Title: Borough of Manhattan, Certificate and Record of Birth for Abraham DOMMESSICK [sic] (1905)
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Title: Sally DAMESEK, Interviews with Sally DAMESEK (16 Dec 1996 and 29 Mar 1997)
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Title: New York State Department of Health, Marriage license for Robert Alvin Blood and Esta Damesek (27 Mar 1933)
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Note: 920. They used to swim in the East River which was not polluted back then, near their home in the Bronx. Once they made a "neat" wagon by stealing the wheels off a baby carriage and attaching them to a double fruit box, but Max could never believe his boys were capable of any mischief. "My boys would never do such a thing. They play the piano." In the summers, Rebecca and the four boys would visit Rebecca's uncle, Raphael RIEMER in Freehold, NJ. Max had to keep the store open. Raphael was a Rabbi who kept chickens in his side yard. The boys used to chase the chickens there until they literally dropped dead for sport. Grandpa Abbe was once rummaging around in the upper section of their barn when he fell through the floor and into the cow manure. He avoided breaking his neck, but got a good scolding and a long bath. When Abbe was about 11, he ran away from home and took a train all the way to Freehold - a full day's journey. Because Rabbi RIEMER did not have a phone, it took a week before Abbe's parents', Max and Rebecca, learned that Abbe was safe. They were very worried and could not believe that Abbe could make such a trip all alone (027). Note: Abbe and his brothers, Sam, Mike and Alex were boys in the years 1910-1
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Note: a) in New York City. Like all of my grandparents, his was the last generation to be delivered at home by midwives, rather than in a hospital by doctors. Everyone called grandpa "Abbe." In fact, I never knew his name was Abraham until I saw his birth certificate 18 years after he died. Note: Abraham DAMESEK was born to Russian immigrants (now Latvia and Lithuani
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Note: He died at St. Claire's Hospital of lung cancer caused by smoking.
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Note: ome. One night, while waiting for a train on the 125th street elevated subway platform for the train to the Bronx, a man walked up to her and said, "I think we have a friend in common, Sam Schwartz." When the guy mentioned Sam, grandma knew he was on the level. Grandma let the man take her home. For the next 6 months, most of the courtship occurred between 3 and 6am. Grandma and the man would drink a little of the milk which came in the morning, leading her mother Jennie to suspect that a poor person was doing it. The man's named was Abbe and later would be my grandfather. One mourning they were necking and Abbe said, "Let's get married or something." So grandma replied, "Let's get married or nothing!" There was later a more formal proposal. Sally was married in NYC in an orthodox synagogue (at her father's insistence). The reception was held at a restaurant owned by a man named Greenspan. One of the guests that attended her wedding was Arthur Tracey, a vaudeville entertainer known as The Street Singer. Abbe was his arranger and accompanist. Tracey sang popular songs in several languages. Sally became proficient in Yiddish by listening to Abbe's parents, since her own parents spoke mostly in English. Note: In 1931, Sally would play cello in Yorkville to 3am and take the subway h
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