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Don Wiss on Brooklyn Storefronts & Newark's J. Wiss & Sons Co.
“Wiss, Founded 1848, New Jersey’s Leading Jewelers”
I was recently contacted by Don Wiss, a descendant (one of many) of the J. Wiss & Sons Jewelers & Wiss Shears families. Here is our correspondence below:
January 19, 2008
Hi Frank,
I see we both like to take pictures of buildings (my Brooklyn storefronts are famous enough that I presume you are aware of them). I came upon your site because of your picture of the Wiss building in Newark. It is a bit sad for me to see it. I have a picture from an old book, and it looked a lot better.
I just bought the Better Homes & Garden ad that you show. I gather you settled for the picture that was used to sell it. Where did your Wiss Store ad come from? My side of the family was the manufacturing side, so I have less interest in the store.My newest site is jwissandsons.com. That ad just arrived today, and I just put a PDF of it up. If you want a higher quality image of the ad I can provide one.
Don.
Dear Don-
Very pleased to meet you. Went to your site and it is voluminously entertaining. Will link your jwiss and donwiss sites & pdf to the [original] posting and post a new one about your site. Funny how similar interests and the Internet can make people cross paths. How did you stumble upon my blog? Do keep in touch and glad to have converged!
Best,
Frank
Don’s reply:
I follow what is being sold under Wiss at eBay. I buy some scissors. I look for material for my jwiss site. And mostly I send corrections for the listings to the sellers. One of the current listings (for a silver plated pinking shears which is new to me) borrowed the same text from the Smithonian’s SIRIS site that you borrowed. When I saw it I recognized it as being familiar, but I couldn’t remember where. So I searched on a string of it.
Visit the J. Wiss & Sons Co. Website!
Scissor Plan – TIME Magazine 1933
1906 ad – E-bay
Shiva on the Beach Meditation – Raghupati Raghav – Ft Tilden Beach, Rockaway NY – July 2005
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Beautiful Shiva-In early July 2005, I witnessed a ritual on the beach from afar. People dressed in white were busy assembling this altar. Here are some shots of it and one close-up with some alterations.
The music here is Raghupati Raghav– a Hindi prayer that was Mahatma Gandhi’s favorite. This medley from the Gandhi soundtrack is of this prayer and Vaishnav Jan.
“Shiva is the destroyer of the world, following Brahma the creator and Vishnu the preserver, after which Brahma again creates the world and so on. Shiva is responsible for change both in the form of death and destruction and in the positive sense of the shedding of old habits. In Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram or Truth, Goodness and Beauty, Shiva also represents the most essential goodness. Shiva is the god of the yogis, self-controlled and celibate, while at the same time a lover of his spouse (shakti). Shiva’s first wife was Sati and his second wife was Parvati, also known as Uma, Gauri, Durga, Kali, and Shakti. His sons are Ganesha and Kartikeya. Shiva lives on Mount Kailasa in the Himalayas.” This introduction on Shiva was made by Christine Gruenwald and Peter Marchand and taken from the sanatansociety.org.
Swaminarayan World Organization – 417-419 Hoboken Avenue – Jersey City, NJ
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Swaminarayan World Organization – another sign of the cultural and ethnic diversity of Jersey City.
Corte & Co. Sausage Manufacturers – 414-416 Hoboken Avenue – Jersey City, NJ
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Corte & Company, at 414 Hoboken Avenue in Jersey City, has been making traditional Spanish and Portuguese sausages like chorizo, morcilla and linguica (or longaniza) for more than 70 years. NY-Times
