Description:February 3, 1939

Description:January 31, 1936 University High School also acted as a Junior High School at this time.

Description:He earned just north of $346. from the Sears on Westwood Blvd. in Los Angeles, California. 1946

Description:In an undated, handwritten "Resume of Herbert Bloom´s Previous Occupational Experience", perhaps prepared for the military, Hi indicates that his prior work included "... newsboy, clothing salesman, and aircraft mechanic".

Description:Perhaps to get a job or a promotion at Douglas Aircraft. The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer based in Southern California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas, when it then operated as a division of McDonnell Douglas. McDonnell Douglas later merged with Boeing in 1997. [show more]

Description:January 6, 1946, Hi, Sasha, and George just after the War. The boys returned from the war after VJ Day August 14, 1945. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day Further documents will show precisely when they returned, but they were full and fit citizens in this picture, probably in front of Sasha´s apartment in Torrance, California. Hi was 25, George, 27. [show more]

Description:UPPER RIGHT PHOTO: Hi´s 3rd Birthday. Los Angeles, California. February 14, 1924. Hi is bottom center with not so happy face, wearing a ridiculous big white hat. George is bottom left. Looks like the Bloom´s were doing well in 1924 .. look at how many kids came to the party. Advise if you can ID more. LOWER RIGHT PHOTO: A month later, March, 1924, the Bloom´s pose in front of somebody´s house. L.A. Bloom (standing) next to Ethel next to Sam Talmey and Anna (one of Lawrence´s sisters). Hi and Mort in the front row, with George just behind. One of the girls should be Jackie, but not sure of the other, and not sure who is the man laying on the ground. LEFT FIVE PICTURES: That same man is depicted again in these photos labeled July, 1924, taken at Brent´s Mountain Crag in Calabasas, California. The story of this location is at http://www.historyadventuring.com/2020/11/who-brent-of-brents-junction-was.html where you can see a photo almost identical to this one, but depicting others who came to this house, somewhat in the hills outside of Los Angeles. "E.J. Brent came to Los Angeles at the turn of the century and promptly made his fortune selling furniture, and decided to build a country house waaaaay far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, in Calabasas. He called his place "the Mountain Crags". It was where Malibu Creek State Park is, on Crags Road. No, there was no one named Craig, it's just crag, like a craggy mountain, which are all around that beautiful area." Hi is with the sideways hat. George is the "sword" bearing warrior standing above him. Lower left, you can see Mort up a tree. It appears to be Ethel looking up the tree, at the UPPER RIGHT, and standing next to her is the same man lying down on the ground in the other picture. [show more]

Description:For the rather expensive sum of $68.21, Hi paid for his tuxedo from Lee´s Men´s Shop on Shattuck Street. Topcoat (which is presumably the entire tuxedo) cost $42.75, with a scarf and various other necessities renting for the balance. Tax was 3.5%. Its unclear if this was a rental (even though the back of the bill says the company rents clothes), because cost relative to that day seems to be for the purchase of it. Note, it is dated February 14, 2 days after the wedding, at which time Hi was in San Francisco. [show more]

Description:Apparently Betty and Hi enjoyed a special meal at this restaurant ... $2.00 for a steak dinner with all the trimmings.

Description:Hi and Betty got married February 12, 1950 and they didn´t have much money. They left Dennie with Betty´s sister, Marcia, and drove to San Francisco. Here is a copy of the "Guide to San Francisco" that they saved from that honeymoon trip. The guide explains that the Oakland Seals (minor league baseball team) could be seen, along with some basketball in Kezar Stadium (which is in Golden Gate Park), you could arrange for a flight on Pan Am and TWA airlines, and get a steak at Bob´s on Geary and Mason. [show more]

Description:The rather elaborate menu of the Cliff House is depicted. $3.75 for the Main Special. $.50 (that´s right 50 cents) for a Martini, most beers $.30. See the wonderful photos of the exterior and interior of this classic San Francisco restaurant, which opened in 1863 and closed its doors on last day of 2020, some 157 years later. [show more]

Description:Cliff House Postcard

Description:Presumably from the Santa Maria Inn, Mr and Mrs. Herbert Bloom´s first married night.

Description:On their first night of marriage, "Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bloom of 8400 Lennox Blvd, Van Nuys, California." left their Wedding in Hollywood and drove to the the Santa Maria Inn, Room 160. The cost of their room: $7.50. Dinner was $5.50 for them both and breakfast was $2.00. The left on February 13 and drove to San Francisco. [show more]

Description:Confirmation of reservation with travel agency.

