{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/wh2d796c7h/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Srochi, Stanley"]},"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":["2001-10-22 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eStanley Maier Srochi interviewed by Ann Schoenberg on October 22, 2001 and March 6, 2002 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eStanley Maier Srochi was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1926.   His grandparents immigrated to the United States from Russia, Latvia, and Poland in the 1880s.   His maternal grandfather was Louis Hirsh, documented as ‘Hirschovitz’ in the Ahavath Achim list of members in Atlanta in 1900, then an Orthodox synagogue.  His maternal grandmother, Lottie Seligson Hirsh, was from Latvia.   His paternal grandfather, Morris Srochi, came from an area near Kraków, Poland.  His paternal grandmother’s name was Dora.   \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley’s grandfather, Morris Srochi, settled in New York when he arrived to the United States before coming to Atlanta for a job as a baker.  A year after arriving in Atlanta, he started the family bread business, Atlanta Baking Company.  Morris Srochi had been a baker by trade as a young boy in Poland.  Stanley’s father, Abram David Srochi, was born in New York in 1887 and came to Atlanta with his father when he was three years old.      \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley attended Druid Hills School and Boys’ High School.  He was bar mitzvahed in 1939 at the Ahavath Achim under the guidance of Rabbi Harry H. Epstein.  Stanley served in the United States Army with the 43rd Infancy Division before World War II started.  He traveled to Japan in 1945 with the 103rd Infantry Regiment of the Maine Army National Guard.  He was discharged from service in 1946 and returned to Atlanta, where he studied law at Emory Law School.  He graduated in 1952 and went to work in the sales department of the family business.  He entered the real estate business after the family business was sold.  \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley married Joan Printz Perretz in 1979.  They have three stepchildren and eight grandchildren. \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eStanley Maier Srochi discusses his grandparents who immigrated from Russia, Poland, and Latvia.   He talks about both sides of his family being members of Ahavath Achim in the late 1880s when it was an Orthodox synagogue.  He mentions that the congregation later affiliated with the Conservative movement in the 1940s.  He reflects on growing up in the generation that identifies with Rabbi Harry H. Epstein and that he admired his intellect and speaking ability.   Stanley mentions that he attended Sunday school at Ahavath Achim in the 1930s.  He remembers his bar mitzvah in 1939.  He recalls separate seating arrangements for women in the synagogue and when integrated seating began in the 1950s. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley discusses his grandfather, Morris Srochi, as being a strong financial supporter of Ahavath Achim.  He talks about how his grandfather bought one of the first bricks as fundraising for the facility in the 1920s.   He recalls aliyahs being auctioned at Yom Kippur service during the 1930s and that his grandfather held neilah into his 90s when he died in 1960.   \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley remembers his maternal grandfather, Louis Hirsh, as being very observant during High Holy Days and studying the Torah and Talmud.  Stanley remembers visiting his grandparents, who lived near the synagogue, where they would break their fast. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe discusses his family’s involvement in the Tenth Street Ahavath Achim property and the Srochi Auditorium being dedicated to his grandmother, Dora Srochi.  He talks about his father, Abram David Srochi, being involved in fundraising for the Educational Center Library Building.    He mentions that the Zaban Park facility is a dedication memorial to his mother, Sophie Hirsh Srochi.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley recounts his military experience during Pearl Harbor in Japan during World War II and being assigned to the 43rd Infantry Division before the war and the 103rd Infantry Regiment with the Maine Army National Guard.  He talks about being discharged in 1946 and returning to Atlanta, where he studied law at Emory Law School.  He graduated in 1952.   \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe discusses working in the Srochi family business, the Atlanta Baking Company, after his graduation.  He talks about the business as a neighborhood bakery and sales delivery made by horse and wagon.  He talks about how the bread business evolved to the wholesale level in the 1920s.   He recalls that many of their customers were Reform Jews.  He speaks of their bread brands in the 1950s and the sale of the family business 1967.  He talks about entering the real estate business after selling the family business.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley recalls the Jewish delicatessens in Atlanta and reflects on childhood memories.  He talks about his cousins and aunts and uncles.  He recalls growing up with the Candler family children and attending Druid Hills School and Boys’ High School.  He discusses how the school system changed after World War II towards neighborhood oriented and co-educational.  He talks about remaining friends with the boys he went to school with.  Stanley continues to serve as a board member for Atlanta Boys’ High School Alumni Association.     \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe talks about meeting his wife, Joan Printz Perretz, and their marriage in 1979.  He discusses his three stepchildren and eight grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28786"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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Epstein.  Stanley served in the United States Army with the 43rd Infancy Division before World War II started.  He traveled to Japan in 1945 with the 103rd Infantry Regiment of the Maine Army National Guard.  He was discharged from service in 1946 and returned to Atlanta, where he studied law at Emory Law School.  He graduated in 1952 and went to work in the sales department of the family business.  He entered the real estate business after the family business was sold.  \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley married Joan Printz Perretz in 1979.  They have three stepchildren and eight grandchildren. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStanley Maier Srochi discusses his grandparents who immigrated from Russia, Poland, and Latvia.   He talks about both sides of his family being members of Ahavath Achim in the late 1880s when it was an Orthodox synagogue.  He mentions that the congregation later affiliated with the Conservative movement in the 1940s.  He reflects on growing up in the generation that identifies with Rabbi Harry H. Epstein and that he admired his intellect and speaking ability.   Stanley mentions that he attended Sunday school at Ahavath Achim in the 1930s.  He remembers his bar mitzvah in 1939.  He recalls separate seating arrangements for women in the synagogue and when integrated seating began in the 1950s. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley discusses his grandfather, Morris Srochi, as being a strong financial supporter of Ahavath Achim.  He talks about how his grandfather bought one of the first bricks as fundraising for the facility in the 1920s.   He recalls aliyahs being auctioned at Yom Kippur service during the 1930s and that his grandfather held neilah into his 90s when he died in 1960.   \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley remembers his maternal grandfather, Louis Hirsh, as being very observant during High Holy Days and studying the Torah and Talmud.  Stanley remembers visiting his grandparents, who lived near the synagogue, where they would break their fast. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe discusses his family’s involvement in the Tenth Street Ahavath Achim property and the Srochi Auditorium being dedicated to his grandmother, Dora Srochi.  He talks about his father, Abram David Srochi, being involved in fundraising for the Educational Center Library Building.    He mentions that the Zaban Park facility is a dedication memorial to his mother, Sophie Hirsh Srochi.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley recounts his military experience during Pearl Harbor in Japan during World War II and being assigned to the 43rd Infantry Division before the war and the 103rd Infantry Regiment with the Maine Army National Guard.  He talks about being discharged in 1946 and returning to Atlanta, where he studied law at Emory Law School.  He graduated in 1952.   \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe discusses working in the Srochi family business, the Atlanta Baking Company, after his graduation.  He talks about the business as a neighborhood bakery and sales delivery made by horse and wagon.  He talks about how the bread business evolved to the wholesale level in the 1920s.   He recalls that many of their customers were Reform Jews.  He speaks of their bread brands in the 1950s and the sale of the family business 1967.  He talks about entering the real estate business after selling the family business.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley recalls the Jewish delicatessens in Atlanta and reflects on childhood memories.  He talks about his cousins and aunts and uncles.  He recalls growing up with the Candler family children and attending Druid Hills School and Boys’ High School.  He discusses how the school system changed after World War II towards neighborhood oriented and co-educational.  He talks about remaining friends with the boys he went to school with.  Stanley continues to serve as a board member for Atlanta Boys’ High School Alumni Association.     \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe talks about meeting his wife, Joan Printz Perretz, and their marriage in 1979.  He discusses his three stepchildren and eight grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mr. Srochi, I am going to ask you to\nplease tell me who in your family came to the United States first. You can start\nwith either your mother's family or your father's family.\n\nSROCHI: I don't know who came first. I believe both, my mother's side and my\nfather's side came to the United States in the 1880s.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: What part of Europe did they come from?\n\nSROCHI: My maternal grandfather came from an area that I believe was part of\nRussia at the time, Courland. C-O-U-R-L-A-N-D [German: Kurland]. I believe my\nmaternal grandmother . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: His name was?\n\nSROCHI: Lewis. L-E-W-I-S. 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Whether they spelled it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"right or not, I don't\nthink so. My grandmother, my mother's mother [Lottie Hirsh], came from Riga.\n\nSCHOENBERG: In Latvia.\n\nSROCHI: On that side, I was Litvak.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You said you don't remember her maiden name, but she did come to the\nUnited States from Europe?\n\nSROCHI: Yes, all of my grandparents were European born.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Your father's family?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SROCHI: My grandfather, my father's father, [he] called himself a Galitzianer.\nHe was from an area that was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It's really\npart of Poland. It was near Krakow [Polish: Kraków].\n\nSCHOENBERG: [Do] you know the name of the town?\n\nSROCHI: It was something like Jalapole [sp] is all I can tell you. Many years\nlater in 1950, I went to Europe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with him and we found a kosher restaurant. The\nowner, I think, was from the same little town. That's as close as I can come.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Your grandmother on that side was also from that part?\n\nSROCHI: I think she was from the same area, but I can't really be sure.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What were their names?\n\nSROCHI: I think her name was Haber. H-A-B-E-R.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And her first name?\n\nSROCHI: She was Dora.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grandfather Srochi?\n\nSROCHI: He was Morris Srochi. They originally lived in New York and came to\nAtlanta in the early 1890s.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What brought them to Atlanta?\n\nSROCHI: The family story is my paternal grandfather is a baker by trade. He had\nbeen a baker as a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"young boy in Poland. He told me a story one time that his\nemployer wanted him to work, I think, all night. They had a big order or\nsomething. He wanted to go home, so the owner of this bakery hid his shoes.\nThere was snow on the ground, but he didn't know my grandfather. He walked home\nbarefoot. The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"way he got to Atlanta, supposedly, he saw an ad [advertisement] in\na Yiddish language paper in New York for a position for a baker in New York, and\nhe could make more money in Atlanta. The family story is that he was making $3 a\nweek in New York. He came to Atlanta for $3.50. So, the Srochis came south for\nfifty cents.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They can get you cheap. 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On the Srochi side, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on the paternal side,\nmy father had one sister, Birdie. B-I-R-D-I-E. Srochi Cohn.\n\nSCHOENBERG: K-O-R-N?\n\nSROCHI: C-O-H-N. She married J. Sam Cohn [Joseph Sam]. He had two brothers.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was Birdie her legal name?\n\nSROCHI: Birdie was her real name.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did she have a Hebrew name?\n\nSROCHI: If she did, I did not . . .\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: You never heard it.\n\nSROCHI: I did not know it. That was my Aunt Birdie. My father had two brothers.\nJacob Srochi, who had two children, Alan Srochi and Robyn Srochi Estroff.\nE-S-T-R-O-F-F. He had a younger brother, Sidney Srochi, who had one son, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ronald\nSrochi. Ronnie Srochi.\n\nSCHOENBERG: [Do] all these young people live here?\n\nSROCHI: No. Just Robyn Estroff and I are the survivors of the third generation.\n\nSCHOENBERG: On your mother's side, you said she was one of several.\n\nSROCHI: My mother [Sophie Hirsh] was born in Atlanta in 1887. She was the oldest\nof nine children.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: So you had lots of aunts and uncles growing up?\n\nSROCHI: [I] had lots of aunts and uncles. My mother had five brothers.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What were their names?\n\nSROCHI: Herman. \"Hymie\" as he was known, who is very well-known in the\ncommunity. Leo Hirsh. Leo, of the five brothers, he was the odd ball. He was the\none that got married.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He's the only one of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"five brothers who married?\n\nSROCHI: [He] got married. She had four bachelor brothers who were very attentive\nto all their nephews and nieces and spoiled us royally. The other brothers were,\nnamed in order I think were Hymie, Jake, Leo, Abram, and Harry.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: The sisters?\n\nSROCHI: My mother had two sisters, actually three sisters. They lost one of the\nsisters, Clara. [She] died in 1921 at the age of 16. 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You were the eldest\nchild in your family?\n\nSROCHI: No. I'm the baby of my family. I had one brother and one sister. My\nbrother was Morton Harold Srochi. He was born April 18, 1922. My sister, Myrtle\nClaire Srochi, was born July 17, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1923.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And she married?\n\nSROCHI: She married Jacob Levin from Lorain, Ohio, in 1952. She lived in Ohio.\nUnfortunately, Jay ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"died in 1965. After another year or two in Ohio, Myrtle came\nback--moved back to Atlanta.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Both she and your brother have passed away now?\n\nSROCHI: Yes. Both my brother and sister have passed away. My brother died in\n1981 and Myrtle in 1985.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Growing up, you and I talked ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a moment ago when I asked you where\nyour family was living when you were born. Do you want to tell the interview?\n\nSROCHI: This is before really I have any memory. I think we were living on\nJackson Street, which was in the area just off of Boulevard near the Georgia\nBaptist Hospital complex. 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Most of the\nblacks voted Republican, those that were allowed to vote, until probably 1936.\nThere's a great story that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this black minister in Chicago [Illinois]. [He]\nturned Abraham Lincoln's picture to the wall. He said, \"Father Abraham, we've\nbeen loyal for 70 years.\" You know, he wanted to keep those checks coming.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That is a great story. Your birthday? 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They had an older brother\nwho was a fine golfer. He was already at Georgia Tech [Georgia Institute of\nTechnology]. His best friend, I believe, was a guy named Charlie Yates, who was\nvery well known in Atlanta and was British Amateur champion in 1938. The boys\nused to get out and swing their golf clubs and dig up Mr. Carver's lawn. He\ndidn't take too kindly to that.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: I'm sure of that.\n\nSROCHI: Next door to the Carvers lived the Duke family. That's Paul Duke, who\nlater became an authentic 1946 all-American football player at Georgia Tech.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And not a bad developer either.\n\nSROCHI: Right. He had the foresight to marry Jean Fraser, whose father was\nCarlyle Fraser and the founder of Genuine Parts Company.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That helped, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm sure.