{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/sn00z71k4j/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Blonder, Gerald"]},"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":["2005-09-28 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Video"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eGerald A. \"Jerry\" Blonder was interviewed by Sandra Berman on September 28, 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eGerald Alvin (Jerry) Blonder was the son of Irving and Pauline [Janowitz] Blonder. Irving emigrated from Poland when he was 13 years old and Pauline was a native New Yorker who grew up on the Lower East Side of New York City. Jerry was born on July 10, 1931.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry and his family lived with his parents and sister Phyllis in Port Chester, New York, a small town about 35 miles from New York City that bordered Greenwich, Connecticut. Irving owned a milk delivery business in Port Chester.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the age of 13, Jerry spent his summers in Atlanta, Georgia where three of his aunts, his mother’s sisters, lived. He spent summers with his aunts Anne Fields, Florence Rachelson, and Francis Ritchkin. His aunts all worked in the family business, Southern Merchandise.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry enrolled in the University of Georgia and was introduced to his future wife, Lois. Lois was from New York City but had relocated with her family when her father took a job in the jewelry business in Atlanta. When his mom was ill, though, Jerry returned home for one year and attended New York University.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry visited Lois in Atlanta, courted her, and proposed. By 1955, Jerry and Lois were married and living in Atlanta. Not wishing to join his father’s milk delivery business, Jerry launched his own career, in real estate, by purchasing and refurbishing 50 apartment units on Piedmont Road and 14th Street. Jerry’s father helped with financing this first purchase. The couple lived in one of the small efficiency apartments. In 1956 Jerry expanded into construction by building 10 housing units on Greenwood Avenue off North Highland Avenue\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore their son Michael was born, Jerry and Lois moved out of the efficiency into a duplex at Montgomery Ferry Drive and Monroe Drive. Jerry’s businesses, called Tempo and Focus Group, eventually included apartment complexes on Buford Highway in Atlanta, and in Birmingham, Alabama; Charlotte, North Carolina; Greenville, South Carolina; Ocean Springs, Mississippi; Charleston, South Carolina; and Somerville, South Carolina.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry’s success in the apartment industry led him to be one of the founding members of the Apartment Association in Atlanta, and later vice president and president of the National Apartment Association.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Jerry pursued his business interests, his wife Lois was actively involved as a volunteer in the Jewish community. The couple’s philanthropy established the Blonder Family Department for Developmental Disabilities at MJCCA [Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta] and the Blonder Heritage Gallery at the William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerald Blonder passed away on February 15, 2006 at the age of 74.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eJerry discusses growing up in Port Chester, New York. He talks about his parents Irving and Pauline [Janowitz] Blonder and his sister Phyllis. He tells how his father, who emigrated alone from Poland as a 13-year old boy, owned a milk delivery business in Port Chester.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry discusses spending his teenage summers in Atlanta with his maternal aunts Anne Fields, Florence Rachelson, and Francis Ritchkin. Jerry’s memories of his Atlanta summers include swimming and playing with his cousins, trips to movies, and dinners at the Progressive Club. Jerry recalls wanting to move to Atlanta from the time he was 13 years old. Jerry tells how he decided, also at a young age, that he did not wish to be a milkman like his father.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry tells about attending the University of Georgia and moving back to Port Chester for one year when his mother was ill. Jerry tells how he missed his girlfriend Lois in Atlanta and how he returned to Atlanta and proposed to Lois. He recalls moving with his wife Lois to Atlanta in 1955, and purchasing—with financial help from his father—his first apartment property on Piedmont Road and 14th Street.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry discusses becoming a successful realtor by acquiring and constructing apartment complexes on Buford Highway in Atlanta, and in Birmingham, Alabama; Charlotte, North Carolina; Greenville, South Carolina; Ocean Springs, Mississippi; Charleston, South Carolina; and Somerville, South Carolina. Jerry mentions naming his real estate ventures Tempo and Focus Group. Jerry attributes much of his success to the support of his wife Lois.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry describes the segregation that was endemic Atlanta in 1955. He tells about separate drinking fountains and bathrooms for whites and non-whites. He mentions signs on buses that read “coloreds from rear to front, whites from front to rear.” He discusses the integration of his apartment complexes. Jerry says his philosophy about renting to minorities was, “It's not black. It's not white. It's green.” Jerry also describes the changing demographics in Atlanta. He tells how apartment rentals were affected by the increase in the Korean, Vietnamese, Haitian, and Hispanic population.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry says he can recall only one incident of antisemitism during his career. He tells how he was promised power, yet he saw Georgia Power trucks pass by his location without stopping. He says an employee named Dusty Rhodes told him, “Listen Jew boy, we gotta get there when we get there.” Jerry said he called an acquaintance, Joe Bower—the head of Georgia Power—and the trucks were there in 20 minutes.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry tells about his leadership in the apartment industry and rising to be president of the National Apartment Association. He explains his emphasis on building and managing his business while his wife Lois excelled as a volunteer in the Jewish community. As a result, he says he was able to establish the Blonder Family Department for Developmental Disabilities at MJCCA [Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta] and the Blonder Heritage Gallery at the William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/27955"]}},{"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":["Ahavath Achim (corporate name)","Americans with Disability Act (topical term)","Blonder Family Department for Developmental Disabilities (corporate name)","Blonder Heritage Gallery (corporate name)","Blonder, Gerald A. (Jerry) (personal name)","Camp Barney Medintz (corporate name)","Racial Discrimintation (topical term)","MJCCA (corporate name)","Segregation (topical term)","The Temple Bombing (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eGerald A. \"Jerry\" Blonder was interviewed by Sandra Berman on September 28, 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGerald Alvin (Jerry) Blonder was the son of Irving and Pauline [Janowitz] Blonder. Irving emigrated from Poland when he was 13 years old and Pauline was a native New Yorker who grew up on the Lower East Side of New York City. Jerry was born on July 10, 1931.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry and his family lived with his parents and sister Phyllis in Port Chester, New York, a small town about 35 miles from New York City that bordered Greenwich, Connecticut. Irving owned a milk delivery business in Port Chester.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the age of 13, Jerry spent his summers in Atlanta, Georgia where three of his aunts, his mother’s sisters, lived. He spent summers with his aunts Anne Fields, Florence Rachelson, and Francis Ritchkin. His aunts all worked in the family business, Southern Merchandise.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry enrolled in the University of Georgia and was introduced to his future wife, Lois. Lois was from New York City but had relocated with her family when her father took a job in the jewelry business in Atlanta. When his mom was ill, though, Jerry returned home for one year and attended New York University.