A little addition to the bio on Sophie Tucker: According to Sophie Tucker's Autobiography "Some of These Days" and the book "The Early Jewish Community of Boston's North End"(by Arnold A Wieder, Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 1962), Sophie lived at 22 Salem Street in Boston for the first eight years of her life. (She attended the Cushman school which was on Parmenter Street). Then the family moved to Hartford and opened a restaurant there.

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