Comments July 2016
From: Michael <noreply-comment@blogger.com>
Date: July 3, 2016 at 1:12:39 PM EDT
To: shofar221@gmail.com
Subject: [Trenton Jewish Historical Society] New comment on Gloria Lane - Metropolitan Singer.
Date: July 3, 2016 at 1:12:39 PM EDT
To: shofar221@gmail.com
Subject: [Trenton Jewish Historical Society] New comment on Gloria Lane - Metropolitan Singer.
Michael has left a new comment on your post "Gloria Lane -
Metropolitan Singer":
Gussie was (for those who can remember) the "Maria Montez" of our neighborhood. Dark, sultry and extremely beautiful. But, just as nice and sweet as beautiful! When I did call her that Sat. morning, expecting to speak to her daughter, I asked "Olga" she said "no this is her mother" When I blurted out "Gussie"? She laughed and said "who is this that knows that name" I revealed myself, and she poured lovely remembrances over me. It was than that she volunteered, that her son "Robert was there at that moment" visiting from Seattle, and proceeded to say how she loved my brother, and honored him by naming her first son after him.
Her Brother Benny was like a big brother to me and my younger sisters. As a friend of my brother Ed, Benny spent a great deal of time in our house. This was one of the most warm wonderful families in our little enclave. I can still remember the houses, and people in vivid color. What a great place for a kid to grow up. The sharing, love, and caring between Gentile, Jew, black and White has never been seen again. Despite having nothing, we share what ever we had with all we knew!
Gussie was (for those who can remember) the "Maria Montez" of our neighborhood. Dark, sultry and extremely beautiful. But, just as nice and sweet as beautiful! When I did call her that Sat. morning, expecting to speak to her daughter, I asked "Olga" she said "no this is her mother" When I blurted out "Gussie"? She laughed and said "who is this that knows that name" I revealed myself, and she poured lovely remembrances over me. It was than that she volunteered, that her son "Robert was there at that moment" visiting from Seattle, and proceeded to say how she loved my brother, and honored him by naming her first son after him.
Her Brother Benny was like a big brother to me and my younger sisters. As a friend of my brother Ed, Benny spent a great deal of time in our house. This was one of the most warm wonderful families in our little enclave. I can still remember the houses, and people in vivid color. What a great place for a kid to grow up. The sharing, love, and caring between Gentile, Jew, black and White has never been seen again. Despite having nothing, we share what ever we had with all we knew!
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Tom
Glover
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TOM GLOVER
Sentimental Journey |
June 27, 2016
Dear Art:
Just one word: INCREDIBLE!
I just received your "Trenton's Jews"
and with even a cursory paging through it, my first reaction was trying to
imagine the love, effort, and in depth research you expended to publish such a
wonderful and educational volume. Well done sir!
I am enclosing a CD in which I have emptied my
"JEWISH" folder here at the Hamilton Library and hope you find some
material which will be of interest to you.
Thank you so much for the volume. believe me, it
will be eagerly read from cover to cover as I recall my personal experiences
with my retrospective memories of the South Trenton Jewish community.
Sincerely,
Tom Glover--
Art Hoenig
Corrections to Jewish surnames of 1920 to include Art's relatives - Hoenig and Goldstein. Art also volunteered to perform work for the Society.
Thank you, Art
--
Barbara (Bobby) Bistrong Popofsky Higgs of Silver Springs, MD volunteered to provide professional proofreading expertise to our publications.
Thank you Barbara
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