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died when he was very young, leaving some unknowns as far as his family history is concerned.  Irving mentions that he thinks both of his parents came to Atlanta from Poland, because there were some relatives living in the city at the time.  His two older sisters came with them as well.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving and his older brother, Abe, went to live with a cousin after his parents died.  When Abe got married and moved to a home of his own, Irving went to live with him and his wife.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring his early childhood, Irving lived in the Jewish community in the Washington Street area, near where the old Atlanta stadium was located south of downtown.  He studied Hebrew at the home of Rabbi Geffen whose son, Sam, was teaching at the time.  He became bar mitzvah at Shearith Israel.  Irving enjoyed sports and played baseball and basketball in the yard behind the Hebrew Orphans’ Home and at the Alliance Boys’ Club.  He graduated from Boys’ High and went to Emory University where he majored in Business Administration.  He was a member of the AEPi fraternity.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving was at Emory for three-and-one-half years.  He left to serve in the Marine Corps during World War II.  He was stationed in the South Pacific on an island called Peleliu.  Irving was married ten days after he got home from the war and never returned to Emory to get his diploma.  Instead, he went to work with his brother, who had a wholesale hosiery business in downtown Atlanta called ‘Riada Mills’.  The business thrived over the years, transitioning from hosiery to fleece wear.  At the time of the interview, the company was thriving with more than 20 employees, three warehouses, and salesmen around the country.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe and his wife Jayne were members of Ahavath Achim and the Mayfair Club where they were married in 1946.  They had two sons, Craig and Jeffrey, who eventually joined the family business.  Irving served on the board of the Marcus Jewish Community Center and was active in the development of the new community center building at Zaban Park.  Jayne and he enjoyed socializing with a close circle of long-time Jewish friends.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving expresses his gratitude for his brother Abe during the interview.  “It was through his efforts that I not only had sustenance as a child, but in my adult life he even helped me.  In that respect, I really want to give him all the credit in the world,” he says.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving Adair passed away at the age of 89 on April 13, 2011.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eIrving discusses the death of his parents when he was very young and the enormous role his older brother, Abe, has played in his life.  He talks about living with his cousins after his parents died, and then living with his brother, after Abe got married.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving talks about living in the Washington Street area of Atlanta where they walked from place to place or rode the streetcar for a dime.  He talks fondly of growing up in the Jewish community, enjoying sports, and developing a circle of Jewish friends.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the time he moved in with his brother, to getting married, and eventually buying a home of his own, Irving moved further and further north in the Atlanta area.  Interestingly, there are some parallels here with the migration of the Jewish population in the city.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving reflects on the changes in the way business is conducted during his lifetime, from essentially a horse and buggy, personal approach to faxes and phone calls.  He also talks about the decline in the percentage of Jewish merchants, and the decimation of the Jewish wholesale business area around Pryor Street in Atlanta’s downtown area, where his family business was originally located.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata 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1994 and July 7, 1994 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIrving Adair was born on October 3, 1921.  Both of his parents died when he was very young, leaving some unknowns as far as his family history is concerned.  Irving mentions that he thinks both of his parents came to Atlanta from Poland, because there were some relatives living in the city at the time.  His two older sisters came with them as well.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving and his older brother, Abe, went to live with a cousin after his parents died.  When Abe got married and moved to a home of his own, Irving went to live with him and his wife.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring his early childhood, Irving lived in the Jewish community in the Washington Street area, near where the old Atlanta stadium was located south of downtown.  He studied Hebrew at the home of Rabbi Geffen whose son, Sam, was teaching at the time.  He became bar mitzvah at Shearith Israel.  Irving enjoyed sports and played baseball and basketball in the yard behind the Hebrew Orphans’ Home and at the Alliance Boys’ Club.  He graduated from Boys’ High and went to Emory University where he majored in Business Administration.  He was a member of the AEPi fraternity.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving was at Emory for three-and-one-half years.  He left to serve in the Marine Corps during World War II.  He was stationed in the South Pacific on an island called Peleliu.  Irving was married ten days after he got home from the war and never returned to Emory to get his diploma.  Instead, he went to work with his brother, who had a wholesale hosiery business in downtown Atlanta called ‘Riada Mills’.  The business thrived over the years, transitioning from hosiery to fleece wear.  At the time of the interview, the company was thriving with more than 20 employees, three warehouses, and salesmen around the country.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe and his wife Jayne were members of Ahavath Achim and the Mayfair Club where they were married in 1946.  They had two sons, Craig and Jeffrey, who eventually joined the family business.  Irving served on the board of the Marcus Jewish Community Center and was active in the development of the new community center building at Zaban Park.  Jayne and he enjoyed socializing with a close circle of long-time Jewish friends.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving expresses his gratitude for his brother Abe during the interview.  “It was through his efforts that I not only had sustenance as a child, but in my adult life he even helped me.  In that respect, I really want to give him all the credit in the world,” he says.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving Adair passed away at the age of 89 on April 13, 2011.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIrving discusses the death of his parents when he was very young and the enormous role his older brother, Abe, has played in his life.  He talks about living with his cousins after his parents died, and then living with his brother, after Abe got married.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving talks about living in the Washington Street area of Atlanta where they walked from place to place or rode the streetcar for a dime.  He talks fondly of growing up in the Jewish community, enjoying sports, and developing a circle of Jewish friends.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the time he moved in with his brother, to getting married, and eventually buying a home of his own, Irving moved further and further north in the Atlanta area.  Interestingly, there are some parallels here with the migration of the Jewish population in the city.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving reflects on the changes in the way business is conducted during his lifetime, from essentially a horse and buggy, personal approach to faxes and phone calls.  He also talks about the decline in the percentage of Jewish merchants, and the decimation of the Jewish wholesale business area around Pryor Street in Atlanta’s downtown area, where his family business was originally 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Today is June 10,\n1994. It's for the Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta which is co-sponsored\nby the American Jewish Committee, the Atlanta Jewish Federation and the National\nCouncil of Jewish Women. The interview today is taking place in Irving's office\nand this is side, tape one. Why don't we start with looking at your background.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I know you were born in Atlanta. Just a moment ago you were talking about where\nyou were born. Do you mind repeating the story?\n\nADAIR: I was born on Hunter Street diagonally across the street from the\nShearith Israel Congregation. As I was telling you earlier, there was about a\nthree or four block area there that comprised of most of the Jewish community\nthat attended Shearith Israel ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Congregation.