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He discusses attending Sunday school on Saturday morning at Temple Mickve Israel. He describes his vivid recollections of he and his classmates walking to the front door of the sanctuary and up the center aisle to sit with their parents or grandparents after Sunday school. He recalls learning very little Hebrew at Sunday school and recalls that very little Hebrew was spoken at services. He recalls that children did not often attend services with their parents during the 1930s and 1940s. Alan tells of celebrating sukkot and recalls a song they would sing. He remembers the organ and the congregation organist and tells that the organ was given to the congregation around 1905. He describes the interior of Temple Mickve Israel and reflects that it is mostly unchanged. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe reflects on his childhood years and describes playing and walking past Savannah’s most notable and significant historic properties. He describes many fond memories of his grandfather, walking with him on Broughton Street and having lunch at Morrison’s Cafeteria. He recalls fondly his grandfather tipping his hat to people. He describes this as the great days of his childhood. He recalls visiting his grandfather in Savannah on vacation and going to the beach on Tybee Island. He recalls his grandfather in his later years the jobs he held as an alderman and hosting baseball players in his house.  \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlan remembers vividly taking the trolley car downtown as a child to go to movies on Saturday afternoon with friends. He remembers walking on Barnard Street to save a nickel and describes the dangerous traffic and running past the house where a witch lived, as legend had it. He mentions attending elementary school in Savannah and moving away at the age of nine. He reflects on his nurse who walked him to school. He talks about always wanting to return to Savannah after he graduated from law school in 1952 and opening a law firm. Alan mentions that he was stationed in Labrador, Newfoundland, and Greenland during the Korean War.  \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)","\u003cp\u003eAlan Sims Gaynor was born in 1928 in Savannah, Georgia, to Sims and Dora Gittelsohn Guckenheimer. His father was born in Savannah around 1900. Alan’s grandparents were Abe and Fannie Guckenheimer. Alan’s grandfather was in the insurance business and worked in downtown Savannah. He also owned several businesses, including a movie house and a brewery. His great-grandfather owned a wholesale grocery distributor called A.S. Guckenheimer \u0026amp; Sons Grocery. The family belonged to Temple Mickve Israel, where Alan attended Sunday school.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAlan attended Barnard Street School and Henry Street School. He moved from Savannah at the age of nine and attended high school in Chicago. He returned to Savannah and Tybee Island frequently for summer vacation. Alan returned to Savannah after graduating from law school in 1952 and opened a law practice in Savannah.   \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlan served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He was stationed in Labrador, Newfoundland, and Greenland. \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)"]}},{"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 WilliamBreman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAlan Gaynor was interviewed by Joan Gefen in Savannah, Georgia, on June 7, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlan Gaynor begins the interview remembering his earliest memories of Savannah. He discusses attending Sunday school on Saturday morning at Temple Mickve Israel. He describes his vivid recollections of he and his classmates walking to the front door of the sanctuary and up the center aisle to sit with their parents or grandparents after Sunday school. He recalls learning very little Hebrew at Sunday school and recalls that very little Hebrew was spoken at services. He recalls that children did not often attend services with their parents during the 1930s and 1940s. Alan tells of celebrating sukkot and recalls a song they would sing. He remembers the organ and the congregation organist and tells that the organ was given to the congregation around 1905. He describes the interior of Temple Mickve Israel and reflects that it is mostly unchanged.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHe reflects on his childhood years and describes playing and walking past Savannah\u0026rsquo;s most notable and significant historic properties. He describes many fond memories of his grandfather, walking with him on Broughton Street and having lunch at Morrison\u0026rsquo;s Cafeteria. He recalls fondly his grandfather tipping his hat to people. He describes this as the great days of his childhood. He recalls visiting his grandfather in Savannah on vacation and going to the beach on Tybee Island. He recalls his grandfather in his later years the jobs he held as an alderman and hosting baseball players in his house. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAlan remembers vividly taking the trolley car downtown as a child to go to movies on Saturday afternoon with friends. He remembers walking on Barnard Street to save a nickel and describes the dangerous traffic and running past the house where a witch lived, as legend had it. He mentions attending elementary school in Savannah and moving away at the age of nine. He reflects on his nurse who walked him to school. He talks about always wanting to return to Savannah after he graduated from law school in 1952 and opening a law firm. Alan mentions that he was stationed in Labrador, Newfoundland, and Greenland during the Korean War. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlan Sims Gaynor was born in 1928 in Savannah, Georgia, to Sims and Dora Gittelsohn Guckenheimer. His father was born in Savannah around 1900. Alan\u0026rsquo;s grandparents were Abe and Fannie Guckenheimer. Alan\u0026rsquo;s grandfather was in the insurance business and worked in downtown Savannah. He also owned several businesses, including a movie house and a brewery. His great-grandfather owned a wholesale grocery distributor called A.S. Guckenheimer \u0026amp; Sons Grocery. The family belonged to Temple Mickve Israel, where Alan attended Sunday school.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAlan attended Barnard Street School and Henry Street School. He moved from Savannah at the age of nine and attended high school in Chicago. He returned to Savannah and Tybee Island frequently for summer vacation. Alan returned to Savannah after graduating from law school in 1952 and opened a law practice in Savannah. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAlan served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He was stationed in Labrador, Newfoundland, and Greenland.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I'm talking to Alan Gaynor to find out a\nlittle bit about his background. Alan, I know you moved from Savannah when you\nwere nine years of age, but I'm interested in knowing what your early ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nmemories were of Savannah. First of all, do you remember Temple Mickve Israel in\nthe early years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=30.0,39.