{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/m901z43b52/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Cohen, Morris"]},"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":["2004-08-11 (captured)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Bean, Betsy (Interviewer)","Cohen, Morris (Interviewee)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Video"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum Ester"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eMorris Cohen was interviewed by Betsy Bean on August 11, 2004 in Fernandina Beach, Florida.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eMorris Cohen was born on May 24, 1913, in Nicholls, Georgia to Abraham and Mary Cohen. His family lived in Pearson, Georgia before later moving back to Nicholls. In 1926, the family moved to Brunswick, Georgia. Growing up, Cohen helped out with his family’s business, the Cohen’s Department Store and attended synagogue in Waycross, Georgia. As an adult he later owned some of these stores himself. Cohen grew up alongside three brothers and two sisters: Minnie, Joe, Lou, Jacob, and Ida. After graduating high school, Cohen lived in New York City, New York before coming back to Georgia and opening up his own store in Dothan, Alabama. Cohen got married to his wife in 1940 with whom he had children with, Ronald and Rodale. He served in the U.S. Navy for two years. After his service, Cohen lived in Brunswick, Georgia and owned a multitude of businesses. He was an active member in the Jewish community. \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eMorris Cohen begins the interview by discussing how his family ended up in Georgia. He details  his father’s side of the family journey from Lithuania. Cohen then talks about his family’s business, the Cohen’s Department Store. He discusses his Jewish community in Waycross, Georgia growing up. Cohen talks about being a Jewish business in rural Georgia. He recalls how his family ended up in Brunswick, Georgia. Cohen describes his siblings and what they did as they grew up. He reminisces on his time in New York City before moving back to Georgia. Cohen reflects on how he met his wife. He details his experience in the U.S. Navy. Cohen recalls coming back from service and raising his family in Brunswick, Georgia. He reflects on moving to different houses in Brunswick. Cohen goes back and recalls buying his dad’s store from him. He talks about being a businessman and owning a department store. Cohen reflects on his real estate and loan business. He talks about his involvements in the Jewish community. Cohen reflects on the Waycross Jewish community and the Jewish families around him.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29187"]}},{"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":["Brunswick, Georgia (geographic term)","Nicholls, Georgia (geographic term)","Jewish Community (topical term)","Waycross, Georgia (geographic term)","Passover (topical term)","Europe (geographic term)","Cohen's Department Store (corporate name)","Savannah, Georgia (geographic term)","Jewish Marriage (topical term)","U.S. Navy (topical term)","Immigration (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eMorris Cohen was interviewed by Betsy Bean on August 11, 2004 in Fernandina Beach, Florida.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMorris Cohen was born on May 24, 1913, in Nicholls, Georgia to Abraham and Mary Cohen. His family lived in Pearson, Georgia before later moving back to Nicholls. In 1926, the family moved to Brunswick, Georgia. Growing up, Cohen helped out with his family\u0026rsquo;s business, the Cohen\u0026rsquo;s Department Store and attended synagogue in Waycross, Georgia. As an adult he later owned some of these stores himself. Cohen grew up alongside three brothers and two sisters: Minnie, Joe, Lou, Jacob, and Ida. After graduating high school, Cohen lived in New York City, New York before coming back to Georgia and opening up his own store in Dothan, Alabama. Cohen got married to his wife in 1940 with whom he had children with, Ronald and Rodale. He served in the U.S. Navy for two years. After his service, Cohen lived in Brunswick, Georgia and owned a multitude of businesses. He was an active member in the Jewish community.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMorris Cohen begins the interview by discussing how his family ended up in Georgia. He details \u0026nbsp;his father\u0026rsquo;s side of the family journey from Lithuania. Cohen then talks about his family\u0026rsquo;s business, the Cohen\u0026rsquo;s Department Store. He discusses his Jewish community in Waycross, Georgia growing up. Cohen talks about being a Jewish business in rural Georgia. He recalls how his family ended up in Brunswick, Georgia. Cohen describes his siblings and what they did as they grew up. He reminisces on his time in New York City before moving back to Georgia. Cohen reflects on how he met his wife. He details his experience in the U.S. Navy. Cohen recalls coming back from service and raising his family in Brunswick, Georgia. He reflects on moving to different houses in Brunswick. Cohen goes back and recalls buying his dad\u0026rsquo;s store from him. He talks about being a businessman and owning a department store. Cohen reflects on his real estate and loan business. He talks about his involvements in the Jewish community. Cohen reflects on the Waycross Jewish community and the Jewish families around him.\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/000/206/448/small/Cohen_Morris.mp4_1692380036.jpg?1692380037","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Cohen_Morris.mp4"]},"duration":4189.186,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/206/448/small/Cohen_Morris.mp4_1692380036.jpg?1692380037","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/206/448/original/Cohen_Morris.mp4?1692380034","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":4189.186,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Cohen, Morris [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BEAN: This is Betsy Bean, president of Old Town Brunswick Preservation\nAssociation. Today is Wednesday, August 11, 2004. We are in Fernandina Beach,\nFlorida, interviewing Morris Cohen about living and working in Brunswick\n[Georgia] . . . Okay. Okay. Mr. Cohen let's start then, about your family\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"background. How did you end up in Georgia, where you were born?\n\nCOHEN: I was born in a town called Nicholls, Georgia, Coffee County. That's near\nDouglas, Georgia. We lived in Pearson after I was born. We moved back to\nNicholls later on. From Nicholls, we moved to Brunswick in 1926.\n\nBEAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where's your fam[ily]? Where we, what had brought your family to Georgia then?\n\nCOHEN: Oh, my daddy's brother had come up prior to that, and they had opened\nstores in different places at Georgia and when . . .\n\nBEAN: What were their names? What was your, the brothers name? The father. What\nwas your father's name?\n\nCOHEN: My father's name was Abraham Cohen. Abraham. He ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had a brother named\nJulius Cohen and he had a brother named Nathan Cohen and William Cohen. Okay.\nThey were in different towns in Georgia.