\n\nSROCHI: Anyway, we were all very close-knit. Next to them there were two other\nboys. This is a good story. They were the Paynes. P-A-Y-N-E. Their father was\nDr. J. Harvey Payne. He was a dentist. His office was in the Hurt Building.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Very good. 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My dad put in a little ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pool in our\nback yard, but he didn't put a whole lot of water in it. Mrs. Duke asked him one\ntime, since Paul always like to do things head first, she would put more water\nin the pool.\n\nSCHOENBERG: [To] keep him from crashing into the bottom?\n\nSROCHI: Then there was another family. The Guys lived across the street on the\ncorner of North Decatur [Road] and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oxford. Mr. [James Samuel] Guy. Dr. Guy. J.\nSam Guy was head of the chemistry department at Emory University. His wife, Mrs.\nGuy, was the daughter of Judge John [Slaughter] Candler, which meant that the\nuncles were the Bishop Warren [Akin] Candler and Asa Griggs Candler. She was\nfirst cousin, of course, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of all of Asa's children, of which he had a bunch.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. You started to tell me about Bishop Candler, who lived right\naround the corner from where you lived.\n\nSROCHI: Yes. I can remember as a kid before I was even in school that I would\nwander up into his rose garden, and he would be padding around in his house\nslippers feeding his pigeons. Of course, I had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"no idea who this man was.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He was the man responsible for bringing . . .\n\nSROCHI: Bringing Emory University to Atlanta. He is commonly . . . he was\nprobably one of the most important churchmen, certainly in the south.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Certainly in the United Methodist Church.\n\nSROCHI: He was the national figure.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did he have children as well? Anybody that you interacted with?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SROCHI: No, not to my knowledge. Though, I think there was quite a story at the\ntime. I think he married a much younger woman late in life.\n\nSCHOENBERG: This was semi-scandalous?\n\nSROCHI: Yes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Were there Jewish families also living in Druid Hills in those years?\n\nSROCHI: There were two Jewish families that lived ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fairly close to us. The Herzog\nfamily. They had two children, Richard Herzog. Richard is still living. He had a\nyounger sister, who is Virginia [Herzog] Hein. You may know Virginia.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I do. Yes.\n\nSROCHI: She's a professor, too, I believe. Later, the Clein family moved in onto\nOxford. 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I believe, at least on the Srochi side, we were members prior to that.\nMy father told me one time he could remember going to services over the police\nstation when they were on Decatur Street.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Just in a store front or something?\n\nSROCHI: Yes, in a room.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: For the benefit of the tape, the kitty has decided to join us on the\ntape, practically on the machine.\n\nSROCHI: She could really give you the inside story of all this.\n\nSCHOENBERG: We were talking about your family being at AA from almost the outset\nthen of the founding of the congregation. The congregation was founded in . . .\n\nSROCHI: In 1887. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of course, that was Orthodox at least until the 1940s.\n\nSCHOENBERG: At that point, they associated themselves with the Conservative movement.\n\nSROCHI: There was a transition period. Today they would be, I guess, designated\nas Conservative.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Which rabbi do you remember? 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He demanded and got respect.\n\nSCHOENBERG: But you didn't, certainly, as a child, feel that he was your friend?\nYou didn't feel comfortable going up and just talking to him?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SROCHI: Yes. I would talk to him, but it was more of a relationship that one\nmight have with a teacher in a grade school. Maybe if you get older, certainly\nyou get to the college level, it's a little different level. 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I mean, when you were a kid, did you all sit in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"services.\n\nSROCHI: Yes. The Srochis had a bench. At the time, of course, the seating\narrangements were such that our mothers and our sisters were in the balcony.\nThat situation existed at the time I was bar mitzvahed. 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It was there through the High\nHoly Days ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in 1957. I don't recall that my mother or any of the Srochi women ever\nsat on the bench.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Interesting. Did you have to pay for your bench?\n\nSROCHI: Probably. Way back, my grandfather bought a brick. They sold bricks when\nthe synagogue ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":". . . I'll tell you about that. I know that my grandfather was a\nstrong financial supporter of the AA. In 1920, he bought either the first brick\nor one of the first bricks. That's the way they did fundraising for that\nfacility. I also know that during that period and on into the late ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1930s,\ncertainly, they auctioned . . . they held auctions on the High Holy Day. They\nauctioned the aliyahs. Apparently a number of times he was the high bidder for\nthe neilah, which is, I guess, like the principal. 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He stood neilah on into his 90s\nwhen he died.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How old was he when he died?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SROCHI: He died in 1960. I think he was probably around 91 or 92 years old. He\ndid live long enough to see the AA move from Washington Street to Peachtree\nBattle Avenue. Apparently it was a common practice to auction aliyahs. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I believe\nit's still done in some of the synagogues in Atlanta.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Were your contemporaries pretty observant as children or did you\ngather outside the building during, for instance, during the High Holy Days?\nWere you pretty much told you would sit in services?\n\nSROCHI: I would not really call us observant. My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grandfather, particularly my\nmaternal grandfather, was very observant. Once the service was technically over\nand most of the people left, that's when the real observant people got down to\nbusiness. They got rid of the riff raff, and they got down to the serious\npraying. 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We went to my grandmother's.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And that's where you broke the fast?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SROCHI: A lot of us were in that position. The old synagogue, the Washington\nStreet synagogue, was right on the street, on the corner. There was no\noff-street parking or anything. There was a small drugstore on the opposite\ncorner. The Fulton High School was directly across the street. Anyway, it gave\nus a chance to visit our grandmothers and sometimes go with our friends to visit\ntheir ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"relatives.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The elderly still stayed in the Washington Street neighborhood? Many\nof them?\n\nSROCHI: Yes. On my mother's side, they lived on Washington Street near the\nShearith Israel. They lived there during the 1930s. 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There was\nanother ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"delicatessen on Washington Street, Siegel's [Kosher Market]. That's\nLouis Siegel's father. [Max Siegel]. Louis and Morris Siegel. There's a great\nstory that Louie tells about his brother Morris. Moshe. He was a sports writer\nfor, I believe, The Washington Post. He came down here with a guy pretty well\nknown, named Rocky Marciano. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Somebody was opening an Italian restaurant here,\nand the two of them came down for the opening. Morris stopped in to see his\nfather at the deli, and they had lunch there. That night, he asked his father if\nhe knew who he had met. He says, no, but he remembered that he ate two corned\nbeef sandwiches. Maybe that's what made Rocky a great fighter.\n\nSCHOENBERG: All ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that good Siegel corned beef. That's wonderful. I bet he ate a\nfull meal at dinner, too.\n\nSROCHI: They probably had a full meal at this restaurant.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Big Italian thing. That's a good story. Were there a lot of kids\nyour age growing up? 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My cousin Jack Hirsh.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lester Cohen, Stanley Tenebaum.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You had a whole gang.\n\nSROCHI: Jarvin Levison came here from Tennessee. He came a little later. There\nwas Jack Kaler, whose brother Irving was one of the early presidents of AZA. 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He is very prominent, and his father was even more prominent.\nWe were walking down the hall, and some of the regulars behind us muttering\nabout a \"little Christ child.\"\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: You had to make yourself known.\n\nSROCHI: I also had an earlier experience at Educational Alliance that my cousin\nJack Hirsch tells me about. He has a photograph of his mother, my mother, and\nmaybe 30 or 40 other young women holding their babies on the steps of the\nAlliance. This was a \"Better Baby Contest.\" I have no idea who won.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's what I was getting ready to ask.\n\nSROCHI: But it was not I.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: I just wanted to know.\n\nSROCHI: I was a loser even back then.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I just wonder what kind of criteria they used, don't you?\n\nSROCHI: That, I don't know. Probably who was the fattest.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes, that probably would have . . .\n\nSROCHI: Everything that is bad for you now was good for you then.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. Eat something, honey. You aren't fat.\n\nSROCHI: Yes. Clean your plate.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It's the old story. What was it? The children in Europe are\nstarving. Finish everything on your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"plate.\n\nSROCHI: Starving Armenians.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That too. Starving Armenians. The schools you went to.\n\nSROCHI: I started school in 1932 at Druid Hills School. It went all the way from\nelementary through high school. At that time, the schools in DeKalb County were\n11 years. 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Seventh,\neighth, and ninth I went to Bass Junior ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"High.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Down in Inman Park.\n\nSROCHI: In fall of 1941, I went to old Boys' High School. I graduated from Boys'\nHigh School in 1944.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Right in the middle of World War II.\n\nSROCHI: Right. My first year. December 7 was Pearl Harbor. 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But for about an hour, which was the\nlength of time that it took Franklin [D.] Roosevelt to make his famous \"Day of\nInfamy\" Speech and the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Congress to declare war, Boys' High and Tech High\ndeclared peace. As soon as that assembly was over, we were fighting on two\nfronts. Boys' High and Tech High and United States against the . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Against the Germans.\n\nSROCHI: The Japanese, because we didn't declare war on Germans until about three\ndays later.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. That's true. That's amazing. 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It was a public school, but it was really a prep\n[preparatory] school.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That was an unusual.\n\nSROCHI: It's an unusual school even though the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"school sort of went away and the\nwhole system changed after World War II. After the 1947 graduating class the\nfollowing fall, the schools became more neighborhood oriented.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They also were co-educational.\n\nSROCHI: Also were gender integrated. 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Boys from my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"class of 1944 who went\nto Sheppard Field, Texas, together.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You trained initially?\n\nSROCHI: One of them was an all Southeastern High School football player.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Who was that?\n\nSROCHI: Butch Buffet [sp].\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did you initially train for the [United States] Army Air Corps?\n\nSROCHI: Yes. I was at Sheppard Field from July, about two and a half months. 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[I] went back to Texas for basic\ninfantry training.\n\nSCHOENBERG: This time they were going to . . .\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SROCHI: I was there. I have a very vivid memory of coming in the field on April\n12, 1945. The cooks had brought our dinner out in these huge pots. 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When we woke up in the morning, nobody could\nmove their arms because we were all full of tetanus shots and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"various other\nsundry shots. I was at Camp Stoneman for a short time. Then one morning, they\nput us on a ferry boat and gave us box lunches. We went down the [San Francisco]\nBay from Richmond, California, to San Francisco. We got off the ferry boat.\n[American] Red Cross ladies gave us a donut and cup of coffee. 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The way they got us up in the morning, they had Rudy Vallee singing the\nMaine Stein Song.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What did they make of you as a southern boy and a Jew boy at that?\n\nSROCHI: A lot of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"original guys either had been wounded, killed, sent home,\nill, or injured were Canadian or French-speaking.\n\nSCHOENBERG: French Acadian?\n\nSROCHI: Some of them were still left in the division. 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Supposedly, our division was going to hit Japan on\nNovember 1, so ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we fully supported the dropping of the atomic bomb. Let me put it\nthat way.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. I can see that.\n\nSROCHI: Better them than us.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. I can see that you had something really invested in that decision.\n\nSROCHI: I did not claim to be a disinterested party.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You came back when?\n\nSROCHI: I came back . . . my division went to Japan.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You did go?\n\nSROCHI: We went to Japan. 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This has always been amazing to me that I never heard of a\nsingle instance involving ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"any American personnel and a Japanese civilian. That's\nalways been amazing to me. I can remember a few days after surrender, being on a\ntrain with just hundreds of Japanese. I believe I was the only G.I. [Government\nIssue: A member of the United States armed forces] on the train. I don't know\nhow I got myself in that position. I had maybe a propensity for that. 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[I] went to\nFort Lewis [military base], Washington, by train to Fort Sam ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Houston, Texas and\nwas discharged at San Antonio [Texas], Fort Sam.\n\nSCHOENBERG: To come home?\n\nSROCHI: I came home in August of 1946. The next month I started back to school\nat Emory University along with a lot of others.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What did you major in? 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My term of\nenlistment expired in August of 1949, which was about ten months before the\nKorean War started.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: You graduated from Emory Law School but you never used your law\ndegree to practice law?\n\nSROCHI: [I] never practiced law, but I found that it was certainly very\nbeneficial in just about any career that one wants to pursue, particularly\nbusiness, real estate. 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One of the inner\nfamily stories is that my father communicated with my mother when he was\ncourting my mother through the salesman who would deliver notes, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"maybe before\nany of them had telephones. That's one of the stories.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So he wooed her.\n\nSROCHI: One of my favorite stories is that my father and his brother would run,\nwhat we called, a route. It was around the old, what is now, the [Richard B.\nRussell] Federal Building. It was the old terminal station. There were mostly\nsaloons. 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They used to say that the horse knew the\nroute better than some of the salesmen did.\n\nSCHOENBERG: When they first started baking bread, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your grandfather, was he\nmaking kosher bread or not really?\n\nSROCHI: I don't know if technically it was kosher from the standpoint in a\ntechnical sense.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's what I wondered.