{"id":1592,"date":"2014-07-28T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2014\/07\/28\/fascinating-find-weve-got-a-juicy-series-going\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:39:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:39:02","slug":"fascinating-find-weve-got-a-juicy-series-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2014\/07\/28\/fascinating-find-weve-got-a-juicy-series-going\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1592 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2014\/07\/28\/fascinating-find-weve-got-a-juicy-series-going\/attachment\/1593\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n984rwvvBg1qiyrilo1_r1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Fascinating find. We&rsquo;ve got a juicy series going about Picon&rsquo;s incredible career; <a href=\"http:\/\/16thstreet.tumblr.com\/tagged\/Molly-Picon\" target=\"_blank\">read more about her here<\/a>!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Evening Dress worn by<br \/>\nMolly Picon<br \/>\nSilk<br \/>\n1930s<br \/>\nCollection of Yeshiva University Museum<br \/>\nGift of Sarah Safford<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yumuseum.tumblr.com\/post\/92826035074\/in-the-mid-1970s-sarah-safford-a-dancer-from-new\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">yumuseum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the mid-1970s, Sarah Safford, a dancer from New York was driving in Mahopac in Upstate New York when she came upon an abandoned truck in the middle of a field.\u00a0 In the truck was a trove of eccentric clothes that Safford recognized as stage costumes.\u00a0 Safford\u2019s theater-knowledgeable mother identified the clothes\u2019 importance and recognized them as belonging to Molly Picon, the Yiddish theater star.\u00a0 Safford and her mother contacted Picon who said that, as a result of her grief over the death of her husband, had left many mementos and souvenirs in the house that she had shared with him in Mahopac.\u00a0 Picon also encouraged Safford to keep the clothes and use them for shows.\u00a0 Safford did later use the clothes in a show inspired by her find called <i>Molly Picon is Alive and Well and Living in Brooklyn.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating find. We&rsquo;ve got a juicy series going about Picon&rsquo;s incredible career; read more about her here!\u00a0 Evening Dress worn by Molly Picon Silk 1930s Collection of Yeshiva University Museum Gift of Sarah Safford yumuseum: In the mid-1970s, Sarah Safford, a dancer from New York was driving in Mahopac in Upstate New York when she came upon an abandoned truck in the middle of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[441,10,208,8,430,431,43,50],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-brooklyn","tag-center-for-jewish-history","tag-fashion","tag-history","tag-molly-picon","tag-theater","tag-yeshiva-university-museum","tag-yiddish","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}