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ilHlli mem m Mm) J rfitin on BBSsMi I |-.:- : I Bill meswSlfiBtt HHHHKii HBgifflls aBSSSsBSSSBSSSi MffissEsBm £833 '>• 1 ' mi THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL THE COLLECTION OF NORTH CAROLINIANA PRESENTED BY Frederick L. Block & Susan Taylor Block CB B651b FOR USE ONLY IN THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLECTION Form No. A-368, Rev. 8/95 Digitized by the Internet Archive 2013 in http://archive.org/details/talesofshirtmakeOObloc p. f., TALES OF A • imager ir issssss JEWISH UFERLNGilMG :-:Ji£r£vS£S£~ I Frederick l. TALES ©F A LPimcmer / A Jewish Upbringing North Carolina in ^^^w^ouJ^n ^iocA\ Also by Susan Taylor Block The Wrights ofWilmington Wilmington's Confederate General: William MacRae Dressed in Sunlight: Eleanor Wright Beane (with Eleanor Wright Beane) Published by the Boys and Girls Brigade, Inc. A The Character Factory: History ofthe Boys'Brigade Published by the Cape Fear Museum Along the Cape Fear Cape Fear Lost Cape Fear Beaches Published by the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society and the New Hanover County Public Library T Wilmington Through the Lens ofLouis Moore Van Eeden Published by Airlie Foundation, Inc. Airlie: The Garden ofWilmington Published by Cape Fear Garden Club C Belles andBlooms: Cape Fear Garden Club and the N. Azalea Festival Published by St. James Church Temple ofOur Fathers: St. James Church (1729—2004) 1 •1 f » TALES f^?/ ^3 nirtmak* A Jewish Upbringing North Carolina in Frederick Block L. as told to Susan Taylor Block ** Wilmington, North Carolina rum _/*'":'.•::- — A Tales ofa Shirtmaker: Jewish Upbringing in North Carolina © Copyright 2005 by Susan Taylor Block All rights reserved Published byWinoca Press 106 North 16th Street, Wilmington, NC 28401-3819 USA www.winocapress.com Available from the publisher or from the authors: P.O. Box 3691, Wilmington, NC 28406 USA / [email protected] Printed in the United States ofAmerica 07 06 05 5 4 3 2 1 Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 1927— Block, Frederick L., Tales of a shirtmaker: a Jewish upbringing in North Carolina / Frederick L. Block as told to Susan Taylor Block. cm. p. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-9755910-1-0 — — Block, Frederick L., 1927 2. Block Shirts (Firm) 3. Jews North Carolina — — Wilmington Biography. 4. Wilmington (N.C.) Biography. I. Block, Susan 1951— Taylor, II. Title. F265J5B55 2005 975.6'27004924'092—dc22 2004031065 The author isgrateful to Beverly Tetterton at the New Hanover County Public Library, EliNaeherattheLower CapeFearHistoricalSociety, andTim Bottomsatthe CapeFear Museumfor special care in providing some ofthephotos. Barbara Brannon has done exceptionalworkasadvisor, editor, andbookdesigner. BettyH. andJoseph W. Taylor,Jr., along with John Burney, Jr., David Block, Nathan Schwartz, Joe Sheppard, Sandra Stadiem andSonny Simpson, andMichael Whaley, providedadditional information. On the cover: Ayoung FredBlock and men ofthe Blockfamily at the Scotts Hillfarm, about 1939; modelwindowdisplayforBlocks CantfadeShirts line; SadieStadiem Block andsonsFred(left) andDavid, 1936. Thestripedoxfordclothpattern in the background is takenfrom a Block'sfabric sample book, circa 1965. These andotherphotographs are from the collection ofthe author, except where noted.