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Jack & Marian Zelkowitz's wedding
On their wedding day. They are the parents of Betty Zelkowitz Sandford and Charlotte Zelka. See ObjectID MH E 90 for Betty Sandford Memoir, telling the full story of her and her family.
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Jack & Marion Zelkowitz's store - 1926
The haberdashery that Jack and Marion Zelkowitz ran when they first moved to Monrovia. At the site that became Jack's Quality Shoes (southeast corner of Myrtle and Lemon)
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Jack Zelkowitz
Jack owned Jack's Quality Shoes and later Zelkowitz real estate in Monrovia. He was the leader of the mostly Jewish family business community in the 1930's and 940's He was the moving force behind parking lots in downtown Monrovia and other important changes.
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Jack Zelkowitz, champion bowler
Jack Zelkowitz (front right), 1936 national champion Elks bowler, in front of the store on Myrtle and Lemon that became Jack's Quality Shoes.
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Jack's Quality Shoes
The shoe store (Jack's Quality Shoes) that Jack and Marion Zelkowitz ran for twenty years on the southeast corner of Myrtle and Lemon. This is on one of the lots that Catherine Wilson bought -- the first to be bought in the Monrovia townsite.
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Jack's Shoes - 1930
An advertisement in "Your Monrovia Home" with a photo of Jack's shoe store at 502 S Myrtle at Lemon, operated by Jack and Marion Zelkowitz. Their daughter Betty married Jules Sandford. The full booklet is in Obj ID "MH 01 120".
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Jules Sandford
His graduation from Loyola Law School. He became a confidant and active part of nearly every community institution and organization, e.g., the Unity Center, Santa Anita Family Service, and the Monrovia School Board. See ObjectID MH E 90 for Betty Sandford Memoir, telling the full story of Jules and Betty Sandford.
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Jules Sandford Joins Law Firm
Jules joined the office of Emmett Patten as a partner after working with Jack Zelkowitz selling real estate at 302 W. Foothill Blvd. The law firm eventually became Patten, Faith & Sandford -- a well-regarded Monrovia firm.
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Jules Sandford Rosenthal
Jules Rosenthal Sandford as a young boy. See ObjectID MH E 90 for Betty Sandford Memoir, for more details.
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Jules and Betty Sandford
The Sandfords were instrumental in building many Monrovia community institutions and to the election of the Council slate of Bob Bartlett, Eric Faith and Pat Ostrye.
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Letter to Centennial Committee from Patsy Burr - 1986
Letter from Patsy Burr, daughter of Myron C. Burr, dated Feb. 4, 1986 expresses her ire at the lack of mention in Peter S. Ostrye's book, Monrovia Centennial Review, of her family as one of the "Old Timers", with a biography. She details the Burr family's many contributions, including, according to her grandmother Laura Burr, that her grandfather Frank was Treasurer of the Farmers Club and responsible for the founding of the stone drinking fount...
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Marion Rosenthal Zelkowitz
Marion Freidland Zelkowitz, wife of Jack Zelkowitz. She came from a line of Rabbis and Rabbinical scholars, a fact of which she was proud.
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Monrovia's ChangeMakers: Combatting Bigotry and Segregation - 2017
Stories of Monrovians who worked to combat bigotry and segregation -- Josephine Anderson, Robert T. "Bob" Bartlett, Bill Brooks, Francie Cash, Isaac Epperson, Julian Fisher, Lucinda Garcia, Lois Gaston, Ulises Gutierrez, Roland Hawes & Peter Lippman, Todd Forrest Hooks, Anna H. Jones, Janice Marugg and the Marugg Family, Mimi Mency, Julius Parker, Eldora Polk, Pat Ray and the League of Women Voters of Monrovia, Almera Romney, Betty Sandford and t...
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Paying Tribute - 2001
Jules Sandford, right, pays tribute to Mayor Robert Bartlett, seated left, during Bartlett's retirement dinner, May 6, 2001.
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President's Dairy
Jules Rosenthal Sandford's parents. His father Sol had a delicatessen with his borther Harry, the President's Dairy, in College Point, Queens NY. See ObjectID MH E 90 for Betty Sandford Memoir, telling the full story of Jules and Betty Sandford.
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Randy Sandford & Jack Zelkowitz
Randy Sandford dressed for Monrovia Days. She is the daughter of Jules and Betty Sandford, shown with her grandpa Jack Zelkowitz in front of his real estate office.
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Response to Hotchkiss letter on Studebaker House by Betty Sandford - Octiber 23, 1984
Response to Hotchkiss's letter clarifying the identity of the 'Studebaker House' to the Chair of the Centennial Committee.
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Sandford Family
Jules and Betty Sandford and their children: Randy (oldest), Leslie, and Kevin.
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