In the blog section, you will find stories of interest about the people, places, and things relating to the Stan's Rothman and Kirsch families. If you would like to write a blog post for this section, please email it to me and I will be glad to [Read more...]
Like most Jewish mothers, Lillian loved preparing a feast for the Jewish Holidays. Whenever we could get to New Jersey, she always made a banquet, and even in her little apartment, she would include her sister and brother-in-law, Helen and Abe. She [Read more...]
My mother-in-law, Lillian, loved to crochet afghans. She made them for new baby presents, new home presents, wedding presents, and for any and every other occasion. She made quilt-sized ones and lap-sized ones. She crocheted [Read more...]
This is a little story about an antique mantel clock and how I came to own it. The short version is that I got it from Stan’s Aunt Helen who got it from her mother-in-law, Matilda Wishnefsky. Now for the details. Helen Kirsch Warren, was my [Read more...]
Can you imagine a store that only sold ladies' stockings? Helen Kirsch worked in one such store. Helen is 4th from the left Why did hosiery stores exist? People could purchase stockings in department stores, but stores [Read more...]
When she first got married, Lillian lived close to her mother’s home. It must have been a hard decision to move to another town and not be able to walk over to her mother’s house. Lillian and Paul probably moved from Paterson, NJ, to Hackensack, [Read more...]
In the 1930s, Lillian worked as a bookkeeper in a boarding house in Paterson, New Jersey. Paul was working as a house painter and was active in the democratic party in Paterson. We know they were dating as early as 1936 as Paul was in the family [Read more...]
In the 1960s, brothers Sidney, Bill, and George each bought ¼ share in concessions in Asbury Park. Who had the other ¼? It appears that it was probably Irving B. Kirsch, their first cousin. Irving was the son of Morris Kirsch, who was [Read more...]
My father, Paul Rothman, was always busy working so when he offered to take me to my first baseball game, I was so excited. I was about 7 years old. He knew nothing about baseball, but I had started playing Little League and he knew how much I liked [Read more...]