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He was the middle child born to Max and Matilda Yarmovsky Dolgoff. Norman had an older brother, Ralph, and younger sister, Shirley. After his parents married, they moved to Savannah, Georgia from Brooklyn, New York and operated a grocery store at Whitaker Street and Taylor Street. In 1946, Norman’s father died from cancer and his mother continued operate the grocery store at a nearby location. As a child, he was active at the Jewish Educational Alliance and involved in a variety of sports including football, basketball, tennis, badminton, ping pong, and handball.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNorman attended Barnard Street School and Chatham Junior High and graduated from Benedictine Military School. After high school, he went to Armstrong College, the University of Georgia, and Georgia Southern University, where he earned a degree in Education, majoring in Health and Physical Education. He later earned his master’s degree in health and physical education at the University of Houston. Norman worked at the Houston Jewish Community Center and later served as the Health and Physical Education Director at the Jewish Educational Alliance. He later worked at the Georgia Department of Agriculture and was there until his retirement.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe met his wife, Sherry Roth in Houston, Texas and they married in 1964. They were members of B’nai Brith Jacob Synagogue. Norman was active in his community serving on the board of the Jewish Education Alliance and other charitable organizations. Norman and Sherry had three daughters, Marcey, Karen, and Laura, three grandchildren and a great granddaughter. Sherry passed away in January 2022 and Norman passed away in June 2022.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eNorman begins the interview by sharing about his family, why his parents came to Savannah, Georgia, and where they lived after coming to Savannah. He recounts his father dying and how difficult it was losing him. He recalls his mother continuing to operate the grocery store after her father died. Norman reflects on what the corner grocery stores were like and what his family’s store was like. He shares a few additional memories about his father’s funeral.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe talks about his early school experience and a fight he got into while in middle school. Norman discusses attending Benedictine Military School, the activities he took part in while attending school there, and his college experience. He shares his involvement at the old Jewish Educational Alliance while growing up and memories of some of the people that lived in the square near the Alliance. He also recalls his memories of Tybee Island while he was growing up, and his one interaction with the Ku Klux Klan.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNorman shares about moving to Houston for a job at the Houston Jewish Community Center and earning his master’s degree at the University of Houston. He recalls how he met and married his wife, Sherry Roth Dolgoff. He shares about his daughters and his grandchildren. He discusses desegregation at the Jewish Educational Alliance swimming pool and his involved in the sports while he was young. He describes the game, half-rubber and its popularity in Savannah. Norman shares how his mother balanced operating the store and running the home as a single parent. He recounts a story about some properties his mother owned and her trying to sell them to the woman who rented one of the buildings. He concludes the interview by sharing his memories of Charlie Grossman, the long-time health club manager at the Jewish Educational Alliance.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Dolgoff, Norman (1935-2022) (personal name)","Dolgoff, Max (1891-1946) (personal name)","Dolgoff, Matilda Yarmovsky (1902-1992) (personal name)","Dolgoff, Ralph (1932-2015) (personal name)","Dolgoff, Shirley (1937-1997) (personal name)","Dolgoff, Sherry Roth (1942-2022) (personal name)","Persky, Nathan (1888-1965) (personal name)","Weiner, David (1904-1984) (personal name)","Sherman, Myer (1905-1971) (personal name)","Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945) (personal name)","McKenna, William (1937-2009) (personal name)","Chilnick, Jack (1917-1983) (personal name)","Sussman, Dr. Hy (1934-2024) (personal name)","Melaver, Norton (1926-2011) (personal name)","Hoffman, Phillip (1930-1989) (personal name)","Grossman, Charles (1926-2021) (personal name)","Brooklyn, New York (geographic term)","Volozhin, Belarus (geographic term)","Savannah, Georgia (geographic term)","Tybee Island, Georgia (geographic term)","Houston, Texas (geographic term)","Parris Island, South Carolina (geographic term)","Stilson, Georgia (geographic term)","Hinesville, Georgia (geographic term)","Nahunta, Georgia (geographic term)","Charleston, South Carolina (geographic term)","Savannah’s Jewish Educational Alliance (corporate name)","A\u0026amp;P (corporate name)","Bargain Corner (corporate name)","Monarch Food Products (corporate name)","Bonaventure Cemetery (corporate name)","Laurel Grove Cemetery (corporate name)","Barnard Street School (corporate name)","Chatham Junior High School (corporate name)","Benedictine Military School (corporate name)","University of Georgia (corporate name)","Georgia Southern University (corporate name)","University of Houston (corporate name)","University of Texas (corporate name)","St. Vincent’s Academy (corporate name)","Savannah High School (corporate name)","McKenna Supply Company (corporate name)","Congregation Agudath Achim (corporate name)","Houston Jewish Community Center (corporate name)","Savannah Union Station (corporate name)","World War II (named event)","Savannah St. Patrick’s Day Parade (named event)","Forsyth Park (topical term)","Ku Klux Klan (topical term)","Half-rubber (topical term)","Kosher (topical term)","Shiva (topical term)","Mashgiach (topical term)","Shabbos (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eNorman Dolgoff was interviewed by Harriet Meyerhoff on September 23, 2010, in Savannah, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNorman Dolgoff was born on June 4, 1935, in Savannah, Georgia. He was the middle child born to Max and Matilda Yarmovsky Dolgoff. Norman had an older brother, Ralph, and younger sister, Shirley. After his parents married, they moved to Savannah, Georgia from Brooklyn, New York and operated a grocery store at Whitaker Street and Taylor Street. In 1946, Norman\u0026rsquo;s father died from cancer and his mother continued operate the grocery store at a nearby location. As a child, he was active at the Jewish Educational Alliance and involved in a variety of sports including football, basketball, tennis, badminton, ping pong, and handball.