\n\nSROCHI: I don't know that. I do know that later, when the bakery was a pretty\nlarge ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and growing concern, [it] converted from a typical loaf of bread made with\nlard. In fact, the best loaf of bread is probably made with lard. Maybe I\nshouldn't be saying this, but that's probably a fact. We converted to vegetable\nshortening. It cost probably about a $250,000 a year. It made us feel better then.\n\nSCHOENBERG: To stop using ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"treif in your . . .\n\nSROCHI: Yes. I don't know that anybody . . . One of the rabbis used to call my\ncousin Alan [Srochi] and say, \"Alan, is the bread still kosher?\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: Were you making white bread or were you making all kinds of bread?\n\nSROCHI: The principal product was always, to a commercial bakery, white bread,\nbut we did over a period of time develop various . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Other products.\n\nSROCHI: What was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"known in the trade as specialty bread, like so-called diet\nbread. Roman Meal, for instance, was one of our products.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Really? You developed that?\n\nSROCHI: It was a franchise product out of Tacoma, Washington. There were others\nover the period of years.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Were there many Jewish families who were in the baking business?\n\nSROCHI: There were some. I think there was a Schlesinger [sp] family and the Taylors.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: Here locally?\n\nSROCHI: The Taylor Baking Company was the name of it. There was a Jewish-owned\nbakery in New Orleans later. In the south, we were probably maybe the only major\ncommercial bakery. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Most of the Jewish bakers were more specialty bread, maybe\njust for the restaurant trade or retail type sold through delicatessens.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Your first job, when you went back as a child. Did you ever work\ndown at the store, first of all, or down at the place, whatever you called it?\n\nSROCHI: Except for hanging around my brother . . . my brother and Paul Duke had\na drink stand ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in front of the Duke's home on Oxford Road. I spent a lot of time\ndown there, drinking more than I was selling, I am sure.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I was going to say, that was before the days of Kool-Aid. What were\nthey selling? Lemonade?\n\nSROCHI: We sold what was known as belly washers. I guess they were probably\n16-ounce bottles. They were huge. During the [Great] Depression, there were some\nfamilies that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"made their own soft drinks. They bought the bottles and they had\nways of sterilizing them and mixes and things. If you had 12 to 14 kids, you had\nto be inventive.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I was going to say, there were people doing that up in the hills,\ntoo, and they were inventive in using it.\n\nSROCHI: I guess you are talking about some of our moonshine friends.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's right. My grandfather was in the bottling business.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SROCHI: So you know about that?\n\nSCHOENBERG: I have some history in that area.\n\nSROCHI: There is a great story that may or may not be true. It has nothing to\ndo, particularly, with being Jewish or anything. It's possible that a Georgia\nmoonshiner won World War II. You may ask how that happened. The story is that\n[Sir] Winston Churchill ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came to the United States in 1931-1932 to promote one of\nthe books that he had written. He was run down by a taxicab on Fifth Avenue in\nNew York. Fortunately, he was just injured and spent a little time in the\nhospital. Apparently, he just looked the wrong way because in England they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"drive\non the . . . they think we drive on the wrong side of the road. We think they\ndrive on the wrong side of the road, but he was run over there. He came to\nAtlanta to promote his book. He came over a weekend. There was no way Mr.\nChurchill, the Lord Churchill, could exist for a whole weekend without a drink.\nWhoever was handling his book tour, got hold of some moonshine. Fortunately ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it\ndidn't kill him.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It's a good thing.\n\nSROCHI: Who knows, if he had met his demise through a Georgia bootlegger,\nEngland just might have up and surrendered in 1941.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Amazing.\n\nSROCHI: The 1940s.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What about your jobs, literally, at the bakery? What did you end up\ndoing once you graduated?\n\nSROCHI: I did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a lot of the sales reports and communicated with the sales\ndepartment how the sales were going.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was your father the president at this time?\n\nSROCHI: He was the president of the company. Each of us had sort of a little\nseparate niche to stay out of each other's way. My father, he bought ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the flour\nand certain ingredients. As he got older, that was his principle role. My Uncle\nSidney, he liked the packaging end of it and advertising. My Uncle Jake, he\nhandled the money. What bakers did, they used the mills. I think I've told you\nabout [Rodney] Milling Company, maybe was one of them. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Your biggest mills, of\ncourse, were from the flour. Whoever supplied your flour that was the main\ningredient that went into the bread. What you would do, you would use the flour\nmill's money until you were ready to pay him instead of going to the bank and\ngetting short-term financing.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They carried you?\n\nSROCHI: Uncle Jake would write the checks. He just wouldn't send them ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out until\nhe was doggone ready. Later, I was involved in a number of advertising campaigns\nbecause the bakery converted principally from its brand to Sunbeam [Bread] in\nthe late 1950s or early 1960s. At that time, we were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"members of the Sunbeam\nQuality Bakers of America [Cooperative]. QBA. They provided various services for\nindependent bakeries, which enabled the independent to compete with the chain baker.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Sort of like the IGA [Independent Grocers Alliance] was for the grocers.\n\nSROCHI: Yes. For grocers, bulk buying and advertising materials. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I would deal\nwith the local media, and I got to know quite a few people involved in radio\n[and] television.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Anybody special?\n\nSROCHI: One guy that is still around is Paul Raymon. Paul was like general\nmanager of what was then WAGA [television station] at the time. 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But\ngenerally, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"specialty breads had sort of a short life. They were heavily promoted\nand they got a lot of attention and a lot of sales. People went back . . . the\npublic went back to normal buying habits. Hillbilly Bread campaign was built\naround sort of like Li'l Abner type. 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There was one other ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bachelor at the time. I was older, so I was\nsenior. I guess I pulled my rank. Anyway, we appeared on the cover of one of the\nbakery trade papers.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's a cute story. How did your company's buyout happen? I mean,\nin what year were they bought out and who did the buying out?\n\nSROCHI: The Atlanta Baking Company was bought out or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"purchased by, what is now,\nFlowers Industries [Flowers Foods]. At the time, in 1967, it was controlled by\ntwo Flower brothers. William H. [Howard] and [Joseph Hampton] Flowers. It was\nabout two years before the Flowers went public. It is now a publicly-traded\ncompany on the New York Stock Exchange.\n\nSCHOENBERG: At the time they bought it, [were] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they were still privately held?\n\nSROCHI: It was still privately held. They did have several branches.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was Sunbeam one of their brands?\n\nSROCHI: Yes. That was principally one of the reasons they bought us because they\nwere, in effect, buying not only a bakery. They were buying property and buying\nequipment and buying a trademark. They were buying territory. They were already\nin South Georgia. The main plant was in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thomasville, Georgia. They came up about\nas far as Macon. This gave them access to north Georgia, the Atlanta Metro area.\nAlso, they hooked up with a bakery that they had over in the eastern part of\nAlabama. Opelika, Alabama.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was your father still actively involved in this sale?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SROCHI: He was not that active at the time. He was already about 80 years old.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So it was really . . .\n\nSROCHI: His generation. They were getting along. My Uncle Jake, he was about six\nyears younger than my father. He was already into his 70s.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They were thinking of retiring?\n\nSROCHI: They were thinking of retiring. They all had other ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"interests.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was there anybody in your generation who was against the sale?\n\nSROCHI: If they were, they kept their mouths shut. I don't think there was any\nvocal opposition.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I mean, you were still a family-owned business.\n\nSROCHI: One for all and all for one.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You all made the decision?\n\nSROCHI: All. What do they say? All stay together or hang together or something\nlike that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Or hang separately. 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My father's youngest brother, Sidney, bought a\nplating company over on Howell Mill [Road] and Fourteenth Street.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What is the name of that?\n\nSROCHI: I'm not sure, but I believe it may have been the Simmons.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Estes Simmons?\n\nSROCHI: Estes Plating Company [Estes-Simmons Silversmiths, Inc.].\n\nSCHOENBERG: Does he still have an interest?\n\nSROCHI: He operated that until his death in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1977. Unfortunately, his only son\ndied, I think, in 1970. My cousin, Alan, he stayed with Flowers maybe for a\nshort time just to help them get integrated. He was involved in a number of real\nestate and other types of ventures after that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The company ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you have now, what's the name of your company?\n\nSROCHI: We operate under various, what you call, S corps [corporation]. We have\nfour or five of them. We do property management, just in house. We don't do any\noutside management.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You are managing your own properties?\n\nSROCHI: Yes. Over the years, we've owned all types of properties. We are in the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"process of selling off all of the apartments, the more labor-intensive properties.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you have industrial and retail?\n\nSROCHI: Not that much. Most of our properties now, I'd guess you would classify\nas commercial or retail type properties.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Anything that we would know? I mean, any property that's\nparticularly well known?\n\nSROCHI: I guess the two ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"best-known properties . . . we own the Buckhead\nMarketplace, which is on West Paces Ferry [Road], half block off of Peachtree\n[Road]. It is three streets right at Paces Ferry Place and Irby [Avenue]. We own\nthe Rock Springs Shopping ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4770.0,4800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Center at the intersection of Piedmont [Avenue] and\nCheshire Bridge [Road].\n\nSCHOENBERG: Is that where Artlite [Office Supply Company] is?\n\nSROCHI: Artlite is one of our tenants. It is an interesting family business.\nMaybe you ought to interview them sometime.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That is a Jewish family also?\n\nSROCHI: It is a Jewish family.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What is their name?\n\nSROCHI: Light. L-I-G-H-T. The father was Arthur Light. Unfortunately, Arthur is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"deceased.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's the origin of the name? I didn't realize that.\n\nSROCHI: They named the company Artlite. It's strictly a family business. I think\nit's all second . . . I know the mother is still alive. I don't believe she's\nactive in the business anymore, but it's a second-generation business.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Someone told me that you at one time owned a hotel.\n\nSROCHI: Yes, the family. My father owned the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4830.0,4860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jefferson Hotel, which is now part\nof Underground Atlanta. It's on the southwest corner of Pryor and Alabama\nStreets. Jefferson Hotel was built in 1930. It was the last hotel built in\nAtlanta to be classified as a hotel, not a motel but a hotel, until I think the\nRiviera [Hotel] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4860.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was built in the 1950s.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I just saw something about that property which is now called the\n[Atlanta] Cabana, or had been called the Cabana, changing hands.\n\nSROCHI: They had some Jewish connection. At the time my father bought the\nproperty in 1950, the operator was Jake Abel [Jacob Abelson]. Jake, in his\nyounger days, had been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4890.0,4920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a prize fighter. Professional prize fighter. One of his\nclaims to fame was that he had fought a famous Jewish lightweight champion,\nBenny Leonard. I don't know if you ever heard of Benny Leonard. Occasionally,\nBenny would visit Atlanta and he would come and see Jake. They had lunch or\nsomething, probably at the Mayfair Club.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I was going to say at Siegel's delicatessen.\n\nSROCHI: Jake's daughter ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4920.0,4950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was Sonia Abelson. Sonia married Ben Rabinowitz. If you\never read the [Atlanta] Jewish Times, you probably know that they made aliyah\nand have lived in Israel for many years. Ben was our tenant there after Jake\ndied or Jake retired.\n\nSCHOENBERG: At the hotel you're talking about?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SROCHI: That was the period between, in the 1950s, until maybe the middle 1960s\nsomewhere. Jake and Ben, I think, stayed in the hotel business, but he leased a\nRodeway Inn, I think, out on Briarcliff Road somewhere. 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I'm reserving the right\nto come back because we didn't even begin to talk about your wife or a lot of\nother things, so we will do that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Ann Schoenberg interviewing Stanley Srochi on March 6, 2002, for the\nJewish Oral History Project of Atlanta, co-sponsored by The American Jewish\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5010.0,5040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Committee, The Atlanta Jewish Federation, and The National Council of Jewish\nWomen. This is the second tape, the first side. We did our previous taping in\nOctober. One little detail that I would like to bring up before we get up into\nthe rest of this tape is we discussed all about the bakery, which was the Srochi\nfamily business. I realized we never talked about where it was located. If you\nwould, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5040.0,5070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mr. Srochi, where did it start to begin with?\n\nSROCHI: The business started out of their home wherever they happened to be\nliving at the time.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Which was?\n\nSROCHI: It would have been on the south side. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think they lost . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Their house?\n\nSROCHI: I think their home was damaged.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Angier is right near the Sears Building or City Hall East? In that area?\n\nSROCHI: Yes. Angier is not too far from the [Atlanta] Civic Center. Forrest, old\nForrest [Boulevard], now Ralph McGill Boulevard. 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It was not unusual for the family that owned\nthe grocery store to live over the store.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5190.0,5220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: Of course, you weren't living on Angier because you weren't born at\nthat time, but you don't remember any of the stories about the fire?\n\nSROCHI: No, except I think, unfortunately, the family dog crawled under the\nhouse. I think they lost the dog. I do remember hearing that story. I think they\nwent from Angier . . . they stayed in the neighborhood. 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That whole area was sort of known as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5250.0,5280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Buttermilk Bottom.\" Did you\nknow that? Have you ever heard that?\n\nSROCHI: Yes. \"Buttermilk Bottom\" was an area east of Peachtree. The reason\nPeachtree is Peachtree is because that was on the high ground. It was easier to\ndetect one's enemies on the high ground rather than on the lower. It was the\narea east of downtown. The downtown area of Peachtree . . . 