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Show Sam Bernstein July 1 p.ll in that regard. Ah. You know. And Dad was I guess in his early 40s. He wasmuch older as he appeared much older than I am sure when I was 40. And --because he worked the kind of work he did in his early years J Fruit from? therewas a Grower's Market in those years where the farmers would bring their frJts and so forth to this market, and sell them to peddlers like my Dad. And that's where Dad would buy his fruits. And then Dad would e~~ft~~~~ sell them to -- haul the frits and vegetables to ranchers, ea»t of Salt Lake City: 0 a Wanship, Kamas. W Where they didn't grow .. And, when wwe got older, why, we would help him. Inme summer because we used to make a buck doing that too.Of course my brother Abe started before I did. He wasa~years older. I don't remember I remember helping him or J When you aid earlier there was competition among the pedllers, now did other ones sell fruit too, other Jewish peddlers. was there competition .. No, I don't remember there being any competition in the fruit business. W In the junk business. J So they did the fruit in the summer and the junk during the year, oh, I see now. Yes. And I wouldn't help my father, no thing could do to help him buy junk. But in the summer, I could help him . We'd buy the fruits and I'd help him sell them. W As a matter of fact, I recall hearing stories, they made is~~fy good friends among these outlying ranchers. When Sam and Abe and Claire and I were older, we went and t visited me of the ranchers. And these people were so nice to us. J Where did they get the junk from. Where do you get junk? Ah. they'd go to the outskirts, for instance, of Salt Lake City, W Shops and stores and people. Yeah, someone would have a wagon that broke down and Dad would buy the junk or-there were times when he'd buy cattle. I remember Dad used to buy calves primarily. And he;d kill them./~ back of our home, when we lived on third East. And sell them for instance, therewas Block and Gusi Jewish packers. He'd sell to them if he thought it was a good deal. I remember the first pair of glasses that Dad had. [pause. He laughs in reflecton] He was looking at a calf, at one of the little farmers out here. Whenl say farmers-- This wouldbe a place where a farmer would live in hose days, I mean, this far out. And So the~e-- the man had a calf he owned and Dad was interested in buying. And he asked a certain price and Dad thought that was fair but after all, he wasn't going to give him what he asked for. So, they went dickering and Dad took off his glasses to clean them and this calf ~hrun qbo ~ ~nds. Without Dad's glasses on. Haha [lovly laugh) |
