Abraham Mondry - June 15, 22, 29 & July 13, 1992
Moving to Detroit
And in 1964, you and your family decided to move to Detroit?
No, no. I moved myself. I got a divorce in 1965. She drive me crazy. She was in Italy. The minute she came back after a trip she cry again. She don't feel good here, that's the...And I was easygoing, I had the money, I said, here, here's $1,000 for you to buy a ticket. I gave her $1,000 to go.
So did she go back to Italy after the divorce? Or she stayed here.
No, she got a brother in, in Connecticut. She lives in Connecticut.
But you moved to Detroit to do what?
I come here, nothing hold me, you know. Somebody gave me a note for here something, business office. A business office, you know, wholesale, to come with them, you know. You see, they need a man like me that know their business, you know. So they give me a good proposition, I stayed. In 1971, I bought this business on Highland Park. You know Highland Park here?
Mm-hm.
Right on Woodward. You know where the manufacturing bank is, in Highland Park? Near the old fort, Manchester. Next to the manufacturer's bank, I had a big building there. Called Capital Apartment, cut-rate apartment. Big windows. The people, two Jewish people for fifty years, you know.
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