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At one time, they even had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5310.0,5340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a small grocery store\non Piedmont just south of what now is Ralph McGill Boulevard. The family story\nis that Asa Candler, Sr., owned the store and came to the store once a month to\ncollect his rent, which was all of $67.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Not surprising. Mr. Candler was very frugal. I'm sure ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5340.0,5370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he wanted to\nmake sure he got his rent.\n\nSROCHI: My grandfather and my grandmother moved to the corner of Fairview [Road]\nand Moreland [Avenue], I think, in 1922 or 1923. He lived there until his death\nin 1960.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's a long time. 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It's Moreland as you go south, and it's\nBriarcliff . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Briarcliff as you go north.\n\nSROCHI: When you get north of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5400.0,5430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ponce de Leon, it's Briarcliff. He lived on the\ncorner of Moreland and Fairview.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I do know where Fairview is. Now I remember.\n\nSROCHI: The house is on a hill. A red brick house.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Fairview is a nice street.\n\nSROCHI: One Sunday we stopped there on the way home from Sunday school. I guess\nI was too young probably to read the sports page then. Maybe I was looking at\nthe comic section. I released the brake, and the car starts rolling down, what\nseemed to me to be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5430.0,5460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Stone Mountain. I had the presence of mind to turn the wheel,\nbut I went into my grandmother's rose garden. I paid the price.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I bet. At least you didn't kill anybody, including yourself.\n\nSROCHI: I'm not sure. I think they might have traded me for the roses.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I doubt that. How old were you at that point?\n\nSROCHI: I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5460.0,5490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"probably seven years old. Six or seven.\n\nSCHOENBERG: [You] shouldn't have been sitting in the car.\n\nSROCHI: It would have been 1933 or 1934. Somewhere in there.\n\nSCHOENBERG: [You] shouldn't have been sitting in the car alone. I bet they\ndidn't let you do that again.\n\nSROCHI: My father . . . When I was born, we lived on I think Jackson Street. It\nis just a couple of blocks ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5490.0,5520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from the Georgia Baptist Hospital, but I was born in\nPiedmont Hospital.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was he in the grocery business then or was he already doing the bakery?\n\nSROCHI: No. They were in the bread business. This photograph here [Stanley\ngestures to a picture] This was probably about the time he was married in 1921.\nMy parents were married in April of 1921.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He had started the business?\n\nSROCHI: Yes. They had actually been in the bread business since the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5520.0,5550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1890s in\nvarious forms, but they had reached the wholesale level . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: By the early 1920s?\n\nSROCHI: At this point. They relocated the bakery on 165 Bailey Street. It is a\none block street that runs off of Fair Street, just off the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5550.0,5580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"intersection of Fair\nand Northside Drive.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I know exactly where that is.\n\nSROCHI: I think they bought the Bailey Street property in 1917 and enlarged it\nover the years. In 1925 they had a grand opening. They had reached a point where\nthey had a brand name ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5580.0,5610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"product, which was BAMBY Bread. There were BAMBY Breads\nall over the south at the time. BAMBY was an acronym, I guess, what you would\ncall an acronym. \"Best American Made Bread Yet,\" or something.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What a neat idea.\n\nSROCHI: It had nothing to do . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: With Bambi the deer.\n\nSROCHI: It had nothing to do with [The] Walt Disney [Company], as far as I know.\nIt pre-dated Walt Disney.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I was going to say, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5610.0,5640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it was long before Walt Disney.\n\nSROCHI: Anyway, a bakery still exists on that same site.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Is it in Castleberry Hill? In that kind of area?\n\nSROCHI: It's close.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It's right on the edge there.\n\nSROCHI: Yes, I think it's Walker Street, which is one block east of Northside\nDrive. By the way, my father went to the Walker Street School, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5640.0,5670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I guess, in the\nlate 1890s maybe on into the early 1900s. That school is long, long gone.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Because that whole . . .\n\nSROCHI: That's a neat thing, too. Some developer . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: That whole area has taken off and become so popular as loft apartments.\n\nSROCHI: It has reverted a hundred years.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Back to residential. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5670.0,5700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. Eventually the bakery . . . is that the\nlast location of your bakery? That was the permanent location?\n\nSROCHI: That was the location of the bakery at the time the family sold Atlanta\nBaking Company to the Flower Brothers in 1967.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Have they maintained a bakery facility? You ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5700.0,5730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"said it's still a bakery?\n\nSROCHI: It's still there. It's been expanded, I'm sure, many times.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes, but it's still the Sunbeam Bread?\n\nSROCHI: It's still in that location.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Very good. Now that we've taken care of the Sunbeam Bread business\nand the location of the factory, what I would like to do, because we didn't\nreally have time to do it the other day, is to go back and talk about all of\nyour aunts and uncles in depth. There's really no one left in the family who ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5730.0,5760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"can\nshare the information that you can about aunts and uncles, and you have this\nwonderful photo.\n\nSROCHI: On the Srochi side, I have only one of my first cousins is still with\nus. That's my cousin Robyn Estroff. This is her father Jacob Srochi [pointing to\na photo].\n\nSCHOENBERG: Why don't you start with the eldest child. Is that your dad?\n\nSROCHI: My dad was the oldest son.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He was born in what year?\n\nSROCHI: He was born in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5760.0,5790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"New York City in 1887 and was brought to Atlanta when he\nwas approximately three or four years old, which would have been maybe 1891. The\nfamily story is the bakery started in 1892. My grandfather, I think I may have\ntold you in our previous ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5790.0,5820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"session, was a baker by trade. He came to this country\nin the 1880s. [He] settled in New York and worked in New York as a very young .\n. . he was a boy actually. He worked in bakeries in part of Poland that was then\npart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was in some area near Kraków. He\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5820.0,5850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"referred to himself as a Galitzianer.\n\nSCHOENBERG: As I remember, you told me he came down here for a raise of some\npittance, like 25 cents an hour or something.\n\nSROCHI: Yes. That's sort of the story. Not [25 cents] an hour, I think a week.\n\nSCHOENBERG: A week.\n\nSROCHI: The story is that he sees an ad in a Yiddish paper, Jewish language\npaper, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5850.0,5880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"advertising for a baker in Atlanta, Georgia. They are offering $3.50 a\nweek, so he came down here. That was $3.50. He had been making $3 dollars in New York.\n\nSCHOENBERG: There you go. Fifty cents.\n\nSROCHI: The Srochis came south for a lousy 50 cents, which was not so lousy in\nthose days.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You're right. Your dad. We kind of talked about your dad and your\nsisters and brother.\n\nSROCHI: He came here many times. We would be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5880.0,5910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"riding around Atlanta looking at\nproperty, doing one thing or the other. He would tell me about [how] he could\nrecall riding on a bread wagon with his father in the 1890s, five or six years\nold, taking bread and going up to somebody's door, knocking on the door, and\ndelivering the bread. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5910.0,5940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"doubt if he was selling at the time, although he was a\nvery good salesman.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did they have a horse-drawn wagon?\n\nSROCHI: Horse-drawn wagon. Supposedly, we had either the first or one of the\nfirst motor-driven vehicles in the City of Atlanta, which appropriately was a\nStanley Steamer. Either Stanley Steamer or White Steamer. I'm not sure of that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you know what year they got that?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5940.0,5970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SROCHI: I think that would have been approximately 1907. It's only 95 years ago.\nOnly yesterday.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Just around the corner. It's amazing. We've talked about your\nimmediate family. You certainly told me the names of your siblings. Why don't\nyou tell me about your dad's siblings.\n\nSROCHI: Tell you about my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=5970.0,6000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father?\n\nSCHOENBERG: You want to talk about your dad some more? That's great.\n\nSROCHI: You tell me what you want me to tell.\n\nSCHOENBERG: All I remember you telling me about him was that he was built like a\nbaker. He was strong and he could really knead the dough.\n\nSROCHI: He was short.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He had a lot of strength in his arms and hands.\n\nSROCHI: He did. So did my grandfather. My grandfather developed that from\nkneading bread by hand. He ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6000.0,6030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pre-dated the automated equipment. He was making\nbread by the loaf not by the thousands. When people came to the bakery, a lot of\nthem were disappointed because they expected to see some little old gray haired\nlady, you know, playing around with a little pile of dough.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's funny. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6030.0,6060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What was his personality like?\n\nSROCHI: He was in some ways shy, but in a business sense, he was aggressive. He\nhad a lot of self-confidence. He didn't back down from anybody or anything. He\ntook a lot of chances in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6060.0,6090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"his business career.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's obvious.\n\nSROCHI: He probably intimidated some people that didn't know him well, but if\nthey stayed around long enough, I think they all respected him.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did he kind of have a shell? In a business, a professional setting,\nwas he kind of gruff on the outside when he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6090.0,6120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was really kind of mush on the inside?\n\nSROCHI: Yes, the first impression he came across that way. The real estate\npeople that dealt with him, one of the old-timers told me a story about him\nafter he passed away. He called him one day about a piece of property. The\nold-timers, they didn't need consultants. 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He paid more than that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6150.0,6180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for it.\" Pop said, \"Just because some damn\nfool buys a piece of property, doesn't mean he's going to make a profit on it.\"\nI think that sort of illustrates . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: His tactics and his business acumen.\n\nSROCHI: I'll tell you this. He was wonderful with children and animals. He loved\nanimals. He had Billy goats when he was a boy. Pigeons. 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They'd say, \"Well, take another one.\" So Pop ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6240.0,6270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"says the next one\nwould be just as bad as the first one. What that proves is the same thing exists\ntoday except that it's used car salesmen.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Instead of used horses. Pretty cute. What was your mother like?\n\nSROCHI: I would say everybody that knew her referred to her as a lady. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6270.0,6300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"think\neven looking at the portrait over there, [Stanley points to a picture] she was a\nlady. She was the matriarch of her family. She was the oldest of nine children.\nShe had four bachelor brothers. She had a much younger sister, my Aunt Pauline\nFine. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6300.0,6330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mrs. Lowell Fine, who is a mother and past president of the [Atlanta\nJewish Community] Center here. She was sort of a surrogate mother for my Aunt\nPauline. I think she was well-respected. Well-liked.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was she educated?\n\nSROCHI: She was very tender to all of us and very protective of her\ngrandchildren, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6330.0,6360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I guess like most grandmothers, but I don't think she was as\ndemanding as the stereotypical Jewish grandma. She was a wonderful cook [and] homemaker.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did you all have one night when everybody, the whole family\ngathered? On Shabbat or something?\n\nSROCHI: It was sort of a tradition that the brothers, the bachelor brothers,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6360.0,6390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very rarely ate at home. After World War II, they lived much closer to the\nyounger sister, my Aunt Pauline. They probably were there three nights a week,\nbut they had dinner with us, typically, on a Friday night at least once a month\nand maybe every other week.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Where did they live in relation to you?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6390.0,6420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SROCHI: The Hirsh side lived on, my earliest memory is, Washington Street near\nthe old Shearith. They lived within a block of the Shearith Israel Synagogue.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They didn't belong there, though. Did they belong to AA?\n\nSROCHI: No. They belonged to the AA. I think I told you.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. That's what I thought.\n\nSROCHI: Both of my grandfathers were members of the AA in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6420.0,6450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1900.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. On that list.\n\nSROCHI: On that handwritten list. I think both of them had their names misspelled.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Go ahead. We're doing your father's family. I got you off on your\nmother and then we got into her family by osmosis. The next born child after\nyour dad?\n\nSROCHI: [Stanley points to a picture] This is my Aunt Mamie [Katz]. She was the\nyoungest ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6450.0,6480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sister of Dora Srochi. [She] was Morris Srochi's wife and the mother of\nA.D. [Abram David], Murray, Jake, and Sidney Srochi. I think my grandparents\nbrought her to this country. I'm not sure of the date, probably around 1900.\n\nSCHOENBERG: After they moved here?\n\nSROCHI: She has a grandson who could ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6480.0,6510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fill you in on that side of the family.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was her married name?\n\nSROCHI: The grandson is Ivan Millender. Ivan has written about Oakland Cemetery.\nHe's very knowledgeable. He's more knowledgeable on the Srochi side maybe than I am.\n\nSCHOENBERG: We'll hit him up then. And the next person?\n\nSROCHI: Aunt Mamie had an interesting life. She was, unfortunately, widowed. 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About the time they were married,\nit must have been around 1930, they lived with both my Aunt ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6540.0,6570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Esther and my cousin\nSam. Lived there for the rest of their lives. Sam lived on, I think, into the\n1980s. Esther died in 1981.