The story goes, that this friend of the family who met Polly at Antioch college, Fred Pollak, asked each of the still single girls in the Politzer family to marry him. If I remember he started with Polly, who said no. Then he asked each of the other two younger sisters and they said no. I really do not know how many of them were still single, but finally he asked my mother and my mother said yes.
Fred was one of these guys who had a Clark Gabble look to him and I believe my mother was very very taken with him and very happy to be married to him.
After their wedding they moved to Chicago, Illinois.
From this time forward Fritzie was for the most part a housewife and mother, but continued to make lots of our clothes.
I was born in 1943 and my brothers were born in 1945, Ralph Timothy and in 1948, Victor Alfonse. The family kept moving farther north in the Chicago area and we were mostly raised in the first suburb north of Chicago, Evanston, IL.
Thus begins that part of the exhibition showing my mother’s charm, style and in many cases the clothes that she made for herself and her children as we grew up……………..