Holes in My Shoes

Holes In My Shoes is an awardwinning documentary feature film. It chronicles the life of Jack Beers, covering 94 years of his life from 1910 to 2004.

He grew up in extreme poverty in the Lower East Side of New York City, born in his parents cold water apartment on East 6th Street. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Austria. He sold newspapers on the corner of Avenue B and 10th Street and played in Tompkins Square Park. Beers and his siblings took many jobs as kids to support the starving family. They had potatoes and potato soup every day. They gathered fallen coal from the coal truck to keep the house warm. He hadbrothers Manny, Julius and Hy, and one sister, Lilian.Beers trained from a young boy in Tompkins Square Park. While working for a weight training company, he met one of its board members, Jack Dempsey. He went to Coney Island as a teenager and studied under Warren Lincoln Travis. Athe was performing shows in clubs and theaters, most famously at The Lambs Club near Times Square, performing to film stars of the time. He was on the cover of New York City newspapers and was labelled as New York Citys Strongest Boy. ........

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