Description:They spent the three nights of their Honeymoon. February 13, 14, and 15 at the St Francis Hotel in Union Square. (Address simply: Union Square, San Francisco 19, Calif.) Today that very same hotel, owned by the Westin, continues to serve an elegant clientele. The cost of the room was a princely $8 per night. They ate at the restaurant (or had rooms service) for $4.97 and spent $1.75 on the valet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_St._Francis [show more]

Description:On February 2, 1950, Joanna Glaeser of the St. Francis Hotel, confirmed "a nice room with a double bed and a bath" for the dates of February 13-15, 1950. typing the confirmation on the back of the Hotel Postcard and senting it to Helen Bishop (presumably a travel agent that was used). Note: Postage 1 cent. [show more]

Description:Here is the hotel´s brochure. Touting its rooms and elegant dining, as well as the Mural Room, "San Francisco´s Most Elegant Dining and Dance". The brochure was provided by the Mr. Foster Travel Service of Hollywood, California, and has Miss Bishop´s phone number on it, presumably their travel agent. [show more]

Description:Hi and Betty ate at the Cliff House in San Francisco. The Cliff House ("Where San Francisco Began") was an icon of the City, until its closing just 3 months before this data is being entered. https://cliffhouse.com/ All of its pieces were being auctioned off, including old dishes, etc. [show more]

Description:Its unclear if this was kept as a memento of a restaurant serving a lunch special for $.90 or the list of the cost of a dinner party for 12 people, including a wine and a meal. Perhaps the cost of catering a post-wedding meal?

Description:That man again, standing next to a car, with the boys driving. George and Mort in Indian Head dress, with some other kids. Then Ethel and the 3 boys standing on the "Los Angeles Limited" heading back to L.A. after a visit in Chicago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Limited: Beginning in 1905 the Los Angeles Limited was the flagship train of the Union Pacific between Chicago and Los Angeles. (From Chicago to Omaha the train was handled by the Chicago and North Western Railway). Union Pacific, which owned the train, completed the trip via Cheyenne, Ogden, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and San Bernardino. In early years the schedule was 68–74 hours; in November 1926 the schedule dropped to 63 hours each way to justify a $10 extra charge (which ended in June 1929). [show more]

Description:Jack was a little bit of Archie Bunker, I think, but a kind man. That newspaper was probably opened to the Racing Form.

Description:Jackie with her friends apparently at College in Chicago and Masha striking some poses in the Windy City. Below, left, is Sasha, holding a cigarette, probably around Los Angeles at those damn and construction pictures which are observed in other photos. Hi and Sasha at a Take My Photo Booth. Finally, lower right, Sasha in a jacket and tie. [show more]

Description:L.A. Bloom´s third youngest sister was Anna, who married Sam Talmey. Anna and Sam and had three children, Meta, Jackie, and Marty. Jackie is depicted here in 1942. Judging by other pictures it appears she was in college in Chicago at the time. This picture was taken "In memory of the 5100 Club". The 5100 Club was a nightclub/restaurant in Chicago, in the 1940's. The entertainer Danny Thomas got his start there. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1940s-Chicago-Illinois-5100-Club-Danny-Thomas-AUTOGRAPHED-SIGNED-souvenir-photo-/353381575103 As staff don´t usually have their picture taken at their place of employment, this is probably a picture of Jackie when she went to the club as a guest. [show more]

Description:Jacqueline Talmy Schaeffer was Hi´s first cousin. Her parent was a sibling to LA Bloom. She married Gersh Schaeffer who had three children, Craig, Stacy and Corrie, both of whom married. Gersh, a physician, moved to Riverside, California, and died there. Jackie and Betty became close when Hi and Betty moved to Riverside in 1956 until 1960. They shared many things, including their pregnancies, giving birth to Barry and Stacie just a few days apart, being Kaiser Fontana Hospital at the same time. Here they share a lunch, perhaps at the Riverside Country Club to which the Schaeffers belonged. The photo is dated July, 1960, which might be just before (or perhaps just after) Hi and Betty moved back to Los Angeles, California. The women at the left is "someone", but I can´t recall her name. Note her white gloves, the appropriate style of the day. [show more]

Description:Root Studio was a well known photographic company in Chicago .. the link below https://www.ebay.com/itm/143194638020

