{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/kk9474782s/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Levy, Barbara Smith"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2000-07-25 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English (primary)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","Ida Pearle and Joseph Cuba Archives for Southern Jewish History","William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eBarbara Levy interviewed by Harriet Meyerhoff on July 25, 2000 in Savannah, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eBarbara (Bobbie) Lee Smith Levy was born in Savannah, Georgia on February 6, 1935 to Kayton and Josephine Smith, both Savannah natives. She was educated at the Pape School, where she was editor of the school paper, President of the class of 1952, and President of the Entre Nous sorority. She later attended Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. Barbara married Merrill Levy of Beaufort, South Carolina, and they had three sons, Alan, Robert, and John Bertram (“Bert”), whom they raised in Savannah. Barbara volunteered as a librarian at the Chatham County Library and supported the Savannah Little Children’s Theatre. She was a member of Congregation Mickve Israel, where she was honored by the Sisterhood as a Woman of Valor. She was also the former president of the Savannah Chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women and Voters Service Chairman for the League of Women Voters. Bobbie Levy passed away on February 4, 2017, at the age of 82.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eBarbara Levy shares her early life, marriage, family history, and recollections of life Savannah, Georgia in the 1940s and 1950s. She discusses her education at the Pape School as well as life as a Jewish girl in primarily non-Jewish social circles. Barbara recalls growing up in a Reformed family, dating, and observations of Jewish life in Savannah during her teenage years. She discusses her husband’s family, as well as her own family history on both her mother’s and father’s sides. She describes her mother and father’s relationship, as well as their later lives, detailing her mother’s involvement with the Savannah Little Children’s Theatre, as well as her own personal history of volunteerism. Barbara remembers the family business, the Columbia Drug Company, as well as her childhood explorations of River and Bay Streets in Savannah. She talks about life during World War II, how life was affected by the war, and about and her family’s summer home in Isle of Hope.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/27963"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Savannah, Ga. (geographic term)","Levy, Barbara Smith, 1935-2017 (personal name)","Jewish Educational Alliance (corporate name)","Levy, Merrill (personal name)","Pape School (corporate name)","Columbia Drug Company (corporate name)","Savannah Little Children’s Theatre (corporate name)","Highland Country Club (corporate name)","World War II (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eBarbara Levy interviewed by Harriet Meyerhoff on July 25, 2000 in Savannah, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarbara (Bobbie) Lee Smith Levy was born in Savannah, Georgia on February 6, 1935 to Kayton and Josephine Smith, both Savannah natives. She was educated at the Pape School, where she was editor of the school paper, President of the class of 1952, and President of the Entre Nous sorority. She later attended Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. Barbara married Merrill Levy of Beaufort, South Carolina, and they had three sons, Alan, Robert, and John Bertram (“Bert”), whom they raised in Savannah. Barbara volunteered as a librarian at the Chatham County Library and supported the Savannah Little Children’s Theatre. She was a member of Congregation Mickve Israel, where she was honored by the Sisterhood as a Woman of Valor. She was also the former president of the Savannah Chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women and Voters Service Chairman for the League of Women Voters. Bobbie Levy passed away on February 4, 2017, at the age of 82.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarbara Levy shares her early life, marriage, family history, and recollections of life Savannah, Georgia in the 1940s and 1950s. She discusses her education at the Pape School as well as life as a Jewish girl in primarily non-Jewish social circles. Barbara recalls growing up in a Reformed family, dating, and observations of Jewish life in Savannah during her teenage years. She discusses her husband’s family, as well as her own family history on both her mother’s and father’s sides. She describes her mother and father’s relationship, as well as their later lives, detailing her mother’s involvement with the Savannah Little Children’s Theatre, as well as her own personal history of volunteerism. Barbara remembers the family business, the Columbia Drug Company, as well as her childhood explorations of River and Bay Streets in Savannah. She talks about life during World War II, how life was affected by the war, and about and her family’s summer home in Isle of Hope.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/097/361/small/Barbara_Levy.png?1619455906","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Levy_Barbara.mp3"]},"duration":2956.61714,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/097/361/small/Barbara_Levy.png?1619455906","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/097/361/original/Levy_Barbara.mp3?1610612375","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mp3","duration":2956.61714,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Barbara Levy [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Bobbie, first of all, you married a man from out of town and out of\nthe state. Tell me about your husband and your children.