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He married Helen Elsas Asher with whom he had two children, Norman and Thomas. For most of his career, Asher worked at Rich’s Department Store in Atlanta. He was involved in numerous organizations such as the Elks Club, the Howard School, Volunteer Atlanta, and Future Incorporated. Asher passed away on April 8, 1992, at the age of 91. \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Asher begins the interview by talking about his family origins. He discusses how his parents met and came to the United States. Asher talks about his journey on trying to find more information on his family and their history in Macon, especially in relation to his grandfather Jacob Davis. Asher then reminiscences about Dave Strauss and their relationship. He discusses his time as a worker at Rich’s Department Store. Asher talks about how he would travel around the world for his job. He details stories on different places he went, such as traveling to the Pentagon and different places in Europe. Asher talks about the different operations Rich’s had and his work in expanding the company. Asher discusses his religious beliefs and education growing up. He notes that he connected more with his Judaism when he moved to Atlanta. Asher reflects on his life in Atlanta and his role in the city as it relates to American Jewish identity. He spends the rest of the interview talking about his organizational involvements. He discusses his involvements briefly in organizations like the Elks Club, the Atlanta Better Business Bureau, the Standard Club, and so on. Asher talks about his contributions to the Howard School. He also talks about Volunteer Atlanta and his hopes to see young Jewish people become more active in the city. Asher ten talks about Future Incorporated and how the investment club has grown and changed over time. \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29152"]}},{"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":["Rich's Department Store (corporate name)","Future Incorproated (corporate name)","Howard School (corporate name)","Immigration (topical term)","Atlanta, Georgia (geographic term)","Augusta, Georgia (geographic term)","Volunteer Atlanta (corporate name)","Immigration (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eJoseph Asher interviewed by Joel Lowenstein on March 2, 1990; March 5, 1990; April 2, 1990, in Atlanta, Georgia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Asher was born on January 11, 1901, in Augusta, Georgia. He married Helen Elsas Asher with whom he had two children, Norman and Thomas. For most of his career, Asher worked at Rich\u0026rsquo;s Department Store in Atlanta. He was involved in numerous organizations such as the Elks Club, the Howard School, Volunteer Atlanta, and Future Incorporated. Asher passed away on April 8, 1992, at the age of 91.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Asher begins the interview by talking about his family origins. He discusses how his parents met and came to the United States. Asher talks about his journey on trying to find more information on his family and their history in Macon, especially in relation to his grandfather Jacob Davis. Asher then reminiscences about Dave Strauss and their relationship. He discusses his time as a worker at Rich\u0026rsquo;s Department Store. Asher talks about how he would travel around the world for his job. He details stories on different places he went, such as traveling to the Pentagon and different places in Europe. Asher talks about the different operations Rich\u0026rsquo;s had and his work in expanding the company. Asher discusses his religious beliefs and education growing up. He notes that he connected more with his Judaism when he moved to Atlanta. Asher reflects on his life in Atlanta and his role in the city as it relates to American Jewish identity. He spends the rest of the interview talking about his organizational involvements. He discusses his involvements briefly in organizations like the Elks Club, the Atlanta Better Business Bureau, the Standard Club, and so on. Asher talks about his contributions to the Howard School. He also talks about Volunteer Atlanta and his hopes to see young Jewish people become more active in the city. Asher ten talks about Future Incorporated and how the investment club has grown and changed over time.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Asher_Joseph.mp3"]},"duration":7308.552,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/196/297/original/Asher_Joseph.mp3?1688960197","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":7308.552,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Asher, Joseph [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ASHER: He married Jeneta Moses. That took place in a small town in, not in\nBavaria, but in Bismarack country which was called Prussia at that time. It was\npart of Germany. My mother's father, did I say my mother's father before?\nLOWEINSTEIN: No.\n\nASHER: My mother's father was named Jacob Davis, and he married Anna Marks.\nJacob Davis was born in this same town in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Prussia. Now to try to get any\ninformation about either of these people is impossible. Now the story begins.\nLOWEINSTEIN: All right. \nASHER: They married. My father, Julius Asher, the son of\nMichael Asher, married Rebecca Davis. Rebecca Davis, my mother, was the daughter\nof Jacob Davis and Anna Marks. They were married in 1983 . . . LOWEINSTEIN: 1883. \nASHER: 1883, in a small town in Burke County, Georgia, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and my mother was\ntwenty years old and my father I think was twenty-seven. Any event, I tried to\nget information about my Grandfather Davis, in other words my mother's father,\nwhich was absolutely impossible because no one knew anything about him other\nthan the fact he was a very shrewd man and evidently made a success. I don't\nknow whether he was a horse thief or just a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"man that came about town. That was\none of the things difficulties that I had in trying to get information. The rest\nI had to rely on what I could get out of my own knowledge that was told to me,\nand I listened in on conversations for many years. I was always a good listener.\nI decided to write this little pamphlet saying \"Looking Back, But Don't Go\nBack\". That's the name of this book. You look back, but you don't go back. I was\nfoolish enough to go back. I went ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back, as Ellie can tell you, to find out just\nwho I was and where I came from, and as we say in the South, who were my people.\nI found some surprises and some disappointments. The interesting part about\nputting this all together is, and it took quite a while as my roommate can tell\nyou, because I had to rely primarily on my memory. No papers to find anything. I\nwent to the State of Georgia Archives Building here down at the capitol, and\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"asked for information on my grandfather, Jacob Davis, who served in the War\nBetween the States. I wanted information on my father's brother, Abram Asher,\nwho served in that same war for four years. I wanted information on my\ngrandmother's brother, Jacob Marks, who was also in that war. They ran through\nslides and everything and came up with one thing. They knew that my grandfather\nserved ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the war. They gave me a piece of paper I couldn't read because it was\nso badly and such an old machine or something. They did find some information on\nAbram Asher who served for four years. I have that correct, the correct\ninformation that I'll show you from a newspaper article that was written in\n1901. They couldn't find anything on Uncle Marks. We call him Uncle Marks\nbecause nobody could remember his first name. We did know that his last name was\nMarks because his sister's name was Marks. That is how I started this thing. I\nwanted to know. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now to try to find out something about Jacob Davis, the\ngrandfather, was absolutely impossible other than the fact that I knew from\nhearing conversation that my grandmother, my mother's mother, had two children,\nmy mother and a sister named Ernestine Burns who lived in Augusta, Georgia. My\ngrandfather had a big house in a little town in Burke County that was built in\n1870. This is a picture of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"house, and I'll tell you all about it. They used\nto, my mother lived in Augusta. Their family lived in Augusta. Her mother and\nher sister and my grandfather lived in Augusta. After, she used to have many\nhouse parties. I remember my mother telling us about the house parties they used\nto have down in Midville, Georgia, because it was there wasn't anything there\nexcept a sawmills and things like that. When my grandmother, and one of the\nguests was from Macon, Georgia, one of her girlfriends who was eighteen years\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"old. After my grandmother passed away, my Grandfather Davis at age forty-six\nmarried her, and that is the end of what I could find out about the Grandpa\nDavis. Bring me that Bible, will you please? \nLOWEINSTEIN: Mr. Asher, were they\nJewish? \nASHER: Yeah, I'm going to get to that. \nLOWEINSTEIN: Yeah, that's what I\nwondered, because . . . \nASHER: Now, I have asked many people from Macon, I said,\nwho did my, you know, Jacob Davis was my grandfather. Oh yes, we know that. Who\ndid he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"marry? Nobody, they knew, but they wouldn't say. I said, but doesn't\nanybody in Macon know anything about Jacob Davis? This is uncanny. My sister\nGladys passed away last year at the Jewish Home. She was married to Irving\nFreed, who was an old family in Macon. It was one of the oldest families there.\nAfter she passed away, her niece, had moved her from Macon up here to the Jewish\nHome where she stayed for about four years before she passed away. Incidentally,\nshe died the day that they thought I was going to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"die in Piedmont Hospital,\nMarch the 14 of 1989. In any event, she had her husband, Irving Freed, had a\nwonderful niece by marriage, one of his brothers. I asked her to take care of\neverything down in Macon that Gladys had and what not. She lived in the Macy\nApartments from the day it was built until we moved her up here in 1985, I\nthink, or 1984. She said she was a wonderful girl, what the hell is her name.\nThat was so well, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"don't even remember her name.\nLOWEINSTEIN: Patsy? \nASHER: Patsy Freed. I talked to her quite often about it, and I said, Patsy, about\nthree weeks ago, I said, \"Patsy, do me a favor. I'm just curious about him. I\nhave a lot of information about my father's family. I know who they were. I have\npractically nothing about Jacob Davis, who was my grandfather on my mother's\nside.\" She said, \"I didn't know that.\" I said, she said, \"But you know, in the\nMacon cemetery, they have a list of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everyone that was buried there, where they\nwere born and when they died.\" Last week, and I wrote this thing in 1980, last\nweek I received this from her. This is my father's penmanship. Didn't he have\nbeautiful penmanship? \nLOWEINSTEIN: Oh, that's beautiful. \nASHER: Self-educated\nman. He went to school in Europe until he was about fifteen, I think.\nLOWEINSTEIN: Look at that. That is marvelous. \nASHER: This is what Patsy sent me\nlast week, after eight years of trying to find out something about Grandpa\nDavis. \nLOWEINSTEIN: You want to read that? \nASHER: You see it? \nLOWEINSTEIN: I see\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it. ASHER: Yeah.\nLOWEINSTEIN: You want to read that so that everybody knows.\nASHER: The information . . . \nLOWEINSTEIN: Jacob Davis. \nASHER: The information I\nreceived about my mother's father and I finally got after many years of asking\nfriends in Macon if they ever heard of him, and fortunately the cemetery in\nMacon keeps a record of all of the people that are, where they are from and when\nthey were born and when buried. This is about my mother's father, Jacob Davis.\nHe was born in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Milleslough [sp], Prussia, on the 9 day of January, 1835. He died\nin Midville, Georgia, on May the 9, 1905. In other words, the old gentleman\nlived to be seventy years old. \nLOWEINSTEIN: I wonder how they all got over here?\nDo you know that? \nASHER: This [indistinct: 07:49]. Anyway, so much for Grandpa\nDavis. Now I'll give you a little sequel to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that before we get into the real\nimportant things. I'm only given to one hour. \nLOWEINSTEIN: You better give me a\nsecond hour another day. \nASHER: I don't want anything of this, Joel. I want you\nto ring the bell when . . . \nLOWEINSTEIN: He wants to ring the bell when the hour\nis gone. \nASHER: Anyway, about a couple of Christmases ago, near Christmas, I got\na telephone call. My name is something Chaplain, I believe she said, \"You don't\nknow me, but my mother said that you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wrote a book about the family, about my\ngrandfather, and she surely would like to have one.\" I said, \"Who is your\nmother?\" \"My mother, grandfather was Jacob Davis.\" I said, \"Well, Jacob Davis\nhappened to be my mother's father, and he's also my grandfather. Where does your\nmother live?\" \"Well, she lives in Albany, Georgia.\" I said, and she said, \"I\nmarried a gentile.\" I said, \"Well, some of my best friends are gentiles.\" She\nsaid, I said, \"Well, that's nothing against you.\" Why would your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mother want to\nknow, I don't know anything about Grandpa Davis. No one seems to want to say\nanything about him, other than the fact they were interested in his money, but\nthey were not interested in anything else because I, here it is, I'm in my\neighties, and I haven't found out yet anything about him other than the fact\nthat on his first marriage, my mother was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on February\nthe 26, 1863. He was in the, had just returned from service, was wounded, and in\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1864 Mr. Sherman and his group of friends removed all the people from Atlanta\nand sent them to Macon. My grandfather, as I was told, and I said this is all,\nI'm repeating what I have been told because nothing has ever been written about\nour grandfather. He was in business on Marietta Street, and the name of the firm\nwas Davis \u0026 Marks. Marks happened to be his brother-in-law, and his name was, I\nthink he had a first name. We called him Uncle Marks. In any event, when Sherman\ncame ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Atlanta, everybody in Atlanta that could move moved, and fortunately my\ngrandfather's business was a livery business. As you well know, Atlanta was one\nof the, was the largest distributor of livestock in the South, next to St.\nLouis. They loaded up all the wagons that they had and all of the livestock and\nstarted a caravan to Augusta, Georgia. It took them nine days to go from Atlanta\nto Augusta. As my mother told ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"us, that when they reached Decatur, which is only\nfive or six miles from Atlanta incidentally, Decatur was larger than Atlanta,\nthe caravan stopped and looked back, and couldn't even see the end of the line\nof the group that was going to Augusta, but they could see the flames that were\nburning Atlanta. After nine days on the road to Augusta, my mother had a sister.\nHer name was Ernestine Davis, who later married a man by the name of Burns.\nThat's as much as I know about that part of it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I do know that the beginning of\nthe real store of my grandfather, actually it began in August after the Civil\nWar. This I know only from memory. Nothing has ever been found that was written.\nUnfortunately, later years when my parents decided to leave Georgia. My father\nwas offered a partnership in St. Louis with a friend who was also born in the\nsame city, town in Prussia that he was born in, to go in the importing silk\nbusiness. They ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"moved from Augusta to St. Louis, and had stored everything in\nAugusta until they could find a home. While in Augusta, everything that they\nstored was burned in a very big fire. In any event, our mother told us many\ntimes that she went to St. Louis with four children, she came back with seven. I\nwas born in Augusta in 1901 after they came back, naturally. Also, that the\nreason they left St. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Louis after living there for eight years was that it was\ntoo hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. My father couldn't stand the\nweather, and neither could she. She wanted to come back south. He didn't know\nwhat he was going to do because he was my father's, my mother speaking now, my\nfather's bookkeeper. There was some unpleasantness in the family after my father\npassed away, this is what my mother was telling us. Later on, I learned just by\nconversation and keeping my ears open what was the riff all ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about. As usual, it\ncame about inheritance. My grandfather had accumulated a tremendous amount of\nproperty in several counties in Georgia. He had a home in Augusta, which was\nleft to my mother's sister; and he had a home and evidently cash in Macon,\nGeorgia, which was left to the second wife. I'm assuming that was one of the\nreasons. Now let's get back to the real story of why and how we got to a town\nthat had a population of less than five ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hundred in 1906. My Grandfather Davis,\nafter returning to Augusta incidentally, that is where he started, in Augusta.