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Were your parents members of Shearith Israel?\n\nADAIR: Yes, they were members there.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What year were you born?\n\nADAIR: I was born October 3, 1921.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Tell me a little bit about your parents before we go any further.\n\nADAIR: My parents both died when I was quite young. My father died when I was\ntwo. My mother died when I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"six or seven. I'm sort of limited as far as\nfamily history is concerned. I think they both came over here from Poland and\nsettled in Atlanta. We had some relatives here at the time.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Who were your relatives?\n\nADAIR: The Finkelsteins. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bloomie Finkelstein is a relative. I have a feeling\nthat her mother was here at the time my parents immigrated here to Atlanta. I\nestimate it was between 1900 and 1904.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What brought the Finkelsteins here?\n\nADAIR: To be perfectly frank with you, I really don't know.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Who raised you after the death of your parents?\n\nADAIR: My brother, Abe Adair. 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Then I went to\nlive with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"him on Virginia Avenue in Atlanta.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What year was that?\n\nADAIR: I'm estimating about 1934.\n\nWEINTRAUB: When was your brother Abe born?\n\nADAIR: Abe is between 85 and 86 years old. He was born here in Atlanta. I have\ntwo older sisters who came over with my parents from Poland. I also have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a\nsister here in Atlanta whose name is Edith. When my parents died, she went to\nlive with my sister who lived in Long Island, New York.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Abe, I know, is still living. How about your sisters?\n\nADAIR: My oldest sister has died. My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"older sister, Rose, is still living in New\nYork. Praise G-d, on her next birthday she'll be 90 years old.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What year was Abe born?\n\nADAIR: I'm not sure of the year. As I said, he's between 85 and 86 years old\nright now.\n\nWEINTRAUB: We'll come back to Abe in a moment. 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He was married to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pearlie [Pearle] Eplan. She lived above the Fleshners. That's how he met her. It\nwas a six unit apartment on Washington Street called the 'Princess.'\n\nWEINTRAUB: That building no longer exists, I assume.\n\nADAIR: No, that has been torn down now. It doesn't exist now.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Do you know what's there now?\n\nADAIR: If I'm not mistaken, it's a parking lot adjacent to the Atlanta stadium.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Yes, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that whole area looks like that now.\n\nADAIR: I went to James L. Key grammar school on Crew Street.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let's talk about the James L. Key grammar school. What percentage of\nthe pupils at that time at James L. Key School in Atlanta was Jewish?\n\nADAIR: I would estimate it was around 25 or 30 percent. There was quite a\nsizable population of Jews living in that area at the time.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Were all of your friends Jewish?\n\nADAIR: Yes.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Did you have any relationship as a youngster at this time with the\nnon-Jewish 75 percent?\n\nADAIR: I had a limited relationship at the time with some non-Jews.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You say limited?\n\nIrving Yes. Most of my activities outside the school were with my Jewish friends.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Give me some idea of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"activities.\n\nADAIR: We used to play baseball and basketball behind the [Hebrew] Orphans'\nHome. That's where our main play area was.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Tell me about the Orphans' Home.\n\nADAIR: The only knowledge I have is that we were allowed to play in the back\nwhere they had some tennis courts and a baseball field. 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Key, where did you go to school next?\n\nADAIR: When I moved to Virginia Avenue, I went to Bass Junior High School in the\nLittle Five Points area.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Can you describe . . .\n\nADAIR: I only knew a two or three people at the time, but had an exceedingly good three years there.\n\nWEINTRAUB: It was a three year junior high school?\n\nADAIR: Yes, it was a three year - sixth, seventh, and eighth grades at that time. I feel a little bit proud that I was elected president of my class in the ninth grade. 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I became very, very good friends with not only Jews, but non-Jewish friends there.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What was the perentage Jewish population of that school?\n\nADAIR: Of that school, I would say 10-15%\n\nWEINTRAUB: All from what area?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ADAIR: Well that covered quite a large area. That covered the Little Five Points area back through Briarcliff and North Decatur Road.\n\nWEINTRAUB: From Briarcliff, North Decatur and Little Five Points ... you've gone to the northeast section of the city.\n\nADAIR: Right. 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Not as much as I would like, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I get letters and magazines from\nthe national office. I keep up with them that way.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How long were you at Emory University [Atlanta, Georgia]?\n\nADAIR: I was there three-and-a-half years. I left because of World War II. 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They used it for planes bombing the Philippines.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You took part in a number of island hopping?\n\nADAIR: No, that was the only island. I was fortunate. I was put in Island\nCommand. I stayed there the whole time.\n\nWEINTRAUB: With our relationship with D-Day, you only had one ...\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ADAIR: ...that's right.\n\nWEINTRAUB: ...which is fortunate. With Emory, we're going back, then to 1940?\n\nADAIR: Right.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What was the Jewish population at Emory at that time, approximately?\n\nADAIR: Just a pure guess, I'd say, around five percent.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Was AEPi the only fraternity?\n\nADAIR: No, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AEPI and TEP were on campus.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Tell me about your experiences at Emory, please.\n\nADAIR: They were quite enjoyable. As I said, I was going into Business\nAdministration. It was quite a large local Jewish population going to Emory at\nthe time. 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I was real close friends with everybody in the area,\nespecially the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kids.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Would you say you knew almost 100 percent of the Jewish community at\nthat time?\n\nADAIR: Yes, just about.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You grew up with them.\n\nADAIR: Yes.\n\nMarvin Even when you moved to the north side?\n\nADAIR: Yes, I still remained friends. I used to come back on the south side\nquite often to be with my friends.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How large was the Jewish community around Virginia Avenue?\n\nADAIR: A very small area there at that time. 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Not as close as I was, but I keep up with most of them.\n\nWEINTRAUB: There's no association of old boys to keep up with that.\n\nADAIR: No. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My wife had some girls that she grew up with. We currently have, I\nwould say seven or eight couples who are quite close. Most of them were all born\nin Atlanta.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How did you acquire friends outside of Atlanta?\n\nADAIR: If they moved into Atlanta, that's the way I really came ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to know them.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Atlanta does not have a reputation for excluding 'foreigners' so to speak?\n\nADAIR: No. I think once Jews or non-Jew moves to Atlanta and they get into the\nswing and stay here a while, it's very difficult to get them to move.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let's go back to the migration of the Jewish population. 