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Can you tell me your name and where we are?
What we're doing here today?
My name is Ria.
I'm visiting my daughter's in California, San Diego, celebrating my 1/100 birthday.
Now the question mostly after me.
What did you see in the 100 years that impressed you.
And I said, most important thing that impressed be as a woman is the rightful women to vote United States.
That was a new thing for me.
My post vote was in 1928.
I was 21 years old.
At that time, my father took me into the voting booth, which is in the barber shop.
The back of a barbershop section's over the area with a curtain.
And, of course, my father was a member centers in the labor movement.
He escaped from Russia for freedom.
And so we voted for the Socialist Party that I was Norman Thomas, a wonderful human being.
But unfortunately, we lost out to Herbert Hoover on Hoover.
Was did I repeat the disastrous Terry it in our lives?
He But I vote again for her.
Petrova got helping out again from Golden, tells us the next election.
But thank at this time it was Roosevelt and he'll save our country.
I became a teacher in the public school system, went on from teacher to assistant teacher to community relations person.
I worked with the black community in Harlem and the Bronx community in the Bronx and had a very happy relationship with the parents that they gave me a number of plaques.
I was able to get these young black women who are saying hell with the kids.
Go back to college at Fordham University's.
Open the door to them and they got their degrees and they became either clerks or teachers, and they gave me a big plant.
Little the things I've done for them.
I would get the banks to give bonds to kids who improved in reading.
No one had added considered.
It's the reading, so was so important to encourage them.
And these kids walk out $25.
Cooper and I was important things than they recognize, and there was more of that of the parents Association then began to take control of the school system.
I will run what time?
What?
You're oh God.
At that time, there was a struggle between the parents associations and the school, says the teachers, the teachers did not want to relinquish any of their rights, and the parents want to have more rights.
So I suggested a way out.
I said, Why don't you have a committee of three?
The principal who's responsible for the entire school system?
The teachers are responsible for the learning, and the parents were concerned about both.
Have a committee of three or three people believed Committee of nine really three of each and with the personal effects would explain what program was for the year.
The things he wanted the Children to achieve.
The teachers have speak up.
It's the house impossible without help from the parents.
And the parents spoke up.
But unfortunately all three were antagonistic to each other and nobody wants give up everything.
The teachers would say that they're not educate.
You're gonna tell me how to run?
Teach my Children.
And the principal said, Who were these teachers?
Anything.
Then tell me how to run my school and the pit the pairs of something out of one of my school.
So that thing just fell apart.
Probably is a lie.
So I heard that the cut development was trying to figure the same thing.
How to get the schools, the community, the teachers and parents to get together.
Nothing happened again.
They were three.
Nobody was afraid to give up anything at all.
Oh, well, I got married.
I let my husband's a very unusual way.
This is my first year of teaching.
First a couple of years in 1935 the time that rose will that opened the door to the Soviet Union.
It's all the progressive people.
Teachers mean once you what's going on in Russia.
People who had family there on friends.
Uh, and all political mind people in the world is going on here at that time.
You have to make your own arrangements there.
No tours, arrangements.
So I went as a single person took this trip.
The ship from New York to England and England, it officially out of Russia.
There's a wave more than a month.
Yeah, it's the entire system.
I went toe to Russia because my neighbor said to me her elder repairs had gone to Palestine to spend their declining years, and when I drop in on them like England is around the corner from from Palestine, we'd know the capital that considerate.
I said, Sure, I'll drop drop in on them But I went to Russia first.
There was my mother still have family living there.
I wonder what's going on in America.
This is lying in the 1919 thirties and they were thrilled with American, and some of them were filled with Russia.
Because Russia has now become communist country.
There were three.
My God, What if my aunts had a son?
Husband had a very important company, coal and lumber.
Very well comes the revolution.
They took it away and they allowed.
His oldest son would've owned the company.
It's a work of England.
He was paid as a manager, and he hated the revolution.
His younger brother went to different sea, became an engineer.
He would never been allowed to go to the engineering school.
So for one that was good, together was not so good when I was missing in Odessa.
