1948-1971

Mildred, date unknown

Mildred, date unknown

Mildred and Ida at a Dude Ranch

Sam Zarember

Cuddling with Tracey, circa 1959

On a Pennsylvania vacation, early 60's

Mildred and Ida were hardworking secretary/bookkeepers. They lived at home with their father and watched as their brother went off to fight in the Philippines during WWII.

The sisters enjoyed going to Coney Island, and took at least one trip to a dude ranch. where one of the horses decided to go for a swim with one of the girls on his back.

After the war, Mildred met Sam Zarember, a young artist who had served in the infantry during WWII and was from a large family on the lower east side of Manhattan. They were married on May 23, 1951.

They lived briefly in Virginia Beach and moved back to New York City where daughter Lori Frances Zarember was born on August 11, 1954. Soon they relocated to Hicksville, New York. A second daughter, Tracey followed on March 26, 1956. The family moved to a UN community in Flushing, NY called Parkway Village around 1959, and later to a home in Jamaica Estates, NY in 1962.

Sam started up a graphic design business in the late 50's called Pasteups Unlimited. Mildred worked by his side to build up the business, which eventually expanded to include catalogue publishing. Murray Falick was their business partner.

Sam became increasingly interested in photography and began to take classes. He was mentored by Henry Wolf, and eventually left the graphics arts business to become a free-lance photographer. By the late 1960's Sam was in high demand as an advertising and editorial photographer. He won the NY and LA Art Director's gold medals, and many other awards for his work.  He also started a stock photography business to lease existing photographs for commercial use. Mildred helped him in all these endeavors.

The family relocated to the Carnegie House on West 57th Street in Manhattan in 1967. In 1968, Sam had an MI and began a battle with heart disease that would last for 23 years. 


The family enjoyed life in Manhattan and their neighborhood, which included not only Carnegie Hall, where the girls took ballet lessons, but also Steinway Hall, The Ritz Thrift Shop, the Museum of Modern Art, the Russian Tea Room, and the last working Automat. They ventured to the West side to the newly constructed Lincoln Center to take in ballets, concerts and operas.