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TIMEKEEPER P R E S S
To those who remember Aunt Fay and Uncle Mitchell fondly, Ever since I inherited some of Fay and Mitchell’s vacation photo albums, I’ve had a project like this in mind. This is also the second family memory book I’ve put together, curating passed down keepsakes into a more accessible form. Careful readers will have noticed the Timekeeper Press insignia on the preceding spread — this is the emblem of a service that I intend to offer those in search of a similar archive. I’ve seen a tendency for people to keep these precious memories but never look at them — they exist in a kind of limbo, valued until the point when they are inevitably lost. In digitizing some of the photos that I’ve found most valuable, I’ve attempted to distill a manageable slice of memory for anyone who’d like to partake. I encourage anyone who held Fay and Mitchell dear to reach out to me for the link to the photos I’ve scanned — there are a few that would make good portraits, or perhaps you’d just like to have some of these photos on your computer. In addition, if I’ve missed anyone who would like a copy of this book, there will be a print-on-demand option available through Barnes and Noble Press. I thought that this collection would be a fitting tribute to Fay and Mitchell, as these trips were some of the sweetest memories they carried. When I spent time with Fay
in her later years, she would often tell me about her adventurous past — and when I went to the places she’d gone a half-century earlier she would say that I must have her genes in me. She had that wanderlust in her early, she would say. She first attempted to study nursing in Newark, NJ when she graduated high school and, when that plan was nixed by her parents, she decided to take a job in Harrisburg, PA. “No one in those days ever thought of doing something like that,” she told me. To me, this interest in far-flung places was part of the curiosity that defined her, and filled up her later years with joy at the random kindnesses she would encounter, out by herself on Philadelphia streets. It was also a hopeful expression of the second-generation Jewish immigrant class Fay and Mitchell belonged to. Insulated from the hardships of their parents’ generation, they had a freedom and optimism that allowed them to explore a world that their forebears had escaped. I see this ebullient optimism in these photo albums, which I’ve honed in on in my selection and layout. These trips were also high points in their friendships, relationships which were one of the most treasured parts of Fay and Mitchell’s lives. They would accompa-
ny their friends on trips to international medical and dental conferences in places like Soviet Russia in 1975 and Asia in the 1980s, where they had rare opportunities like meeting a princess (I have a faint recollection of a story where Aunt Fay said something cheeky to the Crown Princess of Japan). I hope that this book will allow those of us who knew Fay and Mitchell to remember them at their best (surrounded by parrots; posing for goofy swimming pool pictures; feeding a deer out of the car they took cross-country in 1952, before the building of the interstates made such a trip more common). I also hope that those of us who didn’t know them as well will get a sense of who they were through hints like Uncle Mitchell’s wry and enthusiastic captioning (try to find the two mentions of a “bikini babe”), as I did myself. I’m glad we can all come together in admiration of these sweet people without children to carry on their legacy — it’s only fitting that they have all of us to remember them. And I’m confident in saying to you all, Aunt Fay and Uncle Mitchell send their love. Best, Ed “Godson/Nephew” Weinberg ed.weinberg@icloud.com
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Marienlyst - Denmark Lunch
Hurdy-Gurdy in Amsterdam
Pussy Club in Brussels
Refreshments after bus tour from Volendam and Marken, Holland
“Beehive” department store in Amsterdam
Lunch at sidewalk cafe Bruges, Belgium
Street sign in Amsterdam
NOEL COWARD Caught coming out of bookshop.
Rolls Royce Agency at Berkeley Sq. - London
Dickens immortalized “Old Curiosity Shop”
Anne Hathaway’s House
Hopewell Village, Pa. Aug. 1971
8/12/72 - Flemington Turntable Vintage steam engines & train rides
with Max & Marion 2/24/73 Oxford, Md.
Headquarters of Mother Church of Christian Science Boston - 7/73
Inside Trinity Church
Trinity Church next to new Hancock Bldg. (Plywood panels to replace glass blown out by faulty design)
2/24/73 at Oxford, Md. Weekend with Max and Marion Harris at Robert Morris Inn
Perambulator & sled at antique shop, Oxford, Md.
Haymarket - outdoor food market near waterfront in Boston
Tchaikovsky played on this Steinway Grand in Longfellow’s house
Catholic Chapel Brandeis U.
