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Show Joseph Roseblatt ~ 7-2 p.6 L He took it over. J Grandfather took it f over f~om Shapiro. L Was your motehr the one that came with you to school--if someobdoy had to speak to teachers baout your p~ee§§-- progress, was that her job to do. J Why, yes, although I can't remember her ever hading to do that. Especially, you know the first day I went to school she was hte one that took me, came to pick/~P. [Gave] Such encouragementJ~£~a~Jcessary or proper the Stone inthe cemetery here in the cemetery of the synaggoue, used to be the congegratior Montefoire, it's a jj joint stone that Shapiro and my father have one stone which united the two families. Rosenblatt on one side, Shapiro on the other. It's the only ¢¢ one of that kind that I know of in this while area. The four of them are buried in that one spot. L How come? J Well, they were good friends. taught it would be a pleasant, nice thing to do for the benefit of future generations. It would be ineresting to look at it. And to this ¢ day, the mainentance of the cemetery plot is shared by thepresent heirs of the family. L concerned with uniting families, afer they're dead. J YEah. I can remeber my father saying, not of too much importance or value it never occurred to him, but he said, If Shapiro wants it, that's fine. I have no L DIFFERENT QUESTIOM: Thosetimes, ~Ae numberof junk peddlers I understand were coming to your faeher's junk yard withtheit stuff. Occasionally there was competition between the peddlers. And sometimes one man would get the raw end of things-- sometimes a pedller would be ganged up on, jokes wouldbe done on hm. jokes. Do you remember. J Ther~ere other --other yards. L Taling about peddlers Stories.. Remember a man named J Eisenberg. K/ J Eisenberg, Y Vaguelly. Yeah. J Did you rememr hearing Eisnberg stories. J No. J My father always said that because a man is a Jew does't mean that he's a good honest man. L What would people joke about J I am sure they were moved to any opprtunity that would lessen the bureen of life in those years. Making aliving was tough. Very tough. Espeeially for an indivudla who had to go around gathering up junk. And his wit's end, to know what to do, where to take it, how to take it. How to separate it. And so forth. So to get the few extra ~ennies out of it. Yess, therewereeAte- the Peppers used to have a yard. And a man bythe name of Ga~ Grelick had a yard. That's lost in hte years gone by. L Where were teey? J Well, in the same end of town. Somewhere around 9th South. Pepper's yard, I think is st |