That's when I got the letter from my friend to visit her, a family in Palestine, across the street, standing on a little boat through the Black Sea into the Mediterranean, and I saw a young man told Himto woman on on the duck.
He was looking at me, talking to her.
I knew he was in America.
He will wipe hands, blows a light blue sweater and had golden blond hair.
And he looked like a well built.
He looks like an American.
Hey turned around.
He saw me standing on the deck.
We just wave to Harden's kisser, hungered by.
I didn't say Dr The said goodbye, then walked up.
The doc said next to me.
I paid no attention to him.
I kept staring at the dog and he kept staring at me.
I didn't Lincoln, I I was very well aware of him.
There's nobody else on the deck.
See, He wasn't making him a steak when he stepped away from the two of six, looked me up and down.
And then he said, Oh, with you, I'm gonna have trouble.
He didn't ask you.
My name was a Russian, Jewish, Greek, whatever, because the coloring was the same.
That that community just with you, I'm going to have trouble.
So I looked at him.
I walked away from him.
Hey, follow me.
That was the same seven day trip through the black simulator training to Palestine.
He saved my side.
That was seven days and seven nights.
And even the people he would do playing Palestine.
And I dropped in to visit the elderly parents with Really?
Now he was lonely bag on the French line on the Ile de France.
So we had to go up to friends.
I was going to back to England.
We went to take a steamer to Trieste from Palestine and then take the train.
We thought all of Europe will of France really from the southern to the northern port.
And he went off to New York and I went up to him with and I wrote to my aunt was very close to me.
I probably will never see the dye, but it gave me a wonderful month.
Let the bulls of fantastic grimacing was a good summer, Romans When I got to New York, there he was on the dock, waiting for the never left my side for 43 years.
Of course.
Oh, well, I'll be a boat going up.
The tree s The captain was a Jewish captain in attendance.
So this was his last trip.
The boat is gone because convergence or a warship Because my cell, Edie was an attentive, declined colonizing Ethiopia.
This is his last trippers.
This is you know I have the right to perform marriages.
Would you like me to marry you?
So I said, I want a big wedding and get out of it.
But we want a big wedding.
And he said he thinks his life would like to have something to say about the wedding too.
So we didn't press it.
And I was glad because if I said no, I'd never see him again.
Find you have Yes, I'm in trouble.
In Paris, he pulled a company and I said, That's it Said he met me on the dock and that was it.
His parents were not very pleased because he came from well to do family.
And I was a very average person.
Take care of a widowed mother, the only one making a living in those days and be this late thirties.
1935.
I'm joining with making a living confirm bling.
It's my brother, had a business and help support that my sister was married to graduate once have a good business.
On came the depression.
He lost it and she had two Children.
So there I was, helping them out.
And I was the only one working.
What else was going to do?
My family.
They were thrilled with my husband because he was charming.
He was gracious.
And he was earning a living speech teacher at City College.
So he had a job and I had a job.
I'm doing very well.
Uh, has stabbed.
We wanted a big one because they're just sitting there before sons there.
They all had big weddings.
Hotel.
What is?
I said, hotel weddings means after buying evening, Ellen.
Now, whether has together address, you'll never wear again.
My brother had succeeded.
We can't afford it.
My sister with the two kids also have your fancy clothing.
Besides, they don't believe they were very well, very liberal minded.
We're not gonna spend money on that this frivolous.
He's the Depression time.
So we would whole thing got married without asking the family.
My mother doesn't care what we love just to get really What has several very upset.
They didn't.
They were denied that wonderful wedding.
And when they realized my family could the phone, I was the worst thing that happened to them anyway, that said we lived happily ever after and, uh, what I was gonna tell you.
So how long?
How long before you guys first met?
Did you actually, you know, start talking to him.
Oh, sorry.
Holling me around.
So what's the Palestine?
He knew people.
Yes.
I was very happy to go along with him.
And he never left my side all the time.
We were there 17 days, and the sky in Palestine was absolutely heavily beautiful Shade of blue in the stars.
They were like diamonds in the sky was beautiful And the people, very gracious and generous, is came up with a very, very good feeling of the palace and had to be a Jewish country.
