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Bill, graduating in 1951 with a journalism major.    \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor entered the real estate business in the 1950s, where he worked until he sold the business in 1980.  Victor was appointed a city councilor for the City of Atlanta in 1988.  Victor married Lenore Sater in 1950.  They have four children and several grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eVictor Maslia talks about his Sephardic family roots.  He speaks of his grandparents’ journey to the United States from Turkey.  He reflects that he is lucky to remember all of them.  He reminisces about growing up in the Jewish area of Atlanta.  He describes the neighborhood and the house he grew up in.  He describes the synagogue being within walking distance and remembers Rabbi Joseph Cohen.  He speaks of growing up poor during the Great Depression but describes his childhood as a happy one.  He describes the centrality of family life.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor reflects on riding the streetcar and riding his bicycle as a child.  He talks about playing basketball at the Jewish Educational Alliance and the role and importance of that organization.  He talks about enlisting in the United States Army and being stationed briefly in Korea in 1946 prior to the Korean War.  He spoke of attending Emory University, an opportunity provided by the G.I. Bill. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor describes the separate Jewish communities in Atlanta and how those communities became united after World War II.  He reflects on racial segregation as he remembers it in the 1930s and 1940s.  He discusses discrimination and the changes in political leaders in the City of Atlanta.  He discusses briefly the Ku Klux Klan and recounts witnessing their parade.  He talks about entering the real estate business in 1958.  He speaks of his wife, Lenore, and their four children.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28023"]}},{"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":["Maslia, Victor (personal name)","Atlanta, Ga (geographic term)","Sephardic Judaism (topical term)","Jewish Community Center (corporate name)","racism (topical term)","segregation (topical term)","Ku Klux Klan (corporate name)","transportation (topical term)","social clubs (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eVictor Maslia interviewed by Leonard Cohen on October 29, 1990 and November 5, 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictor Maslia was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1928.  Both of his parents were born in Turkey.  His father’s family arrived in the United States in 1939 from the Island of Rhodes.  His mother’s family traveled from Turkey to Havana, Cuba, before arriving in the United States in 1920.  His parents met in the small Sephardic community in Atlanta and married in 1926.  They had three sons, Victor, Albert, and Danny.  His parents spoke Ladino and English.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor was born at Piedmont Hospital.  He grew up in the Jewish area around Central Avenue and Pryor Street during the Great Depression.  The family attended Or Ve Shalom synagogue, a Sephardic congregation, that was within walking distance of their home.  The congregation was located on Central and Woodward Avenue.  His father had a shoe repair shop on Auburn Avenue.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor belonged to the Jewish Educational Alliance.  Victor graduated from Commercial High School in 1946.  In September, he enlisted in the United States Army.  In November, he was shipped to Korea, where he served for 18 months.  He returned in 1948, prior to the start of the Korean War.  On his return, he attended Emory University through the G.I. Bill, graduating in 1951 with a journalism major.    \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor entered the real estate business in the 1950s, where he worked until he sold the business in 1980.  Victor was appointed a city councilor for the City of Atlanta in 1988.  Victor married Lenore Sater in 1950.  They have four children and several grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictor Maslia talks about his Sephardic family roots.  He speaks of his grandparents’ journey to the United States from Turkey.  He reflects that he is lucky to remember all of them.  He reminisces about growing up in the Jewish area of Atlanta.  He describes the neighborhood and the house he grew up in.  He describes the synagogue being within walking distance and remembers Rabbi Joseph Cohen.  He speaks of growing up poor during the Great Depression but describes his childhood as a happy one.  He describes the centrality of family life.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor reflects on riding the streetcar and riding his bicycle as a child.  He talks about playing basketball at the Jewish Educational Alliance and the role and importance of that organization.  He talks about enlisting in the United States Army and being stationed briefly in Korea in 1946 prior to the Korean War.  He spoke of attending Emory University, an opportunity provided by the G.I. Bill. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor describes the separate Jewish communities in Atlanta and how those communities became united after World War II.  He reflects on racial segregation as he remembers it in the 1930s and 1940s.  He discusses discrimination and the changes in political leaders in the City of Atlanta.  He discusses briefly the Ku Klux Klan and recounts witnessing their parade.  He talks about entering the real estate business in 1958.  He speaks of his wife, Lenore, and their four children.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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Tell me what you recall of\nyour grandparents here in Atlanta, including things where they lived, their\noccupation, where they were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"born, and any of the stories that you recall about\nthe history of the family, how they sometimes recount them.\n\nMASLIA: I was very fortunate because I remember all four of my grandparents.\nThey were all born in Turkey. My grandparents on my mother's side were Ham\n[Abraham] and Rebecca Cohen. Moved from Turkey to Havana, Cuba. They came to\nthis country with my mother when my mother was about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"16 or 17 around 1920. My\nfather's parents, Victoria and Abraham Maslia, were born in Turkey, moved to the\nIsland of Rhodes, and then came to this country in 1939. My mother's mother,\nthat is, my grandmother Rebecca Cohen, died in 1937. My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grandmother on my\nfather's side, Victoria, died in 1941. I remember that vividly because it was\nthe week before my bar mitzvah. Everything was canceled.\n\nCOHEN: It was a sad time.\n\nMASLIA: A very sad time. I had no part in it but everybody else did. That was a\nvery minor thing. But she died in 1941. My grandfather's...\n\nCOHEN: You were close to her?\n\nMASLIA: She had only been in this country for a couple of years. She happened to\nlive with us. When she died, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she and my grandfather lived in our house on\nCentral Avenue. My mother's father died in 1942 or 3. My other grandfather, my\nfather's father, Abraham Maslia died in 1947 while I was in the army. Strangely\nenough, the way I found out, they didn't want to tell me, was that I read it in\nthe newspaper when I was in Seoul, Korea, 1947. That's how I found out my\ngrandfather died. They didn't want to upset me, so, they never told me, but I\nused to get the paper there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As I said, coincidentally, they were all born in\nTurkey. My father [David Maslia] came here early around 1916 or 15, something\nlike that. My mother [Rachel Maslia] came here later around 1920 or 21. They met\nhere because it was a very small Sephardic community here in Atlanta at that\ntime. That's how they met. They were married in 1926. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was born in 1928.\n\nCOHEN: How many siblings did you have?\n\nMASLIA: I have two brothers.\n\nCOHEN: What are their names?\n\nMASLIA: I have two brothers, one is Albert Maslia and Danny Maslia. All three of\nus still live in Atlanta. We are all still very close. My brothers are fairly\nsuccessful. All three of us graduated from Emory University. The ironic part of\nit is, two of us ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"went to Emory on the G.I. Bill. That was Danny and myself.\nAlbert got a four-year scholarship. All three of us graduated from Emory without\nhaving to pay tuition because we couldn't have. Danny is president of the\nlargest private credit union in this area that's Associated Credit Union.\nAlbert, after 25 years as vice-president of Rich's [Department Store], resigned\nand opened up a chain of stores called Social Expressions, which primarily is\ngift and card shops. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Most of them are located in big malls throughout the city\nof Atlanta. I've been in the real estate business since the middle 1950s. That's\na brief history of the family. I have four children now. My son, Richard, just\nturned 25. [I have] three married daughters. Two live in Atlanta and one is\nliving in Houston, Texas. One daughter is Donna Chimberoff. She works for me in\nmy office. Another daughter, Angela Weiland is married to Skip Weiland ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who has a\nprinting business with his brother here in Atlanta. And the third daughter,\nElena, married a young attorney in Houston, Texas, by the name of Kenny Marks.\nShe is an attorney in Houston, but she doesn't practice law anymore. She opened\nup an employment agency for lawyers. She does very well. She has two children.\nAngie has two children. Donna doesn't have any as yet.\n\nCOHEN: A little earlier you mentioned Central Avenue. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do you have any\nrecollection of life on Central Avenue?\n\nMASLIA: I have plenty of it.\n\nCOHEN: Can you kind of draw a picture?\n\nMASLIA: If you had come in my carport, you would have seen an old street sign\nthat said Central Avenue.\n\nCOHEN: I noticed that when I came in, as a matter of fact.\n\nMASLIA: Those street signs were part of the city street signs going back to 1920\nand 1930s. When I was on city council, well let's say I borrowed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two signs. One\nsays Pryor Street and one says Central Avenue.\n\nMASLIA: We were talking about Central Avenue and Pryor Street. Actually, I was\nborn in the old Piedmont Hospital, which was located where the stadium now is,\nin 1928. All three of us were born there.\n\nCOHEN: That was the Jewish area.\n\nMASLIA: That was the Jewish area, Washington Street, Capitol Avenue, Central\nAvenue, Pryor Street. Most of the Sephardic Jews lived on Central Avenue and\nPryor Street. Our synagogue was located on Central ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Woodward Avenue. That's\npart of the freeway system now. I was born, as I say, in the hospital. Then we\nlived at 555 Pryor Street. The reason I remember that so well is because the\nhouse is still standing.\n\nCOHEN: Is it really?\n\nMASLIA: A friend of mine, Jack Spielberg, owns it and he wants to sell it to me\nbut I passed on that house because there's not much left. It was pretty old when\nwe lived there. We all grew up there.\n\nCOHEN: A lot of memories.\n\nMASLIA: Yes, a lot of memories. 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All Sephardic Jews in that same neighborhood, practically.\nThere may be a few who lived on Washington Street but most of them lived on\nCentral Avenue and Pryor Street.\n\nCOHEN: Your mother didn't work?\n\nMASLIA: No, no she had enough to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do with us.\n\nCOHEN: I'm sure.\n\nMASLIA: She barely could speak English. Growing up, I think I learned Spanish\nbefore I learned English because my folks at home spoke Spanish. They didn't\nspeak English as much as the normal people.\n\nCOHEN: Ladino.\n\nMASLIA: That's right. So, we grew up speaking Spanish. My Spanish is not bad\ntoday. I can understand it, but back then I could understand it and speak it\nbetter than I can now. My mother, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think, learned English from us as we were\ngoing to school. That was part of our growing up. All of us lived together, as I\nsay. The synagogue was only about a ten-minute walk from the house. The\nAshkenazi synagogue [Ahavath Achim Congregation] was on Washington Street, the\nbig one.\n\nCOHEN: Was that very far away?\n\nMASLIA: Another ten-minute walk, fifteen-minute walk. We very rarely went up\nthere. For some reason or another we thought they had their synagogues and we\nhad ours. 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I think that each group\nstood on its ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"own. Now, things are different. I don't even know who is a Russian\nJew, who is a German Jew, who is Ashkenaz. I don't even know anymore. You know\nmy wife is Ashkenazi, or was. She would not say that now but, she was. She was a\nmember of the AA [Ahavath Achim] synagogue and was one of the first bat mitzvahs\nthere back in 1943 or 1944.\n\nCOHEN: You mean that there was much less distinction made at that time?\n\nMASLIA: No. There was more distinction then than there is now.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: Yes, that's what I meant.\n\nMASLIA: Now, I don't even know one from another. We were the first generation\nand we mixed better. Our parents were interested in one thing, and that was\nraising a family and making a living. They didn't care about anything else.\n\nCOHEN: To survive.\n\nMASLIA: That's all. That was their main function in life. 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We had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"maybe two bedrooms. Again, we didn't know we\nwere crowded. Who knew? We were happy.\n\nCOHEN: It was normal then.\n\nMASLIA: Yes, of course it was normal. Everybody had the same thing. One of the\nthings I remember about the house is, believe it or not, is gas light. The gas\njets were still there. We had electric lights but the gas jets were still there.