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He was a very awe inspiring man. He had a gray head of\nhair and a long gray beard. Naturally, anytime I got around him I was ...I\nlooked up to him as being on a pedestal. I knew that he was a man of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"G-d. He was\nthe essence of the Jewish religion, as far as I was concerned as a kid.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Tell me about his son, Sam.\n\nADAIR: Sam was quite knowledgeable in the Jewish religion, like all of Rabbi\nGeffen's children. 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I was bar mitzvahed at the Shearith Israel Congregation.\n\nWEINTRAUB: In what year?\n\nADAIR: I was 13, so that would have been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about 1934.\n\nWEINTRAUB: The congregation is still there on Washington Street during your bar mitzvah?\n\nADAIR: Yes, it was still on Washington Street at that time.\n\nWEINTRAUB: When did it leave that area?\n\nADAIR: I'm really not sure. 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Were they native Atlantans? Where did they come from?\n\nADAIR: From what I understand, my wife's family has been in Atlanta for over 100\nyears as far as roots. I'm not exactly sure. I would really have to find out,\nbut I'm not exactly sure where her grandparents came from. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They were married in Atlanta.\n\nWEINTRAUB: They're one of the real ...\n\nADAIR: They are real 'old timers.' They go back, as I say, well over 100 years.\nMy family goes back over 90 years. 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In fact, that area had quite a large Jewish\npopulation at the time I was married.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How long did you stay in that area?\n\nADAIR: We stayed there, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'd say, about five years.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Describe the change in that area from 1945 until today.\n\nADAIR: The Jewish population mainly has moved away from there. It's strictly\nChristians today. My next move, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was very fortunate. We built a house on\nWildwood Road. We were the first house built on the right hand side of the street.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You're only talking approximately a mile or a mile-and-a-half from\nVirginia Court.\n\nADAIR: I think it's a little bit further than that. It's not that far, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nwould say its two to four miles. I'm not sure what the distance would be. It's\nnot too far.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What I'm doing is tracing the Jewish population moving north. We went\nto Virginia [Avenue]. We're a little further north, now, about two miles. Still,\nfurther north.\n\nADAIR: We're progressively going north, exactly. At that time, we did have our\noldest son. 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Your second son was born on Wildwood?\n\nADAIR: My second son was born while we were in our home on Wildwood Road.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How old is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he now?\n\nADAIR: He's 41. His name is Craig.\n\nWEINTRAUB: We'll get back to them, too. Tell me about your relationship, after\nmarriage, with the synagogue and Rabbi Epstein.\n\nADAIR: It was a limited ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"relationship. We had a nodding acquaintance. I never was\nactive in the congregation. I knew Rabbi Epstein. Every time I saw him we would\nalways stop and talk ...just in general terms.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Where was AA located at this time?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ADAIR: I forgot to tell you. My marriage was at the Mayfair Club here in\nAtlanta. Rabbi Epstein conducted the service.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let's stay with that a little bit. You mentioned the Mayfair Club.\nWere you a member of the Mayfair Club?\n\nADAIR: Yes, I was a member of the Mayfair Club.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What type of club was that?\n\nADAIR: That was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"really close-knit Jewish club. I'm sorry we don't have one\nlike it today. It was families that were really close to each other. We had a\nlot of friends. It was a homey atmosphere there. That's pretty hard to find\ntoday. I'm real ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sorry it's no longer in existence.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let me digress with you a minute. What other Jewish clubs were\navailable at this point?\n\nADAIR: At that time, they had the [Jewish] Progressive Club and the Standard Club.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Which of these are now in existence?\n\nADAIR: The only one left is the Standard Club.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Do you care to speculate on why the other two are not in existence?\n\nADAIR: I really don't know. 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From what I understand, I think the\nProgressive Club's membership slowly but surely diminished to the point that\nfinancially it could no longer remain in existence.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: How many different buildings did the Mayfair Club own?\n\nADAIR: One. It had tennis courts and a swimming pool at the time. We were really\nclose to each other. It was really like a family there.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What was the location of the Mayfair Club?\n\nADAIR: The Mayfair Club was on Spring Street. There is a motel there now. It was\nnot too far off Peachtree on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Spring Street.\n\nWEINTRAUB: With the Mayfair Club and your marriage, you continued an association\nwith both the AA and the Mayfair Club?\n\nADAIR: Yes.\n\nWEINTRAUB: After marriage, you say you moved to Virginia Courts and subsequently\nto Wildwood Road. Describe the life on Wildwood Road.\n\nADAIR: Wildwood Road was really enjoyable. 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My mother-in-law,\nsubsequently, died. I might be getting a little bit ahead of the story, but we\ndecided that the house was too big for us. We went looking for a condominium. We\ndecided that that was what we wanted to do. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We moved to the Mooregate Square\nCondominiums on Moores Mill Road. That's where we are today.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Large Jewish population there too?\n\nADAIR: No, there's not. Not in the complex itself. There is a large Jewish\npopulation in that area which is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Moores Mill Road. There's quite a large Jewish\npopulation on Sequoyah [Drive] and Northridge. I think that's the name. There's\na lot of Jewish population in that area. We also have a lot of friends living in\nthat area.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's not a real north in this case. It's more a migration to the west.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ADAIR: Exactly.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Just to keep us with how the Jewish population has moved, would you\nsay most or a good part of the Jewish population is now in that area?\n\nADAIR: Yes. Not a tremendous amount, but there's a large percentage of Jewish\npeople living there today.\n\nWEINTRAUB: In a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"moment, we'll look at some business activities. Just to stay on\nthis a few more minutes, you talked about AEPi and the mixing of the boys and\ngirls at this point. Would you say that most of it took place there? Or would a\ngood bit of the social activity take place at the Mayfair Club you mentioned a\nmoment ago?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ADAIR: I'd say the younger contingent, at that particular time, took place at\nthe fraternity house.\n\nWEINTRAUB: From your perspective, most of the coupling, so to speak, went on at\nthe college environment, rather that the social environment?\n\nADAIR: Right.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How about religious? 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I really didn't get started at the Community\nCenter ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"until a little bit later in life. I found it to be, as far as I was\nconcerned, the finest organization as far as Jewish activity as in Atlanta,\nstarting with infants to older seniors. I find it to be activity-wise, just a\ngreat ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"place for most of our Jewish population.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let me return to your comments at the beginning of the tape for just\na moment. You indicated the primary place where youngsters played was behind the\nOrphans' Home. There was no community center at this point?\n\nADAIR: No. There was the Jewish Educational Alliance. I have forgotten that. I'm\nglad you brought that point up. 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That was really one of our bitter rivals.