Cousin Barry shares his memories on Memorial Day 2020

It has been a long long time since I have posted on this blog.  It is memorial day 2020 and I am in Lake Worth, alone in our gallery, during the Corona Virus Pandemic.  Cousin Barry Siegel posted memories of his parents and Uncle Moe who died win WWII.  He gave me permission to share them on this blog.  I am also going to begin to scan the 10's of thousands of photographs I have in crates in the condo and share them with family-  I will try to identify them as best I can.

These photos and documents come to us thanks to our wonderful Aunt Dorothy- who kept album after album of historic family photos and documents.  If you scroll down thru all of the earliest posts, you will see so many of them already on these pages.  She would have been 99 this year- and I know, had she survived, she would still be as sharp as a tack and berating me for not wearing make-up. I miss her so very much.  Thank you Barry, for sharing these.

Saturday, November 10

Here we are, the weekend after the big election.  I thought life might slow down a bit, but it is as hectic as ever.  Today I continue posting photos that have already been scanned into the computer.  I have a long way to go before I scan new ones.

These are some of the slides that were taken in the late 1950's.  They were taken in Los Angeles.  We would spend the summer on the road with grandpa and grandma selling drygoods to the Amish.  Grandpa would spend weeks folding the cloth by the yard and packing it into boxes.  He shipped it to railroad sidings in many different Amish towns.  We would pull the trailer into town and park it in a trailer court.  Either Susie or I would go with him to the train siding and load up the trunk of his car every day and make our rounds from door to door with the Amish.  After Iowa we would load what was left into the trailer and make our way west to Los Angeles.

 Family Portrait- Bubba Rose, Uncle Sy, Aunt Harriet, Roslyn and Sheryl

 Bubba Rose with (I think) her brother Joe.

 Bubba Rose with friends.  On the wall are pictures. From left to right- Me, Susie, Arline and Judy and Roslyn

 Grandma in the kitchen with Bubba

 Grandpa and Grandma with Bubba- Please cousins, if you know who these others are, let me know.

 Bubba Rose in her bedroom on Fairfax Street.

 Picnic in back of Danny and Ribsie's house.  Aunt Harriet, Danny, Bubba, Aunt Esther and Ribsie,

 Grandma Elaine and Me on Alv.eros Street.  I am holding Nikki. He was our wonderful dog who went everywhere with us. He was named after Nikita Khruschev.

 Grandma and Grandpa.  Is this the Grand Canyon?

 Ribsie and Grandma in Ribsie's pool.

 Grandma with (Name these folks???)

 Grandma with her good friend Betty Wilson.  Arine and Judy might remember the Wilsons? They had a shoe store and we would all go and play with their xray machine.  We would get on and watch the bones in our feet.

 Grandpa and grandma with Aunt Harriet, Uncle Sy and the kidlets. My cousins Roslyn and Sheryl are much closer in age to my children, Rob and Pete, than they are to me.  Grandpa Bill was gaga over them.  It had been so long since we had babies in the family and he adored them more than you can imagine. We all felt that way.

 Aunt Harriet with Grandma and Grandpa

 Harriet and Sy with Roslyn and Sheryl

 Aunt Harriet and Uncle Sy with Grandma

 Aunt Esther

 There I am with my beautiful baby cousin Sheryl and Nikki the dog

 Roslyn and Sheryl

 Ribsie with Aunt Harriet and the kidlets.

 My gorgeous Roslyn

 Ribsie's pool with the kids

 Roslyn

 Roslyn with Nikki and another child

 Roslyn

 Sheryl

 Susan, me and grandma with our backs to the camera.  Kenny is driving the boat.  Kenny and I were 16 & 17 at the time.

Saturday, November 3, 2012 - The Edith and Szrulik Korsh Family

I am now looking through slides that I scanned. I came across a Korsh family celebration.  For the first time we see Aunt Clara Poland (Zaida Sam's youngest sister.) She is the mother of Aimie Katz who is the mother of Jimmy (a wonderful cousin who died at too early an age), Cathy and Sam (who ran for mayor of Philadelphia.) Sam has a wonderful wife and four lovely children.

 Atlantic City again- Szrulik, Ethel and Aunt Anna Greenberg (Joe).

 This is the first picture I have come across of Szrulik and Edith Korsh, Jimmy's mom and day and Erik, Aaron and Joanna's grandparents.  They were the best of friends to Grandpa Bill and Grandma Elaine as well as cousins.  They shared the same progressive political core. Two really wonderful and special people.

 Another picture or Aunt Clara.  Esther Gerstein's back is to us.

 Esther Gerstein, Ellen's mom.

 Esther Gerstein

 Szrulik and Ethel at the airport

 Ethel, Josh, Szrulik, Rhea and Ellen.

 Aunt Ethel

 Faigie (with Rhea reflected in the mirror.)

 Faigie on the beach.  By the way, Faigie was a nickname for Florence.  It means, little bird.  We had a lot of Florence's and Esther's in this family.
Rhea is in this group shot.  Would love to remember who the rest of the folks are.

 Harry Gerstein standing.Esther, Rhea, Ellen, Ethel and Szrulik

 Josh, Ethel, Szrulik, Rhea and Ellen

 Marty Korsh (Ethel and Szrulik's son and Rhea's dad) Shirley and Josh

 Photo of Portrait of Ethel and Szrulik

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 Rhea and Ellen

 Rhea dancing with Aunt Ethel (her grandma)