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry visited Lois in Atlanta, courted her, and proposed. By 1955, Jerry and Lois were married and living in Atlanta. Not wishing to join his father’s milk delivery business, Jerry launched his own career, in real estate, by purchasing and refurbishing 50 apartment units on Piedmont Road and 14th Street. Jerry’s father helped with financing this first purchase. The couple lived in one of the small efficiency apartments. In 1956 Jerry expanded into construction by building 10 housing units on Greenwood Avenue off North Highland Avenue\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore their son Michael was born, Jerry and Lois moved out of the efficiency into a duplex at Montgomery Ferry Drive and Monroe Drive. Jerry’s businesses, called Tempo and Focus Group, eventually included apartment complexes on Buford Highway in Atlanta, and in Birmingham, Alabama; Charlotte, North Carolina; Greenville, South Carolina; Ocean Springs, Mississippi; Charleston, South Carolina; and Somerville, South Carolina.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry’s success in the apartment industry led him to be one of the founding members of the Apartment Association in Atlanta, and later vice president and president of the National Apartment Association.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Jerry pursued his business interests, his wife Lois was actively involved as a volunteer in the Jewish community. The couple’s philanthropy established the Blonder Family Department for Developmental Disabilities at MJCCA [Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta] and the Blonder Heritage Gallery at the William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerald Blonder passed away on February 15, 2006 at the age of 74.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJerry discusses growing up in Port Chester, New York. He talks about his parents Irving and Pauline [Janowitz] Blonder and his sister Phyllis. He tells how his father, who emigrated alone from Poland as a 13-year old boy, owned a milk delivery business in Port Chester.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry discusses spending his teenage summers in Atlanta with his maternal aunts Anne Fields, Florence Rachelson, and Francis Ritchkin. Jerry’s memories of his Atlanta summers include swimming and playing with his cousins, trips to movies, and dinners at the Progressive Club. Jerry recalls wanting to move to Atlanta from the time he was 13 years old. Jerry tells how he decided, also at a young age, that he did not wish to be a milkman like his father.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry tells about attending the University of Georgia and moving back to Port Chester for one year when his mother was ill. Jerry tells how he missed his girlfriend Lois in Atlanta and how he returned to Atlanta and proposed to Lois. He recalls moving with his wife Lois to Atlanta in 1955, and purchasing—with financial help from his father—his first apartment property on Piedmont Road and 14th Street.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry discusses becoming a successful realtor by acquiring and constructing apartment complexes on Buford Highway in Atlanta, and in Birmingham, Alabama; Charlotte, North Carolina; Greenville, South Carolina; Ocean Springs, Mississippi; Charleston, South Carolina; and Somerville, South Carolina. Jerry mentions naming his real estate ventures Tempo and Focus Group. Jerry attributes much of his success to the support of his wife Lois.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry describes the segregation that was endemic Atlanta in 1955. He tells about separate drinking fountains and bathrooms for whites and non-whites. He mentions signs on buses that read “coloreds from rear to front, whites from front to rear.” He discusses the integration of his apartment complexes. Jerry says his philosophy about renting to minorities was, “It's not black. It's not white. It's green.” Jerry also describes the changing demographics in Atlanta. He tells how apartment rentals were affected by the increase in the Korean, Vietnamese, Haitian, and Hispanic population.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry says he can recall only one incident of antisemitism during his career. He tells how he was promised power, yet he saw Georgia Power trucks pass by his location without stopping. He says an employee named Dusty Rhodes told him, “Listen Jew boy, we gotta get there when we get there.” Jerry said he called an acquaintance, Joe Bower—the head of Georgia Power—and the trucks were there in 20 minutes.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry tells about his leadership in the apartment industry and rising to be president of the National Apartment Association. He explains his emphasis on building and managing his business while his wife Lois excelled as a volunteer in the Jewish community. As a result, he says he was able to establish the Blonder Family Department for Developmental Disabilities at MJCCA [Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta] and the Blonder Heritage Gallery at the William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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Blonder, \"Jerry\" interview for the Jewish Oral\nHistory Project of Atlanta, co-sponsored by the William Breman Jewish Heritage\nMuseum, the American Jewish Committee and the National Council of Jewish Women.\n\nBLONDER: I really lived a charmed life. I grew up in a small town . . . Port\nChester, New York, which is about 35 miles from New York City on the borderline\nwith Greenwich, Connecticut. My dad was in the milk business. He was a milkman.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I used to hear stories about my mom and dad that gave credibility to hopes of\nbeing a really good person. People would tell me how my mother would work on the\ntruck with my dad when she was pregnant with my sister. Being in the milk\nbusiness in Port Chester, we were quite a well-known family. We did have a lot\nof customers. I loved growing up in Port Chester. It ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was my town. My sister and\nI were part of the community. So were my parents. I never thought when I was\nreally young that I would leave Port Chester. The more I realized as I got\nolder, I didn't want to be a milkman. I didn't want to be in the milk business.\nI didn't know what I wanted to do. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My mom was one of four sisters. She grew up\nin New York City. Dad died when he was 40 . . . lived a very tough life on the\nEast Side. My father ran away from Poland when he was 13. We learned early\non-- Phyllis and I-- that things weren't always easy. We were able to\nadjust because my parents ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"doted on us. I think that there was nothing we could\ndo wrong. I will say to Phyllis, particularly, \"There's nothing that you can do\nwrong If there's anything that anybody has done wrong it's my [fault].\" Anyway,\nit was wonderful. My mother's three sisters migrated to Atlanta.\n\nBERMAN: What was your mother's name?\n\nBLONDER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pauline. Her maiden name was Pauline Janowitz. My dad was Irving. They\ndidn't marry real young, but they weren't quite that old. My mom lived to be 97.\nIt was good stock along the way. The genes were good. We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did learn some things,\na lot of things. With the aunts moving and their families being here in Atlanta,\nI used to visit during the summers when I was a teenager. I had a love affair\nwith Atlanta from the time I was 13. I said, \"Someday I'm going to move to Atlanta.\"\n\nBERMAN: Where did they live?\n\nBLONDER: At one point on Noble Drive . . . part of the family. Another time on\nBriarcliff Place, off of North ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Highland Avenue . . . then on Wildwood Road. It\nwas primarily in northeast [Atlanta]. I think they actually started in an\napartment--old apartments on 10th Street at Grady High School. That was when I\nwas really young.\n\nBERMAN: What did you do here in the summers?\n\nBLONDER: It was wonderful. I swam. We really had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nothing on our minds, except to\nplay. My cousins were great playmates. My family would take us to the movies. At\nthat time there were basically three clubs in Atlanta: the old Standard Club,\nthe Mayfair Club, and the Progressive Club. My family belonged to the\nProgressive Club. 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We just had a\nfree-spirit type of life.