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There in East Flatbush.
In East Flatbush. Then we moved to Boro Park in the same house that Tante Rosie had. We took the upstairs.
How old were you when you moved to Boro Park?
Fifteen.
So that was 1930.
'30? Couldn't be.
If you were born in 1915 and you were fifteen, you moved in 1930.
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.
Twenty-one already.
Twenty-one? Couldn't be. It couldn't be. I started to go to college earlier than twenty-one.
When you started college.
Started college.
You said graduated.
No. Started college.
Started college. So you would have been seventeen or so.
Seventeen. Yes.
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?
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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