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Were there more than two clubs then?\n\nADAIR: At the time, I don't remember any more clubs in our ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"age bracket.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What age are we talking about?\n\nADAIR: I would say we were between 13 to about 15 at the time.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Why would you elect to use the Alliance rather than the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"orphanage?\n\nADAIR: The Orphans' Home really didn't have the facility for basketball.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Depending on the activity ...\n\nADAIR: ...right.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I'm going to cut the tape right now. We'll turn the tape over and\npick it up.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I'm Marvin Weintraub with Irving Adair. Today is June 10, 1994. Let's\npick up slightly differently now, Irving. Let's go back to when you returned\nfrom the military and got married ten days later. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You said you went to work for\nyour brother. What was your brother doing at that point?\n\nADAIR: My brother had a wholesale hosiery operation on Pryor Street, as I said\nbefore. He and I got together and I decided that I would like to go to work for\nhim. He was very nice to me. 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It was through his efforts that\nI not only had sustenance as a child, but in my adult life he even helped me. In\nthat respect, I really want to give him all the credit in the world.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Describe the business.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ADAIR: Our business at that particular time was wholesale hosiery and socks. I\nwas amazed when I walked in. The first day back, I walked in the place and place\nwas empty. I asked my brother at the time, \"What in the world happed here?\" He\nsaid, \"To be perfectly frank with you, you just have to pick customers out. You\ndon't have to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"...send anything you want to them and they'll be glad to accept it.\n\nWEINTRAUB: This was 1945?\n\nADAIR: Nineteen forty-five. It was absolutely unbelievable to me. I got right in\non the tail end of when business, as a result of the war, was just unbelievably good.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Where did he get his supplies from?\n\nADAIR: From various hosiery mills throughout the south.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Your job ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was to represent the firm?\n\nADAIR: Exactly. I did everything. I swept the floor, turned the lights off and\non, sold and bought. After a while, I performed all the functions that were\nneeded at the time.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Abe started the business?\n\nADAIR: He started the business in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1932, which means we've been in business for\n62 years.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Has it changed over the years?\n\nADAIR: It has changed slightly.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let's stick to the 1932 to 1945 time period a little bit. How did he\nget into the hosiery business?\n\nADAIR: I'm not sure. 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At the time, I think he was a very\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fortunate. Money at the time was quite hard to obtain.\n\nWEINTRAUB: We're in the middle of the [Great] Depression in 1932.\n\nADAIR: Yes. He started selling socks out of his car.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Was that in Atlanta, or throughout the southeast?\n\nADAIR: No, that was just in the Atlanta area.\n\nWEINTRAUB: He was working for himself at the time?\n\nADAIR: Yes, strictly for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"himself. He opened up a store right across the street\nfrom where the courthouse was at the time. From there he moved further down\nPryor Street to a little larger place. Then he moved from there to another\nlarger place on Pryor Street. 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Just south of\nwhat's termed the Five Points area where all the banks were.\n\nADAIR: Right.\n\nWEINTRAUB: The business interests, at that time, were really right downtown.\n\nADAIR: They had a whole couple of blocks of practically nothing but Jewish merchants.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Describe the area.\n\nADAIR: The area was situated between ...the two blocks were from Hunter Street ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"down to Garnett Street\n...it actually was three blocks. Practically the whole wholesale district was\nowned by Jews. The biggest one there, at that particular time, was H. Mendel [\u0026\nCo.]. They were what we called a generalized wholesaler. They sold practically\neverything. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"At the time, we specialized in hosiery and socks.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What other Jewish businesses? You mentioned H. Mendel. Any other\nlarge business, or were they all small businesses?\n\nIrving They were all smaller businesses.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How big would you say your business was in 1945?\n\nADAIR: In 1945 we just had a very small operation. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think, at the time it was\nmy brother and myself. We did have a part-time person to help us pack and unload trucks.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Did the business have a name at this point?\n\nADAIR: The name of the business was Riada Mills Company, which is my last name\nspelled backwards. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"still don't know how my brother got this brainstorm. It's\nvery difficult to spell and pronounce. It's amazing how many ways. We get\nletters addressed to 'Radio,' 'Ryder,' just about any spelling you can think of.\nWe've been successful, so I'm really not that disturbed by it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: How large is the firm today?\n\nADAIR: Today we have three warehouses and employ over 20 people. That doesn't\ninclude the salesmen that we have all over the country.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Just in the country. All sales are in the country?\n\nADAIR: Yes.\n\nWEINTRAUB: No universal? All of the warehouses are in Atlanta?\n\nADAIR: All of the warehouses are in Atlanta.\n\nWEINTRAUB: But ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not on Pryor Street anymore?\n\nADAIR: No, we're all situated near the Fulton Industrial area.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Now we're talking west of town?\n\nADAIR: This is northwest of town.\n\nMarvin Yes, northwest of town. We're about 15 or 20 miles from where you\noriginally started?\n\nADAIR: Just about.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Just so people can keep up with where you've been, let's go back to\nthe Pryor Street area in 1945. You mentioned that that area was primarily a\nJewish wholesale district.\n\nADAIR: Exactly.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How many wholesalers would you think were in the area at the time?\n\nADAIR: Just off the top of my head, I'd say between ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"15 and 18.\n\nWEINTRAUB: All in similar type businesses?\n\nADAIR: Not necessarily similar type businesses. There were wholesale dresses,\nwholesale shoes, generalized wholesale, work clothing and hosiery and socks.\nStuff such as that.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Primarily, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what would be called the 'needle trade,' except for the shoes.\n\nADAIR: Exactly.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Tell me about general wholesaling.\n\nADAIR: General wholesaling, which the largest was H. Mendel. They sold\npractically everything. They sold sheets and pillow cases, towels, socks and\nhosiery, and all kinds of items such as that. They occupied a four-story\nbuilding at the time.\n\nWEINTRAUB: On Pryor Street.\n\nADAIR: At that particular time, that was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"quite large.\n\nWEINTRAUB: No manufacturing though?\n\nADAIR: The only manufacturing that I know of that went on down there was Lovable\nBrassiere. They started there on the second floor of a building situated near\nthe intersection of Pryor and Trinity Avenue.\n\nWEINTRAUB: This is in 1945?\n\nADAIR: 1945. There also were a couple of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dress manufacturers.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Remember those?\n\nADAIR: I don't remember those. As I say, most of that whole area was nothing but wholesalers.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That whole area no longer exists.\n\nADAIR: No, that quickly cleaned out.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Were most of those businesses as successful as yours, or are they out\nof business?