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]

Description:Judging from the costumes and the background, this picture appears to be taken in Russia. (Mort, at page 10 of his book says this picture was taken in Russia. He also describes the picture as "Lawrence with his brother and sisters", which is clearly a mistake. Lawrence only had one brother, Sasha, who was many years his junior. The man depicted in this picture is clearly older than Lawrence. I recognize Rita to the right. Hi described the other sister as Sonia. Lawrence appears to be about 15 or 16 years of age here, which would have meant that this picture was taken in 1902 or 1903. [show more]

Description:Perhaps neighbors of Hi? September, 1933. Roxanne, Beri?, and someone unnamed Number 331 appears on the back.

Description:presumably they attended this performance, in Los Angeles, near the date of their Honeymoon. Note that Yvonne De Carlo likes Chesterfield cigarettes as does a "Prominent Tobacco Grower" The performance was at the Philharmonic Theatre in Los Angeles. [show more]

Description:This image shows the front page of the L.A. Times ("All the News, All the Time") on the date of their Wedding. Harry Truman still had two years to go as President. The interior page depicts the "Vital Statistics" for Los Angeles on that date, including Wedding licenses issued for "BLOOM - BELSKY H 28 B 23" [show more]

Description:Luba in chicago

Description:Perhaps one of Hi´s girlfriends during the war years. The photo development stamp on the back is consistent with others identified as from San Antonio, Texas, which likely means that Marion was a girlfriend of Hi´s when he was stationed at Kelley Field. Back marked with number "842N" [show more]

Description:Likely one of Hi´s girlfriends during the war years. Back marked with number "842N"

Description:Perhaps one of Hi´s girlfriends during the War Years. The photo process stamp on the back is consistent with those identified as from 1943 in Kelly Field. Back marked with number "842N"

Description:November 21, 1931. The writing on the back is to "my estranged Uncle Lawrence and to my Aunt Ethel and Cousins", signed by "Martin", which, since most 1 year olds can´t write, likely was written by their mother.

Description:L.A. Bloom was the oldest of 7 children, two boys (Sasha was the youngest) and 5 girls between them: Rita, Anna, Sonia, Masha, and Luba. In this picture Masha is depicted in 1909 at the age of perhaps 8 or 9. She died 9 years later in 1918 of the world pandemic of that year. Undoubtedly, it was in her memory that Rita named Masha Grodsky Odinak. Research shows that the photography studio which took the picture was prominent, which must have meant that the family was financially successful, otherwise, how else would they have afforded to spend money on a photograph. [show more]

Description:Hi´s girlfriend? Kelly Field era. 1943

Description:February 12, 1950 at 7.22 a.m., The Rubins send Congrats via Western Union Telegram from Detroit, Michigan

Description:Moishe died in his mid 50´s in a Kiev hospital of heart failure , never having visited the U.S. Vera followed Lawrence with all her children and moved to Chicago. I think that Vera’s father ran a train depot. That’s where she met Moise. He was the Forman of an agricultural endeavor. When he was bringing Vera to her new married home he drove with her in a carriage through the fields. All the serfs were out to welcome the newlyweds. Moise told Vera to take off the wig( shaidl) and throw it away. Which she did [show more]

Description:The unidentified photo appears to be Lawrence´s parents: Moishe and Vera. These two photos were cut out and framed together

Description:This appears to be a picture of Lawrence´s father, Moishe. Mort´s book says that, while in his 50's, he became ill and was brought to a hospital in Kiev where he died of a heart attack.

Description:Lawrence´s father as a young man, circa 1877. Likely in Nizhyn, Ukraine.

Description:Likely family of a girlfriend of Hi´s during the war years. Back marked with number "842N"

Description:This appears to be a picture of Moshe (Lawrence´s father) in Russia in his 20's .. which would make the date circa 1887. Since the back says the photography studio was from Kiev, he must have visited there for some reason. The back reads: "Photography by Edward Kozlovski in Kiev" [show more]

Description:Hi identifies this picture as "Mrs. Bloom and daughter Ethel London" in this undated photo. I have no idea who they are, although they are listed, in someone else´s handwritting as "cousins of Lawrence Bloom". So, this should be Moishe´s sister´s daughter. [show more]

Description:Some of the Bloom family ended up in Sioux City, Iowa. This picture from the Woodworth studio, apparently a commercial studio (see link below). https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/history/historic-photos-21-photos-looking-back-at-sioux-city-in-the-1950s/collection_6d85f91e-35a0-5693-a5a6-662c213931d4.html#11 [show more]

Description:hi´s girlfriend?