\nThat was a long time ago. My first memories would have been about 1932, 1933,\nsomething like that. Maybe even 1934. I remember the gas jets ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in that house. The\ngas was not operable. We were a close- knit community. As I say, our synagogue\nwas important to us. We went to Hebrew school. I listen to these kids today\ngripe and complain about Hebrew school. We went five days a week. We went on\nSundays to Sunday school. Never thought anything of it. Today, they go twice a\nweek, and they complain all of the time. The parents complain more than the\nchildren. I really believe that. I listen to these parents complaining. \"We have\nto take them in carpools.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of course, we were walking. It didn't bother us. Back\nin those days you could walk. We walked everywhere. It didn't bother anything.\nBut five days a week we went to Hebrew school. And we went in the summer. We\nwent every day in the summer. Our rabbi came to us in 1934, I believe, or 1933.\nRabbi [Joseph] Cohen. He was the first rabbi we knew. He was there for... until\n1960s. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He lived on Washington Street. He would walk to synagogue, and we would\nwalk to synagogue. [Unintelligible] we called him. I found out later on meant\nvillage. That was our heritage. I'll tell you another good thing about it.\nGrowing up, I am still close to so many of those boys and girls that grew up on\nthat side of town. I mean I see them every day.\n\nCOHEN: You shared a great deal.\n\nMASLIA: Sure. In fact, last week ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we went to Hilton Head [South Carolina]. Ten\nguys. Of the ten, eight of them were born here and grew up here and went to the\nsame synagogue and still go to the same synagogue. This is 50 or 60 years later.\n\nCOHEN: That's wonderful.\n\nMASLIA: That's very close. We are still very close together.\n\nCOHEN: What other significant memories can you recall of life there?\n\nMASLIA: I've been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"working since I was nine. It wasn't for pin money. It was\nworking because we needed the money in the house. I used to go door to door and\nsell magazines from the time I was nine, then newspapers, and the football\ncolors which you can't do today. Newspaper routes. All three of us worked. It\nwas not because we wanted to work, necessarily. We always did want to work, but\nit was a necessity. We had to bring some money into the house. We just turned it\nover to our mother, and she knew how to handle the money. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When I hear these kids\ntalk about working today and they need it for their cars... to be very frank, we\ndidn't even have a car. We rented a house. We didn't even own a house. In fact,\nI think I'm the first person in my family to even drive a car. That wasn't until\nI was 19 that I even bought my first car. We had no car, but we didn't miss it.\nWe could catch the streetcar. We could walk anywhere we wanted to go. Today,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there's the element of safety and fear involved in everything we do.\nUnfortunately, we convey that to our children, too, or grandchildren, in my case.\n\nCOHEN: Do you feel there's been any change? Today, there are generally more\nmaterial things like cars. Do you feel that there was any change in the value\nstructure of what they had as poor people then and if you look at it and try to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"look at both then and now in terms of what happens and the closeness, do you see\nany change?\n\nMASLIA: I'm sure there is a change. You have to remember, growing up we didn't\nknow we were poor. We didn't know about these material things that other people\nhad. We didn't even think about a car. It never bothered me that we didn't have\na car. That was just part of it. We never knew anything about air conditioning.\nI use that as an example. I mean, how many people did you know who had\nconditioning back in the 1930s. I guess a little ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"education can't be bad for you.\nI'm sure that material things today are more important. We see things, and there\nare more things that people covet. I like to believe that we had a simple life.\nI know we had a simple life. We couldn't afford anything else, but it was a\nhappy life. I'm sure my folks had a hard time. Listen, I can remember times when\nwe had nothing but corn ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"muffins and milk for supper. I enjoyed it. I liked it. I\ndidn't know that you were supposed to have meat. As far as I'm concerned, you're\nnot supposed to have meat three times a day or anything like that. We didn't. I\ndon't think that I'm run down or anything.\n\nCOHEN: Do you think people are happier today?\n\nMASLIA: No, no, no. Especially on children. I see too many pressures on children\ntoday that I don't think we had when we were growing up. I think most ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people\nwould agree. We didn't have the little leagues. We didn't have all those\nextracurricular activities that they now have in schools and in social life. We\ndidn't have any of that. Our life revolved around our home and our synagogues\nevery afternoon for Hebrew school. We would work when we could from the age of\nnine on. We enjoyed. 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I just remember going out and throwing acorns\naround ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"town. That's about all I remember.\n\nCOHEN: Now you've got to x-ray the candy.\n\nMASLIA: That's right. Isn't that pitiful? But that's what they tell you. Because\nof one kook running loose somewhere, you've got to be careful of all those\nthings. I don't know, times have changed. But our kids are growing up not\nknowing anything else, so, to them I guess this is a normal way of life. We\nthink differently.\n\nCOHEN: You mentioned that you were close to other members of the family, your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"brothers.\n\nMASLIA: Still are. We're still close.\n\nCOHEN: Do they live in a close proximity to you?\n\nMASLIA: In Atlanta, everybody thinks it's a big city, it's really not. One\nbrother lives about five minutes away from me. The other one is about 15 minutes\naway. We see each other and talk to each other at least once a week. We're still\nvery close. We're also close to other members of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"synagogue. I mean, people\nwe grew up with. It's hard for people to understand that, especially those who\nhave just moved to Atlanta, how we can still remain so close. We've had\narguments and disputes but, so what.\n\nCOHEN: It's almost like a family.\n\nMASLIA: It is a family.\n\nCOHEN: Even though you may not be related by blood, although you get to be.\n\nMASLIA: When something happens to one of our members, it hurts. One of my good\nfriends was killed about 12 years ago ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on the day of my son's bar mitzvah. Do you\nremember Mr. Galanty? That tore us all up.\n\nCOHEN: Yes, sure. The one that was shot?\n\nMASLIA: That's right. The funeral was the day of my son's bar mitzvah. It just\ntore us all up because we're all so close. Some of us, I was married in 1950.\nSome of my friends [married] outside the faith. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't marry a Sephardic girl.\nBack then, we were already breaking up and marrying Ashkenazis and Sephardics.\nIt didn't make any difference back then. We were already changing. Growing up, I\nremember another thing that was very important in our lives was the Jewish\nAlliance which is a forerunner to the Jewish Community Center. That was on\nCapitol Avenue, about a ten-minute walk from my house. We used to love to go up\nthere and play basketball. They welcomed us. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If we didn't have the money to pay,\nit didn't make any difference to them.\n\nCOHEN: Was that an important element in the life of the Atlanta Jewish?\n\nMASLIA: Very important.\n\nCOHEN: Tell me a little bit more about that.\n\nMASLIA: The Jewish Alliance was located on Capitol Avenue. This is where all the\nboys and girls used to congregate every Sunday. Most of those clubs began when\nwe were about 11 or 12. I think AZA started when you were about 12 or 13. I\ndon't remember the exact age, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that was just part of our whole lives, all of\nus. Every Jew in Atlanta used to go to the Alliance. This is going back to the\n1930s and 1940s. It meant a lot to us because that was the place where they had\nbasketball and softball. They had other activities.\n\nCOHEN: Describe the Alliance.\n\nMASLIA: As I remember it now, it was an older building located...\n\nCOHEN: A house or a building?\n\nMASLIA: A building. It was located about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"five minutes from the present state\ncapitol. The capitol was there then, too. In the back of the Alliance was a\ngymnasium where we used to play basketball. The reason I remember that gymnasium\nso well, when it got cold, it was cold in that gym. There was no way to heat\nthat place up. All we did was play basketball a little faster, that's all, just\nto keep warm. In the building itself, there was an upstairs where they had\ndancing for the older ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kids. Downstairs, they had ping pong. They had a shower\nroom. I remember the shower because every time somebody took a shower... I\nremember the hot water. If they turn on the hot water, the guy in the next stall\nwould get cold. There were no stalls. It was a happy, happy life.\n\nCOHEN: Was Ed Kahn the executive director?\n\nMASLIA: Ed Kahn was the executive director. Then we moved from there to the\npresent community center. That would have been in the 1940s sometime. I don't\nremember when that community center was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"built. When I got out of the army in\n1948, the Jewish Alliance was still there because we had our services in the\nsynagogue. We were in the process of moving from Central Avenue to Highland\nAvenue, so we had our services there. I remember that very well. But the old\nAlliance was a very important part. If you're going to talk to people who were\nborn here and grew up in the 1930s, they will remember the Alliance better or as\nwell as I did.\n\nCOHEN: What role do you think it played in the Jewish community?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MASLIA: You asked me what role it played?\n\nCOHEN: What role did the [Jewish] Educational Alliance play in the life of the\ngeneral community as well as the Jewish community?\n\nMASLIA: It kept us Jewish. It kept us from having to go elsewhere to play\nbasketball or doing things. We did things as Jews. That was very important. One\nrule they had up there that I remember vividly, in the high schools in the city\nof Atlanta, they had basketball and football teams. There was a rule ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that if you\nplayed with the Jewish Alliance, you could not play with the local high school\nbasketball teams. I don't know whose rule it was, but almost every Jew in this\ncity that played basketball, and there were some good ones, would not play on\ntheir high school teams. They would rather play at the Jewish Alliance. That\nshows you the cohesiveness that we had in our community. That remains very vivid.\n\nCOHEN: Why was that?\n\nMASLIA: I don't remember why the rule was established or who established ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the\nrule whether it was the public schools or the Alliance. I don't remember which\none established that rule. But it was a rule that you could not be in both.\n\nCOHEN: They wanted to play the Jewish group.\n\nMASLIA: They wanted to play with the Jewish groups. They had AZA groups. We had\na little Sephardic group. Our basketball skills were not as well as some of the\nothers, but we had a good time. This was when we were teenagers, 13, 14, 15.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was a rule.\n\nCOHEN: Did boys and girls participate at the Alliance?\n\nMASLIA: There were girl's teams, too. Yes.\n\nCOHEN: It was also a social thing?\n\nMASLIA: That's how we met a lot of the girls up there.\n\nCOHEN: So, you met girls.\n\nMASLIA: A lot of girls' clubs were there. Another thing, the girls' clubs, AZA\nchapters, and some of the boy's clubs all had their meetings there. Sometimes\nwhen you didn't play ball, you would go up there for your meeting and you would\nmix and you would meet them. In fact, I met my wife at one of those girls ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"clubs\nfunctions, not at the Alliance but somewhere else. I don't remember. It was on a\nhayride. That's right. That's how so many of us met each other through that\nAlliance. It was a meeting place for the kids. It was just wonderful. It kept us\noff the streets, first of all. It gave us that sense of identification.\n\nCOHEN: Do you have any recollection... ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you first talked about the Or Ve Shalom\ngroup, not because they didn't invite you to some of the others, but they felt\nmore comfortable in their own group. Was there any intermixing between the\nvarious synagogues at any level and if not then, later on? What was the\nevolution ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of any kind?\n\nMASLIA: There was some mixing. Some of our members belonged to other synagogues\nif they happened to live near there. We had a couple of professional people,\ndoctors and so forth, who were members of another synagogue, the AA especially.\nI don't think we had anyone who was a member of the Reform synagogue, the\nTemple. But we did have members who were there at the Ahavath Achim Synagogue,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not very many but a few. Mostly we stuck together.\n\nCOHEN: Did they impact at any point on the development of the other either this\nway or that way?