Sadye Katz : Mack's Ready To Wear Store (216 South Andrews Avenue) 1936

Photograph

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History Fort Lauderdale

Name/Title

Sadye Katz : Mack's Ready To Wear Store (216 South Andrews Avenue) 1936

Entry/Object ID

5-1677

Tags

Women's History, Sadye Katz

Description

Interior of clothing store. Display cases filled with jewelry and handbags on the right. Hanging closets filled with dresses on the left. Flower boquets in the center. Five women and a man standing in the center. L to R: Elsie Gifford, ?___?, Mack Katz, Sadye Katz (seated), Evelyn Admire and Margaret Huff.

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Sadye Katz

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

216 South Andrews Avenue

Collection

Historic Photograph Collection, Women's History

Cataloged By

TLB

Category

photographs

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Mack Katz

Made/Created

Studio

Kelcy Photo & Book Shop

Date made

Nov 5, 1936

Place

Location

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Notes

Film Size: 35mm Negative No.: 5-1677

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Clothing stores

Search Terms

Business & Commerce

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Date

Jun 27, 2007

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Katz, Mack

Person or Organization

Katz, Sadye

Person or Organization

Gifford, Elsie

Person or Organization

Admire, Evelyn

Person or Organization

Huff, Margaret

General Notes

Note Type

Historical Note

Note

Sadye Katz 1902-1986 A member of the first and oldest Jewish family in Fort Lauderdale, Sayde and husband, Mack Katz, moved to the area in 1924 from New York. Braving discrimination and restrictions placed on the Jewish community, Sadye and Mack opened the city’s first women’s clothing store. Mack’s Lady’s Shop was located on Brickell Ave., in the heart of downtown Fort Lauderdale. Later, Mack purchased land on the beach, gifting it to Sadye. She opened a beachwear shop, next to the Elbo Room, during the winter season. With the funds she made from the shop, Sadye built a small rental apartment for additional income. Sadye and the Katz family along with the other Jewish families established the first synagogue in Broward County. Temple Emanu-El was erected in 1937. She established the first Jewish Sunday School in the Maxwell Arcade. During WWII, Sadye helped open and ran the Service Men’s Center. Every Wednesday night, Sadye and a group of volunteers would host the soldiers stationed in Fort Lauderdale. When the service center closed, all of the volunteers, except Sadye and her fellow Jewish women, were honored. Sadye continued to help her community with her extraordinary fundraising talent and strength of character. Her efforts to better the community led to her services being requested for projects such as the construction of War Memorial Auditorium and Holy Cross Hospital. Projects which she was hesitant to join because she knew once they were completed would be restricted to white use only. “Restricted Clientele” was a sign Sadye was intimately familiar with. Only after receiving a letter from the Archbishop stating that Jewish doctors would be allowed to practice in the new hospital did Sadye begin to engage the community in raising funds. An activist for equal rights, Sadye’s work helped removed barriers for the Jewish community.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

03/14/2008

Updated By

eandrews@historyfortlauderdale.org

Update Date

11/29/2023