What else can I think of so well, let me tell you something where we lived in Russia.
Oh, no, I wasn't asked to ask.
How'd you How'd you?
Uh, I feel, you know, But he's gone now.
I mean, what?
Your thoughts, you know?
Well, he left for you with three wonderful Children.
One is gone now.
Unfortunately, my son dropped died a very young age.
My two daughters besides ask God descending Children.
He did the most wonderful human being sees listening in.
She's I get anything for the year.
Lucky that I don't have but the two wonderful human beings you met.
You met my niece, Ruth Hillman.
No, I just just you two.
How did you get this job?
I want to go back to Russia.
We live in Odessa, which is a cosmopolitan city, Beautiful city on the Black Sea.
Sort of the hunt, like Hawaii, A kind of model.
It had winters, but the best of the year.
It was like Hawaii was marvelous with I just had a toll.
I aground the Do you think of the words from the From the Black Sea to the end of the day?
A promenade.
The tall trees that was the walking area from one side of it.
No death stick together.
The end of Odessa was the Black Sea.
That was a seaport.
Not for very big tree, because it's an indoor seaport.
You did.
You couldn't get eligible desk.
You had to go back where you came from.
There was no no office.
Just one way out.
Because Odessa was a cosmopolitan city.
They didn't have so much of ghettos as they didn't meet in public and other places why they didn't mingle with the Gentiles living quarters.
Living was a fairly decent.
They were able to go to the opera with concerts to museums.
Was open to everybody.
Uh, thing.
Yeah, we had no gas light in those days.
So the three room house have a kitchen and bedroom kitchen have a coal stove, and the lively was kerosene lamps.
But that was throughout the city, just them.
We came to New York.
My father came.
They were you ahead of us because he'd been a socialist and these are had instigated the Cossacks to raise the socialist meetings, said the book to Siberia.
You'll kill them.
That's what this medias was.
Great talk about the movement of the program coming, and my father said to make my mother been saving money for the whole family to go to America, that if I waited a little raise the next meeting leave.
If I stay away, they know me Now is a socialist.
They'll be looking for me.
He's a scientist.
Meet a girl.
So he left left to somebody my mother to live by.
And I'll be back before the year's up, you'll be in American wilderness, and that's the way it happened.
Danger Got a job, Save all the money.
In the meantime, my mother's two sisters have been the oldest taking care of her sister's father.
Married a family, had his wife into the sisters.
They came to America.
They lived with my father and they saved the money to bring Mama and the Children.
This is a story I love to tell.
They broke up their jobs in factories one day, my Anqing home crying and the father said, Why you crying?
She said.
I got my salary, was over $10 for the weeks.
Works a little brown envelope and somebody picked my pocket.
It's still my $10 so I thought, That's what you crying about.
You have the better sleeping there lived in the apartment.
You have food in the house.
Big deal.
You get the part of the job later.
She's never won.
Was saving that money for Mama?
Remember America's streets paved with gold?
You heard that, haven't you?
They suggest Well, they really are.
Because before you came, sir, veto lions.
I found $10 on the street and I didn't tell anybody I was saving for a special day.
Well, today is a special day.
So the tender was you lost.
The temple was I found that evens up things.
No one wants anything at all.
Such things you never said a word about said, You know, I never talk.
I was six a secret.
Now you know, don't worry about it.
And through all my lifetime we heard about the $10.
If I come home crying, I lost a nickel.
Origins tickler by $10.
My mother come home saying I know about the sailor could have saved $2 is detected two hours out of my 10.
So when they said Papa, what's the big deal with the $10?
You never know what two.
But the point is, it's nothing to cry about.
You have problems, We all have problems.
We deal with him, and that's all.
But you don't lose the joy of living.
I never forgot that as a present in high school, popular speaking like for the French to let's want of evil, he says no.
So now I'm a French man but never lose the joy of living.
And that's the way I felt through life.
That's what Dr Actually interfere.
We all have problems.
Nobody's immune to problem.
Deal with a problem and go on living.
Enjoy life.
Now what else going todo we canto way came to America.