\n\nLEVY: I met Merrill when I was a senior in high school. We met at a basketball\ngame at the JEA downtown. This actually was the first time I had ever been in\nthe JEA ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"building, and it just so happened I had gone in for the game. Merrill\nand I met, but we each knew something about each other, because I had had a\nLatin teacher who had told him about me. She had lived in the same boarding\nhouse where he was residing. That's how we met. We dated, I went off to college,\nwe corresponded, we dated, we were engaged and got married at a very early age,\nas was not uncommon in those ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"days. We waited a few years after living in\nCharleston for one year, moved back to Savannah. As I said, we waited until we\nhad been married a few years before our first child was born. Our first son was\nAlan, followed a year a later by Robert, and our third son was born after a\nseven-year break and his name is Bert, John Bertram. None of these three live in\nSavannah, currently. All ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"living [are] in the Mecca, in Atlanta. It's been fun.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Merrill was from Beaufort, South Carolina.\n\nLEVY: Merrill was the sixth child of a Jewish family in Beaufort, South\nCarolina, and had been living in Savannah with his older sister, Rehette, for\nsome time before I had met him. He talks happily about his halcyon days in\nBeaufort, living ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the water and all around the salt water.\n\nMEYERHOFF: You have a very interesting background. First of all, not only\nbecause you are a member of Temple Mickve Israel, but your family was very\nReformed, classic Reformed, and I want you to go into that. First of all, let's\nstart back with you as a child and attending Pape School, which was very\nfashionable in that day, and especially ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for a Jewish child.\n\nLEVY: My mother and my father had both attended [the] Pape [School]. My mother\nhad graduated there before she went off to college. It wasn't so strange that I\nwent there. However, I did begin at an early age, mostly because I had dropped\nout of kindergarten when I was five. I was getting bored. I had been going to\nnursery schools, day schools, and play groups since I was two-and-a-half ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when my\nyounger brother Kayton was born. Mother decided that if she could get me in a\nprogram in the public schools--they wouldn't take me then at that age. I was too\nyoung at five-and-a-half to go to school, but they were able to twist a few arms\nand get me into Pape. I started in the first grade unlike many of my classmates\nwho had begun in kindergarten. I remained at Pape until I graduated in 1952. It\nwas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a different kind of schooling. The school was housed in an old building\nwhich was on Bolton Street and Abercorn. That was the lower school. The upper\nschool was a two- or three-story building on Drayton Street facing Forsyth Park.\nIt was great when we were older because we could lean out of [the window] and\nlook at the BC [Benedictine Military School] boys parading and practicing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the\nsquare and we could have the magnolias blooming right outside the window. I\nlearned a lot in that school, and yet there were a lot of things we didn't have\nbecause it was a private school. It was small. It was intimate. Class sizes were\nvery small, yet our workload was heavy. We felt we were getting a lot of\neducation. Our teachers were well educated in their fields. I was fortunate\nenough ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to have a class with a Mrs. Russell, who was a wonderful Shakespearean\nteacher and I had a Mrs. Elmore teach me. This was all in [the] upper school. In\nthe lower school, I remember Josephine Reddy taught me. She had even taught my\nmother and continued to call me Jo. She was a great teacher. We had a lot of\nfun. We used to have picnics at the beach once a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"year at the Fresh Air Home. We\nweren't allowed to go in the water, but we did get to go to the beach. We had\ninteraction with the boys at Bethesda through our coach, Tom Moore, who was our\nbasketball and baseball coach. He would introduce us to his boys' sports groups\nso we could have dances with those guys.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Was he the only male teacher at the school?\n\nLEVY: We had a substitute teacher, Mr. McCray or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mr. McCrary--Mr. McCrary it\nwas--who taught math in the upper school. Very few male teachers. By the time we\nwere in the upper school, it was all girls. The lower school had boys in it, up\nin the first few grades. That was typical even when my dad went. I don't think\nthere were any boys that graduated there.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Now, who were some of the other Jewish girls, your contemporaries?\n\nLEVY: The other Jewish girl in my class was Ann Solomon, who is now Ann Clavell.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ann was brilliant and even when she tried to fail, she couldn't. She won the\nNational French Awards and she was a terrific scholar. But you see, when we\ngraduated, there were only nine in our class and nobody could be in the upper\nten percent. I found that rather amusing. And our graduation was not cap and\ngown. We were clothed in the beautiful white long dresses. I remember having a\nhoop skirt, carrying red roses and the dress ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"being so tight that I had to stand\nup in the car and be taken by my father to the class. I was so afraid that I was\ngoing to burst my seams when we had to sing.