Survey Monkey Plays Black Jack, Gets Twenty-One, Seven at a Time!

The twenty-one question Fieg family survey created on Nov. 1 is now closed.  Here are the correct answers to the first seven questions, italicized, underlined and emboldened:

1. When Bob Roman launched his career in Oneonta as a dime store chain regional executive, he married Dorothy Fieg and they set up housekeeping in a little apartment on Pine Street rented to them by:

F.W. Woolworth
J.C. Penney
The Bresees of Bresee's Oneonta Dept. Store, correctly guessed by 60% of respondents
J.J. Newberry

2. Jack Bresee, the Fiegs' personable second ward city alderman, was proprietor of a popular Main Street mercantile establishment known as:

J.J. Newberry's
Bresees' Oneonta Department Store
The Golden Rooster - only 20% knew this one
F. W. Woolworth's

3. One Christmas, Oneonta department store proprietor Lynn Bresee offered a $300 bonus (a lot of money in those days) to one of his employees, Frank Fieg's wife, Marina, saying to her:

Don't spend it all in one place.
Don't spend it all on beer.
Don't run off to Las Vegas.
Don't tell Frank. Yep - again 60% of you were correct.

4. Frank Bresee opened Bresee's Oneonta Department Store in 1899 after a successful career as:

A ship-to-shore telegrapher aboard the transatlantic liner "Eturia."
Chief Chef at the Windsor Hotel in Oneonta.
An itinerant, tinware peddler who sold various household goods from a horsedrawn wagon. Quite the success story - and 4 out of 10 got it right.
Oneonta yardmaster for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.

5. Of Frank Bresee's sons, Mister Phil, Mister Fred, Mister Wilmer, Mister Lynn, Mister Robert and Mister Jack, as they were called, one does not belong to the group of men who, over the entire span of the 20th century, developed their business into the finest department store for more than 50 miles in any direction. The ringer is:

Mister Fred (there was no such person)
Mister Robert (never returned from the Spanish American War)
Jack (never addressed as "Mister Jack" and no relation to the family.) A pat on the back to the 3 out of 10 who got it right -- you didn't just guess, did you, hmm?
Mister Wilmer (no one would give a boy such a rediculous name.)

6. When movie and television actor Robert Taylor came to Oneonta to promote a pilot for a new TV series based on Oneonta artist Don Sherwood's cartoon hero Dan Flagg, in which Taylor was to take the starring role, the reception was held at:

The Windsor Hotel
The Hotel Oneonta
The Stanton Opera House
Bresee's Oneonta Department Store - if you've been reading the blog, you'd know this, as did 60% of you!

7. Before she married, Dorothy Fieg was a legal secretary for Albert Ferrone, arguably the most influential man of his era as owner of a number of downtown Oneonta properties, and his partner John Steidel, whose office was just a few doors from Dorothy and Bob's apartment on Pine Street. The Ferrone and Steidel law firm is long gone, but the offices today are occupied by:

Jack Bresee
William R. Bookhout - once again, the blog yields the answer!  Congrats to 9 of you -- the one who guessed wrong was probably you-know-who....
Robert Taylor Productions
Don Sherwood