RE: [Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: May 15, 2014

Hi Andy! I too knew Eddie Greif...in Sydney. He and his had a swanky shop in Double Bay..very upmarket area! Leather goods as far as I recall. Cornel

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From: bounce-115554187-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-115554187-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Andy Halmay
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 2:43 PM
To: Czernowitz Genealogy and History
Subject: [Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: May 15, 2014

I had to hire two detectives to find out how one opts for plain text mode in gmail. But at least gmail still works while Yahoo does so only intermittently.

Now I just checked the 1936 CZ telephone directory. Somebody must have gone to a lot of trouble to find it and reproduce it.

What is it about homo erectus that prompts us to look up numbers that no longer work which once belonged to people long gone whom we can no longer call? In the same amount of time we could clean a kitchen counter or tidy the papers on our desks. It would be nice to see what my desktop looks like. I can no longer remember. God only knows what I might find in these stacks of paper - perhaps a lost medical prescription or a winning lotto ticket.

It was nice, though, to find Isidor Greif's phone number. He lived at
Strada Traian numero 3, right next door to us. We were in 3-A. I
played with Eddie Greif who I hope is still alive in Australia, which is where they moved to. Lucca had told me she remembered him well but she is gone now, too.

My dad was listed as Istvan Halmai, his Hungarian name. The Romanians more often used Stefan Halmai.
It was nice to see the original spelling, too, with an "i" instead of the "y" that the Canadians gave us. I'd love to find a list with my great grandfather as Greenberg.

Now who is left in the Cernauti 1936 administration to whom I could write to point out that they got the phone number right but the address entirely wrong. They gave us a street I'd never heard of. No wonder they lost Bucovina. They just couldn't do anything right.

Cheers,
Andy

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