\n\nADAIR: Most of them, unfortunately, are out of business.\n\nWEINTRAUB: The Jewish influence in that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"area is essentially gone?\n\nADAIR: It is definitely gone.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You're among the last of them.\n\nADAIR: That's right. I'm thankful for that.\n\nWEINTRAUB: We're looking at approximately 52 or 53 years. The Jewish community\nhas changed its occupations.\n\nADAIR: Yes.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How do you see the change?\n\nADAIR: You mean, how do I see it now?\n\nWEINTRAUB: Over the 50 years, better or worse ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for the Jewish community?\n\nADAIR: I wouldn't say it was either better or worse. I do think that there's\nbeen a big change in wholesaling. I do know that we've been very fortunate. We\nsaw the handwriting on the wall a number of years ago that we should specialize.\nIt's proven successful. Hopefully, it will continue ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to be that way.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What do you specialize in?\n\nADAIR: We specialize in fleece wear.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You'll have to explain what fleece wear is.\n\nADAIR: Fleece wear is sweatshirts, sweatpants, t-shirts, tank shirts and shorts.\nStuff such as that ...strictly casual clothing today. I'm very happy to say that\nmost of the country today is going casual. Hopefully it will ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"continue.\n\nWEINTRAUB: When did you get out of the sock business?\n\nADAIR: We got out of the sock business when we moved to this new building. We\nsaw that we could make more money in the fleece area than we could in the sock\nbusiness. We closed out all the limited amount of socks we had at that time.\nWe're strictly into the casual wear.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How many different manufacturers do your represent?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ADAIR: Mainly just two. We are very close to these people.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Do you care to tell me who they are?\n\nADAIR: We have stock in both companies: Bassett Walker Knitting Company and\nPluma, Inc.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What lines do they have that I'd be familiar with?\n\nADAIR: They're mainly fleece and t-shirts.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Any trademarks that I'd be familiar with?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ADAIR: Lee is one of their trademarks. They [unintelligible].\n\nWEINTRAUB: As you can tell, I'm not familiar with the industry.\n\nADAIR: I can understand that. We've been quite fortunate over the years. I was\nvery fortunate to have gotten connected with this outfit in 1948. That changed\nour business completely.\n\nWEINTRAUB: This outfit being?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ADAIR: Bassett Walker Knitting Company.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Where are they located?\n\nADAIR: They're located in Virginia and North Carolina.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How large an operation are they?\n\nADAIR: They're the largest manufacturers of fleece wear in the world.\n\nWEINTRAUB: They export things?\n\nADAIR: They have an export division, yes.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Do you represent them exclusively in the southeast, or in the United States?\n\nADAIR: No, just mainly here in Atlanta.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Just Atlanta?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ADAIR: We do sell their goods all over the country though.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You mentioned sales people all over, but you're the Atlanta representative?\n\nADAIR: Right.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How large is the sales force?\n\nADAIR: We have ten sales people throughout the country. They don't carry our\nlines exclusively, but they do represent us. We have them in California,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Montana, Colorado, New York ...probably missed some ...Chicago [Illinois].\n\nWEINTRAUB: Do you maintain a showroom some place?\n\nADAIR: The only showroom that we maintain is here. We do go to tradeshows.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Here being right in this building?\n\nADAIR: Yes, we have a showroom here.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You don't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"maintain one downtown?\n\nADAIR: No, just strictly here. We have been quite successful at trade shows.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Who represents you at trade shows?\n\nADAIR: We send our people to the trade shows, except one in Las Vegas [Nevada].\nWe have a salesman in Salt Lake City, Utah who has a booth there. We normally go\nout there and help him. We have for many years.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Do you gamble while you're out there?\n\nADAIR: I try not to but I'm always drawn to the crap tables. I'd work on a budget.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's fine. I've not been there.\n\nADAIR: Never been to [Las] Vegas?\n\nWEINTRAUB: Never been there. I'm working my way towards there.\n\nADAIR: Hopefully you'll make it one day.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You mentioned your relationship with the [Jewish] Community Center.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's discuss that for a moment.\n\nADAIR: I have been a member of the board there. I'm no longer a board member,\nbut I do support practically every activity that they have there, financially. I\ndo contribute. I did work on the book fair this year.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You mentioned as a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"youngster, you were at the [Jewish] Educational\nAlliance which was on Capitol Avenue. The Community Center is now on Peachtree Street.\n\nADAIR: Right.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How about comparing the two?\n\nADAIR: There's no comparison. At the time, the Jewish Educational Alliance had\ntwo floors. The good part about the Alliance at that time was that everybody, as\nI said before, was real close. You knew everybody. That's not the case ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"today.\nNaturally, the Community Center on Peachtree is much larger and has a lot more\nactivities being offered. You certainly don't know everybody that comes in and\nout of there, because the population of Atlanta has increased so tremendously\nover the years. But at that time, it was a gathering place for most of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the\nJewish kids in the city. Most of the Jews lived in that particular area. Not all\nof them, but most of them. As I said, I appreciated being real close friends\nwith practically every one of them.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Most everyone walked to the Educational Alliance?\n\nADAIR: Yes. You practically walked or you caught a street car everywhere you\nwent. I did a lot of walking, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"believe me. I didn't have unlimited funds to catch\na street car or anything else. I got there the best way I could.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let's explore that for a moment. You got around on street cars?\n\nADAIR: Yes.\n\nWEINTRAUB: The cost was ...\n\nADAIR: ... a dime.\n\nWEINTRAUB: ...a dime to ride the street car. How did you get to Emory?\n\nADAIR: I used to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"catch a ride with a neighbor of ours who has since died,\nBernard Fishman. He had a car. I rode with him practically every morning.\n\nWEINTRAUB: At this time, you were living in the Virginia [Highlands] area?\n\nADAIR: No, I wasn't living in the Virginia [Highlands] area at that time. Maybe\nI overlooked. We moved to Oakdale Road from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Virginia Avenue. I lived with my\nbrother, at that time, on Oakdale Road, not too far off of Ponce de Leon [Avenue].\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's almost within walking distance of Emory.\n\nADAIR: It's not walking distance. You could walk. It would be a good walk.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Tell me about Bernard Fishman.\n\nADAIR: He was a good friend of mine. He and his family own the Atlanta Broom\nCompany, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"still in existence today. He was a fraternity brother of mine.\n\nWEINTRAUB: He lived on Oakdale, too?\n\nADAIR: Yes, he lived on Oakdale. Just about three or four houses from where I lived.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Does the family still own Atlanta Broom [Company]?\n\nADAIR: Yes, they still own it. His brothers are running it, or his brother is\nrunning it. I'm really not that familiar with it anymore.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let's go ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back to the differences between the Educational Alliance\nwhere you knew everyone, and the Community Center where you sat on the board.