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This page is such a cool find and I hope the person doing research on Progress Radio will contact me. My father and mother Uriel and Lois Bergert owned Progress Radio at the end of WWII. Uriel became sick shortly after and Lois ran the store. They lived in an apartment nearby with son, Byron. Uriel died in 1955, but not before fathering 3 girls (of which I am one) and moving to 7 Hearthstone Rd in Yonkers. The children in the photos on the steps of the castle are (L to R) Uriel Bergert, Ruth Bergert (m. Ettinger) and Aida Bergert (m.Warner). Uriel was 12 when he was brought to the US to live in the castle with several other relatives, sponsored by my great uncle Emmanuel Jacobsohn. They each had apartments and occupied at least 4 of the apartments in the building at various times. Uriel and the two sisters mentioned above came to the US in 1924 after his father (a physician who graduated from the American University in Aleppo) was killed fighting for the Ottoman Empire. Uriel was born in 1912. He sold Progress Radio but the name was kept. It was likely sold around 1952 when Uriel and Lois moved to Florida for Uriel’s health.
