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Yearly Archives: 2014
Bloom family furniture
In 2011 Bob Rosen (1947-2013) sent me these photos of his bedroom furniture. He told me it was from the Bloom family, my ancestors from Pine Bluff. I don’t recall if Bob told me whose house this came from.
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Frances Jean Bloom Ghertner (1921-1978)
I came across this picture of my mom in a batch of scans from Memphis. She has the ever present cigarette in her hand. She’d toss it on the ground, temporarily, to make a golf shot but not for a … Continue reading
Shotgun apartment in 1940s
During World War II, Em & Pappy’s family lived for a while in Muskogee, Oklahoma; and that’s where Faylese met Leslie. The Army base there is Camp Gruber. They lived in a ‘shotgun’ apartment. There was no hallway, each room … Continue reading
More notoriety
Perhaps not as famous as a significant rabbi, movie stars & moguls and newspaper moguls in the family tree or well known 1950s popular singer from Nashville , but Isaac Altchul (great grandson of David Altschul) achieved some notoriety. This … Continue reading
Hot Shot Pappy
This Luscome was Pappy’s first airplane. A story goes that Pappy had started the engine, set the brakes and got out. When the brakes let loose, Pappy grabbed a wing strut and the airplane swung around and dragged him along … Continue reading
Reposting with newly discovered pictures
Pappy was a pilot,a hunter and a sailor. Here’s are two 1966 sailing pictures of Pappy and a 1965 photo of his Piper Comanche. More on the Comanche. Tail number: N 5108P Fixed wing single engine with landing gear Single … Continue reading
Two Pappy’s ?????
Lynton Lazarus “Pappy” Scharff (1897-1985) was Emma Marie Block, my grandmother’s second husband. (see this page). There’s a problem with the on-line family tree at Ancestry as the software treats the descendants of Pappy’s first marriage to Jessie Grace Block, … Continue reading