\n\nBERMAN: What were their names, the aunts that moved here?\n\nBLONDER: My aunt, Ann Fields, was originally ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fustfields. Jerry Fields and Ilene\nSilverman are her children. My aunt, Florence Rachelson . . . Phyllis Joffre is\nher daughter. One aunt, Francis Richkin, had no children. They all worked\ntogether. They owned a company--my Aunt Florence did--called Southern\nMerchandise. Southern Merchandise was a wonderful company in those days.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Unfortunately, we really did have a tragedy in our lives. My uncle--who was\nFlorence Rachelson's husband--died when he was 40. Just out of the clear blue.\nHe had pneumonia. He had built a wonderful business. Subsequently, the business\nwas sold to Sol Singer. That's where Sol came in--from Columbus--with Southern\nMerchandise. 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I couldn't\nimagine what I could do, but I really wanted to try.\n\nBERMAN: When did you come down here?\n\nBLONDER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Before I came down here I met . . . I was introduced, by a girl that I\ngrew up with, to another female by the name of Lois Semel. Lois Semel was from\nNew York City. She was quite attractive at that time. We liked each other, but\nsomehow or another we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just didn't make it in the beginning. Then I had stayed\nhome. I was going to the University of Georgia, to make a long story short. My\nmom was not doing well physically. I stayed home to go to New York University\nfor one year. I missed Lois a lot, so I went to Atlanta to see her. Believe it\nor not, we still talk about it. 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I didn't really know that I struck it rich at that time, but I did.\n\nBERMAN: Lois is originally from New York also?\n\nBLONDER: Right.\n\nBERMAN: How did she end up . . . ?\n\nBLONDER: Her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family moved to Atlanta. Her dad was in the jewelry business. He\nworked with a wholesale company called Cohen \u0026 Sons. Their Atlanta branch was in\ntrouble. They offered the position of management to Lois's dad. He accepted\nbecause he wanted to get out of New York City. Lois was very close to her mom\nand dad, very close. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There was no doubt in her mind that she would go to the\nUniversity of Georgia, because she wanted to be with her folks. She had started\ncollege originally at Champlain College at 16. So she had a few years to play\nwith. Paul and Mildred moved to Atlanta. That's why they came here. They made a\nlot of nice friends. They were lovely people. The funny ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thing that I constantly\ntell Mom . . . you can print this or not . . . is that I tell Lois . . . is that\nI know your mother always said, \"He's not going to amount to anything.\" I just\nwish she was here today to know what our marriage has been and what we've done.\nI just wish that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she could be here.\n\nBERMAN: What a wonderful story. Was this culture shock for the two . . .? You\ncame down here in the summers. But for a New York family to move down here in\nthe 1950's . . . what did you think when you first got down here?\n\nBLONDER: I was more used to it. When I used to ride the bus to go to the old\nProgressive Club on 10th Street from Northeast Atlanta, the signs used to read:\n\"Coloreds from rear ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to front. Whites from front to rear.\" It was really a\nculture shock for Lois: separate drinking fountains, separate bathrooms, and no\nintegrated facilities. Lois decided that she would finish college. She went to\nOglethorpe when we were married already. We were living in the first real estate\ninvestment I had that my dad help me buy. She would walk from Piedmont Road and\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"14th Street to West Peachtree Street and 14th Street, and she would get on the\nbus. One day she got on the bus and sat down next to a black person. The bus\ndriver stopped the bus and said, \"Lady, we don't do that down here.\" [He] made\nher get up. This was the domestic bus that used to go out to Oglethorpe, in that\narea. [He] made her get up. Until that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"person moved, she had to stand up with\nher books. I would say this was a real culture shock for Lois, in particular.\n\nBERMAN: Just the fact that you've recounted this story, it must have made a big\nimpression on her that day?\n\nBLONDER: It did, it did. It was very difficult for the both of us . . . in the\nensuing years. Not to jump around . . . but in business relationships . . . some\nof my closest and dearest ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friends were black. In those days, they didn't talk\nabout 'joint venture.' You just didn't do things like that. It was a big culture\nshock for Lois and me. We didn't like it. Separate entrances at movie theaters.\nYou name it, it was separate.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So we were getting to how you got started. You first came down here in\n1954, I think you said?\n\nBLONDER: 1955.\n\nBERMAN: In 1955. What made you get involved in the real estate business, the\napartments business?\n\nBLONDER: The first investment that my dad helped me with was 50 furnished units\non Piedmont Road and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"14th Street. The profiles on the apartments were that in 50\nunits, there were about 15 vacancies, 15 prostitutes, 10 alcoholics, and 1 bank\nrobber. Lois and I thought it was a very illustrious career. I don't know why we\ncontinued it, actually. We must have had some determination to do it. 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I seem to have an aptitude for going in\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there and refurbishing these apartments. I knew it couldn't be a full-time\nsituation, but I like real estate . . . real estate was exciting. What I heard\nabout real estate, what I read about real estate, was that the profitability\ncould be very exciting. Sometimes you believe what you read. I just found that\nthat's something that we ought to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do, particularly what motivated my venture\ninto construction. I'll tell you how I got started. I really knew nothing. I\nknew absolutely nothing. That made it easy for me to go into that business. If\nyou don't know anything, you can set the world on fire. Nobody is going to know\nabout it. I needed a job and through the Ben Rice was in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"insurance industry.\nMarvin and Irving Goldstein, brother-in-law . . . he got me together with a\nfellow who was in the furniture business, a Robert T. Brock. Brock was quite a\ncharacter. He was going to build ten units on Greenwood Avenue off North\nHighland Avenue. I only needed about $10,000 to go [in] to this investment. I\ndon't mean to be jumping around. I hope I'm ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not. I told Brock, \"I really would\nbe interested in going into this with you.\" The problem was I found out that I\nknew twice as much as Robert. Two times zero is still mathematically zero.\nAnyway, I didn't know things like you go for a construction loan before you get\na permanent loan. We went to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bank, Robert Brock and Jerry Blonder. \"We want\na loan. Give us the money.\" We had a wonderful meeting with this fellow. At the\nend of the meeting, he said, \"You're going to absolutely have to have a bond for\nthis construction to build this upon.\" I said two things about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that: \"I don't\nknow what that is, and I know I can't get it. So that's going to be a problem.\"\nWe went on to . . . we heard about this law firm that controlled four banks in\nAtlanta. One was an old bachelor Roy Grinning. He was an old bachelor, a tough\nguy. We went in to see him. We were talking about doing these 10 units. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He\nlooked at me and he said, \"You don't know what the hell you're doing, do you? I\nsaid, \"You're right, Mr. Grinning, I don't. But I promise to repay the money.\"\nHe said, \"I'll call you tomorrow.\" I knew we weren't going to get the money. He\ncalled me the next day and said, \"You got the loan.\"\n\nBERMAN: Amazing.\n\nBLONDER: He believed in me and he started my career. He started my career.