Description:Likely a girlfriend of Hi´s during the war years. Back marked with number "842N"

Description:Morris´brother, Nathan was married to Eda. (Not sure who Larry is, their son?). They lived in Los Angeles and sent this telegram. Western Union was still being used in the mid 1900's, but not so much as to make regular communications, but rather to communicate in places far away OR, as here, to communicate a special occasion. [show more]

Description:March, 1933

Description:Not sure who this image is. The back of the male boy picture reads: "For the Good Memory. Rahiil Blumen from Glazer, 1 March 1903". The front of the image stamps the photo studio as being: "A. Serebrennik. Nizhyn". The image of the female does not have any information on the back, but comes from the same studio. [show more]

Description:Part of Hi´s training put him in Texas. Here is a Ray Chrenene (probably a friend of his) in San Antonio in April , 1943.

Description:These three items are the invitation from Mort to Hi and Betty for Rita and Morris 60th anniversary, to be held November 6, 1982 at Mort´s boat club. One interesting is all 5 of the girls lined up by order of age, starting from the right and going left: Rita, Sonia, Anna, Masha, and Luba. Masha, second from left, died at age 16 in the 1918 from the flu during the 1918 Pandemic. [show more]

Description:Back marked with number "851"

Description:Judging from the envelope in which these photos were stored, which was made out to "AR Bloom" (Sasha Allan R. Bloom) and contained within an envelope from Thrifty's Drug Store (Where Sasha worked as a regional manager), it appears that sometime in January, 1944, Sasha took a Road trip in what appears to be the area around Los Angeles, but almost certainly was in California (considering that one photo displays a car with a California plate on it). One picture shows a man looking back at the camera. That person does not appear to be Sasha, and may have been Sasha´s travel partner. Sasha was gay, so it might reflect his partner. Back marked with number "851" [show more]

Description:California License Plate 93 N 501. Dark car pulled to the side of the road. Might be a road trip with Sasha photographing his travel partner. Back marked with number "851"

Description:Back marked with number "851"

Description:Back marked with number "873"

Description:Back marked with number "851"

Description:Sasha (AR Bloom) apparently had these road trip photos developed at Thrifty´s, where he worked, on January 26, 1944. The Road Trip could not have been with Hi as he was in the Philippines as of that date.

Description:It is impossible to know for sure, but this could be an area north of Los Angeles where various water were being built in the 40´s. Back marked with number "851"

Description:Back marked with number "851"

Description:Back marked with number "851"

Description:This picture appears to be, Rosa, a friend of Lawrences, writing her good wishes on on the back of her picture and giving the picture to Lawrence just prior to his travel to the United States. The inscription on the back is a flowery phrase from Roza to "Liev" (using the familiar method of spelling her name). It reads: "Liev: Remember, all in the past will be forgotten, and all of the future ... hello!!! . . . . . In the memory of a very short meeting. Roza" On the bottom it is written "Before leaving." dated: 21 February 1904 yr". The photography stamp says that it is from the Photography studio of A. Serebrenik, who was regarded with a medal in 1902. It shows his studio to be in Nizhyn, but says that "negative are available for printing and are preserved" and gives an address in Odessa "The street named Pakorno?" [show more]

Description:One of Lawrence´s sister was Anna Bloom Talmey. She married Sam Talmey. They lived in Chicago. Sam, along with his brother, owned a pharmaceutical supply business. They had two(?) children: Metta Talmey Davis and Jacqueline(?) Talmey. Sam and Anna and Metta (the older child) and Jacqueline are depicted here, in Chicago in 1928. The left picture has the #21 on the back. The right picture has the number 821 on the back. [show more]

Description:This photo envelope contained the previous images of Hi in San Antonio (or friends of his) and helps us date the items, as the images were dated April 8, 1943.

Description:One trip or the other, probably 1968, with Elkie in Camden.