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Yes. We had Sunday school. As I recall, Ruth Baken [sp] and Judith Kerr\n[sp] taught our class. I would have been in Sunday school for only about three\nyears. The building we were in was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=39.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nright where this building is now. I can't recall. I think it was only one story.\nI know that the entrance was on Drayton Street, and we did have Sunday school.\nWe had Sunday school on Saturday morning. Sunday school used to end before\nSaturday morning services ended. All of us in Sunday school, whose parents or\ngrandparents were attending Saturday services, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwould walk up Wayne Street or, I guess, Gordon [Street] and then to the front\ndoor of the sanctuary. We would head up the center aisle and sit with our\nparents or grandparents. I have a vivid recollection of doing that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=90.0,110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: How many students would you say were in your class?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=110.0,115.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Oh Goodness. We were the raunchy crowd. Julius Edel, David ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=115.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nByck, Lee Kerr, Sylvan Byck, Charles Collette, Dukie Roos. We were a tough\ncrowd. I don't see how Judy and Ruth could put up with us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=120.0,135.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Was this just one class? You weren’t divided into classes?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=135.0,141.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Yes. We were in classes, but we were all within six months of age ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=141.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nof each other. And David's sister . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=150.0,154.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Joan [Byck Loeb].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=154.0,156.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Joan. Yes, Joan. Among others. There were others.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=156.0,160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: How many classes, if you had to guess, were there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=160.0,165.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: I have absolutely no recollection.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=165.0,168.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Was any Hebrew taught or did you just learn Bible stories?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=168.0,173.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: I used to jokingly say that growing up at Mikvah Israel in the 1930s,\n1940s was like growing up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=173.0,181.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nPresbyterian. I have absolutely no recollection of learning any Hebrew. I guess\nwe absorbed it in service, the Shema. I can't, back in those days, we had very,\nvery little Hebrew in services that I can recall.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=181.0,203.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: How different would you say the actual synagogue was at that time ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=203.0,211.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthan from what it is today?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=211.0,214.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Do you mean physically? The building?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=214.0,217.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: The building inside.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=217.0,219.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Not because I remember it from those days, but it was virtually the same\nthen as it is today. By then, again, I'm going on history, not on recollection.\nThe Ark had been painted after the fire in the spire of 1927. I'm ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=219.0,241.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ncertain that the interior was approximately the same in the early 1930s as it is\ntoday. I know the colors are approximately the same.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=241.0,249.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: And the organ was used?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=249.0,251.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Oh, yes. Sure. We used to . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=251.0,254.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Was there a choir or a choral group?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=254.0,257.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Yes. We had two things. We had a homegrown choir.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=257.0,260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Getting back to the interior of the Temple Mickve Israel, what else do\nyou think was a little different about it? We were talking about the choir.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=260.0,269.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Yes. We had a homegrown choir. 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She played for Sunday school. A little tiny organ\nthat I can see as we were talking here, the one in the archives.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=301.0,320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: I didn't realize that was used for Sunday school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=320.0,325.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Yes. It was given by Philip Solomons’ great uncle about 1905 or 1910, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=325.0,331.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nsomewhere along in there. Addie Mae played it in the Sunday school room. She\nalso played the big organ in the sanctuary to the . . . I can't recall now when\nshe passed on. I think it was in the late 1940s, early 1950s that she was\norganist until she died or retired.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=331.0,357.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Did you ever go to Friday night services? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=357.0,361.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nGAYNOR: I don't recall going to Friday night services. It's possible. 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I really need to\nget to some of my contemporaries to see if they can remember the song we used to\nsing at sukkot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=391.0,406.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Did you have a sukkot?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=406.0,408.