Old BR question Anyone remember Ralph, the BRSA ref?

He was awesome. I went to the new library last week and was thinking about BRSA days. I have a friend that I will ask about it tomorrow.

Godchaux's had a sporting goods section where they also sold tennis shoes. He worked in there.

I never knew anything about his Holocaust ties. The store was owned by the Sternbergs. Now I am curious about their history as well.

ETA It was Goudchaux's.

"With a mercantile line extending back five generations to a small shop in eighteenth-century Germany, the Sternbergs were born to be shopkeepers. In 1936, as Nazi harassment of Jews intensified, Erich smuggled $24,000 out of Germany and settled in Baton Rouge. His wife and three children joined him a year later, and in 1939, Erich bought Goudchaux's and set about transforming it from a nondescript apparel shop into a true department store"

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My second grade teacher was an Imahara. This was at Greenbrier Elementary. I can't remember her first name though.

Ralph Meyer was one of the founders of the soccer league in Baton Rouge. The league had three age groups or 6 teams, 18 total. Everything for the league was purchased at Goudchaux’s. At one time Ralph a buyer for sporting goods at Goudchaux’s. He a good man but very grumpy, he was demoted all the down to a suit salesman at Main Street. The BRSA board voted him out because he didn’t get along with people. Ralph was from Germany, I don’t know about the Holocaust, became a born again Christian and still yelled at customers. Sternberg’ were very loyal and didn’t fire him. He was the only employee at Goudchaux’s who could yell at customers.