\n\nMASLIA: I think the change came after World War II when the boys all came back\nfrom the service. They were all together. Life changed at that point. I was in\nthe service.\n\nCOHEN: Can you tell me about your military? When you went in? How you went in?\nWhat you did?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MASLIA: I graduated from high school in January, 1946. The war was over in\nAugust of 1945. I graduated from Commercial High School here in Atlanta.\nCommercial High School was one of the four city high schools that was designed\nto train students for bookkeeping, typing, who were going straight into the work\nfield, not into college. That's where my plans were because my folks could not\nsend me to college. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, from January until June I worked here in Atlanta for the\nfederal government. It was the [unintelligible] administration, counting all the\ninventory that was left after the war. In September of 1946, I joined the army,\nwhich was about a month before the G.I. Bill expired.\n\nCOHEN: You volunteered?\n\nMASLIA: I volunteered because it gave me 18 months in the service, and it gave\nme three years of college.\n\nCOHEN: Was that the main reason?\n\nMASLIA: That was the only reason.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: To get your college degree because you couldn't have it any other way.\n\nMASLIA: I couldn't go any other way. I had no reason not to go in. I enlisted by\nmyself. When I say by myself, there were supposed to be a couple of guys going\nwith me, but they didn't show up at the recruiting office that morning, so,\nthere I was all alone. That was in September of 1946. In November, I was shipped\nto Korea. This was before the Korean War. The Korean war didn't break out until\n1950. I went to Korea in 1946. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We were in the occupation troops [unintelligible]\nWorld War II because Japan had occupied Korea. I stayed in Korea until January,\n1948. Came back in February of 1948. I was enrolled in Emory University in March\nof 1948 and graduated in...\n\nCOHEN: Under the G.I. Bill?\n\nMASLIA: Under the G.I. Bill. Graduated in June of 1951.\n\nCOHEN: In what field?\n\nMASLIA: I was a journalism major, but I was an advertising ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"major within the\njournalism department. The G.I. Bill allowed me to go to Emory University. I had\nto pay for only one quarter because the G.I. Bill covered everything else except\nfor one quarter. That was all I had to pay. When I came out, I immediately\nstarted working on weekends. I was in the [Army] Reserves. I met my wife a few\nmonths after I got back from Korea. That would have been probably ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"March of 1948.\nIn September of 1950, we were married. I still had one year of school to go.\n\nCOHEN: It was the year before you finished. What do you remember of the Jewish\nexperience in terms of going into military service and/or among your friends?\n\nMASLIA: You mean while I was in the army?\n\nCOHEN: Yes, during the period when you first went in and even preceding and\nimmediately ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thereafter, around the Atlanta area.\n\nMASLIA: I was the only one from the Atlanta area that enlisted. I mean the only\nJewish boy from Atlanta. I met several while I was overseas. To be very honest,\nwe didn't go to too many services. We were stuck way out in an island in the\nmiddle of nowhere in Korea. I went to a few services but not very many. I never\nreceived. I went straight from Atlanta ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to Korea and Korea back. There was no in between.\n\nCOHEN: So, there weren't too many Jewish fellows serving. As far as the numbers\nleaving from Atlanta, you were...\n\nMASLIA: Not then. Remember this was 1946. This was after the war. Everybody was\ncoming back.\n\nCOHEN: It was either during World War II that there was a large influx or maybe\ntowards the real Korean conflict.\n\nMASLIA: That's right. A lot of them went in in 1950. I had already been in in\n1950, so I was not called back up even though I was in the reserves. I had\nalready ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"served my term.\n\nCOHEN: I see.\n\nMASLIA: In 1946, that's when everybody was getting out. When I went in, there\nweren't too many recruits then because... now that I look back, it was a good\nthing that I did. Had I not enlisted in 1946, I would have been drafted in 1950.\n\nCOHEN: How would you describe your military experience as so far as its impact\non you?\n\nMASLIA: The only impact it had on me was that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it taught me that I don't ever\nwant to go back into the service. That was the impact. Korea was not exactly\nTokyo or New York City. Where I was, it was out in the quonset huts out in the\nsticks somewhere.\n\nCOHEN: Was it cold?\n\nMASLIA: Cold. We got there in November or December of 1946. I think it was\nsomething like three or four degrees below zero. I mean, a boy coming from the\nsouth, that's awfully cold. Think it's cold coming from the north for that\nmatter. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We didn't have that much clothing, but we got used to it quickly. The\nonly impact the service had on me, it sure taught me a good lesson. When I was\nin high school, I learned to type. When I got over there in Korea, there were\nvery few men who could type. Because of that, I was able to become the company\nclerk, and I had inside duty and not outside duty.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: In a key position.\n\nMASLIA: It was a nice thing to know. Most people who were in the army really\ndon't remember the bad things. They remember the fun that they had. There\nweren't that many but we do remember them. Korea was not exactly the place to be.\n\nCOHEN: So you came home and you got married.\n\nMASLIA: No, I went to school and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then I got married two years later.\n\nCOHEN: A year before you finished you got married. Then once you completed\nschool, tell me about your life.\n\nMASLIA: Once I completed school then I went to work. I was working as a trainee\nat the Kroger stores, ultimately, hoped to move up the chain. I frankly realized\nthat after about a year there, I was going nowhere. First of all, there was no\nroom for the Jewish boys in the higher management. That I knew. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I found that out\nreal quick. You can call it discrimination. Call it whatever you want to, but\nthey were not going to move.\n\nCOHEN: That's the way it was.\n\nMASLIA: That's the way it was. Back then, there were no kids in the banking\nbusiness. People tell me, a lot of my gentile friends, and I have many of them,\nthank goodness, ask me why so many Jews are doctors, lawyers, professional\npeople. They don't understand when I say, \"Look, we didn't have the\nopportunities in the 1940s and the 1950s that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we have today.\" We did not have\nthe opportunity to work for General Motors and move up the ladder. We had to\nshift ourselves, and the way to do it was to be your own boss. They don't\nunderstand that. Anyway, when I went to work for Kroger, I was there for a year.\nThen I went to work for a couple of other places. Then a friend of mine called\nme and wanted to know if I wanted to go into business with him. He was already\nin business. I went in with him, stayed with him. That was in the retail\nbusiness, selling typewriters and encyclopedias. I would do anything. It didn't\nmake any difference. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't have any children then. It was just my wife who\nwas a legal secretary. We were very comfortable. You know, a young couple with\nno real expenses.\n\nCOHEN: Was Lenore [Sater Maslia] working at that time?\n\nMASLIA: Lenore was a legal secretary for Irving Kayla [sp]. He was a big lawyer\nhere in town.\n\nCOHEN: I know Irving.\n\nMASLIA: Irving died a few years ago. She was a very good one, too.\n\nCOHEN: If she worked for him, he was a stickler.\n\nMASLIA: Yes, up until the time he died he always asked her jokingly, \"When are\nyou coming back?\" This is 30 years later. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went to several locations. Finally,\nmy brother-in-law, my wife's brother, who was working for the Massell companies\nat this time, wanted to go out on his own. He joined me selling in the retail\nbusiness. That's about a year [unintelligible]. We finally said, \"We ought to do\nwhat he knows best,\" which was at the building business. He knew it backwards\nand forwards. So, in 1958, we built our first little building. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It turned out\npretty good. We kept on going, and that's what I've been doing ever since then.\nThat's how I got started. I knew nothing about building. My brother-in-law knew\neverything. He died in 1975.\n\nCOHEN: What was his name?\n\nMASLIA: Stanley Sater.\n\nCOHEN: That was Stanley.\n\nMASLIA: He died in 1975. He knew the business backwards and forwards. It was a\ngood relationship. He knew the building business, and I thought that I was\npretty good at making deals and working with people. We each had our little\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"specialty. It worked out real good. As I say, he died in 1975. Now his son is up\nthere in the office. Not in my company but in another company, but we still work\ntogether. When he died, there were a lot of properties that were jointly held\nand I still manage with his son. In 1958 is when we started our building.\n\nCOHEN: Which was not that long ago really.\n\nMASLIA: No. In 1980, I sold out ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to my partner. That company is no longer in\nexistence. All I do now is buy and sell and manage some property. Two of my\nchildren work with me.\n\nCOHEN: Richard?\n\nMASLIA: Richard and Donna both work with me. That's part of their learning. It's\na terrible time to learn the real estate business in some ways. At least you're\nlearning it from a negative standpoint. It's a terrible market right now, but\nthat's okay. It will change. Maybe when it does change, they'll remember these\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"days. That's really my business career from the sense that from 1951 when I\ngraduated from Emory to 1958, I had several different things. But in 1958,\nthat's when we started.\n\nCOHEN: Tell me something about your political experiences.\n\nMASLIA: I've been pretty active in the city of Atlanta, being a native here. I\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"became a city councilor for two years in 1988 and 1989 when our councilor\nresigned in this district, who is also a Jewish fellow, Richard Guthrie. He\nresigned. I was appointed by the city council. There were about seven or eight\ndifferent applicants, but I received the majority. I served for two years. I was\nnot re-elected. Sometimes I don't know if that's good or bad. I wanted to be\nre-elected, but since then I've had so many other ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"physical problems, that\nperhaps I couldn't have served anyway. But I'm still active in the city. I'm\nheading up a couple of big committees there. I'm in touch with the city hall\npeople at all times. I've enjoyed it because the city is still my city. Just\nbecause you're not on the city council, you still ought to know what's going on\nand care what's going on. I've seen the city change.\n\nCOHEN: I want to go into that. Is that was prompted your interest ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the political?\n\nMASLIA: Just those two years. I was involved in city hall for years because of\nthe building. You're always involved with permits and zoning, so I knew the\nmechanics of city hall. When this opening came up, I had no intention... if it\nrequired a campaign and running, I wasn't going to do it. But the only thing it\nrequired was to get the approval of a city councilor because it's two years to\ngo in a term. I knew most of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"them up there.\n\nCOHEN: You had a good relationship.\n\nMASLIA: I had a good relationship with them. So, I won that out. The city is\nstill important to me. I've seen it change dramatically.\n\nCOHEN: I'd like to have you give a panorama of that because you've lived here\nall your life.\n\nMASLIA: Almost.\n\nCOHEN: You've seen the changes. Can you trace it and see, like you're painting a\npicture for somebody about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta as it was and as it's evolved and where it is\nnow. That's a tall order.\n\nMASLIA: In the early 1930s, unfortunately, segregation was the way of life. My\nown children have asked me, \"How could you have done this to these black\npeople?\" Well, it was wrong, but as a child growing up, how did we know it was\nwrong. This was the way things were. It was wrong. There's no question about it.\nThey were mistreated. They were segregated. As a Jew, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who knows better than me\nwhat discrimination is? But that's what life was in the 1930s and 1940s. In the\n1950s, it began to change, as you know. Perhaps that's the biggest evolution we\nhad in this city. We're now 67 percent minority. When I say minority, I'm\nreferring to blacks as opposed to whites. This city is 67 percent black.\n\nCOHEN: Is that right? I didn't know that.\n\nMASLIA: That's the city limits I'm talking about, not the metro. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We've seen\nchanges. We've seen it go from the white dominating administrations to the\nblack. During that period of time, we had very little racial turmoil in this\ncity. I'm very proud of that. We had some, of course. You have some today\nprobably, but we had very little. It was the wrong way to live. I remember going\nto school, whites only, blacks only. I never thought anything of it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I know it\nwas wrong, as I look back. I remember water fountains, colored and white.