🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Antique Pantry with signatures

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I’ve had this crudely made pantry from the early 1930s in my shed. I’ve been storing things in there for 25 years since we moved into this house. It was left here by the previous owner. Inside the door there must be at least 30 something signatures with dates starting March 1933 and on. This is central New Jersey. The last couple signatures stating they were from Bristol. Which is in Pennsylvania. Some had 4 digit phone numbers listed next to their names.
I’m just wandering why these people signed it.
I’m guessing some kind of club?
Isn’t there a way to have IA photo clear the signatures, make it easy to read?

 

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Interesting. There seem to be too many husband/wife(?) or other family surname connections for it to be a club as such, or to be employment-related. The names I can read relatively clearly:

Jack Allman
Glad(ys?) Allman
Betty Snyder
Joseph P. Snyder Jr.
Margaret Lefkowitz
Willy(?) Lefkowitz
Sara B. Wilson
Minnie Heish(?)
Gertrude Lefkowitz
William Reissmann(?)
William Nysse
RoseAnn Nysse

Maybe a bunch of churchgoers or some other religious meeting group? There are a fair number of likely Jewish names there.

I have a small UV flashlight which usually yields good information for inscriptions, signatures and such but still leaves the problem of interpreting handwriting styles.