Barry wife is my mom best friend and I am a close friend of their family because I got to see Barry Zekelman and Stephenie Zekelman together at Phoenix, Arizona to see my good old friend Julian and my mom and myself got to go out to eat with them and talk about business and at the end Barry Zekelman told me to pursue what you love 💕
I was a very close friend to Barry as a kid. I don't know him as an adult, but only as a young child attending Roseland Public School on Cabana Road. Back around 1975 or 1976 we would hang out at his place listening to Cheech and Chong or KISS records. He loved Gene Simmons. Or burning around on his dirt bike. Even then he had a very competative spirit and didn't like to come in second place. Whether it was a game of marbles or just submitting an art project in class, he had to be number one. On dress down day he had to have the most outrageous, messed up, tattered clothes. I have met his entire family and would attend birthday parties for school chums and the like. I have many boyhood memories but can't recall when he actually moved on and left Roseland. What a legacy. :)
