In this photo taken in Santa Ana in the early 1920s, Applebaum’s Ladies Furnishings, located at 302 N. Main Street, can be seen sandwiched between the corner drug store and a men’s clothing shop. David and his wife Jennie were Russian immigrants who had settled in Minnesota. They moved to Los Angeles in 1916 and then to Santa Ana a year later, where David, a tailor by training, opened his store. The 1920 Census shows that their fourth and youngest child, Bernice, was born in Santa Ana that same year, and, in a pattern typical of immigrants, Jennie’s parents Henry and Rose Deutch and her sister Beverly lived with the family in their home on Bush Street.