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNorman attended Barnard Street School and Chatham Junior High and graduated from Benedictine Military School. After high school, he went to Armstrong College, the University of Georgia, and Georgia Southern University, where he earned a degree in Education, majoring in Health and Physical Education. He later earned his master\u0026rsquo;s degree in health and physical education at the University of Houston. Norman worked at the Houston Jewish Community Center and later served as the Health and Physical Education Director at the Jewish Educational Alliance. He later worked at the Georgia Department of Agriculture and was there until his retirement.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe met his wife, Sherry Roth in Houston, Texas and they married in 1964. They were members of B\u0026rsquo;nai Brith Jacob Synagogue. Norman was active in his community serving on the board of the Jewish Education Alliance and other charitable organizations. Norman and Sherry had three daughters, Marcey, Karen, and Laura, three grandchildren and a great granddaughter. Sherry passed away in January 2022 and Norman passed away in June 2022.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNorman begins the interview by sharing about his family, why his parents came to Savannah, Georgia, and where they lived after coming to Savannah. He recounts his father dying and how difficult it was losing him. He recalls his mother continuing to operate the grocery store after her father died. Norman reflects on what the corner grocery stores were like and what his family\u0026rsquo;s store was like. He shares a few additional memories about his father\u0026rsquo;s funeral.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe talks about his early school experience and a fight he got into while in middle school. Norman discusses attending Benedictine Military School, the activities he took part in while attending school there, and his college experience. 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I'm at the JEA [Jewish Educational Alliance] on Abercorn Street interviewing Norman Dolgoff. Today is September 23, 2010. Norman, you're a Savannahian. Who were your parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=3.0,21.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Max and Matilda Dolgoff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=21.0,26.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Where was your father from?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=26.0,27.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e My father was born in Russia. My mom was born in the United States.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=27.0,33.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e When he came to the United States, where did he settle and how did you meet your mother?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=33.0,39.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e In New York, Brooklyn. That's about all I know about it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=39.0,46.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . All right. Do you know where in Russia he was from?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=46.0,53.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e He was from Volozhin Poland. Poland and Russia sometimes this way and sometimes that way, so Volozhin, Poland.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=53.0,63.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e They met and married here, and they married in Brooklyn. Do you have siblings?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=63.0,71.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I have a brother, Ralph, and he lives in Baltimore, Maryland. My sister is deceased, her name was Shirley.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=71.0,83.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me how you eventually got to Savannah [Georgia].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=83.0,85.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e My folks came to Savannah in 1932, and they bought a grocery store from a man named Nathan Persky, who was a cousin.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=85.0,96.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Where was that located?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=96.0,97.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e On the corner of Whitaker and Taylor Street, 422 Whitaker.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=97.0,103.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Where did you live? Where was your family house?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=103.0,106.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e We lived there from . . . I was born in 1935, and we lived there until 1946 when my dad died, and we moved across the street diagonally to the house that was the A\u0026P store at that time. We moved the store over there . . . We bought that house, and we lived above it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=106.0,128.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e You were just a child, I believe, when your father died?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=128.0,131.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. I was 11 years old. My brother and I were at camp, and we were called and had to come home that our dad was dying of leukemia cancer and all. Something, it really didn't dawn on me was . . . I couldn't believe it. It was just so traumatic. A . . . cousin of mine, David Shindell, [he] was over at the house and all, visiting with us through the Shiva, he took me to the ballpark, to Forsyth Park. I was watching the game there. The Alliance was playing a game. I knew everyone there, etc. and all but everyone there didn't know me. One man came over to me and said, \"Who is the boy that his dad died this morning? His dad just died, Dolgoff boy.\" That's when it really sunk in. It was very traumatic. I've never forgotten that . . . It put me ill at ease.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=131.0,205.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Now, your mother, in those days, a lot of the women stayed home. They were very domestic. But I'm sure your mother had to run the store. Do you remember about what happened after that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=205.0,217.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother took over the store and she ran it from 1946 to 1972.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=217.0,228.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e What was the neighborhood grocery stores like in those days?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=228.0,234.