\nRestrooms, colored and white. I remember that very vividly. On the buses, the\nblacks sat in the back. They were called colored then. Sat in the back. The\nwhites sat in the front. We didn't think anything of it. It was absolutely\nludicrous when you think back of the way they lived and the way we forced them\nto live. It was terrible. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So many people say today, \"Well, they had it good.\"\nWhat? They had it good. They were subservient to the whites. \"Yes, sir. Yes,\nsir.\" That was their way of life. Perhaps that's the biggest single change.\nOther than the minority taking their rights. This is one of my pet peeves today,\nand I don't know how we're going to ever solve it, is our drug problem. You ask\nme what our biggest change is, that's the biggest change we've got.\n\nCOHEN: It's frightening.\n\nMASLIA: It's terrible. I was on the grand jury. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[I] served as foreman on the\ngrand jury for two months about three years ago. The grand juries indicted. They\nindicted people. That was their job. If there was enough evidence before the\ngrand jury, then they would indict whoever was involved. We were indicting 150\npersons a week, on an average. Seventy percent of them were drug related. Today\nit's probably even higher. I don't think people are aware of that problem. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When\nI hear drugs, I look at my children and I feel like I've been very fortunate.\nThen I see my grandchildren coming up. I think to myself, \"What exposures, what\ntemptations are they going to have?\" This is not just true with Atlanta. This is\neverywhere, the whole country.\n\nCOHEN: It's insidious.\n\nMASLIA: It's in rural areas, too. Don't think that it's just in big cities.\n\nCOHEN: The thing is it invades even upper crust and politicians. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Look at Mayor\n[Marion] Barry in Washington [DC].\n\nMASLIA: Yes. Do you know the difference between upper crust and the lower crust\nis whether they spend $20 for a bag of coke or do they spend $200. That's the\nonly difference. It's just the amount of money involved.\n\nCOHEN: It's scary.\n\nMASLIA: Anyway, let's talk about the city. If you look downtown Atlanta, you see\na vibrant... forget the real estate depression we're now in. Generally speaking,\nyou see a pretty good city. You see buildings come up. We've got the Olympics\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coming. We've got the super bowl coming. We just got the heavyweight\nchampionship of the world here. And the Falcons won last night. They're rarities.\n\nCOHEN: Good things are happening to Atlanta.\n\nMASLIA: I hope that the Olympics are going to be successful. I'm heading up a\ncommittee called the infrastructure committee. I've been doing that for several\nmonths to determine, to see what is wrong with the infrastructures in Atlanta.\nThat is, the bridges, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"roads, the water, the sewer. I've got seven committees\nworking under me. This is a result of my being on the city council.\n\nCOHEN: I want to volunteer.\n\nMASLIA: That is becoming such a big job that the people of this city don't\nrealize how bad off we are with our roads, sewer, water, bridges, and so forth.\n\nCOHEN: A lot has to be done.\n\nMASLIA: A lot. You're talking about millions and millions of dollars. One of the\nproblems is the government won't give us what they expect us to do on EPA requirements.\n\nCOHEN: You mean the federal government?\n\nMASLIA: Yes, the Federal government. They had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nothing to do with the fact that\none of our bridges is going to collapse. In fact, when Underground [Atlanta]\nopened up last year... was it last year it opened up? There was a bridge they\nhad to shore up because so many people coming over it. That was not publicized.\nThat would have scared everybody away. Our parks are a disaster right now.\nThey're terrible.\n\nCOHEN: They need money.\n\nMASLIA: They need money. We hear the same thing over and over and over. We don't\nwant to raise taxes. I'm talking about our politicians, whether it be local or\nfederal. We don't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"want to raise taxes. We don't want to do anything. You don't\nwant to raise taxes? Cut the spending and put the money somewhere else. But you\nknow I'm just talking to a wall. I'm getting off on the subject.\n\nCOHEN: Do you mean they don't have the right priorities?\n\nMASLIA: That's exactly right. Unfortunately, this is more true in Washington\nthan anywhere else. The first priority in Washington is to get re-elected. It\nisn't to do the job you're there for. It's to get re-elected. I know we're\ngetting off of this tape here.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: But that's a whole thing in itself in terms of what happens.\n\nMASLIA: They're not getting re-elected. Therefore, their votes are only going to\nbe determined by that number. Don't get me started on that.\n\nCOHEN: I understand. What do you have to say about the relationships between the\nJewish and the non-Jewish community as an evolutionary perspective?\n\nMASLIA: I'm hoping it's getting better. I think there's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"still a lot of\nundercurrent antisemitism. There always will be. My relationship, as a child, I\nsaw it more than I see it now, but I think the conditions are probably improving\nsomewhat. I'll tell you this, as economic conditions worsen, you can bet the\nJews are going to get blamed for a lot of these problems, whether it be Israel\nor the fact that the Jews control the media, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which I hear every day. You know\nwe're going to get blamed for that. But overall...\n\nCOHEN: You were not during the Leo Frank case?\n\nMASLIA: No, that was 1918.\n\nCOHEN: Did you hear any stories about the aftermath of that when you were\ngrowing up?\n\nMASLIA: No, I was only a kid. I was born ten years after the fact. Naturally,\nI've read a lot about it. A lot of my relatives were here then. They remember it vividly.\n\nCOHEN: How ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about the Ku Klux Klan?\n\nMASLIA: I remember the Klan. I remember as a college student at Emory\nUniversity, I was a member of the TEP fraternity, which is the Jewish fraternity\nat Emory. I remember one night we had a couple of Jewish boys from Eastman,\nGeorgia, South Georgia, who were tough as nails. I remember one night all of\nthem saying, \"We're going to go to a Klan meeting.\" So, we went. We went to a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Klan meeting. I never will forget. The Klan at that time...\n\nCOHEN: Maslia at his home in Atlanta at 3969 Parian Ridge Road, NW. This is a\nproject of the Atlanta Jewish Federation, the American Jewish Committee, and the\nNational Council of Jewish Women. We were just talking here about the Ku Klux Klan.\n\nMASLIA: What I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thinking was, the whole TEP fraternity decides to go to a\nKlan meeting which was being held at Stone Mountain, which they still hold them\nincidentally. This was in 1950. So, we go out there. They were very cordial. I\ndon't know if they knew we were a Jewish fraternity or not. They welcomed us.\nThere were men and women and children out there. They had that big cross burning\nout there. One of my fraternity brothers went up there and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"introduced himself to\nthe Klan, whatever they call the Klan biggies or wiggles, whatever they call\nthose guys. It was an experience.\n\nCOHEN: Weren't you frightened?\n\nMASLIA: No. A kid 19 or 20 years old, he's not frightened about things like\nthat. Some of them wore masks back then. Most of them were not masked. We got\nthere towards the end of the meeting. They were pretty well unmasked at that\npoint. I remember another incident about the Klan. Do you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"want to hear that one, too?\n\nCOHEN: Yes.\n\nMASLIA: This was maybe 1954 or 1955. A friend of mine and I were driving towards\nJacksonville [Florida] to go to a football game or something down there. Maybe\nit was a fishing trip. This was in Cochran, Georgia. All of a sudden, we find\nourselves in a procession. We had no idea. This guy, he must weigh about 250\npounds, smoking a big cigar. We were driving a new Oldsmobile. Going through\nCochran, and we run into a Ku Klux Klan ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"parade. We had no idea how we got in it.\nBut there we were in the parade, and there were all these little black kids on\nthe side waving. Very few people were there. We realized we were in the Klan\nparade because we could see the car in front of us with the hoods and the car\nbehind us with the hoods. But we didn't know what we were doing. Anyway, we get\nto this turn off. Everybody turns off. There on the left, we could see the Klan\nrally where the kids, the women, the children, with their ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hoods - I don't think\nthey were masked - were having a picnic. And the blacks were there having a good\ntime, not in the picnic, but they were surrounding and thought nothing of it. I\nthink it must have been an everyday occurrence down there. Those two experiences\nI vividly remember about the Klan. I don't ever remember any hangings or\nlynchings. I think that was probably more of the thirties than they were later on.\n\nCOHEN: I'm surprised the blacks ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stood by and were not frightened by it all.\n\nMASLIA: They weren't frightened a bit. I think in the back of their mind they\nwere probably saying, \"Look at those nuts.\" I agree with them. Those are the\nonly two Klan experiences I really remember. I don't remember any of the\nviolence. Most of those took place in the thirties. I do remember writing a term\npaper on the Klan. I studied the Klan and its history. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Somewhere I have it in\nthe house. The term paper on the Klan is from its history back in Pulaski,\nTennessee all the way to the end. It was strong. You have no idea how many\nmembers belonged to the Klan in 1920.\n\nCOHEN: It was strong up north, too.\n\nMASLIA: That's where it was really strong. Indiana. Illinois.\n\nCOHEN: Contrary to what somebody thinks.\n\nMASLIA: In fact, most people don't know this but I'm sure you're familiar with\nour Shearith Israel synagogue here on University [Drive]?\n\nCOHEN: Yes.\n\nMASLIA: In front of Shearith Israel, there is a little building, just right on\nthe point there.\n\nCOHEN: I used to belong to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Shearith Israel.\n\nMASLIA: Right on the point, you know where that little building is on the\ncorner, that was Lanier University which was the Ku Klux Klan University.\n\nCOHEN: Was that the Ku Klux Klan University?\n\nMASLIA: That's right.\n\nCOHEN: That's a separate building.\n\nMASLIA: That was called Lanier University. One of the Klan owns it. I don't\nthink it lasted very long.\n\nCOHEN: Kind of ironic that a synagogue...\n\nMASLIA: Is adjacent to it. I have a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"picture of that building in the 1920s, I\nthink it was.\n\nCOHEN: When it was still Ku Klux Klan? Isn't that amazing.\n\nMASLIA: Yes. I think most people at Shearith Israel don't even know that.\n\nCOHEN: Yes, I belonged there for a number of years before I came over to Or Ve Shalom.\n\nMASLIA: That was the Klan university. The Klan, it rears its head every once in\na while, but I'm glad our anti-defamation league keeps tabs on it pretty closely.\n\nCOHEN: And they do.\n\nMASLIA: Yes, they do.\n\nCOHEN: What do you recall of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"some of the Jewish organizational structures as you\nbecame aware of them when you were growing up? Like you mentioned the\nEducational Alliance.\n\nMASLIA: That was the biggest thing when I was growing up, was the Alliance. Of\ncourse, we had the [Atlanta Jewish] Federation, which was the Jewish Welfare\nFund that used to help a lot of poor people and poor Jews in Atlanta. There were\na lot of them then. I guess those two are probably the two ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember most\nbesides the synagogue, of course. Those two. The Educational Alliance was just a\nlifesaver for kids, for all of us. We had nothing, and it was a chance to meet\neach other. We learned from each other, I guess that's the way to talk about it.\n\nCOHEN: Was that what you would call the predecessor of the Jewish Community Center?\n\nMASLIA: Exactly what it was. In fact, they moved from the Alliance to the Jewish\nCommunity Center. The Jewish Community Center is just a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"continuation of the\nAlliance on a much larger scale.\n\nCOHEN: Then the Federation kind of...\n\nMASLIA: The Federation is the old Jewish Welfare Fund. I feel like we do pretty\ngood with the Federation in this town. I've been active in it in the past. I\nthink we're up to about 10 million, which is a pretty good number for the 60,000\nJews in Atlanta.\n\nCOHEN: That was surprising, the numbers that...\n\nMASLIA: You have to remember, of the 60,000, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"only half are affiliated.\n\nCOHEN: There may be some...\n\nMASLIA: Who knows, probably many who were not even designated as being Jewish. I\ndon't know. As a whole, Atlanta has done [really] well when it comes to the\nFederation. I think a lot of it has to do with the upbringing of the kids in\nAtlanta. I really do. I can't tell you how much the Jewish Alliance and the\nsynagogue meant to us growing up. Where else would we go? Would we go to the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"YMCA? Of course not. I have to tell you something else, I was very active in\ngrowing up which is the Atlanta Boy's Club. It had nothing to do with the Jewish\nCommunity Center.\n\nCOHEN: I've heard of that from people like Meyer Balser.\n\nMASLIA: In 1939, the Boy's Club was started here in Atlanta. I was one of the\nfirst ones to join. I was 11 years old at the time. A gentleman named W.W.\nWoolfolk, I'll never forget his name, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came to our schools and solicited us to\njoin the Atlanta Boy's Club.