Baumwoll Archives

March 6, 2012

Bungalows And Bungalows And More Bungalows The Rockaway We All Remember

There were thousands of bunglows in the Rockaways here are just a few. There are other bungalows photos in other older posts also. They were a special place where one could go for a summer and it would be your home for that season. Many families went back to the same one or same court. This was a special time in our history.

My brother Bobby Baumwoll in front of our house
on Beach 38th street

My Cousin Lynn running to the corner of Sprayview Ave
and Beach 38th Street

All these black and white photos are from the New York Archive, all were seen and used for the wonderful documentary By Jennifer Callahan ” The Bungalows of Rockaway”

All the above photos are from Jennifer Callahan’s

The Bungalows Of Rockaway

Photo By: Martha Cooper

Photo By : Martha Cooper

Photo By: Ken Kensinger

Photo By : Ken Kensinger

Photo By : Richard George

Photo By: Richard George

photographer Unknown

photographer unknown

February 26, 2012

The Photographs Of Edgemere and Far Rockaway: Going Home

Photo By Murray Cooper

The Baumwoll’s Brown house on beach 38th street

Photo By : Murray Cooper

Beach 38th street

Photo By Murray Cooper

Beach 38th Street and Sprayview Ave

Photo By : Andrew Reach

Bruce Baumwoll going home 1985

Photo By : Andrew Reach

Photo By : Andrew Reach 1985

Photo By : Andrew Reach 1985

Photo By : Andrew Reach 1985

Photo by: Andrew Reach 1985

Photo by: Richard Grayson

Courtesy of: Steve Feldman

Photo By : Steve Feldman

Courtesy of: Steve Feldman

Photographer not known

Photo by Rick Gold

Photo by Ben Budick

Andrew Reach and I after our day back on Beach 38th street where he took all the black and white photos of the bungalows 1985

January 25, 2012

A Reinvention: The Gordon Square Arts District of Detroit Shoreway & The Wonders of Cleveland

Welcome to our neighborhood.

We came from Miami Florida to be near the Cleveland Clinic. My partners family comes from Cincinnati Ohio. They are here since 1820. His uncle and aunt, Frank and Carol Milgrim, had the famous womens clothing store Milgrims, first in downtown Cleveland in the 40’s and 50’s, then to Severence and closed in 1990 at the Pavilion Shopping Center in Beachwood. In 1933, Andrew’s great aunt Sally Milgrim designed Eleanor Roosevelt’s gown for the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The gown remains in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. A friend of Florenz Zeigfeld, she designed dresses for entertainers such as Ethel Merman, Pearl Bailey and Mary Pickford.

We now live in a wonderful old victorian right down the street from the Happy Dog. My partner and I are together for 32 years. Its a great palce for every age.The arts are all around us. Life is everywhere in the city of Cleveland and the Gordon Square Arts District of Detroit Shoreway is just one of the great wonders. It’s one of the truely great cities. Come on and come visit.

The black and white photographs are by the great Margaret Bourke White from her time in Cleveland.

Peace, Bruce Baumwoll
Song “Something’s Got a Hold of Me” sung by Christina Aguilera from the motion picture soundtrack Burlesque