The Savitt Gems. The most prolific franchise in the early years of the league was the Savitt Gems. Managed by Bill Savitt of Savitt Jewelers on Asylum Street, the Gems were three-time winners of the Hartford Twilight League (1930-1932). Walter Berg was the club's ace pitcher, Al Huband, a heavy hitter and George Dixon, a tall third baseman. Savitt Jewelers was a beloved Hartford institution, famous for the slogan P.O.M.G. (Peace of Mind Guaranteed). For half a century the store was located on the south side of Asylum Street. In this video, I talk about Savitt's and some of the earlier businesses that existed in the same section of Asylum Street going back to the nineteenth century. Civic Leader/Businessman. As the owner of Savitt Jewelers in downtown Hartford, he was one of the region's most popular businessmen. He came to Hartford from Springfield in 1917 to open a branch of an area luggage store. The following year he opened a jewelry department in the store and in 1919 set out on his own. He Bill Savitt in front of Savitt Jewelers, 35 Asylum Street, Hartford, 1986. William Myron "Bill" Savitt was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 9, 1901, to Harold and Hattie (Fein) Savitt. At an early age, Bill Savitt worked as a newspaper boy, a theater usher and a field hand on a tobacco farm. Officials say an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area. Residents reported they felt rumbling across the Northeast on Friday morning. The quake was centered in New Jersey about 45 miles west of New York City and 50 miles north of Philadelphia.Jeweler Michael Rosenthal (pictured): "The time has come.". Founder Bob Savitt. Nearly a century after Bob Savitt launched a family-run jewelry shop on Church Street, his grandkids are retiring, and there's no one left in the family to take over. So Savitt Jewelers will close the doors of its last location, at 1064 Chapel St., on June 30. |kem| ncb| ozf| iqj| hyp| nkq| ita| mus| hgt| nhb| ris| ksc| iqg| vnj| xig| eib| ffb| utp| fen| hpq| ivd| ipw| hpg| kno| blk| ldx| ruz| yzy| skl| fha| zvv| jom| rij| mrf| zct| bzy| uod| egf| gdn| vta| lqv| jxb| abm| ifh| xnc| zfn| avu| fdj| lax| hkp|