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e There was only one big supermarket in town, Bargain Corner. Everything else, there were neighborhood markets . . . all over the place everywhere you went. They generally had . . .  a little meat department, and then groceries also. Carried a little bit of everything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=234.0,253.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you carry any kosher meats at that time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=253.0,256.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, we did. I'll tell you something interesting. Mr. Kaplan, who was the mashgiach, he came to our store to the kosher the chickens that were being sold.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=256.0,272.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Tell me about the refrigeration and freezing. I'm sure there weren't freezers then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=272.0,278.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Big refrigerators. I don't recall any . . . we must have had freezers [because] we had . . . There were only three kinds of ice cream, chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=278.0,296.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Perishable items . . . did they just buy in smaller quantities so that they would be sold fast before going bad? Can you describe anything more about the neighborhood grocery store that we don't see very much today? [tape stops and starts] Let's talk more about the neighborhood store?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=296.0,320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. The store that we moved into was across the street, diagonal, was an A\u0026P. It was a three man A\u0026P. They had one man who was in charge of the store, the manager and one butcher and one grocer. That was all. That's all they had. They ran that operation. An A\u0026P, which was a big company.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=320.0,343.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e I understand that store had originally been a private home. What did you tell me was in the basement?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=343.0,351.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e It had a wine cellar beneath the ground, beneath the floor of the store.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=351.0,358.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Was it a refrigerated wine cellar?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=358.0,361.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e No, it was not.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=361.0,363.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Now, how did people pay?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=363.0,368.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e We . . . gave credit. My mom had a large macasket they called it, a big filing system and alphabetical. The people would come in and get their groceries and then we'd write a ticket, and they'd file the ticket. At the end of the month, they would come in and pay on it or pay all of it off. However, later in life, I asked my mom one time, because a man had told me that his family had traded with us a long time ago and he wanted me to give my mom regards, etc. My mom said it would be better if he would send us the money that they owed us from all those years. [tape stops and resumes] When my dad died, loads of people came over because of the circumstances. Dave Weiner and Myer Sherman, who were salesman, one for Monarch and one for Premier, they came over and loads of people. They came and transported all the food from the old store into the new store for us, which I'll never forget.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=368.0,446.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Norman, was your father buried at Bonaventure or Laurel Grove?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=446.0,451.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=451.0,452.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Can you think? Were the funerals any different than they are today?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=452.0,456.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes . . . The services were held in the building at the Bonaventure enclosed building. That was different, and I'll never forget.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=456.0,471.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Can you think of any customs that they did then that they don't do now, or vice versa?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=471.0,477.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e People were very, very emotional as if almost to, want to jump into the grave. I'll never forget that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=477.0,487.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Now, did they also place the dirt on top of the casket after it was placed in the ground? Is that a new custom?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=487.0,496.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't recall. [tape stops and resumes].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=496.0,497.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e What about your schooling?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=497.0,502.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Preschool, I went to the religious kindergarten that was on Abercorn and Hall Street. I believe that the teachers were Ms. [indistinct: 8:33: possibly 'Unispen'] and Mrs. Walker, I don't remember what her first name was. From there I went to Barnard Street School and the principal, Mrs. Miller, and I had something happen there that I wanted to go into if you don't mind. This was during the war, and I got in a fight with a guy because he told me that I loved the Germans, and I loved [Adolf] Hitler. I had to go to the principal office, and the principal said to the fellow I had the fight with, \"Do you know what this fellow did this morning? He came in and he had money to buy stamps to save the US Saving Bond. Why would he come and spend money on buying a bond if he loved the Germans?\" She told him to bend over. Pow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=502.0,576.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Pow. What do you mean for people who may not understand?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=576.0,579.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e She hit him with a big paddle. That was the end of the deal. But I wanted to mention that, it was the only antisemitism that I recall in my youth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=579.0,589.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=589.0,591.