\n\nBEAN: What country had they come from?\n\nCOHEN: Oh, well they came from New York. All of them.\n\nBEAN: Oh, all of them came from New York?\n\nCOHEN: That's right.\n\nBEAN: Do you know where they had come from before that?\n\nCOHEN: Yes, Lithuania. My father came from Lithuania in 1905, and he worked in\nNew ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"York a couple of years before he sent for his sweetheart, his wife. They\nlived in New York until about 1912, maybe . . . got married in 1908, 1907. They\nlive another five years after they got married. In the meantime, his brother had\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"start . . . when they first started business, they had a wagon and a horse pallet.\n\nBEAN: In New York?\n\nCOHEN: Not in New York, in Georgia. In New York, my dad was a professional\npainter, house painter. He and his brother was house painters and . . .\n\nBEAN: Can I ask you this? Why? Why did they come over from Lithuania? Do you\nknow why?\n\nCOHEN: Yeah, because of the . . . it was . . . number one, it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hard times in\nwhat . . . Russia had taken over the country. Russia had. Russian troops are,\nthey're terrible on messing with the Jewish population. If they got [to] a\ncertain age, they put them in the Russian army. All men had to go in the army.\n21 years old. Those who had a little saving [went] underground ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and pay somebody,\nthey would get them a passage to the United States. Immigration is not like it\nis today I guess if all you had to do is have the money to travel. One by one\nall the family came to the United States. Then after my mother came as a bride,\nyou might say, then her family came and they all settled in Springfield,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Massachusetts, my mother's family.\n\nBEAN: By the way, do you have any photographs of grandparents at all?\n\nCOHEN: Not at all.\n\nBEAN: I just wonder, do you know what your father did? How old do you think he\nwas when he came to the United States?\n\nCOHEN: 21 years old.\n\nBEAN: He was 21 and so he was a painter at first.\n\nCOHEN: His brother Julius had come ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"first. When he came, they both were painters\nfor several years. After a while, oh, maybe until 1925, about seven years. Eight\nyears. When his brother Julius got married, his, her family, his wife's family\nhad migrated to Georgia. That as far as I remember it. That's where I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"started.\nOne came down next and they sent for another one so forth. That's how they got\nto Georgia. After the horse and buggy, I mean, a wagon, they start open store\nafter they got established. My dad, his first store, was in a little town called\nManor, Georgia, a few miles from Waycross, Georgia. From ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that location, he moved\nto Pearson, Georgia, which was a few miles, 15 or 20 miles away.\n\nBEAN: What did he sell? What kind of goods?\n\nCOHEN: General merchandise, clothing, piece goods. In those days, all the women\ndidn't buy readymade dresses. They made them. Piece goods was a big thing. The\nsame thing was . . . material to make sheets, pillows, blankets and all that\nstuff, that's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mostly what they sell. When they would travel as a peddler, they\nwould go out from if they were in Waycross, for example, they would go out in\nthe countryside and spend the night, maybe sometimes two nights. For their room\nand board that night, they would probably donate enough material for the wives\nto make a dress or children to make ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"clothes. That was the customers too, they\nwould sell them. If they didn't have what they wanted, they would take their\norder and the next time they come, maybe a week or two later, they would bring\nit and so forth. My first recollection, I went out with my mother's brother,\nalso was in that kind of business. I went out with him one time and that time\nthey would already have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"migrated from a horse and buggy to a pickup truck and\nmade himself like a big van and so forth. After living in Pearson [for] about\nseven years, we moved back to Nicholls, where I was born, and I don't know why\nhe moved us there, but things got bad in one town, they moved to another ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"town.\nThe second time we were in Nicholls, which was, [we] didn't stay but about two\nyears, mostly. We moved to Brunswick in 1926.\n\nBEAN: Let me ask you this. In Nicholls, what was the name of the store?\n\nCOHEN: All the time. It was always Cohen's Department Store.\n\nBEAN: Oh, okay. When were you born? What year were you born?\n\nCOHEN: May 24, 1913.\n\nBEAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay, and so you all moved to Brunswick in 1926.\n\nCOHEN: You remember the icehouse on Newcastle Street where they made ice? You\nknow where city hall [is]?\n\nBEAN: Yeah, I know where city hall is.\n\nCOHEN: Another block south. People named Abbott.\n\nBEAN: Yes, I know Abbott.\n\nCOHEN: At a meat market.\n\nBEAN: Right.\n\nCOHEN: They made ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ice.\n\nBEAN: Right, okay.\n\nCOHEN: Across the street, further going south was a two-story wooden house.\nThat's where we lived.\n\nBEAN: Okay. There's no houses there now.\n\nCOHEN: I know.\n\nBEAN: They're all low brick buildings.\n\nCOHEN: I know. From there on south, until you get down to where you lived, that\nwas all it was down there. I forgot what year it was when that section was\nnothing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but wood. When the shipyard came, they built those temporary housing.\nWhen the shipyard was no more, somebody bought all land and started selling lots\nto build houses. That's why I bought two lots. All those houses there. Mr. . . .\n[I] forgot the real estate person that bought ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that.\n\nBEAN: Well, getting back to your father coming here, were there any further\nquestions about the prior . . . Are there any other memories of living in\nPearson or Nicholls? Were you all, were you members of the Jewish community in\nthose communities?\n\nCOHEN: In Waycross . . . we'd all . . . it's Waycross.\n\nBEAN: Okay.\n\nCOHEN: All the Jews in that community . . .\n\nBEAN: Went to Waycross.\n\nCOHEN: Waycross, which they still are. People ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"still come to . . . [from the] surrounding.\n\nBEAN: Was there a synagogue in Waycross?\n\nCOHEN: Right.\n\nBEAN: Okay.\n\nCOHEN: I still have one cousin. It has the Cohen Department Store in Alma,\nGeorgia. They still go to Waycross for services and also in Savannah. See,\nWaycross is not quite as strictly Orthodox as Savannah. Sometimes they go to\nSavannah, sometimes they go to, they still belong to Waycross' ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community.\n\nBEAN: Okay.\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: Yeah, I've spoken to Gerald.\n\nCOHEN: Yeah. Gerald's in Savannah, I guess.\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: Right, but I met him at Cohen's of Alma's.