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was their business?\n\nSROCHI: Dalton had a very thriving Jewish community.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was their business? The Millender's?\n\nSROCHI: Sam Millender operated a so-called dry goods store, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6570.0,6600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"probably into the\n1960s and maybe even 1970s. He later got into some area of the carpet business,\nnot as a manufacturer, but sort of as what you would call somebody in the trade.\nMaybe . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: A jobber?\n\nSROCHI: [A] jobber or sold materials. That type of thing.\n\nSCHOENBERG: A supplier.\n\nSROCHI: Most of the time they were in Dalton, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6600.0,6630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he ran a store. I was in the store\nseveral times. I remember going up there shortly after I got out of the service\nin 1946 and got a couple of white shirts, which were very hard to come by at the time.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Let's move on to the next person in that picture. Who is an uncle?\n\nSROCHI: That person is Morris Srochi. We have talked about him. I believe he was\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6630.0,6660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"born somewhere [in the] late 1860s or early 1870s. He was a baker by trade and\nwas a very determined, proud man. One of the family stories is that some young\nassociate of one of the local banks ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6660.0,6690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came to the bakery one day and said, \"Mr.\nSrochi, we've got a lot of money down at the bank. We would love to lend you\nsome.\" Most people jump on an opportunity because people won't lend them money.\nMy grandfather, they said, drew himself up to his full 5'5\" or whatever he was\nand said, \"Young man,\" he says, \"I lend money. I don't borrow.\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: Great. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6690.0,6720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Smart man. Very good if you can do it. Not everybody can say that.\n\nSROCHI: Anyway, he was very . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did he get into real estate?\n\nSROCHI: Very good business man. He had a lot of determination. He was not very\noutgoing, which may have been sort of characteristic of men of his era and\nbackground. He was very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6720.0,6750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"devoted to the synagogue. He was very close to the rabbi.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was this Rabbi [Harry] Epstein?\n\nSROCHI: Rabbi Epstein. Maybe the . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: . . . his predecessor?\n\nSROCHI: Previous rabbi. You have to remember Rabbi Epstein came to Atlanta in 1928.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6750.0,6780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: And was here forever.\n\nSROCHI: The rabbis before him were sort of transient. They had a whole series of\nthem, but he stuck. He stayed around a while.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Just a while.\n\nSROCHI: He stayed about 50 some years, at least. He's still here. By the way,\nhe's supposed to be in the synagogue on Monday. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6870.0,6900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He told me the story about Senator Black\n[who] came in his store during one of his campaigns and said, \"Mr. Cohn, I hope\nyou will support me.\" Uncle Sam said, \"Well, I don't think I can, Senator.\" He\nsaid, \"Why not?\" He said, \"Because you're a member of the Ku Klux Klan.\" Senator\nBlack said, \"Don't pay any attention to that, Mr. Cohn,\" he said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6900.0,6930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"When you're\nin politics, you have to do a lot of things.\" That's a true story.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Isn't that something.\n\nSROCHI: It was a true statement.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's true. Yes. I quite agree. It's still the case, unfortunately.\nFortunately, nobody is belonging to the KKK, hopefully.\n\nSROCHI: Birdie and Sam lived in Florala mostly during ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6930.0,6960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the 1920s. In the early\n1930s, they came back to Atlanta and lived on Moreland Avenue, right across the\nstreet from her parent's home. I'm sure they had something to do with bringing\ntheir daughter back from the wilds of south Alabama.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Sure. She never had children?\n\nSROCHI: After Sam died, she lived in the Biltmore Hotel for many years. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=6960.0,6990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She\ncould probably, if she were alive, tell us a lot of stories about what went on.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was the Biltmore that residential? I didn't realize that it had\npermanent residents, or was it that site?\n\nSROCHI: Yes. I don't think she ever had an apartment there. I think she was just\na resident at the transient part of the hotel, just had a room there. 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She was the owner.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7020.0,7050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: The widow of the son who built the Biltmore?\n\nSROCHI: Yes, the one who had an unfortunate demise at the hands of the South\nGeorgia cow.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That was a very funny. Why don't you tell that story. I think it's\nvery funny.\n\nSROCHI: That was Birdie. My Aunt Birdie died in 19 . . . 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Jake didn't believe in going to the bank\nto borrow money. We borrowed money from the flour mills. In other words, you\npaid them when you wanted to pay them.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You were working on their money?\n\nSROCHI: If you had enough clout with them, they wanted to keep your business. I\nguess they factored that into the price of the flour. Jake, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7140.0,7170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he was very\nmechanical. He worked with the equipment. [He] worked with the people that\nserviced the equipment.\n\nSCHOENBERG: From whom did you buy your flour?\n\nSROCHI: Various people. I think I may have mentioned. Didn't you tell me you had\nsome connection with Kansas City?\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's where I was born.\n\nSROCHI: We bought flour from a lot of different mills. I have a particular\nmemory of the Rodney Milling ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7170.0,7200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Company, which was out of Kansas City.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's the Uhlmann family.\n\nSROCHI: I think was owned by or controlled maybe by a Jewish family, the Meyers\nfamily. Elder Mr. Meyers was a friend of my father's.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I think I may have asked you. Excuse me. I'm sorry, did you finish\nyour sentence? 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I don't go directly to the president of GM and say,\n\"Hey, I want to buy 100 shares of your stock.\" The relationships ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7230.0,7260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were with the\nflour brokers. In the case of Rodney, the relationship extended to the . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: The actual family.\n\nSROCHI: What I would call the manufacturer or producer or supplier itself.\nGenerally, the relationships were with either the brokers [or] the\nmanufacturer's rep. Everybody had a manufacturer's rep. You've probably heard .\n. . 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He used to come to the bakery and make a pitch.\nThey ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7290.0,7320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"talked football for 45 minutes. The last 10 minutes, they'd sign off on the\norder for the next, you know . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Write an order.\n\nSROCHI: For the next $250,000 worth of Roman Meal paper.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Isn't that something. It shows you what gets you through the door is\nwhat is important.\n\nSROCHI: Uncle Jake married, I think, around 1928. His wife came from Savannah.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7320.0,7350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She was Sara Bernstein. They had two children. Their daughter Robyn. She had an\nolder brother, Alan Srochi, who died at about 58 in 1991. Alan left ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7350.0,7380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"four boys.\nHe has four sons, all of whom live here.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did anybody stay with Flowers? Did anybody stay with the company?\n\nSROCHI: Alan stayed with Flowers for a short time, sort of a transition period.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I just wondered.\n\nSROCHI: I think Alan left of his own volition. I never did quite know the full\nstory. Alan did stay with the bakery, with Flowers for a short time. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7440.0,7470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's a pricing situation\nand all kinds of things. Really, buying flour and buying real estate was more\nthings that he enjoyed the most.\n\nSCHOENBERG: There was more challenge to it.\n\nSROCHI: Yes. One of the stories is during the [Great] Depression, these real\nestate salesmen . . . things were tough. They'd come over to the bakery and talk\nto my father for a couple of hours, give him some ideas about what was going on\nin the marketplace. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7470.0,7500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He'd give them a couple loaves of bread. If he hadn't made\nany money that day, at least he came home with . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Something to eat.\n\nSROCHI: . . . a couple loaves of bread. He could tell his wife that he had been\nout hustling. That probably paid off over the long haul. He had a lot of very\nimportant relationships, not only in the baking business but also in the real\nestate business.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7500.0,7530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kind of real estate he was buying, was it raw land?\n\nSROCHI: No. He was more oriented toward income type property. I don't know that\nhe had to buy land and hold it. You either got to inherit it [or] sitting on it\nsome way. Acquiring property that is not generating a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7530.0,7560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whole lot of taxes. You\nhave to be able to hold it. He was oriented more toward income type properties\nthat he was familiar with.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Income producing.\n\nSROCHI: He was familiar with the inner city. The downtown area.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So he bought things like hotels? Apartments?\n\nSROCHI: Yes. Over the period of his life, he bought many properties that maybe\nhe had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7560.0,7590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"seen as a young man. I think he told the story a couple of times. Maybe\nthis was before, but you've got to remember that the automobile didn't come into\ncommon use until he was maybe 20 years old or even older. Maybe 25.\n\nSCHOENBERG: More than that.\n\nSROCHI: Typical mode of transportation was either a horse-and-wagon or . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Streetcar.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7590.0,7620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SROCHI: Or a bicycle.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Maybe a streetcar?\n\nSROCHI: Apparently, he did a lot of riding on a bicycle. Just riding around\nseeing things, maybe he later was able to acquire it one way or another.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So you did own those kinds of properties? The hotels? Apartments?\n\nSROCHI: He was very decisive one way or the other.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did you have industrial property?\n\nSROCHI: If he wanted to buy something, he bought it when he could. 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Was he holding\nproperty, though, in conjunction with some of the other brothers?\n\nSROCHI: Yes, they had.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Have a corporation?\n\nSROCHI: In a family relationship, they owned properties ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7650.0,7680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Florida together.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What part of Florida?\n\nSROCHI: Daytona Beach. My grandfather had a home in Daytona. My Uncle Sidney,\nthat was his favorite place. I can't tell you how many properties he owned in\nDaytona over a period of time.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You mean your Uncle Sidney?\n\nSROCHI: Sidney ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7680.0,7710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Helen. They usually spent a couple of months in the summer in\nDaytona. They loved to go to auctions. They went to auctions here. They were\ncollectors before people knew what collectors were and used the term.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What did they collect?\n\nSROCHI: They collected just about anything. Furniture. Helen collected, what I\ncall mugs. I don't know if they were . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Are you talking about steins?\n\nSROCHI: Yes, maybe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7710.0,7740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"steins.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The fancy ones?\n\nSROCHI: The painted . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: The German kind?\n\nSROCHI: German steins.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Beer steins.\n\nSROCHI: I call them beer mugs.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Sounds okay with me.\n\nSROCHI: I think steins are probably more accurate.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Elegant.\n\nSROCHI: Yes, more elegant, certainly.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Where did they live when they were in town here?\n\nSROCHI: Jake lived . . . my earliest memory of Uncle Jake ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7740.0,7770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Aunt Sara, they\nlived on Emory Road, which is not too far from Emory University. They lived\nabout halfway between Oxford and Briarcliff. [Do] you know that area?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes, and your Uncle Sidney?\n\nSROCHI: In about 1936, Jake moved to 823 Springdale Road.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Same neighborhood basically.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7770.0,7800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SROCHI: Came back actually closer to town.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes.\n\nSROCHI: Came into the city of Atlanta. Emory is in DeKalb County.\n\nSCHOENBERG: This is Ann Hoffman Schoenberg continuing the interview with Stanley\nSrochi on March 6, 2002. This is the second side of the second tape of the\nJewish Oral History Project interview. I'm sorry. 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I had the honor of being a train bearer.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=7920.0,7950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: A train bearer. I hadn't heard anybody do that.\n\nSROCHI: Yes. My partner was Helen's niece. The daughter of Helen's sister, Jenny\nFlower [sp]. I think the two of us we were talking or something and wasn't\nfollowing. 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Here you were, a free-floating bachelor, cavorting with playboy bunnies ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8070.0,8100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who\nwere acting as models for the bread company. I have to say.\n\nSROCHI: It was all business, unfortunately. What we were trying to do was sell\nHillbilly Bread.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. Right.\n\nSROCHI: You say, \"A likely story.\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. That's true. You said somebody had to do it. It was dirty work\nbut somebody had to do it.\n\nSROCHI: It was so successful. We almost ruined the white bread business.\n\nSCHOENBERG: All right. So how did you meet?\n\nSROCHI: We met ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8100.0,8130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":". . . I met a cousin of Joan's, the former Sue Joel, whose mother\nis Dorothy Selig. I was sort of the one who Sue would ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8130.0,8160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"call to entertain, what we\ncall a business to hire \"fire women.\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: Fire women. I hope you were dating women, not men.\n\nSROCHI: Yes. These were all women. I entertained a few of her friends. Then one\nday, Sue calls me and says, \"I've got a cousin in Richmond, Virginia.\" The\nconnection between Sue and Joan is Sue's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8160.0,8190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mother. No, Sue's mother's mother.\nSue's grandmother, Bertha Selig, was a sister to Joan's father. Anyway, I've got\nthis cousin in Richmond who is a widow. She'd been a widow since, I think, 1968,\nand she's coming down to visit me. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8190.0,8220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One thing and another. She came down.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Are you available?