CityView Magazine

52 | September/October 2015 doctors, lawyers, educators and successful business people that were the root of economic and cultural growth in Fay- etteville. eir family is so huge, we could not possibly cover everyone. We decided to write about the three clans of Fleish- man's that made the most impact on our community. Har- vey Fleishman and I started conversing months before this article at the Haymount Grill. He told me, "Marshall there is more to the story of my uncle and Babe Ruth than people know," and that is how we got started with this piece. Maurice Fleishman was fa- mous in Fayetteville for being the batboy when Babe Ruth hit his first home run in 1914. ere is a plaque on Gillespie Street that commemo- rated that occasion. Harvey is the historian of the family. People in the community you may know like, Ben Hailey, Shik- ery Fadel, Mitchell Graham, Kip Broadfoot, Andy Harnsberger and Buck Scott grew up working in the Leon Fleishman, Edward Fleishman and Maurice Fleishman IDA KRONSBERG B 1876 D 1971 NATHAN FLEISHMAN HENRY FLEISHMAN DOROTHY D'LUGIN FANNIE FLEISHMAN HARRY SATISKY MILTON FLEISHMAN LOTTAINE D'LUGIN BERNARD FLEISHMAN EVELYN SIMON LEON FLEISHMAN ESTA WEINSTEIN MAURICE FLEISHMAN DOROTHY ABELOVITZ SAMUEL FLEISHMAN FAYE SUGAR EDWARD FLEISHMAN DORA STEINBERG HERMAN FLEISHMAN AUDREY SHIPPER JOEL FLEISHMAN LINDA ELFMON HARVEY FLEISHMAN JAMES FLEISHMAN SANDRA STRICKLAND CRAIG FLEISHMAN CHARLES NED FLEISHMAN LOIS FLEISHMAN MURRAY UNGER JEAN FLEISHMAN SHEVEL SIFF MICKEY FLEISHMAN LEON SUGAR HYMAN FLEISHMAN STUART FLEISHMAN ARLYN BROOKS (DIV) ROSALYN FLEISHMAN ISAAC LAZAR HOWARD SATISKY LYN ROTEISTEIN STEPHEN SATISKY VIRGINIA LANAM CHERLYN FLEISHMAN PHIL ISAACS NEAL FLEISHMAN NEILL FLEISHMAN ADRIAN ELSON MARK FLEISHMAN MARGARET FLEISHMAN NANCY FLEISHMAN MICHAEL YOFFE MARGO FLEISHMAN KARL GOLDBERG RYAN UNGER SARAH SIFF DAVID KATZIN ROBERT SIFF VAL WILLOUGHBY ELLEN SIFF BARRY KRAUSS STEPHANIE KATZIN DANIEL KATZIN LAUREN SIFF LEE KRAUSS MIMI KRAUSS SARAH SIFF DAVID KATZIN ROGER UNGER JOSEPH SUGAR MITCHELL SUGAR KARINA KAMINOV DONNA SUGAR BUDDY HARMON DIV HARRIET SUGAR JOHN MILLER VICTOR EREK HARRISON EMILI HARMON ZACHARY MILLER ANDREW MILLER PHILLIP FLEISHMAN JONATHAN FLEISHMAN ADAM FLEISHMAN SCOTT FLEISHMAN TODD FLEISHMAN JOSHUA FLEISHMAN JENNIFER FLEISHMAN DAVID LAZAR MIRIAM LAZAR CARYN LAZAR DANIEL LAZAR MARK SATISKY BRIAN SATISKY KEITH SATISKY KEVIN SATISKY TODD ISAACS DAVID ISAACS ALLISON ISAACS JUSTIN FLEISHMAN ARI FLEISHMAN SETH FLEISHMAN JENNIFER YOFFE ERIN YOFFE ROBIN GOLDBERG PHILLIP GOLDBERG HYMAN FLEISHMAN B 1872 D 1934 W hen I walked out of Ed's to my right was H. Fleishman Men's Store at 107 Hay Street and across the street was Fleishman's Big Store, the Capital Department Store, Fleishman's Style Shop and Sugar's Tweeds 'n ings, just for ladies. Fur- ther up the street was the Varsity Men's Shop and Bernard Fleishman's men's shop. Down the same side of the street was Leon Sugar's Men's Shop, which would be a regular venue of mine over the years. All these stores had Jewish owners and they made up most of the retail trade in down- town Fayetteville for over 63 years. e Fleishman family's clothiers set and maintained the trends in the city. CityView will be doing a two- part series on their family and how influential they have been in the Fayetteville community for over 100 years. ey started as haber- dashers, but their offspring became Illustration by Rika King

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