\n\nBERMAN: What year was that?\n\nBLONDER: That was 1956.\n\nBERMAN: Did you do odd ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"jobs just to try to make ends meet while you were getting\nall of this together?\n\nBLONDER: I was struggling with refurbishing the apartments at 1178 Piedmont. We\nhad a pretty tough time. After a year of living there, Lois was expecting our\nfirst child. We moved into a duplex at Montgomery Ferry Drive and Monroe Drive.\nWe lived ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there two months. I said, \"Lois, I don't have enough money to pay the\nrent.\" The rent was $125 a month. \"I'm going to have to call the landlord. I'm\ngoing to have to call the owner\" . . . they lived in Albany, Georgia . . . \"and\ntell them. I don't want to call my folks. I promise to pay the rent in the next\ntwo weeks.\" After that, I was okay. Somehow or another I was able to make it. It\nwas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"never easy though.\n\nBERMAN: Did Lois and you enter into this venture as a team?\n\nBLONDER: No. The reason for that--not that I didn't want to use Lois's\ntalent--because I always knew she was talented. There was no doubt about it.\nAnybody that knows Lois would know that she's talented, whether it will be in\nmarketing or whatever. In growing up, my mom and dad used to have a really ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rough\ntime because my mom interfered constantly with my dad. There was never a dinner\nthat I could remember where there wasn't a battle about this customer or that\ncustomer, or why did this happen, or why did that happen. I thought to\nmyself--really not to be corny--I really want to be a great husband, a great\nparent. I don't want to do that. I don't want to include Lois. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She has her own\nthing. Let her do her own thing. I could tell you one story about Lois. It's\nimportant to know what her character is. This is not jumping around. This is\nsignificant. In 1969 we had a very difficult year. We built almost 1,000\napartment units and the economy soured. We were struggling. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There was talk about\nbeing put in bankruptcy. I said, \"We're not going to go bankrupt. My God, we're\ntoo young for anything like that.\" I told Lois, \"There are two contractors . . .\nour electrical contractor and mechanical contractor . . . they're in danger of\ngoing bankrupt because we can't pay our bills.\" Lois said, \"We'll sell our house.\"\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's character.\n\nBLONDER: That's character.\n\nBERMAN: Were there other Jewish individuals in this business in those years or\nwere you . . .?\n\nBLONDER: There were a few. It was Melvin Warshaw get a little bit. I don't think\nhe did too much. In the beginning years there were certainly less ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"than in later\nyears. There are more now than there were in the beginning.\n\nBERMAN: What were the attitudes towards you by the non-Jewish community in this industry?\n\nBLONDER: It is very positive. You hear a lot of things from your subcontractors.\nThey would think that when they say, \"We're going to Jew him down,\" that it\nwasn't an insult. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They didn't understand that. \"You know you're not like the\nrest of the Jews.\" The only incident that I ever had was with Georgia Power.\nSince then I've had a great relationship with them. We were promised electricity\non a given day. I see the trucks roll by, but they don't stop in my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community.\nI'll never forget the guy's name . . . Dusty Rhodes. I called Dusty and I said,\n\"Dusty, these guys went by and they didn't stop. You told me that they are going\nto be here.\" He said, \"Listen Jew boy, we gotta get there when we get there.\" I\nthought to myself, \"You gotta get here sooner than you think.\" We had been on a\ntrip in those days. Westinghouse and GE used to sponsor all of these ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"trips to\nEurope. We had been on a trip with Joe Browder, who headed up Georgia Power at\nthe time. He told me to call him if I ever needed anything. I never thought I\nwould call him. I called him. I said, \"I hate doing this. I've got to tell you\nthis guy said what he did, and I resent the hell out of it.\" He said, \"I don't\nblame you.\" He said if the trucks aren't there in 20 minutes, call me back. The\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"trucks were there in 20 minutes. This guy came out--this Dusty Rhodes-- to\napologize. I told him to get the hell off my property. I have to tell you, in\nalmost 50 years--it is 50 years--I never had another incident. You hear chatter\n. . . maybe things are being said, but I've never heard anything like that.\n\nBERMAN: Where were most of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your apartment complexes located? All around?\n\nBLONDER: All around. Basically other states and cities, like in Birmingham,\nAlabama . . . some of this we've sold subsequently. Charlotte, North Carolina;\nGreenville South Carolina . . . we're presently in and not happy to be there,\nbut we're there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ocean Springs, Mississippi. We are in Charleston. We are in\nSummerville, South Carolina. We've always been a low- key company. We haven't\nadvertised a lot what we do and where we are. We've been all over the metro area.\n\nBERMAN: Just for the purpose of the taping, could you just say the name of the company?\n\nBLONDER: It's been two companies. It's been Tempo and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Focus Group. Those are the\ntwo companies that we've utilized. The name Tempo came from, I think, Michael\nour oldest, when we were looking to name the company. This is when we finally\ncame up with the name we used, and to use different names. He said, \"Tempo of\nthe times.\" That made a lot of sense. We still own a lot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tempo.\n\nBERMAN: During the 1950's and 60's when there was a lot of civil rights\nlegislation going on, and fair housing and unfair housing practices, did you\nhave to deal with much of that?\n\nBLONDER: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: Can you talk a little bit about those times?\n\nBLONDER: It was very difficult. First of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all, I had a personal feeling about it.\nSecondly, I have a selfish economical feeling about it. In the beginning of\nthose days, I can remember going into one of our communities. I won't mention\nwhich one it was. I walked into our office. I knocked on the door. The door was\nopen. The resident manager was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hiding because there was a black couple that had\nknocked on the door. There's nothing worse than having litigation, and there's\nnothing worse than not renting to people. I've always had the philosophy, \"It's\nnot black. It's not white. It's green.\" That's what pigmentation is all about\nwhen it comes to renting ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"apartments. There were contemporaries that we knew in\nthe industry that [were] doing all the wrong things, absolutely doing the wrong\nthings. Not that we weren't sued a couple of times, but it got to be where there\nwas a lot of blackmail that was going on too. That occurred, in my estimation,\nbecause a lot of people were doing the wrong thing.\n\nBERMAN: Like ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what?\n\nBLONDER: Refusing to rent to blacks . . . refusing to rent to minorities. I\nthink that they caused themselves a lot of problems. I can tell you that . . .\nhaving a partner in many ventures that was black . . . he had a difficult time\nbecause we always wanted to do the right ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thing . . . What integrated housing in\nAtlanta was not legislation. It wasn't the lawmakers. It was MARTA. MARTA\nintegrated housing. They used to bus in to our ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"areas. Now they bus out. That's\nwhy there were a lot of people that were really opposed to MARTA, a lot of\npeople in the real estate industry.\n\nBERMAN: Could it have ruined the rental of an apartment building? In those\nyears--especially when it was so intense--if some white renters found out that\nyou were renting to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"blacks, was there a lot of white flight?