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Where was graduation?\n\nLEVY: Graduation was held outside, behind the school that was facing Forsyth\nPark. If it had rained, we were going to go into the gym which was behind it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Who were other Jewish girls that went through Pape?\n\nLEVY: There weren't a lot. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jan Solomon Vandenbulck went to Pape for a year or\ntwo but she didn't stay there, and I don't really recall a lot of Jewish kids\ngoing to Pape.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did you feel like an outsider? Or did anyone make you feel\nuncomfortable about being Jewish?\n\nLEVY: I never was even aware that I was different. I wasn't at all aware. There\nwas no dividing line for me. When we got in high school ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and the questions of\nsororities began coming up, and this was not a sorority only for my school, but\nfor all the schools in the area--they may have had some rules and restrictions\nbut they changed them and allowed me in and I even became President of Entre\nNous which was mostly made up of girls, at that time, from St. Vincent's. That\nwas the year that we were popular with St. Vincent's. A lot of other friends\nwent to Quis Que, but I was aware of it and I went through ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my confirmation, but\nit did not seem to be a problem. I was fortunately very well-received by my classmates.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Now, did you ever take off for Rosh Ha-Shanah or Yom Kippur?\n\nLEVY: I did as long as I stayed home and went to services, that was my household\nrule. You couldn't just stay home.\n\nMEYERHOFF: But the fact that you were observing a Jewish holiday did not cause\nany friction with your non-Jewish friends?\n\nLEVY: Not a bit. Didn't seem to. 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I can remember her at the time that I knew her she was\nalready in a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wheelchair and she would make frequent visits to us, especially at\nassemblies, at our general assemblies, once a week. She'd be wheeled into the\nroom. She always had a black ribbon around her neck, which was part of her older\nfashion and she would say to us, \"Good morning, ladies,\" or \"Good morning.\" And\nwe would always say, \"Good morning, Miss Pape,\" in unison. When she left, we\nwould always say, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she would say something about something pleasant and we would\nsay, \"And same to you, Miss Pape,\" in that singsong way. I can firmly remember\nher telling us that \"chewing gum should only be chewed in the presence of a\nlady's boudoir.\" Those were her stern admonitions.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Was she a Savannahian?\n\nLEVY: I don't think originally, but I don't really know a lot about her life\nexcept ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what I have read. I think Paul Pressly of Savannah Country Day has made\nan interesting study of her and her contributions.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Was she married?\n\nLEVY: No, no, no. Definitely. I think she began the school at a time when school\nteachers were rarely married. Of course, that changed. Many of our teachers were married.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Were classes combined? Grades?\n\nLEVY: Yes, they were combined in order to have enough. For instance, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember\nour science class and our PE groups were combined. We were, our class was put\nwith an older class for science, our Latin, and perhaps our French classes were\ncombined in the upper grades.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Tell me about dating and the social life once you became a teenager.\n\nLEVY: Once I became a teenager ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I began going to the various [parties]. Sweet\nSixteen parties were a big deal. We had parties that were, I don't remember any\nbar mitzvah parties. I don't remember being included in that, because I really\ndidn't know a lot of Jewish kids other than the ones at Temple Mickve Israel,\nand in those days the Reformed children did not go through bar mitzvah training.\nThat was not very typical ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in those days. Our parties were sorority parties and\nwe went to Ebba's Dancing School for our beginning training and there were tea\ndances. We entertained among ourselves. There were tea dances and other parties.\nI went to high school parties at Savannah High and Benedictine dances and felt\nincluded in the general community parties. I was fortunate that I was able to\nget around like that. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was a lot of fun. I remember the restrictions on\ndrinking in those days. You weren't allowed, as now. We didn't carry cards. I\nremember that the times were such that you could go to Johnny Harris' at age 15\nor 16 and order a drink. It might be served in a coffee cup so that if someone\nwas checking, they couldn't tell that you were having a drink, but it was pretty\nloose and open. That's how Savannah got to be known as the party city, I believe.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"go to Sweet Sixteen parties with non-Jewish crowd and Temple\nor were there ever Jewish girls from the other two shuls?\n\nLEVY: You're testing my memory-- I don't remember going to a lot of parties with\nchildren from the other congregations. I did date some boys that were in AZA and\nbegan to socialize more at that point. But I don't think I was included in their\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"big parties.