David Gross Family Collection
M2010.19.01

"David and Minnie (Rose) Gross," [gross002] David Gross Family Collection,
D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville 28804

Title	David Gross Family History
Creator	David Gross Family
Alt. creator	Jana Milenky Weissman, great-granddaughter of David Gross
Identifier	http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/gross_david/default_gross_david_family.html
Subject Keyword	David Gross ; Leopold Rose ; Fannie Rose ; Jewish families ; Asheville businesses ; Asheville, N.C. ; hot dog stands ; Pack Square ; "Minnie" Rose Gross ;
Subject LCSH	Gross, David Jews -- North Carolina -- Asheville -- History Jews -- North Carolina -- Asheville -- Identity Business enterprises -- North Carolina -- Asheville Metropolitan Area Asheville (N.C.) -- History
Description	The photographs and newspaper clippings in this collection depict the life and business of the David Gross family both before coming to Asheville and after the family arrived in the community. The original photographs and newspaper clippings were returned to the family at their request and D.H. Ramsey Library reproduced the images to tell the story of the owner and operator of the Gross Cafe and his family.
Publisher	D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC
Date original	1896-1945
Date digital	Electronic Record Issued: 2010-06-22
Type	Image ; Text
Format	17 items (photographs and newspaper clippings) ; copies of family photographs and documents scanned and returned to family.
Source	M2010.02.01 Virtual collection. No physical items located at UNCA.
Language	English
Relation	Is part of Jewish Businesses in Western North Carolina Oral History Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; Leo Finkelstein Oral History in Voices of Asheville Oral History Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; Hyman Dave Oral History in Voices of Asheville Oral History Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville ; Leo Finkelstein Papers, 1903-1993, W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Belk Library Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC ; Sol Schulman Collection, a small collection of material related to Jewish businesses in the western part of the state. Includes material on Sol Schulman, a businessman in Waynesville, NC. The Ada and Lou Pollock Collection contains rich material on many of the individuals and businesses mentioned in the Beth-Ha-Tephila collection and also contains supplementary material related to the Congregation Beth-Ha-Tephila. "Jewish Roots in the Carolinas: A Pattern of American Philo-Semitism,", Charlotte, N.C.: The Charlotte Israelite, 1955, in the D. Hiden Ramsey Collection, printed material - various publications (M80.5.2.6) ; Louis Blomberg Family Papers, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; Schandler Family Papers, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; Schochet Family Papers, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collection, UNCA ; Choosing to Remember - From the Shoah to the Mountains ; Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, UNC Chapel Hill ; American Jewish Historical Society ;
Coverage Temporal	1896-1945
Coverage Spatial	Asheville, N.C. ; Budapest, Hungary
Rights	Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Acquisition	Donor number: 183 ; Date of acquisition: February 10, 2010
Processed By	Special Collections staff
Last update	2010-06-22 ; 2012-02-01, HP
Biography	In Asheville in the 1930s, David Gross was known as the man with the biggest family and the tiniest business in town. Gross was born in 1865 and came to the United States from Budapest, Hungary in 1873. After the turn of the century, Gross opened his first cafe on Pack Square. With the depression, Gross created his noteworthy hot dog and ham sandwich stand in a narrow alleyway between a three story building and a lunch wagon on Broadway. With the addition of a roof over the tables, the location became known as a cafe. Later, Gross moved to larger quarters on Broadway. His two sons, Leon and Charlie, took up the restaurant business until 1945.
Series	> Photographs

Box	ID Number	Description	Thumbnail
Items List
M2010.02.01	gross002	David Gross and Minnie Gross (Rose)- no date, [portrait]
	gross003	David Gross at Elk Home, September 1954. [Standing with cane in right hand.]
	gross004	Ruth Milenky (Gross ) - no date, [portrait]
	gross005	Minnie Gross (Rose) -- no date [Standing in front of steps.]
	gross006	Rose Gross (Rose) - no date, [portrait]
	gross007	David Gross children - no date [Children posed standing in 'stair-step' arrangement.]
	gross008	Fannie Ross (Becker) with twins, Freda and Charles Gross and Albert Gross [portrait]
	gross009	Fannie Rose (Becker), August 8, 1896, in Chattanooga, Tenn. [Studio portrait]
	gross010	Leopold Rose, August 8, 1896, in Chattanooga, Tenn. [Studio portrait]
	gross014	Postcard of the Gross family, 1930 [Produced by Gross family(?)]
	gross015	Photograph, unrelated to the Gross family genealogy but collected by family and labeled, "Some of the famous Anderson clan of North Carolina mountains"
	gross016	Newspaper article, "Gross, Once Cafe Operator Here, Dies; Rites Set Today"	[Full image unavailable]
	gross017	Newspaper article, "Gross Family Quits Restaurant Business After Half Century, Wednesday, August 8, 1945"	[Full image unavailable]

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David Gross Family Collection M2010.19.01 "David and Minnie (Rose) Gross," [gross002] David Gross Family Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville 28804

David Gross Family Collection
M2010.19.01

"David and Minnie (Rose) Gross," [gross002] David Gross Family Collection,
D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville 28804