\n\nCOHEN: His son operates now.\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: Yeah.\n\nCOHEN: Mark. Their dad was named Nathan, Morris, granddad. He came to [the]\nSouth from . . . they put him on the boat from Europe and he came to New ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"York\nand [they] put a tag on him to come to the South, to his brother, my daddy. It's\na story.\n\nBEAN: It is. Have you got that story?\n\nCOHEN: He came on a train to Nicholls. In those days, Nicholls was a little\ncommunity. The train just stopped to let somebody over, throw it off. It was the\nmiddle of the night. When he got to Nicolls, instead of getting off the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"train on\nthe right side were the normal, where my dad and brother was waiting for him. He\ngot off on the other side, so the train left and, in the meantime, they didn't\nsee anybody. They went back to the house. Of course, it so happened the house\nwas only a couple blocks or so away in those little towns. They were standing in\nthe middle of the night and nothing, nobody. All of a sudden, I assumed it was\nthe fellow who ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"worked at the railroad. I don't remember. It was either that or a\nnight policemen saw this young man standing. He was 15 years old. He came up to\nhim and tried to talk to him, but he could talk English. He did say, \"Cohen?\nCohen? Cohen?\" Oh, yeah. He took him over to the house. That was the year I was\nborn. 1913.\n\nBEAN: Okay. Now, did your father speak with an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"accent?\n\nCOHEN: Oh, yeah. Most of the time until later years.\n\nBEAN: Oh, okay.\n\nCOHEN: Their schooling, he didn't do too much schooling. My mother went to\nschool in New York.\n\nBEAN: Okay.\n\nCOHEN: He didn't\n\nBEAN: What was your mother's name?\n\nCOHEN: Mary Posnick. P-O-S-N-I-C-K. I think you heard the name.\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: I think I've heard of the Posnick's. Where were, where was\nyour family in Georgia? Where did they have stores? Do you remember?\n\nCOHEN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, I remember. I bought some of them. Hazlehurst, Alma, Rebecca. It's\na little community, Rebecca. That's where the . . . the oldest one is. William.\nThen Georgia, the little community near Hazlehurst and Alma. The last one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now is\nan Alma. That's the only one, for our family. There's probably got stores,\ndifferent people. The family, the last one is in Alma. That's the third\ngeneration, in Alma.\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: That's one of the last Jewish businesses in rural Georgia.\n\nCOHEN: Right, that's right. Even those little communities sometime would have\ntwo Jewish merchants. Nicholls had two at that time. Pearson . . .\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: Who is the other business of Nicholls, the other Jewish\nfamily in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nicholls?\n\nCOHEN: Mack Aaron [sp].\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: Okay. I've spoken to his daughter; I think his granddaughter.\n\nCOHEN: Yeah, that's right. Probably his daughter and granddaughter probably. In\nPearson, there was a fellow name . . .\n\nBEAN: Let me ask you this. How do you think your parents learn English? Did they\nknow, they didn't know English when they came over, so they had to . . .\n\nCOHEN: While he was working in New ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"York City, those few years in New York . . .\nthey had to communicate in the job, at different people in the store, in the\nstreet and so forth. Of course, when they were in their home, they talked . . .\nYiddish was their language. Outside, sooner or later, little by little. After he\nstarted pedaling in Georgia, he learned quick. You have to.\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Right. It's a necessity.\n\nCOHEN: They learn. It's not like some people are going to school today, don't\ncare where they learn a thing or not. They learn.\n\nBEAN: Okay, so you all moved to Brunswick. What, do you know what brought them\nto Brunswick exactly?\n\nCOHEN: Yeah.\n\nBEAN: What was that?\n\nCOHEN: In Nicholls, there was a family in Altman's, The Altman's.\n\nBEAN: Right.\n\nCOHEN: Mr. Altman, an old man ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which . . .\n\nBEAN: Sam's father.\n\nCOHEN: Sam's father. Now, how he got to Nicholls I don't know much about [him]\nprior to Nicholls. I do know in Nicholls. They didn't have a clothing store.\nThey operated, Mr. Altman was a builder, you might say. He built a building, and\nhe operated a hotel. He had one son from my memory at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my age had a restaurant.\nSome fast talkers from Atlanta, Georgia, came to sell them a place in Atlanta.\n\"You all don't need to live in this little community. Come to Atlanta. We got a\nnice building for you. You move right in and so forth\" It's a scam. \"In the\nmeantime, we'll trade in your building for a down payment. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This is just a down\npayment. When you get to Atlanta the business, you can make the payments on the\nnew business you're going to have.\" It turned out, as I said, a scam and they\nlost everything. In the meantime, Mrs. Altman had a brother and the brother's\nnamed Sam Shriver [sp]. I assume that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mr. Shriver wrote his sister and her\nfamily to Brunswick. That's how they got to Brunswick. In the meantime, while\nthey were living in Nicholls, Mrs. Altman and my mother became real good\nfriends. Every week or two, they'd get a communication one way or the other,\n\"When will you move to Brunswick?\" That's how we got to Brunswick.\n\nBEAN: They felt like there was opportunity in Brunswick.\n\nCOHEN: That's right. The Altman's, when ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they got to Brunswick through family\nconnections somewhere. A [indistinct: 17:35] shoe store. Operated by the family.\nLittle sister to a big shoe store and finally, they had the shoe store. In\nBrunswick, it was the best one in town, the only one you might say completely\nfor shoes. Later on through the years, the Altman's and Sam and the older son, I\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mean the middle son, Jack Altman, they operated the shoe store. When Sam got a\ncertain age, he wanted to go out on his own. He went out to work some way from\nBrunswick. Same thing with my older brothers and sisters. When they got at a\ncertain age, they spread out, go somewhere else, Open up their own ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business.\nEven I did myself at one time. Went [and] left Brunswick, open up a business in\nAlabama so . . .\n\nBEAN: That's what got, what got you all to Brunswick was the Altman's . . .\n\nCOHEN: Right.\n\nBEAN: . . . telling your mother and father that it was the place to come. Do you\nremember the move to Brunswick?\n\nCOHEN: Oh, yeah, I remember the moves in Brunswick. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember getting there.