\n\nCOHEN: Was that a nonsectarian group?\n\nMASLIA: Yes. I'll admit it, the Jewish kids had plenty of fights up there. I was\nin a lot of fights. I think I lost most of them, but I was in a lot of them. But\nit was still good. It was a good place. Originally, the Boy's Club was located\nabout a half a block from the AA synagogue on Capitol Avenue. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then in about\n1941, something like that, they bought the old Jewish Progressive Club on Pryor\nStreet. The Jewish Progressive Club moved out to Tess Street. Boy's Club bought\nthat building. For years, they were there. I was active there, too.\n\nCOHEN: What was the purpose of the Boy's Club?\n\nMASLIA: To get the boys off the street. Have a place for the kids to go. We\nplayed basketball, softball, football. We had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"table tennis.\n\nCOHEN: How was that different from the Educational Alliance?\n\nMASLIA: It wasn't. It was just an everyday place.\n\nCOHEN: The Educational Alliance wasn't?\n\nMASLIA: No, it wasn't open every day.\n\nCOHEN: It wasn't always open? Is that it?\n\nMASLIA: There, we didn't have big softball fields and everything like that.\n\nCOHEN: You had a wider array of athletic facilities.\n\nMASLIA: That's right. The Boy's Club was tied in a lot to schools. So, we were\nable to do that too. 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That doesn't\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mean that because of the Boy's Club we're still friends. I mean, we're friends,\nbut it helped. We all grew up together. Unfortunately, it was a completely\nsegregated place. There were no black kids in the Boy's Club in the 1930s and\n1940s. But every kid down there came from the same boat. They didn't have\nanything, no money, no clothes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Again, we didn't know we were that poor.\n\nCOHEN: Because everybody else was the same.\n\nMASLIA: Everybody else was the same. As I say, the city has changed, obviously\nas everything else has.\n\nCOHEN: What significant buildings and developments do you see? Even since I've\nbeen here, there have been significant growth.\n\nMASLIA: Buildings? I'll tell you what, I could take you downtown, and with the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"exception of maybe four or five buildings, tell you each one of those buildings\nand remember when it was built. I do not remember, for example, the Healy\nBuilding or the Candler Building. I don't remember the Hurt Building or the\nWilliam Oliver Building. But I can remember the First National Bank Building,\nthe Fulton National Bank Building. [Unintelligible] built in the 1950s and 1960s.\n\nCOHEN: I remember the Hurt Building only because...\n\nMASLIA: It was remodeled.\n\nCOHEN: It was across the street from where I started to work when I came here.\n\nMASLIA: That building was built ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the 1920s, I think.\n\nCOHEN: It was beautiful.\n\nMASLIA: It was remodeled a couple of years ago. I can remember almost every big\nbuilding downtown. I can remember when the buildings were built. I can remember\nabout the year they were built. In fact, Rich's Department Store is a good\nexample of what I remember. I remember when the escalators first got to Rich's\nDepartment Store in the 1930s.\n\nCOHEN: The escalators?\n\nMASLIA: The escalators. I spent two hours riding up and down those escalators\nuntil they threw me out.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: What year was that?\n\nMASLIA: I don't know, probably 10 or 11 years old, probably late 1930s, middle\n1930s. I remember that. I could go on and on about Atlanta.\n\nCOHEN: There certainly have been a lot of development in restaurants. I remember\nwhen I first came into town, you could count them on your hand.\n\nMASLIA: In 1950, there were only about two or three. One of them, I don't know\nwhether it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"segregated or not, but there were a lot of restricted\nrestaurants. All of the private clubs were, with the exception of the Mayfair\n[Club]. We had three Jewish clubs in this town.\n\nCOHEN: Talk about that.\n\nMASLIA: We had the Progressive. I was never a member. We could never afford to\nbelong. The Progressive Club. First it was on Pryor Street, that's what I first\nremember. Then it moved to Tess Street. There was the Mayfair Club and the\nStandard Club. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The Standard Club, if I remember correctly, was formed in the 1880s.\n\nCOHEN: That was an old club.\n\nMASLIA: Yes. It was formed by the German Jews. The Standard Club is the only one\nthat is still in existence. The Mayfair, of course, burned down. The Progressive\nclub closed up. The Standard Club is still in existence. I think it's due\nprimarily to the golf course they have. They've always had a golf course, as I\ncan remember.\n\nCOHEN: Now they're located...\n\nMASLIA: In Duluth, Georgia. I was with them up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"until a few years ago. It's just\ntoo far to go. It's just a long ways to go, and I'm not much of a golfer even\nthough I love to play, but I'm terrible. It does real well.\n\nCOHEN: I'm glad you said you're not very good. Take this golf ball with my\ncompliments and maybe your game will improve.\n\nMASLIA: Well, it can't get any worse.\n\nCOHEN: I'll tell you a story about that when we're finished.\n\nMASLIA: Those were the three Jewish clubs. The Progressive Club was very, very\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"popular in the 1940s. They had a swimming pool, a restaurant, dance facilities.\nThey had night club entertainment.\n\nCOHEN: They were social and athletic?\n\nMASLIA: Social and athletic, too, but mostly social.\n\nCOHEN: I think that we've... I failed to mention the date is October 29. I think\nwe've had a long thing here. I think you're getting a little tired. I think\nwe'll close now. We can set up another interview and fill in any voids that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nsee as I listen back. I thank you very much.\n\nCOHEN: Interviewing Victor Maslia. Today's date is November 5, 1990. We're\nseated at his dinette at 3969 Parian Ridge Road. This is a continuation on the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"second interview on the second tape. We covered quite a bit about Victor's\nbackground and growing up in Atlanta. Since tomorrow is election day, we're\ngoing to talk about some of the events and the changes in the political\nsituation here in Atlanta. Can you think back, Victor, and going back ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about how\nhave things changed politically in terms of what your recollections are and to\nthe present day? If you can trace a little panorama for us.\n\nMASLIA: In Atlanta, back in the 1930s and 1940s, it was the good old white boys\nthat controlled everything, the WASPs, pardon my expression. They controlled\neverything. The minorities, blacks, Jews, women were unheard of as far as\npolitical office was concerned. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It wasn't until the late 1940s and 1950s that\nthat began to change. Women started taking part. The integration problem was\nfaced by the citizens of Atlanta. We started having a lot of black\nrepresentation. I think that didn't occur probably until the 1960s. Beginning in\nthe 1960s we had women and blacks, and our first ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish mayor was Sam Massell.\nThat occurred, I believe, in about 1968 or 1970, something along those lines. He\nwas a Jewish mayor. Frankly, in my opinion having lived here in Atlanta all\nthese years and seen its evolution, Sam Massell was the last white mayor that\nthis town is going to have unless we change our city limits and incorporate\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"other parts of the metropolitan area. But if the city limits remain as they are\ntoday, I don't think we'll ever see another white mayor simply because we're 67\npercent black. That's the ratio in Atlanta. During the last two elections, there\nwere no white candidates for the mayor. The city council is comprised of...\nthere are 18 on the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"city council. If I'm not mistaken, there are about half and\nhalf now. That's because we have 12 districts in the city. Each district has one\nrepresentative. We have six at large. If I take just a moment, I can tell you\nhow many whites and blacks. I believe we're about half and half or perhaps a\nlittle majority black. That's probably the biggest single change we're going to\nhave. Fulton County which is the area ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in which Atlanta is in. There are seven\ncounty commissions including commission chairman. I think it's four and three.\nThat probably will change. But that's the way it should be. If 67 percent are\nblack, we should have the majority control in the hands of the blacks. I find\nnothing wrong with it. There are some good ones, some bad ones. By the same\ntoken by the white ones, there are some good ones and some bad ones. By the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jews, there are some good ones and some bad ones. That hasn't really changed in\nperspective of the whole city.\n\nCOHEN: How do you feel it impacted, if at all, in changes on Jews and Jewish\ncommunity in terms of all of this?\n\nMASLIA: As you know, there are about 60,000 Jews in metro Atlanta. I may have\nsaid this before, but going back into the 1940s and the 1950s that I remember\nvividly, the Jewish people, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"men, I'm referring to men primarily, did not really\nhave any opportunity to join the business world, to become bankers, to become\nassociated with large companies. In spite of what people say, there was a very\nrestricted market. Therefore, you saw a lot of the Jewish boys going to the\nprofessional field or in business for themselves. They didn't have the\nopportunity. 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I'll use\none in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"particular, Erwin Zaban. He started his company his father started that\ncompany. Leo Benatar, a very good friend of mine, is chairman of Engraph [Inc.].\nThat's a public company that was from North Carolina. He's there because he's\nvery competent. Not because he's Jewish or not Jewish or black or white, he\nhappens to be a good man. A few years ago, I don't think he would have had that\nopportunity. In Atlanta and perhaps other cities where the professional people,\nthe lawyers, the doctors, the dentists, the physicians, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"accountants, they're\nheavily Jewish oriented compared to the population of them. I believe that most\nof them decided they had better develop their own talents. Perhaps their parents\nencouraged them. In fact, I know that had to be the case. I, myself, went into\nthe real estate business. I worked for a large firm for about two years. I knew\nI wasn't going anywhere with them, so I went into business for myself. I think\nthat was covered in the first interview.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: In these particular businesses, were there use of Hebrew free loans or\nany of that kind of...\n\nMASLIA: I think so. We didn't participate in them, but I think that those Hebrew\nfree loans were used... I know of a few cases in the 1950s they were loaned to\nrefugees who had just came over after the war who really had nothing. Those\nloans were made...\n\nCOHEN: That doesn't exist today, I don't think.\n\nMASLIA: I don't think so. It existed then, but there weren't too many of them\nthat I know of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to take advantage of.\n\nCOHEN: It was mostly for refugees at that time to start them up in business?\n\nMASLIA: I believe it was. I may be wrong. But I think that's what that was. I\nknow if there were any available in the 1930s... I don't know. My father had a\nlittle shoe repair shop. 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What was their perspective and some of your\nrecollections as things began to show themselves in the way of change?\n\nMASLIA: The Jews were, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as you say, culturally southern, but the Jewish people\nwere still a minority. Most of us, even today, sympathize with the minority.\nWhether you're... they say that the democratic party is the party of minorities\nand so forth. There are many good Jewish people who are republicans who still\nsympathize with the minorities and understand their problems. I saw those\nchanges, and I lived through those changes. I think we were more ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kin to those\nbecause of our heritage and our backgrounds. We were persecuted. I guess we\nresented any kind of persecutors. Most Jewish people are like that in spite of\nwhat they say. I think deep down we'll find most very sympathetic to the equal\nrights amendments, the women's lib [liberation], and certainly the segregation\nlaws which were just almost intolerable if we understood them. But as a kid\ngrowing up, that was the way it was. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That has changed and all for the better.\n\nCOHEN: What recollections do you have of relationships between the black\ncommunity in Atlanta and the Jewish communities relationship with the black\ncommunity as well as with perhaps the gentile community and other contrasting\nrelationships within the Jewish community?\n\nMASLIA: To begin with, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we didn't call them blacks. We called them coloreds.\n\nCOHEN: Why was that?