His story

This page is a first draft. It holds only what the family knows and what the clippings back up. More goes in as it is confirmed.

Ebbets Field

As the family tells it, Harold was the bat boy for the visiting teams whenever they played the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. He had a uniform for every team in the league.

The Curb Exchange

A trade-paper notice from January 1930 reports Harold admitted to the New York Curb Exchange, with offices at 39 Broadway. See the clipping.

From Schnuer to Shore

Harold was born Harold Charles Schnuer. A Nassau County court order changed his name to Harold Charles Shore. The judge signed the order on April 18, 1944, and it was entered on April 20. It took effect on May 29, 1944, on two conditions: that the order be published in the Long Beach Life, and that the Local Draft Board be notified. On May 26 the County Clerk certified that both were done. See the order. A second certificate, issued in 1963, repeats the facts. See it.

Harold C. Shore & Co.

In August 1955 a notice announced the formation of Harold C. Shore & Co., a general brokerage business at 50 Broad Street, New York. See the notice. His business card, with the firm’s name and the Broad Street address, is in the clippings. On December 11, 1957, the firm was named an underwriter, with First Securities Corporation of Durham, North Carolina, of an offering of 52,000 shares of Capital Cities Television Corporation stock at $5.75 a share. See the offering circular. Later clippings show Harold with colleagues and friends at industry conventions.

Mae

Harold and Mae were married on Tuesday, February 11, 1930, at The Aperion Manor in Brooklyn. The marriage certificate gives the bride as Minnie (Mae) Strulowitz. See the certificate and its Hebrew marriage contract. The invitation names the bride as Miss Mae C. Strahl and the groom as Mr. Harold C. Schnuer, and it was sent by Mae’s grandmother, Mrs. L. Strulowitz. See the invitation. Mae called him “Bub.” A handwritten note card to her, signed “Bub,” survives with its envelope, addressed “M. C. Schnuer.” See the note. Two days later the attorney Louis Lazarus wrote the couple a warm letter about the wedding feast, with a ten-dollar check. Read the letter. Mae was born on March 8, 1909, and died on February 13, 2007. Her middle name was Carol, according to her Florida voter card. A letter from Frances, written on Wednesday, February 19, while the couple were away on a boat trip, praises “a gorgeous bride.” Read it. Harold wrote her loving notes for birthdays and anniversaries, signed “Bub” or “Honey Boy.” See the notes. See her memorial card. They were married for more than fifty years. See their pictures.

His son, Warren

Harold and Mae’s son, Warren G. Shore, was born in New York on February 19, 1934, and died in Miami Shores, Florida, on October 27, 2007. See his memorial card. He grew up in the family home in Lynbrook. In February 1946 he wrote his parents a note from Brooklyn Avenue School in Valley Stream, inviting them to his school play. See the note. His Bar Mitzvah was held on February 22, 1947, at Temple Emanu-El in Lynbrook, and the invitation came from his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Shore. See the invitation. He later worked in the same business. Trade papers pictured father and son together, Harold of Harold C. Shore & Co. and Warren of George, O’Neill & Co., Inc. See them in the clippings. In July 1980 the Chicago Board Options Exchange wrote to Warren acknowledging the sale of his membership seat. See the letter. Warren was William’s father. See the family pictures.

At home

The family home was in Lynbrook, on Long Island. They kept a summer house in Mahopac, New York.

The jokes

Everyone agrees on one thing: Harold was a huge jokester. The stories are collected here.