| Jack.s amaryllis are visible, and a small chair with reddish pattern.The Barrett family lived in this comfortable large apartment from September l939 o June 30, l941, when they left for Hoholulu via train to Los Angeles.Jack cut off the legs of a strudy wooden table about 33 inches square, to a suitable height for John.The family made frequent visits to Jones Beach on Long Island and the New York World's fair at Flushing, visited Jack's brother Bill at Darien twice, had l939 Thanksgiving dinner at Overbrook near Philadelphia at the home of Sophie's sister Bertha and Sam Pollack (when Sophie's brother Pete and his family came up from Baltimore)Aunts and cousins frequently visited at Brooklyn, including Marion Taylor, nurse at Greenpoint Hospital; Ethyle, Ted and Carol Jane Meranski, Esther Meranski, Jason and Thalia Pollack, and Sophie's brother Ben Meranski.In August 1939 Sophie and John stayed three weeks in South Boston with grandpa John Robert Barrttt, and aunt Mollie, whom they visited again June 1941 before leaving for Hawaii.Chester Swanner, a shipmate from lighthouse tender ZIZANIA 1912 visited on Jack's 52nd birthday August 28, l940 and helped pick out a Baldwin spinet piuano at Macy's. |
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