Denver (Colo.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File
Found in 7 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
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