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Michael and Lauren Goldstein, and Ryan Rosenfeld
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'The Lone Ranger,' 'The Green Hornet'
Robert Rosenfeld, of West
and Jack Benny's program. Later, TV
Bloomfield, was born and
came along ; but we never watched
raised in Columbus, Ohio, but
much."
he moved to Michigan when
Mr. Rosenfeld's future bride, mean-
he married his wife, a Detroit
, while, also loved listening to the
native named Beverly Gold-
radio. Her favorite program was "Let's
stein.
Pretend," which she remembers
"When I was little, they didn't really
included stories for young listeners.
have the same kinds of toys as kids
"I played with cut-out dolls, and had
today," Mr. Rosenfeld says. "I go into
a doll house for them. I liked to make
Toys R Us and Noodle Kidoodle —
believe a lot."
we just didn't have the kinds of choic-
In the evening Beverly, an only
es they do now."
child, played checkers and other
Instead, Mr. Rosenfeld enjoyed an
board games with her parents, or out-
electric train, set up in the basement,
door games like marbles and hop-
along with football and Monopoly,
: scotch with neighborhood children.
and playing chess with his father,
"We did lots of spur-of-the-moment
who taught him the game.
kinds
of things," she says. "For exam-
"I had a Charlie McCarthy doll,
ple, all the homes had front steps,
and when I got older I liked going to
about
five to 10, and we would have
the Ohio State football games."
teams. We would throw a ball
Evenings, the family would listen to
against the step and catch it, and you
the radio. "We heard 'Tom Mix' and
could get so many points for each
'The Shadow' and 'The Inner Sanc-
step."
tum,' which was supposed to be
She enjoyed baseball, and movies
scary; it opened with the sound of a
with Shirley Temple and Margaret
squeaky door. We also listened to
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1998
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O'Brien, and walks to the library
"where I would check out books that
my mother would read to me.
On weekends, the family visited
Kensington Park or Cass Lake for
swimming and picnics. "Kensington
was so far away back then," she
says. "Going there was a real adven-
ture."
Today, the Rosenfelds are the par-
ents of Shari Goldstein and Susan
Rosenfeld, who live just around the
corner. The couple are close with their
three grandchildren, Michael, Lauren
and Ryan.
"We do everything together," Mr.
Rosenfeld says. "We go to plays, the
junior symphony, to ball games and
the Cranbrook Science Center. We
love it when our grandchildren come
over to play in our pool; we have
everything here for them, a tree house
and swings."
"Last year we took Michael to the
Rose Bowl," Mrs. Rosenfeld adds.
"We visited Universal Studios and
had dinner at Planet Hollywood.
That's what he really wanted to do,
and while we were there he said,
'This is the most fabulous day of my,„,
whole life."'
Sometimes, Mr. Rosenfeld plays
chess with his grandchildren. Just as
his father taught him how to play, he
now teaches Michael, Lauren and
Ryan. "By the time they were 3,
I Michael and Lauren knew all the
names of the chess pieces," he sayF_:..-7J
I "Now we play together. I still have
the chess set that was my father's, and
that's what we use."
Michael Goldstein of West
Bloomfield, who is in fifth-
grade at Hillel Day School,
says that trip to the Rose --
Bowl was indeed the cat's
meow.
He loves sports, especially the Red
Wings. "I watch hockey and also
play roller hockey," he says, "and I
like football, soccer and basketball."
"I like it when my Grandpa takes
me to this Halloween house where
there are these lights that look like
eyeballs and they put up all this scary
stuff," adds Michael's sister, Lauren
Goldstein, 6, who also attends
Hillel. "It"s awesome."
Lauren enjoys Backgammon with
her grandmother, and like Mrs. Row,2-
feld Lauren likes dolls.
"I have a Brush-Your-Teeth-Baby Cab-
bage Patch doll," she says. "She does-
n't have real toothpaste; she comes
with her own and you can order
more. She doesn't need batteries.
Ryan Rosenfeld, who goes L5
Ealy School, says his favorite
activity with his grandparents
is playing on the computer.
"They're good," he says.
Ryan's hobbies include playing com-
puter games and soccer, watching
"Rugrats" and roller hockey and
Crash. "It has this fox," he says of
Crash (a game), "and there are differ-
ent levels, and you keep getting stuck
in the snowballs. But I never get stuck.
I break them by flipping and kicking."
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