\nThere was no direct route . . . like a big superhighway or nothing. [We] came\nthrough the woods part of the way. BEAN: [We] had to cross creeks and water, you know.\n\nBEAN: Were you in a car or . . . car of some sort or a truck?\n\nCOHEN: They sent the goods and everything on a train. [In] those days everything\nwent by train. He rented a chauffeur to drive, which my daddy did, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"chauffeur a\ndriver because he didn't drive at that time. We all packed personal things in\nthis car, and we all moved to Brunswick.\n\nBEAN: Now, at that time, had he have a store, I forget.\n\nCOHEN: He had a store in Nicholls.\n\nBEAN: Did he sell it or close it up?\n\nCOHEN: No, he packed it up and put it in a railroad car. In Brunswick, he opened\nstore [on] 1331 Newcastle ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Street, and we stayed there until 19 . . . from 1926\nto 1933, I believe it was.\n\nBEAN: 1331. That's the block that Phifer [sp] owned.\n\nCOHEN: Right, he owned, we rent, he rented from Phifer. Fred Phifer was next\ndoor, and the delicatessen was next door. That's, and Phifer owned that whole\nbuilding, that whole block at that time. I don't know if he's still, or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"how long\nhe's . . . he sold some of it, I'm sure. In 19 . . . my oldest sister, she\noperated bookkeeping and all that stuff until 1930. After she graduated, she\nwent to school in Douglas. Of course, we lived in Nicholls. Douglas was only 15\nmiles, which is now a college in Douglas was just a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"complete high school, you\nmight say. They had a name for it, but I forgot what it was. It went into South\nGeorgia Junior College now.\n\nBEAN: Right. Now, you, so you all moved here in 1926 and you were 12 or 13 at\nthat point.\n\nCOHEN: That's right. I was 12.\n\nBEAN: Did you go to school? Were you in high school or junior. I don't know what\nthey called it. Or had you started working in the business?\n\nCOHEN: No, I had my older brothers and sisters. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I started working at the\nbusiness after the years when they were leaving, left town.\n\nBEAN: Your brothers . . . how many brothers and sisters did you have?\n\nCOHEN: I have four brothers. I mean, four boys. Three brothers and two sisters.\nThe oldest was, the first child was the girl. Who is it? The oldest child was\nborn in New York. Minnie, her name was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Minnie Cohen.18 months later, they had\ntwins. Boys, Joe and Lou. Three children in New York before they moved South.\n1913 I was born. First one in the South. In 1917, my youngest brother was born.\nIn 1920, my youngest sister was born, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which is still living the rest of . . .\nalways living, my sister and myself. She lives in Orlando [Florida].\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: What was your younger brother and sister's name?\n\nCOHEN: My youngest brother's name was Jacob. Jack, they call him. My sister is\nIda. She's still living in Orlando.\n\nBEAN: You're saying, did you go to, you were in school? When you came here you\nwent to school?\n\nCOHEN: Oh, well, I was in grammar school in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"those small towns. The way, it\nwasn't like Brunswick. Brunswick, it was considered a much more advanced and\neducating children. When I got to Brunswick . . . I guess it's partly my fault\nas children of certain age have certain things which I could contribute that . .\n. instead of going to the class, which I was [doing in] a little down, I went\nback a couple of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years, which in the long run I was older, but it turned out\nbetter because it suited my capability at the time. I graduated [from] Land\nAcademy with honors, high honors. I was . . . on the class honor roll; and what\nis the class? The honor roll Senior class. My two older brothers, they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"knocked\naround, they went to work after they got to Brunswick. They were, they didn't\ngive. I don't know if they finished high school or not.\n\nBEAN: It was probably good that you, like you say, went back because you could\nget better ground.\n\nCOHEN: Oh yeah. For example, I give an example. They didn't teach art, music,\nthose kind of things which they did in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Brunswick. You just didn't know. You had\nto go according to what you knew. I didn't object to it. I guess it turned out,\nas I said, better in the long run for an education. I was good in high school in\nBrunswick. I was real good when I got to high school and I should have gone to\ncollege, but times are tough.\n\nBEAN: That was the Depression probably by the time you got to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"college.\n\nCOHEN: Yeah, and my younger brother, he went to college and he became a, he\noperated a pharmaceutical company.\n\nBEAN: Where did he go to school?\n\nCOHEN: He went to Emory [University]. Then in the war. He didn't graduate\nbecause the war. He was working for Legate ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pharmacy.\n\nBEAN: We were . . . she could turn the TV off.\n\nCOHEN: Yeah.\n\nBEAN: It's gone. You didn't go because times were tough.\n\nCOHEN: I thought I would later. I went to New York. I graduated. In the\nsummertime, I went to New York. I said, \"Well, I'll see if I get a job, a part\ntime job to go to school and so ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"forth.\" It worked out. It was hard to get a job\nthat was, paid enough to pay tuition. It was tough when I was in New York in\n1933 to go to look for a job. I would stand in line, every place, every company,\nwhich I knew some about in the clothing business. Every morning, say, like 9:00\nor ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"10:00, whatever it was, to apply for a job line. After . . . they wanted one\nor two. The rest of . . . I finally found a job to pay enough to pay [for] my\nroom and board, that's all.\n\nBEAN: You were in New York, you had hoped to go to college, but just couldn't\nfind a job to pay for everything. In the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"meantime, your parents were still\nrunning the store back in Brunswick.\n\nCOHEN: Right.\n\nBEAN: And managing.\n\nCOHEN: The last couple of years of school, I was, what you might say, the\nbusiness manager. They operated, but I took care of books and so forth and\nhelped with the sales, so forth and helped by. It was always one or two of us\nhelping in the store. I was the last one. By the time I left, well, which was a\nlong time . . . my mother had died, and my father remarried. That's one reason I\nleft because a second marriage . . . they come in to do certain things. Anyway .\n. .\n\nBEAN: Who did he marry the second time around? When did your mother die then?\n\nCOHEN: Then my mother died very young. She was 48, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"believe It was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"48 years\nold. He stayed single for a few years.\n\nBEAN: This was in Brunswick? Did she die in Brunswick?\n\nCOHEN: Right.\n\nBEAN: Okay.