[T1S1] description of the Hill District of Pittsburgh in the 1920s and 1930s; names of Jewish merchants in business there at that time; father a shoemaker from Lithuania; lifestyle there during prohibition; art classes at the Irene Kaufmann Settlement; brother Charles Gordon, founder of "Doc Gordon Club" for boys; studying dentistry at the University of Pittsburgh; opens an office with his brother Charles, a dentist also; retirement at age seventy-seven; resumes interest in art after fifty years; prizes for art and exhibitions in early life; his siblings and their lives; changes in Pittsburgh since his childhood.