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Why do you suppose the Temple crowd kept to themselves? And that was\nby choice. What's your feeling on that?\n\nLEVY: I later found out--and, of course, didn't question it at the time, it was\njust an accepted way to me. I didn't realize that we weren't going with other\npeople because I didn't know they weren't, that was how distant I was from it.\nThere was a built-in snobbery, I believe. I call a spade a spade. 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I\nknow that after the different operas and symphonies were brought to town, there\nwas always a soiree at my grandfather's house on Sunday night and it was a very\nlearned group of people that got together and enjoyed eating and discussing and\nbeing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"together in this musical environment there. Dad never did learn to play\nthe piano really, although he got his father's piano.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What type of business were your grandfather and father in?\n\nLEVY: Originally, I think it was wholesale dry goods, I believe, and then it\nwent into drugs and they became a wholesale druggist. 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It was a fine home [as] I remember it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: There was another couple involved with them at the Little\nTheater--what was their names?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LEVY: That must be Wray and Walt Kessel. They're stalwarts of the theater and\nstill, to this day, are working hard with the theater.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What contributions can you think that your parents gave to Little Theater?\n\nLEVY: Blood, sweat and tears! They gave it a presence. 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Dad had lent his financial interests and had\nbeen able to help secure loans and he worked alongside her and occasionally was\nin a play or two, but his love was for her to perform.\n\nMEYERHOFF: He worked along well with her.\n\nLEVY: He worked along well with her and supported her totally.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Now what about you and Kayton when they were involved in the theater\nlong hours at night?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Bobbie, after listening to your interview, I find it so interesting\nthat a fellow in the community, a non-Jewish guy invited you to a debutante\nball, being you Jewish, and that interestingly enough, with the very classic\nReformed background that you had, that you still married a Jewish man.\n\nLEVY: First of all, when you say a non-Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"guy invited me, it wasn't where he\ndidn't invite me. In those days your invitation was given, and you were told who\nyou were taking, if you were on the guest list.\n\nMEYERHOFF: The fact that a Jewish girl would be on a list for a debutante ball,\nI don't know that would happen so much now.\n\nLEVY: We were so very close in our small group and I had strong friendships with\nthe guest of honor and, I guess, that's how that evolved. We still feel\nfriendly. Yet my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mother told me, wisely in those days, that no matter what my\nnon-Jewish friends were like, that she still felt I needed to retain my\nfriendships within the Jewish community. That those people would probably be the\npeople I would later become close friends with and needed to retain as friends.\nShe was smart.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Now, your parents were very active in the community, and you have\ntold me that they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stressed community and volunteerism.\n\nLEVY: Philanthropy and volunteerism was supposed to be a way of life. Serving in\nmaking the world a better place was just part of the way we were brought up. We\nwere brought up with concerns for the underdog. My mother involved me, at the\nage of 18, I was a member of National Council of Jewish Women and began that\nroad to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"volunteerism. [I] always felt that it was important. Merrill later was\npart of Leadership Savannah because Dad insisted. He wanted him to have that\ntraining and we just felt [that] Jaycees and all these things were important for\nour community. I became a member of the Children's Theater when my children were\nold enough for me to let go and thought that was lots of fun but never dreamed\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that I'd see the day that Jewish members would be part of Junior League, which I\nsaw some years later.\n\nMEYERHOFF: You were in a non-Jewish environment for so many years with so many\npeople, when you traveled were you ever, did your family ever experience\nrestriction from any hotels or restaurants?\n\nLEVY: In my early childhood, when I was pre-school, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my family used to go to\nHighlands [Highland Country Club in LaGrange, GA] for several weeks in the\nsummer. Dad was an avid and champion golfer and he would take us up there. His\ndad would get a place, and we'd stay for a couple of weeks. We couldn't travel\nduring the war. There wasn't enough gas or tires. When we went back to the same\nclub [after World War II], we were not wanted. We felt it very strongly ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I\nthink it was quite a blow to my dad that we were no longer accepted.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Even with the name Smith?\n\nLEVY: Even with the name Smith.\n\nMEYERHOFF: How do you think they knew?\n\nLEVY: I don't know. They knew. But maybe they had known him before. I just don't\nknow. But it was sad, and I remember his dismay. 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They knew I was not a member and I felt very\nuncomfortable then and made it my business not to return for a number of times.