\n\nCOHEN: He married a Gordon, one of the Gordon family, and they lived together 22\nyears, about 20 years before he died.\n\nBEAN: You didn't particularly get along with your stepmother?\n\nCOHEN: None of us did. six of us, it wasn't, none of us . . . not because of the\nchildren, but because of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who? Their wives. I don't know if you [have] ever\n[been] in that predicament. It's not pleasant.\n\nBEAN: About what now?\n\nCOHEN: I said about being in that kind of situation. It's not pleasant either way.\n\nBEAN: I . . .\n\nCOHEN: I don't know why I can't get along, but I guess it's just the idea of\nsomebody else taking you out of this place, you know? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When I left, I stayed in\nNew York, and the winter weather got me. I was not used to cold weather. I came\nback south.\n\nBEAN: How long were you up there? About a year . . . ?\n\nCOHEN: One year that's right. I would work, I told you, before I work. Whatever.\nAll my relatives, my uncles and so forth, a month here, two months ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there.\nLoathing around and so forth. Times was not so good to get what to call a really\ngood job. Then mostly I would help my dad in the store so I got along with him.\n\nBEAN: The other stores were in other parts of Georgia . . .\n\nCOHEN: Right.\n\nBEAN: . . . so you went around . . . ?\n\nCOHEN: I worked in Atlanta for non-relatives quite a bit. I had a lot of jobs. 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That's where we used to go\nto ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the temple there . . . she don't remember much about me as a child.\n\nBEAN: But you remember her as a child?\n\nCOHEN: Yeah.\n\nBEAN: Okay.\n\nCOHEN: Through the years [get to] know each other. It was not a planned thing to\nget married. One day we went on a date, and that night we talked about it. The\nnext day we went to get married.\n\nBEAN: Really? You didn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know her that well? I mean, you all . . .\n\nCOHEN: Oh, I know her. We know each other . . .\n\nBEAN: You had a long engagement?\n\nCOHEN: No engagement. We went to Savannah to get a rabbi. We got married in Savannah.\n\nBEAN: Was it accepted that you would always marry Jewish? Did everybody who was\nJewish accepted that you would marry Jewish?\n\nCOHEN: We all did. Every one of us did in the first marriage. My youngest\nbrother, the second marriage he married a non-Jewish girl. All the rest of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"us\n[was the] first marriage. Let's see . . .\n\nBEAN: Let me ask you this. Growing up in Brunswick, how do you, did you perceive\nany prejudice against for being Jewish? Was it comfortable for you?\n\nCOHEN: Oh, it was comfortable in Brunswick. It was very comfortable in a little\nsmall town. They would pick on you a little bit, but not seriously. Yes it . . .\n[they'd] have somebody to say different things. We were never discriminated\nagainst even as a child ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or [indistinct: 32:00] in Brunswick. No, never was. Even\nmy daddy, he'd take it as a joke, if they said something and let it go. Nothing.\nNothing ever seriously.\n\nBEAN: Okay, so you got married in 1940, you're saying?\n\nCOHEN: The last day of 1940. I was operating a store and . . .\n\nBEAN: In Dothan, Alabama.\n\nCOHEN: We lived in Dothan, but we had the store in another ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community near Dothan\ncalled Ashland, Alabama. My wife didn't join me in the store. She had never\nworked in a store until we married. I mean, not that store. She had worked a\nlittle bit, not much. She was the type, but her dad didn't want her to work.\nAnyway, the war comes along of course, World War ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Two. I had to close my\nbusiness, sell out and move. My wife originally was going to stay with my\nbrother and his wife, but in the meantime she got pregnant. My child was born,\nand she moved back to Waycross. Her daddy wanted her to stay in Waycross. 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I went to school and from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there I went to Hawaii, I went to another\nschool, and from there I was on aircraft carrier for the balance of the war. I\nwas in CIC, Central Information Center. I was a radar. We would, my job during\nservice was to direct our aircraft to fight the other aircraft. That was our job.\n\nBEAN: Okay. Were you drafted? Were you, or did you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"join?\n\nCOHEN: You might say . . .\n\nBEAN: You had to join.\n\nCOHEN: I would of had to.\n\nBEAN: You would've.\n\nCOHEN: I was going to join the Army if they did draft me, but then I had a\nchance to follow in the Navy and to go to the school. I was thinking to go into\nquartermaster school, rather. I didn't know anything about radar. I mean it . .\n. the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"information. It worked pit. It was a little tough being away so long.\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: My writing is so terrible. She can't read it, but I, what I\nwas wondering was whether here in Brunswick, in this area, whether you had heard\nanything about was what was happening to the Jews in Europe during the war.\n\nCOHEN: Oh, yeah, we would hear all [the] news, of course. 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We would have, they had people that come in for donations, a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"donation. Whatever to help. I bought war bonds. Israel war bonds I gave them to,\nI don't know, over years and years, I don't remember how long I gave them. I\nhave quite a few. Everything they had a drive, I would buy it.\n\nBEAN: Were you able to come home? Were people able to come home during the war\nfrom where you were?\n\nCOHEN: I came home one time. After two years. I came ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"home.\n\nBEAN: Okay and your wife at that time was in Waycross with Ronald, your son,\nstaying with her parents, I guess.\n\nCOHEN: With her daddy. Yeah, her daddy. He raised him in Waycross. He told her,\nif she had moved to Waycross, he'd buy a house for her to live there. He moved\nin with her. In fact, he wanted to buy our house away in Brunswick when we came ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back.\n\nBEAN: You said no. What did you think of her father? Was he . . . ?\n\nCOHEN: Oh, he's alright.\n\nBEAN: He's alright but . . .\n\nCOHEN: He was a stern-type person. That's a trait, of [indistinct: 37:16]. They\nwere all stern people. Her daddy's brother had a business in Brunswick. He had a\nclothing business in Brunswick. Her daddy's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"brother.\n\nBEAN: Oh.\n\nCOHEN: The one in Waycross, her daddy was in wholesale grocer business. The\nBrunswick brother was in the hotel clothing business. That's how the sales got\nin. The daddy was in the, in that other business. Of course, the old man, her\ndad's brother had . . . Carly was the oldest child. I don't know, I think the\nother girl may have been a little older, but anyway, they, all those children,\nworked in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"store until the war came along and all this. I wasn't there, but I\ncould hear it. Carly decided to register at the shipyard. They built a big\nbuilding, and they had a restaurant, so he had a partner.