D-This is an interview with Soloman Sandler in his home in Hollywood, FL.

 The date is Feb. 16, 1988, and the interviewer is David Dodrill.

 Sol, tell me a little bit about yourself. Let's start with your full

 name and when and where you were born.

S-My name is Solomon Sandler, they call me Sol. I was born in Maryland in

 1919. Graduated from the University of Maryland, went into the service

 in the Navy for five years. After the Navy, went to work with the family

 and started in the weekend furniture business and then went into the

 cosmetic business, again with the --- for a period of about 10 years,

 and then came to Florida to work with Gulf AfMerican Land Corporation.

 At Gulf American I was a corporate officer, vice president in the ad-

 ministrative part of the company. I handled inside operations. Watched

 the finances and became involved in all the subsidiaries of the company.

D-Let's back up a little bit. Before you came, to work with Gulf American

 here in Florida, and you said you were married to?

S--Lenny and Jack Rosen's sister, Sylvian.

D-So you say you married into the family. Explain a little bit about that.

S--Well, it was a very, very unusual family, very close. And a very tight

 family. The kids were very close, five children. ITy children and

 Leonard's children and Jack's children all grew up very very close. I've

 been a part of that family since I married into it. It's a very, very

 close family. Very strong. It was a very unusual family.

D--Refresh my memory. Who was the mother?

S--The mother was Fannie Rosen. Their father when he was 32 years old. He

 was from waht a hear, a self-made millionaire three times and lost it each

 time. In the movie theatre business and he owned several movie theatres

 in Baltimore. And very successful but then he would get very enterprising

 and he died at 32 years old. He was out in Chicago trying to raise money,

 and he was run over by a streetcar that night. Very unusual death. The

 mother supported the family. She owned a little grocery store in Baltimore.