\nWe don't know how he got to Atlanta unless he walked or rode mule over here. He\ndid marry Anna Marks in Augusta, and brought along his brother-in-law to go in\nbusiness in Atlanta, which was Davis \u0026 Mark A story that I remember as told to\nus many times, and incidentally I had four brothers and three sisters. I'm the\nyoungest of eight, and the last one of that generation ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"alive of any of the\nfamilies. I've lived longer than any of the Asher family that originally came\nfrom that part of Prussia. He told his wife, he says, \"I'm leaving Augusta\ntomorrow. I'm taking my driver. I'm taking provisions. I don't know when I'm\ncoming back.\" He says, \"I do know I don't want to live in Augusta. I don't want\nto go in business here. I know what I want to do, and if I can find it, I'm\ngoing to do it.\" He didn't tell her what he wanted to do. He had in mind to go\nto drive in Georgia and find a railroad that went from Atlanta, Georgia, to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Savannah, Georgia, a straight line. There were, he drove several days. The story\nhe told when he got back was \"All I saw was pine trees and cotton crops. I knew\nthat cotton was something I did not want to get involved in. I was interested in\nseeing so many pine trees, so that when I got to a place called 96, there was a\nrailroad track. I don't know how many miles it was from Augusta, because we had\nno way of measuring it. It took us about six days to get there, stopping all\nalong the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"way. Ninety-five percent of the people we talked to were Blacks, and a\nfew very wealthy White farmers who had plantations of thousands of acres. In\nthose days, they were sharecropper days. I went, they told me where the railroad\nwas. It was at the end of Burke County, on the line of Burke County and Emanuel\nCounty, right on the Old Gitchee [sp] River. The finest fishing in Georgia was\nin Midville. The finest bird hunting in Georgia was right out of Midville. That\nwas why these people liked to live there. They controlled everything.\"\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Incidentally, there was a place called Birdsville that may be in existence\ntoday. I'm not sure. It was owned by the Law family, and they kept it in the\nsame condition that it was in before the Civil War and after the Civil War. It\nwas only six miles from where I lived. We used to go there many times. He was\ngone for eight or ten days. I don't recall exactly. Came back to Augusta and he\ntold my grandmother, \"I know where I'm going. I found the place I want to go\nto.\" She said, \"What did you find?\" He says, \"I found pine trees. I want to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"go\nin the turpentine business. I want to go in the rosin business. I understand\nthere's a big demand for rosin.\" Do you know what rosin is? \"In England, if I\ncan get the kegs to put the rosin in, I will build the sawmills and start this\nbusiness.\" There wasn't any doubt in my mind from the way that my mother\nremembered it, that she was quite young at the time, that if he said that was,\ncoming from Prussia, if that's what he said he was going to do, that was the way\nit was going to be done. He left home, went back to this area, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"began to buy\nthousands of acres of pine land, not one acre of cotton. I know you are quite\nfamiliar with these places because a lot of people visit them. One of the\nsawmills was six miles from Midville, called Hearndon, Hearndon, Georgia. You\nknow where Hearndon is. Another one was just a mile or so from Midville. The\nthird one was in Jefferson County called Gertrude. You know a girl named\nGertrude. I used to know one. I never heard of Gertrude, and the only thing that\nwas there was this sawmill and turpentine still. You see, they would, when I was\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"older, I used to ride out on a buckboard with the men who would have these cups\nthat they put on the pine trees and take the full cups of turpentine and pour it\nin these cans, you know, vats, and put an empty one there. I did that as a child\nmany times. They'd take that back and that was boiled into tar. He would ship it\nto, he had a connection in Savannah, and he would ship it to Savannah and\nevidently accumulated a very sizeable fortune. After he married ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the second time,\nmy father decided to, not to live in Augusta, but to make up with Grandpa\nbecause he was the only one that could write English. Not Grandfather couldn't\nwrite English. Uncle Marks, I don't think, could spell it. He went back as his\nbookkeeper. Of course, that meant that he married the boss's daughter. He did\nthat many years before. Would commute between this little country town and\nAugusta, until my grandfather passed away in 1905. The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family then moved to this\nhome that I will show you in the big city of Midville. That is my grandfather's\nhome here built in, I can't read without my glasses. \nLOWEINSTEIN: 1870. ASHER:\n1870. It was a, now France and I remember the home so well because I had lived\nin it for, from 1906 to about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1915 when my father built this home which was\nfourteen rooms, and that's the house I lived in, that our family lived in, and\nhe sold the house of my grandfather. The property that my grandfather's home was\non, I wish I could describe it correctly. I do remember it as an interesting\nhouse, with a large basement. In those days we did have quick tornadoes as they\ncalled them, and we'd all, my mother would gather all of us, seven or eight\nchildren, whatever was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"home, and go to the basement. The house had two large\nbedrooms, and the upstairs had a large dormitory for the boys, you might say. I\nhad four brothers at that time. The boys, the females lived downstairs, and the\nmales lived upstairs. No electricity, no telephone, no running water in the\nhouse. We did have a well later on. I was trying to impress upon the young\npeople that the way I was brought up, we didn't listen to radio or television,\nor use a telephone or use a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"toilet because there wasn't any there to use. You\nwent out in the back yard where you had a four-holer. That was not very nice in\ncold weather. The only difference . . . the only thing that was alright about\nthat, Grandpa's house, was that those four big rooms downstairs, off of that\nwent a ramp. I remember it as if it was sitting out there today, that you walked\ndown, and as you went down that ramp, the first little building had what they\ncalled a food store. In there my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father used to buy, order everything from\nSavannah, because the line came up there. Barrel of flour, barrel of meal, or\ncase of, not cocoa, ginger ale, or something, Welch's grape juice, sugar, and\nall that was stored here. Right next to that was another little building with\nrunning water that came from our well and went to keep the milk cool. Next to\nthat was a woodshed and next to that was the kitchen. Now the kitchen was at the\nend of the ramp on the right-hand side. Those ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"four rooms were all down there,\nand the servants used to bring the food outside to bring it up to the house. At\nthe very end here was where the cook and her husband lived, and across from her\nthe yard man and the maid lived. The whole area was fenced in by a white picket\nfence, and in the front yard were pear trees and we called them camellias then,\nand you call them camellias now and we called them jeponikas [sp] then. My\nmother was very, very well versed on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"flowers and stars. She taught us a lot\nabout stars. She knew more than any person I've ever met that could really tell\nyou about the big dipper, the little dipper, and this, and Halley's Comet and so\nforth. I remember we had to get up at certain times of the night to see this or\nsee that. She was a well-educated lady and a perfect individual in many ways. My\nmother was a, we had no, yes, we were Jews, born ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jews, but there wasn't, the\nonly churches in the town later on was a Baptist Church and a Methodist Church.\nThe minister of the Methodist Church was a well-educated man by the name of\nSamford, John Samford. He was a close friend of my father's. As a result, we\nwent to Sunday School. We went to Prayer Meeting. We went to the services when\nMr. Samford performed. My mother gave the property for the new Methodist Church\nto the church. We did not belong, as you might say, members ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the church, but\nwe were contributors to the church. In this little booklet, I will tell you what\nI mean by that. We took part in everything. We were the only Jewish family in\nthe community. They didn't know, nobody ever known any, never heard of, I never\nheard any semblance of antisemitism or anything like that. My father was a\nmason. My older brother became a mason in that town. My father was the mayor of\nthe town after it got to have a few more people. The story that my mother used\nto like to tell us was the fact that he said ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"after her father passed away,\n\"We'll go down to that little country town and get rid of all that property and\nmove back to Atlanta.\" It didn't turn out that way. He went there, back as a, he\nwas the bookkeeper, and he saw the possibility of cotton. See, cotton was king.\nBurke County was the number one cotton-producing county in the State of Georgia.\nThey had cotton buyers from, all of the big companies had offices in this little\ncountry town. There were several in the county of Bird County, there were\nseveral, oh, I'd ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"say four or five millionaires, all big landowners, you know,\nbig plantations, with sharecroppers mostly. He never, they never bought any land\nfor cotton. He decided that it was such a prosperous town. We had three banks\nthere. Three banks at one time. It was the cotton headquarters for, actually,\nfor any of the small towns, and it was only six hundred and some odd White\npeople there. About three hundred Blacks. The county ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had seven Blacks to every\none White. Cotton was bringing such a big price that it was a prosperous\ncommunity. My father decided he'd build some buildings there. He put up some\nstores, and I have the pictures of them. He built six stores, then he built\nthree more, then he built the bank building, he built the post office, built a\nlittle doctor's office, and then he built a moving picture place, and then he\ndecided to go into building some houses for rent. My mother had inherited from\nUncle ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Marks everything that he had, which was what we used to call shotgun\nhouses that rented for eight dollars a month. All of his interest in Davis \u0026\nMarks and whatever cash he had, well all of his possessions, he left to my\nmother because he took all of his meals at our house. He lived just around the\ncorner. We don't know whom- he lived with, but he lived there. I left, I\ngraduated from, I'll back up a minute. Bird County had the finest, one of the\nfinest school systems in the State of Georgia. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"graduated from high school\nthere when I was fifteen years old. On June the 2 of 1916, when I was to give\nthe valedictorian address, I was in the University Hospital in Augusta, Georgia,\nfighting for my life. I had peritonitis and fortunately we had three good\ndoctors in this little country town. Again, I was lucky, there was a train, a\nrailroad built from Augusta to Sandford, Florida, by a man that lived outside of\nMidville, and my brother was his secretary, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one of my oldest brothers. The train\ngot there around eleven o'clock in the morning, and I was in the baggage car of\nthat train on the way to Augusta, and was operated on in the University Hospital\nthat afternoon at four o'clock, in an unusual position because the Dr. Harry\nGoodridge, who did the operation, immediately knew that poison had set in and\nthere was no, they didn't have these drugs today that you can get, you know.\nLOWEINSTEIN: Antibiotics, penicillin. \nASHER: Antibiotics, and I was strapped to\nthe bed in that position for two ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"weeks. That saved my life. I stayed in the\nhospital two months. My mother stayed, had a room across the hall from me.\nFortunately, we had, my aunt lived in Augusta in a large house up on the hill,\nand the doctors said, \"You can get out of the hospital, but I'm not going to\nclose this wound completely.\" I stayed at my aunt's house for a month, and went\nback for the second operation. When I came home, back to the town, was when I\nwent and saw the new house. This was when I moved into the big house. That was\nmy room up there. We had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"five bedrooms upstairs. We had one bedroom downstairs.\nWe had a living room. We had a music room. We had a library. We had a dining\nroom. You can't see all of it on here, it goes off on the back with a pantry and\nall that stuff that goes with it; and also a big place in the back where we had\ncows and pigs and et cetera. I was, the war came along in 19, I had four\nbrothers, three brothers. One of my oldest brother, Jack, who was a professional\nsinger with the Keith Vaudeville circuit, had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just signed to go to Hollywood\nwith Adolph Zucca [sp] when he had a heart attack on the train and died. He was\nthirty-one years old. I'll show you his picture. That was quite a blow to us. He\npassed away in 1915, I think the day that I was somewhere along in there.\nAnyway, when I got home from the hospital, I was greeted. My father came in and\nwas very, didn't look to have a smile, and he said, \"Well, I want to tell you,\nson, the money I saved to send you to college, I spent to save your life.\" I\nsaid, \"Well, that's good enough ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for me.\" I didn't go to college. I went to work.\nI knew that my three brothers, living brothers, brother called Red, he was, he\nhad come back home and was secretary to Mr. Allen Jones who owned the railroad;\nand another brother was a cashier of a bank, and my third brother stayed with my\nfather and operated the picture show. When the war was, two of my brothers were\nstationed here in Atlanta at Camp Gordon. I went to visit them on Christmas\nholidays in 1917. A terrible epidemic, flu epidemic, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember. Then I went on\nup to a place called Bethlehem in Georgia to see my other brother who was a\ncashier at the bank. I think they had about a hundred and fifty people living\nthere. I went back to Midville and stayed about six or eight months. There was\nnothing, absolutely nothing there because a boll weevil had arrived and cleaned\nout everything. Those millionaires that were millionaires were doing exactly the\nsame thing that my father was doing: trying to get rid of property. Having a lot\nof property, he managed to sell off several thousand acres of pine land because\nthe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"army needed lumber. That's how. I came back, I left there and came to\nAtlanta, stayed up here, and went from job to job because they were not hiring\nanybody right after the war. I hadn't been in, I tried to join the army, but\nthey wouldn't take me. Any event, my sister got married in Midville, in February\nof 1919, married a man from Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas. Incidentally, their\ndaughter was at the wedding: Jean Pride from Mobile. She's my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"niece. I left for\ngood, never went back. It was the first time that I ever, my father was a very\ntall man, and it was the first time that I ever saw him with tears in his eyes\nHe was a very strong man, when I went to the train and I said goodbye, and he\nsaid, \"When are you coming back?\" I said, \"Never.\" I didn't know what I was\ngoing to do, but I got on the train, came to Atlanta, tried again to get a job,\nbut didn't, and went to Little Rock, and couldn't get one. I went to Hot Springs\nwhere my sister was living, because the doctor told me that at some point it\nwould be a good idea for me to go to Hot ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Springs and take the baths. I went\nthere and took the baths. Then I went back to Little Rock and got a job with\nKempner selling shoes. My father passed away here with heart trouble in 1920,\nand I came back to Atlanta, and I've been here ever since. I have very bad\nhistory of heart disease. My father had to go from this little country town all\nthe way to Cleveland, Ohio, to Dr. Crawl [sp] who was a very famous heart\nspecialist. It's now called the Cleveland Clinic, I think, for hearts My oldest\nbrother, thirty-one years old, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and was going to Hollywood, died with heart\ntrouble. My second oldest brother, thirty-seven years old, died of heart\ntrouble. My third one and the fourth one. My doctor, who I had here for forty\nyears, Dr. Lenvil Giddings, also we had his father was our doctor, said to me\nwhen I went to work at Rich's. I was well paid. I got thirty-five cents an hour.