\n\nBEAN: Cruz?\n\nCOHEN: Cruz was a partner in the restaurant business. Of course, Cruz kept on.\n\nBEAN: Right.\n\nCOHEN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did he die?\n\nBEAN: I think he is dead.\n\nCOHEN: I know the building they had. It's not empty, but he's not there.\n\nBEAN: No, I think that building is gone. Are you talking about the deck.\n\nCOHEN: No, no.\n\nBEAN: Further there was another one.\n\nCOHEN: Further way out.\n\nBEAN: Right.\n\nCOHEN: Almost to . . .\n\nBEAN: [indistinct: 38:47].\n\nCOHEN: No, not quite that far.\n\nBEAN: You got out of the, you were never in danger, I guess, of getting. You\ncould have gotten sunk. The boat could have gotten ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sunk.\n\nCOHEN: No, we were in plenty [of] danger.\n\nBEAN: Yeah.\n\nCOHEN: Kamikaze. You heard of that, haven't you? All around here, there and\neverywhere else. I saw quite a few ships get hit. We were fortunate, very\nfortunate. Only time anything hit the airship was a drone. You know what a drone\nis? That's where they send, it's not a plane, no engine.\n\nBEAN: An unmanned aircraft of some sort.\n\nCOHEN: One of those hit us, but no damage to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"speak of.\n\nBEAN: You got out in 1944 or 1945, 1945.\n\nCOHEN: 1945 is when the real war [was], 1945 was the real war. Before that I was\nin school most of that. I got out last of, the end of 1945 and I came back.\nRaviva, she wanted to stay in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Waycross, but I didn't want to stay in Waycross\nbecause the situation where he would be, her daddy would be in control. I came\nto Brunswick, and I went in work with my dad for a few weeks and he decided he\nwanted to get out of the business. I bought the store from him, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Raviva and\nRonald came to Brunswick, but there's no place to live. Her daddy said he would\nher a house, that's what I told you.\n\nBEAN: Right.\n\nCOHEN: She didn't, neither one of us wanted him to buy our house. We would take\ncare of ourselves, which we rented and then I bought our old house on Albemarle\nStreet. It's a two-story house. We did a little bit of repair and remodel. We\nlived there until the first house we considered a better, little ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"house we bought\non Magnolia.\n\nBEAN: Now let me ask you about just the local history's sake. Do you remember\nthe number of the house number on Albemarle? I'd like to know if it's still there.\n\nCOHEN: I know it's not there. It burned down.\n\nBEAN: Okay.\n\nCOHEN: Later on, I built . . . oh yeah I did know the number. It was 1000 Albemarle.\n\nBEAN: It was 1000 Albemarle.\n\nCOHEN: I rebuilt [it] after it burned down. I rebuilt and built a triplex.\n\nBEAN: Okay.\n\nCOHEN: In ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1972, I built a triplex.\n\nBEAN: That was, so you kept the property. The house had been burned down.\n\nCOHEN: The odd thing about it, I had sold the property with the house. After it\nburned down, I bought the empty lot and built the property.\n\nBEAN: Y'all moved after Albemarle to . . .\n\nCOHEN: Magnolia.\n\nBEAN: That was over in Windsor Park?\n\nCOHEN: Windsor Park.\n\nBEAN: Okay.\n\nCOHEN: That's where ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rodale had been born before that. Dale was born on Albemarle Street.\n\nBEAN: Okay.\n\nCOHEN: Then we moved over there to the little house that I bought. It was a good\nlittle house, but a small house.\n\nBEAN: Do you remember the number of it? The house number.\n\nCOHEN: Wait just a minute . . . it was 1330, I believe. I think it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1330.\n\nBEAN: Then after that, after Magnolia . . .\n\nCOHEN: In the meantime, I had bought the lot on Union Street where I told you\nthat the real estate people had bought all that land around.\n\nBEAN: Okay, right.\n\nCOHEN: Right.\n\nBEAN: That's where all the woods were. It was woods there.\n\nCOHEN: Right, across the . . .\n\nBEAN: Oh, right. Parker.\n\nCOHEN: Parker. Right, Parker. He had bought it, the whole thing, not by himself.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He got two or three people to buy the whole thing. He asked me, that was when he\nfirst thought about buying it. I never thought about buying a lot there. Would I\nwant to go in with them. I said no. They bought it. Later on, is when I went to\nhim and bought two lots where I built the first house. That would before we had\nair conditioning, we had a big old fan to cool the house but not air\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"conditioners. I decided to build next door and I sold the first one and we built\none next store. That's the one you . . .\n\nBEAN: That's the one I remember.\n\nCOHEN: She wanted half black brick.\n\nBEAN: It was, it's dark brick.\n\nCOHEN: We had a time getting them.\n\nBEAN: It's unusual, but she wanted that.\n\nCOHEN: She wanted that. She . . . we had terrazzo floors, which was in the style\nat that time.\n\nBEAN: I remember the terrazzo ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"floors.\n\nCOHEN: It's hard on your feet, but a lot of people in this building here,\nputting tile all over the house.\n\nBEAN: Right.\n\nCOHEN: Same thing. Hard.\n\nBEAN: Tell us. Let's go back to the store. You bought your father's store from\nhim. Was he still in the 1300 block? Because I remember your store being . . .\n\nCOHEN: Wait a minute. We missed some. The last, when I came back from, I thought\nit ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was . . . not the war, but before that I want to go back. In 1931, we moved\nup the street where Altman had an Altman dress shop. We moved in one of those\nbuildings. That was owned by Ringo [sp] too. I mean, Mr. Phifer, but Ringo was\nin charge in it. That's where I was, that's where the store was when I came\nback. That's when I bought ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it at 1405.\n\nBEAN: 1405. Did you own the building?\n\nCOHEN: No. They owned it. Ringo was retired for his father-in-law. We rented it\nout. My dad rented it, I rented it. When I sold it to Sam Alterman, to\nmerchandise the location. I never negotiated [with] him to buy the building too\nfrom Mr. Ringo. That's when Sam Altman bought the building. After sold out. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"See,\nwhen I decided to get out of the business, which was 1968. I had a going out of\nbusiness here and the last . . . Sam and I had an agreement. He . . . so much to\nlet him have the building, and I would agree to let him have it at a certain\ntime. I think it was the last day of June, somewhere in that neighbor. That's\nhow he, so he had a small store next ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to it. This would give him more room and\nfinally, boy.\n\nBEAN: He had the whole block practically.\n\nCOHEN: He still owns most of the property, I think.\n\nBEAN: Yeah, he does.\n\nCOHEN: The last two on the end, I don't think he owns. That, someone else owns\nthat. Use to be a feed store if you remember?