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From: "Diana" <>
Subject: [BANAT-L] Bronx NY during the depression
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 12:29:33 -0600


Robert wrote:

>> My uncle's sister-in-law, Godl or Godie (pronounced Goadie) Whitman
Koenig,
>> was the building superintendent at a six story apartment house in the
180th
>> Street area of The Bronx, N.Y.....during the 1920's - 1930's. Her
husband,
>> Joseph Koenig, owned a baber shop a few blocks away. The Koenigs did
very
>> well during the depression.
>
>
>My folks came over after WWII. Most of their friends were from the same or
>neighboring villages in the Banat and had come over in the same era. They
>settled in the Bronx (University Hts. for us, Joe). >Robert Zink
>Rock City Falls NY . . .


My parents lived at 3050 Bainbridge Ave in the Bronx during the depression.
I was born there in 1935. I can't believe I still remember the address! Is
that anywhere near 180th St?

My father's surname is GASKO and my mother's RUHL.

Diana (In Texas) and Ginger, puppy in charge

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