\nYou didn't work by the hour or by the day, you worked by the time the job was\nsupposed to be done, and you quit when you got complete. I got a job as a stock\nboy. Then worked a little harder and stayed on Whitehall Street in that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"store\nfor three years, and then we moved over on Broad and Alabama. I was very\nfortunate. After my father passed away, my one brother was a sales manager for a\nhosiery job, hosiery company, and the other one had, all had good jobs and we\nlived on a, in a new apartment on North Boulevard where everybody at that time\nwas moving because there was a big fire in Atlanta, I think around 1916 or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1917,\nand this was all new, first new apartments, nice apartment. We lived there, I\nlived there for, used to spend a nickel to go to work on the streetcar and a\nnickel to come home, and thirty-five cents for lunch. I lived there for about\nseven, eight years. Then I moved out and lived at the Carps Kosin [sp]\nApartments. It was a bachelor apartment here. Later on, I happened to meet a\nyoung girl by the name of Helen Elsas in 1932. Proposed to her on Thanksgiving\nof ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1932, and we got married on February the 15 of 1933. Now let's stop for a\nwhile. I want to show you something. \nLOWEINSTEIN: This was Tape Number 1 of Joe\nAsher on March 2, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1990, for the Jewish Oral History Program of Atlanta, for the\nAtlanta Federation, AJC [American Jewish Committee], and National Council of Jewish Women, and I'm Joel\nLowenstein. I never had time to do an intro on the tape because Mr. Asher\nstarted right in talking and it's been delightful. I've got Tape Number 2, which\nis coming shortly. \nLOWEINSTEIN: Continued interview with Mr. Joe Asher on March\nthe 2, 1990. \nASHER: I want you to, you ready? \nLOWEINSTEIN: Uh-huh. \nASHER: I want\nyou to know that in writing this wonderful book which has such a large demand,\nit was difficult in trying to find the exact time that my ancestors came to\nAmerica. All information that I could get was sort of handed down mouth to mouth\nfrom generation to generation. All seemed to think that the first family of\nAsher's arrived in Augusta, Georgia, around ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1790. I have no way of proving that\nbecause I can't find any document that would give me that information. The only\nother thing is I do have some information about an early settler by the name of\nJacob Asher that was in Augusta in early 1850. In fact, I have a piece of paper\nshowing his name on it with a named, where a name on Telfair. Street in Augusta\nwas named Asher's Corner for evidently my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"great uncle or great great uncle Jacob\nAsher. He was a hero during a very serious flood. Augusta was noted for many\nfloods, and that happened to be just one of them. It is quite possible that he\nwas the uncle of my father, therefore he would be my great uncle, or he could be\nthe first generation that came to America, or the second generation. I don't\nknow. That's all I know about that. However, I do know that from then on,\neverything is correct. \nLOWEINSTEIN: We left off with you . . . \nLOWEINSTEIN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This\nis Joel Lowenstein. It is March the 5, 1990, continuing with my interview with\nMr. Joe Asher for the Oral History Program of Atlanta for American Jewish\nCommittee, NCJW [The National Council of Jewish Women], and the Federation. Now\ntell me what you just told me. \nASHER: I am the last of the Asher family. I'm the\noldest. I was the, I'm eighty-nine years old. As you have probably said before,\nI was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"born in Augusta, Georgia. Someone asked me why was I born in Augusta and\nmy mother was born in Atlanta. It just happened that she happened to be there\nwhen I was born. Any event, we lived there for a number of years, and after my\ngrandfather passed away in his little village of Midville, Georgia, we stayed in\nAugusta for a while and then moved there, and lived in Grandpa's house from 1907\nuntil 1915, when my father built a very large home with five bedrooms upstairs\nwith one bath, and a bedroom ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"downstairs because he, for he and my mother. They\nhad one bath. In addition to that, a living room, a music room, a library, and a\ndining room that had to seat ten at one time because there were eight children\nand my parents; and several other rooms connecting for the, there was the\nkitchen, the store room, the wood room, et cetera. In 1917, I knew or felt\nrather that the small towns were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on the way out, and World War I was over. I had\ntwo brothers, an older brother Julian, another brother Ernest who was well known\nas Red, who was a secretary to the owner of the railroad between Augusta and\nSandford, Florida, Georgia \u0026 Florida Railroad, and his home was six miles from\nwhere we lived. He also had a hundred acre farm where he was one of the pioneers\nof long staple cotton. He never made any money off of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it. The fact of the\nmatter, he never made any money off of anything. Any event, I left the great\ncity of Midville after my father had built six stores, and then occupied three\nof them including a picture show for my other brother that remained home. Then\nlater on built a bank, post office, and a little small office for a doctor, and\nseveral other buildings. My mother thought at the time we moved from Augusta to\nthis country town of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Midville that we would only stay there long enough to\ndispose of the property and move back to Atlanta where she always wanted to\nlive. It didn't work out that way. We had to stay there until after World War\nII. I left there, I left Midville when I was seventeen years old, not knowing\nexactly where I was going. I didn't go to college because I had had a serious\noperation. That's in the . . . \nLOWEINSTEIN: That's, yes. \nASHER: My father spent\nquite a bit of money to save my life, which I was very fortunate. I was always\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"told by our mother that everything happens for the best. I guess the fact that I\ndidn't go to the University of Georgia at the age of sixteen in order to become\na lawyer, I never would have gotten to Atlanta and met the most wonderful human\nbeing in the world, my wife as of present time fifty-seven years, and Helen\nElsas Asher is also the mother of two sons. I'm the father, real father. Norman\nElsas Asher is now fifty-five ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years old, and has been with Rich's for\ntwenty-three years, twenty-seven years. I made a mistake. He's a graduate of\nCornell University; also his prep school at Asheville, North Carolina. Our other\nson, Thomas Joseph Asher, a graduate of Cornell, and prep school of Asheville,\nan Asheville school in Asheville, North Carolina. Both boys each of the boys,\nyou correct these things as we go along, have a very good background. Norman's\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wife, Barbara Miller, he met at Bloomingdale's when he, where he worked after he\ngraduated from Cornell. They have two children, Lee Elsas Asher and Helen Lisa\nAsher. Incidentally, Helen was married on February the 17, 1990, at the Temple\nhere in Atlanta. Beautiful wedding, and a very beautiful bride, in spite of the\nfact she's my granddaughter. My son Tom married a girl ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he met at Cornell. Her\nname is Spring Savatt [sp] Asher. They are fortunate to have three children: Joe\nSavatt Asher who at the present time is working for the Gannett Newspapers in\nWestchester, New York. He married a girl from Cornell by the name of Jo Hannah\nCuster. At the present time they have no children, but they do have a wonderful\nbulldog named Ben. Hugh Savatt Asher is not married. He graduated from Tulane\n[University] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"last year, and is now in a training program at Robertson Humphrey\nCompany, a brokerage firm in which his father, Tom, is one of the\nvice-presidents. Juliette, our granddaughter, of Tom and Spring, graduated from\nWellesley [College ]in 1986, and decided that she wanted to be a doctor. She enrolled in\nEmory University here, Medical School, and remained for two years, and spent one\nyear at Brown, then decided to take ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a leave of absence from college and do\nsomething different on the outside world. She got a job with a company that\nmakes medical instruments manufactured in England, and was with them a very\nshort time before they sent her over to Europe to the factory because she was\nsuch a bright young lady. I guess she takes after her mother. They were very\npleased to have her. She remained there one year, and made up her mind after\nthat that she wanted to get back into medicine. At the present time, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Juliette,\nage twenty-five, is at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, New York City, where\nshe is taking, hoping to finish her courses in medicine and later become a\nregistered nurse or doctor, one or the other, probably a doctor. Who knows?\nShe's a beautiful girl, even if she is our granddaughter. Very bright. Made\ngreat marks at Wellesley, where her grandmother Helen went and also made\nwonderful ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"marks. You can see that of the five grandchildren, and two\ndaughter-in-laws, one grand daughter-in-law, two grandsons, I have a well\neducated family in spite of the fact that I didn't go to college. I went to\nwork. I had a plaque in my office at Rich's, where it was the only place I ever\nworked for fifty years, that read: \"A college education never hurt anyone\nprovided they were willing to learn something after they graduated.\" I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tried to\nimpress this upon all of the young people that we recruited from various\ncolleges to train in Rich's executive training course. Fortunately, we got some\nvery bright young people. Like most of those that were bright, they had sense\nenough to know that retailing was a difficult job and not for them. As a result,\nI think the mortality rate of our twenty that we recruited each year for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"many\nyears, maybe fifty percent would last two years. I don't know how many of them\nare there now, since I retired twenty years ago. I went to work at Rich's when I\nwas nineteen, a little over nineteen years old. I needed a job. The only job I\nhad before that was in Little Rock, Arkansas, where I finally got out there\nbecause I was visiting my sister who was married and lived in Hot Springs. I\nworked for a shoe company, Kempner Shoe Store. I was there about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a year, the\nyear of 19, August, 1920, and part of 1919. My father passed away in Atlanta in\nNovember of 1920. The rest of the family had moved up to Atlanta a year before\nthat. I went to Rich's, as I said before, many times to try to get a job.\nShortly after the war, jobs were hard to get. Most of the employers were loyal\nenough to take back, put back to work rather ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"those who had gone into the war.\nThey were number one. I kept going back and back, and then went to several other\nstores. There was no opportunity at any of the other stores in Atlanta for my\nknowledge, which was very limited, in the retail business. Finally, around\nNovember of 1921, I received a call to come to Rich's to fill out an\napplication, which I did. The only job open at that time was a part-time job as\na ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"combination stock boy/salesman, and whatever else was necessary to do the job\nthat I was getting a pretty good salary for. In fact, it was thirty-five cents\nan hour. Went to work at eight in the morning, the store opened at eight-thirty\nand closed at five-thirty in the evening. That didn't mean anything. That meant\nthat you were paid for nine hours a day except that you were paid for nine hours\na day, you may have to stay there 'til about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"seven or eight o'clock or later\nstraightening, I did, straightening merchandise on the floor, or going back up\nto the receiving room and hauling goods down for the next day. We were well\ncompensated for our night work. We were getting thirty-five cents for supper\nmoney at a very fine restaurant next door to Rich's, Thompsons. The food was not\nbad, and I couldn't complain about the, I wouldn't complain about the money\nbecause I was afraid there were sixteen people waiting to take ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my job. I liked\nit. I was not only there at eight o'clock in the morning, but I think I helped\nopen the store every morning around six-thirty or seven o'clock. My pay started\nat eight o'clock. Nevertheless, it was a wonderful experience. At 1921, Rich's\nwas not the leading store in Atlanta as far as fashion was concerned. It was the\nleading store in Atlanta for service, quality, and good management. Several\nother stores ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did as much business as Rich's at that time: Chaerman Johnson\nDubbles [sp] which was a very beautiful store on Whitehall Street where we were\nalso located; the D.A.M. High Company was just two doors beyond us; across the\nstreet was Davison Paxon and Stokes, which is now known as Macy's; stores like\nJ.P. Allen, Bic's, Stewart's, and many more, were all on Whitehall Street. It\nwas after 1924 before a female could buy a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pair of stockings or anything of\npersonal use across the bridge, as we used to say. Everything for females was\nsold on Whitehall Street. Rich's new store opened at Broad and Alabama, which\nwas just one block away from the store on Whitehall Street, on March the 5,\n1924. Just a few days before the store opened, our General Manager, Mr. Lutchie\n[sp] York, passed away. He had been with the company since he was about twenty\nyears old, I think since, almost since M. Rich \u0026 Brothers Company was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"founded.\nHe was one of the few outsiders that had any stock in the company. He was a\nwonderful man, especially with a rifle, because many nights when I was working,\nhe would come down and sit on a counter and shoot rats. We had a little\ncafeteria on the first floor of the store, and I think we had more rats for\ncustomers than we did live people. You don't have to put that in there. ASHER: I\nmeant to tell you that in the old store on Whitehall Street, there was only one\npassenger elevator ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"operated by the hydraulic system with water. About two or\nthree times a week, the elevator would fall, and you could hear the screams all\nover the first floor. No one got excited because it could never fall too far,\nand it never fell, it was not too fast. If you had never been on it before when\nit fell, you did get excited. No one of the sales people, we never even looked\nup. We just, if a customer said, \"What's happening?\", we said, \"Nothing. The\nelevator's falling, but that doesn't mean anything.\" That's true. LOWEINSTEIN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No one ever got hurt?\nASHER: Never. [indistinct: 45:01] now. It took us, I was\ntwenty-one years old when I made my first trip to New York as Assistant Buyer to\nthe General Merchandise Manager of all ladies' accessories. I convinced the\npowers that be that Rich's should put in a men's department in the new store.\nThey thought I had enough sense, I guess, to know what I was talking about\nbecause we had so many calls for certain things for menswear ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the old store\nthat I made a list of them. They did allow me as a stock boy, anything you want\nto call it, and then I was a helper or salesman when they, we only had one other\nperson in the area, a lady whose husband was the head of the Federal\nPenitentiary. I was the number two salesman, and she was number one, because\nthere were two of us. We had calls for, I convinced them if we put in some\nthings for men, which we did. We had night shirts. We had separate long drawers\nand ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"undershirts. I think other than those three items, because the ladies'\nunderwear department was just a counter across, that was all we could carry. In\nNovember of 1923, the year before we moved into the new store, I made up a list\nof items that I thought we should stock for the holidays, and showed them to my\nboss. They added up to about eight or nine thousand dollars, such as clip-on\nties, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hosiery, men's hosiery, belts and buckles, handkerchiefs, and men's\nsweaters. He had to get it okayed by Mr. Dave Strauss who was the Executive\nVice-President and treasurer of the company because that was a lot of money for\na young jake to want to spend on something that they didn't think I knew\nanything about, and they were right. They accepted the plan. In fact, they\nallowed me to go to New York with the head of the division. We were called\nDivision 5, 5-B. I don't know what, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in those days, everything was either a\nnumber or an alphabet letter. Any event, I was a hero at Christmas. My\ntwenty-foot counter and three or four tables had the largest increase of any of\nthe accessory departments on the street floor, and the eight-thousand-dollar\ninvestment, original investment, turned in, we reordered several times, and it\nwasn't too difficult to get goods in because there were several very large\nwholesale places on Pryor Street in Atlanta. We could ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"buy something today and\nhave it shipped and they'd have it in the store the next morning. I think we did\naround thirty thousand dollars in December in that little space. I was a big\nshot. When this new store was planned, they never showed me any plans for any\nmen's wear, furnishings. I made out a plan anyway of the type of merchandise I\nthought we could, we should put in the new store. They finally showed me the\nplans, took me over to the building, showed me the plans there. They had made\nout one aisle which was, they thought was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"large enough for a men's furnishing\ndepartment, because we had no men's furnishings at that particular time as such.