\n\nBEAN: I don't remember. I remember the famous store was . . .\n\nCOHEN: That's right.\n\nBEAN: Who owned the famous store?\n\nCOHEN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Friedman. It was a Friedman [who] owned the store. Also, on Norwood\nStreet. His brother. Then there was a Friedman who owned the store around the\ncorner where the hardware store is. There was a little store between the\nhardware and the corner. There is a liquor store in the corner. It was in\nbetween. It was a small store. One of the Friedman's owned a store there. There\nwere three brothers here at one time. They moved from Ridgefield, Georgia.\n\nBEAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now, your store, what did you sell exactly? What was your . . . ?\n\nCOHEN: Department store. Everything.\n\nBEAN: You sold everything?\n\nCOHEN: I always tell everybody. I sold everything related to brassieres to a\nman's overcoat.\n\nBEAN: Okay . . .\n\nCOHEN: I did all the buying. I did all the selling and take of it . . . I mean,\nI hired a couple of clerks, three or four or whatever to different times. I had\ndifferent [indistinct: 47:26] clerks. When I bought the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"store, say, during the\nwar years, I had a lot of help because they were real busy. When I bought the\nstore, we did away with most of the clerks, had two women and my wife was three\npeople. That's when she started working in the store and she loved it. She\ndidn't want me to sell out. She loves the store.\n\nBEAN: She likes, she didn't want to be a housewife.\n\nCOHEN: No, she didn't want it.\n\nBEAN: I remember Mary, your maid.\n\nCOHEN: We never, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she never did what you call a housewife to marry lived. That's\nwhy she didn't want to sell the store. She didn't know what to have to be a housewife.\n\nBEAN: Well, so . . .\n\nCOHEN: We operated the store for 22 years, the two of us. I did nothing but love\naround and travel. She don't like to travel. We went on two cruises. She didn't\nlike it. I went to Europe, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"golf tournaments and went to Europe on a golf planned\ntrip one time. The golf course, I went fishing every couple of days and so forth.\n\nBEAN: You must have done well in your business to be able to . . .\n\nCOHEN: Oh, yeah. I didn't actually retire. I say, playing golf is over. I\nstarted a real estate business and a loan business. I had a lot of little things\ngoing [on].\n\nBEAN: Oh, did you? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay.\n\nCOHEN: You remember AA Nathan Lawyer?\n\nBEAN: Yeah.\n\nCOHEN: His son, I think . . .\n\nBEAN: Ivan.\n\nCOHEN: Ivan still lives. His daddy and I went into [a] loan business.\n\nBEAN: Okay.\n\nCOHEN: I was a money man, and he was a loan man. We would loan money on people\nin their houses and get us [indistinct: 49:21] and they paid off by the month\nand so forth. Made a lot of money that way because the banks would not loan over\nthe little ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"shacks you might say, three or 4000. The little banks didn't want to\nfool with it, so we took it up.\n\nBEAN: Was this in the black community primarily?\n\nCOHEN: Most of them were black, that's right. Most of them. 90 percent.\n\nBEAN: What would you say the Jewish relationship to the black community was?\n\nCOHEN: That was, our best customers are black when we operated the store the\nlast few years, you know.\n\nBEAN: Did you extend ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"credit in the store?\n\nCOHEN: We never. When I was, we never had credit.\n\nBEAN: No.\n\nCOHEN: I may have had three or four people that I let sometime just for a week\nor so. No, we had a complete cash store, and I didn't even know that\n[indistinct: 50:18]. We had nothing but plain cash. That's the way we operated.\n\nBEAN: No credit cards, no layaway, no . . . ?\n\nCOHEN: Layaway was a big business, Layaway was big business. We had a big\nlayaway business. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It is a good business, layaway, because you have an advantage.\nThe store has advantage is one of the great, I guess you might say, one of the\nbest time for them because they still got merchandise and got a cash payment. If\nit don't say, come after yourself [indistinct: 50:37]\n\nBEAN: Right. Did many people default?\n\nCOHEN: Very few.\n\nBEAN: People were able to . . .\n\nCOHEN: A week before Christmas, people would come. No, I wouldn't say a week. A\nmonth or so we'd put ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"up or something. In the last week before Christmas, they'd\nbe . . . every day. Take it out. Take it out. Big, big thing. They put up for\nthe whole family. All during that month or so before Christmas. Today everybody\nwill holler, 50 percent discount. We never had that discount like they got today.\n\nBEAN: You didn't have to have a lot of sales or anything.\n\nCOHEN: I had a sale, but a little discount, nothing like that. The only ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time,\nwhen I went out of businesses, the sale was so great. I put a 50 percent\ndiscount on everything and no problem. The store had two interests at that time.\nWe had to have somebody to stay at one to let them in, and that's how busy it\nwas in the year I went out of business.\n\nBEAN: Do you remember some of your customers? Did you have regular customers?\n\nCOHEN: My wife would remember, but I don't remember.\n\nBEAN: You didn't deal with the people so much, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she did.\n\nCOHEN: She knew their name. I had a few of them. I knew by sight, but . . .\n\nBEAN: What about then in the community? Were you active in the synagogue or\n[was] your wife active?\n\nCOHEN: I was president at one time for, I guess, a year. Every year they had a\nelection. I don't remember what year it was, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but I was, also we had an\norganization called B'nai B'rith. I was president of that one year. Growing up,\nI had Sunday School that . . . I was in that and my brother also, my sister,\nyounger sister, we were pretty active in NSW.\n\nBEAN: What type of . . . there are different levels I guess of Jewish practice,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was it Conservative or . . . ?\n\nCOHEN: We were Conservative, that's what, we considered ourselves Conservative.\nOh that's, that's why that particular synagogue was, they don't call it a\nsynagogue, they call it temple. See originally in Brunswick there was a\nsynagogue, had a building on Grant Street. They had services on Grant Street.\nWhen we moved to Brunswick, it was still operating ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"too, but they joined sometime\nafter I don't know when.\n\nBEAN: The one on Grant Street, what, was it in a house or a building?\n\nCOHEN: The [indistinct: 53:39] building. Just like a store.\n\nBEAN: Is that building still there do you think?\n\nCOHEN: No. I think all that tore down and built brick building. It was [a] wood building.\n\nBEAN: Oh, okay.