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Show Alberta Freshman 6-3-82 p.4 L A and Sumner. Sumner Avenue is right at the corner. Do you remember what it was 1 ike? j 1L \~ell, I remember how it looked. An apothecary shoppe, . ~..: · "· And my uncle Harry was quite a man. He was alittle bit like Ziegfield in Character and was in the wholesale fish market. One of the owners. And he'~ bring home the most wonderful fish in all the world, all the time, so fresh. And made me love fish~ and feel very sorry cause we don't get the kind of fish here that we could get there. And he had a family of six, whose mother died. "'-.< "· they wre all little and so my aunt who helped me, raised them. So I always had lots of company to play with all the time with six children. And so as far as being lonely, I wasn't, except I missed my family/ Very much because I was close to them.~ I still have a letter in here that I wrote to my older brother Mark when I was in Denver ready to l€ave with my aunt to go away for the -- the firstyear I was seven. It was in ~ hotel, it's on hotel stationary and it said,''oear Mark, I hate to leave you. I ,, J love you.~d I signed my name. Mark was my older brother and he was still in Victor when I left. My youn9er brother came to Denver with us to see me off. So I did miss them and I --now that I'm older, I know why I did what I did when I got there. I became very babyish in actions. And my fo 1 ks were not psycho 1 og.i stsJ but they went along with it. My mother's family. And they just let me act like a .;- -{#- baby and have a bonnet on my head if I wanted to. I got over it after~months. L You were saying before that the discipline was different. A Yes. My mother, as I said, my mom and dad were strict disciplinarianslbut back there,~ my aunt let me do anything that I wanted. Anytime I could call up and charge things at Abraham and Strauss. And she'd never ask how much it was or what it was. ]t di ddn' t matter. L This is your grandmother's sister, right? A My mothers' sister. Yes. My grandmother was dead. I only saw her a few times in my life. But I really don't know why they didn't send me to sunday school except that they thought I needed ~ sleep--1 was the sick one. But I didn't get thetreligious]traditional training that the others did, ~~Y cousins. L Were they kosher too, was your aunt kosher? A Yes. She raised the childrenthat way. And I seemed to fit in quite well. And I've always been Jewish and my mother taught us anad ..m. y father to believe in God and ·~ ; -\ to live a good life, you know, whether we went to~temple ... but I never had the religious training. When I was teaching, we had a ~bbi Gordon here that called and asked me if I would teach Sunday school. And he wanted to see me. Well, I don't know where he heard of me~but he heard that I was succ€ssful--they needed somebody~r <~~A discipline and yet teach well. And I told them that I didn't feel I could, I didn't ... , ~~ t• Itt I • I I •' |
