Title: Sally DAMESEK, Interviews with Sally DAMESEK (16 Dec 1996 and 29 Mar 1997)
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Title: Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization., Petition For Naturalization for Hyman Kempler (12 Mar 1914)
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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: tholic hospital. My grandmother's first memory is the sight of nuns looking down at her. Sally said that when she was a child, she was asked to pick up a record. When Sally brought home cello solos, like Das Trammerie by Hans Kimbler several times. This did not go unnoticed by her mother, who asked her one day, "How would you like to play the cello?" Among things that Grandma has mentioned about her life: Danny Kaye dated Grandma's sister Florence when he was a nobody playing in the Catskills. Gay's brother Arnold inventor the "frap" which is a type of microphone which Grandma says was used early on by the Rolling Stones. Grandma's women's group was vaudeville. Note: When grandma is 2, she contracts whooping cough. She was placed in a Ca
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Note: wer East Side, a predominantly Jewish neighborhood teaming with immigrants. Grandma Sally began calling herself Sally at age 14. She dislikes her middle name and never uses it. Few people know her real name (many of the Jews in our family anglicized their given names and some their surname as well). Grandma suspects that she may have been named after someone named Gertrude, since Jews often name their children after departed family members. Grandma's was the last generation to be born at home through a mid-wife. "Only rich people had babies in hospitals in those days." Note: Sadie Gertrude KEMPLER is born to Austrian immigrants on Manhattan's Lo
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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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