A day in Lancaster County 8/3/74
Old City of Madrid Market Square
Artist copying an original by Murillo Prado Museum
“Spanish Steps” - Rome
View of Spanish Square Bottom of “Steps”
Inside Madrid Synagogue
On to Rome
Cibeles Fountain & Post Office Madrid
Flamenco
Roman Carabinieri at Spanish Steps
Dogey’s - Via Veneta - Rome Lunchtime
Lamborghini - custom made car 9,000,000 lire (15,000 dollars)
Arch of Titus from Coliseum Also Temple of Venus on right
Walking-shopping street off Spanish Square
Borghese Villa
Tivoli Gardens
Cathedral under restoration
Early morning views of courtyard of Hotel Rossya. Note mural on walls
We stopped here as Astronauts and Cosmonauts joined in a tribute to Lenin.
Started walking into Red Square. St. Basil’s Cathedral in background.
Since this area is so scenic, it is a favorite spot for wedding photographs. We saw about a dozen couples during our brief visit to this spot.
Inside space history museum. Uniforms everywhere.
Prototype of launch rocket Lifesize dummies in space capsule.
In the evening we saw a performance of the ballet “Don Quixote� by a troupe from the Bolshoi dancers. This performance was held in a giant theatre at the Palace of Congress Bldg, while the Bolshoi theatre is being restored.
During intermission we went up to top floor (practically pushed by a wall of humanity onto escalators) where there is a giant cafeteria
Gumm’s store are fantastically jammed - patrons are patient and queue up for everything the crowds reminded us of the Bazaar in Istanbul
After the ballet while trying to find our way to the hotel on foot. We were lucky enough to meet a young (18 yr. old) handsome Russian drama student named Konstantin (Kostya) who escorted us back to hotel. We persuaded him to have supper with us and we had a pleasant visit with this personable lad.
Everyone seems occupied and tranquil, friendly and willing to help a traveler - everything seems clean and orderly
Waiting for buses in Azerbaijan
Huge portraits of Lenin & Breshnev on facade fronting our hotel in Baku
Breakfast shot of Harry Zelsun with Rothmans
First evening in discotheque room of Torre Normanna Hotel (very tired)
Gold inlaid facade
Cloister inside what used to be Arab Mosque (later converted to Catholic Church)
Some typical side streets and domestic dwellings
Outside Palermo Cathedral
Inside Palermo Cathedral
Outdoor cafes in Taormina
Taormina
Far above the Mediterranean in Taormina
Group shots from hotel grounds
Mules are used everywhere for all sorts of functions
“Elder statesmen� of Corleone enjoying warm Sunday
Pastoral scene outside hayloft where we “lunched�
Michael - our guide - with Mitch Raffer, priest traveling with us
Corridor leading from elevator which goes from sea level to 500 ft-level of our hotel
Cable cars coming and going across Grant Ave. Chinatown, S.F.
Seals & Bird Rock observation point along 17 mi. drive thru Delmonte Forest Park
Fay surrounded by bright color on Schulman patio
Gallants’ Home After work, Jerry in Jacuzzi pool holding glass of wine & sipping from it, saying, “Could be woise!!”
Jill Deena Gallant
The fireplace
The Girls’ condo
Inside Getty Museum
L.A. Nat. Hist. Mus. Dinosaur bones + recreation of the world’s largest flying bird ever (25 ft-wingspread)
Tokyo Inside Buddhist Shrine grounds
Tokyo Large shopping area Hundreds of shops
Tokyo Heavy traffic Ginza Blvd
Kyoto TV crew who interviewed us & their film was shown next morning
10/8 - 7:00 AM Kyoto time Views of us being interviewed for local English language cable TV News
Instant Celebrity!
Lee Thompson, reporter
Handicraft “84” The “Gorira” Band in childrens’ pavilion
Handicraft “84” Toddler - shy at first, but warmed up.
Handicraft “84” These little girls stopped when I held up my camera and willingly posed. Then they bowed & thanked me.
Outside Nat. Museum of Art groups of public school students
Directing traffic - very heavy at times
With panda in garden
Duck farm near rice paddies
Village street scene
Young boy proud to show the family’s prized possession Water Buffalo
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