One good thing about Nathan Eckstein (1873-1945), he's so distinctive looking that you can always identify him in pictures. He married a Schwabacher daughter and ran part of the Schwabacher grocery business. One interview I did, part of the extended family, claimed that he ran the grocery business into the ground. I don't know but he was active in the community, helped build the old sanctuary. A middle school in North Seattle is named after him. Many people I know had kids that went to Eckstein Middle School. But, like the rest of us, don't know about him.
I went down to the MOHAI library the other days to look at some Schwanacher/Eckstein pictures. This one jumped at me. Definitely Nathan Eckstein. What's he doing with all of these flowers? Did he win a lot of prizes at a show. Is he putting on a show? A funeral? I think "Happy Home" and "Gold Shield" were Schwabacher house brands.
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