Map
We have included a map of the neighborhood around Gorham St. As the map show Gorham St was a short street, running only between St Paul St and Clinton Ave. It was about a mile north of Main St, the commercial center of the city. Main St divided the city north and south, and the Genesee River, which flows north into Lake Ontario, was the east-west dividing line of Rochester. The locations of some of the buildings that have been mentioned earlier are located on the map. The map has not been drawn to any scale. The distance from Gorham St to Central Ave is about one-half mile, the same for Gorham St to Clifford Ave.
- This is 20 Gorham Street, at the corner of Gorham and Martin Streets.
- Amdursky's meat market on Joseph Ave, where Pop worked. The Amdurskys had a second market on Joseph Ave, next to the store of Betty and Charlie Moskov, #15.
- No. 9 school, the elementary school some of us attended, and one of the places Mom went for her Endlish classes.
- The Baden St Settlement House, another of places Mom went for her English classes. The house also sponsored clubs and athletics for the children in the neighborhood.
- The Talmud Torah, a religious school. Here boys and girls received instruction in Hebrew and Judaism, ant the boys were trained for their bar mitzvah.
- The Jewish Children's Home, across the street from us on Gorham St.
- The Hudsons, neighbors on Martin St, and the grandparents of Ed Heit.
- Bausch & Lomb Optical Company.
- Michaels Stern, a men's clothing factory.
- Bonds, a men's clothing factory.
- No. 20 elementary school, where some of us attended.
- Home of the Goulds, Aunt Esther and Uncle Hymie, on St Paul St.
- Home of Tante Minnie and Huncle Harry Liberman on Cuba Pl.
- Washington High School, on Clifford Ave. All of us attended at some time. Originally a junior high school, it later became a junior-senior high school, and was closed in 1941 and became Edison Technical High School.
- The Moskovs had their lingerie store here on Joseph Ave, a street of many small shops.
- Yalowich's drug store, at the corner of Joseph Ave and Herman St. This was the busiest drug store in the neighborhood.
- The Big Shul on Hanover St, where Pop was a life member and where we attended during the holidays. There was another shul next door to the Big Shul. Other shuls in the neighborhood were on Morris St and the one that was part of the Jewish Children's Home on Gorham St.
- St. Bridget's Church on Gorham St. Associated with the church was a parochial school.
- The Lyric, one of the two neighborhood movies.
- The Empress, the other neighborhood movie, the one we didn't go to.
- Zlawsky's grocery, where Mom did most of her grocery shopping. It was a primitive store where there could be a good deal of shouting going on. A small store with limited selections. We don't seem to remember that the store was heated during the winter.
- Nusbaum's clothing store, where Mom bought clothes for the family.
- Bartholomay dairy. A large dairy on St Paul St. Deliveries were made using horse and wagon well into the time when automobiles were the usual means of transportation. During the winter season, when the streets were snow covered the wagons were replaced with sleds. Behind the dairy was a vegetable canning factory
- Genesee Brewing Co., still in business at the same location, although much bigger now. From the Platt St bridge, a pedestrian bridge now, there is a good view of the falls of the Genesee river.
- The New York Central railroad station. Depots for the Erie and Delaware Lackawanna railroads were downtown on Broad St.
Gorham St. no longer exists. During urban redevelopment it disappeared, or at least the name did. There is now a street called St Bridget's Church St which runs from St Paul St along what used to be Hand St to Payne, down Payne, and then along Gorham to Clinton. There is a soft drink bottling plant that now occupies most of what used to be the north side of Gorham St.
