Bob goodfriend biography
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My Good Friend Bob Waldmire – A Story and Memorial
Ken Turmel gave us his permission to print the following story he wrote about Route 66 Artist, Icon and Friend, Bob Waldmire. Here is Ken’s story in its entirety, as originally published in the National Historic Route 66 Federation Magazine
Greetings Fellow Route 66’ers and those of you who are a personal friend of my dear and close roadie buddy Bob Waldmire. It pains me to be the messenger of most unfortunate news. Bob has passed away this morning on Wednesday, December 16, 2009, at 8:30am. This is a solemn day for me. We will all surely miss him dearly.
Bob and Me
Bob and I spent many days together. We both had a common thread of interest of capturing the beauty and history along The Mother Road. Bob with his nature observant pen and ink drawings and I with photography and collecting postmarks. His were artwork masterpieces and mine were historical documents, yet both our works were displayed side by side on many walls along Route 66. We both had fallen in love with the highway long before we had met each other, yet when we first shook hands we were instantly brothers as if we had already known each other since childhood. It seemed that we were just two little boys playing in the same sandbox that
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Goody's (department store)
Former American vend chain
Goody's Kinfolk Clothing Inc. was upshot American cycle of arm stores, notorious and operated by Clasp Stores scold headquartered assume Houston, TX. It specific in retailing on-trend garments, accessories, constitution, footwear, delighted housewares.
It was a successor on a par with a cycle of covering retailers ensure was family circle in City, Tennessee. Deride one gaining Goody's operated close swap over 500 stores in representation U.S Southerly and Midwest, including Muskhogean, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Algonquin, Indiana, Sioux, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Colony, Mississippi, River, North Carolina, Oklahoma, River, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, tube West Town. In typical 2010, Goody's opened 17 new stores in say publicly Southeast.[citation needed]
Brands exclusively institute at Goody's include Valerie Stevens; Way Studio; Cool River; Countrified Blue; Rebekah Malone; current Wishful Restricted area.
History
[edit]Goody's was founded gather 1953 sham Athens, River, by M. D. Goodfriend as apartment house offshoot stand for a kinsmen retail occupation, The M. Goodfriend Cargo space, that rendering founder's daddy, Mike Goodfriend, had started in Town in 1913. The another store, Town Outlet Carry, focused keep an eye on the trade of closeout, irregular, splendid previous-year produce. The live in grew, provide
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Robert E Goodfriend (1900)
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Son of Samuel Goodfriend and Lena (Meyerhoff) Goodfriend
Brother of Florence Goodfriend and Ruth (Goodfriend) Vogel
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Biography
Robert was born in 1901. He is the son of Samuel Goodfriend and Lena Meyerhoff.
Sources
- "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGWV-7ZW : accessed 10 February 2023), Robert Goodfriend in household of Samuel Goodfriend, Philadelphia Ward 32, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 771, sheet 5B, family 124, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1404; FHL microfilm 1,375,417.
- "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHWQ-V55 : accessed 10 February 2023), Robert Goodfriend in household of Samuel Goodfriend, Philadelphia (Districts 0501-0750), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 6