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=408.0,409.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Was there a sukkot here at the temple?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=409.0,412.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: There must have been because, again, sukkot is the only holiday, as\nsuch, I could remember. 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I'm certain that in the 1930s, 1940s,\nthere were not children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=420.0,428.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Did you have children services?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=428.0,431.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: I don't think we had children services.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=431.0,434.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Do you remember a family, because you do have a large family here, where\nyou got together for family dinners for the holidays or anything like that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=434.0,446.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: I will have to ask my cousin Marion, who's older ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=446.0,451.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand whose memory is better. I cannot remember even having a Passover seder at\n811 Whitaker [Street]. I was born at 811 Whitaker, the home of my grandfather\nand grandmother, Abe and Fannie Guckenheimer. My mom and dad [Dora Gittelsohn\nand Sims Guckenheimer] lived there. His youngest sister, Jean Guckenheimer, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=451.0,481.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwho later married Walter Guthman, lived there. I'm certain that the Abrahams\nfamily, Marion's parents, would have had a seder. 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Directly\nacross the park where Frank and Malcolm Bell, both of whom were a little older\nthan I. I recall birthday parties, which we celebrated in Forsyth ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=511.0,541.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nPark. Again, it was the crowd of Julius and David and Dukie and that bunch of\nscoundrels, myself included. The thing I remember most about birthday parties,\nwhether it was mine or one of theirs, was there was always a goat cart to give\nthe kids rides. There was a little Negro boy. 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He contacted his son in law,\nEdmund H. Abrahams, who was either president or on the Board of Education in\nthose days, and I was immediately transferred to Henry Street School, which did\nhave bathrooms in the back yard. They were, as I recall, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=601.0,631.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nflush toilets. Barnard Street, as I recall, was a dry pit of drains. All the\nrich kids in downtown Savannah in those days lived on the East side and went to\nMassie School. Us poor kids went to Henry and Barnard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=631.0,650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Talking about schools. Were you in a class with boys and girls?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=650.0,656.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: I never thought of it. Yes, I'm sure we were. 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My aunts\nJean and Mildred, both lived here and their children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=784.0,794.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Did you ever go to Tybee [Island] at that time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=794.0,799.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Oh yes. Yes. We used to . . . even before the Abrahams cottage was built\non 8th Street, I think about 1938, grandfather, who was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=799.0,811.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthe world's worst driver. I think dad must have driven the car. We would drive\ndown to the beach on Sundays. I vividly remember, although I didn't know it was\nWilliams, a little shack stand on the side of the Tybee Road where these people\nsold live crab, boiled crab, fresh shrimp, and boiled shrimp. 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Did you ever take the trolley out there or the train?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=842.0,847.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: I don't recall. I think the road had been built before I was old enough\nto go to the beach. I remember the tracks being there. 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Do you remember?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=973.0,976.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: I have no recollection, but I can't remember . . . that was the end of\n[Great] Depression time. I can't believe that dad had, or grandfather, had much\nmore than about 30 cents to waste on a seven-year-old kid.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=976.0,991.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Right. 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Did you walk because you lived on the west side\nof town and when you went to Henry, you were kind of on the east side of town.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1005.0,1015.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: No, Henry was on the west side of town.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1015.0,1018.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Oh, Henry is on the west side.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1018.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Kids of my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1020.0,1021.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nsocioeconomic background in those days had nurses.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1021.0,1024.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1024.0,1025.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Mine called Nursey. Her real name was Margaret McCord. When she died, I\nwas in college. I happened to be in town. My Aunt Mildred insisted that I go to\nher funeral. I can remember it vividly, because even though I was a college-age\nperson, I'd never seen a dead body before. Of course, it was an open ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1025.0,1051.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ncasket funeral. Nursey was my whole life in those days. Of course, when I\nstarted the first grade, I was a young man. I shouldn't have to have a nurse\nwalking with me. My mother tells the story that I would set off every morning\nwith Nursey about five steps behind. But like a trained dog, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1051.0,1081.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nshe tells me, I would stop at the streets so Nursey could cross the streets with me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1081.0,1087.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Where did you have lunch? Did you have lunch in school or did you come\nhome for lunch?