\n\nBLONDER: There were some. That was the 'white thinking.' There's no doubt about\nit. That was the 'white thinking' that the place will empty out. I can remember\non Buford Highway the first black couple that moved in. We thought, \"Ooh, get\nready because you're going to have a lot of apartments that are available.\" We\nprobably had three complaints, and no move ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"outs.\n\nBERMAN: What year was that?\n\nBLONDER: I would say maybe 1960. One of the most memorable things that Lois and\nI share together about the civil rights is our friend Herman was supposedly\ninadvertently asked into the Chamber of Commerce.\n\nBERMAN: Herman?\n\nBLONDER: Russell . . . being black . . . there were no black members in the\nChamber of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Commerce in Atlanta. They had a big spread in The New York Times.\n\nBERMAN: What year was this?\n\nBLONDER: Early 1960's. Ernest Vandiver was governor. I don't remember what year\nit was. Herman called me. He said, \"I have six tickets for the event. I want you\nand Lois to come with me.\" I said to Lois, \"We are going to be the only white\npeople with this crowd. I want you to understand that.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When we walked in . . .\n[we] walked into six blacks. That was pretty incredible. The next day Herman\ncalled me. He said that he was upset because we turned out to be the hero, not\nhim. I've been very involved with the black community, particularly through my\nfriend Herman . . . my associate ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Herman. We believe in fairness. I think that\nAtlanta has absolutely come a long way. We were in the 'Dark Ages.' You have to\nunderstand that. We were absolutely in the 'Dark Ages,' when people couldn't sit\nat the luncheon counters next to you.\n\nBERMAN: If you remember some of those major events in Atlanta's civil ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rights\nstruggle with the . . . ?\n\nBLONDER: . . . bombing of the Temple.\n\nBERMAN: If you can talk about some of those, these things it would be great.\n\nBLONDER: I can't say I was there experiencing it. But I certainly heard about it\n\nBERMAN: How did it affect you . . . the Temple bombing or the picketing outside\nof Leb's Restaurant . . . all that?\n\nBLONDER: I remember being called for jury duty. The day I was called for jury\nduty was the day that this George Bright, who was accused of the bombing, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was in\ncourt. When I saw this monster I couldn't believe it. Standing next to him. What\nare people all about? It just blew me away. I have always found difficulty in\nnot liking somebody because of one's religion or color. I grew up in a town that\nwas 90 percent ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Italian-Catholic. There was never a moment in my life, in my Port\nChester life, that I ever heard anything derogatory. Nothing. I'm hopeful now\nthat's where Atlanta is, that we're doing much better. I do try to discuss with\nHerman Russell the fact ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that more so, the amongst the blacks seems to be more\nantisemitic than your blue collar. He just doesn't like to go there. He'll\ndiscuss anything else with me, but he won't discuss that with me. Why? I can't\ntell you. We got into a conversation one night at his lake home, with Otelia. I\nknow this is not about Herman. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This is about civil rights . . . to give you an\nidea. He's very comfortable with white people. She's not so comfortable. She's a\nlovely woman. She's a dear friend. She was telling us that she grew up in\nMuskogee County which . . . I don't know . . . I think Columbus, that's near\nthere . . . a very poor county. She was going to be a schoolteacher. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She wanted\nthat. That was her aspiration, to be a school teacher. They had a second-rate\neducation. She and her brother had to walk to school. They were stoned by kids\non the school bus. She hasn't gotten over it, because the discussion started\nabout Farrakhan, and what her feeling was. I think even in the old time, for\nblacks . . . though they feel Atlanta's came a long way . . . there are still\nsome difficult ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"feelings.\n\nBERMAN: Do you think there was a . . . to blacks between whites and Jewish, or\ndo you think it is just synonymous.\n\nBLONDER: I think that a certain segment of our Jewish population was the same as\nthe non-Jewish population. I really do. I think your old time southerner . . . I\nthink there were some feelings like ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that.\n\nBERMAN: Getting back to your own business. You started with one small apartment\nbuilding and went into construction, and it kept growing. What do you attribute\nyour success to?\n\nBLONDER: I think humility is a good characteristic to have. I had humility, and\nI have it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"today. Number one, would be good luck. If you don't have good luck, no\nmatter how smart you are you're not going to be successful. Number two, I would\nthink that the recognition of knowing that in building an organization, the\ngreatest asset that you have is human ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"resources. No one was more important to me\nthan any employee in our company. Whether he was digging a ditch or whether he\nor she was sitting behind a desk. In fact, I'm probably the first one--I'm proud\nof it--that maximized employment of women. I thought that was a great idea. I\nthink women do a better job--with due ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"respect to the men-- then men do. They're\ntenacious and loyal. Anyway, I think in building an organization that would be\nthe next thing in line. I have employees that have been with me for more than 40 years.\n\nBERMAN: That's a wonderful legacy to you.\n\nBLONDER: You know I feel it is. I feel it is for them too because I couldn't do\nit if they didn't do ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it. I would say--and I don't know if we're there yet\nSandy--that the great thing in my life . . . one of the great things . . . the\ngreatest thing that I have is my family. That's the greatest thing I have.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Secondly, our Jewish community, is second to none. They've come out for my\nfamily and me in every way. Thirdly, the relationships that I have with my\ncompetitors . . . those that are in the industry whether it's Post Properties or\nLane. I can go on and name every one of them. I got to do more than most ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people.\nI was one of the four or five founding fathers of the Apartment Association. We\nstarted with 19,000 units and today we're 350,000 units. I was president twice.\nI went on to be vice-president and then president of the National Apartment\nAssociation with thousands of members. I really get to do so many things. One of\nthe big things that I've had in my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"favor, I had fun doing it.\n\nBERMAN: I can see that you love what you do.\n\nBLONDER: Yes, I really did the right thing in turning our business over to Michael.\n\nBERMAN: That was my next question.\n\nBLONDER: Turning the business over to Michael is very difficult because when a\nfather starts a business . . . that's even more difficult than just inheriting a\nbusiness and then turning it over. It was the right time. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"believed strongly in\ngoing out as a champion not a chump. I didn't want to do the things that I used\nto do anymore. I was just too involved, too hands-on. The business truthfully,\nwas getting more and more stressful. I found the more I knew, the worse things\nwere getting.\n\nBERMAN: Why was that?\n\nBLONDER: Just from the standpoint of the economy, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"requirements by\ngovernment, and the codes. Just different things that were permeating throughout\nthe building industry. I mean that in a very loose sense. It was more and more\ndifficult because building is difficult. It was his turn and his time because he\nhas been with me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"since he went to the University of Georgia.\n\nBERMAN: Was that always your goal and his? Did he always want to come into the business?\n\nBLONDER: We never talked about it. Isn't that amazing? Now that you ask that\nquestion, Sandy, we never talked about it. I think that you're not supposed to\nassume anything but I think it could have been an assumption. You never assume,\nbut I think it was an assumption.