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)

A day of misc. more to come today

I  have just gotten home after nine hours of working the early voting polls and canvassing to get voters out today on our last day of early voting. Here in Florida they not only cut our early voting days in half, but cut out Sunday, the heaviest voting day of all in early voting.  I know that if my Dad were alive, he would be out here with me working his heart out on this election.
 I know that I have not yet posted any photos of so many of my wonderful cousins. I am going to search through the photos I have on the computer picking out ones that I already have.  I still have not had time to scan others,  so please forgive me.  I love you all and when I can, each one of you will be represented on this blog. Please email me photos you want to see here.

The first three pictures of are of me1947, Susan- 1954 and Susan- Pre-teen

Below are Debora and Michael and Debby in costume.

A few more from the collection

 We were living in Clifton Heights.  Grandpa bought the house in his GI loan.  Aunt Esther and Uncle Morrie moved in two doors down with Arline and Judy.  I was three when we moved there.  Grandpa had a mimeo machine on which he would print fliers for the CP and take them back to Philly for distribution. On occasion, Jack and Nancy Bruin would come to visit with Janet and Marian and pick up the fliers and take them back with them.  In the picture is a near-by school and playground that we would go to.  On the swings are Fanny, Bubba and Aunt Harriet. 
In the lower picture are Bubba, Zaida, Uncle Morrie and Judy.

 Aunt Harriet and Uncle Sy when they were courting in 1954.

 Aunt Harriet and Uncle Sy in top picture and in bottom on the Board Walk in Atlantic City in 1955.  Uncle Sy was from Atlantic City.

 Aunt Harriet and Uncle Sy boarding plane to California in 1956.

 Uncle Morrie with Judy, Arline and Roslyn.

 Arline and Bubba.  No idea of what was cut out of this photo. The picture on the wall is of Ellen.

 This if Grandpa bill with Harry Gerstein. Harry was married to Esther Korsh, Ellen's mother (and is Ellen's father.)

Cousin Judy (Zeitz) Sitko and family Steve, Anna, Erik and Micah. Judy lives in California.