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1087.0,1094.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: I'm almost sure that at first and second grades . . . I’m a little vague\non third grade. I can recall coming home for mid-day dinner. 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Back in those days, they had an insurance agency.\nIncidentally, Harry Echols worked for grandfather in those days and frequently\ntells me stories of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1111.0,1141.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthe early days of A.S. Guckenheimer \u0026amp; Sons agency. Where was I headed with this?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1141.0,1147.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: About your lunch.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1147.0,1149.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Yes. Coming home for lunch. They would have a siesta after lunch and\nthen go back to work 2:30 or 3 o’clock maybe. Stay open until about 6 o’clock.\nWe had a light supper. The kids, at least in the lower grades, I think, simply\nwent to school until about one o’clock. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1149.0,1171.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nThat would have been, what, four or five hours. I don't recall going back to\nschool after midday dinner.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1171.0,1177.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: But in order to come home, Nursey met you? You didn't come home by yourself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1177.0,1182.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: I don't recall either. I may have gotten to the point where they trusted\nme to walk the five or six blocks. Really, the streets, Anderson and Henry\nStreets were fairly busy. I think they were one way back in those days. Park\n[Avenue] was pretty busy street, but wasn't all that many streets. 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As they\nuse skateboards today and roller skates?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1206.0,1216.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: No. We didn't. I remember learning how to ride a two-wheeled bicycle in\nForsyth Park. I never did learn how to roller skate. We did have roller skates. We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1216.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ndidn't have skateboards. As far as games, I don't know. Dodgeball is one I\nremember in that tiny little backyard of Henry Street School. That's about all I\nwas. I was in the rhythm band. I played the triangle.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1230.0,1246.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Oh, okay. Did you follow that up in your career later?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1246.0,1251.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: No, no, no. That was solely a first, maybe second, grade occupation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1251.0,1256.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Is there anything . . . when you came back ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1256.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nto Savannah and you were then after your formal education, after your college,\nwhat great change did you note or notice in the intervening years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1260.0,1272.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Yes. I'm very vivid in one thing. My grandfather had been an alderman in\nhis decline.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1272.0,1280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: This is the Guckenheimer?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1280.0,1282.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Abe S. Guckenheimer. Yes, he was well-known. He was what,\nsecond-generation Savannah. He worked downtown. 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In any\nevent, I think maybe this was very late ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n1930s. Again, I would come down to Savannah from wherever we were living in the\nMidwest. Stay with grandfather. It was frequently in the summer, Mildred, big\nsis, would invite us down and meet down at the beach for a while. I can remember\nwalking Broughton Street with him. Back in those days, men wore hats. Men tipped\ntheir hats. 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Anyway, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwe continued across Broughton Street to Whitaker, where he was taking me to\nlunch at Morrison’s Cafeteria. Great days of my childhood, having lunch, midday\ndinner, with grandfather all by myself. Anyway, about 75 percent of the people\non the street would call him by name, and he had called them by name. Savannah,\nin those days had a population of 60, 65,000 people. The downtown folks knew\neach other. That was something that stuck in my memory, because you can walk\ndowntown today and see hardly anybody you've ever seen before in your life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1440.0,1469.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: That’s true. 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When he was alderman, he filled in as the temporary judge of Recorder's Court.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1474.0,1489.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Do you know what year he was alderman?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1489.0,1494.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: 1909, 1910. Thereabouts. He was a temporary judge when Judge Schwartz ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1494.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ncouldn't make police court. A young man by the name of Herman Talmadge was\nbrought before him. I don't know if this story is true. It's a great story.\nHerman was running for something statewide. He came to Savannah. Got off the\ntrain. Union Station. Was carrying a suitcase. A redcap approached him. Picked\nup the suitcase to carry it out to a taxi. 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The only one I can ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nrecall is Pretzel Pezzullo. My friend Marvin Lesser remembers Pretzel Pezzullo.\nI don't know if he ever got to the big leagues, but he and a bunch of those\nthird-rate ballplayers lived at 811Whittaker Street when they were in Savannah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1680.0,1697.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: You came back after . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1697.0,1700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Yes. Again, I would come back for holidays. I guess I started using\nSavannah as my home of record, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1700.0,1709.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthink in about my third year of college. All through law school, I simply wanted\nto become a permanent resident of Georgia because I wanted to take the bar exam.