LIFE

agent The Gramophone Company, Istanbul, TURKEY
Jean Weinberg (photographer) possibly his brother, but no evidence yet.

A distant cousin of mine found a photograph depicting my grandparents as bride and groom in Constantinople. They were sitting in an open car. At the wheel was one of my grandmother's cousins Sigmund Weinberg (who owned the first two cinemas in Istanbul, and the first photo-shop (this was something quite revolutionary in those days.) Next to him was another of my grandmother's cousins, Carl Carlman (who owned the first department store in Istanbul on the Grande Rue de Pera) This was during the time of Sultan Abdel Hamid who refused to allow cars to be on the streets in Turkey unless they had a horse harnessed to it. This is a photograph of the first car in Turkey, and the photograph shows them surrounded by Turks wearing a fez and gawking at the satanic monster that moved without a horse.(from Anzarut Memories by Edna Anzarut Turner)