\n\nADAIR: Like I said before, the size of the two buildings was quite different.\nThe only thing that we had at the Alliance was we did have a social hall\nupstairs. We had a little basketball court out in the back. 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As I said before, the real thrill would be the activities ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"offered there for\nthe various segments of the Jewish population, from the day school up to the\nsenior activities. I think it performs a vital, for want of a better word, a\nvital facility for all of these various segments of the Jewish population.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let's look at the political or economic reality ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of it. Do you think\nthe facility should remain there?\n\nADAIR: I thought it should, but now I have a feeling that possibly it should be\nsold ...at least that's my opinion ... and built elsewhere.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Two questions come to mind. Why should it be sold? 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Although, if it remains there it still serves the\npopulation ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"quite nicely.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Obviously, what I'm discussing with you now is the comments that\nthey're looking to sell. I wonder where they would move?\n\nADAIR: I really don't know where they would move to. They would have to find a\nsuitable location. Where that would be, I'm not sure.\n\nWEINTRAUB: This would go along with our earlier discussion about where the\ncommunity has moved.\n\nADAIR: Exactly. 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As a matter of fact, [unintelligible].\n\nADAIR: I really don't remember.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Were you on the board at the Community Center when they build this\nnew building?\n\nADAIR: No, I was not on the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"board at that time. I was on the board about five or\nsix years ago. I was active in the building of the building at Zaban Park. I did\nsolicit funds for that building.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You were on the board at that point then?\n\nADAIR: I don't think I was on the board at that time. 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I do think, from what I understand, Zaban is really used more\nextensively than the downtown facility.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's interesting to follow the transition of the Jewish community.\nI don't know if any Jewish families are currently living way south.\n\nADAIR: I doubt it seriously.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Except south of the airport, maybe.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ADAIR: I doubt it seriously if they are.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You mentioned where you used to play ball, now is a parking lot or something.\n\nADAIR: Right.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That whole area has been destroyed, as far as the Jewish community?\n\nADAIR: Yes.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let's chat about your sons for a little bit. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Are they in business\nwith you?\n\nADAIR: Yes, both of my sons are in the business here.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What do they do?\n\nADAIR: Jeffrey, my oldest son, actually runs the business today. Craig is a\ngeneral worker. He's in the front and the back. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They've been in the business\nwell over 20 years with me.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How about Abe?\n\nADAIR: Abe is no longer in the business. He had a stroke, unfortunately, a\nnumber of years ago. We have taken over the business.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Does he have any children?\n\nADAIR: Yes. Abe has one son, Harold, who is an urologist, Dr. Harold Adair.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: He has no relationship with the business anymore?\n\nADAIR: No.\n\nWEINTRAUB: It's remained on solid ground in the family.\n\nADAIR: Yes, this is strictly a family business. Hopefully, it will remain a\nfamily business and be passed down.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Grandchildren?\n\nADAIR: Yes. Craig has two daughters. Jeff has two sons. 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As of right now, we're going to\nremain ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what we call a specialized operation.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let's leave at that now. We'll pick it up in the future. At least\nit's on a very positive note.\n\nADAIR: Alright.\n\nWEINTRAUB: This is Marvin Weintraub interviewing Irving Adair, today is July 7,\n1994, for the Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta co-sponsored by the\nAmerican Jewish committee, the Atlanta Jewish Federation and the National\nCouncil of Jewish Women. 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I wonder if\nyou'd do two things for me: one is expand upon what a typical room looked like\nand how the education was with Sam Geffen, and two, how did you get to the AA\nfrom Shearith Israel and where was their basement located?\n\nADAIR: My family were members ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of Shearith Israel. My brother enrolled me in the\nclass. The classes were conducted in Rabbi Geffen's home on Washington Street.\nHe selected a room upstairs in Rabbi Geffen's house and turned it into a\nclassroom. 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Like most Jewish boys at the time, that was my\nlast year of Hebrew school.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Your education was both at Shearith Israel and AA, although, the bar\nmitzvah was at Shearith Israel?\n\nADAIR: Right.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Which, at that time, was still ...\n\nADAIR: ...still on Washington Street, approximately ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about three or four blocks\nfrom where AA was located.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Why did you bounce, so to speak, back and forth between Shearith\nIsrael and AA? You seem to be between the two congregations.\n\nADAIR: Yes. As I said in my first interview, my family were members of Shearith\nIsrael when it was on Hunter Street. 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Her name is Lillian Schwartz.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You returned from the military in 1946?\n\nADAIR: Right.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You got married ten days later and immediately went to work with your\nbrother ...\n\nADAIR: ...right ...\n\nWEINTRAUB: ...which was essentially a Jewish neighborhood, where the business\nwas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"located on Pryor Street.\n\nADAIR: Yes. They had a lot of Jewish wholesale merchants at this time.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What was the relationship among all of these Jewish wholesalers?\n\nADAIR: We were quite friendly with each other. We were trying to help each other\nout, in fact, to do business. 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Especially, we catered to country\nmerchants, at the time, as well as the larger stores.\n\nWEINTRAUB: The country merchants came in?\n\nADAIR: Right.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Primarily Jewish?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=4980.0,5010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ADAIR: No. I wouldn't say they were primarily Jewish, but there were quite a\nlarge number of Jewish merchants. They would come in from Barnesville, [Georgia]\nCartersville [Georgia], Monroe [Georgia], and cities such as that.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What was the relationship between you and the non-Jewish merchants?\n\nADAIR: We always were friendly. We tried to do as much business as we could. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5070.0,5100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had to\nchange with the times. Naturally, when the phones came into vogue as far as 800\nnumbers, we went along with it. We conduct most of business over the phones and\nWATS lines.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Your bother went into business in ...\n\nADAIR: ...he went into business in 1932. The business is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"62 years old.\n\nWEINTRAUB: In 62 years you went from this horse and buggy, essentially, people\ncoming in from the country. As I walked in earlier you talked about faxes. How\ndo you feel about this change from horse and buggy to fax?\n\nADAIR: You just go along with the times. Thank G-d, we've been quite fortunate.\nWe have grown. We've gotten larger and larger and larger. I really thank G-d for\nallowing us ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5130.0,5160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to get to be this big. Hopefully, in the future, my sons will make\nthe business even larger.