\nThe leading men's stores in town were getting all of the men's business. We had\nso many calls at the old store for certain things like men's shirts, and ties,\nand various things. In any event, I went to New York. I was twenty-one years\nold, scared to death. I had a merchandise man that was not particularly\ninterested in quality. He was more interested in price. I was just the opposite.\nI was interested in quality at a price. As a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"result, we had many disagreements,\nbut most of the times he let me win because he always said, \"Well you know so\nmuch. You've been in this business at least a year and I've been in it thirty\nyears. Maybe you're right and I'm wrong.\" To prove that somebody was right, in\n1930, he was fired, and I got his job. In 1930 to 1936 in the new store, Broad\nand Alabama. Most of our customers in those days were not on the north side of\nAtlanta but from the west end. West end had a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lot of money, people, lovely\nhomes, and north side was just being developed by the bankers and the very\nwealthy aristocrats, so to speak, and they owned most of the property out where\nnow is, which is now Buckhead. All that was owned by a very few families and\nthey were tremendous estates. The house that we are in right now was owned by a\nfamily. They had, it was two or three hundred acres in this property. It was\nused for their hunting ground. Now it's a large division with houses in the\nmillion dollar class upward. In ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1936, was a wonderful first big year Rich's had.\nIt was a sad year, sad ending for me in a way because the man that was always\nvery willing to listen to my ideas about expanding men's wear was Mr. Dave\nStrauss. Mr. Strauss, as I mentioned before, was Executive Vice-President,\nfinancial genius for the store. He lived, we had gotten married, I was married\nin 1933 to Helen Elsas Asher, and we had moved to Druid Hills. Mr. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Strauss\nlived, we lived on Springville Road and Mr. Strauss lived on Fairview Road. I\nused to take him home every evening. He would, when the store closed, he would\nwait until I went home. Not too long before Christmas of 1936, his wife had\npassed away. He had two daughters, Davie and Marie; very young at the time. From\nthe day that Mrs. Strauss passed away, I could see the change in this man. One\nday he told me, he called and had his secretary call me, he wanted to see me in\nhis ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"office. I didn't know whether they were going to fire me or give me a raise\nbecause he was not an easy person to talk to. If you had a problem that you\nthought he would be interested in, fine, but no small talk. I couldn't\nunderstand what he wanted with me. When I got up there, his secretary said, \"Mr.\nStrauss wants you to, wants to talk to you.\" I came in, and he got up from his\ndesk. He had a big roll-top desk. I remember it very distinctly. He closed the\ndoor. He didn't, he went over to his desk. He spoke with a slight German accent,\nand he said, \"I want you to see what I do, what my job here at Rich's is. I've\nbeen here since ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1900. Walter Rich and I came to work at the same time. Although\nWalter was a nephew, I was not related at that time. Later on, my brother did\nmarry Walter's sister, Ruby Rich, who was Mr. Morris Rich's niece.\" He pulled\nout all of the invoices for the purchases that were made by the buyers in the\nstore. There were quite a stack of them. He said, \"No bill is paid until I look\nat it. You know why? Because there are so many dumb buyers. You're probably one\nof them.\" He said, \"That's not directed at you, but you don't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have time to do\nthe things that I am going to show you that I do. My responsibility as Treasurer\nof this company is to make money, is to save money.\" We have today systems that\nare put on by the people you buy merchandise from. 2/10, 60 days. He said to me,\n\"Do you know what 2/10, 60 days means?\" I said, \"I guess it means you get two\npercent in sixty days.\" He said, \"Right. I don't do that. I pay, I get three\npercent ten days. I don't wait for sixty days. Some manufacturers will send the\ncheck back, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I send a check back there with an order and tell them, either\nkeep the check or we don't buy from you. Nobody has ever returned a check.\" He\nsaid, \"The money today that is made in the retail business in Rich's and other\nstores is made by discounts.\" He said, \"If ready-to-wear is eight percent,\n[indistinct: 52:20 ] in a month.\" He said, \"That's the number one profit maker\nbecause I take a little more and I get it. I take discount on every bill. If\nthey send, I get a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bill up here net ten days, I don't pay net ten days. I take\none percent one day, and no check has ever been returned. That's why I want you\nto look at your invoices from now on before you put your name on it. Every\ninvoice here is signed by a buyer, and [indistinct: 52:46]. Cut that off. \nASHER: At that particular meeting with Mr. Strauss, which was the first part of\nDecember of 1936, he said, I said, \"We're going to do a hundred thousand dollars\nthis month, Mr. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Strauss, in furnishings.\" He says, \"I don't believe it. You\nalways exaggerate.\" I said, \"No, I think we'll do it.\" He says, \"If you do a\nhundred thousand dollars in the month of December, I'll give you a nice\npresent.\" I said, \"Well, that's very nice of you, but I feel confident that we\ncan do it.\" Every night that he, during the month of December, the store didn't\nstay open after six o'clock, he would come down and wait for me to take him\nhome. the reason I said it was a wonderful year and a sad year is because of\nwhat I'm going to tell you now. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I took him home that night, and he said, \"Here's\nyour present. You're over a hundred thousand now.\" I said, \"That's wonderful,\nMr. Strauss. I thought we'd do a hundred thousand.\" He said, \"Well, you're over\na hundred thousand, and you're the first buyer that has been able to come in\nwith figures and knew what they were talking about.\" That was the end of the\nconversation of a few moments. The gift that he gave me, I didn't open up, but I\nknew what it was. It was a box of cigars. He always smoked a Antonio Cleopatra\nANC cigar. Every now and then ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he'd give me one on the way home for taking him\nhome. When we got to his house, he said, \"I'm going to leave tomorrow for\nHollywood, Florida.\" He says, \"You know, Minnie and I always spent the holidays\nin Florida. Minnie isn't here anymore.\" I said, \"Mr. Strauss, I hope you have a\nvery pleasant trip and the weather's good.\" He said, \"What difference does it\nmake?\" He got out of the car, and he said, \"Goodbye Joey,\" he never said Joe,\nand left. Forty-eight hours later, Mr. Dave Strauss had passed away. It was the\nbiggest shock that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I've ever had in my life, except when my father passed away\nsuddenly. The man died of a broken heart. He could not and did not want to live\nafter Minnie had passed away. He left two daughters. Of course, the store was\nvery upset because he was such a great merchant, such a great financial man.\nBefore his financial training, in spite of his accent, was with the best bank in\nthe City of Atlanta, where he worked for quite a while before he, he was sixty\nyears old in 1936. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was a pallbearer at his funeral. I missed the man. In fact,\nI didn't know what I was going to do without him. Fortunately, Rich's had Mr.\nWalter Rich who was one of the finest gentleman and an outstanding fashion\nmerchant who brought in, or continued on the merchandising end, and Mr. Frank\nNeely who was brought into the company in 1925 who was formerly the head of the\nbuilding of the factories of the Fulton Bag \u0026 Cotton Mills, was a great teacher.\nThey were never able actually to replace ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anyone that could fill the shoes of Mr.\nStrauss. He was badly missed in the store, in spite of the fact that he was not\n. . . \nLOWEINSTEIN: Okay. I'm sorry. \nASHER: The thing with Strauss shook me up a\nlittle bit. \nLOWEINSTEIN: It really did. Let's stop. \nLOWEINSTEIN: Side 2, Mr. Joe\nAsher, March 5, 1990. We were talking about Mr. Strauss and your relationship. I\nknow you were a little bit upset about it. After that, where did you go in\nRich's after that in 1936? \nASHER: What did I do what? \nLOWEINSTEIN: Where did you\ngo with Rich's after that in 1936? \nASHER: After, from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1936 on, I had dealt with\nthe responsibility of all of the men's division, including the department men's\nclothing which for a few years had been leased to someone else. We laid plans to\nexpand the men's store because we kept growing every year. Eighty-five percent\nof our customers were female, and I knew very well, or thought rather, that the\nmen, husbands and the sons liked for their mother to buy things for them, and\nthey did. We would show ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"progress each year. Finally, the men's division as such\nwas one of the top profit makers in the store. We only had one other division\nthat was better, and that was the accessory division which was cosmetics,\njewelry, and et cetera. They laid plans. I asked the powers that be to expand\nthe men's business. Let's expand it. We're doing around eight or nine hundred\nthousand dollars. They decided to make plans for the expansion to go in an area\nthat was owned by Mrs. Walter Rich, and they tore that building ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"down and put up\na beautiful men's store, a store for men as we called it, which was one of the\noutstanding men's stores in the country at that particular time. We opened it in\n1940, tremendous opening. From that day on, my only difficulty, and it was a\nvery tough one, was getting the proper merchandise for the new area, because all\nof the famous names in men's wear were tied up by men's specialty stores. In\norder to, on an exclusive basis. Throughout the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years, we managed to add one\nhere and there and got pretty good, wonderful acceptance. In 1940 I was made a\ndirector of the company, and assistant secretary, and assistant treasurer, along\nwith my responsibility of divisional merchandise manager of the store for men.\nTwo years before though, I started the Rich's Credit Union, 1938, and remained\nas president of it until I retired thirty years later. We started with fifty\ndollars and naturally it was a very easy thing to do to get the employees to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"borrow from the employees, because it was owned by the employees. They could\nonly buy one share of stock which was five dollars. Today, after fifty years,\nit's well over, up in the millions, well up in the millions, and has done\nextremely well. I wished I owned it. During the war, just before, go back a\nminute. Before the war, 1941, Mr. Walter Rich, I was going to California on a\nmeeting of men's wear association, and Mr. Walter Rich who I was very close to\nsaid, \"I'd like to go to California with you. Will you let me go?\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cause he was\nthe head of the business. I thought about a second. I said, \"Well, it'll be\nwonderful, Mr. Walter. Why do you want to go?\" He said, \"Well, I have some old\nfriends out in California. I want to go out and see them, and I also want to go\nand look at some of those California stores. I've never been out there.\" I said,\n\"Helen,\" my wife Helen, \"is going along.\" That's fine, because he was crazy\nabout Helen. Of course, one of the things that I had to do was to play gin with\nhim every day, which wasn't too hard to do because I was smart enough not to win\nanything. Any event, we went out on the train, went from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here to Chicago,\nChicago to Los Angeles. Mrs. Rich did not go on the trip because at that\nparticular time she was not feeling too well, and did not want to take that long\ntrip. We stayed at the Townhouse. I remember that very distinctly. Mr. Rich was\na connoisseur of fine food. He had lived in New York when he first married. He\nlived on Park Avenue in New York, and he knew the fine restaurants and\neverything. That was, the business was number one, but food was next to it.\nEvery night, well my only, the thing I wasn't too crazy about was the fact that\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he liked to eat early. We didn't particularly care about eating at six-thirty or\nseven o'clock, but he wanted to eat early. I'll have to tell you this. It was\nrather funny. He said, \"I got a list of restaurants here, and Perino's [sp] is\nsupposed to be the best restaurant near the hotel. I'm going to call them up and\nwe'll get a reservation for six-forty-five.\" I said, \"Well, I'll check with\nHelen and see if it's okay with her.\" Sure, it's fine. He calls up, and he was\ntold on the phone, \"Sorry, we have nothing open.\" He came back, he said, \"Well,\nI can't take you cause they've sold out.\" I never said anything, but I was, had\nbeen out there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before to a meeting, and was told, \"if you want to get in\nChasten's or Perino's or whatever the top restaurant, never, always say you're a\ndoctor or a colonel. You don't have to be a colonel in the army or a medical\ndoctor, just say colonel. That'll get you in any of them.\" I went, he was\ntalking to Helen. I went out back and called Perino's and said, \"This is Dr.\nAsher.\" \"Oh, yes, Doctor.\" I said, \"I'd like a reservation for around quarter to\nseven.\" \"Fine. How many?\" I came back, I told him three, and came back. I said,\n\"Mr. Walter, I got a reservation.\" He said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Where we going to eat, Joseph?\", he\nalways called me. \"We're going to eat at Perino's.\" He said, \"How'd you get a\nreservation there?\" \"Oh,\" I said, \"I just told them that I'm a country boy from\nAtlanta, Georgia, and they told me it was a good place to eat, and they gave me\nthe reservation.\" I never did tell him the other, because I knew he'd use it. In\nany event, that made quite an impression that I got this. He made another trip\nwith us, with his wife at that time, and we went to San Francisco because he\nwanted to see the stores up there. I think that was the trip that we came back a\nsouthern route. I played gin all the way through Texas, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arizona, Louisiana,\neveryplace. We slept on the train for three nights. I think Mrs. Rich slept most\nof the time, and I played gin with Mr. Walter when he wasn't sleeping, and Helen\nwas reading a book. That was a great trip from California to New Orleans for two\nnights, and then another night from New Orleans to Atlanta on the train. Any\nevent, when the war came on, he was very upset about certain things, and he was\na man with great, I should say morals and ethics, in business and otherwise. He\ndid not like ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"buyers going out with resources. Like whenever he was in New York\nand buyers were there, he'd round them up in the office and say, \"You're going\nto eat with me tonight.\" He made that a rule. He did not want us catering to\nresources, or resources catering to us. I would say ninety percent of them went\nby that rule. We all, any group of buyers there that were friendly enough, we'd\neat together at night. In 1943 after the war had started, [indistinct: 01:01:55]\nfour, I, he had called up and we put in a military department ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here in Atlanta,\nand were doing a fantastic business. In fact, I had the pleasure of in outfitting the great garb of Bobby Jones and his first major\nuniform at Rich's on a Sunday, so he wouldn't have to be bothered. I was very\nclose to Bob Jones from then on. When he became ill, I did, he called me for\nseveral favors which I was glad to do. He wasn't, not what I would say as a\ngolfing partner, to that extent, but he was always very nice to me and very, I\ntried to do anything I could for him because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"unfortunately he was, at that,\nlater on, he couldn't get around. He had a nerve in his neck that kept him from\nplaying golf ever. He died on St. Patrick's Day, I think 19, I'll\nhave to think a minute, around thirty years ago. Anyway, we had a wonderful\nbusiness here in Atlanta, just with officers' uniforms, and they decided why\ndidn't we put a store in Columbus, Georgia, where Mr. Neely wanted to put a\nstore there, military store, because that's where they were graduating anywhere\nfrom two thousand to three thousand every fifteen days, second lieutenants. I\nwas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sent to Columbus to rent a store, and took our slay man and carpenters and\neverything, and within a week we had a store ready to go. I went to New York and\nscrambled for merchandise which was difficult to get because everybody wanted\nmilitary stuff. Fortunately, we had enough, I could buy enough goods from people\nwho I knew, and we were able to open the store within ten days after the idea.