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e From there, I went to Chatham Junior High, which is where the Board of Education is now. I stayed there two years, and then I was offered a scholarship to Benedictine, an athletic scholarship. I went to Benedictine for four years from 1949 to 1953. From there, I went to Armstrong College, a junior college, I graduated from there. It was a two year school. Then I went to the University of Georgia. But because it cost me $1,400 for the year at Georgia, I was able to go to Georgia Southern for $900, so I transferred to Georgia Southern and graduated from Georgia Southern.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=591.0,636.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Let's back up. When you were at BC [Benedictine], a lot of people don't understand how and why so many Jewish boys went to a Catholic school. Explain that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=636.0,649.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e I think they went because friends of theirs were going, mainly. There were about 17 Jewish boys at Benedictine when I was there, out of probably 180 students.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=649.0,662.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e What about the religious atmosphere, the priests and religious school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=662.0,667.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, boy. We had some wonderful things happen, but I was scared to death of the priests and rightly so, because they had permission to hit you if they wanted to. The disciplinarian could take a paddle to you and hit you. I was afraid that if something happened to me at school, I'd get it worse when I went home. [tape stops and resumes] At Benedictine, the first class of the day at 8:30, we went to, for a half an hour, to a study hall while the Catholic boys all had to go to religion. We were not required to take religion. I think that differs today because my grandchild goes to St. Vincent's, my granddaughter and she has to take religion.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=667.0,723.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e But they accepted you and there was no pressure put upon any of the Jewish boys.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=723.0,729.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, correct.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=729.0,732.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you march in the St. Patrick's parade?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=732.0,734.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I did, many times.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=734.0,736.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e How is that different than it is today? Tell me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=736.0,741.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e [Memoirist laughs] I don't think it's too different. I think it's the same thing. I can tell you this, that the little Jewish girls used to run out with the cameras and take all the guys pictures running down the street. One time I was the guide-on of the platoon and I stopped to pose for the picture and the company commander, and all was way ahead of me. He had to turn around and signal me for us to come.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=741.0,767.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Were there any restrictions or rules set on you boys for marching?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=767.0,776.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. You better do what your suppose to do [or] otherwise you get demerits. You have to stay and walk on [indistinct: 12:59: possibly 'jug'] penalized.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=776.0,787.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Were any Jewish boys active in sports at BC?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=787.0,790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, we had quite a few that made the varsity basketball team . . . and played. I played football and this was not unusual. There were loads of guys who went before us and played football and basketball on that team.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=790.0,806.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e What about playing on the religious holidays, Jewish holidays?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=806.0,813.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e I would be allowed to play.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=813.0,816.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you know of any of the Jewish boys . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=816.0,818.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . It didn't turn out to be that occurred.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=818.0,822.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e There was a big rivalry between BC and Savannah High School. Can you remember or comment on that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=822.0,829.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, it was quite exciting . . . The thing that I want to mention to you is they used to go and burn coffins of the opposing team and my classmates, I was really unaware of this at the time, but 12 classmates of mine decided that they didn't want Savannah High to be burning the casket on Broughton Street after the game. What they did was they broke into Savannah High School, and they captured the coffin. When Savannah High players, we beat them that year. We beat them every year, my 10th grade, 11th grade, and 12th grade. They went to get their coffin and there was no coffin to be found.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=829.0,879.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me about the Alliance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=879.0,881.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e I live two and a half blocks from the Alliance, and I would go there every day except Shabbos, which it was not open . . . I met my lifelong friends there, made friends there. I don't want to mention any because I'd probably omit some, but it was just a fun thing. I went to day camp there. We would play ball in the square right in front of the old Alliance and . . . I have wonderful, wonderful memories.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=881.0,916.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you remember what the neighborhood was like? We're talking about downtown, the JEA downtown. But the beautiful homes that are there now. Do you remember anything about who lived around that square?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=916.