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Showing posts with label longevity. Show all posts
29 July 2025

Finocchio’s – a nightclub: Part I: the early years

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Original version , January 2010. Part I: the early years Part II: post WWII   Part I: the early years Joe Finocchio (1897 - 1986) was bo...
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30 April 2024

Pierre Vacher (1892-1990) doctor and sexologist

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Vachet was raised in Givry , Saône-et-Loire, and qualified as Docteur en médecine, Paris, 1915. He later became the Director of the École de...
06 December 2023

Jeanne Hoff (1938 – 2023) psychiatrist

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++original September 2013, revised February 2019 to include extra detail from Gill-Peterson's book, and December 2023 to acknowledge Jea...
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13 July 2023

Jenny O. Hushler (1862 - 1953) embroiderer, book seller.

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(this article was previously of Jenny O.   However the discovery of her obituary gave us her surname.  Originally post 4/2/2015) Hushler was...
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24 March 2023

Lucy Salani (1924-2023) upholsterer, concentration camp survivor

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Salani was born in Fassano in Piedmont, and raised in Bologna with the name Luciano. As a teenager Salani was unsure of what she was, info...
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18 February 2023

Toni Simon (1887 - 1979) cafe owner, high voltage tester, pornography smuggler

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Simon was raised in Thuringia with the name of Anton. Father was a blacksmith. Even as a child Simon wore girls’ clothes whenever possible, ...
19 August 2022

Toni Ebel (1881 – 1961) artist.

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++Original January 2015; revised February 2022, to incorporate information about Charlotte Charlaque, and August 2022 to incorporate more in...
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