Days Past

These photos are in chronological order with a date indicated, when known (date format is month-year).

The A and B photos were discovered after the others, during an installation of new flooring Ira and Luanne did in 2018.  This is the earliest known photo of Philip Leeds, Olga’s second husband and the only grandfather Ira ever knew.

#1 and #2 Sioux and Judith respectively, at their high school fashion show (senior and junior years, respectively)

#3 Judith and Dan Bloom at their wedding

#4, #5, #6 at the same wedding Linda Goldberg, Mike Goldberg (Sonia’s children, Viola’s niece and nephew), Sioux

#7 Olga Leeds holding great-grandson James Bloom

#8 center front wearing hat Sam Lansing, Mitcheal’s only living brother and the only other relative with the same last name; behind him, his son Harold; left rear, Helene

#9 taken at the house in Murrieta Hot Springs; little boy is Weston Taussig

#10 Viola, Luanne, Sonia

#11 sleeping beauties (not uncommon) fathers and grandfathers Lenny, Mitcheal, Alfred

#11A Betty holding grandson Jeremy; next to him her grandchildren by Paul and Carol, Joshua and Devon

#12 Jeremy’s one-year old birthday at Norton and Rose’s condo; woman in red on the left is Bernice Ratner, her sister-in-law Rose Horowitz next to her

#14 wedding of Iris and James Bloom

#15 the three sisters (left) Judy Douthit, Benay Smith, Betty Gottlieb; one of many family Passovers at Luanne and Ira’s home

#17 (left) Judy Douthit, Judy Bloom, Luanne, Helene Bloom Tapper

#20 Leo Goldberg, his second wife Eva (cousin to Sonia and Viola), his daughter Linda, daughter-in-law Sheila

#21 Ratner family: (right) Debbie Horowitz (cousin to Luanne and Ira), her grandmother Rose Horowitz, Bernice Ratner, Jana Horowitz (sister to Debbie)

#23 from left, Russell and Judy Douthit (at their condo in Manhattan Beach), Betty and Lenny

#24 Joshua Gossett, Jeremy and Michele, Devon Gossett

#26 Viola and Charles Tamarkin (Viola’s third husband, second in Ira’s lifetime)

#27 Elsie Coff who died at the age of nearly 97

#30 Michele with Sioux and a neighbor at Sioux’s home in Oregon

#31 Sioux’s husband, JD Rogers, with Michele in Oregon

#33 Michele and Judith Bloom

#34 Maureen Keys, Luanne, Denise Tronstad; Luanne worked with Maureen in her 20’s and has known Denise since third grade

#36 Lenny’s birthday four years after his stroke; from left, Rose Horowitz, Luanne, Lenny, Betty, Judy and Russell Douthit, Elsie Coff

#37 four generations of mothers and daughters

#40 Betty and childhood friend Gabe; they became closer after Lenny died in 2002

#43 Lottie and Paul Gossett, Luanne and Ira

#47 occasion unknown, extended Bloom family (left) Helene and JR Tapper (holding two of three children), back row (right) Iris Bloom, son Aaron, sister Shoshana in front of him; Judith, James

#48 state-of-the art computer set-up: 2001 Apple Macintosh

#49-#52 close friends Brenda and Cindy