My father likes this guy too, and they got a nice upon they did not go to the Lower East Side, where all the Jewish immigrants, Because the man who was sponsored my father arrival will never be happy with how response he couldn't just appear was a cousin.
Office would live with these side.
It's been fed up with it.
Move to Brooklyn, a little village called Ace New York, which is neither.
Doulas farm.
So was the country.
The street had trees had sidewalks, small homes, one or two family homes with gardens outside the first time that I saw hydration, but the snowballs hydrangea.
Forgive yourself besides uphold rangers big white flowers.
So we used to call them snowballs.
Small homes, there, no tenements.
We had our building with only three flights, and that's it with my mother.
What?
We walked into this apartment, but it first it completely with the sad doctor again to cry while you crisis no chemistry lives had gaslights for that time.
If you have a meeting on the wall of the kitchen, no games, man came in.
It was 25 cents for a leader when the light began to flick.
Keep another quarter of that, okay?
And once in love, a man claiming picked out that little cave in and attacked other can to the wall.
25 cents views of gas and under each window was a radiator for same heat.
There's enough having a hole, so imagine having the bedroom heated up.
It was a fantastic experience.
Stuff in Southie.
Rick cried from joy, venting electricity and never had only one way for only in America.
Servicemen, whatever it was wonderful has happened only in America, so that we have lick it bites.
It was a new world, and of course, education was very important.
My sister, that was that about 89 years old, but maybe older.
I went into the first grade immediately.
My sister's pretty little high agreed, and she continued for the wrong and she got a job.
It's Brooklyn title.
Burton Guarantee and tied to the Brooklyn Titling Guarantee Really safe Company Bank.
My father's boss was one of big shots.
They're twins.
And that his daughter was graduating Very elementary school was leaving high school And what he should be Should she go?
He said, Don't worry about it.
I got a job covet Sub the book that she was the only Jewish girl there.
They never give you Jews completely.
All the banks are completely gentile.
She didn't look Semitic.
I look more Semitic and she did should light brown hair and and the girls And she just didn't speak.
She spoke it.
Hold him while we were in Russia ready for I thought radio for money for my father.
He left some Isaac and he said to issue you get a gift Let's money full number to buy you a gift whether my sister want ah book on an English teacher.
I wanted a doll.
She was a book.
So my mother government, since you've been to America Waas a little.
He became her tutor, Jane.
She came to America Or she can see wrote to my father that she was buying a book because she wants to be educated.
Say so.
When you come to America by your whole bookcase, full of books.
And he did.
From that time, education was the most important thing in our lives.
So here she was working in this bank without a Yiddish axons.
They didn't even tell the difference.
There's no Jews should know.
Synthetic features, No accent.
Came the war and the father's joy.
That was like the first World War.
The father's left the Charles, and they volunteered.
It's a kind of war.
You wanted to save democracy.
So now the farms was left for them to help.
So the sent word Anybody, any girl wants to come be a farmer.
Rhett, we'll take care of someone.
The girls in my daughter's life was my daughter.
My sister's bank joined.
It was far more rested after to join them.
Marty Evans allies America.
Of course you go.
She lived with the farmer.
It's to throughout the entire war, and they would buy that tomato.
That she was Jewish was a wonderful experience for them.
So we helped win the war.
Uh, attack.
She came back.
She found somebody got married.
But America was a wonderful country for us.
We'd love that.
And the people who run the country as far as we can sing.
We're honest, decent American, So concerned about America.
I can't think of anything else to talk about.
Oh, that once and I want to be.
I want to be a teacher from the very beginning.
Raise two kids used to play house.
I want to play school.
Saigo was going to be a teacher all my life.
That was the only goal I wanted.
I've never been a professor.
Education was very important to us.
You think you've passed that on your your Children?
Yes, I did.
You think they pass it on to their Children?
I think so.
The education is the most important thing you want.
You go on after education, but you got to have a drink.
Education.
You convince your career on education.
You got a doctor had to be educated.
You want to go be a good businessman education.
So I'd like to go back to to your husbands and way seemed to that because you sort of glossed over this and talk about other things.
