of our congregation\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4830.0,4860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"later this month. I am in favor of running some type of advertisement that we\nneed members. I don't know . . . there's just no newcomers moving in right now,\nand it concerns me very much. It saddens me quite a bit. I don't know what the\noutcome would be. We, those that still attend, feel ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4860.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we need a rabbi. We've been\nwithout a rabbi very little over the last 50 to 60 years, a period of one year\nout of maybe six years that we didn't have a rabbi. We've lost several members.\nDr. Crystal [sp]. I could name several that could lead the services if we did\nnot have a rabbi, but they are all either retired [or] moved away. 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The real leaders--one is in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4920.0,4950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Florida, Lou\nMeltzer [sp], and the other, Alan Finkel [sp], died two years ago--passed away.\nHe was just . . . he was the Temple, if you know what I mean. It's a problem and\nall I can say is we can only hope for the best. I appreciate this opportunity to\n. . .\n\nBERMAN: We appreciate it too and thank you very much.\n\nKOPLAN: Give you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/transcript/38575/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my thoughts and my story.\n\nBERMAN: Thank you.\n\nKOPLAN: You're welcome.\n\n[Type here]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=4980.0,5010.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/annotation_set/776","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/annotation_set/776/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe American Civil War, widely known in the United States as the ‘Civil War’ or the ‘War Between the States,’ was fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. In January 1861, seven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often called the ‘South,’ grew to include 11 states, and although they claimed 13 states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recognized by a foreign country. The states that did not declare secession were known as the ‘Union’ or the ‘North.’ The war had its origin in the issue of slavery.  After four years of bloody combat, which left over 600,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and the difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity and granting civil rights to freed slaves began.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/annotation_set/776/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Ford Model T was an automobile produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford's efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/annotation_set/776/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRodeph Sholom Congregation was established in 1875. Construction on the current building began in 1937. The dedication was held on March 27, 1938 with Rabbi Harry Epstein and Rabbi David Marx, both of Atlanta, officiating. The congregation is affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism and is a partner of the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute for Southern Jewish Life.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/annotation_set/776/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCatherine Evans Whitener (1880 – 1964) is credited with reviving and expanding the tufted textile industry in northwest Georgia. The very first quilt she made was a gift for her brother's wedding. Her relatives took notice of her craft, and she began to sell her works to them. Whitener's business evolved from hand sewn quilts, to machine made carpets. With the help of her family, Whitener opened the Evans Manufacturing Company in 1917. Whitener’s tufting industry eventually expanded to include bath mats, accent rugs, and carpets. Her carpets were especially successful, and her techniques were lasting. Today, over 90 percent of carpets produced in the U.S. today are tufted using Whitener’s early techniques. She never had the chance to make millions off the industry, however, later on many Georgians. Dalton, Georgia, prior to the Silicon Valley boom, was the city with the most millionaires per capita in the United States; all part of Whitener’s legacy. In the 1990’s, 90 percent of the world's carpets were being produced in or around the city.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/annotation_set/776/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Tecumseh Sherman (1820 – 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the “scorched earth” policies he implemented in conducting the war against the Confederate States.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/annotation_set/776/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA youth organization in the United States.  It was founded in 1910 to train youth in responsible citizenship, character development, and self-reliance through participation in a wide range of outdoor activities, educational programs and at older age levels, career-oriented programs in partnership with community organizations.  They wear a uniform and earn merit badges for achievements in sports, crafts, science, etc.  The boys start as a Cub Scout until age 11 and can move up to be an Eagle Scout.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/annotation_set/776/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIra Nochumson (1896 – 1966) was a businessman from Chicago, Illinois who became a respected community leader and philanthropist in the north Georgia city of Dalton. Arriving in Dalton around the time of the carpet boom in the 1940’s, he became president of the Tufted Textile Manufacturers’ Association, an organization designed to lobby for chenille and carpet interests.  Nochumson was the founder and president of Noxon Rug Mills and became a leader in many civic and religious organizations including the Elks, the Masons, the Lions Club the local B’nai B’rith and Temple Beth El.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/annotation_set/776/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe school began admitting girls in 1985 and is now called Baylor School.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/annotation_set/776/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eLewis Harold Millender (1937 - 1966) earned his medical degree from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and went on to become a renowned hand surgeon and chief of occupational medicine at New England Baptist Hospital [Boston, Massachusetts]. He wrote two books on disorders of the upper extremities and was a professor at Tufts Medical School in Boston where he helped train scores of hand surgeons practicing throughout the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/74113/file/159878/annotation_set/776/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish community in Dalton, Georgia, unanimously voted in 1941 to approve the construction of Beth El. Until construction of the synagogue on Valley Drive was completed the congregation met in homes in the community. On March 9, 1947 Temple Beth El was formally dedicated in a public ceremony. The synagogue has been a Conservative congregation since its inception. 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