\n\nSROCHI: Joan came down, I think, over Labor Day weekend. I had the nine o'clock\nslot. I often say that I was the guy they selected to take an all night dinner.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Figured you got the money. You can do it.\n\nSROCHI: Well, I don't.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did somebody take her to lunch the same ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8220.0,8250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"day?\n\nSROCHI: That, I don't know. I do know that I was the last one of the day. I was\nscheduled [for] 8:00 or 8:30. Something like that. We did go out to dinner. Sue\nhad a date, and the four of us went out to dinner at the old [The] Tango\n[Restaurant] on Peachtree [Road] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8250.0,8280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in The Plaza Towers. That's where the menu was\non a record.\n\nSCHOENBERG: On a record? A recording?\n\nSROCHI: No. The old style deck of records. Round with a hole in it. They had the\nmenu printed on it. The name of the restaurant was The Tango. It was a fine restaurant.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8280.0,8310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: Is this the Peachtree Towers that are right there? That are still there?\n\nSROCHI: Peachtree and Lakemoore [Drive].\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes.\n\nSROCHI: Peachtree Plaza is still there but the restaurant is long gone.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I was going to say, I don't remember a restaurant there.\n\nSROCHI: Anyway, we met just over that weekend. That would have been September of\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8310.0,8340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1977. That's the first time I met Joan. Then Joan came back, I think, that\nspring. My sister saw Joan at the old Standard Club and said you should have\ncalled Stanley. Joan's story is that she wasn't going to call some guy just to\ntake her to dinner. 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She didn't know ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8370.0,8400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anybody that knew that area and\ncould remember what used to be there.\n\nSCHOENBERG: She grew up here in Atlanta?\n\nSROCHI: Joan tells people that she's native, but she was born in Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania].\n\nSCHOENBERG: What years?\n\nSROCHI: Her parents brought her here when she was 11 months old. She did grow up\nhere. She went to Highland School. She went to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8400.0,8430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the Girls' High [School].\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was her maiden name?\n\nSROCHI: Printz. P-R-I-N-T-Z. Her father was David Printz. I think the Printz\nwere in the dress business. The famous company in Cleveland [Ohio] was\nPrintz-Biederman [Company], one of the better-known dress manufacturers in that\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8430.0,8460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"era. I think there's a photograph of the Printz-Biederman factory in one of the\n[Jewish] Federation sort of coffee table books, if you ever have access.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Is that what her father did? He was part of the family business?\n\nSROCHI: He was apparently a very knowledgeable and very educated man. One of the\nstories is that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8460.0,8490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he studied in France with Erte [Romain de Tirtoff]. They\nexchanged correspondence with ideas in the margins of their letters, but nobody\nhad the presence of mind to keep them. They didn't know.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Who were these wonderful sketches?\n\nSROCHI: That he was going to be famous. Like some kid writing you a letter [who]\nmay be president of the United States.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Got to hold on to everything.\n\nSROCHI: It's a little scary.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8490.0,8520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: Her dad was involved in the business.\n\nSROCHI: She came here a couple of times. We sort of dated.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Were her parents gone by the time you met?\n\nSROCHI: Yes. Both her parents. She lost her mother when she was only 12 years\nold, in the late 1930s. Her father died when Joan was in her early 20s in 1948.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8520.0,8550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She was married in 1948 and lived in Atlanta for a short time. Lived in Texas.\nThey lived in Wichita Falls, Texas. It's rather ironic that I, my brother, and\none of my uncles, all spent some time in Sheppard Field, Texas, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8550.0,8580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which is in\nWichita Falls, and they lived in Dallas. She became friends with some of the\nMarcus family. I think even persuaded Stanley Marcus to buy cookies from a\nmaiden aunt of hers who made them, I guess in her kitchen, and they sold these\nthings. Apparently they were wonderful. They sold them for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8580.0,8610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"$25 a box in 1952.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That was expensive.\n\nSROCHI: They must have been good.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I was going to say, I don't know what they tasted like, but they\nmust have been fantastic if anybody would spend that kind of money in 1952. Wow.\n\nSROCHI: She was married to Alan Perretz, who was in the ladies dress business,\nretail end of it. He was also with an outfit called ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8610.0,8640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Goldray [sp]. I think a sort\nof situation where they had, how do you describe it, where people in effect,\nindependent business people, owned a particular segment of a store. Like a shoe department.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes, like the departments. The fur department or something.\n\nSROCHI: Which was fairly common.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. It was at one time.\n\nSROCHI: I don't know that it is today.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8640.0,8670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: No. I don't think so.\n\nSROCHI: Joan jokes that she married two guys that both loved Hickey Freeman\nsuits. Except I had to buy mine. I think Alan, they gave them to him. I think he\nwas in the business.\n\nSCHOENBERG: My dad liked Hickey Freeman too. I know exactly what you're talking about.\n\nSROCHI: Joan visited here a couple of times. Finally I got ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8670.0,8700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my nerve up and went\nto Richmond.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Had you met her children by then?\n\nSROCHI: She came down here. Yes. I had met all of the children. I was sort of\ncomplimented when one of the boys told his mother, he said, \"I can't call him\nMr. Srochi. He's a young man.\" That impressed me, even though he was lying\nbecause I was already in my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8700.0,8730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"50s at the time.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You were old enough to marry his mother, in any case.\n\nSROCHI: I thought you were going to say old enough to know better.\n\nSCHOENBERG: No. That's very cute.\n\nSROCHI: Anyway, Joan came down here over New Year's [Eve], not Christmas. [She]\ncame here after Christmas but before New Year's in 1978 or 1979. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8730.0,8760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's when we\ngot engaged.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You were married when?\n\nSROCHI: We were married in May 13, 1979. Unfortunately, I lost my father in\nFebruary of 1979, but my mother was still around.\n\nSCHOENBERG: To finally see you married.\n\nSROCHI: To see her baby boy get married.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They had probably given you up for a lost cause.\n\nSROCHI: I would think so. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8760.0,8790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had probably given myself up, but I'm not sure I\nwould have categorized it as a lost cause.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Here you are 30 some years later. Apparently it worked.\n\nSROCHI: Actually it's 23.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Excuse me. Twenty some years later.\n\nSROCHI: It will be 23 years in May.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes.\n\nSROCHI: If we make it to our Golden Wedding Anniversary, we'll each be 103 years\nold. Two old twins. Even 25 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8790.0,8820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"would be an accomplishment.\n\nSCHOENBERG: No, not hardly. Tell me about the kids. You've got step kids.\n\nSROCHI: The oldest is my stepdaughter, Connie Perretz Dierks. She grew up in . .\n. was born in Texas. I think she was born in Wichita Falls in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8820.0,8850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1952. She has just\nturned 50 years old. She grew up in the various cities that they went through.\nThey lived in Charlotte [North Carolina] just a few years in sort of the middle\n1950s until 1957 or 1958. I think they went to Richmond. Most of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8850.0,8880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/297","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her life she\nlived in Virginia. One of her claims to fame is that she was in the first class\nthat accepted women at the University of Virginia. While she was there, she met\ninspiring student named Peter Dierks, who is now known as Dr. Peter Dierks. [He]\nis a microbiologist. He's got I don't know how many ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8880.0,8910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/298","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"post-doc degrees.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How does he spell his name?\n\nSROCHI: D-I-E-R-K-S. The only thing that we're not fond of about Peter is that\napparently he is a descendant of General George Meade.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh dear. Bad inheritance.\n\nSROCHI: Other than that he's a heck of a guy. He's at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8910.0,8940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/299","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"University of\nVirginia. They married in 1975. I assumed Connie had graduated by then. Peter\nwas probably still in graduate school. He was on the staff at the University of\nVirginia and taught there. By the time we were married . . . this was before\nthey had any children, they went to Zurich, Switzerland. He taught and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8940.0,8970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"studied\nat the University of Zurich. Took care of all of his test students and things.\nHe told me one time, he was working on some holiday, he said that these little\ncreatures that he . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Little critters?\n\nSROCHI: Yes. They didn't know about these holidays. They had to be tended to at\nall times.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Scientists don't have holidays. You know that. Research scientists.\n\nSROCHI: Anyway, Joan and I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=8970.0,9000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"both went over to visit them in the fall of 1979, the\nyear we were married, and visited them in Zurich. [We] traveled around in\nSwitzerland and actually went to Florence, Italy with them. Joan went ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9000.0,9030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back in\n1981 when Connie had her first child. Our eldest grandson, Eric Michael Dierks,\nwas born in Zurich.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How many children do they have now?\n\nSROCHI: They had two children. Eric, who is a junior at the University of\nCalifornia, Berkeley.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Not a bad school.\n\nSROCHI: He is very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9030.0,9060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"artistic and, I think, probably will end up an architect. One\nof the family jokes is, his avocation is that he is a glass blower. I asked him\na few times, how do you spell this? We have . . . I'll show you some of his\nwork. He is very . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: I was going to say, don't knock glassblowing, if you've ever seen\n[Dale] Chihuly.\n\nSROCHI: Yes. I do not knock it. 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Maybe they used it for iced ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9090.0,9120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tea. I said, \"How much\nis this?\" The guys says, \"$10,000.\" Anyway, we've got Eric, who . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Who is doing his thing out there.\n\nSROCHI: Yes. He's doing his thing in California. He says he's taking . . . He\nloves to ski. On his father's side, he's got a New England Dierks in New\nHampshire. They were in the ice cream business back then. They ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9120.0,9150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all ski. He was a\nvery good skier. He's taking a double major, skiing in [Lake] Tahoe\n[California]. I always thought Tahoe was a more swimming and gambling.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I thought it was gambling for sure. His sibling?\n\nSROCHI: They have a daughter, Karen, who I think just turned 16 or 17. I think\nshe's a junior in high school. 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She's a competitive diver at the state and regional level.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Where do they live?\n\nSROCHI: They live now in Yardley, Pennsylvania.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He's teaching as well as . . .\n\nSROCHI: The story there is that in 1990, the father, Dr. Peter Dierks, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9180.0,9210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/308","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"decided\nif he was going to educate his children and maybe plan for his retirement, take\ncare of his financial situation, he needed to . . .\n\nSROCHI: [He] came back from Switzerland. I think he came back about 1983 or\n1984. He was there maybe four years. 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I don't call ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9270.0,9300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/311","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my grandchildren \"steps.\"\nI don't think they know that they're \"step.\" I hope not, anyway. She was born in Charlottesville.\n\nSCHOENBERG: In Virginia.\n\nSROCHI: It's a great town.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. I have two sons who went to school there. I know all about Charlottesville.\n\nSROCHI: You know all about it?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes.\n\nSROCHI: We've got another one of my grandsons, [the] one that lives in Richmond,\n[he] is going there. He'll be a freshman this coming fall.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Good. It's a wonderful place.\n\nSROCHI: He took a job ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9300.0,9330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/312","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with American Cyanamid [Company].\n\nSCHOENBERG: So he's in industry.\n\nSROCHI: In the agricultural division. They looked over the area. His office was\nin . . . he's still in Princeton, New Jersey. They decided to buy, settle in\nYardley, which is just . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Not far away.\n\nSROCHI: South of the New Jersey ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9330.0,9360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/313","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"state line. They're just really four minutes\nfrom Trenton [New Jersey], which is not really the garden spot of the world, but\nPrinceton is a great area. Anyway, Peter worked for . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's where they live now?\n\nSROCHI: American Cyanamid, in the agricultural division. I think he told me one\ntime his bunch was trying to save the cotton crop in Texas. 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Yes. Interesting.\n\nSROCHI: After a few years at American Cyanamid, [they] sold out to American Home Products.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's who they are now?\n\nSROCHI: Then maybe two years ago, a German company bought his division.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I was going to say, his German from Zurich then . . .\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9420.0,9450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/316","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SROCHI: He's got to make some career decisions either to stay with the German\ncompany or maybe to go somewhere else. I think they really want to stay in\nYardley because that's sort of a . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Good area?\n\nSROCHI: They want Karen to be able to finish high school where she is [and] not\nto move her. In the meantime, her mother ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9450.0,9480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/317","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"really deserves a lot of credit for her\ndiving career because she takes her down to Philadelphia [Pennsylvania], which\nis a 70-mile round trip, three times a week.\n\nSCHOENBERG: To train?\n\nSROCHI: She trains at La Salle University [with] some famous diving coach there.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What about the other children? 