This is my first time posting, the impetus of which is some pretty neat news. I recently realized that my maternal grandfather, and great-grandfather, Harold and Joseph Ravitz, respectively, owned a broom store on 134 Ludlow street, a mere block away from the Samberg/Fisch shop at 178. In the posted picture, my grandfather and grandmother Harold and Lillian Ravitz are pictured in front of their store. Anyone recognize it? Maybe the two were commercial nemeses but vowed that one day their descendants would get married.
How come they didn't have the store on Broome St?
ReplyDeleteThere is a tradition that people take brooms and sweep the new couple out to have a good life together.
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We have a relative by the name of Lillian Ravitz, born circa 1926, Brooklyn, she was the daughter of Adele & Philip Feld and married into Ravitz. Same person ??
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