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EG: What about getting on and growing up in junior high school and high school? How did things go there?

FF: Well junior high school, we never had... we were in one of those eight-four situations. We went to high school after grade school. But in my case, I went through grade school at Washington School. Then all of a sudden I became separated from the people I knew. I went to Broadway High School, whereas most of the people I knew went to Garfield. I think your dad went to Broadway.

EG: How come you went to a different school from most of your friends?

FF: Oh, because I moved. If you moved across the street, Fourteenth Avenue used to be the dividing point between Broadway and then Garfield, and I moved to Twelfth Avenue, which put me solidly in the Broadway High School area. So I went to Broadway High School.

EG: What was the population in that school then as different from your grade school?

FF: Oh, it was quite a bit bigger than our grade school. I don't remember what the population was, but...

EG: I mean, the kinds of kids that went to school there.

FF: Oh, oh, well, that had really a different kind of a population. I think it, there was, I think there was a lot of Asians there, but the school was predominantly white, probably Anglo-Saxon, Garfield was more Sephardic Jews. But the Broadway High School, I'm sure is the... many of the whites there were very prominent, they came from the north Broadway area and that was really a very sort of a, well, higher-class neighborhood.

TI: I think an example of some prominent -- I mean, my dad mentioned how at Broadway High School, one of his classmates was Brock Adams, who later on became a congressman. Were there others like that?

FF: Yeah, there was Brock Adams and then, there was a guy named Stuart Oles, who was really quite a prominent attorney here with, I'm, I think he was with Bogle and Gates.

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