\n\nMASLIA: If you weren't white, you were colored. There was no such thing as a\nblack. It was colored. We grew up in a segregated society. They lived in our\nbackyards. Many of them lived in the alleys. They didn't attend the same schools\nwe did. The relationship was one of... how would I say the relationship ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was? I\nguess we tolerated each other. I'm sure there was a lot of contempt in the minds\nof the blacks, or coloreds, as we called them. And there should have been. The\nJews primarily treated them, not as equals, but as good people. We helped them\nwhen we could. The feeling of being below us or beneath us was there. There's no\nquestion about that. That was the white southern, whether you were Jewish or\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gentile, that's the way we looked upon blacks. As I say, they lived in our back\nyard. We worked together. They worked for us in most cases. There were no\nblack-owned businesses that I can remember. There weren't too many black-owned\nhomes back in those days.\n\nCOHEN: There were some close relationships between blacks and whites, weren't there?\n\nMASLIA: There were plenty of close relationships, but the relationship was not\nas an equal. The relationship was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a good old boy, let's take care of him. It's\nmy responsibility to take care of that poor black fellow.\n\nCOHEN: Paternalistic?\n\nMASLIA: Right, paternalistic. That's the attitude that was taken. In fact, I've\noften heard some good white people say, \"We always treated our coloreds good.\"\nThat simply means that we didn't beat them, but that doesn't mean that we gave\nthem an opportunity to be our equal. We just treated them good because we didn't\nbeat them. We didn't shoot them, and we didn't kick them. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was their\ninterpretation of being good. When segregation laws were cast aside, many\nsoutherners, and I'm not referring just to the Jews because there were some Jews\ntoo, said \"We always treated them good. Why do they want to change?\" As a Jew, I\ncould understand exactly where they were coming from. It's fine to say, \"I'm\ngoing to treat you good\" and \"Yes sir. Master\" and all that stuff, but that's\nnot equality. That's not giving them the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"opportunity that they wanted and deserved.\n\nCOHEN: In recent years there has been an influx, especially in the sunbelt\ncommunities, of which Atlanta is one. I was wondering with the established\nAtlanta residents, what was the relationship between Atlanta residents and\nnewcomers to the community?\n\nMASLIA: Are you talking about other Jews?\n\nCOHEN: Yes, I think I'm emphasizing more the whole aspect of other Jews.\n\nMASLIA: I think I may have already said this, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when the Germans came here in\n1850s, 1860s, and 1870s, they were the only Jews in Atlanta. The Russians and\nthe Polish immigrated around the turn of the century. Of course, I don't\nremember that, but based on what I know in talking to others, they sort of\nlooked down on the Russians, the Polish Jews, East European Jews. When the\nSephardics came over, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think we were looked down upon as the newcomer. After\nthe war [World War II] when the refugees came over, everybody looked upon them\nas refugees, and they needed help. Since then, I think the Jews have become\nunited as one now. I don't think you see that differential as much or very\nlittle, I should say, especially among the young kids.\n\nCOHEN: Yes, I think you're right.\n\nMASLIA: I think that's just about disappeared. We've got Germans, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Russians,\nPolish, Sephardics in all walks of life, in all leadership roles in the entire\nJewish community. It's good, of course. I can remember as a kid growing up, we\nhad our classes. Not Orthodox, Reform, and Conservative, but we had the\nRussians, the Germans, the Polish, and the Sephardics. That was the distinction.\n\nCOHEN: What are the implications of that? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For example, because Sephardim is a\nparticular culture within Jewry. With the youth, if that's the way they become\n\"more democratic,\" what might be present and future implications for a Sephardic synagogue?\n\nMASLIA: Let's take our Sephardic synagogue. We're a Sephardic synagogue. Our\nconstitution says we're a Sephardic synagogue. Yet ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"60 percent of our membership\nis Ashkenazi.\n\nCOHEN: Sixty percent?\n\nMASLIA: Sixty percent. I'm sure you, as a member, didn't even know that.\n\nCOHEN: I didn't know that.\n\nMASLIA: Right. So, the implications... we're a Sephardic synagogue, but we're\nstill open to all Jews. We have a lot of members who are not Sephardic. You\ndon't even think about it.\n\nCOHEN: Will they be able to maintain the...\n\nMASLIA: Sephardic traditions?\n\nCOHEN: Yes, and the culture.\n\nMASLIA: I hope so. I think we will. The leadership of the synagogue is in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the\nhands of a lot of young Sephardics. We've had several presidents who were not Sephardic.\n\nCOHEN: Who have respected the traditions and beauty of the culture.\n\nMASLIA: Who have respected and continued the tradition. So, we've had that\ninput. I assume we'll continue to have that, at least I hope so. We are\nbasically known as a Sephardic synagogue even though the majority of our members\nare not Sephardic.\n\nCOHEN: Another area. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We sort of have a modern transportation system today.\nThinking back to your boyhood days and thereafter, how was early Atlanta from\nyour early recollections, how you got around and how it's developed?\n\nMASLIA: In the 1930s, that's where I begin my memories. We had the old street\ncars. They were the electric cars with two conductors on them, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"called the two\nbells. We also had our feet. I mean, we walked almost everywhere we wanted to\ngo. For two reasons. First of all, the street cars didn't go anywhere we wanted\nto. Number two, they cost money. We never used the street cars unless we\nabsolutely had to. From the street cars, I can remember as a kid, my father...\nwe did not have a car. Some of our friends did, but we didn't. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"can remember as\na kid my father used to take us for a ride on the street car. At that time, it\ncost a nickel. We would go all the way to Hapeville which is now 15, 20 minutes,\nbut then it took 45 minutes. For a nickel, we could ride to Hapeville. Stay on\nthe streetcar and come back. That was our trip. That was the old street car\nsystem. From there, we went to trackless trolleys. Automobiles became very\nfashionable after the war. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, more and more\npeople ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"started driving. After the war, the trackless trolleys came in. The\nbuses. They were very popular. Then we came to gasoline buses. MARTA, which is\nour rapid transit system, came during the administration of our first Jewish\nmayor. He was really responsible for that. He, more or less, led the fight to\nget the MARTA system here. You can imagine what this city would be without that\nrapid transit. It's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hard for me to understand why counties like Cobb and\nGwinnett... well, it's not hard to understand. I understand why, but they do not\nwant the MARTA line extended into their counties. They would rather put up with\ntheir traffic problems, which are terrible right now. You can imagine what it's\ngoing to be like in a few years. But those two counties will not let our rapid\ntransit system in.\n\nCOHEN: How do you account for that?\n\nMASLIA: Because they don't want the blacks to go into their county. I can tell\nyou why. They don't want to say that out loud, but I can ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tell you that is the\nbiggest problem with them up there. They feel as though if they put the rapid\ntransit system in, blacks will move into their neighborhoods. Their attitude is,\nwe are solid up here, we're going to stay that way. We don't want... they say\nrapid transit brings crime. I'm sure it brings some but so does a lot of\nautomobiles and people passing around too. If we could get our rapid transit\nsystem extended into those ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"metropolises up there, it would be a benefit to them\nas well as us.\n\nCOHEN: Some of them are going to have referendums now.\n\nMASLIA: In fact, tomorrow is one in Gwinnett County. It will probably fail.\nThey're saying that we don't need more. We don't want to pay that extra sales\ntax. It's going to bring us crime. We're happy as we are. If you go in Gwinnett\nCounty at eight o'clock in the morning, you can't get around.\n\nCOHEN: There's no transportation whatsoever?\n\nMASLIA: No.\n\nCOHEN: Other than cars.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MASLIA: Cars. That's it. You can believe that if you want to, but as an old city\ncouncilman and as one who's lived here all his life and one who knows the\nthinking of a lot of people up there, it is one issue and one issue only. They\ndo not want the blacks to come to Gwinnett County. It's the same with Cobb\nCounty. Cobb County started its own transportation system.\n\nCOHEN: Is it more prejudice or one of fear?\n\nMASLIA: I think it's more of fear. Of course, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4770.0,4800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with fear comes prejudice. There's\nno question about that. I think fear is perhaps in the back of their mind. I\ndon't think the prejudice is the greatest factor. I think fear is more.\n\nCOHEN: When you were talking about the trolleys, what were the main lines? It's\nhard to conceive that now you don't see any tracks or remaining residuals of tracks.\n\nMASLIA: No, they covered them all up. You had them all downtown. You had\nPeachtree, Pryor Streets, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"corner of Grant Park. I'll tell you something\nelse, the blacks sat in the back. I'm sure you've heard that over and over.\n\nCOHEN: When I first came to town here they used to sit in . . .\n\nMASLIA: That was the early 1950s.\n\nCOHEN: Even in 1960.\n\nMASLIA: That was beginning to change then. We had all the main streets. You\ncould get almost anywhere. Remember, the city was much, much smaller in the\n1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. We had street cars going into Vinings. We had them\ngoing into Smyrna. We had them going as far as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4830.0,4860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Decatur, Stone Mountain. I mean\nsingle tracks. From there, you had to walk to your home.\n\nCOHEN: They didn't rip them out? They just covered them up?\n\nMASLIA: They covered them up. They ripped some of them out, but in many cases\nthey covered them up. You can still see some of them. But most of them are just\ncovered over. I can remember as a kid riding along on my bicycle on those tracks\nand if it was a rainy day like it is today I can't tell you how many times I\nfell, slipped on those tracks. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4860.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They were very slippery. Those were good days in\nsome ways, mainly as a kid. You know what I say about children. The reason that\nchildren don't have problems is because they don't have children. That's really\nwhat it amounts to. As a child, we didn't have any problems. We had little\nproblems, but they were insignificant. Growing up back in those days, as I said\nbefore, we didn't look at things other than the way things were. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4890.0,4920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Segregation was\na way of life. It's changed. Poverty was a way of life. We didn't even know\nthat. But we were not alone.\n\nCOHEN: The major transportation system that we have now is made a big impact on\nthe whole business of...\n\nMASLIA: Are you referring to MARTA, our rapid transit system?\n\nCOHEN: Yes, MARTA.\n\nMASLIA: It's made a big change. We used to have three big ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4920.0,4950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rail stations here in\nAtlanta. We had the old terminal station where all the trains from the south...\n\nCOHEN: The one downtown?\n\nMASLIA: It's not there any longer.\n\nCOHEN: The one they tore down.\n\nMASLIA: They built that government building.\n\nCOHEN: It was across from Rich's.\n\nMASLIA: It was about a block away from Rich's. We had the old building there.\nWhat was it called? I can't remember what it was called. It shows what happened\nto my mind. I don't remember, there was another one a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"few blocks from there.\n\nCOHEN: Another train station?\n\nMASLIA: There's a third one that's still in existence. Brookwood Station\n[Peachtree Station]. It's across the street from the Community Center.\n\nCOHEN: The only one remaining.\n\nMASLIA: The only one remaining in Atlanta. We had three stations. I remember\ncoming home from the army, coming back to the train station. That was a nice\nfeeling coming back on train from across country. We didn't fly back then. As\nfar as transportation goes, Atlanta now is the hub of the air transportation. We\nare the sometimes first, sometimes ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=4980.0,5010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"second, busiest airport next to Chicago's O'Hare.\n\nCOHEN: Enormous.\n\nMASLIA: Because of our transportation system, we progress quite a bit.\nOriginally, Atlanta was named Marthasville. Then Atlanta became Terminus, which\nwas the name of the city prior to the name of Atlanta. Terminus meant that was\nwhere the railroads ended and started. All the railroads came through here.\n\nCOHEN: The present location is where?\n\nMASLIA: It used to be where the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5010.0,5040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"terminal station is. If you remember during the\nCivil War, in pictures you've seen, that's where all the freight trains were.\n\nCOHEN: I thought because they sometimes associated that where the Underground is.\n\nMASLIA: That was only a few blocks away. It was all in the same area. The old\noriginal tracks, railroad tracks are still there because the railroad trains\nstill go there. Mostly freight trains.