Sorry the pictures aren't clearer - the paper has yellowed and it's hard to get good contrast - if you click on each page it's legible:
My grandparents, great uncle and great grandparents in front of their store at 978 East Main, circa 1919. Notice the BVD's in the window. Uncle Harry was in Yale Law School at the time. No Jewish Undergrads were allowed then! My great grandmother's brothers were named Schine and they started City Lumber Co., and owned the docks in Bpt...till the 1980's when they sold to Crowley in New Haven.
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Diane Castellucci Soltyshak I remember a store on East Main St. that my parents brought me to for shoes when I was little 50's early 60's. They even came to our house with samples, you would put your order in and they delivered them in person. Does anyone remember the name of the store
September 7, 2011 at 11:59am · Like
Jon Bresler the family also owned shoe store on the next block past Artic
September 7, 2011 at 12:00pm · Like
Diane Castellucci Soltyshak I believe that is were it was. I don't remember his name offhand but he would come to our house and bring shoes for me to try on. Now UPS brings them LOL
September 7, 2011 at 12:45pm · Like · 1
Margaret Santo Noble Shoe Store
December 15, 2011 at 5:55pm · Like · 1
Jon Bresler my grandfather ran the shoe store after he married my grandmother...he was born in Russia, moved to the Lower east Side of New York, and then somehow to Easton around 1900 was he was three. The family lived in Aspetuck, before and during the building of the reservoirs along rt.57.
December 15, 2011 at 6:21pm · Like · 1
Bonnie Clark Wilkes Jon-I think my grandfather may have bought this store from your family. His was Coffey's Cigar Store, half a block north of Skydels on East Main. Not sure of the street #, trying to find out. It was open from the late 1920's to the late 1940's..
December 16, 2011 at 8:55pm · Like · 1
Cheryl Wigder-Hunt Any relationship to a Jeff Schine, about age 29.
December 17, 2011 at 6:36am · Like
Henry Rosenberg So, your family gave the Schine building at Bpt Hospital
December 17, 2011 at 7:22am · Like
Bonnie Clark Wilkes Wonderful donation-your family name lives on!
December 17, 2011 at 8:05am via mobile · Like
Jon Bresler Schine was my great grandmother's maiden name...her husband was named Louis Silverstone and he owned a number of buildings on East main and that area.He's the short guy in the middle of the photo.My grandmother was born in Ansonia around 1895(?) and then when w=she got married they lived on Alpine Ave near Beardsley Park.
December 17, 2011 at 8:08am · Like
Cynthia Lugo Now E.main is ran by bunch of puerto ricans
December 18, 2011 at 7:29pm via mobile · Like
Jon Bresler Cambio!
December 18, 2011 at 7:51pm · Like
Chuck McMellon Lester Silverstone was the principal of Bassick High in the 1950's. Probably a relative of the above Silverstone's of East Main Street.
December 24, 2011 at 8:20am · Like · 1
Frank R Capite Jr. Schine's Drug store on Madison Ave. Between Queen and Merritt was that owned by your Family also!
Jonathan Kantrowitz My mother was a Schine - yes Schine's drug store and the Schine wing and the Schine auditorium at SHU and the Schine building at UB - all the same family - Lester Silverstone also a relative!
Susan Kantrowitz Benesch Schine's Pharmacy was owned by Saul Schine. My brother and some of my cousins worked for Mr. Schine on Sundays. They used to help him with all of the newspapers.
January 10 at 3:58pm · Like