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=930.0,931.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Anyone Jewish?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=931.0,933.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e No. But right across the street . . . on Charlton Street was a boy that name was Billy McKenna, McKenna Supply. He had a Model A, and he picked me up every morning to go to BC. Come down Whitaker, honk the horn, and I got in. It was always down to the very last minute. We'd get and park the car and we'd have to run to get in formation and make it in time. It would drive me crazy because it was always at the last moment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=933.0,968.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Was there much socializing between the Jewish people and non-Jews or dating, interfaith dating?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=968.0,974.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=974.0,975.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Any comment there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=975.0,978.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e I had some crushes on some Catholic girls.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=978.0,982.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Anything about the Tybee days you remember?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=982.0,987.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, there were a lot of Jewish people that had homes down there and . . . the girls, they would have a party. All of us in an age group would get there and dance, etc., and have a nice time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=987.0,1003.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you remember anything about the pavilion?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1003.0,1006.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, we used to go in the pavilion and eat . . . my parents would make . . . I want to tell you something. One time we were coming back from Tybee and the Tybee Road was completely . . . Water was over the whole road and every car was just going five miles an hour following the car before them. My aunts and all who couldn't swim, and all were petrified, scared to death, nothing like that would ever happen today. The road would be closed and that would be it. But I recall that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1006.0,1048.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Any mention of the segregation days or the KKK [Ku Klux Klan].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1048.0,1055.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e I do recall that one time I was in the Agudath Achim Synagogue for Hebrew school or for something. When I left to go home, I usually walked across the park to go home because I lived on Whitaker and Taylor, and out in the park was a big demonstration by Ku Klux Klan people. They had burned a cross and they were not allowed to wear their mask. They had to have their faces uncovered. But that was very . . . I tried to, I went away from them down Drayton Street and tried to avoid it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1055.0,1098.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you remember anything, any other happenings in Savannah with segregation or the KKK? No, [indistinct:","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1098.0,1104.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e No, [indistinct: 18:24: possibly: 'I wasn't there'] to tell you the truth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1104.0,1109.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e You attended University of Houston. How did you get there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1109.0,1114.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e When I graduated from Georgia Southern, I went to work at the Houston Jewish Community Center. While working there, I attended night school . . . and obtained my master's from the University of Houston. I also met . . . my lovely wife. Her brother was in my program. He was about 16 or 17 years old. I heard he had a cute sister, and I asked if it would be alright to call her for a date. He said, \"Certainly.\" She was a senior at the University of Texas, but when she came home, I called her and I had a date with her, and I never dated anybody else since. [Memoirist laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1114.0,1163.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e How many years have you been married?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1163.0,1166.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Forty-six. I hope I got that right . . . [Memoirist laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1166.0,1171.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Sherry has done wonderful things . . . staying very active in the Jewish community in Savannah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1171.0,1177.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Very proud of her. She's a dynamo.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1177.0,1180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me about your children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1180.0,1183.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e I have three daughters. Laura lives here . . . [tape stops and resumes]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1183.0,1189.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Laura lives here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1189.0,1191.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. Laura's married to a fellow named Rob. My granddaughter's name is Taylor. She goes to St. Vincent's. I have a daughter named Karen who lives in Fairfax, Virginia . . . Her husband's name is Mark, and they have two children, one is six and one is five. Sarah's the oldest and Matthew is five. My oldest daughter, Marcey, is married to a fellow named Howard Alter, and they do not have any children? [tape stops and resumes] When I was in Houston [Texas], I was offered the head job as their director in New Orleans [Louisiana], and they could not understand why I would not accept the job because it was more money and a bigger institution . . . I told them that it was east of Houston, but it wasn't far enough east. I'm going to Savannah, Georgia, and that's what I did. I wanted to come home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1191.0,1271.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Why don't you elaborate on the pool days at the JEA on Abercorn, how active it was?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1271.0,1279.