Bloom, Sam S, 1911-1990
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
Box 1 (Book), 2018
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.
Digital Images, 1915-1960
Contains five digitized jpg images of photographs of the Bloom family and their stores on Downing street.
Downing's Hardware Store Interior, 1927
Oral History Interview with Sam Bloom, 1990
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.
Publications, 2018
Contains a memoir written by Barbara A. Bloom and published in 2018: Ephemeral Blooms, A Memoir with Roots in Colorado.