And, uh, tell me, Tell me about when he died and how that affects Well, he died of cancer melanoma, which is most serious cancer.
He did not smoke.
He was an athlete.
It was a champion tennis player.
There was no reason for him to die when you did.
Except there was genetic.
His mother, his father, his brother and he all died in their 62 years old about that age.
So we know that he got sick.
We were basically more vegetarian.
The media's of you know, we live properly.
He was not a big candy then.
He was not a smoker.
There's no reason for him to Dali except that was genetic.
And because I brought a bunch of it feels important kind of food j how you live.
It's very important for your longevity.
But with it grabbing interferes.
That was it.
Hey, suffered very great in a sealed case.
Was that the very debilitating, very difficult disease.
You get the measles, get over whatever you got, you come overcome.
But you can't conquer tuberculosis.
Cancer?
That's it.
He suffered greatly hot.
But how you did it affect you before was the saddest thing.
I lost my mother, but I lost my father.
But this is the saddest thing that happened to me.
I lost my husband events.
Have the Children grow that said, there's a problem with the Children, but, uh, I never looked for anybody else.
I've never cared about having male companionship and friends, but, uh, that was the end of my big social life.
Just with indifference, that's all.
If they some of the boyfriends came along, came along there just fun.
But they never came along because of me.
Remember anybody?
Any guys hanging around my house?
Oh, and also I want to talk about your son that you lost Thio.
You got that?
I said.
I lost my mother.
I lost my father with my son.
I lost my life.
I grieve with my parents, of course, but even though I was, I mentioned his name.
There was just no reason for it.
He was an actually use it.
A skier.
He taught skiing in Alaska.
I don't see how he had a house in Idaho.
There's still reason for you just sat down collapse.
There's a sort of his friends with Steve.
Okay, just sat down, close his eyes.
So people say to me, Well, be grateful he didn't suffer rise.
Some gratitude he didn't suffer, say died.
And I guess the rabbi.
How do you explain that here I am.
In my nineties, I had a full life of visual.
We were well to do people a rich life.
Financially, socially, intellectually.
You don't need me anymore.
What can I do now?
Which branch in while they were Now, why don't you take this young man?
He said he doesn't know that since the problem.
If you can't help me and I don't need you, he's never Nobody ever said that to you, but that was true.
Where am I?
Get turned for help, but not to the red life.
To the priest, they don't have an answer prevention, And I want today is.
But, uh, that was a bit the saddest part of my life.
I never had a miscarriage and event officially in any way because I was very athletic myself.
But I lost my son.
It is just too much to think about it now.
Oh, I do.
Did, uh, nobody knows, Lois.
Another fact.
Normally, there's a check out in someone's eyes.
I couldn't think of the word.
A taxi for this morning.
What?
But according to the Jewish religion, you can't wait three days.
If the person's ID he died from Ah Friday.
Which one should have to wait until Monday?
You could do it and you can have a burial on Saturday.
What's that?
But I have a son.
I don't know.
They buried him immediately, breeding rather Friday afternoon before sundown.
So we never found what the reason was.
But he suddenly collapsed, sat down and died.
It's about attack.
There's nothing else.
He wasn't sick.
Here's a mathlete.
Very well built.
Never been sick.
Something this tree has remained.
I said to my friends, I don't care why he died.
He died world.
Somebody else could gain from the nice.
What kind enough to give the lie guy if I was sick saying, Well, the sickness really do something about controlling if we know why.
But he wasn't sick.
There was no reason why the heart suddenly collapse.
And that was a policy.
I will never, never get over that loss.
So how does it feel out living all these people?
You know you're 100 now?
No.
Well, I had a wonderful family, has grown tremendously.
I have wonderful friends, whatever whoever's left and I made new friends on the road so that many of them came to the party.
Isn't the party in Yonkers where I live?
The community had a party for The people from Albany from headquarters came down wth Ikea from all over because I'm well known.
And yeah, because I became a writer.
It used to be a weekly column for a new streak, and I was a monthly column because the newspaper has become over here lovely.
And since 1962 Thanks.
I've never met Mister week.