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e It was a busy thing . . . Something interesting that did happen. It has to do with integration. When I was [physical education] director, program director at the Alliance, the Community decided to let black children, groups of children use the pool every Friday afternoon. Literally, as many as 500 kids would come. It wasn't arranged so well, but it turned out that there was . . . I don't want to mention there was some reprisals about that so. I thought was a unique . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1279.0,1327.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e I think JEA has always been ahead of its time. Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1327.0,1332.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e I was real proud of that. [tape stops and resumes] When I was about 10 or 11, they had a ping pong table at the Alliance, and I learned how to play ping pong. If you won, you got to stay on the table. The older guys, they wanted to get on the table to play because they were going to bet money on their games. I kept winning, and I complained indeed, they wanted to get on. The program director, Mr. Jack Chilnick, he decided to get me off the table and he is suspended for two weeks. That was the worst two weeks of my life as a child, and I still don't forgive him. 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I remembered they would play Parris Island [South Carolina] and they would play Stilson [Georgia], Hinesville [Georgia], Nahunta [Georgia] . . . The [indistinct: 22:30] teams would come in and they'd have real good players, and I was thrilled by all this . . . They had a saying, \"Hands up Alliance\" when on defense . . . everyone put their hands up. I learned a lot of things. Then they . . . played indoor softball, which was a real interesting game. They would play that at night. You thought that . . . if you could hit the ball and hit a line drive, that really wasn't good because if . . . the ball hit the wall, it came up and they caught it, you were out. I didn't know that, and a guy gets up there and he takes the bat and he hits the ball down into the floor and he could make first base. [That] was better than hitting a line drive. That was a learning experience for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1392.0,1465.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Did any of the local Jewish boys go on and play professional anywhere? [tape stops and resumes] Tell me about half-rubber, explain that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1465.0,1480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Half-rubber is a red sponge ball that you have to cut in half and you have to do it surgically because you want the end where it's cut to be absolutely flat and level on both sides of the ball, the two halves, and then it sails. Hy Sussman and I were a team. Hy was a catcher, and I was a pitcher. We got challenged in back of the Alliance by Norton Melaver and Phillip Hoffman. Needless to say, of course that we won. But anyway, they were heartbroken.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1480.0,1521.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you know the origin of half rubber? How it began here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1521.0,1528.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I don't. But it is [a] popular sport in Savannah and around Savannah and Charleston [South Carolina]. They have tournaments here . . . on Meridian Road, whatever it is. What's the name of it? [tape stops and resumes] Out by Lake Mayer. [tape stops and resumes] There were steps leading up to a balcony over the gym. I was a young boy, when the girls and all were playing, the older girls, I would go up into the gym and peek through the rail there and look at all the pretty young women. [tape stops and resumes] This was in reference to the old Alliance, this used to occur. You could buy a towel with soap for a nickel, and there were people in the community that this was the only way that they could take a hot shower was by coming to the Alliance and getting a towel.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1528.0,1600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e How did your mother run the store and the house?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1600.0,1604.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e She . . . had a maid, a wonderful lady. This lady, black lady, pretended to love my mother because my mom treated her with respect. . . and she knew that she would take up for her with people, and treat her as another equal human being.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1604.0,1627.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Can you remember any special vegetables or food that she introduced to your family in the way of cooking?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1627.0,1635.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e She wasn't allowed to do too much of that because it wasn't kosher. [tape stops and resumes] Mrs. Wilkes boarding house started, and we owned the property. We owned two houses there . . . She rented one side, one house, and she put her restaurant in the bottom floor, and the top three floors were for lodging. She created this business because there was always a demand by railroad people. The railroad was only five blocks away on West Broad Street, now Martin Luther King. She paid $100 a month. Several years later, there were four apartments on the other building, $25 an apartment per month. My mom offered Mrs. Wilkes to buy both houses, probably for about $10,000 each, $20,000. Mrs. Wilkes did not buy this property from my mom, but she probably bought it from someone, I don't really recall. Either the people that bought it from my mom or us, one more sale later. She probably paid $1,000 to $1,500 more, so $21,000, $21,500 or so for both these buildings. Needless to say, she would tease my mother years later, they always remain friends, and she would say, \"Mrs. Max, I made a terrible mistake when I didn't buy these houses when you first offered them to me because I could have saved a lot of money.\" Those houses are worth now over . . . way over $1 million. Our house . . . where we lived and move on Whitaker and Taylor Street, over the store, two or three years ago in the 2000 and something, Mama sold the house for less than $30,000, and of course, a lot of people have the same stories of Savannah, but the house sold for $550,000.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1635.0,1783.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e When you said the railroad workers, did you mean at the Union Station?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1783.0,1787.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1787.0,1788.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e [Do] you have any stories about that beautiful building?