by baltWIE | Aug 22, 2024
Rosalie Simon MaczisMarch 15, 1925-July 16, 2015 Rosalie Mary Simon Maczis was born on March 15, 1925, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Adam Edward Simon and Nettie Lee Jefferson. She had 11 siblings. Rosalie was Catholic and married Stephen Joseph Maczis on February 1,...
by baltWIE | Aug 22, 2024
Patricia “Trish” Hall worked as a waitress at the Woman’s Industrial Exchange, specifically during the 1990s. Sources:“Remembering the Woman’s Industrial Exchange.” Baltimore Sun, June 18,...
by baltWIE | Aug 22, 2024
Margaret Brogna was born around 1912 and worked as a waitress at the Exchange for years until around 1995 when she was about 84, but it is unknown exactly when she started at the Exchange. When she started at the Exchange, she worked in the tearoom and had moved to...
by baltWIE | Aug 16, 2024
Loretta TarbertSeptember 8, 1915-May 20, 2011 Loretta Tarbert once described her job at the Exchange as incomparable to other job opportunities in Baltimore (Baltimore Sun). Dorothy Loretta Willback was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1915. She worked at the...
by baltWIE | Aug 16, 2024
Doris Sticher lived and raised her family in Cressona, Pennsylvania. She later moved to Maryland where she became a waitress at the Woman’s Industrial Exchange during the 1980s. In 1983, she was featured in a photograph in the Baltimore News-American newspaper with...
by baltWIE | Aug 16, 2024
Charlotte ZimernachOctober 1, 1927 – July 12, 2017 Charlotte Zimernach, the “breakfast girl,” at age 85, was a waitress at the Woman’s Industrial Exchange until the 1990s; it is unknown when exactly she started work at the Exchange. She worked with waitresses...
