Living Family Archive

Mr. Winsberg

Biography

Gave Bernie a fifty-dollar advance after seeing him sell one customer five pairs of shoes on his first day.

Timeline

When his final rent for the shared North Side apartment came due
Bernie finds work selling shoes
Hired at $1.25 an hour, working from one to seven after classes and all day Saturday: forty hours and fifty dollars weekly, plus a twenty-percent clothing discount. Received a fifty-dollar advance on his first day.
Bernie's Chapter

Stories mentioning Mr.

A Streetcar Search and a Fifty-Dollar LifelineWith rent due and only five dollars left, Bernie searched Chicago retail stores by riding different streetcar lines. A trip along Clark Street to Granville Avenue brought him a shoe-selling job at Winsberg’s with hours that fit his classes. After he sold a customer five pairs of shoes on his first day, Mr. Winsberg advanced him fifty dollars.

Referenced in

Bernie's Chapter — BERTIE DAVIS

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