I'm listening, I think was 60.
Del City was funding 62.
Your memory?
He was 30.
Tools, No redacted.
35 35 years.
Yeah, the 35 years I remember Mr Issue.
That's a big thing.
It's It's undermining Maria's world.
But people will stop chewing.
Singer, is that really all?
Is that really so?
She went to a meeting was a little bit just sail.
00 I wouldn't.
You all right?
You so people who look forward to reading what I have to say it, but for words, I mean something now and I write about things that they understand even if it's politics.
I write about parts that they understand.
Of course, I wrote about Bush but a lot of people were fooled.
My boss, some haven't got the guts to say I made a mistake.
That's why he was elected the second time.
Never considered being a brilliant like the second time he cheated them like Gibby, Texas.
Refund to the wealthy people.
Couldn't they see what he was doing?
Well, they probably have said they could make more factories.
American have all work, but then they factories in Europe.
In China, we didn't get their money.
We get the money belongs to us.
We don't get the work.
And yet he was really to the second time.
Well, you can't kill the world over life.
Learn now.
What else can you hear from?
Um Okay, well, you've just turned 100 recently.
No.
Has anything changed for you?
Mentally?
Emotionally.
Well, what has changed is the fact that women cannot vote.
That's the most important thing in my life.
Oh, I mean, I mean, like, since you turned 100 you have you having the epiphanies are Well, I feel well, I'm physically very active.
I don't like tennis anymore because they lose my balance.
That's the always negative thought about getting old.
Otherwise, that I'm in perfect condition.
I lose my dollars if I twist my hand suddenly full.
So I work with this Not because my legs and they were with my with my body or my legs because I lose my balance.
And when I see the doctor for a checkup So what are you wasting my time?
So?
So physically?
I mean, you're You're okay.
I could do everything.
My granddaughter was married last year.
99 years old.
I was on the floor dancing with my grandson during the conga line.
I'd let the conga line That's before the last night.
That was But you have to give any I'll give away my bells because I can eat anything I conjoining.
I sleep well.
I certainly talk.
All right.
I'm the business with my speech.
They're like all kinds of food.
I don't have to restrict myself.
Uh, that's about it.
Oh, Do you think you'll see?
He'll grow to be.
How do you do for you?
I go from here.
Thio.
Just take it one day at a time.
Yeah.
There's no reason why I shouldn't big Have another birthday?
Yes, I feel well, I have nothing to complain about and as a doctor since you keep on going that way, I called the doctor check upon being checkup.
Whatever bothers me toenails.
The beach was wasting my time, the glass of seaweed Because they can point out she's my patient.
Look at her.
But, uh, I'm very happy for my Children.
They've enriched my life.
Wonderful.
So, uh, what if there's anything you could say?
You haven't said already.
What?
What you like them to know about you?
You all know that I love music.
And I love playing the piano stuff up beginning.
We didn't have a cattle in the house when I was trouble, but it's a play on the table.
We have the photograph would have Petrosky plane of the record.
I'm playing the piano on the table.
My father just got talent.
You tell them on the table.
Just go because you placed Well, if you don't get up.
Yeah, we're gonna know I was very careful about spending money because he was the only nobody else would bring him on.
And she had for me, had three Children, I said, My father said, directed by re piano when I was thrilled.
So One day I said, Lovely said, I'll tell you what we'll do.
We'll go.
It's a piano teacher in the neighborhood because piano lessons.
If she would like to practice of her house, we'll see how you really mean to practice.
Of course, remember that Francis Levin.
I loved her.
She loved me to cover her house after school.
Some of the other kids would love to play.
At three o'clock, I went to her apartment to play the piano, play the piano, and I loved it.
The area my mother against re.
She really means to practice now.
Weakened by re piano through, Bente took the train to 57th Street, the Stein Way power company.
Of course, he shows a big grand piano, which is out of line for us, and he stopped and he sat down Bank a couple of chords.
It explains why I picked up the harbor.
Somehow the piano's works, I mean then should the price, of course, because I know it's out of line, but I got something else for you.
Terrace of the back.
It was upright.
