Nana’s Habitations
The Actual Goldeneh Medinah
Notable and Noteworthy
with Nana
with Nana
Cohn
(‘e’ sold separately)
(‘e’ sold separately)
A Pinsler is not a Pilsner
100
619 32nd Avenue was where Nana grew up. Name the neighborhood (same as the capitol of the Confederacy).
What is Richmond?
100
Home to the Giants before SF (Seals Stadium).
What is Manhattan (Polo Grounds)?
100
Favorite dessert
What are Coffee Crunch Cake, Root Beer Float, Malted Ice Cream…?
100
Hey, hey, he’s our man - he’s the first to have arrived in the Goldeneh Medinah. Elias Cohn arrived from THIS country.
What is Prussia (Exin) - today Kcynia, Poland?
100
THIS family came from Rumania, spent five years in China, and then arrived in San Francisco just five months after the 1906 SF Earthquake.
Who are the Haimovitches?
200
726 Camino Ricardo had the pool but first the young Cohn family lived on THIS road (what a clever name).
What is Moraga?
200
Mexican rancher though not a graduate of his eponymous Junior High
Who was Joaquin Moraga?
200
Married Len at the …
(year also)
What are The Fairmont / 1957?
200
Emil Cohn worked for The Emporium buying these products from Hickory and High Point, NC. Name the product and preferred travel method.
What are furniture and train?
200
At his location on the corner of Market & Gough Streets, after 1933, Jack Pinsler expanded his tobacco store offerings to include THIS.
What is liquor?
300
5 was the house number but this was the Court’s name. (Think CA mountains)
What is Sierra?
300
Joseph Strauss (no relation to two of the grandkids) was the engineer of this architectural phenom - one of San Francisco’s greatest icons.
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
300
Graduated from CAL …
(alongside)
What is 1982 / Who is Barry?
300
In Havilah, CA (Kern County), Elias Cohn was a store owner, Wells Fargo Agent, election clerk, and Noble Grandmaster of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The town’s name originated in this biblical book and is cited as the place “where gold is.”
What is Genesis? See: 2:11
300
One was a teacher, one was an optometrist, one was in the shmata business, and one was a pharmacist.
Who were the sons-in-law of the Pinsler girls? (Miriam & Bob, Carolynn & Norman, Robbie & Len, Lorraine & Len.)
400
1661 Pine Street is home now but it’s right around the corner from where it all started at this hospital. Any connection to the name of the city?
What is St. Francis?
400
These majestic beauties are found throughout northern California - The tallest (Hyperion) is 381’.
What are redwoods?
400
Was Born …
(date & year)
What is 13 MARCH 1936?
400
When Evelyn Wittenberg(er) came to San Francisco, she was three years old as her family left this town in the Colorado Rockies. Btw - what was their method of transportation?
What are Leadville and covered wagon?
400
Rachel (Zimet) Pinsler remarried after Meyer’s death and when she did, she married a first cousin of this future Israeli Prime Minister.
Who was Menachem Begin?
500
Len and Robbie first lived on a fort named for the 19th century US Brigadier General Abraham Eustis. Papa liked to call it Fort …
What is “Ft. Useless”?
500
The Bear Flag Republic was established in Sonoma (1846) and lasted for 25 days. Other than a patch of grass ... the flag is the same today. Name the other elements.
500
Name 2 of Nana’s lay leader roles
What are Temple Isaiah Sisterhood, Sinai Memorial Chapel, JAG at Towers, Israel Bonds…
500
For a few years in the 1910s, Leo & Esther Cohn took Elise and Emil to live in this “Queen City of the Pacific” known by the late 20th century as The Emerald City.
What is Seattle?
500
The Rumanian bubbies (and zaydes?) used to like to come from SF to Calistoga for the hot springs … seems the town was named based on Sam Brannan’s drunken malapropism as he tried to say that he’d make the place the “Saratoga of California!” What did he mistakenly say?
What is the Calistoga of Sarafornia?