\n\nBERMAN: Did you ever worry about it?\n\nBLONDER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No.\n\nBERMAN: Because of your relationship with your father?\n\nBLONDER: No.\n\nBERMAN: Not wanting to go into business with him?\n\nBLONDER: I truthfully never thought about it. I knew that I was different than\nmy dad. When Michael used to work with us summers and holidays and times like\nthat, we had an understanding. When you saw me on the job, you can say hello,\nwave, and work and keep on going. Most people didn't know that that was my son.\nHe dug ditches and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he was on all the heavy equipment. He did the dirtiest type\nof work possible, and he did it well.\n\nBERMAN: Did the girls ever want to go into the business?\n\nBLONDER: Leslie always thought that she should be president of the company . . .\nwhich is no surprise to anybody that knows Leslie. She's a great gal. Michael\nsaid she's very conservative and she probably ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is. But she felt she should be president.\n\nBERMAN: That's great.\n\nBLONDER: She used to spit out of the Lois's mouth and that makes her pretty special.\n\nBERMAN: You were talking about how business got difficult over the years. Was it\ndifficult with some of these new codes and with legislation? Like fair housing .\n. . not fair housing, but handicapped? All the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"restrictions in all the ways that\nyou had to start building to be politically correct for all these different\ngroups . . . ADA?\n\nBLONDER: That's right ADA, it is difficult. Anything that's happened new starts\nin California. But it comes to Atlanta, eventually. 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And I remember being called by the AJC ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I made a flippant\nremark. I was asked, \"Isn't it true the reason you have adult communities is\nit's more economical to operate it than with a family?\" I said absolutely,\nbecause you got to pick up more ice cream sticks. And you know, of course, the\nrest of the story. That's what got into the newspaper. 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Less support from the city of Atlanta, you know,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but they listened to us. And we try to be reasonable. I think we are so good\nthat in 1975, when we started our organization, we wrote the first law for\neviction and that sort of thing. I think there's been one minor change since\n1975. So we've tried to be fair. 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We were mom and pops for a long time, you know.\nResident manager would have an office in her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"apartment. And she'd be at the\nswimming pool, if you needed her. We've come a long way. And we have some great\npeople in the industry, right here in Atlanta.\n\nBERMAN: Do you miss the mom and pop days?\n\nBLONDER: Sometimes, yes. Sometimes it was a lot of fun. Because when I started I\nused to, I still do, pick up the cigarette butts. But I used to rent the\napartments, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"collect the rent. Do all that good stuff. It was fun. I love people.\nI think that being in a people's business is very exciting because you have to\nbe dynamic. Every day is different. You never know what you're going to wake up to.\n\nBERMAN: Do you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"think that's what you attribute some of your success to, to just\nthe love of the adventure of it all? The newness that every day was something different?\n\nBLONDER: Definitely, and the love of people absolutely. I just I love people. I\nremember walking in one night to a function. I don't mean to sound egotistical\nbut we used to have a lot of young kids, when they came out of the University of\nFlorida, Alabama, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Georgia, moving in on Buford Highway. This is years ago.\nWe would have a clubhouse and we would have parties and dances, and they would\nall come to them. I remember walking into a function at the Standard Club. I\nheard this applause break out, and I looked around. They were all my residents.\nThat was pretty good.\n\nBERMAN: That's wonderful.\n\nBLONDER: Yeah, that was pretty good.\n\nBERMAN: Do you still own those apartments on Buford ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Highway?\n\nBLONDER: I own a lot of them.\n\nBERMAN: Now, that must be a big change for you to see the demographics of that?\n\nBLONDER: Only about a thousand percent. Pretty amazing\n\nBERMAN: The whole city, it must be amazing. And that's one of my questions.\n\nBLONDER: Well.\n\nBERMAN: How you've seen the city change in oh, 50 years that you've been in this\nbusiness. What do you like about it and what don't you like about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it?\n\nBLONDER: The most dramatic part of change is the increase of the Hispanic\npopulation. This is really dramatic. They started out really kind of like in a\nghetto. Now they are really all over the city. It's made a difference. I think\nthat's the biggest part of the change. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"don't like, I just don't like, the way\nthe infrastructure in the city is going. I think it should be better. We're a\nbetter city than what they're pretending to be about. Talking today and just\ndriving around. When you recognize or realize the amount of new construction\nthat's happening in Atlanta, its mind blowing. When you see two new high rises\non the corner of Peachtree and Piedmont ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and the amount of condos. There are\nalmost 6,000 condos being built in midtown. The city of Atlanta's pigmentation\nis changing now. When you look at Atlantic Station and see what's happened, and\nyou're going to see the next location of an Atlantic Station is going to be the\nLindbergh- Piedmont area. My friend George Lane is going to redevelop that whole\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"area. And then Norrow is doing Lindbergh Plaza. And then the third redevelopment\nwill be with the high rises that they're talking about at the park, with the\nmass transit. It really makes sense because you can't drive around the city\nanymore. You know, you just can't have cars and cars and cars. I think that\nwe're . . . I really do think we are paying ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"too much in the way of taxes and\ngetting too little services in the city. I think Cobb County has probably done\nbetter than any area in Atlanta. This Sam Olens, who's from Miami Beach, has\ndone a fabulous job. There's no other Sam Olens in any of these other counties.\nWe need more young talented people ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that are in politics. We're not getting them.\nWhy should people go into politics, if they're honest and decent? They're not\ngoing to want to steal money. They're not going to want to do the wrong things.\nAtlanta is probably about a 4.5- million metropolitan, which is pretty amazing,\nvery amazing. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I can only go back and think of when we owned the Paces in\nBuckhead. The rents are about $2,000-2,500 a month. When I built the second\ncommunity after Greenwood Avenue, I went to Briarcliff Road. I met a fellow by\nthe name of Buddy Aldridge. His dad was the head of the Fulton County Commission\nfor 25 years. He asked me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what I'm building. I said I'm building these\ntwo-bedrooms, and I'm going to rent them for about $125 a month. He said don't\ndo that. He said you're going to go broke. You can't rent a two-bedroom in\nAtlanta for more than $87.50. I thought to myself now he's telling me this. I\nhad that wonderful idea of putting carpeting in. I had pink and copper, tan and\naquamarine, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all colors for appliances. I mean, it was terrific and it was successful.\n\nBERMAN: That's great.\n\nBLONDER: You look at things now; you look at the rents now. Buford Highway, at\none time when we had all our kids moving in, a two-bedroom was like $122.50 a\nmonth. Now they're paying $600 and $700. I meant to tell you this. This is\nprobably the main reason that I got started in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"building. We built these 10 units\nand it was amazing. Somebody came along, about eight months after we finished.