🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Antique Pantry with signatures

[flyadive]

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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[Red-Coat]

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.

 

[flyadive]

Red Coat; The last couple of signatures stated “ Bristol”. Bristol Pennsylvania is just across the Delaware River from Burlington N.J. Not far from here. I tend to believe that you are correct, The Church groups were very strong back in those days years. How often would husband and wife's be together?
On Sundays. Around Easter.

 

[pepperj]

4 yrs into the Great Depression also.
Could be church related, or couples that stopped in while traveling through as many did looking for somewhere else better.

 

[Red-Coat]

Red Coat; The last couple of signatures stated “ Bristol”. Bristol Pennsylvania is just across the Delaware River from Burlington N.J. Not far from here. I tend to believe that you are correct, The Church groups were very strong back in those days years. How often would husband and wife's be together?
On Sundays. Around Easter.

One thing I initially missed is what it says at the very top, above the signatures. The words "BEN-SILVERS" (in capitals and hyphenated) followed by some unreadable letters.

Sounds like that might be a Jewish connection (synagogue, or whatever).

 

[flyadive]

Red Coat; The last couple of signatures stated “ Bristol”. Bristol Pennsylvania is just across the Delaware River from Burlington N.J. Not far from here. I tend to believe that you are correct, The Church groups were very strong back in those days years. How often would husband and wife's be together?
On Sundays. Around Easter.

One thing I initially missed is what it says at the very top, above the signatures. The words "BEN-SILVERS" (in capitals and hyphenated) followed by some unreadable letters.

Sounds like that might be a Jewish connection (synagogue, or whatever).

Yes, Ben Silverstein 1991?

 

[flyadive]

There seems to be 40-50 signatures most are unreadable, but I tried to make them out as best I could.