\nSo, I came back full time when I graduated law school in 1952. Although I left\nvery soon to defend our country.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1709.0,1735.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: So you haven't been here for 50 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1735.0,1739.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nyears yet, as far as your law practice?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1739.0,1742.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Yes, I have been here for 50 years, but about a year and a half or two\nyears were taken out . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1742.0,1752.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Defending this country.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1752.0,1754.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Defending the flag behind a desk in Labrador and Newfoundland and Greenland.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1754.0,1759.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Nice warm places from Savannah, Georgia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1759.0,1762.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GAYNOR: Absolutely.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1762.0,1763.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/transcript/72852/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GEFEN: Nice changes. Well, thank you very much, Alan. I appreciate this information. 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I don't know if I introduced myself at the beginning.\nThank you very much. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=1783.0,1798.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/annotation_set/1668","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Gaynor, Alan [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/annotation_set/1668/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCongregation Mickve Israel is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 20 East Gordon Street, Monterey Square, the Historic District in Savannah, Georgia. The site also contains a Jewish history museum. Organized in 1735 by mostly Sephardic Jewish immigrants of Spanish-Portuguese from London who arrived in the new colony in 1733, it is the third oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. The first synagogue, constructed in 1820, was the first synagogue built in Georgia. The current synagogue, consecrated in 1878, is Gothic Revival-style. The synagogue building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=30.0,39.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/annotation_set/1668/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShema Yisrael \u003c/em\u003e(\u003cem\u003eShema Israel\u003c/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eSh'ma Yisrael\u003c/em\u003e; \"Hear, O Israel\") is a Jewish prayer, and is also the first two words of a section of the \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e, and is the title (better known as \u003cem\u003eThe Shema\u003c/em\u003e) of a prayer that serves as a centerpiece of the morning and evening Jewish prayer services. The first verse encapsulates the monotheistic essence of Judaism: \"Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord is one,\" found in Deuteronomy 6:4.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=181.0,203.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/annotation_set/1668/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eAron Kodesh\u003c/em\u003e [Hebrew: Holy Ark, also sometimes called the “Ark” or the “Torah Ark”] is the holiest place in the synagogue and where the \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e scrolls are kept when not in use. The \u003cem\u003eAron Kodesh\u003c/em\u003e is situated in the front of the synagogue and is usually an ornate curtained-off cabinet or section of the synagogue built along the wall that most closely faced Jerusalem, the direction Jews face when praying.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=219.0,241.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/annotation_set/1668/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1829, a fire destroyed the small wooden structure, the first building Mickve Israel built for the congregation and first synagogue in Georgia. On the same site, a new brick building was built and consecrated in 1841.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=219.0,241.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/annotation_set/1668/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShabbat\u003c/em\u003e (Hebrew) or \u003cem\u003eShabbos\u003c/em\u003e (Yiddish) is the Jewish Sabbath and is observed on Saturdays. \u003cem\u003eShabbat\u003c/em\u003e observance entails refraining from work activities and engaging in restful activities to honor the day. \u003cem\u003eShabbat\u003c/em\u003e begins at sundown on Friday night and is ushered in by lighting candles and reciting a blessing. It is closed the following evening with the recitation of the \u003cem\u003ehavdalah\u003c/em\u003e blessing.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=357.0,361.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/annotation_set/1668/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRosh HaShanah \u003c/em\u003e[Hebrew: head of the year] begins the cycle of High Holy Days. It introduces the Ten Days of Penitence, when Jews examine their souls and take stock of their actions. On the tenth day is \u003cem\u003eYom Kippur\u003c/em\u003e, the Day of Atonement. The tradition is that on \u003cem\u003eRosh HaShanah\u003c/em\u003e, G-d sits in judgment on humanity. Then the fate of every living creature is inscribed in the Book of Life or the Book of Death. 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On the first two nights of Passover, the \u003cem\u003eseder\u003c/em\u003e, the central event of the holiday, is celebrated.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=379.0,385.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/annotation_set/1668/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSukkot\u003c/em\u003e is one of the harvest festivals of Judaism. It is seven days long and comes after the ingathering of the yearly harvest. It celebrates God’s bounty in nature and God’s protection, symbolized by the fragile booths in which the Israelites dwelt in the wilderness. During \u003cem\u003eSukkot\u003c/em\u003e, Jews eat and live in such booths, which gives the festival its name and character.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638#t=385.0,391.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138928/file/257638/annotation_set/1668/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYom Kippur \u003c/em\u003e[Hebrew: “day of atonement”] The most sacred day of the Jewish year. \u003cem\u003eYom Kippur\u003c/em\u003e is a 25-hour fast day. Most of the day is spent in prayer, reciting yizkor for deceased relatives, confessing sins, requesting divine forgiveness, and listening to \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e readings and sermons. People greet each other with the wish that they may be sealed in the heavenly book for a good year ahead. 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