\nWe built them for . . . I think it was . . . $50,000. The land cost $10,000, so\nit was $60,000. This guy offered us $75,000. I said to my partner Brock, \"This\nis a wonderful business. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We've got to continue.\" That gave me the impetus to continue.\n\nBERMAN: It seems like you're encouraging young people to get involved with the\nbusiness because you set up a foundation?\n\n BLONDER:Yes.\n\nBERMAN: Could you tell us a little bit about that?\n\nBLONDER: I didn't set up a foundation. What I did was, as ex-presidents of the Apartment\n\nAssociation we meet twice a year. We eat too much, drink too much, and smoke too\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"much. Sometimes we get these crazy ideas. I'd said that I thought to myself,\n\"What a big mouth.\" But I thought to myself, \"We are the best kept secret as an\nindustry.\" Nobody knows what we are out there. We don't get people, unless we\nsteal people from one another, or accidentally come across somebody. I want to\nissue a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"challenge to everybody around the table. I will issue a challenge grant\nof $250,000. We want people to know that we offer an industry, that we are an\nindustry, and that we offer education. We had no idea that it would take off the\nway it did. We knew that it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"needed, though we all agreed to that. Anyway to\nmake a long story short, we've been a huge success. We raised that money in no\ntime. Now we're probably at almost $3 million.\n\nBERMAN: And this is at the University of Georgia?\n\nBLONDER: Now this year we started at Georgia Tech. The classes are so\nsuccessful. We have a young lady who is the prime ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"motivator in this. She is\ndynamic, the kids love her, and that's what makes it so good.\n\nBERMAN: Is there a specific degree? What are the classes?\n\nBLONDER: There will be eventually. It's just starting. They're starting with\nvarious courses but they're working on developing a degree in this at the\nUniversity of Georgia, not at Tech. At Tech we're finding out that we're getting\nseniors and postgraduates, or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"graduate students.\n\nBERMAN: What would the degree be?\n\nBLONDER: I think it's called something like Consumer Economics. The reason why\nTech did it, was the gentleman that we've worked with there, said, \"Look, our\nguys and gals know about designing buildings, engineering buildings, and\nbuilding buildings, but they don't know anything about running ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"buildings. You've\ngot the formula. You've got the knowledge. You've got the talent.\" It's really\nworking out extremely well. Our fellows in the industry are just standing up and\nputting forth the money that we need to do this.\n\nBERMAN: Changing demographics and some of these lower class people just starting\nout and some immigrants moving in. You must ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have at least . . . I think you\nmight have that increased problem with evictions. That must be difficult. Is\nthat the case or not?\n\nBLONDER: Yes, it's definitely the case. It's in different ways. We'll start with\ngetting evictions served, which is very difficult particularly in Fulton County.\nThey don't like to serve evictions. 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It's very difficult,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because there are a tremendous number of warrants. There's a tremendous amount\nof bad checks. Bad checks can be felonies. A lot of people don't like to\nprosecute a felony on a bad check, but it's a real problem. Collections are very\ndifficult. The worse the economy gets, the worse the collections are. 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We were probably 200 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"short.\nThey don't mind sleeping . . . I'm not being demeaning, but they'll sleep on floors.\n\nBERMAN: Are just specific immigrant groups going to different . . .? Where are\nthe Asians settling? Where are the Hispanics settling?\n\nBLONDER: Some of the immigrants are settling in ghettos like on Buford Highway.\nYou certainly have the Vietnamese. You have a number of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Koreans. You have\nHispanics. I think in other areas they're pretty well disbursed. I don't think\nthere's any heavy concentration. Maybe on the south side you may have some more\nHaitians than in other areas.\n\nBERMAN: On the other end, employment and with unions, have you had . . . is\nthere a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"union in this industry?\n\nBLONDER: No.\n\nBERMAN: Have you had any kind of labor issues that . . .?\n\nBLONDER: No.\n\nBERMAN: That's good.\n\nBLONDER: The only labor issues you may have is if the market is so strong and so\nmuch is going on, it may be difficult or a little more difficult getting people.\nOther than that, there are no issues.\n\nBERMAN: Just to change our focus and to move away from the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business aspect a\nlittle bit, talk about your wife.\n\nBLONDER: What can I say? We are going to be married . . . on December 27th will\nbe 52 years. As I said before, I struck gold. I can tell you in more ways than\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one how Lois has loved and supported me. How she's always been there for me.\nMost of my days were really good days. I've had a lot of good days in my\nlifetime, and lots of fun and lots of good times. She would always support me.\nBut when I had a bad day or bad whatever, she ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was the same way. She has always\ngiven me support, has always boosted me. What we get in Lois as a family, we get\nin my estimation: I get the best wife, our children get the best mom, and our\ngrandchildren get the best grandma. I can't do any better than that. That really\nis Lois ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Blonder. She just exudes love. She is the most even person I know.\nSometimes it's really to a point that it annoys me. I don't know how anyone can\nbe so even. I don't know if it's good or bad, but it's one thing that I've\nnoticed particularly lately. I've always known it. I've never thought about it.\nWhen she calls ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"somebody to do something, she's never ever turned down. I don't\nknow of anybody that's' turned her down. When anybody caller her, she's never\nturned them down either. She's the 'Hillel Knight.' Leslie and Lois were\nsuperstars. Leslie is a community superstar. Just like her mother, Lois. They\nare ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"professional volunteers. They just have the charisma of everything that's\nreally nice and everything that's Jewish.\n\nBERMAN: I agree with you.\n\nBLONDER: Thank you.\n\nBERMAN: In fact, when I was talking to Lois about you preparing for this\ninterview, she gave you a wonderful complement. Said that you were the reason\nshe could be involved in the community to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"such an extent because you always\nsupported her in that endeavor. That's a nice testimony to both of you. Did you\nenjoy watching her being so involved in the community?\n\nBLONDER: Yes. Maybe if I had it to do over again, Sandy, I would do it\ndifferently. I would have participated more actively in the community. 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My friend--may he rest in peace--\nNorman Shaven used to tell ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me that a meeting that lasts more than 20 to 30\nminutes is a bad meeting. I've tried not to have a meeting more than 30 minutes\nunder whatever circumstances they are. To sit in some of these meetings and hear\nthe same thing . . . I don't mean to be demeaning of anybody. 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Where we give back to, or how we give back, I always\nhave a big battle with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lois. But we really try to give back. We've done some\nreally neat things. We do have a granddaughter who is developmentally disabled.\nThat started us on the path of thinking of what can we really do? 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We hope it will do more with the department and we think it's\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wonderful. When we see our granddaughter come back from Barney Medintz or from a\ntrip with her peers or hear about programs, it's just incredible.