Family Activities
Family Friends
Mom and Pop's closest friends may have been Fanny and Abe Fleeman and Betty and Charlie Moskov. They used to take Sunday drives with them into the country and have them over frequently for Sunday supper. Charlie Moskov worked at Eastman Kodak, and he and Betty had a lingerie store where they lived on Joseph Ave, not too far from the meat market. Betty would run the store during the day. They lived above the store. On some summer Saturday evenings Mom would go to the store and she and Betty would sit on chairs on the sidewalk in front of the store, talking until Pop was through working.
Abe Fleeman was a tailor at the men's clothing factories. He was something of a labor union activist and maybe for that reason he seemed to move from job to job. He also did tailoring on his own, making men's suits and trousers in his home. This private tailoring became a second job for Abe, and probably one that didn't make him much money. Buck remembers the time Abe came over from his house about 9 pm expecting to be paid for a pair of trousers he had made for Buck. Bucky was alone in the house, and he didn't have any money for Abe. He had walked over from his house on Joseph Ave to get $5 that had been owed him for some time. There was a look of disappointment and anger on Abe's face that Buck still remembers. This wasn't the way to treat a friend. Buck was surprised that our friendship with Abe and Fanny continued after this.
The Bravermans and Novicks, in Rochester, and the Rothmans, in Syracuse, were other good friends.
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