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The other voice you're hearing now ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9510.0,9540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/319","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is\nStanley's wife, who has just joined us. We are talking about her children and\ngrandchildren. I guess it's appropriate.\n\nSROCHI: Bruce has three children. He married. Connie was married in 1975, I\nbelieve. That was before my entrance into the family. Bruce was married in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9540.0,9570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/320","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1982.\nWe had already been married a few years. He married Mary Hughes [sp], a young\nlady he had met at Virginia Tech. She was in the forestry school, right?\n\nJOAN SROCHI: Yes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And they have . . .\n\nSROCHI: They have three children. They have two boys and a girl.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Are they in college?\n\nJOAN SROCHI: Not yet.\n\nSROCHI: The two boys, The oldest is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9570.0,9600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/321","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Perretz. He's a young man who is\ngraduating from high school this spring.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And going on to Virginia.\n\nSROCHI: He's already been accepted to the University of Virginia. He is a fine\nstudent. His ambition is not to be president but to really pull the strings and\nwrite the speeches.\n\nSCHOENBERG: To be the man behind the throne.\n\nSROCHI: The man behind. The one who doesn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9600.0,9630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/322","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"get excoriated in the press every\nday on oddball Fox News. A Drudge Report.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. And the next one?\n\nSROCHI: His next one is Alex Perretz. By the way, David is our six-footer. He's\n6'3\" or 6'4\", but on his mother's side, his mother was one of nine children.\nThat's strange that she's one of nine children. My mother was one of nine\nchildren. 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She'll be 14.\n\nJOAN SROCHI: She's the youngest.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Are there others?\n\nSROCHI: She's still going into high school.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Are there others?\n\nJOAN SROCHI: No.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's it?\n\nSROCHI: No. We've got Joan's baby, Scott Perretz.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Forgot about him.\n\nSROCHI: He graduated from high school in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9690.0,9720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/325","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Richmond and went to the University of\nGeorgia. [He] went through the accounting program. Passed the CPA [certified\npublic accountant] examination. [He] went to the University of Virginia and got\na master's in accounting. For a year or two after we were married, he lived in\nAtlanta. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9750.0,9780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/327","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He married the first time to a\nNew York girl and had two children, a daughter Alissa, who will be 20 in July.\nShe has a younger brother, who just turned 16. Jordan. Jordan thinks he's going\nto be the Jewish Tiger Woods.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I hope so.\n\nJOAN SROCHI: Wouldn't that be nice.\n\nSROCHI: He's a very fine golfer ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9780.0,9810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/328","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for his age. He has had a lot of . . .\n\nJOAN SROCHI: Advantages.\n\nSROCHI: Very determined. Very motivated kid. He goes to the [David] Leadbetter\nGolf Academy.\n\nJOAN SROCHI: Huh-oh.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Problem?\n\nSROCHI: That's our baby. That's Tabby.\n\nSCHOENBERG: This is the kitty we're talking about now. The kitty just entered\nthe room. You've probably been hearing her on the tape.\n\nSROCHI: Just over a year ago, or a year and a half ago, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9810.0,9840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/329","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Scott remarried. He's\nexpecting a child this summer. So that will be number eight.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's great.\n\nSROCHI: We just need one more for a baseload.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You've got a basketball team and a few subs.\n\nSROCHI: Yes. We've got three subs, and I'll coach.\n\nSCHOENBERG: There you go. Where were we going to go from there? We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9840.0,9870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/330","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did talk,\nbriefly, about your mother's family. I know you did tell me something about the\nuncles before when we talked before. I know what I wanted you to talk about. I\nwanted you to talk about the relationship of the family to the AA synagogue. We\nnever did talk about your family involvement in the Tenth Street property and\nall of that.\n\nSROCHI: I guess the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9870.0,9900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/331","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"relationship starts with the fact that we're East European\nJews. Both of my grandfathers came from Orthodox backgrounds. The AA was\nessentially, as I understand it, Orthodox until certainly the World War II era,\neither just before or just after, when it joined the Conservative ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9900.0,9930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/332","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"movement. My\nmaternal grandfather was maybe more knowledgeable, for want of a better term.\n[He] actually, studied the . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: The Talmud and Torah?\n\nSROCHI: He was more of what they might have called a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9930.0,9960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/333","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"yeshiva buff. He spent more\ntime there. My Grandfather Srochi was there on all the holidays and that sort of\nthing. I don't know that he was there every Friday night. I don't know that he\nwas there for every morning service. I sort of think that my mother's father, my\nGrandfather Hirsh, was. I can recall that some of the holidays when the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=9960.0,9990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/334","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"service\nwas over and everybody was leaving, I'd see him with a group of his cronies.\nThey'd be in the corner, and they were going to get down to the serious stuff\nthen when everybody else left.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They were going to really start davening?\n\nSROCHI: Yes. Get rid of the riff raff. I can recall some of the seders at my\nGrandfather Hirsh's home. 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He didn't skip a page, not a sentence?\n\nSROCHI: No. My Grandfather Srochi, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10020.0,10050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/336","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he was sort of . . . at least later, he was\nsort of the rabbi's go-to guy. You know, when you wanted something, and you\nwanted it quick.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Didn't want to have to go get a vote.\n\nSROCHI: Yes. Go get a vote and go see a dozen people or two dozen. He was\nmotivated and responsive and, I guess, able to do it. One of the family stories\nis that he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10050.0,10080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/337","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had a visit from an IRS [Internal Revenue Service] agent later in his\nlife. They were trying to determine how he could give away so much money with\nthe income, I guess, he was reporting at the time. Anyway, apparently he did\nconvince him it was . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: It was legit.\n\nSROCHI: It was legit. He was giving ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10080.0,10110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/338","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"away maybe what these people today call\ntheir 401(k)s, their stock.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He wasn't putting it away. He was giving it away.\n\nSROCHI: Some of that is in the article you have. It was in the AA bulletin. He\nwas involved when the Washington Street shul was dedicated in 1920. 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In my day, when I started Sunday school ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10140.0,10170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/340","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the\nearly 1930s, the classes were held in the vestry room in the lower level, what\npeople refer to now as the basement. The lower level of the synagogue. Over a\nperiod of time, we outgrew the available space in the synagogue. They rented\nspace in a nearby school, which was Crew Street School. Crew Street runs north\nand ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10170.0,10200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/341","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"south and is one block east of Washington Street, between Washington and\nCapitol Avenue. Crew Street School was probably maybe four or five blocks from\nthe synagogue.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Close enough.\n\nSROCHI: In the middle to late 1930s, it was already, what we would call today, a\npretty rough area. We held the Sunday school at Crew Street for several years.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10200.0,10230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/342","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"By that time, most of the membership had gravitated to the north side of town,\nbasically, the northeast side of town. So, they began to look for some facility,\none that would accommodate the growing membership and also would be more\nconvenient for the parents to chauffer the kids back and forth. 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The\nfamily wanted to honor my grandmother, so they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10320.0,10350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/346","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"funded the [Srochi] auditorium.\nThe educational center. That was the first Srochi Auditorium. Somewhere, I think\nJoan may have seen it. We've got these films of maybe the dedication dinner and\nsome meeting there. All the ladies have hats on. Every one of them.\n\nJOAN SROCHI: That's what they used to do.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And gloves.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10350.0,10380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/347","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"JOAN SROCHI: Then when they stopped doing that and picked up on the blue jeans,\nthe whole country went decadent.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I was going to say. The other thing they had on was girdles.\n\nJOAN SROCHI: Yes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You weren't seen in public without your girdle on.\n\nJOAN SROCHI: Right.\n\nSROCHI: Yes. The big topic of conversation before the holidays was always how\nthe weather was going to be, because it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10380.0,10410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/348","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before the days of air conditioning.\nIs it going to be hot?\n\nSCHOENBERG: What are you going to wear?\n\nSROCHI: Yes. What you are going to wear? They took a lot of pride in what they\nwore. Most of them still wore hats to the synagogue.\n\nSCHOENBERG: By all means.\n\nSROCHI: By that time, most of the women either sat upstairs or in the back of\nthe main level at the Washington Street shul.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Really? They were still sitting separate?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10410.0,10440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/349","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SROCHI: They didn't have really integrated seating until sometime in the 1950s.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Is this after you moved?\n\nSROCHI: At the AA.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was that after you moved to the new building on Peachtree Battle [Avenue]?\n\nSROCHI: I think we had integrated seating at the new building. The first\nservices were held on Peachtree Battle in 1958.\n\nSCHOENBERG: But you had already integrated by then?\n\nSROCHI: Yes. I mean we were already ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10440.0,10470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/350","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with-it by then. We were a little\nmore hip by then.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I would hope so. So you have honored your mom or your grandmom . . .\n\nSROCHI: Yes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It was your grandma.\n\nSROCHI: It would have been my maternal . . . I'm sorry, my paternal grandmother.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. So you honored her with . . .\n\nSROCHI: We'll say the first Srochi Auditorium.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes, and the current version, which is at Peachtree Battle?\n\nSROCHI: At the AA. 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As\nan aside, Myrtle, whom you knew, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10500.0,10530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/352","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"taught at the AA. She became a teacher at the\nAA nursery school, she and Janice Paradies Shoob. Janice's father was also a\npast president. I. J. [Isaac J.] Paradies was a past president of AA. Joan\nactually worked for him at one time.\n\nJOAN SROCHI: Yes, sure did. Real nice. He was a nice man. He had a book on his\ndesk that was backwards all the time. I didn't know. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10530.0,10560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/353","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was always upside down\nand backwards. So every day that I'd do his desk and straighten it, I'd turn it\nthe other way. Finally, he said to me one day, \"Are you Jewish?\" I said, \"Yes.\"\nHe said, \"Well, don't you know we read from the back of the book.\" I said, \"It\nnever occurred to me.\"\n\nSROCHI: He told you to quit fooling with his book, didn't he?\n\nJOAN SROCHI: He sure did. Drove me crazy, but he never said anything for months.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's funny.\n\nJOAN SROCHI: I just didn't know.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10560.0,10590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/354","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: This is Ann Hoffman Schoenberg interviewing Stanley Srochi on March\n6, 2002, for the Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta, co-sponsored by The\nAmerican Jewish Committee, the Atlanta Jewish Federation, and the National\nCouncil of Jewish Women. We are now starting the first side of the third tape. I\nneed to have you talk once more. Unfortunately, we ran out of tape and I was\nremiss. You ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10590.0,10620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/355","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"need to talk to me again about moving the Srochi Auditorium, finding\nthe property, and talking about the various properties that you looked at,\nactually, prior to Peachtree Battle.\n\nSROCHI: All right. It was sort of in the early to middle 1950s. 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The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10800.0,10830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/362","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"main sanctuary?\n\nSROCHI: A rough number, in the sanctuary is probably in the low 3,000 range.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I knew it was a lot. 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That was probably as involved as negotiating\nwith North Korea in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10890.0,10920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/365","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Korean War.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You were talking about the fact that everyone wore hats. All the\nwomen made a big thing about what they were going to wear to services because\nthere was no air conditioning.\n\nSROCHI: That was largely going to be determined by \"how is the weather going to\nbe?\" because it was long before the days of central air conditioning. 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The world sort\nof stopped then.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I do want you to tell the origin of the memorial that you've\nrecently created for your own mother at the Zaban Park facility.\n\nSROCHI: The background is that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=10980.0,11010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/368","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had been involved at the center, of course, at\nthe layman's level since the late 1960s. [I] served on, particularly, the budget\ncommittee. [I was] actually was treasurer of the center for several years. It\nwas a great job. There's very little to do. They never let you handle the money,\nand you didn't even have to sign the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=11010.0,11040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/369","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"checks. It was a good position where you\nmet a lot of great people and a lot of great activity. They had a very\nprestigious board and used to have tremendous turnouts.