Charles Irwin Bernstein

I've just learned of Chuck's death, having run a Google search to see if there was any recent news of him. I am so sorry to hear of his passing. I met Chuck in the 70s, not long after he first opened the Kite Site. My sister's first husband Phil and I had recently been bitten by the kite bug, enough so that we started our own small kite making company. The very first kite shop to ever carry our products was the Kite Site, both in the Georgetown location and in Ocean City, NJ. Chuck was a...

In the late 70's, we had a party at our house and invited Chuck because we loved him and he was always a good time. Back then, Chuck was selling Mylar balloons at the Kite Site, which were quite new on the scene. Prior to that, balloons were made of rubber. He wanted to bring these new balloons to the party so he blew them up and stuffed them into a large black garbage bag to contain them for his journey to our house near Friendship Heights. He didn't have a car in those days, so he got...

I´m sure I first met my cousin Chuck when I was a toddler. His mother (Marion) was my mother´s sister (Judy Peyser Stander Gortikov Lainhart). Our family lived in Hollywood, CA and his family lived in Illinois. His dad was called "Mike" which was short for Myron, and he was a superior veterinarian. When I was 17 or 18 I spent a summer with Chuck, Sue, and their parents in Glencoe, IL working for Uncle Mike in his animal hospital. Fast forward about 62 years. My wife Kathy and were...

Chuck and I met when we were 5 ½ years old. At his and Lynn´s wedding I had the opportunity to share childhood stories of some of the more fun, unusual and telling moments from those early years. Afterwards, a number of folks came up to me and said that the fellow they had met at later moments in his adult life was exactly the same as the character from the childhood stories. You bet. I like Lynn´s telling of the pineapple-on-pizza story, not because of the pineapple predilection - a,...