\n\nWEINTRAUB: We started today, and last time also, talking about your Jewish\neducation. Has that had any impact ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on how you conduct your business?\n\nADAIR: I'm trying to think of a correlation. The only item I think of that might\nhave some impact is I did get an idea of conducting my business in an upright\nand honest manner. I have instructed all of our people to treat customers as\nfamily. I think, over the years, we have accumulated a large list of satisfied\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5190.0,5220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"customers because we have. I'm trying to put this in few words. We have tried to\ntreat them as we would want ourselves to be treated when we go into stores. I\nthink my Jewish training, as far as Hebrew school was concerned, had quite a bit\nof ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5220.0,5250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"influence on me in this regard.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Was it the training, or was it the two rabbis that you mentioned previously?\n\nADAIR: I think it was ...I hold both of those rabbis in awe, still today.\nAlthough, my experience with the two rabbis was quite limited, I felt like they\nwere next to G-d. That's Rabbi Geffen ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5250.0,5280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Rabbi Epstein.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let's look at the business today. In the newspaper they're talking\nabout the Group of Seven meeting over in Naples, Italy. You deal with mills and\nhosiery and fleece wear. Does this NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement]\ntreaty impact upon your business?\n\nADAIR: No, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5280.0,5310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this doesn't really have any influence on us. We do most of our\nbusiness in the United States, the contiguous states. We do very, very little\nshipments overseas or into Mexico. That would not have any bearing on our business.\n\nMarvin The mills you're doing business with, are they doing business overseas?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5310.0,5340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ADAIR: Possibly one of them does, but the other does not that I actually know\nof. I'm sure if an order was big enough, they would definitely want to grab hold\nand ship overseas. We have found that our niche is in this country.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Not primarily in the southeast today, because you have\nrepresentatives throughout the country.\n\nADAIR: No, we have salesmen all over the country and out ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5340.0,5370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"watts lines reach all\nover the country, including Alaska and Puerto Rico.\n\nWEINTRAUB: When I grew up ...I'll use the word 'rag business' they used then\n...the clothing business, was essentially Jewish. Is that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5370.0,5400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"still true today?\n\nADAIR: No, it's not. Most of the Jewish merchants in these small towns have\nceased operations. Most of their children have migrated to larger cities and\nbecome professional people. There are very few Jewish merchants left today in\nsmall towns. 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There\nare some left but not nearly as many as there were in the 1930's, 1940's, and 1950's.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What do you attribute this to?\n\nADAIR: I attribute it to the mills having a closer relationship with just the\nlimited ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5430.0,5460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"amount of wholesale customers. Thank the good Lord that we were\nfortunate enough to have a business relationship with one of the largest fleece,\nor sweat people, in the world. We have become very friendly over the years. It's\nproven to be quite profitable for us.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5460.0,5490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: This is Riada Mills, but you never really produced anything here.\n\nADAIR: No, we strictly distribute wholesale from here. We do have interest in\nthe mills that we do business with, though. We have bought stock in the mills\nthat we do business with.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let's then proceed one more generation. You indicated that your sons\nare in the business with you. 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Both of these rabbis, in my eyes, are very nice ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5550.0,5580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people and looked up to by\nthe younger contingent.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Their background, though, is with the AA.\n\nADAIR: Yes, originally they went to AA with my wife and me. Since they've been\nmarried, they decided that AA was not the place for them. 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He passed the Bar on the first time, which I'm quite\nproud of.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Their children ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5610.0,5640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"are in the religious schools of their congregations?\n\nIrving Right, at their respective congregations. They both go to Hebrew school.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Do you feel that their religious education is substantially different\nthan yours?\n\nADAIR: No, I think it's basically the same.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's interesting, because we talked about our younger children not\nhaving the background that we had.\n\nADAIR: I don't think their Jewishness is as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5640.0,5670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thorough as mine was. As I stated\npreviously, my parents died when I was quite young. I didn't have the family to\npush me into Jewish education. I feel today that I do my best to push my kids\nand my grandchildren into a Jewish education as much as I can. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5670.0,5700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Naturally, as\nthey get older, it's going to be up to them whether they want to pursue further\nor not.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I know that you worked with the Community Center. You mentioned that\nthe last time, you contributed somewhat to the [Jewish] Federation.\n\nADAIR: Yes.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I also know that you took a Federation trip last year.\n\nADAIR: Yes, to Israel.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Why did you take the trip to Israel? 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This is the one we went on.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Tell me about the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5730.0,5760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mission.\n\nADAIR: It was a very great experience. We got into places that the normal\ntourist does not get to. We were lectured to every morning. We had buses to take\nus around. I wouldn't give a million dollars for having gone, but it was a very\nexhausting trip. We were up and going every ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5760.0,5790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"morning at 6:30. We felt like we had\nseen the most important aspects of Israel. We saw not only what the tourists\nsee, but we went into places that, as I said, the normal tourists did not get to see.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You mentioned that you went with friends. 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We just happened to stick\ntogether and just kept ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5820.0,5850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"quite good friends after marriage.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Could you tell me the names and what these people are doing today\njust to give me an idea of what this community is like?\n\nADAIR: Most of them are retired. There's one who was a wholesale liquor dealer\nwho's retired. One was a dress manufacturer. He's retired. 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We\nhave stayed together for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5880.0,5910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"many years.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What do you do as a group today?\n\nADAIR: We socialize quite often. We go to each other's homes, we go out to\nrestaurants, we go to lecture, or we go to movies. Stuff like that. Together,\neither two, three or four couples. In the last week, we had four couples go out\ntogether ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5910.0,5940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to eat. It just evolved over the years that we stuck together.