My grandfather Joseph Indig lived a very full and fascinating life. He was born in 1904 in New York City, and lived with his family in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the early years of his life. He later moved to Brooklyn where he lived most of his life, until very late in life when he and his wife Ruth moved to Fremont, CA to be near his son Maurice and his family. Joe died in 1999.
This is a small piece of a long video interview my dad Maurice did with her father Joe, in approximately 1999. As I plan how to share more of the material later, I start with this unedited clip of grandpa Joe telling how he came to work for fortune teller Mrs. Pollack, his friendship with her son Izzie, and listening to phonographs in Izzie's bedroom on an RCA Victrola. He was a great storyteller, and recalled great detail, even close to 90 years later.
[video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOD7TMYiaiI ]
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