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How large was the board?\n\nSROCHI: I've been on the board for about 30 years since the early 1970s.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How large was it?\n\nSROCHI: The board?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. How many people were involved?\n\nSROCHI: [That] would ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=11040.0,11070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/370","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"come to a typical meeting, I'd say there'd be at least\n40-45 people.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's a lot.\n\nSROCHI: We would meet, of course, at the Peachtree . . . at the time. The only\nfacility we had was the Peachtree. The later, meetings would be held at Zaban\nand [Shirley] Blumenthal [Park] facility in Cobb County.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You said Bernie Howard was instrumental in getting you involved.\n\nSROCHI: Yes, Bernie was. 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That's how a lot of the, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=11100.0,11130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/372","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what\nI call kids, would come on the board and be sort of junior members and later end\nup as presidents of the center.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Sure. That's how it happens. So you decided, as a family, that you\nwanted to honor your mother.\n\nSROCHI: You would have the Capital Funds Campaign here, which were raising funds\nto be allocated ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=11130.0,11160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/373","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to various Jewish facilities and Jewish organizations. I was\ninvolved in that. I had made a pledge to the fund. I had not, at the time,\ndesignated any honorarium or anything. This particular program . . . I was\napproached ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=11160.0,11190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/374","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about the program. It was something I was really interested in\nbecause I saw it as a vehicle. [It] is not a one-time shot but an ongoing\nprogram that could be expanded, improved, and hopefully it will be. It has very\nfine leadership. There's a great young lady who is director.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What's her name?\n\nSROCHI: Suzanne Hurwitz [sp].\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=11190.0,11220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/375","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: The name of the project? We haven't named that project yet.\n\nSROCHI: It was known as the Children's Museum. They were waiting for somebody, I\nguess, to fund the program. I'm really surprised it was around as long as it\nwas. I'm happy that it was there long enough.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It was available.\n\nSROCHI: It was available when I finally made up my mind what I wanted to do. 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That's the reason I requested\nthat they use my mother's maiden name in the title of the facility.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The project is an interactive ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=11250.0,11280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/377","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"museum?\n\nSROCHI: It is interactive. You really need to go there to understand it. It's a\nchildren's playground in some sense, though that's not really the purpose of it.\nI'd say children as young as two or three years old . . . 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Great guy.\n\nSROCHI: I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=11370.0,11400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/381","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"knew Bernie before anybody else knew him, practically, except maybe\nJoy [Howard], and my sister, and some of the girls.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How did you all meet?\n\nSROCHI: Some of the girlfriends because he was in the service here at Fort\nMcPherson. I saw all the fun Bernie was having being in the army and I was\nthinking I was going to be there in a year or two. It couldn't be all that bad.\nOf course, I didn't get to stay in Atlanta. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=11430.0,11460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/383","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You've got such a fund of associations and\nknowledge about so many people in this community.\n\nSROCHI: Throw a name at me. I probably . . . Tell me somebody you want to know\nsomething about. I may know him.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Tell me something about what you're up to today. You're doing real\nestate stuff, I know. Who you doing it with?\n\nSROCHI: I guess I'm a survivor today. 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I seem to remember\nyour telling me something about trying to get out of apartment management and\nthat sort of thing?\n\nSROCHI: Since I met with you last, we have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=11670.0,11700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/391","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"managed to do that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So you don't have all of that?\n\nSROCHI: [We] sold the last of our apartment property. [We're] completely out of\nthe apartment area of the real estate business. In my opinion, that is the most\nhands-on, time-consuming, labor-intensive . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: It's labor intensive. Sure.\n\nSROCHI: Type of . . . not that it hasn't been very good to us and very good to\nother people. It was just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=11700.0,11730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/392","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"something that we felt we would . . . it's time to.\nWhat does the Bible say, there's a time to sow and a time to reap.\n\nSCHOENBERG: There's a time for everything. Exactly.\n\nSROCHI: It's time. 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You know, they're only good to the . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: To the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=11880.0,11910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/398","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"end of the month?\n\nSROCHI: Yes, to the end of the month until they've got to pay next month's rent.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Do you see a parallel there between the Jewish immigrants who came,\nlike your family came?\n\nSROCHI: Definitely. We had one tenant in a property we owned when it was folded\ninto the Underground Atlanta project. He was a Korean gentleman. 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Very few of them went to the prep schools that were\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=12090.0,12120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/405","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"available, either Washington Seminary or the Napsonian School, which was sort of\na forerunner of Westminster. It was a Presbyterian school. A very large\npercentage of the students at Boys' High were Jewish. The last year, the school\nwas closed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=12120.0,12150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/406","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"after the 1947 school year. The Boys' High still has an active alumni\nassociation. In fact, we're going to have a school-wide reunion, which we have\nevery other year. My own class, the class of 1944, has a reunion every five\nyears. The school-wide reunion will be held this ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=12150.0,12180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/407","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"April. Unfortunately, we're all\nin our 70s now. If you went to Boys' High School, you almost have to be in your 70s.\n\nSCHOENBERG: [Do] you still have a good number?\n\nSROCHI: I would expect we will have close to 500 people attending that. 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Couple hundred?\n\nSROCHI: The whole history of the school?\n\nSCHOENBERG: No. I mean your class in 1944.\n\nSROCHI: I would say probably around 300.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I didn't know how big the classes were.\n\nSROCHI: I can check that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Where were you in the class, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=12210.0,12240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/409","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"academically?\n\nSROCHI: I wasn't the best, but I probably wasn't the worse either. Actually, I\ndon't think we had class rankings at the time. I was better in the social\nsciences than I was in the, what I would call, the physical or the technical. I\nguess I was better . . .\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=12240.0,12270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/410","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: You went to [University of] Georgia? Where did you go?\n\nSROCHI: No. Right out of high school I went right into the service.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And then?\n\nSROCHI: When I came back, I went to Emory University. [I] went through the\ncollege in about three years. [I] even went in the summer. I think I went every\nsummer except the summer of 1948. The reason I didn't go that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=12270.0,12300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/411","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"summer was because\nI wanted to be able to listen to the 1948 convention, which was pre-television.\nThe first television station in Atlanta didn't open until September, 1948.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That was WSB?\n\nSROCHI: In 1948. Anyway, I got an AB [Bachelor's] degree in the class of 1949 at\nEmory. The following ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=12300.0,12330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/412","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"year, I went to law school. I was in the law class of 1952.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did you run into any anti-Semitism at Emory? Because I just heard a\nstory about someone who was in that same era who had some pretty rough\nexperiences with Emory.\n\nSROCHI: I didn't personally. The only time I really ran into, what I thought was\nanti-Semitism . . . I still remember on Oxford Road, maybe six [or] seven ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=12330.0,12360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/413","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years,\nbeing called little Jew boy by one of my buddies. I may have told you a friend\nof mine. I better not name him. He is very prominent. We went over to the old\nEducational Alliance on Capitol Avenue, and those boys didn't know who the heck\nwe were.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's because you didn't live in the neighborhood.\n\nSROCHI: Yes. They followed us down the hall calling us little \"Christ childs.\"\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=12360.0,12390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/414","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The only real anti-Semitism I ran into was at the Jewish Alliance.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was in the Jewish community itself. That's interesting. No. Somebody\nhad just told me about some experiences at Emory.\n\nSROCHI: My mother used to say that the guys I was in the service with didn't\nthink I was Jewish because I didn't smoke, drink, or gamble.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was that a sign of Jewishness?\n\nSROCHI: That would make me a sign of a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=12390.0,12420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/415","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stereotype.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Stereotypical.\n\nSROCHI: What do you call it today?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Profiling.\n\nSROCHI: Stereotype. Profiling.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Profiling, right. I was trying to think what you were referring to.\n\nSROCHI: You frisk some 100-year-old little 5'1\" blue hair, and you let 6' 9\"\n[Osama] Bin Laden go right through because you've got a directive that says you\ncan't do that [or] you're going to get in trouble.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=12420.0,12450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/416","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: I think maybe we will call it a day. I don't know what we haven't\ntalked about. If there's something we haven't talked about and I think about it,\nI'll call you.\n\nSROCHI: You just call me.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Thank you very, very much for participating.\n\nSROCHI: Instant recall is a good method because you can get some response, but\nif you just ask somebody to come up with something ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=12450.0,12480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/transcript/35172/annotation/417","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out of the blue, it is a\nlittle more difficult.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yes. I will review this one and let you know. Thank you again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=12480.0,12510.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/annotation_set/613","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/annotation_set/613/annotation/418","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAhavath Achim was founded in 1887 in a small room on Gilmer Street. In 1901 they moved to a permanent building at the corner of Piedmont and Gilmer Street. In 1921, the congregation constructed a synagogue at Washington Street and Woodward Avenue. The final service in that building was held in 1958 to make way for construction of the Downtown Connector (the concurrent section of Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 through Atlanta). The synagogue moved to its current location on Peachtree Battle Avenue in 1958. Rabbi Abraham Hirmes was the first rabbi of the then Orthodox congregation. In 1928 Rabbi Harry Epstein became the rabbi and the congregation began to shift to Conservatism, which they joined in 1952. Cantor Isaac Goodfriend, a Holocaust survivor, joined the congregation in 1966 and remained until his retirement.  Rabbi Epstein retired in 1982, becoming Rabbi Emeritus and Rabbi Arnold Goodman assumed the rabbinic post. He retired in 2002. Rabbi Neil Sandler is now the rabbi. (2015).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/annotation_set/613/annotation/419","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eLitvak\u003c/em\u003e’ refers to Lithuanian Jews or Jews with roots in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: (present-day Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine, and the northeastern Suwalki region of Poland). The term is sometimes used, especially in Israel, to cover all Orthodox Jews who follow a “Lithuanian” (Ashkenazi and non-Hasidic) style of life and learning, whatever their ethnic background.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/annotation_set/613/annotation/420","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eGalician Jews or Galitzianers are a subdivision of the Ashkenazim geographically originating from Galicia, from western Ukraine and from the southeastern corner of Poland.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/annotation_set/613/annotation/421","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eKosher/\u003cem\u003eKashrut\u003c/em\u003e is the set of Jewish dietary laws. Food that may be consumed according to \u003cem\u003ehalakhah\u003c/em\u003e (Jewish law) is termed ‘kosher’ in English. Kosher refers to Jewish laws that dictate how food is prepared or served and which kinds of foods or animals can be eaten. Food that is not in accordance with Jewish law is called ‘\u003cem\u003etreif\u003c/em\u003e.’ The word ‘kosher’ has become English vernacular, a colloquialism meaning proper, legitimate, genuine, fair, or acceptable. 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They also observe gender equality (mixed seating, women rabbis, and \u003cem\u003ebat mitzvahs\u003c/em\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/annotation_set/613/annotation/428","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1928 Rabbi Harry Epstein (1903-2003) served as the rabbi of Ahavath Achim from 1928 to 1982. Under his leadership the congregation began to shift to Conservatism, which they adopted in 1952. Rabbi Epstein retired in 1982, becoming Rabbi Emeritus and Rabbi Arnold Goodman assumed the rabbinic post.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/55374/file/129287/annotation_set/613/annotation/429","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHebrew for ‘son of commandment.’ A rite of passage for Jewish boys aged 13 years and one day. At that time, a Jewish boy is considered a responsible adult for most religious purposes. He is now duty bound to keep the commandments, he puts on \u003cem\u003etefillin\u003c/em\u003e, and may be counted to the \u003cem\u003eminyan\u003c/em\u003e quorum for public worship. 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The person who receives the \u003cem\u003ealiyah\u003c/em\u003e goes up to the \u003cem\u003ebimah\u003c/em\u003e before the reading and recites a blessing thanking G-d for giving the \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e to the Jewish nation. After the reading, the recipient then recites another concluding blessing. \u003cem\u003eAliyah\u003c/em\u003e is also the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to Israel. 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