Description:Mort´s book at page 7, Mort identifies this picture as his "Great Grandfather". If so, this would be the oldest generation in the Bloom Archive. This is Vera´s father. The bottom of the front says "F. Malkina. Nizhyn" The back stamp says "Photography by F. Milina in Nizhyn." And at the bottom: "Atilier (which is a french word for "Artists Studio") for Zooming Portraits. On the very bottom it says "Negatives are kept". The director of the Nizhyn Gogol State University told me that he recognized the Malkina name, as a prominent photo studio in Nizhyn. It was run by both the husband and wife, and had studios in Nizhyn and Kiev and perhaps a third location. [show more]

Description:Kalmin Rezwin is the earliest start that we can trace our family. As of this writing (2021) he would represent the 7th generation of our roots. To everyone in the Bloom family side of this archive, he is a Great Great Grandfather or a Great Great Great Grandfather or a Great Great Great Great Grandfather. The handwriting on the back of the picture (which is my handwriting, which must mean that I got the information from Hi before he died and marked the picture) says "Zeda (Grandafather in Yiddish) Kalmin Rezwin (Vera´s Father)." To try to fix some dates: Lawrence was born in 1887, if his mother Vera was 25 at his birth, that means she was born circa 1862, and if her father was 25 at her birth, Kalman was born in 1837. This picture appears to depict him at 25, therefore this picture is circa 1862. He appears to have a very kindly smile and is wearing a nice suit, with a bit of a scruffy beard, but a wonderfully groomed and full head of hair. The numbers on the back of the pictures are not my handwriting, but i don´t think they could be giving a date of February 11, 1914, as the dates don´t match up. Kalmin never came to the United States, so this picture could be in Nizhyn, Ukraine. [show more]

Description:Simply due to the market on the back of the photo, this appears to be from the 1943 group that Hi processed in San Antonio. Perhaps this was taken from in the city?

Description:Back marked with number "838 Fox Tone San Antonio"

Description:This appears to be off base, in the city of San Antonio Back marked with number "842N" and stamped by "Fox Tone San Antonio, Texas"

Description:Kelly Field is in San Antonio, Texas. Kelly Field was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I, being established on 27 March 1917.[2] It was used as a flying field; primary flying school; school for adjutants, supply officers, engineers; mechanics school, and as an aviation general supply depot.[ Hi was stationed there early in his military life and received training as an airplane mechanic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Field#cite_note-3 Back marked with number "0838" and stamped by "Fox Tone San Antonio, Texas" [show more]

Description:Back marked with number "0838" and stamped by "Fox Tone San Antonio, Texas"

Description:This picture depicts Lawrence in his National Farm School, February 18, 1906. Lawrence would have been 19 years old. The picture is "In memoriam to McGinty" Lawrence wrote on the back "it is pretty foolish", apparently referring to himself in his fancy uniform. He dated the picture: 18/2/06. NOTICE HE SIGNED IT "L. Blumen" Mort says that he didn´t change his name from Lev Blumen to Lawrence Bloom until after his Mother Vera arrived in the U.S. several years later. There are many documents signed: "L.A. Bloom", but few examples of his signature "L. Blumen" Lawrence came to the United States in 1903 at the age of 16 (Mort heard he came in 1905 at the age of 18). His father felt he should leave Nizhyn (Ukraine) due to the series of "pogroms" that were constantly being inflicted on the Jews of that area. (Mort says it was to avoid being inducted into the military, which might also be correct.) He traveled to Liverpool, England (Mort said it was Bremen, Germany) to buy a ticket to travel to the U.S., but he got his pockets picked and lost all his money. So he signed on as a stevedore shoveling coal on a ship designated to New York. But he found out that you only got paid when you returned to your original port, so he came back to Liverpool, got paid, signed on a second time, and this got off when he landed in New York. His contact in the United States was Bernard (Berl) Pellicoff, an old friend of his father Moishe, who had known Moishe when they worked together years before providing wheat and brewing it into beer. Bernard had left Russia before 1889, but had kept in touch with Moishe. Bernard went to New York City to meet Lawrence (then known as Lev), but he wasn´t that sure about his English, so he brought along his daughter, who had been born in the United States to insure that the translation for the process went well. That daughter was named Ethel, and years later, Lawrence courted Ethel and they married. After Lawrence landed in the U.S. he did a variety of jobs and ultimately became aware that a "National Farm School" (See the "NFS" insignia on his collar in this picture) existed which would, at no charge to him, give him an education in farming. It was a school set up to provide training diversity to Jews. Here´s what Mort wrote in page 11 of his book: "My father kicked around new York, doing whatever work he could get. I think he was a streetcar conductor at one point. then he found out about the National Farm School in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Doylestown is a small town, across the river from Trenton, New Jersey. the school was started with Baron de Hirsch’s money. He believed that Jews shouldn’t all be doctors, lawyers, and merchants; some should be farmers, because agriculture is a very important aspect of any civilization. they were just at the beginning of the era of large farm machinery. "I’m sure the appeal for my father was that the school was free. You didn’t have to pay to go there, but you had to work on the school’s farm. You lived there and ate your meals there. While he was at the school, he learned how to play football and speak English and chase girls in Doylestown, and he started to become an American. When he finished at the national Farm School, he went to Philadelphia and he looked up my grandfather’s friend, Bernard Pellicoff. His father, Moisha had given him Pellicoff ‘s name to go and see inAmerica. When they were young men Moishe and Bernard lived in different towns, but both got jobs for a summer, and maybe several summers in a row, on a ranch in the Caucasus. they were overseers, which meant supervising the peasants working the fields. they were riding up and down on horses, telling the workers what to do. the two young men stayed in touch, writing to each other occasionally, even after Pellicoff came to America. So, when my father left Russia to come here, his father told him to go see Pellicoff in Philadelphia. that’s where he met my mother. Her name was Ethel Anna Pellicoff and she was Bernard’s daughter. My father returned to new York, but he carried on a correspondence with Ethel. I remember seeing their letters and some were pretty highfalutin. they wrote things in Latin, for example." You will notice that the oral history description given by Mort is different, in some details, than the oral history I heard from Hi. It´s not unusual that oral histories have some dissimilarities. NATIONAL FARM SCHOOL https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11381-national-farm-school An interesting history of the NFS is found at the above link. The story in the Jewishencyclopedia, was written in 1904, just two years before this picture was taken, and stated that at the time of the article the school had 45 students. [show more]