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1788.0,1793.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e It was built in 1870, that's what makes it so valuable. It's in the historic district.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1793.0,1799.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e The Union Station.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1799.0,1801.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I am talking about Mrs. Wilkes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1801.0,1803.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Charlie Grossman was an institution at the JEA, explain him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1803.0,1810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Charlie was born with a handicap of sight that he could only see about ten percent in one eye, and he was handicapped, but a wonderful fellow. The community decided to send him to New York to learn how to be a masseur, and Charlie did, and he became an excellent masseur. He came back to Savannah, and they put him in the basket room, and he would hand out the baskets and all, but once in a while he would get a massage, and he would make some money. It turned out the Alliance was always having to hire managers of the health club and masseurs, and needless to say, some were good, some weren't so good and all. They tried to give Charlie a chance to run the health club. Charlie, being so conscientious and so responsive to this opportunity, did an excellent job. [tape stops and resumes]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1810.0,1892.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e One, two, three, four. Side two. Norman, thank you for your interview.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1892.0,1902.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/transcript/72387/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDOLGOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e You're quite welcome.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=1902.0,3262.29333"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/annotation_set/1623","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/annotation_set/1623/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHarriet Cranman Meyerhoff (b. 1946) is a Savannah, Georgia native. She graduated from Georgia State University, and she worked as a schoolteacher in Savannah. She later became a licensed tour guide and started her own company, Personalized Tours of Savannah. She and her husband, Eric Meyerhoff married in 1973 at B’nai B’rith Jacob Synagogue. They have two children, Mark and Margot. Eric passed away in 2020.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=3.0,21.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/annotation_set/1623/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Educational Alliance (JEA) is the name of Savannah, Georgia's Jewish Community Center. It was founded on August 2, 1912. The original charter, objectives were outlined for promoting the English language and for providing a building for programs such as kindergarten, a library, classes and recreation. They built their first building in 1916 at Barnard Street and their second building in spring 1950. The alliance continues to serve the Jewish and general communities in Savannah today.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=3.0,21.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/annotation_set/1623/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMax Dolgoff (1891-1946) was born in Velozin, Poland. He immigrated to the US and became a US citizen in 1942. He married Matilda Yarmovsky in 1931 in Brooklyn, New York. They later moved to Savannah, Georgia where they operated a grocery store. They had three children, Ralph, Norman, and Shirley. Max passed away in 1946 from cancer and is buried at Bonaventure Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=21.0,26.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/annotation_set/1623/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMatilda Yarmovsky Dolgoff (1902-1992) was born in Brooklyn, New York. She married Max Dolgoff in 1931 and them moved to Savannah, Georgia. Together, they operated a grocery store in Savannah. She and Max had three children, Ralph, Norman, and Shirley. After Max’s death in 1946, Matilda continued to operate the grocery store until her retirement in 1972. She was a member of Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob Synagogue, the Sisterhood, Jewish Education Alliance, and Mizrachi.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=21.0,26.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/annotation_set/1623/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBrooklyn is a borough of New York City. It is named after the Dutch town of Breukelen. It is located on the westernmost edge of Long Island and shares a border with Queens.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=39.0,46.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/annotation_set/1623/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eVolozhin (also known as Polish: Wolozyn or Belarusian: Valozhyn) is a town in present day Belarus, about midway between Vilnius, Lithuania and Minsk, Belarus. It is about 13 miles (21 kilometers) east of Wiszniew. In 1939, the Jewish population was around 3,000. Volzhin was home to three synagogues, several Zionist organizations, and numerous Hebrew and religious schools, including a yeshiva founded by Chofetz Chaim, who was from the town. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=53.0,63.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/annotation_set/1623/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRalph Dolgoff (1932-2015) was a Savannah, Georgia native. He was the oldest son of Max and Matilda Dolgoff. He attended Armstrong Atlantic State University and St. John’s University. He was an author, Professor and Dean Emeritus of the University of Maryland School of Social Work. 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The city is known for its historic district with its 22 parklike squares, which was based on a design known as the Oglethorpe Plan.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552#t=83.0,85.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/137988/file/255552/annotation_set/1623/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eNathan Persky (1888-1965) was born in Volozhyn, Belarus and immigrated to the United States in 1909. He married his first wife, Mary Zitofsky in 1918 and they had one daughter, Eva. He later married Esther Surasky and they had one son, Mordecai. Nathan lived for a time in Savannah, Georgia but later moved to Aiken, South Carolina. He was a business owner, active in the community and a member of Adath Yeshurun Synagogue. 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