\nEvery weekend we did a fabulous business. We had a very interesting thing\nhappen. You could only ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"buy certain scale of sizes from the Ordinance Department.\nThey handled that, and buy 36 to 46 regular shorts and longs, and the weight of\nthe fabric was ridiculous. It was sixteen, eighteen ounce goods, and I knew that\nwas wrong. In any event, I had to buy a certain amount of it, but I couldn't get\nenough from our resources, so I had to buy from the Ordinance Department. We\nwere accumulating sizes that we couldn't sell because ninety-five percent of the\ngraduates wore a size 38 regular. They were young men wearing 14 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"percent or 15\nshirt. They were in their twenties. I came home one day, and went to Mr. Frank\nNeely, who was the General Manager and\nExecutive Vice-President, and also on the War Production Board. I went up, asked\nto see him, and I went up to see him, and he wanted to know how I was doing with\nthe military store in Columbus, because he knew the commanding officer. He said,\n\"If you have any problem, just let me know.\" I said, \"I got a problem.\" He said,\n\"What is it?\" I said, \"The graduating class of men are all around ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"38's. Nobody\ndown there has a 36 short or a 46 long, and I'm accumulating those and can't get\nthe sizes that we need.\" I said, \"Also the fabric is so heavy, it's ridiculous.\"\ne called his secretary in, and he said, \"Get General so and so at the Ordinance\nDepartment, and tell him Frank Neely of the War Production Board, I want to\nspeak to him.\" He said, \"Just sit where you are.\" I sat there, and he got him in\nWashington. He said, \"So and so, this is Frank Neely. I'm on the War Production\nBoard. You may know that. I have a manager of our Columbus ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"store of military\ngoods at Fort Benning, and this is what he is telling me, that if it's true, it\ndoesn't make sense.\" He said, \"He's having to buy from the Ordinance Department\nwhich you are the head of, 36 to 46 regular, shorts and longs, but he said he\nhasn't found a 36 or a 46 ever come in the store, and the fabric is so heavy\nit's ridiculous.\" Evidently the man said if he's so damn smart, send him up here\nand let him tell us. Mr. Neely turned to me and said, \"There's a train that\nleaves Birmingham and gets up to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta around four o'clock. I want you on that\ntrain at four o'clock and I want you to go to Washington today.\" You remember\nthat? \nLOWEINSTEIN: Uh-huh. \nASHER: I went home, packed a suitcase, caught the\nBirmingham Special out of Atlanta, for Washington. I didn't go to the hotel. I\nwent direct to the Pentagon, because I was, the man gave Mr. Neely's secretary\ninstructions, because he told him, he said, \"Our buyer, manager of that store,\nhis name is Joe Asher, he'll be in Washington tomorrow morning. You tell me what\nhe's supposed to do and where he's supposed to go and who's he's supposed to\nsee.\" He ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did. I had all of it in writing. I got to Washington, so on. The train\ncame in there around eight-thirty or so in the morning. I went direct to the\nPentagon. I get to the Pentagon and with my instructions, where to go, and the\nfirst guy I meet in there is a fellow by the name of Major Abrams. I look at\nhim, I said, \"What in the hell are you doing here?\" He says, \"I'd like to know\ntoo.\" I said, \"You're an underwear manufacturer, men's underwear.\" He said,\n\"Well, now I guess that's why I'm here.\" I said, \"Well, how is everything\ngoing?\" He says, \"Oh, grapes,\" you know, and [indistinct: 01: 06:29]. I showed\nhim my paper. \"Oh,\" he says, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"you're going to see Colonel so and so. He's my\nboss.\" I said, \"Well, here I am.\" I went in, and there was a colonel, and a\nlieutenant colonel, and a couple of, I don't know, about four or five men\nsitting around. He didn't keep Major Abrams. They asked me to sit down and tell\nthem what I had told Mr. Neely. I explained to them, I said, \"This is not only,\nI think, a reasonable complaint, but,\" I said, \"it's absolutely ridiculous to\nhave uniforms made and then nobody to buy them in a fabric that is absolutely,\nwith World War I maybe, it would have been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all right, but it's not now.\" This\ngeneral was also there. I think his name was General, I'm not positive about the\nname, but I think it was Singleton. He took down all the information. \"Well,\nwhat do you recommend?\" I said, \"I recommend that whatever contracts you have\nfor this [indistinct: 01:07:13] scale be cancelled immediately and get a 10- or\n12-ounce fabric, surely nothing over a 14, and get it in production as quickly\nas possible because this is wrong.\" He agreed. I don't think they had ever\ndiscussed it. He agreed. I could see that he was a little upset with his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people\nthere, and he turned to one of them. He said, \"Did you know this?\" \"Well, yes, I\nknew that those were the instructions. We go by military instructions.\" He asked\nanother one, \"Did you know about this?\" \"Yes.\" \"Why didn't you do something\nabout it?\" He gave the same answer, \"We have instructions to go by. We follow\ninstructions.\" They left the room. When they were gone, he said, \"I'll make you\na spot major.\" I said, \"What does that mean?\" He said, \"That means that you can,\nas of tomorrow, you'll be a major in the U.S. Army.\" I said, \"Thank you very\nmuch. That's very nice, but as a civilian, Sir, I can say what I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"think. I put\nthat uniform on, and I better keep my mouth shut.\" He laughed. He said, \"You're\nsmarter than I thought you were.\" I said, \"You know, I'm forty-five years old.\nI'm going to do whatever I can for the cause of the military, and whatever I can\ndo in this war effort. Rich's is going to do whatever they can. This is\nabsolutely wrong.\" He says, \"I agree with you.\" He showed me around a little\nbit, and then dismissed me. I was escorted out. I stayed there until about three\nor four o'clock in the afternoon. I said, one of the men said, \"Where are you\nstaying?\" They had a car there. I said, \"I haven't got a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"place to stay. I got to\nget somewhere.\" They started calling up. They had no, there was an old hotel\ncalled the, it's still there, the Warwick or something. It's still there. They\njust . . . \nLOWEINSTEIN: The Willard? \nASHER: Huh? \nLOWEINSTEIN: The Willard?\nASHER: Willard, Willard. They called every hotel. No room. They called the\nWillard. Yes, we have the president's suite open. \nASHER: . . . suites, that's\nthe only thing. The man said, \"This is, I'm calling from the Pentagon, and we've\ngot to have a room for the night for someone from out of town. It's very\nimportant that we get a room.\" Evidently, they said, \"Well, send him in. We'll\ntake care of him.\" I get in the army ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"car and go to the Willard Hotel, and they\nescort me up to this suite with, you know, two bedrooms and what not. I didn't\nneed but one bed. I was worn out. I went in. This was about six o'clock then.\nI'd been up all day, you know, on this thing. Any event, I went to bed, slept\nlike a rock, and the next day I caught the plane back to Atlanta. LOWEINSTEIN: The train? \nASHER: Train, not the plane, train. I got to my office. My secretary\nsaid, \"That telephone has been ringing ever since I've been here, all day. What\nin the world have you done?\" I said, \"I [indistinct: 01:09:28], why you know\nwhere I've been every minute. You have my . . .\" She said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"That's not what I\nmean. Every manufacturer that the military does business with say they know you,\nhave known you for years, and they want you to call them right away.\" The first\none I call is a friend of mine named Felix Mayar, who was the head of J \u0026 F\nCompany, who made not only army uniforms, but they had the contract for naval\nalso. Big, very big. He gets me on the phone, and he says, \"I've been trying to\nreach you all day. I thought you were a friend of mine.\" I said, \"I thought I\nwas too, and I hope I still am.\" He said, \"Well, you played hell with us.\" I\nsays, \"I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did? What did I do?\" He said, \"You just stopped our production.\" I\nsaid, \"Felix, you've been in this business a long time, and I have you to thank.\nThe little knowledge I have about the men's clothing is because you were willing\nto teach me something about it.\" He says, \"I hope I did.\" I said, \"You know very\nwell that this scale of sizes is absolutely ridiculous.\" He says, \"Of course I\nknow it.\" He said, \"I tried to stop them. I tried to tell them when they would\nbring in contracts, 'You got the wrong fabric. You got the wrong sizes,' but\nthey would not, and they gave me the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"same, always gave me the thing: we go by\ninstructions.\" He said, \"Now we have already shut down all operations. We've got\na ton of fabric that we're going to have to find something to do with. We've\nalready called American Woolen Mills, and they're starting to run twenty-four\nhours a day on the new fabric. I think I know what fabric you need, which I\ntried to tell them to get before.\" I said, \"Well, how long before we'll start\ngetting uniforms?\" He says, \"Oh, we'll put this we'll do everything. We'll get\nyou some within a week. Some will be there, don't worry ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about that. Just tell so\nand so I'll put on the phone what you want.\" I hung the phone up. Next one is\nfrom Hickey Freedman, Walter Morgan, [indistinct: 01:11:08], Morton Baum. He\nstarts off, \"Joe, I thought you were my friend.\" I said, \"I guess I am. What's\nthe problem?\" \"Well, you know what the problem is.\" I said, \"Now, before we go\ninto detail, I know what you're talking about. I've already talked to Felix, and\nhe's already, he got the message.\" He said, \"I know what the message is. I know\nwhat they needed. I know the fabric was too heavy. I know the scale of sizes was\nnot right. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We got the same answer every time they'd bring a contract in, we're\nfollowing military instructions.\" I said, \"Well, what are you going to do about\nit?\" He said, \"We're going to do what we've been instructed to do from\nWashington. I cancelled everything that, order, and go into a new scale, and you\nwill give us the scale.\" I said, \"Well, all I can tell you, Morton, is that the\nmen in Columbus, Georgia, I haven't seen a man six feet tall that weighed 250\npounds. They all wear either 38 or 39 suit and 14^ or a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"15 shirt. We're stuck\nwith all these big sizes.\" He said, \"Well, we'll get in production as quickly as\npossible,\" cause they had the top line. Then I got another call from a third\nmanufacturer. Same thing. All happy to cooperate, and knew that what they were\ndoing was not right, but could not do anything. They were civilians, and they\nwere following, and the military people were following. Any event, less than, oh\nabout, I'd say, maybe a year, no, more than a year later, I got a call from Mr.\nWalter Rich. I went up to his office. He closed, slammed the door. He didn't\nclose it, he slammed it. I knew he was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"upset about something. I said, \"What's\nthe matter, Mr. Walter?\" He said, \"I just got the figures on your military store\nin Columbus.\" \"Yes, Sir. I hope it's doing  . . . \". He said, \"We're making too damn\nmuch money on it, and I want it closed.\" He says, \"I don't want to make a dime\nout of a war. I want that store closed today. I want it closed. You understand\nwhat I'm saying?\" Why, I looked at him. We were just going in high gear, and\neverybody wanted to wear, you know, these new things that we had before anybody\nelse. I even got the shirt people turned around. I got everything done. I said,\nI didn't know what to say. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"walked out of his office right into Mr. Neely's\noffice. I said, \"Mr. Neely, Mr. Walter has just told me what he wants done.\" He\nsaid, \"Yes, he told me. He wants that store closed, and he didn't mean maybe. He\nlaid the law down to me for encouraging you to build it, to build that business\nup.\" He said, \"I don't want, he doesn't want any profit out of a war.\" He said,\nI said, \"Well, I'm going to carry out instructions. You fellows, you're my boss.\nWhat am I going to do?\" He said, \"You're going to do what Walter wants done. I\nthink he's wrong. I think we're doing a service for the government. We're not\nmaking that much ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"money because you can only make a certain amount.\" He said, I\nsaid, \"Well, Mr. Neely, expenses are high on that thing, and everything we're\ndoing is a very low mark on, but we don't, we're making a legitimate five or six\npercent which is practically nothing of what we make out of regular.\" He said,\n\"But he doesn't want to make a dime.\" I said, \"Well, I'm going to do what you\nall want me to do.\" He said, \"I'll go talk to Walter. Sit down.\" He was a tall\nguy, and if he said sit down, you sit down. I could hear Mr. Walter telling him,\n\"I want that store ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"closed, and I want it done now.\" He came back and he said,\n\"Well, he's made his mind up, and you know I'm not going to disagree with him. I\nthink he's wrong, but I think we are helping the war effort. We're not, and\nwe're in position to get merchandise, and we can pay for it and some of those\nlittle shops down there, the men can't get it.\" I said, \"Well, what about the\nstore here in Atlanta? I mean the shop we have in Atlanta?\" He said, \"He never\nmentioned it, and I never mentioned it, so I guess we can continue that.\" I\nsaid, \"Well, I'll send a crew down. I'll go down with them Sunday, and we'll\ntake inventory and put a sign up: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"'Closed'.\" Rich's military store was closed. I\ntook about, oh, I don't know, twelve or fifteen people down to Columbus, and\ntook inventory, and looked over what we had on order, and immediately, first\nthing Monday morning we would cancel everything that had already, cancel. We had\nabout between two hundred and fifty to three hundred thousand dollars in retail,\nwhich was a lot of money. We also had a lot of regular and shorts and longs. I\ngot in touch with the New York office, and we were members of AMC, and said,\n\"Get a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bulletin out to all stores that are selling military goods that Rich's is\nliquidating their Fort Benning shop. If they're interested in buying some of the\ninventory, to give me a bid on what they want.\" We didn't get any bids.\nEverybody had the same thing. Finally, we took all the inventory, shipped it up,\neverything except what I could meld into the Atlanta setup, which wasn't too bad\nbecause the shirts and stuff like that were no problem. The suits in that\nweight. See, we were fortunate in the Atlanta store that one of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"firms that\nwe were doing business with were making these very fine uniforms. They didn't\npay any attention to the other, and an officer could buy them. I mean, if he had\nthe money. They were much more than the regulation thing. You have a certain\nmark-up on some, and the others you could sell, you know, like. We had a fair\nstock of that, but we still had a lot of the other. We stored it in the\nwarehouse. We had it coming out of our ears. Finally, I went to my merchandise\nmanager, general merchandise manager, and said, \"What do you want to do with\nthese uniforms?\" He said, \"Get rid of them.\" \"Mr. Rich says he wants, he don't\nwant to make any money.\" I said, \"I can get rid of some of them. There's an\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"outfit out west will take so many thousand dollars' worth of, it'll pay fifteen\ndollars a uniform.\" He said, \"Sell them.\" I said, \"All right. If I get the okay\nfrom you, I'll have them packed up and gone.\" That's how we got rid of them. We\nwere out of that business. I think he was right. First place, I was glad he was\nright. I didn't say it at the time, because it was taking a lot of my time that\nI should have been devoting to civilian things, trying to keep our regular stock\ngoing, because we only had one store, and we needed Arrow shirts. We were never\nout of Arrow shirts because the head man at Arrow, we were pretty good friends\nand we were loyal customers of theirs, and the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"largest customer they had in the\nsouth. We were never out of them. There was a lot of dishonesty going on at that\ntime. In fact, what I mean is some manufacturers would say, and I know this to\nbe a fact, \"Sure, you want so and so? Twenty cents a dozen.\" I said, \"I thought\nthey were [indistinct: 01:16:45, trails off].