The servants have the string huddle groups, and the price was still out of life.
was not just a working man, so he said.
But you know, I understand it's too much money for you.
Well, the thing called the installment plan that we had not heard that at that time you pay a little each month until you pay at the entire amount.
The meeting at the piano, in your house, about thank you very much.
We walked out, said Pop.
We could've had the piano.
We'll let you know that someone planets.
And now he's sending a little.
He has to pay a little time, but you stopped paying.
If something happens, you can't pay that love.
They take the piano away.
All the money you put in, he's gone and you don't have a piano.
Well, makes save enough money at home when we have enough money, then go by the piano.
So I went home and we had a little box and everybody had money but dropped the money into the box.
I love your head of the bank.
I thought he had enough buddy.
The by the piano.
Everybody had a save for that piano.
When they arrived with patterns the street, no one ever seen a piano being lifted up.
We're on the third floor.
They all turned to see the piano being hoisted up.
What about the roof?
Glass cords down.
I had to remove the windows, given the whole block trade off the piano, and I played every morning before I went to school.
No one has asked me.
I loved it.
Never turned out to be a genius, but I love the piano I played every morning before school at three o'clock on.
Kids want to play.
I went into practice Mother's neighbors and with yellow via kids.
Look at the way she planned.
You don't have to hit you in practice the piano before other works.
That boy's a piano.
You don't play the piano and she plays all the time.
The kids hated me for that.
That's that's just alluded and, like kiss a little of the cattle.
Uh, what I I got enough money guns off a grand piano, but Lucy now has my grand piano and those he has learned to love the piano.
She saw the play the piano, too, but didn't have the patience for it.
She got involved.
Other things are more important, but music was a very important thing As a child, I went to Carnegie, hold concerts.
My father was taken of the concerts, my at particular concerts and I told my Children, Importance, I'm going to go for good music.
And, uh, Cody, I regret this things.
I can't take the piano evil, my fingers.
I have no control my fingers anymore.
It's like a bank around that I can't play that I used to play.
And June has a friendless of piano.
Always advice.
Make the playoffs and I couldn't sit down a flight if you have any.
Well, it's true, But one of these days I go to Lucy sounds.
I will try to bang out a little bit.
And as a man, factual son was a very good year for music of you.
Somehow six years old, he went to see a musical comedy.
Everything Goes of Broadway was about 16.
Sold, I think, became home in the elevator.
I gave each one of my Children a piano marriageable down, which would be out of not a great relieve your spirit.
Tyne Daly played, but using it hurt.
So where'd you get that?
I just heard it.
He's got a very good here and he's a but it is very good.
Now he's making a living with his music.
But music was a very most important thing in our lives.
And, uh, instead of going to the movies, I went to a concert.
Even as a child, I knew this was important thing.
I have a client, just my eyes tearing What for?
For all the buildings, all the great grandchildren.
You know everyone in your family that you thank you that you won't get to meet.
What would you like to tell them?
What would you like them to know to know about their know about life?
Life?
Yeah.
Life lesson.
What would he like to pass on?
Life is so different.
No, it's very simple when I was a child, but that the basics are the same love of humanity.
Help out for those who have less than you do.
Um, once the important things in life for you.
Good reading, good music, good food.
One of my answers a vegetarian, and she told us about proper food.
We never heard of eating salad because in poor people it's leaked potatoes as a big meal.
My aunt came to live with us, she said.
You have to have.
That's what is this my Avery got on this handed neighbour?
The Jewish neighbors didn't have Spanish advance and let us carrots, potatoes and peas.
That's it.
She could be Italian.
A better buy, that is spinach, Mother would say.
That's grass.
And this grace is good for you.
If in that time we've had a salad with every meal when nobody else leading breast, we were eating grass.
That's what the reasons I think, my good health with the help of my Children.
They know they have to have salads and we avoid fried foods.
I never had a frankfurter in my life in this day and age because my mother would say, How do you know what they put me here?
Get right with all the leftovers India never had a friend, for I never missed it.
As a result, if you want a hamburger, should I make a hamburger?
It helps you by piece of steak.
