Interview with Janice F. Breer
IntervieweeInterview with
Janice F. Breer
(American, 1937 - 2019)
InterviewerInterviewed by
Bruce M. Stave
(American, 1937 - 2017)
InterviewerInterviewed by
Sondra Astor Stave
Date2007 January 30
Mediumdigitized audio cassette tape
DimensionsDuration: 35 Minutes, 14 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
Object number2009.85.22
DescriptionAudio cassette tape of an interview with Janice F. Breer. She was interviewed on January 30, 2007 by Bruce M. Stave and Sondra Astor Stave at the Staves' home in Coventry, Connecticut.
Janice Breer was born and raised in Manchester, Connecticut. She attended Elmira College for two years, then transferred to Florida State University, graduating in 1958. She discusses the two restaurants at G. Fox & Co., the more casual restaurant and the Connecticut Room. She talks about how she met Beatrice Fox Auerbach when she was a child. She discusses what Hartford was like when she was a teenager. In 1956, she purchased her first wedding dress at the G. Fox Specialty Shop. She explained the differences in the store from a customers point of view after the May Company purchased it. She shopped at G. Fox from the time she was a child until the store closed in 1993. She describes G. Fox at Christmas. She ends the interview discusses where she shopped after G. Fox closed.
Janice Breer was born and raised in Manchester, Connecticut. She attended Elmira College for two years, then transferred to Florida State University, graduating in 1958. She discusses the two restaurants at G. Fox & Co., the more casual restaurant and the Connecticut Room. She talks about how she met Beatrice Fox Auerbach when she was a child. She discusses what Hartford was like when she was a teenager. In 1956, she purchased her first wedding dress at the G. Fox Specialty Shop. She explained the differences in the store from a customers point of view after the May Company purchased it. She shopped at G. Fox from the time she was a child until the store closed in 1993. She describes G. Fox at Christmas. She ends the interview discusses where she shopped after G. Fox closed.
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Funding Note: In 2006, the Connecticut Historical Society received a grant from the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving to support the collection of oral histories, the cataloging of G. Fox & Co. materials and Fox and Auerbach family materials, and the creation of web pages. Additional funding for the oral histories was provided by The Prospect Fund, The Brookside Fund, and The Maple Tree Fund. The Connecticut Historical Society gratefully acknowledges these generous supporters. Without such generosity, this project would not have been possible.
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