\n\nCOHEN: I don't remember exactly when they closed that up, but that was the older\nJewish people ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there. Fiford's [sp] family, I say Fiford because it he always the\nmain instrument, considered German Jews. They were more, they weren't as\northodox as the ones that was from Lithuania and those places. When they when\nthey built the temple, most of them were originally from Germany instead of from\nLithuania and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Russia. That you may find out a lot from Louise about that. She\nwould remember because she was there before all of us in Brunswick.\n\nBEAN: Was there a sense of the difference of where you all came from.\n\nCOHEN: That was well, yes, that was one of the main things. Well, it's just like\nwhen people move right now from Christianity, if it was from Germany and if ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they\nmove from Scotland, Christianity, they're not the same.\n\nBEAN: Like the Presbyterians.\n\nCOHEN: Whatever, I don't know that's the same kind of situation.\n\nBEAN: Was the Jewish community, were you all close? Were you . . .\n\nCOHEN: Oh yeah.\n\nBEAN: Supportive of each other?\n\nCOHEN: Oh, yeah. They never did have any disagreement with anything. It was just\nthe idea that that was their religion. At one time, whoever was the older people\ndecided that they would join up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when they all joined the temple because they had\na building, and the others did not have their own building. Even in Waycross,\nGeorgia, we used to go, they also had [a] building downtown and later on they\nbuilt their place in Waycross.\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: Waycross was more Conservative and so you went there, like,\nfor holidays or did you go regularly to Waycross?\n\nCOHEN: No, after we moved to Brunswick, we never went to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Waycross no more.\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: Oh, okay. It was okay with your family to be more reformed?\nThey just . . .\n\nCOHEN: Well, you see, growing up in the smaller towns like that, you either had\nto go somewhere or just more or less, do it at home. We're not very religious\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"type. I mean it's you know, your Jewish you take that as, that's it. Not like\nthe Orthodox and so forth. It don't matter where they are. They got to do\ncertain things a certain way, keep of course, your house and that kind other\nstuff, but a little country town. They didn't they didn't keep the real Jewish\nlaws like . . .\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: What about like Passover? Did you keep Passover?\n\nCOHEN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We always, always had Passover. We'd go to Savannah and buy stuff and so\nforth. In Brunswick, we went from Brunswick to Savannah to buy the stuff. Course\nlater on, I think some of the stores carried it.\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: Well, you know. You know you're a Jew from a small town if\nyou've driven more than 25 miles with a box of matzah on your lap.\n\nBEAN: It sounds like there was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"deli there. Were you able to get Jewish food?\n\nCOHEN: She would order us some.\n\nBEAN: Was she the only one that had Jewish merchandise and foodstuff?\n\nCOHEN: Right, but some of the families it really was, they traveled to Savannah\nor picked it up. Called up for an order. It was a special place in Savannah that\nmore or less specialized in that type [of] merchandise. In fact, some of them .\n. . 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It has kosher stuff.\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: Tell me a little bit more about the Jewish community here.\nWhen you got involved, what were some of the issues that you had to . . . were\nchallenges to you being in a fairly small ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community?\n\nCOHEN: Well, I don't think we had too much, other than the fact that we just\nkept up with world events in the Jewish . . . so forth. Locally there was\nnothing other than the fact that we had a temple and had organization. I told\nyou before, but a brethren and a Sunday School. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We thought . . . I guess they\ntold you about the Israel bonds.\n\nBEAN: Go ahead.\n\nCOHEN: We would have people, transient people. They got different names today.\nIt was hobos. If they were Jewish, they would come into Jewish stores on some\ndays and you'd have to give them few dollars. We had a little, what you might\nsay, a little kitty. All the Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people put up some money and we would come\nthrough, we would buy him something to eat, and give him a bus ticket to go to\nthe next town. That went on for years and years and it probably still is. I\ndon't know. That's how we were. They used to go from town to town and go to\nFlorida in the winter and go back there.\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: I guess these days you don't think about Jewish so-called\nhomeless people that are, you know.\n\nCOHEN: No, when everybody thinks the Jews are ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wealthy anyway, today. They're in\na better shape because they are business people and have made out well, most of\nthem, not all. [Of] Course, that's another thing. Even when we were doing it, a\nstore where, you never like for anything to buy or groceries. All the people\nthought \"Well these rich people.\" We weren't rich, we conservative type people.\nAs we made money, we saved money and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"made . . . but a lot of them used to say\n\"All the Jews are rich, all the Jews are rich.\" It's not so. In the big cities,\nyou'll find them just as poor as they are in, as anyone else, but not so many in\nthe smaller community?\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: Why do you think that is really. I mean, what did the\ncommunity leaders I mean, what happened when someone was poor, who was Jewish\nwithin the community that didn't do well or their store went bust? What did,\nwhat happened?\n\nCOHEN: Well, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there's still a few in Waycross, for example. There's a quite a few\nJewish families, they get along, but not the so-called wealthier ones.\n\nOTHER INTERVIEWER: Were there Jewish, did you all help out economically or\nfinancially. Can you talk about that a little bit? 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Like I said about the\npeople that pass-through town, sometimes it could be a family, a Jewish family.\nMost time it was just a single man passing by.\n\nBEAN: There were a lot of Jewish businesses downtown, I mean, predominantly\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105734/file/206448/transcript/49053/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"owned by . . .\n\nCOHEN: In Brunswick? Yeah, at one time, at one time. Where you had, as I've told\nyou before, her uncle had a store, Jewish store. [The] Altman's had a store. The\nbiggest store in town was Gordin, AJ Gordon, department store right on the\ncorner of Newcastle and Gloucester. There's a bank building there now. I don't\nknow if you remember, that's long ago.\n\nBEAN: I do, I do. 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