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Q:

There in East Flatbush.

Foner:

In East Flatbush. Then we moved to Boro Park in the same house that Tante Rosie had. We took the upstairs.

Q:

How old were you when you moved to Boro Park?

Foner:

Fifteen.

Q:

So that was 1930.

Foner:

'30? Couldn't be.

Q:

If you were born in 1915 and you were fifteen, you moved in 1930.

Foner:

Wait a minute. Couldn't be. I was already -- it has to be, I had to be older, because it had to be when I was going to college, because I was not going to high school from there. So it had to be when I graduated. Maybe they waited until I graduated from high school. It must have been in 1936, however old I was in 1936. Twenty-one.

Q:

Twenty-one already.

Foner:

Twenty-one? Couldn't be. It couldn't be. I started to go to college earlier than twenty-one.

Q:

When you started college.

Foner:

Started college.

Q:

You said graduated.

Foner:

No. Started college.

Q:

Started college. So you would have been seventeen or so.

Foner:

Seventeen. Yes.

Q:

One more question. You were fourteen in 1929. Do you have any recollection of the Depression happening, or did it have an impact on your family?

Foner:

Strangely enough, I don't recall. See, I don't recall bread lines. I remember hearing and reading about things. I don't recall experiencing it. As a matter of fact, I came closer to experiencing it much later when I began to work on preparing things on the





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