Have the butcher grounded.
I'd like a hamburger at home.
She did not trust the button and she was right.
We believe that.
Believe our luck was good for you.
Cream.
Not so good three Cream Sour cream?
Yes, with frequencies.
Love too rich.
That's how he became a basic luncheon.
Sour bring with fruit.
But now there's a particular the cheapest fruit.
Uh, that's about it.
I scream on rare occasions, give you a nickel for a period of cone, but that's about it.
You couldn't buy candy.
My mother if I said, Give me a penny for Candies.
Better eat an apple says what's happened until my rich uncle would come to visit.
Bring cake and candy.
But the proper food was very important.
So you met, uh, your husband held really meant What was Ellie in?
1935.
Born in seven.
I was 28.
So between time you're born in time.
You met him.
Was there anybody else?
Any other man in your life?
Anybody?
No boyfriends on the street?
That was We didn't have friendships outside the immediate neighborhood, but, uh, he came from the A different area came from the Bronx to be that of the rich Jews move in the Bronx because they were well to do.
And, uh, we lived well.
The stars are closer than ever.
When I was younger, my mother made all my clothes.
Then Kay was still ical Klein's of Our Declines, or Becks before all of excess Klein's.
They opened a store on 14th Street in Manhattan, and my aunt, this vegetarian, came home.
She lived with us, said This is something very new shoes to make my clothes also cause she's a dressmaking on 14th Street.
So should she took us up there, and the police are there.
The street was lined with people that have the police, but of accord to keep the people in line was fantastic.
You can get a dress $10 a good dress, you know.
What a question To make a record $25 to pay for the fabric alone.
That's how clients got soul and let it all back.
So but across the street in competition, the client sold out and callbacks got bigger and richer.
And they that's a very good close.
Those doors.
Very cheap.
So even some of the rich people came to have a war backs.
Oh, so So, uh, you're saying that from But in the 28 years before you met your husband, Yeah, he never Oh, yeah.
I had a boyfriend, Michael, from the neighborhood.
So tell me about your first kiss.
The first kiss.
So well, there was a boyfriend that I had from the neighborhood.
And every Saturday we'd go to the movies in Flatbush.
So they had a big movie house there.
And my brothers friend from Russia.
That next order was and she had a daughter my age who became like sisters.
My mother made a dress submission, made addressing her.
Have her buy the dress mother later dress she made for me also, we went to the same school and we looked like twins.
The same curls, the same ribbon So But every time we would now said that I would take her along.
I can't leave my best girl for the loan.
And when he said so you know, she always goes along with that.
He had to pay for her court.
Keep the keys.
Movie house, KP chief Over.
Since the teeth store movie house, you have to pay, so I have to pay for a long time.
If she would have a date, she wouldn't invite you.
I said, the bitchy, which is my best friend.
Of course you will.
It's okay.
I'll invite her next time.
I'm not inviting you.
She lived extra second.
See, we're getting out of the house.
Encourages you to borrow a car to go to the all the Chiefs will be.
He went to have suffered her join up.
See the outside.
Watching them.
Sure enough, she never said a word to me all week that she was having a date.
Comes out all dressed up and runs out of the car with the door.
I run out, move over.
There's no role for three people.
Expensive coat belt.
And he said so move over and get out.
Because you just want to prove that that she was with me.
When was the last time she went to the movies with me?
And we've developed renamed best friends, Isabel.
But you know what?
She met a guy.
She married him.
He was a Fourier and he went to Florida to California.
He stood very well there, and they both go dance.
But, uh, that was my boyfriend.
And was he your first kiss are with her another Another moment?
No, he was the only one of the things on the block was hanging.
In fact, all my friends have boyfriends like they're the same crowd and three of them got married to each other.
My friend Eileen, you don't know my friend.
I mean, she married boy for the block.
They all because we know each other.
And we liked each other the enjoys of this company.
But, uh, I came back from Europe.
That was it.
Well, I really If you could remember, I'd love to hear.
What about your first kiss first?
Kiss me.
I think it's just a meeting.
It was a kiss.
I mean, on the lips, sir.