Description:L.A. Bloom became a rather prominent attorney in Los Angeles. His practice revolved around his knowledge of Russian i.e., if you were Russian and in need of an attorney in L.A. you went to L.A. As a result his practice varied across many civil areas of the law. The photo stamp on the photos is Edward-Hostetler, who was a prominent portrait studio in L.A. who took a number of professional photos for professionals in the L.A. area. [show more]

Description:L.A. Bloom became a rather prominent attorney in Los Angeles. His practice revolved around his knowledge of Russian i.e., if you were Russian and in need of an attorney in L.A. you went to L.A. As a result his practice varied across many civil areas of the law. The photo stamp on the photos is Edward-Hostetler, who was a prominent portrait studio in L.A. who took a number of professional photos for professionals in the L.A. area. [show more]

Subject:L.A. Bloom became a rather prominent attorney in Los Angeles. His practice revolved around his knowledge of Russian i.e., if you were Russian and in need of an attorney in L.A. you went to L.A. As a result his practice varied across many civil areas of the law.

The photo stamp on the photos is Edward-Hostetler, who was a prominent portrait studio in L.A. who took a number of professional photos for professionals in the L.A. area.

Description:Pregnant with baby Hi, Ethel, living with Mort and George in Philadelphia, received a telegram from Lawrence saying "Pack up Everything, We´re Moving to Los Angeles", and so, she did. Mort and George, both born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvia, along with Ethel took a train to Los Angeles, and soon thereafter on February 14, 1921, Hi was born in L.A. This picture, taken 11 months later, shows Lawrence, almost in Marlon Brando Godfather style, looking at his youngest child, and Mort, along with a proud Ethel standing beneath Lawrence´s legal shingle. Its the way law was practice back then. You´ll notice that the sign is in both English and Russian, as Lawrence´s legal practice focused on anything that the Russian speaking community needed in Los Angeles. The Russian portions says "Russian Attorney and Notary" It might have been the last time Lawrence ever smiled in Hi´s direction. For reasons, never explained, Hi´s relationship with Lawrence was never good. In Hi´s words: "Mort was the oldest. George, the favorite, and then there was me." Hi´s relationship with Ethel was very different. Ethel was a wonderful and caring mother (and mother in law). The only time I ever saw Hi cry, was coming out of the bathroom at ur old aprtment, having just learned of Ethel´s death. [show more]