\" You just write a check for\nadvertising. He had a check for advertising. I know that some stores were doing\nthat. I said, \"Thank you,\" I said to my buyer, \"If you ever go in that place\nagain, don't you ever buy any merchandise, civilian or otherwise, from any\nresource that tells you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one price for the merchandise and we have to pay so much\nfor an ad, which is millions that are under the table.\" I said, \"Rich's doesn't\ndo business that way.\" We didn't do it, not once, not one time. I know, I think\nI know some of them that did. Anyway, it's an experience. When the war was over,\nin 1945, my experience with that was something. I was selected to represent the\nSouth with a man from the Pacific Coast and another one from Detroit and another\none from New England, to go to Europe on a, hopefully, to start trade with\nEngland, France, and Switzerland. I went ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"over on a C-54 private plane, fifty\npassengers, and sat next to a lady who was the world authority on gold. She was\ngoing to Geneva to a conference. We got to . . . \nASHER: The four of us went over\non a C-54, and we got to Gander. Helen was in New York to see me off, and which\nwas just the first stop, you know, and get ready to take a hop over the ocean to\ngo to Shannon, Ireland, and one motor conked out before we got off the ground,\nand they said we'll have to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"spend the night here at these barracks because we're\nsending back to New York for another plane. Now you can tell them what, Helen is\nin New York waiting to hear from me, and she ain't here because I'm going to a\nlittle place, they go to send a telegram, and everybody's lined up to send a\ntelegram, tell her that we're delayed, but she never got the message. I was\nscared to death, to tell you the truth. We stayed, spent the night in a military\nbarracks, and the plane came in from New York. It was out of Andover, I guess it\nwas, well, it was about a four, six-hour plane ride. [indistinct: 01:18:28] the\nplane, fly ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"six thousand feet is all. The next morning, they woke us, got\neverybody up. I never slept a wink, got up. It was almost, we got, went down to\nthe airport, and they were lining up airplanes as far as you could see almost,\nwaiting to take off. We had breakfast, sat around, and took off around ten\no'clock. Had a beautiful flight during the day. First time I ever saw an\niceberg. We took the northern route over. We got to Shannon, Ireland. That was\nthe next stop. We flew from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Gander to Shannon, up somewhere. I don't recall. I\nmade many trips after that, where they'd stop at places like Stevensville or\nSydney, or something like that, just a place for the planes to stop during the\nwar. We did stop in the Azores several times. In any event, we got to Shannon. I\nstill hadn't slept. We got off the plane, went in and had a meal, got back on\nthe plane and then we were taken over, the plane was taken over by British,\nBritish fliers, and, see that was 1945, and to go into London, which was\nsupposed to be, you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fly over the Irish Sea, supposed to be approximately two or\nthree hour flight. I don't recall exactly. We get on the plane there, and it's\nrough. I mean, same plane that we got off, but another crew. I said to this\nlady, I said, \"Well, we flew the Atlantic Ocean all right, but we're going down\nin the Irish Sea. In any event, we got to London airport, Croydon, and it was\nearly in the morning, dark, and the only lights they had for the field were by\nautomobiles on trucks. That's the way we came in, we landed. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4770.0,4800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cold. I mean cold.\nWe got off the plane and went through, they had a tent, no building, a tent\nthere where the customs and cleared us. I still hadn't slept a wink. Now this\nwas from Saturday to Monday morning. After everybody was cleared, and daylight\nwas coming up, still cold, we went into town. I always look for the Green Park\nHotel. The Green Park Hotel back in Prince of Wales day was the hot spot for\nnightlife. In 1945, it was a dead spot to any lighter. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was cold. All I could\nthink about was getting in that hotel, getting a hot bath, and getting to bed. I\ngot there, and I had a suite. The suite was about the size of, half the size of\nthis room, a bed, a little tiny dressing room, and the porter took my luggage\nup, and I felt the cover. I said, \"Can I get a blanket?\" \"Well, we don't have\nany more blankets.\" \"Well, what about heat?\" \"You put a quarter in the gas\nmeter.\" I turned on the water, \"What about hot water?\" \"No hot water yet. You\nget hot water later on.\" I washed my face and shaved, and I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4830.0,4860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"couldn't possibly go\nto sleep. I was nervous, hadn't had anything to eat now. I mean, and no sleep.\nFortunately, the office . . . \nLOWEINSTEIN: The 5, 1990, with Mr. Joe Asher, for\nthe Atlanta Oral History Program, for the AJC and CJW and Jewish Federation.\nASHER: When I got to the office, it was warm, and I hadn't had breakfast. I said\nto the manager, \"What is that hotel across there?\" He said, Clandges.\" I said,\n\"I said, \"I wonder if I could get a room ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4860.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there.\" He said, he laughed. He said,\n\"Of course not. You know who's at that hotel?\" I said, \"No.\" He rolls off about\nsix or seven queens and a few kinds and what not, and they're all in exile at\nClandges I didn't pay any attention to that. I never said anything. I put my\ncoat on, and walked across there to the hotel, Clandges. We were, when we went\nto New York after we were married, we always stayed at the St. Regis, and I was\nvery friendly with the manager, Mr. Green. I had gotten the name of a manager of\nClandges by asking a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4890.0,4920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"porter if I could see the manager. I went over there,\n[indistinct: 01:22:01, sounds like tired], walked in, and, I said, \"Can I see\nthe manager of the hotel?\" He said, \"Mr. VanDyne [sp]?\" I said, \"Yes. Sure, Mr.\nVanDyke.\" Never heard the name before. He goes in and this gentleman with his\nlong coat and his cocktail, I mean his striped britches come out and says, \"What\ncan I do for you?\" I said, \"Mr. VanDyne, my name is Joe Asher and I'm a friend\nof Mr. Green, the manager of  . . .\" He says, \"Oh, the St. Regis in New York.\" I\nsaid, \"Yes.\" I said, \"I need help.\" He said, \"In what way?\" I explained to him.\nI said, \"I'm over here on a business mission for more or less, the U.S.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4920.0,4950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"government sponsoring it in a way, and I'm trying to establish trade with\nEngland. I'm going to be here with three other men. They happen to be at\ndifferent hotels, but I'm up there at the Green Park Inn.\" I said, \"That's a\nterrible place.\" He said, \"I agree with you.\" I said, \"Can I get a room here?\"\n\"How long you going to be here?\" I said, \"At least a week.\" He goes, leaves me\nand he goes to the book, you know, the big book they have, and looked. Pretty\nsoon he comes out, and he said, \"We can take care of you for tonight and\ntomorrow night.\" I said, \"I'll take it.\" I said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I'll have to get my luggage.\"\nHe said, \"No. We'll take care of that.\" He tells the head porter to come over\nand escort me to room 404, and then gives some instructions to the luggage\npeople. They go up there, and [indistinct: 01:23:11] all of this. I get up in\nthe room, took a hot bath, I didn't even have pajamas or anything to put on, hop\ninto bed, and went sound asleep for about six hours. When I woke up, it was\nabout seven o'clock at night. I looked for my clothes. Everything is hung up,\neverything in place. I felt wonderful then, and I go down to the dining room,\nand who is in the dining room ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=4980.0,5010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but the King of Siam at that time, and I was on\nthe same floor with, which is Thailand- King of Siam, the King of Greece, the\nQueen Wilhemina, the King of, I don't know, there were four or five kings and\nqueens-,--anti the funniest thing was to see the Egyptian, King Farouk, come in\nwith his entourage, holding a platter. I said to the waiter when he comes up,\nthey all turn around, I said, \"Who is that and what is that?\" He said, \"He's\nbringing his pluvers [sp] eggs in.\" I said, \"What the hell is a pluver egg?\"\n\"Oh,\" he said, \"a pluver egg is, they're very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5010.0,5040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fine, and they get them off the\nbeaches and so forth.\" Any event, also in the room was Ambassador Harriman and\nMr. Churchill and a few others. They put me way in the back. They wanted to know\nif I had a reservation at the hotel first. I said, \"Sure. I'm in room 404.\" The\nmeal was not so hot. Mine wasn't. I was fascinated to see these, well, the whole\nroom was full. Course, outside, every fifteen feet was security. I had to show\nsomething when I went in or out. Any event, they told us in New York, or they\ntold us when giving instructions what to do, you take some nylon ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5040.0,5070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hose which you\ncan use in England, take some lipstick, because you'll probably need them in\nFrance or Switzerland. If you're not a smoker, take a couple of cartons of\ncigarettes. I had extra space, luggage. That night I had my meal down there. You\nknow, couldn't go outside. London was dark. London was absolutely, you can't\nimagine what I saw going into that city when daylight or afterwards. I saw a\ncity, really, it was a, I have more respect for the British than any people on\nearth, I guess. Any event, the next day I go over to the office, and I'm ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5070.0,5100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"greeted\nby my colleagues. One of them who was pretty well known, the guy from San\nFrancisco who wrote the book who was a close friend of Jack Kennedy's, you know,\nvery attractive man. Any event, he was at a first-class hotel. Another one, he\nhad been to Europe before, he was at a good hotel. The third one was, and also,\nhe didn't care where he stayed as long as he could get a drink. Any event, I\nwent down that next morning, and who should come out of the office was Mr.\nVanDyne. I said to him, \"Mr. VanDyne, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you think your wife would like any nylon\nhose? What size would she wear?\" Even [indistinct: 01:25:33] stumbled over\nhimself getting back to his office. He says, \"I'll find out.\" He called, and\ncame back, she wears a size ten. So fine. I doubled back up to the room, never\nsaid anything, I go back up to the room and get a half a dozen pair, three pair\nin a box, two boxes, and they're all wrapped. Bring them down, and walk into his\noffice, and I said, \"Give these to your wife with my compliments. By the way,\nI'm supposed to check out of here day after tomorrow, and where am I going?\" He\nsaid, \"What room are you in?\" I said, \"404\". He looks through, and he says, \"How\nlong you going to be here?\" I said, \"Well, I'm going to be here at least a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5130.0,5160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"week,\nmaybe ten days.\" \"Where are you going from here?\" I said, \"I'm going to Paris\n[France].\" \"Well, where are you staying in Paris?\" I said, \"The military has\ntaken over a hotel called the Alexandria.\" \"Oh,\" he says, \"you wouldn't like\nthat.\" He gets on the phone while I'm standing there, gets his secretary, get\nMr. so and so at George V, talks to him in French, and tells him my name. He\nsaid, \"When are you going to be there?\" He said, \"They'll have a room for you.\"\nCancelled out the Alexandria. I said, \"Then I'm going to Zurich.\" He said,\n\"Where are you going to stay there?\" I said, \"The Barlich [sp].\" \"Oh,\" he says,\n\"you'll like that.\" I said, \"Well, what about here? This is my worry. I have to\nbe here, and then we'll spend at least a week in Paris, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and several, about a\nweek in Switzerland, and then I'm back here for a week, and we have to meet, the\nfour of us will meet here and talk about what we have accomplished because we\nhave to give a report when we get home.\" He said, \"Well, we'll take care of\nthat.\" He said, \"Just stay in 404.\" I said, \"Well, when I come back?\" \"You'll\nhave room 404.\" That was great. I left there and went on to Paris, and I was at\nthe, we were all, I think we all got into George V, except the one guy who\ndidn't care. He went to the army place because he could get liquor, I guess. The\nmost ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5190.0,5220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"exciting part of that trip was we had to, we didn't know we had to get a\nvisa. We only had a visa for x number of days, and we had to stay there longer\nthan that. Paris was not damaged. The airport had holes in it, but you couldn't\nsee anything around the city like you did in London. London was absolutely, it's\nhard to believe. It was still burning in the old city. The Jewish area was\ncompletely wiped out, what they called West End, I believe. I'm not sure.\nEspecially down where the big churches, you know, were. Anyway, Paris was, I\ndidn't like it from the day I got there. It was, the people were rude and\neverything, and we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5220.0,5250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tried to do, I tried to do business with them. I did know of\none firm that sold handkerchiefs that were easy to get along with, so I managed\nto buy a few handkerchiefs. We were supposed to, you know, if you had to pay a\nlittle more, do it, but see if we can get something to get started, but it\nwasn't much. The visa was a problem. The manager up in the office there said,\n\"You've got to get these,\", told the four of us, \"you've got to get these visas\ntaken care of right away. We have to take you over to the minister's\", something\nof ministry or something. You have never been in a building in your life. To\nlook at the outside, you wouldn't think anything. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5250.0,5280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Beautiful was the interior of\nthe building we went in. As we'd go into one room, four of us, they'd lock the\ndoor. We'd go in another room; they'd lock the door. We'd go in the third room,\nwho was sitting head was Mr. Bedoe [sp]. Was that his name, who was the . . .\nLOWEINSTEIN: Bedoe. \nASHER: Yeah. A charming man. He was not the prime minister\nat the time. Of course, one of the men could, I can't think of his name, from\nSan Francisco, could speak French beautifully. No problem. It was so beautiful.\nThe people were just, I don't know, they just, I always felt that way about them\nexcept the friends that we had in the office which we liked very much. We stayed\nthere. We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5280.0,5310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"didn't have to stay quite as long as we thought because we couldn't\nfind anything. The prices were so out of line, they were hard to deal, do\nbusiness with, and I had more problems with the things I bought than I did with\nany of the companies. Then we went on to Zurich. In Zurich, I roomed with the\nguy from San Francisco. We had a beautiful room at the Barlich, absolutely\nbeautiful. Then we went to the Apenzale [sp] and other places around to see what\nwe could buy. Came back to London, back to Clarriages, and everything was\nbeautiful, and came home. I will say that the day that this man at the office\nthat I reported into said, I said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5310.0,5340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Well, when's the next plane to New York? I'm\nnot going to stay here. The hell with this.\" I'm not staying at that hotel, no\nheat or anything. He says, \"It will be Friday. I don't think you could get on a\nplane to New York. There's no daily flights.\" He said, \"We're just getting over\na war.\" Not very nice. Any event, came back, and I was very happy, and I\nimmediately was, all of us were interviewed by the CIA before we left and after\nwe came back, because they were interested, the government was very much\ninterested in trying to establish some trade, particularly with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5340.0,5370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"England. France\nwas, well, if you could find it, fine. Switzerland, yes. They were more\ninterested in our conversation. See, we didn't go out together during the day.