Sam Eig
Sam Eig (c. 1899 – 1982) was an American real estate developer active in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area.
Biography
Eig was born in Smilovichi, Russia (now Belarus) to a Jewish family. In 1914, he immigrated to the United States arriving first in Seattle then New York City and then in Washington D.C.. He worked various jobs as a bellboy, busboy, construction worker, and butcher’s assistant. After a failed investment in a grocery store, he opened a liquor store in 1930s which was successful enabling him to buy a distillery. Using the earnings from this business, he started to invest in real estate in then undeveloped Silver Spring, Maryland. In 1944, he purchased the Silver Spring Shopping Center; and in 1946, he built the Eig Building. Eig was a proponent of further development in Silver Spring and was an active member of the Silver Spring Board of Trade. In the late 1930s, he personally developed 30 housing lots in Rock Creek Forest, after being denied financing from local banks. Aware that people preferred to move to places that were more established, Eig donated land for the construction of community centers and churches including a Red Cross building and Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. Eig was successful and by the late 1940s, his real estate holdings were valued at over $100 million. He later expanded into hotels building the Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg, Maryland in 1957 and the Georgian Motel in Silver Spring in 1961.
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Love You Alive
by: Sam HookIf only my tears hit the ground. You came up, instead of going down, if
Only
Just a hug, or a kiss. A handshake, anything, but I'm standing here, and
You're going down.
I'm on hollow ground, there's like a modern lone.
I know I was wrong
All the lone, is the end of our song, and I wish I could turn back the hand
Of time to bring back a friend of mine today.
Well that does fly away, thoughts of you remain.
Still I wish I could love you alive
Cause no one even thinks that it's logical
It's impossible to love you alive
Cause they think that I'm crazy but they don't know
How far I would go
I'll send you my heart, my mind, my soul
And hope that my wish could get to you
I love you alive, alive, alive... hmm...
I love you alive
(Time to say goodbye)
Nothing left, just regrets.
My heart aches over everything that I never said
I didn't know, so I didn't show
Now I'm standing here, telling you that I was wrong
But you're gone, It's the end of our song, and I wish I could turn back the
Hand of time to bring back a friend of mine today.
Well that does fly away, thoughts of you remain.
Still I wish I could love you alive
Cause no one even thinks that it's logical
It's impossible to love you alive
Cause they think that I'm crazy but they don't know
How far I would go
I'll send you my heart, my mind, my soul
And hope that my wish could get to you
I love you alive, alive... ohh.
If I could love you alive.
Cause no one even thinks that it's logical
It's impossible to love you alive
Cause they think that I'm crazy but they don't know
How far I would go
I give you my heart, my mind, my soul,
And hope that my wish could get to you
I love you alive, alive, alive, mm.
If I could love you alive.
Time to say goodbye
For the people we took for granted
Not knowing time would be so short
We didn't express the way we felt
In fact, we failed
So show our true appreciation
If only I knew
That of all the moments we spent
Only a few, would be remembered through time
Cause in time, memories fade
Life is loss, everything we got would be lost
If you don't lose it, they would lose you