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5040.0,5070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: I understand even as large as Atlanta airport is, Hartsfield, that\nthey're wanting to expand the runways and they've got big opposition.\n\nMASLIA: Yes, they do. They're planning on building one more runway for commuter\nplanes only.\n\nCOHEN: Do you think they'll go to a second airport?\n\nMASLIA: Yes. I don't know if it will be in our lifetime, but they'll go to\nanother one. They're going to have to. They're talking about an airport south\npart of the state and some going north. In fact, there was something in the\npaper this morning about it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5070.0,5100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: About a second airport?\n\nMASLIA: Six possible locations. One of the locations people are already\nobjecting to having the airport come down there. Atlanta has a right of\ncondemnation on the airport. If we want to build a second airport somewhere, the\nstate has given the right that the city can condemn land to build a second\nairport. I think that's a few years though.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: One of the things that you hear a lot about is changes in family life,\nwhich I'm sure has affected Jewish family life too. As you look from your own\nperspective about how Jewish family life was as you were growing up and again\nlooking at it as it evolved to the present day, what changes do you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5130.0,5160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"observe and\ncan you recall? Also, any commentary that you could say about your own\nevaluation of it, how you see it, and where it's going, might be useful.\n\nMASLIA: As a child growing up, we were more family oriented because we had no\ntransportation. We were a family unit, and this was our center. The synagogue\nand the home and the school were the three main attractions growing up. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Today,\nyou've got so many, and I'm going to use the word distractions. Perhaps that's\nnot the right word, but that's what I'm going to use. I use distractions and\ndefine distractions as wheels, number one. That is the biggest distraction we've\ngot. The availability of automobiles to the kids, teenagers, that has changed\nfamily life, I think, more than any one thing. Again, I'm giving you my own\nopinion. When I see all these kids today at 16 years old, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5190.0,5220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it's almost the law\nthat they have to have a driver's license, which is a little ludicrous to even\nsay that. But they must drive. Almost every family has one or two cars. The kids\nuse them at the age of 16. I, personally, for example, didn't even get a\ndriver's license until I was 19. I was out of the army and already in college\nbefore I even learned to drive. I was the exception even then. There are so many\nother activities today that we didn't have. The baseball, the little ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5220.0,5250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"leagues,\nand the dancing schools. Who could afford them back then anyway? I don't even\nknow if they were in existence back then. They may have been. Our biggest\nentertainment was the home, the synagogue. The Boy's Club was a big one. Today,\nthere's so many other things. Kids, they have these clubs. The extracurricular\nactivities in schools. They have the wheels. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5250.0,5280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"keep coming back to wheels\nbecause I believe the automobile has been the biggest detractor for kids and\ntheir family home life. Today, I don't know what percentage it is, but it's a\ntremendous percentage of kids grow up in single parent homes. We don't even have\nto talk about that.\n\nCOHEN: It's a big percentage.\n\nMASLIA: Growing up, you very rarely heard of a Jewish family having a divorce.\nYou just didn't hear of it. It was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5280.0,5310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"almost scandalous. Today, I think one-third\nof the Jewish marriages end in divorce, maybe even higher by now. I don't know.\n\nCOHEN: It's at least that.\n\nMASLIA: There's no stigma attached to divorce like it was. I'm not saying it's\ngood or bad. I'm just saying that parents tried a little harder back then to\nwork out their problems.\n\nCOHEN: There were more forces to maintain together than there are today.\n\nMASLIA: They go their separate ways. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I'm\njust saying that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5310.0,5340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that's the conditions of today.\n\nCOHEN: Those are the facts.\n\nMASLIA: Those are the facts, is right. Today, the woman, in many cases, is\nself-sufficient. She's graduated from college. She can make her own living. In\nthe 1930s and the 1940s when I was growing up, most women that I know were\nhousewives and glad to be housewives. Divorce was just out of the question.\n\nCOHEN: As I think about what you're saying there, you call it distractions. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5340.0,5370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One\nthing that occurs, there are a lot more choices today about things. As I think\nabout family life and I think about the social instruments, the social clubs,\nthe Progressive, Mayfair, and Standard Club that I think you eluded to earlier,\nyou've seen the disintegration of some of the social clubs. Is there any\nparallel ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5370.0,5400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or connection?\n\nMASLIA: I think you'll find a lot of the social clubs, as I say there were\nthree. Now there is one. One burned and the other one closed. The distraction\nthere, there is no need to be a member of a club today to have a good\nrestaurant. There was in the 1930s and 1940s. From an athletic standpoint, you\ndon't have to belong to a club to go swimming. My God, everybody has a swimming\npool practically ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5400.0,5430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"today. To play baseball, you don't have to belong to a club.\nYou've got the tee-ball, little league, junior leagues, and all these things.\nYou don't need that particular club life to get to things that you can get in\napartment complexes today. They've got tennis courts and swimming pools.\n\nCOHEN: You've got all the amenities right there.\n\nMASLIA: You didn't have that 40 years ago. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5430.0,5460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As I said before, the restaurants in\nAtlanta, there were very few. Very few people could even afford to go to them.\nYou don't have that any more. In other words, the club is not the only form of\nentertainment today. Night club, for example. The Progressive Club used to have\nthe best night club entertainment. Today, you've got plenty. You've got\ntheaters. You've got shows here. You've got everything here that you really\nwant. When I hear people say, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5460.0,5490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"We're going to New York to go to the shows, and\nwe're going to New York to go shopping.\" I think if they took a minute to look\naround, they're going to find that they can do the same shopping here in\nAtlanta. Maybe the shows are not here this week, but they'll be here in a few weeks.\n\nCOHEN: As you were talking about the poverty of earlier years but you didn't\nknow it, and then you look at today where it's comparative affluence where\nmaterial things and the choices, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5490.0,5520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you wonder did that have an impact? You talked\nabout divorce. You talked about all things. What impact does the availability of\nmore material resources and choice, has that affected the life?\n\nMASLIA: No question about it. The material things are easier to come by. My\nchildren received things that I never even thought were ever going to be\npossible ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5520.0,5550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like a swimming pool. Of course, material things are there. Part of the\nproblem today is that we, as parents, don't emphasize enough that material\nthings are not the only things that are important.\n\nCOHEN: I was just thinking about the dependency in the earlier days. 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I'm glad that all\nthree of my daughters graduated from college to be a little bit independent if\nthey needed to be.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5580.0,5610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: You mean, in terms of a man's illness or death?\n\nMASLIA: That's exactly right. Back then, I remember my mother, she was a\nhousewife. Came over from Turkey and Cuba and had no skills. She didn't even\nknow the language. God knows what would have happened had my father not been\nable to provide for her and for three sons growing up. It was hard, but I didn't\nknow it was hard. Today, material things are very important. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5610.0,5640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In fact, even the\npoorest of kids today want these material things. They see others have it. I\ndon't blame them.\n\nCOHEN: Television, I guess, enables them to be aware of it.\n\nMASLIA: Television. How many homes in this country today do not have television?\nProbably not even five percent anymore.\n\nCOHEN: The poorest homes have them.\n\nMASLIA: Even the poorest homes have them. They buy them $2 down, $2 a week, or\nwhatever they pay. I don't blame them because that is a great thing for them,\nand I hope it keeps their kids in the house. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5640.0,5670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"By the way, today, November 5, the\ncity council of Atlanta is going to vote on an ordinance to prohibit kids over\n16 from being outside at 11 o'clock.\n\nCOHEN: A curfew?\n\nMASLIA: A curfew. They voted today. Whether it's constitutional or not, I don't\nknow. I hope it passes. I feel very strongly that it will pass. Whether or not\nthe ACLU [American Civil Liberties Union] and a few others going in and saying\nthat it's infringing on the rights of the kids, I don't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5670.0,5700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know. Perhaps they will.\nI'm sure you may have read in the paper a few weeks ago where a young kid, 13,14\nyears old was shot standing in front of his apartment at 4:30 in the morning.\nThe logical question, obviously, is what is he doing outside, 11 or 12 years old\nat 4:30 in the morning. That's no reason to get shot, of course. There's just\ntoo many distractions for young kids, just too many. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5700.0,5730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If my children heard that,\nthey would probably disagree with me. I was reading in the paper where they took\ncomments. Every teenager that was interviewed said, \"No, that's crazy. We're\ngood kids.\" The vast majority are. If the vast majority are good, they ought to\nbe in bed by 11 o'clock or be home by 11 o'clock at night, teenagers, 16 and\nunder. I'm sure it will be challenged in court.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5730.0,5760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: In the past, they've talked about the permissive society too. The\nquestion is, did it do good or did it do bad by being permissive in the past\nwithout some kind of limits and so forth?\n\nMASLIA: I don't think we have any limits. That is our problem. It seems like the\nkids today, and I don't mean to be critical. I've got grandchildren growing up.\nMy children are going to have problems with their children as my parents\nprobably had with me. 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I don't mean a great ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5820.0,5850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lifestyle, but they have to\nmaintain some semblance of lifestyle. The kids, they take all kinds of advantage\nof that. I've seen it in too many cases where they're interested in what the\nother kids think. You know what I think about drugs. I think we already covered that.\n\nCOHEN: Right. It's one of the biggest problems in this country today.\n\nMASLIA: It is the biggest problem as far as kids are concerned. I don't care\nwhat people say. Crime is big, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5850.0,5880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but let me tell you this, drugs today lead to\nmore crime than you could possibly imagine. I don't know how we're going to end\nit. This business about running down to Colombia and burning the coke fields,\nthat's fine, but that doesn't help us here because if they don't grow it in\nColombia, they're going to grow it somewhere else. The problem is here in this country.\n\nCOHEN: The problem is there's so much money in it and these kids who are poor,\nit's a source...\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5880.0,5910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MASLIA: Can you blame them?\n\nCOHEN: There's no other opportunities.\n\nMASLIA: These kids. The Atlanta Housing Authority offered $200 to be a look out.\nThey don't have a pair of shoes on. What do you think they're going to say? I\ndon't blame them. They say, \"We can educate them about how wrong it is.\" You can\ntell them how wrong it is but when someone is offering you a couple hundred\nbucks and you have nothing but stand on a corner and watch out, you're going to\ndo it.\n\nMASLIA: You asked me about the relationship between the northern and the\nsouthern Jews. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5910.0,5940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember this one story, which was a true story. For some\nreason or another, northern Jews, not all of them, but many of them looked upon\nthe southern Jews as just a little bit better than the rednecks. Just a little\nbetter, not much better. I remember in 1967 or 1968, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5940.0,5970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"our Rabbi Cohen who had\nbeen with us many years and was going to retire. We were looking for a\nreplacement. Somehow or another we hired, this rabbi from Pennsylvania. He and\nhis wife came down here. I happened to be one who went to the airport to pick\nthem up. This was a college graduate rabbi from this country, and his wife was a\ncollege graduate. Driving from the airport to the synagogue, she turned to me\nand ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=5970.0,6000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she said to me, \"Where are all the plantations?\" This was a girl, a rabbi's\nwife from Pennsylvania, college graduate, and this was her impression of the\nsouth. Where are all the plantations? I thought she was joking.\n\nCOHEN: She was serious?\n\nMASLIA: She was dead serious. She wanted to know where all the plantations were.\nThey lasted one year. Their attitude was... 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How many do you know ever\nwent back?\n\nCOHEN: Not too many.\n\nMASLIA: I think that speaks well of the south.\n\nCOHEN: I always heard a great number of people ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=6030.0,6060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in service who were stationed\nnear here, stayed here and married and never went back.\n\nMASLIA: I don't know of any person who has moved from the north to the south,\nAtlanta. I'm talking about Atlanta, in particular, whether it be a company or\nwhatever it was, if they got transferred back up north, they quit their jobs. I\nthink that speaks well of us. I think I can use you as my prime example.\n\nCOHEN: It's one of the nicest places I've ever ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=6060.0,6090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/transcript/22216/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lived.\n\nMASLIA: Where were you born?\n\nCOHEN: In Brooklyn, New York.\n\nMASLIA: Well, you can't win them all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=6090.0,6120.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/annotation_set/420","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Victor Maslia [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/annotation_set/420/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA bar mitzvah [Hebrew: son of commandment] is a rite of passage for Jewish boys aged 13 years and one day. At that time, a Jewish boy is considered a responsible adult for most religious purposes. He is now duty bound to keep the commandments, he puts on tefillin, and may be counted to the minyan quorum for public worship. He celebrates the bar mitzvah by being called up to the reading of the Torah in the synagogue, usually on the next available Sabbath after his Hebrew birthday.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/annotation_set/420/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSephardic Jews are the Jews of Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Middle East and their descendants. The adjective “Sephardic” and corresponding nouns Sephardi (singular) and Sephardim (plural) are derived from the Hebrew word ‘Sepharad,’ which refers to Spain. Historically, the vernacular language of Sephardic Jews was Ladino, a Romance language derived from Old Spanish, incorporating elements from the old Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula, Hebrew, Aramaic, and in the lands receiving those who were exiled, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian vocabulary.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/annotation_set/420/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the ‘G.I. Bill,’ was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans. It provides low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as educational assistance to service members, veterans, and their dependents.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/annotation_set/420/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRich's Department Store was a department store retail chain, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, that operated in the southern U.S. from 1867 until March 6, 2005 when the nameplate was eliminated and replaced by Macy's.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/annotation_set/420/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eTurner Field was a baseball park located in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1997 until 2016, it served as the home ballpark to the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). Originally built as Centennial Olympic Stadium in 1996 to serve as the centerpiece of the 1996 Summer Olympics, the stadium was converted into a baseball park to serve as the new home for the Braves. Turner Field was located less than one block from the site of the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, their home ballpark from 1966 to 1996. When the Braves moved to a new stadium, SunTrust Park, which opened in north Atlanta in 2016, the stadium was reconfigured for the second time, redesigned for college football as Georgia State Stadium.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/annotation_set/420/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The time of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the twentieth century.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/annotation_set/420/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAlso known as ‘Judeo-Spanish,’ Ladino is a Romance language derived from Old Spanish originally spoken in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire (the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa) as well as in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Morocco, and the United Kingdom.  Today, Ladino is spoken mainly by Sephardic minorities in more than 30 countries.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/annotation_set/420/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAshkenazi is an ethnic division of Jews which formed in the Holy Roman Empire in the early 1000’s. They established communities in Central and Eastern Europe.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/annotation_set/420/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAhavath Achim Congregation (often referred to as “AA”) was organized in 1886 as Congregation Ahawas Achim (Brotherly Love) and is Atlanta’s second oldest Jewish congregation. Organized by Jews of Eastern European descent, the congregation’s founding members felt uncomfortable in the established Hebrew Benevolent Congregation (The Temple) comprised primarily of Jews from Germany, who by the late 1800s had begun to liberalize their Orthodox doctrine.  Originally located in a rented room at 106 Gilmer Street, the congregation would make a succession of moves, to 120 Gilmer Street, to a hall on Decatur Street in 1895, to its first building in 1901 on the corner of Gilmer Street and Piedmont Avenue, to its second building on Washington Street in 1921, and finally, to its present location on Peachtree Battle Avenue in 1958.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/annotation_set/420/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHebrew for ‘daughter of commandment.’  A rite of passage for Jewish girls aged 12 years and one day according to her Hebrew birthday.  Many girls have their bat mitzvah around age 13, the same as boys who have their bar mitzvah at that age.  She is now duty bound to keep the commandments.  Synagogue ceremonies are held for bat mitzvah girls in Reform and Conservative communities, but it has not won the universal approval of Orthodox rabbis.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/annotation_set/420/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Joseph Cohen received his training for the rabbinate in Turkey and accepted his first pulpit in Havana, Cuba in 1920, where he was spiritual leader of the Congregation Union Hebraic de Cuba. In 1934, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and was installed as Rabbi of Congregation Or Ve Shalom three days after his arrival. In addition to his rabbinical duties, he served as the teacher and principal of Or Ve Shalom's Hebrew school. Rabbi Cohen was also active at the Atlanta Bureau of Jewish Education, the Adult Institute of Jewish Studies, the Atlanta Jewish Federation, and was the first president of the Atlanta Rabbinical Association. Rabbi Cohen retired in 1969 and died in 1985.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/annotation_set/420/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAtlanta Jewish Community Center was officially founded in 1910, as the Jewish Educational Alliance. In the late 1940’s it evolved into the Atlanta Jewish Community Center and moved to Peachtree Street. It stayed there until 1998, when the building was sold and the center moved to Dunwoody. In 2000, it was renamed the ‘Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta.’\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/annotation_set/420/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Grand Order of the Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA) is an international youth-led fraternal organization for Jewish teenagers, founded in 1924.  It currently exists as the male wing of B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, an independent non-profit organization. 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Kahn (1895-1984) was an immigrant from Bialystok, Poland.  He became a leader in Atlanta’s Jewish community and served as executive director of several organizations including the Jewish Educational Alliance (presently: Atlanta Jewish Community Center), the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund, and the Atlanta Federation of Jewish Social Service (presently: Atlanta Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta), an earlier incarnation of the current Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the Morris Hirsch Clinic (presently: Ben Massell Dental Clinic). Mr. Kahn also became Executive Secretary of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund and of the Atlanta Jewish Community Council.  He held these various positions until his retirement in 1964. Kahn was prominent in both local and national social work organizations as well as in Jewish organizations such as B’nai B’rith, the Jewish Children’s Bureau, the Jewish Home and the Atlanta Bureau of Jewish Education. He also worked with Southern Israelite as a writer and adviser.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/annotation_set/420/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Educational Alliance (JEA) operated from 1910 to 1948 on the site where the Atlanta- Fulton County Stadium was located. The JEA was once the hub of Jewish life in Atlanta. Families congregated there for social, educational, sports and cultural programs. The JEA ran camps and held classes to help some new residents learn to read and write English. For newcomers, it became a refuge, with Temple Sinai programs to help them acclimate to a new home. The JEA stayed at that site until the late 1940’s, when it evolved into the Atlanta Jewish Community Center and moved to Peachtree Street. It stayed there until 1998, when the building was sold and the center moved to Dunwoody. 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During the 192's, construction of concrete viaducts intended to relieve traffic congestion in downtown Atlanta elevated the street system one level. Merchants moved their operations to the second floor of their buildings, leaving the old fronts for storage and service. As Atlanta continued to grow above the viaducts, the original street level was raised by one-and-a-half stories, and a five-block area was completely covered up. 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The trial was the catalyst for a great outburst of antisemitism led by the populist Tom Watson and the center of powerful class and political interests. Frank was sent to Milledgeville State Penitentiary to await his execution.  Governor John M. Slaton, believing there had been a miscarriage of justice, commuted Frank’s sentence to life in prison. This enraged a group of men who styled themselves the “Knights of Mary Phagan.” They drove to the prison, kidnapped Frank from his cell and drove him to Marietta, Georgia where they lynched him. Many years later, the murderer was revealed to be Jim Conley, who had lied in the trial, pinning it on Frank instead. 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Do you have any recollection of life on Central Avenue?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=287.0,1166.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/index/47314/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1920s","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1930s","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1940s","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ashkenazi Jews","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta, Ga","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Auburn Avenue","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Early life","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sephardic Jews","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=287.0,1166.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/index/47314/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The Jewish Educational Alliance/Jewish Community Center","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041#t=1166.0,1563.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30983/file/99041/index/47314/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Growing up, I remember another thing that was very important in our lives was the Jewish Alliance which is a forerunner to the Jewish Community Center.   That was on Capitol Avenue, about a ten-minute walk from my house.  We used to love to go up there and play basketball.  They welcomed us.  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