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		<title>The History of Barkay Bros. Funeral Home: Part I</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/07/06/the-history-of-barkay-bros-funeral-home-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ray Ingraham]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joel and Isaac Barkay, proprietors of Barkay Bros. Funeral Home on East Folkim St., announced last week that they had accepted an undisclosed offer from the giant mortuary services conglomerate ServLimited International to purchase their business. The local funeral home had been run by the Barkay family for 72 years. Joel and Isaac, lifelong bachelors aged 69 and 67 respectively, agreed to sit for an interview with The City Desk to tell the story of the rise and fall of Barkay Bros., and to reminisce over the most memorable moments on the job. “Dad was always able to make very shrewd decisions in his life,” began Joel. “He was working as an apprentice undertaker in Poland in 1932, and had the good sense to leave everything behind and move to America.” Benjamin Barkay found his way to the city in the summer of 1932, and rented a one bedroom apartment in the thriving Jewish community on 112th street. He spent his days working for a grocer and his evenings practicing his English and studying his preferred vocation. In 1937, Barkay finally saved enough money to open his own enterprise. He called it “Barker Funeral Home,” anglicizing his surname, fearing anti-Semitism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Eight Great Zoo Hoaxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Morris]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s for no small reasons that our fair city is often called “The Home of Zoo Hoaxes.” What follows are the Eight Great Zoo Hoaxes, as determined by the Board of Directors of the Zoo Hoax Historical Society, an informal group that keeps track of this odd aspect of our city&#8217;s heritage. A Zoo In Every Home (1911) As an April Fool’s prank in 1911, the Sun-Recorder published an extensive series of articles and (cleverly doctored) photographs in its &#8220;Homes &#38; Gardens&#8221; section detailing what it believed would be the next great status symbol of the still-burgeoning Twentieth Century middle class – The Home Zoo. Where most rural homes and even quite a few urban ones were expected to keep chickens, goats and other small livestock on its property, the Sun-Recorder reported that popular mail-order outfit Sears &#38; Roebuck was offering for sale an entire series of zoo packages, including delivery and installation of cages suited for atrium, living room and kitchen, as well as guaranteed live delivery of lions, tigers, bears, elephants, monkeys and apes. The “Big Thing for 1911” prompted literally thousands of eager calls and telegrams to Sears &#38; Roebuck, primarily from outlying communities to which paper [...]]]></description>
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