\nWe all went to different places, because we wanted to get what the feel was,\nwhat they wanted. I found out later, by the FBI, they wanted to know, the\ngovernment wanted to know what was the attitude of the people you talked to,\ntheir attitude towards the United States. \nLOWEINSTEIN: Very much the same as it\nis today, probably. \nASHER: Huh? \nLOWEINSTEIN: A lot the same as it was today, as\nit is today? ASHER: No, no. They were, England was very gracious. France, well,\nnever had much to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5370.0,5400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"say; but when we went into Italy on the next trip, every place\nyou went was \"Yankee go home\". That's the end of that trip, but was the most\nexciting thing I think has ever happened in my life other than the trip to Hong\nKong where I had the pleasure of meeting the Kaduries [sp] and being entertained\nby them. \nLOWEINSTEIN: That's wonderful. \nH. ASHER: What man, that you're trying\nto remember. He wrote a book, he had a book . . . \nASHER: Yeah, well . . . \nASHER: Mrs. I can't think . . . \nASHER: I thought of it last night, because I wanted to\nbe sure and remember it. \nASHER: Ready? As far as my religious beliefs or\neducation, I know what I believe. I was born a Jew, I'll die a Jew. Living in a\nsmall community in Georgia, naturally there wasn't a synagogue ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5400.0,5430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the town or\nnear there. The closest one was in Augusta, Georgia, and I only attended there\nonce that I can remember. We did not take our religion as Jews seriously as we\ncould have or should have, I suppose, had we lived in a larger community. We\nattended a Methodist church. The preacher was a very close friend of my family.\nWe were, I don't think that very many members of the family were too concerned\nabout going to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5430.0,5460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"services. I went because I was the youngest, and there wasn't\nanything else to do. I went to Sunday School. I was in the blue class, and we\nhad the blues and the reds. Sunday, and the Sunday School picnics were always\nwonderful. Not only that, in the summertime, my father used to make arrangements\nwith the Central Georgia railroad to attach a car in Macon and come to Midville\nabout, get there about six o'clock in the morning, and the members of the\nMethodist church and the members of the Baptist church, and we would all go to\nTarvey [sp]. My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5460.0,5490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father did that for several years. Everybody paid their way.\nThey'd disconnect the car in Savannah and put it on another train that went out\nto Tarvey. We did that for several summers. That was wonderful. There was\nactually no feeling as far as we were concerned, religious feeling of\nantisemitism or anything like that. I never heard anybody every talk about\nJew-store or that Jew this, I never heard any expressions of, that I know today,\nwhen I was down there, because my father, well, the one thing we did do: on\nFriday night, always, read a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5490.0,5520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"prayer on Friday night. That was the only time. Had\nlit the candles and they would read from the Bible and after he, a little hand\nBible. After he passed away, my brother Julian used to do it. After my mother\npassed away, we stopped it completely. \nLOWEINSTEIN: Was it a Jewish prayer, or\njust any . . . \nASHER: What? \nLOWEINSTEIN: Was it a Jewish prayer, or was it just\nfrom the Bible? \nASHER: Just a regular prayer. No member of the family was ever\nbar mitzvahed or confirmed or anything. We never had the opportunity. When we\nmoved to Atlanta, my father passed away after, they were only here less than a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5520.0,5550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"year when he passed away. He was buried in Augusta, Georgia, because when we\nlived down there in the country, he bought a lot in the Magnolia Cemetery there\nwhere my older brother, who passed away in 1915, was buried. My father was\nburied by the Masons [freemasonry]. We, my mother is buried in Augusta, and\nRabbi Marx, David Marx, went down, performed the ceremony. They were, she was\nvery friendly with Dr. Marx. He was very wonderful to her, because I think there\nwas a feeling in my mother's heart or something that she wanted to know more\nabout the Jewish religion. As far as my father was concerned, I think ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5550.0,5580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the less\nhe knew about it suited him fine, because he had nothing, he was not the nicest\nperson to Jews who did not come from the area that he thought all Jews should\ncome from, if you know what I mean. As a result, we never went with Jews, we\nnever associated with them, and didn't have the opportunity. The only, actually\nthe only Jews that we ever knew of were our family, and our relatives in\nAugusta, and while they were all very nice and we had wonderful Christian\nfriends, I think when my mother and father passed away, this little country town\nof ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5580.0,5610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Midville was fifty-five miles away, I would say that seventy-five percent of\nthe people were there because having, my grandfather, my mother's father,\nactually was the founder of the area with the start of the pine trees and the\npine stuff, meant a lot to them. My father was very prominent in this little\ncountry town which at one time was, meant something, with cotton being as\nimportant as it was. He was a mayor of the town; he was the head of the Masonic\nlodge. My brother was a head of the Masonic lodge. They took whatever, he was\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5610.0,5640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"instrumental in getting the telephone company to, he didn't own it, he had\nsomeone put one in. He was instrumental in getting sewage through there. He was\nvery active in that way. He was not what you would call a merchant, but he was\nmy grandfather's bookkeeper. He was a well-read man, beautiful penmanship as you\nsaw, and he was not what I would say a very religious person. He resented the\nfact that cotton being so big in that area, that Jew-stores, as they used to\ncall them later, three other families moved there, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5640.0,5670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and did not have the best\nreputation. He never had anything to do with them, nor would he allow us to have\nanything to do with them. I don't know if this was proper to be taping, to go\ninto something that's going to be heard by those people. [interviews pauses,\nthen resumes] \nASHER: That's not right. I don't want to . . . \nLOWEINSTEIN: After\nyou moved to Atlanta, and then you got some more formal Jewish feelings. ASHER: After I moved to Atlanta, we had more formal Jewish knowledge, we were members\nof the Temple. Dr. Marx and my, our children, Norman and Tom, went to Sunday\nSchool. Norman was confirmed. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5670.0,5700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't think, Tom was not confirmed because of,\nwhy wasn't he? \nASHER: Because he couldn't get off to go to the services on\nSaturdays. He was at the boarding school, he could never leave to get to the\nproper . . .\nLOWEINSTEIN: I don't know if they heard that. \nASHER: I don't think\nthat's important. \nLOWEINSTEIN: Today is April 2, 1990, another fine interview\nwith Mr. Joe Asher for the Oral History Program for NCJ, AJC, and the Fedration.\nNow, Mr. Asher, let's come up to the present day and what you and your family\nand the activities that you played a part in in the City of Atlanta. \nASHER: Up\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5700.0,5730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to the Civil War.\nLOWEINSTEIN: Okay, Mr. Asher. You've been living in Atlanta\nfor over seventy years. What do you feel that your role in Atlanta is, or was,\nand will be as an American Jew in the City of Atlanta? \nASHER: Let me say at the\nvery beginning, I am Jew by birth, and I am an American by birth, and I'm what I\nterm an American Jew. I am not as enthusiastic about what's happening with the\nJews outside ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5730.0,5760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of America as a lot of my friends and others are, just because I\nguess being born in the South, being raised with ninety-nine percent non-Jews,\nand knowing very little about the past Jewish history, and not having any\nrelatives in any foreign country today, other than Australia and England where I\nhave, my father's sister moved to Australia, and my father's sister number two\nmoved to England when they were quite young and got married and they were all\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5760.0,5790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from Germany. I think Atlanta has changed a great deal since, in seventy years,\nin many ways. I still feel that there's an awful lot of class distinction in\nthis city. I have an article that was written by a very prominent man in the\ncity telling about the way he grew up. He states that he, \"we lived near each\nother. We went to school together. We were members of the same church. We\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5790.0,5820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"belonged to the same club. We're all Anglo, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.\" I\ndon't think that is a very attractive item to be published, because I feel that\nthere are a lot of White Catholics. There are an awful lot of White Jews,\nalthough in most of the articles that appear in the paper today, the more\nemphasis is put on Blacks than on Jews. We see Blacks and Jews. Otherwise, I\nfeel that the city itself, as I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5820.0,5850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"knew it as a young boy, has done a marvelous,\nhas been a marvelous city to live in. It is not the city that I would say that I\ngrew up in. One of the things that I felt was very important coming here after\nmy, from a small town and then going to another, a large city to get a job,\nlooking for a job, and I needed it because at the time the cotton crop in Bird\nCounty where I lived for ten years had practically disappeared due to the boll\nweevil. What Sherman did to Atlanta, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5850.0,5880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"boll weevil did to South Georgia. My\nfather passed away shortly after they moved here, and I joined him because I was\nworking at that time at eighteen years old in Little Rock, Arkansas. I felt that\nit is very important for me to meet people, and I joined every organization that\nthey would take me. I would have joined the Ku Klux Klan, but I didn't have a\nsheet. Anyway, when I was twenty-one years old, I joined the Masons. My father\nwas a Master Mason. My, one of my brothers was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5880.0,5910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Master Mason. I was, always\nfelt that I wanted to join the organization because I had heard so much about\nit. I did. I met some very fine Atlanta citizens that were members of the\nMasonic lodge that I happened to join. I joined the Elks. The Elks had a\nconvention in Atlanta in 1923, and I was anxious to go the convention, so I\njoined the Elks. I met a lot of people that I would not have met had I not\njoined it. The only place in Atlanta that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5910.0,5940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"didn't close the bar, although it was\nProhibition. You could always get a drink at the Elks Club on Ellis Street. They\nhad wonderful parties every Thursday and Saturday night. That was a very good\nway for me to meet some people. In the Elks Club at that time was top\n[indistinct: 01:39:18] Atlanta social group, plus maybe six or seven Jewish\nmembers. I then progressed on to other organizations, and then, at that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5940.0,5970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time, I\n. was with Rich's working at Rich's for about three years, and I wanted to join\nother organizations. I joined the Junior Chamber of Commerce when it was\norganized. I was the officer in the Atlanta Better Business Bureau. I was\nvice-president of Central Atlanta Progress, which was a downtown organization. I\nalso joined and became president of the Downtown Atlanta Exchange Club, which\nhad fifty members, and all selected from, all outstanding young ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=5970.0,6000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"men from,\nlawyers and banks, et cetera. The fact that I joined so many organizations, I\nfeel, helped me get to know people in the community. In 19, when I could afford\nit, I joined the Standard Club, which at that time, in 1927, that time was\nlocated on Washington Street. My introduction to the Standard Club was getting\nhit by a man the first night I was there that I never saw before because he said\nhe didn't know me and didn't know why I was there. He did give me a couple\nscratches on my head. Before the evening was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6000.0,6030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"over, I gave him a few knots on his\nhead too. That was my introduction to Jewish society in Atlanta. Later on, I\njoined the, not the Boys Club, but the organization here that was doing a lot of\ncivic work, more or less, I wouldn't, I'd say the Chamber of Commerce, which was\nthe prime one, prime organization for businesses. I became a member of that and\nwas involved in that for several years. Atlanta Retail Men's Association, I\nbecame president of that. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6030.0,6060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My most exciting experience of any of the\norganizations, excuse me, was being involved in the Howard School. Howard School\nwas started in 1950 by my wife's brother, Norman Elsas, who was a close friend\nof a brother rotarian who was the head of Agnes Scott College. At Agnes Scott,\nthere was a lady by the name of Mirian Howard who was badly deformed due to\nmuscular dystrophy not the muscular, I'm sorry, was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6060.0,6090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"polio.\nLOWEINSTEIN: Polio.\nASHER: When she graduated from Agnes Scott, Dr. McKeehan and Norman Elsas\ndecided that she was such a brilliant lady that they wanted to help her further\nher education in the field that she seemed to be, wanted to go, training\nchildren who had learning disability. She eventually went to London and studied,\nwhere they had a specialized college for this type of work, returned to Atlanta,\nand in 1950, in her home on North Decatur Road, the Howard School was born. We\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6090.0,6120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have five children. Mirian was the teacher. It was the first school of this type\nin the entire South. After, we had a budget of twelve thousand dollars, and\ntuition was five hundred dollars a child. We could only handle six children. We\nhad to raise the money through friends. It wasn't any problem at that time. As\nwe saw the opportunity, we saw the opportunity really that this school could be\na great asset to the community, especially since Mirian was the teacher, and was\nso badly deformed, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6120.0,6150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had a wonderful way with the children. I was quite\ninterested in it, and we got two or three others of my friends involved, and\nthrough the Exchange Club of Atlanta, we had an annual dinner raising money for\nthe Howard School, outstanding speakers. Governor Sanders was one of the\nspeakers. I can name a number of outstanding citizens here in Atlanta that were\non our, will speak each year. We managed to raise enough money to move the\nschool from Mirian\"s home to the North Avenue Presbyterian Church where we had\nmore room and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6150.0,6180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"added someone to help Mirian. At that time, we were getting, we\nwere beginning to get recognized as a very good and unusual way of teaching.\nThrough Miriam's friends that knew her from Agnes Scott, and particular, Dr.\nMcKeehan who later became one of the top men in Westminster Schools here, and\nthere's a hall at Westminister now named the McKeehan Hall. We were able to get\ncontact with the Rockefeller Foundation. Through the Rockefeller Foundation,\ntwo, they sent two people ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6180.0,6210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"down here to see what Mirian was doing and how it was\noperated, because it was so unusual that a person in her bad physical condition\ncould get the interest of the students. They were impressed so that they went\nback and endowed a school in the East. Later on, we had visitors from many\ncities just to see what formula Mirian was using, and it became so interested\nthat there are a number of schools throughout America today, but the first one\nthat I know of was started right here in Atlanta with five children with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6210.0,6240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not so\nbad physical much as learning disability and being able to concentrate more or\nless on what was going on. That was the big problem, not the physical end of it.