Description:On January 27, 1919, LA Bloom was admitted to practice law in the 2nd District (Covering Los Angeles) District Court of Appeal. California has three level of courts: trial courts (made up, in 1919, of Municipal and Superior Courts, Courts of Appeal, there were probably 10 or so Districts at the time and they handled appellate cases only, and the California Supreme Court, which handled appellate matters. He was likely admitted to other Districts or other courts as well, but the fact that he was admitted to a Court of Appeal likely meant that he handled appellate matters, but it might also simply be that at that time, membership in the Court of Appeal (in his geographic location) simply gave him membership throughout the state of California. It is noteworthy, that this is before the full family moved to California, which occurred sometime while Ethel was pregnant with Hi sometime from May, 1920 to his birth on February 14, 1921. It may also be noteworthy, that although California became a state in 1849 and had a court system, California laws were not codified until 1872, which means that his membership in the California bar occurred 17 years after the first law in California was codified. [show more]

Description:On July 4, 1910, the state of Tennessee according LA Bloom the right to practice law. It is unknown if he had to take a bar exam, was sponsored by someone in the state, or was eligible by virtue of having graduating from University of Chattanooga the previous month. It is noteworthy that he was 23 at the time and had arrived in the U.S. in 1903, just 7 years before, at which time he didn´t even speak English. On the back is a crayon drawing, perhaps done by one of the grandchildren? [show more]

Description:Graduating Senior Law Class of 1910, University of Chattanooga (Lawrence Aaron Bloom can be seen second from bottom right.) Other graduates were also from Russia. Just 7 years after he landed in the U.S., unable to speak any English, he became an attorney. [show more]

Description:My grandfather´s last school picture, shortly before he left for the United States.

Description:The process of archiving old documents has a powerful component of Sherlock Holmes. The photos sometimes are either not labeled at all or labeled in a very cryptic or sometimes confusing manner. Sometimes they are in order, and therefore their relative position to other photos, better identified, allow for identification, and sometimes its as much as a guess as it is certainty. "Lasky Ranch La" is what is labeled behind this picture. On the back is also "000 3" with the 3 handwritten. The three items right after it are the same size photos, with the same "000 3" on it, and therefore, I have assumed that the four photos were processed at the same time, and therefore are related to each other. But, if I accept that premise, to what are they related. Lasky Ranch was a Movie Ranch, where the studios would go out to the San Fernando Valley and build sets and do outdoor action scenes and recreate things, like a World War I setting. This would account for the fact, that the pictures depict what appears to be a French castle and a World War I airplane. SO IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THESE FOUR PICTURES were all taken by someone, Hi? Sasha?, during a day trip to the Lasky Ranch in the Los Angeles area. That´s my story. The Lasky Ranch is an interesting story. It was the site of many silent movies made by Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd https://silentlocations.com/tag/lasky-ranch/ and was moved, rearranged, and moved again, where movies such as Gone With The Wind, Mission Impossible, and, most recently Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which, if not actually filmed on the Lasky Ranch, depicted the use of Movie Ranches, when Brad Pitt returns to an area he knew well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_ranch#Lasky_Ranch_%E2%80%93_San_Fernando_Valley_Providencia_Ranch It is unknown who the two boys in front of the plane are. [show more]

Description:The process of archiving old documents has a powerful component of Sherlock Holmes. The photos sometimes are either not labeled at all or labeled in a very cryptic or sometimes confusing manner. Sometimes they are in order, and therefore their relative position to other photos, better identified, allow for identification, and sometimes its as much as a guess as it is certainty. "Lasky Ranch La" is what is labeled behind this picture. On the back is also "000 3" with the 3 handwritten. The three items right after it are the same size photos, with the same "000 3" on it, and therefore, I have assumed that the four photos were processed at the same time, and therefore are related to each other. But, if I accept that premise, to what are they related. Lasky Ranch was a Movie Ranch, where the studios would go out to the San Fernando Valley and build sets and do outdoor action scenes and recreate things, like a World War I setting. This would account for the fact, that the pictures depict what appears to be a French castle and a World War I airplane. SO IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THESE FOUR PICTURES were all taken by someone, Hi? Sasha?, during a day trip to the Lasky Ranch in the Los Angeles area. That´s my story. The Lasky Ranch is an interesting story. It was the site of many silent movies made by Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd https://silentlocations.com/tag/lasky-ranch/ and was moved, rearranged, and moved again, where movies such as Gone With The Wind, Mission Impossible, and, most recently Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which, if not actually filmed on the Lasky Ranch, depicted the use of Movie Ranches, when Brad Pitt returns to an area he knew well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_ranch#Lasky_Ranch_%E2%80%93_San_Fernando_Valley_Providencia_Ranch It is unknown who the two boys in front of the plane are. [show more]