\n\nWEINTRAUB: These individuals are all Jewish?\n\nADAIR: All Jewish.\n\nWEINTRAUB: No outside influence of non-Jewish friends?\n\nADAIR: No.\n\nWEINTRAUB: They all grew up with you through Mayfair Club?\n\nADAIR: Yes.\n\nWEINTRAUB: They're really social business acquaintances, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5940.0,5970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"too.\n\nADAIR: Yes, right.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How about Jayne? The same circle of friends?\n\nADAIR: Yes, she has the same circle of friends that I do.\n\nWEINTRAUB: The changes over time have just kept up with you, so to speak.\n\nADAIR: Yes. I was friendly with a couple and she was friendly with a lot of\ngirls and couples that many years ago got together. We've just been friends ever ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5970.0,6000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"since.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Are your children's friends in this circle?\n\nADAIR: No, they have other circles of friends. They have moved in different\nareas. Some of the couple who have children they are friendly with. Most of\ntheir friends they've acquired over the years here.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Is this circle of your friends, were they primarily individuals who\ngrew up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=6000.0,6030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/transcript/22438/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in that ...when you first married in the first apartment house on Wildwood?\n\nADAIR: Yes.\n\nWEINTRAUB: It had to do with the community as much as anything, rather than\nbusiness associates?\n\nADAIR: Right, strictly friends.\n\nWEINTRAUB: All of your generation, though, was in business?\n\nADAIR: Yes, they were all in business\n\nWEINTRAUB: Are most of their children professionals today?\n\nADAIR: I wouldn't say they're professionals. 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After World War II, Rabbi Tobias Geffen moved the congregation to University Drive, where it became the first synagogue in DeKalb County. In the 1960s, they removed the barrier between the men’s and women’s sections in the sanctuary, and officially became affiliated with the Conservative movement in 2002.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/annotation_set/347/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eWashington–Rawson was a neighborhood of Atlanta that was a center of Jewish community in the city. By the mid-1870’s, Washington Street was becoming one of the city's finest residential streets. The neighborhood was wealthy at the turn of the twentieth century: Encyclopedia Britannica of 1910 listed Washington Street as one of the finest residential areas of the city. The neighborhood included the area that is now the large parking lot north of Turner Field, until 1996 the site of Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium. It also included the intersection of the two streets for which it was named. 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The Braves continued to play at Fulton County Stadium until the end of the 1996 season, when they moved into Turner Field, the converted Centennial Olympic Stadium originally built for the 1996 Summer Olympics. The stadium was demolished in 1997. A parking lot for Turner Field now stands on the site.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/annotation_set/347/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Hebrew Orphans’ Home was located at 478 Washington Street in Atlanta.  The residence facility was open from 1876 to 1930. It was originally called the Hebrew Orphans’ Asylum. In 1901, the name was changed to the Hebrew Orphans’ Home. The service began to be used to place foster children in homes. In 1988, the organization’s mission changes and it became the Jewish Educational Loan Fund (JELF) with the goal of providing low-interest post-secondary education loans for Jewish students.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/annotation_set/347/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eOur Lady of Perpetual Help Home accepts patients with a diagnosis of incurable or terminal cancer who are unable to pay for adequate nursing care elsewhere. 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The club was visited by Eleanor Roosevelt, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, mayors Ivan Allen and William Berry Hartsfield, senators Herman Talmadge and Richard Russell, and Governor Carl Sanders.  Fire destroyed the Mayfair Club on December 4, 1964.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/annotation_set/347/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Progressive Club was a Jewish social organization that was established in 1913 by Russian Jews who felt unwelcome at the Standard Club, where German Jews were predominant.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/annotation_set/347/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Standard Club is a private, country club, with a Jewish heritage dating back to 1867. 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Last time you talked about being educated in Sam Geffen’s room, Rabbi Geffen’s son.  Also, you talked about being the basement of the AA for some of your religious education.  I wonder if you’d do two things for me:  one is expand upon what a typical room looked like and how the education was with Sam Geffen, and two, how did you get to the AA from Shearith Israel and where was their basement located?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=4334.0,4603.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/index/47344/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ahavath Achim","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Conservative Judaism","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Orthodox Judaism","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rabbi Sam Geffen","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rabbi Tobias Geffen","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Shearith Israel","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=4334.0,4603.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/index/47344/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Family business, further continued","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=4603.0,5515.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/index/47344/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adair: Believe it or not, the business has changed almost 100 percent.  There are very few Jewish merchants left in country towns anymore.  Our business, as such, has also changed.  Our main business now is in larger cities.  Our business is conducted with salesmen throughout the country.  We have fax service all over the nation.  We conduct quite a bit of business over the phone.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=4603.0,5515.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/index/47344/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Davison's","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"H. 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You indicated that your sons are in the business with you.  You anticipate them remaining in the business?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5515.0,5711.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/index/47344/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Craig Adair","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DeKalb College","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Etz Chaim","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jeffrey Adair","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Temple Sinai","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"University of Georgia","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5515.0,5711.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/index/47344/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Friends, social life, and his trip to Israel","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5711.0,6155.78122"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/index/47344/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Weintraub: I know that you worked with the Community Center.  You mentioned that the last time, you contributed somewhat to the [Jewish] Federation. I also know that you took a Federation trip last year. Why did you take the trip to Israel?  Was that your fist trip to Israel?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5711.0,6155.78122"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996/index/47344/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friends","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friendship","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Israel","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"social life","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32257/file/100996#t=5711.0,6155.78122"}]}]}]}