Floods--Kentucky--Louisville

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Elwood Krepper was twenty years old at the time of the 1937 flood. He lived with his father in an apartment at 811 Cecil Avenue in the West End of Louisville. Mr. Krepper was a relief manager for Kroger. When the flood waters reached their apartment, Mr. Krepper and his father were evacuated to a relief staging point and placed on a train. They rode in a box car all night until they reached Paoli, Indiana. They stayed in a refugee center in the gymnasium of the Paoli High School for the duration of the flood. Mr. Krepper recalls what the trip was like in the box car and describes life at the refugee shelter in Paoli. Mr. Krepper describes what it was like returning to Louisville shortly after the flood. Index available.
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William D. Meyers was twenty-four years old at the time of the 1937 flood. He lived with his wife in a three room third floor apartment at 1312 South Sixth Street in Louisville. Mr. Meyers was Deputy Tax Receiver for the city of Louisville. During the flood, Mr. meyers was given a truck to drive by the police and spent the period of the flood driving for the city and performing various duties with his truck. Mr. Meyers' wife's parents and some friends of the family stayed with the Meyers during the flood. A total of seven people lived in the three room Meyers apartment. Mr. Meyers recalls his experiences while driving the truck in the flood area. These include hauling a dead body to the pontoon bridge at Baxter Avenue for delivery to a mortuary in the Highlands and helping the police drag the corpse of a deceased horse with his truck from the middle of the street to a grave dug by the side of the road. He also tells his experience of visiting the refugee center at the Jefferson County Armory, now called Louisville Gardens. Index available.
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A Louisville native born in 1914, Sarah Morguelan's family came first to Chicago. Her great aunt, Mrs. Binder, later opened a deli in Louisville. Relatives said to come to Louisville for work. Her mother was Celia Bass Goldberg. She discusses the 1937 flood, Young Men's Hebrew Association Reps. and Girls' Teams, Renee Hoffman, and her marriage to Jake Morguelan in August 1937. Taped with Rose Hummel.
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Mary M. Oswald was thirty-nine years old at the time of the 1937 flood. She lived with her husband at 1203 Delor Avenue int eh Grermantown area of Louisville. Friends of the family and their seven-year-old daughter ame to stay with the Oswalds when their home on Ash Street, about five blocks away, was flooded. Mrs. Oswald's husband worked at American Standard and on weekends would help rescue people from the flood in the West End. Mrs. Oswald was a volunteer worker in the refugee center at St. Elizabeth Church. Mrs. Oswald tells about her experiences at the refugee center. She also tells about her friends' and relatives' experiences in the flood. Index available.
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A senior citizen's arts and crafts group at the Parkland Branch Library discuss their lives in the Depression years, the 1937 flood and their remembrances of the early Parkland area.
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Mr. Pickett, a retired assistant Boy Scout executive and board member of Senior House, talks about his family, growing up on an integrated neighborhood in the early 20th century in Louisville, his work with the Boy Scouts of America and his work for the elderly citizens of Louisville. The final interview provides information on his parents’ families and the educational and professional achievements of several family members.
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Ringol's father was a doctor who graduated from the University of Louisville in 1908. He was the first resident at Jewish Hospital in 1909. Ringol's parents married in 1910. Her grandfather, Jacob Brownstein, arrived in the United States in 1884 and was a charter member of Anshei Sfard. Her mother's parents, Phillip and Bern Synder, were tailors from Odessa. Their parents were from Warsaw. They moved to the Highlands in 1931. She discusses Peerless Manufacturing Company, at 7th and Main; the family business in men's clothing; an uncle, Simon Agranot, who became Chief Justice of Israel and handed down Eichmann decision. She remembers living at Floyd and Walnut; YMHA basketball games; Adath Jeshurun Sisterhood; Fourth Street; Brown Hotel; Canary Cottage; living at 2nd and Hill Streets; front porch gatherings; the Depression. She married Louis Ringol in 1935. He was a dentist. She describes the 1937 flood; Pearl Harbor, World War II and the USO; Old Talmud Torah; Riva Waldman Entertainment; the Rarbis Family; the Ray Baer Family; Pearl Goodman; Lester Lipson; University of Louisville, and the Normal School for Teachers.
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Mr. Russman remembers growing up in an observant Jewish home. They lived on Chestnut Street, where personal poverty went unrecognized. He discusses early childhood friends. He recalls Jewish Bread Man; Rabbi Zarchy's funeral; being drafted in the second group at 18 years of age; World War II; active Zionists; the 1937 flood and a lack of Kosher meat.
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Mrs. Sagerman remembers her father Jacob Simon who was born Latvia, who came to the United States to escape Czar's army. He ran secondhand store on Federal Street. Her mother was born and reared in St. Louis. Sagerman was born in 1924. She remembers her schooling; Orthodoxy and Adath Jeshurun; Goldstein's; Persky's; Fisher's Drug Store; Lerner's Restaurant (which was Kosher); movie prices (the Strand on Chestnut, Loew's and the Rialto (on 4th)); the 1937 flood; religious customs and rituals; picnics in Summers Park and Sennings Park; Charely Simon Deli; and Feitelson Deli. She discusses her marriage in 1953, and her husband's family. She discusses the Young Men's Hebrew Association, and Morris Simon starting the YMHA Orchestra.
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Bert Scales was almost twenty-seven years old at the time of the 1937 flood. She lived with her husband, Charles, and two children, ages three and four, in a duplex at Thirty-fourth and Broadway in Louisville. When the floodwaters neared their home, the Scales evacuated it and moved in with her mother at Twenty-seventh and Market Streets in Louisville. They stayed there until they were told to leave because of approaching floodwaters. They moved to an apartment in the Highlands on Eastern Parkway. By this time there were eleven people who moved into the apartment. Mrs. Scales describes the flood areas and what it was like moving from one flood area to another. She also talks about living with eleven people in a three room apartment. After the flood receded, the Scales moved back to her mother's house. She tells about going back to her home after the flood and describes the damage which prevented them from moving in for four months. Mrs. Scales also tells about her brother-in-law's drug store on Forty-first Street and how the flood affected it. Index available.