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Bloom, Sam S, 1911-1990

 Person

Biography

Sam Bloom was born in Denver, Colorado in 1911. His parents were Pizer and Ida Strait Bloom. Pizer was born in Poland and Ida was born in New York City and the couple begam Downing Coal and Feed store. Sam Bloom married Lillian Gershowitz in 1937 at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. Their children were Alan Bloom, Barbara Bloom, and Marshall Bloom. Sam Bloom and his son Alan turned the Downing's Hardware Store into the largest appliance store in Colorado in the 1960s.

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Barbara A. Bloom Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B409
Abstract Sam Bloom was born in Denver, Colorado in 1911. His parents were Pizer and Ida Strait Bloom. Pizer was born in Poland in 1885 and Ida was born in New York City in 1894. The couple opened Downing Coal and Feed store in Denver, Colorado. Sam Bloom married Lillian Gershowitz in 1937 at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. They became the parents of three children: Alan Bloom, Barbara Bloom, and Marshall Bloom. Sam Bloom and his parents grew Downing's Hardware Store into the largest appliance store...
Dates: 1915-2018

Box 1 (Book), 2018

 File — Box B409.01.0001: Series B409.01 [Barcode: U186023257309]
Identifier: B409.01.0001
Abstract

Barbara A. Bloom wrote a memoir "Ephemeral Blooms: A Memoir with Colorado Roots," which was published in 2018. In the memoir, Barbara Bloom writes about herself and also about her family, including her father and Bloom grandparents and various stores they owned on Downing Street in Denver, Colorado.

Dates: 2018

Digital Images, 1915-1960

 Series
Identifier: B409.02
Abstract

Contains five digitized jpg images of photographs of the Bloom family and their stores on Downing street.

Dates: 1915-1960

Downing's Hardware Store Interior, 1927

 Item
Identifier: B409.02.00002
Abstract Interior of the Downing's Hardware store on Downing Street. Standing in the store left to right: Ida Bloom, Pizer Bloom, unidentified employee, Sam Bloom, and Fern Bloom. Pictured are paints and Celsior paint samples on shelves at the right of the image, a ladder, roll of packaging paper, different sizes of wire, scale with a scoop, watering can, and shelves filled with unkown same size materials. Sam Bloom was born in Denver, Colorado in 1911. His parents were Pizer and Ida Strait Bloom....
Dates: 1927

Oral History Interview with Sam Bloom, 1990

 Item
Identifier: B098.01.0006.00146
Abstract

Topics covered: Coming to Denver in 1914, Blizzard of 1914, mom worked in a feed and hay store and dad hauled, shoveled and delivered coal, dad did lots of odd manual labor jobs to support his family. Later family had a hardware store, then appliance store. Family life.

Dates: 1990

Publications, 2018

 Series
Identifier: B409.01
Abstract

Contains a memoir written by Barbara A. Bloom and published in 2018: Ephemeral Blooms, A Memoir with Roots in Colorado.

Dates: 2018

Sam and Ida Bloom in Downing's Hardware Store, between 1930 and 1935

 Item
Identifier: B409.02.00003
Abstract Digitized photograph of Sam and Ida Bloom standing in Downing's Hardware Store. In the store are various hardware items, including paints, samdpaper, spark plugs, Texico roofing materials, watering cans, rifles, silver tea pots, and perhaps lawnmowers. Interior of the Downing's Hardware store on Downing street. Standing in the store left to right: Ida Bloom, Pizer Bloom, unidentified employee, Sam Bloom, and Fern Bloom. Pictured are paints and Celsior paint samples on shelves at the right of...
Dates: between 1930 and 1935

Yard of Downing Coal Company, circa 1935

 Item
Identifier: B409.02.00005
Abstract Building and yard of Downing's with three people in front: from left to right are Carl Harrison, Ken Trujillo, and Sam Bloom. On left of the photographs is a truck with bags of feed and on the right of the photograph there are three Downing coal trucks with one loaded with coal. There are large stacks of logs in back of the building. Signs on and around the building include "Coal Feed and Ice," "Poultry Supplies," "Purina Chows, Checkerboard bags," "Horses Cows, Poultry, Hogs," and...
Dates: circa 1935