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then when I was asked into a sorority, I know they had to change the rules, I\nthink I mentioned that earlier. But the girls were very accepting. The girls\nthemselves were accepting. I later became--first, I think, I was their chaplain,\nthen I became their president. I felt very comfortable with it. My mother wasn't\nas comfortable, but I was. That wasn't a problem. 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Were they\nwith a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"non-Jewish group?\n\nLEVY: My mother's bridge was social bridge. She was not big-time duplicate\nbridge player as was my father. His interest in bridge really came about when he\nhurt his thumb or hurt his finger so that his golf began to be painful and he\ncouldn't play as much golf. He began duplicate bridge and it became an obsession\nwith him. He played almost every day or night. It was constant. 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It got so bad\nthat Merrill and I finally took a course, really learned to play bridge.\nUnfortunately, Merrill didn't really like it and we drifted away from that idea.\n\nMEYERHOFF: When do you think your parents, the Smith family, first came to\nAmerica or settled in this area?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LEVY: I need to refer to a book to look that up. Kay Kole has done some great\nresearch and it's in some work that she's done. I'm sure it was--I'm not sure.\nI'm not sure. 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And\nbeen bought out by another company.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Bobbie, what were some interesting things you can tell me,\nhistorically, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about Columbia Drug?\n\nLEVY: I remember loving to go down to the store. It was dark and interesting.\nAll sorts of interesting things. Because in the early days Dad had huge bottles\nof Coca-Cola syrup which they sold to the fountain shops, the drugstores that\nhad the soda fountains and they would have to sell all that stuff to them, to\nthe different merchants. 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Their whole business was really, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is now almost a thing of the past.\nThe middleman has been slowly squeezed out by discount stores.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did they any manufacture anything with their name?\n\nLEVY: They did in the very beginning. I don't think as I was growing up that\nthey continued to do that. Dad had one time been plagued by the many pigeons\nthat roosted on the ledge of the Columbia Drug and he had come up with \"No-Coo\"\nwhich was to be painted on your ledge to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"keep the pigeons from roosting. It\nprobably had some pepper spray in it. Other manufacturers marketed it and got\ntheirs patented before he did. But it was always fun to go down to the store. We\nused to go down in the evening and wait for the ADT system to kick in and then\nhe used to like to walk across the street and have us visit with Captain Spencer\nwho was the tugboat captain and very liberal in his thinking. He's the gentleman\nthat the Spencer School ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is named for. That was always fun. I remember the grates\nout front of the building which are probably still there. We always used to\nthink we'd get swallowed up by the grates. It was a big building and it was not\nair conditioned. This was in the days when you had to stay in an office\nbuilding. Everything was done manually. There were no computers, no, everything\nwas not done with adding machines and typewriters. There was a bookkeeper on his\nstool copying in ink. 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It was not really the most savory neighborhood.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What was happening at the Mulberry Inn in those days?\n\nLEVY: Tried to remember if there was a Coca-Cola bottling plant there yet,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because I know that was there before it became Mulberry. But we didn't do much\nwalking up and down on Bay Street the way you do comfortably now. Not at all.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Do you remember the squares?\n\nLEVY: Oh, do I remember the squares? We had to memorize them for one class. I\nremembered them long enough to pass the test, I guess, and then I just knew my\nlandmarks and I never really knew which square was which until I became older.\n\nMEYERHOFF: How did they look ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when you were a child?\n\nLEVY: They didn't have the upkeep that we have now. Savannah was getting pretty\nrun down looking. [The construction of] Historic Savannah had not begun. The\nreclamation of these derelict buildings was not in progress. We had not begun\nthat. Things were just beginning. We were a sleepy Southern town. 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That's hard for today's child to\nunderstand when changes are coming faster than the click of their mouse.\n\nMEYERHOFF: I'm curious as to how World War II affected life in Savannah.\n\nLEVY: I know that Mother was concerned about the fact there being so many\nsoldiers here in town and I was admonished ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29579/file/97361/transcript/22205/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to go to the movies only if I had\nthree friends, or two other friends to go with me. Could not go with just one\ngirlfriend. I remember the tea dances we attended at the USO Club. It was at the\nGuards' Armory. We wore long dresses and danced with the soldiers who were so\nhappy to see girls. We even brought some of the guys home. 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