The richer you were, the sooner you moved. The Jewish community on the east side became stronger.

These people are all pretty successful. We want to make sure these kids have the same opportunity to be successful as we did.

The minute I found out that Three Cheers was going out I called the Meriden postmaster that day. It's got to be two months ago.

It must have been on the playground.

Her funeral got us all back together and we decided we're not gonna be apart anymore, That was our home and that's where our lifelong friends started.

My dad had a store, Phil's Market, on Colfax and King. Somebody would call and say, 'This is Mrs. So-and-so and we need some bread.' And you knew what kind of bread and you put it on the charge and you knew which house and you took it over. We had free delivery . . .