On the Phone w/Stash's Office and Shoshi: Being Avoided 1982
Channel: JAM Works Presents
Date: 2023-06-25

An unsuccessful attempt to reach Stanley Weinberg a.k.a. Stash at his office, and support from my friend Shoshi, from when I was working as porn actor Alan Adrian. Stash runs Hudson Communications, in partnership with George Mavety of Modernismo. Hudson Communications is in the business of creating editorial content for adult magazines distributed to adult book stores (through Reuben Sturman). Modernismo is in the business of publishing several adult newsstand magazines (including Honcho, Playguy, Juggs, and Leg Show.) Shoshi referred me to Stash for help finding full time work on the business side of adult magazine publishing. Now that I am going to start a new job with Warner Publisher Services, a national magazine distributing company, I want to let Stash know. But Stash seems to be avoiding me, and Shoshi confirms that he is. Recorded in New York City of March 23, 1982.

About the name Stash:

Per Wikipedia: In Polish, the name Stanisław has the following common diminutives: Stach, Stan, Stańko, Staś, Stasio, Stasiek, Staszek. By 15th century the following diminutives were recorded: Stachnię, Stachnik, Stachno, Stachosz, Stachura, Stacher, Stachyr, Stachyra, Stasz, Staszak, Staszeczko, Staszek, Staszel, Stasiu. Many of them turned into family names.

Per Ancestry dot com: Is Stash a Polish name? Americanized form of Polish Staś or its variant Stasz Slovak and Czech Staš (see Stas ) and their Germanized form Stasch. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

I believe these diminutives of the name Stanisław are the source of Stanley Weinberg's nickname Stash. I have been told that I am spelling his name incorrectly, that it should be Stosh. But recently, someone who knew him very well spelled it Stash. So I do not believe that I am spellling it incorrectly. Possibly, many people called him Stosh, and he did not correct them.

Stanley Weinberg a.k.a. Stash passed away circa 2000.