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Beekman Paper Company Inc. – Varick Street – Soho, NYC

Apr 10th, 2008
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Beekman Paper Company Inc. - Varick

Beekman Paper Company Inc. - Varick
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Posted in: NYC, Paper Products, Soho NYC.

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7 Comments

  1. JOHN WEIMAR says:
    March 13, 2009 at 3:36 am

    I started my paper career here in 1964 !

    1. Deborah K says:
      March 27, 2012 at 6:34 pm

      My father worked for Beekman for over 40 years. Including when you started until almost the end. Any memories of Herbert Hausman?

      1. Dianne Berns says:
        April 29, 2012 at 5:32 pm

        Hi Deborah,

        I knew your father. My husband Mel Berns who worked at Beekamn also for many years spoke of him often about how nice a person and how good a salesman he was. I was shocked when I heard Beekman closed. Beekman was once a major company in its field when Ted Greenberg and Nat Poli ran it. Do you know what happened?

        Dianne

        1. Deborah Klein says:
          May 2, 2012 at 6:45 pm

          Good Afternoon Dianne,

          My dad left Beekman and worked at a larger firm in Long Island City for about three years before he retired. I know he would never have willingly left Beekman after over 40 years with them without realizing that they were on the way out.

          I faintly remember Nat Poli, but it was Peter Poli, his son, that I knew best. From listening to Dad, who never had a bad word to say about anyone, he wasn’t the “businessman” that his father and grandfather had been. Translation – the paper business was definitely in transition and if you didn’t know it inside and out, you weren’t going to last. To do things “the old way” wasn’t going to cut it. The Paper Industry, as well as Printing all seem to have moved from NY. I don’t think Beekman closing was a drastic thing, it just couldn’t continue to compete in the market.

          I wish he was still around so I could show this to him. He loved working at Beekman and with the people there, and I don’t think he realized that he would live on in a lot of memories.

          Thank you so much for writing!

          – Deborah

  2. allen kaplan says:
    June 30, 2010 at 11:35 am

    i remember you,you were a natural for this business.remember the sherriff he sat by the index cards.i got canned from that job.i am now retired for the past several years from a limo business which we are still partners married for 41 years with 2 children and grand sons.lv to here from you allen, we still live in ny

  3. Mr Reiss says:
    September 16, 2011 at 3:08 am

    My Grandfather Was a Great Friend and Business Assosiate Of Mr. Harry Backman. My Grandfather is Morris Reiss also Known asd Murray C Reiss. Im Pretty Sure He Did Great Things Considering He Was The President and CEO Of Parrish Pres,Reiss Paper Co,and Worked With Standard Poor Publishing Company. I have Extensive Personal Art and Lithography From Graphic Arts,Advertising, and Even Very Personal Coorespondence Between The Two,So If You Have any Information regarding The Company and The envolvment Of My Grandfather,I Would love To Know as Im Having My Publisher Help me Write a Book about Him,I Did Not know Him But I bet The World Did as he was a major Success in Helping This Country What it is Today With regards To Advertising,Stocks,etc.
    Please Get back To me regarding This matter as again I Would love To make Contact With anyone Who Knew or Might Or heard Of Mr Morris Reiss.
    Thank You For Your Time.
    Mr Reiss Jr

  4. Randy Ceaser Jr. Reiss says:
    August 7, 2012 at 4:22 pm

    It Seems The photos at The Latin Quarter and Copa-Follies,Stork,etc With Harry Beekman-Backman,Mrs. Arline.R Gibson,Mrs.Siebert,Murray Reiss,Ethel Reiss,MY GRANDPARENTS are Starting To Add Up. Oh and I Heard The Real reason For the Company Going Out Of Business is Because Power Trips Started To Go To Certain Peoples Heads-Brains,So Due To The Major Confrontation Between Owners and Investors,The People From STanderd and Poors,as Well as many Other OrganisaTIONS With That Magnitude Started To Notice,Next Thing You Know My Grandfather Told My Grandmother Mr Backman Will Be Leaving to Mexico at The Time His Busines Closes,as far as I Know He Came Back and Lived a Wealthy Life,My Grandfather Did Not Stick around Long enough For Him and I To Meet,But He Was an Extremely Busy-Powerful Individual and Truly Was The King Of Advertising in NewYork in the 1950s Worldwide. Teaming Up With My Grandmother in Law,Jean Johanna Tatle Reiss,They Were Like Bonnie and Clyde on Steroids,LOL,She Is Alive Still and Resides With Arnie Arnesen and Murial Siebert,That I Just Found Out a Few Weeks ago,She Had a Lot to Do With Everything,But Ethel Reiss Was The Queen Who Kept Secrets about How Bad Things Would Evolve When You Run a Company Of That Magnitude:) This Is How I Became Street Smart,Stories From The People Who Ran NewYork in those Days are My Direct Family So I Thank You For Posting this and The reiss Family Still Is In Operation Incase The Next Generations want to Team Up and Re Open Our Own New Companies.
    PS. I Will Be Posting Pictures of Beekman and Reiss on Myspace at RLRBLUESBAND