\n\nBERMAN: That's great. That's really wonderful. I'd like to thank you, and Ruth\nwould like to thank you for helping the museum so much. And the Blonder Heritage Gallery?\n\nBLONDER: That's another thing. 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We've been there for 50 years.\n\nBERMAN: . . .?\n\nBLONDER: Temple Sinai.\n\nBERMAN: What is the legacy that you would like to leave ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to your community and to\nyour family?\n\nBLONDER: I don't know. A legacy is a big statement. Without a lot of time to\nthink about it, I would say that my legacy would be my honesty, my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"credibility,\nmy decency, my love of family and my love of community. I would think that its\nthings like that, characteristics like that, or feelings like that. I don't know\nwhat else to really . . .\n\nBERMAN: You mentioned early that you were so ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"proud of the community's response\nto you . . .\n\nBLONDER: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: I think then the phone rang and cut you off. I want to continue.\n\nBLONDER: I received that while I was in the hospital . . . when I was in the\nhospital, I guess this is about 18, 19 months ago, maybe more. Between the times\nI was in the hospital and then at home and then back in the clinic, I received\nmore than a thousand cards and contributions from the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community. What can I tell you?\n\nBERMAN: That's a legacy.\n\nBLONDER: I have every one of them upstairs in my office. I have every one of\nthem. I don't look at them now but I have every one of them. I just think that\nI'd had a wonderful life. At lunch Herman said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/transcript/31037/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"We've had a wonderful life. If\nwe go now you know we've enjoyed it.\" I said, \"I'm not leaving.\" That's the way\nI feel about life.\n\nBERMAN: Good for you.\n\nBLONDER: You know what? There's no other place. I like Atlanta.\n\nBERMAN: Good for us.\n\nBLONDER: Yes. Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely.\n\nBERMAN: I would like to thank you. It's been a real pleasure.\n\nBLONDER: Thank you. 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In 1905 it was reorganized as the Standard Club and moved into the former mansion of William C. Sanders near where Turner Field is now located. In the late 1920’s the club moved to Ponce de Leon Avenue in Midtown Atlanta. The club later moved to the Brookhaven area and opened in what is now the Lenox Park business park. It was located there until 1983 when the club moved to its present location in Johns Creek in Atlanta’s northern suburbs.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/annotation_set/550/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Mayfair Club opened in 1938 at 1456 Spring Street in Midtown Atlanta and was a focal point of Jewish life in the city for more than 25 years.  The club was founded in 1930 and first met at the Biltmore Hotel. The club was visited by Eleanor Roosevelt, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, Mayors Ivan Allen and William Berry Hartsfield, senators Herman Talmadge and Richard Russell, and Governor Carl Sanders.  Fire destroyed the Mayfair Club on December 4, 1964.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/annotation_set/550/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Progressive Club was a Jewish social organization that was established in 1913 by Russian Jews who felt unwelcome at the Standard Club, where German Jews were predominant.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/annotation_set/550/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eKrystal is an American fast food restaurant chain known for its small, square hamburgers with steamed-in onions.  Krystal moved its corporate headquarters from Chattanooga, Tennessee, where it had been based since 1932, to Atlanta in early 2013.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/annotation_set/550/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe smallest apartments are referred to as efficiency or studio apartments in the U.S. They usually consist of a single main room which serves as the living, dining room and bedroom combined and usually also includes kitchen facilities, with a separate smaller bathroom.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/annotation_set/550/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSet the world on fire is an American idiomatic expression meaning to do exciting things or perform an outstanding feat, and win fame and fortune.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/annotation_set/550/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eGeorgia Power is an electric utility headquartered in Atlanta. 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I believed strongly in going out as a champion not a chump.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2316.0,3216.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/index/47195/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Blonder","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"University of Georgia","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=2316.0,3216.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/index/47195/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Growing the Industry","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3216.0,3412.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/index/47195/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It seems like you're encouraging young people to get involved with the business because you set up a foundation?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3216.0,3412.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/index/47195/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Consumer Economics","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Georgia Institute of Technology","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"National Apartment Association","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"University of Georgia","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3216.0,3412.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/index/47195/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Changing Demographics in Atlanta","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3412.0,3664.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/index/47195/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Changing demographics and some of these lower class people just starting out and some immigrants moving in. You must have at least . . . I think you might have that increased problem with evictions. That must be difficult. Is that the case or not?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3412.0,3664.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/index/47195/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Buford Highway","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Demographics","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fulton County","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3412.0,3664.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/index/47195/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lois Semel Blonder","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3664.0,3973.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/index/47195/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What can I say? We are going to be married . . . on December 27th will be 52 years. As I said before, I struck gold. I can tell you in more ways than one how Lois has loved and supported me. How she's always been there for me.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3664.0,3973.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/index/47195/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lois Semel Blonder","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3664.0,3973.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/index/47195/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Giving Back to the Community","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264#t=3973.0,4623.033"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29478/file/97264/index/47195/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You did get involved, though. I know that you and she established a department at the Marcus Jewish Community Center?\nYes we did.\nCan you talk a little bit about that? 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