\nAny event, we moved from church to church where we would get more space, and\nfinally ended up at the, an empty building at, oh, it was on the grounds of the\nWalker estate. One of the buildings was being used by the Crippled Children's\nHome. Crippled, yeah, through the Junior League, and we were able to use the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6240.0,6270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"other building and by two years, within two years, we had forty children. Of\ncourse, we had to have a staff of teachers, an outstanding staff. Mirian was\ngetting a little older, and we felt necessary to make some provision to take\ncare of her for life, which we did. \nASHER: We hired a young lady that had a\nMaster's Degree, and she worked with Mirian for a short while and became a very\ngood instructor. Any event, we decided it was time to move ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6270.0,6300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"again, and through\nthe, a lot of our board members, Mills B. Lane [sp] owned a building, the bank,\nthe C \u0026 S Bank owned a building in Decatur that they had originally thought they\nwould use as a branch bank, but then later decided it was too small. We were\nallowed to use the building for a number of years. There again, we kept adding\nand adding more children and needing more teachers. The next move was to find a\nhome, a permanent home. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6300.0,6330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It wasn't easy, but, and fortunately, a very fine home\non Ponce De Leon, which originally was built by my wife's grandfather, Mr. Jacob\nElsas, was being used as a halfway house with thirty-two people living in it,\nand the people, the operators of the home were receiving, I think, over two\nhundred dollars a month per person, just to give them a place to sleep and eat.\nI'm sure that they did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6330.0,6360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not pay over a hundred thousand dollars for the property.\nWe got together and decided that was the place we'd like to own. It was a big\nhouse, beautifully built, built by a great architect of Atlanta by the name of\nLeo Reeth [sp]. We bought that home, and moved everybody out and took several\nmonths to get all the dirt out and clean the place. Then we rebuilt parts of it\non the inside, which was needed because it was in bad condition. Today, the main\nhome, main school remains there, kept in beautiful condition. We have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6360.0,6390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"eighteen\nteachers, all Master's. They all have Master's degree. The head of the school is\nDr. Mary Vin [sp] McDorman, who has done a marvelous job, and the school is\ngrowing so very very fast, so much so that we have bought property outside of\nRoswell, Georgia, and will build another school there which will, we hope to\nhave ready for occupancy at the end of this year. In a building on the grounds\nthat we bought, we have ninety-three students at Roswell, and we now have a\nhundred and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6390.0,6420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thirty-five on Ponce De Leon. The capacity for the two schools will\nbe no more than two hundred and fifty. The progress has been so great, and the\nneed is the thing that has amazed me, because very few people in the community\nrealize that the problem was here and no one was doing anything about it. The\npublic school thought they could do the job. As a result, they tried it in\nseveral of the schools and it was a complete flop. They couldn't get the\nteachers. It was not the proper way to teach. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6420.0,6450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We have a staff today from Emory\nUniversity of some fourteen or fifteen . . . \nLOWEINSTEIN: All right. Now from\nHoward School, which was a tremendous success, where else did you put your\nenergies and your efforts? ASHER: I was just a small cog in a big wheel at the\nBoys Club, which was started some many years ago. When I joined the Club, they\nhad a budget of seven hundred thousand dollars, which was mostly made up from\nthe United Way. I believe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6450.0,6480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they had five Clubs. Today we have thirteen Boys\nClubs, eight thousand members, and a budget of almost three million dollars. The\nBoys Club in Atlanta has done an outstanding job, an outstanding job. They, I\nchecked just last week. I called the director, because I was interested in the\nfact that there were so many young youths here committing crimes. I said, asked\nhim, I said, \"Are any of the Boys Clubs' members involved in any of these\ncrimes?\" He says, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6480.0,6510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"We haven't had one yet, not one.\" They're doing a great job.\nIt's a very expensive operation . . . \nLOWEINSTEIN: NCJW, April 2, 1990. From the\nBoys Club, what you're talking about . . . \nASHER: I was the second president of\nVolunteer Atlanta when it was organized in 1969. That was very interesting work.\nWe, fortunately, we had the backing of Junior League ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6510.0,6540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Rich's and a couple of\nother organizations, Coca-Cola Company, to put up the money to get a staff. We\nhad an excellent board. One of the things we did was to invite the members, the\nwives of the cabinet members in Washington. Henry Ford set down in, came to\nAtlanta in his private plane. The wife of every cabinet member with the\nexception of one, the lady that talked too much in . . . \nLOWEINSTEIN: Dole?\nASHER: Cut ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6540.0,6570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it.\nASHER: All the members came with the exception of one, and we had\na great day here. I arranged with, through Rich's to have a box lunch at the\nheadquarters. Of course, that made a bigger hit than the meeting. In fact, when\nthe ladies went back to Washington, I received a letter from every one of them,\nand they talked more about the fried chicken and the wonderful food than what\nhad been accomplished here. That actually isn't true. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6570.0,6600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They were very impressed\nwith what we had done in Atlanta, because we were so far ahead of any other\nvolunteer group in America. They spent a lot of money out of Washington to try\nto develop in many cities. Atlanta evidently, we have a sort of a spirit here of\nif you're going to do it, let us do it right, and we did it right. Today,\nVolunteer Atlanta is in every metropolitan county, so that gives you some idea\nof what kind of progress has been made. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6600.0,6630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When we first started, it didn't seem to\ngo over at all. It had to be sold. People couldn't understand what they meant by\nVolunteer Atlanta. In spite of the fact that there were a lot of television ads,\nfootball sponsors and whatnot would mention be a volunteer, join volunteer so\nand so. It got off the ground, and it really, it's still number one in the\ncountry. Being a volunteer in an organization like Volunteer Atlanta isn't any\ndifferent than being a volunteer in a church organization or any other\norganization, provided you are ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6630.0,6660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"willing to spend some time and do it. We were\nvery fortunate that a group of dedicated ladies throughout the city were willing\nto give of their time. They helped the city and county do a great job here.\nLOWEINSTEIN: Just ladies. ASHER: Just ladies. I am very proud of the fact that I\nwas affiliated with that organization. I'm mainly on the board, and we finally,\nI felt that it was time for it to become a part of United Way, and we are now a\npart of that organization, and they're doing a great job. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6660.0,6690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The feeling that I\nhave being a Jew in a community that is still somewhat lacking the so-called\nbrotherly love of thy neighbor, that Jews should take a more active part in\norganizations and not necessarily, don't feel that they have to be the president\nor the chairman of the board or whatnot to do a good job in that organization.\nWe don't have enough Jews in Atlanta in the small groups and small\norganizations. I mean, like ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6690.0,6720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Volunteer Atlanta, like the Boys Club, and several\nothers that I'm quite familiar with. I'm an honorary member of the Boys Club.\nI'm a trustee of the Howard School. I'm a trustee of several other\norganizations. It's not that I did so much work myself, other than the fact that\nI managed to recruit people who were willing to do this work. Unfortunately,\nvery few of my Jewish friends remained very long. It wasn't exciting enough. As\na result, they didn't last long. I'm glad to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6720.0,6750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"say, though, the ones that we still\nhave in some of these organizations do a very good job and are well accepted.\nI'd like to see more young Jewish men become more active in this city in the\nthings that are going on. It doesn't necessarily have to be with the social\nangle, but we don't seem to get as many as I think we should have. Now the big\ndeal was Future Incorporated, which was organized at my wife's plantation in\n1950, and we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6750.0,6780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"decided to, at that meeting, I invited three of my close friends to\ncome over and discuss organizing fifty men, young men, and call it Future\nIncorporated. \nLOWEINSTEIN: Who were the three of your friends that you invited\nover? \nASHER: Louis Regenstein, Elliott Goldstein, and Don Oberdorfer. They\nthought it was a good idea, and my thought on the need for starting the\norganization or wanting to see an organization like that was the fact that\neverybody couldn't afford to be a member of the Standard Club or any other club\nas far as that. We should have a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6780.0,6810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"group of young men that were good friends, had\ngrown up together here in Atlanta, that could have some fun with it. We made up\na list of sixty men that we would accept, invite, rather. Each one took a\ncertain number and would all up their friends, they picked the names they wanted\nto call, and would come back within a week and see how we stood. Of the first\nfifty invited, fifty accepted. Unfortunately . . . \nLOWEINSTEIN: Unfortunately,\nwhat? \nASHER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6810.0,6840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Unfortunately, we had a membership list printed in booklet form,\nand it listed the fifty that accepted. Two of the fifty that accepted decided\nthat they didn't want to be members, so that left an opening. Their name appears\nin the first issue, but they never were members. We had a backup list of ten,\nand there was no problem to fill that vacancy. The purpose of Future was\ntwo-fold. Number one, have a social ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6840.0,6870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"investment club made up of people, friends\nthat were more or less congenial and that's the way we began. We wanted to not\nexclude the ladies from being members, but to have our business meeting and then\nhave our entertainment after the business meeting with the ladies present. The\nbig mistake was that we met once a month and the dues were ten dollars a month\nwhich included a meal and everything. Pretty soon it was a matter of hurry up\nwith the meeting so we can get started playing cards and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6870.0,6900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"playing mahjong or\nplaying whatever, we are going to play. The ladies are out here wanting to do\nsomething. In all, most of the ladies told me, I won't call any names, that this\norganization won't last long. It can't. It can't last long without women in it.\nWe're going to celebrate, did just celebrate our, well, I think our thirty-ninth\nyear. I was only chairman for thirty-five years, so it's going to go along.\nIt'll continue. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6900.0,6930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We have changed the rules quite a bit, and I think it's much\nbetter. For a while we permitted the stockholders, each member was allowed to\nbuy one share of stock. We invested the money in various stocks that they paid\nin, and it kept piling up and piling up. We decided to split the stock two for\none, which we did. Later on the, we had an increase again in our profits and we\nsplit the stock three for one. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6930.0,6960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was decided at one of the meetings what to do\nabout increasing the membership, because we had a limit of fifty. For the first\nten years, I believe all fifty remained. Then the clicks began with the groups\nrather, and wanted to take in certain people, and they were turned down, and\nthat made two or three little groups decide that they'd get out. We lost about\nfifteen, I think, of our original members. It was no problem in picking up what\nwe wanted to get back to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6960.0,6990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fifty. Once a person was a member, we agreed, he could\nnot be, he would not be accepted again if he resigned. We still have that\nenforced. Only time that we took in new members were people who were on our list\nthat we would accept, and we had a committee, membership committee that would\ncheck thoroughly, because we knew what kind of members we wanted, and we knew\nthat Atlanta was getting quite a few new people moving ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=6990.0,7020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here. ASHER: We made some\nchanges. Number one, we decided not to have a meeting every month, and to charge\na hundred dollars per year for a share of stock, and invest it wisely. Which so\nfar, we've done extremely well. I mean, starting with such a small amount of\nmoney and getting it up to, at the present time, the assets are over seven\nhundred thousand dollars. The purpose being a social investment club. We now\ntake in sons and daughters of members. No son-in-laws, because that was a\nproblem, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=7020.0,7050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we had with some of the former members. As a result, we had to make\nsome ruling that would give us the continuity of the type of members that we\nwanted to be in Future. We have a hundred and twenty-six members now. We have\nthree meetings a year, an annual meeting which is free, two social meetings with\nminimum charge to each member and the club picks up the difference. I'm glad to\nsay we have a very active committee. We have a very outstanding young president\nnow, Mr. Lyons Joel Jr. His father was one of the original ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=7050.0,7080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"members. We have\ntwenty-two members that are of the third generation in there. It's going, it's\nthe type of organization that I think has been very good for the young Jewish\ngroup. We have fourteen wives that are not Jewish, but their husbands remain\nmembers. All in all, Future has grown each year in spite of the fact that some\nof our good friends said it wouldn't last long. It's lasted, and will continue\nto last as long as those individuals who are head of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=7080.0,7110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"organization are\ninterested, follow through with the original by-laws, are very simple to read,\nand not put in a lot of gimmicks, not make it difficult for new members, and\nmaybe someday some of the newcomers that are not in now may be able to join.\nUnfortunately, I don't know many of the late group that have moved to Atlanta,\nbut I'm sure that we have had applications of membership committee, that they\nhave been embarrassed by the point that we have a closed membership at this\ntime. I hope it'll always be closed. 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I was the number one president.\nLOWEINSTEIN: Still chairman of the board. \nASHER: Still ex-officio chairman of\nthe board. \nLOWEINSTEIN: For thirty-five years, I believe. \nASHER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=7170.0,7200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, about\nthirty . . . \nLOWEINSTEIN: A long time. \nASHER: For a long time. I expect to have\na hand in it as long as I am able to make a contribution to the group that is\ngoing to be beneficial for the club. When I feel that I can't be, then I won't\ngo to the meetings. \nLOWEINSTEIN: What other clubs in the city? Do you belong to\nthe Jewish Community Center? \nASHER: No. The only social, the only club I am a\nmember of now is the Commerce Club. \nLOWEINSTEIN: Alright. \nASHER: At one time, I\nwas member of the Standard Club for fifty years. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297#t=7200.0,7230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/98726/file/196297/transcript/46411/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They were supposed to, the\nby-laws stated that after so many years, your dues, you paid no dues. They kept\nraising dues. I used to play golf, but I can't play any longer. I was a member\nof a golf club many years, Black Pock, and that I got out of. The year, I have\nbeen invited to be the president of two very outstanding, I think, clubs in\nAtlanta, not, business more or less. 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