Name/Title
Newsclipping: "A Hoboken Home Housed Sailors from Afar." By Geraldine Streckfuss. Asbury Park Press, 1992.Entry/Object ID
2006.052.0101Scope and Content
Newsclipping: "A Hoboken Home Housed Sailors from Afar." By Geraldine Streckfuss [nee Carmody.] Asbury Park Press, Sunday, June 28, 1992, page C6 (50-Plus section; The World at War: Remembrances column.) Five column article about her family at 1231 Bloomfield St., Hoboken, during World War Two with three photographs.
The author discusses life as a one of three sisters, ages 10, 12 and 14 circa 1942, whose mother, Catherine Carmody, moved the family into a brownstone she had purchased the day before Pearl Harbor. A year later, she optioned a brownstone next door. She rented rooms in one whole house to sailors and three roooms in the other for visiting Navy personnel who had duties at the Bethelem Steel Shipyard where U.S. Navy ships were repaired or prepared for war duty. Some men brought their wives including one that became known to be an "allotment wife," i.e. one who married several servicemen in order to collect their allotment pay while they were overseas.
Board was fifty cents for breakfast and one dollar for dinner.
Photographs:
1. Catherine Carmody with daughter Geraldine in 1936.
2. Modern view of the exterior of 1231 Bloomfield St.
3. Geraldine [Carmody] Streckfuss.Acquisition
Accession
2006.052Source or Donor
Casulli, LucilleAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Gift of Lucille Casulli.Archive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1941 - 1992Archive Notes
Date(s) Created: 1992
Date(s): 1941-1992General Notes
Note
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2007-09-27
