Zeyde Jack and Uncle Harry
Zeyde Jack getting Ellis
Arnold redeems Ellis from Uncle Abe Brodsky
Zeyde Jack looks good in a bow tie!
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Ellis' Pidyon HaBen
Zeyde Jack and Uncle Harry
Zeyde Jack getting Ellis
Arnold redeems Ellis from Uncle Abe Brodsky
Zeyde Jack looks good in a bow tie!
Monday, July 13, 2009
in the crowd
Jack & Rose marry off their last child
Jack, Rose, Kitty, Herman, Bella, Harry @ Manny's engagement
Berte at her wedding
the unmarried table at Manny's engagement
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Arnold's memories
When he came to America he was 13, and instead of going to school he worked with his father, so i don't know when or how he learned to read and write and do math, but he always made his own signs and price tags and did the math at the register on his own.
He didn't keep kosher and the meats at the store were not Jewish deli type meats, so when grandma came over she would make him wash his hands whenever he came into the house from the store.
The walk-in refrigerator at the store was also our home refrigerator and we also had a freezer, one of the first there were, that was built by uncle Harry Altman. In the freezer Jack was the first in Philly to carry 'Birds Eye' frozen foods.
We had a black cat named Niggy. she used to pee on the coal in the basement and made it stink.
One time Mort went to the basement with a torch and ran into a cotton ball and set fire to the entire basement.
Dad was kind to all his customers and was very slow to anger. He had very good relations with the tavern next door and used to go there for fried oysters with mom often.
He didn't keep kosher and the meats at the store were not Jewish deli type meats, so when grandma came over she would make him wash his hands whenever he came into the house from the store.
The walk-in refrigerator at the store was also our home refrigerator and we also had a freezer, one of the first there were, that was built by uncle Harry Altman. In the freezer Jack was the first in Philly to carry 'Birds Eye' frozen foods.
We had a black cat named Niggy. she used to pee on the coal in the basement and made it stink.
One time Mort went to the basement with a torch and ran into a cotton ball and set fire to the entire basement.
Dad was kind to all his customers and was very slow to anger. He had very good relations with the tavern next door and used to go there for fried oysters with mom often.
Jay's memories
There was a gum-ball machine on the counter of the store. Besides the standard gum-balls, there were a few silver balls in the glass container. When you put in your penny and turned the dial, 3-5 gum-balls would drop down the chute. If one of these was a silver colored ball, you could exchange it for a prize (I think a Hershey bar). Whenever we visited the store, we would get at least one try at the gum-ball machine. Somehow, I think Zeyde Jack managed to arrange it so that I won an unreasonable number of silver balls. My memory is that I ALWAYS got one -- but never more than one for any visit. Somehow I'm pretty sure that's not how it really was!
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