Goldmann, Allen, 1990 June 28
Abstract: "Mr. Allen Goldmann was born and spent the first year of his life on the Polish South Side of Milwaukee. He is the grandson of Abraham Goldmann and the son of Leo, who were co-founders of Goldmann's department store on Mitchell Street. Both Abraham and Leo emigrated from Lithuania around 1884. Leo was about six years old at the time. Goldmann's department has been an institution on the South Side of Milwaukee for nearly a hundred years. It was one of the first of the dry goods stores to convert to a department store in the neighborhood, and it is the last remaining large department store on Mitchell Street. It was at Goldmann's where Jews and Poles had the most contact in Milwaukee. Eighty-five percent of the clientele was Polish, and many of the clerks— including Mr. Howard Weinshel and Mrs Minnie Friedman, whose transcripts are in this collection—were Jewish. In addition, it was mandatory that at least one Polish clerk be employed in each department, so that Poles and Jews were co-workers as well. Mr. Allen Goldmann sold the business in 1987 and now owns a shoe manufacturing company." — Robert G. Mink, 1990

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