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What did your Grandparents Do?
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joecoin
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Paternal Grandfather was a banker and real estate agent. Lost his job during FDR's bank holiday. 3 banks in town, he worked for the one owned by Republicans, that bank didn't reopen, the other two did. So, he was able to get a job at one of the other ones when they reopened. Meanest man I ever met. Died when I was 10.
His wife (my Grandmother) didn't "work" but was a wheeler dealer. Dabbled in real estate and the stock market. Wonderful woman with a sense of independence. She bought the rural land we live now on, she turned it into a garden.
Maternal grandfather worked for the railroad, had served in the balloon corps in WW1. Day after Pearl Harbor he and his 2 sons enlisted (he was 40 years old). They sent him to Iran to run trains. One of his sons was killed in Italy (plane crash). Other son was Marine in the Solomons. He died when I was 7, I remember him as being a very funny guy. I know he drank a bit.
His wife (my Grandmother) was the jewel in my childhood. Wonderful down home hillbilly woman who was very polite but didn't take any crap. Worked at a local drug store as a clerk. Got me my first job there . Took me in when I was being stupid in life, helped me get straightened out.
His wife (my Grandmother) didn't "work" but was a wheeler dealer. Dabbled in real estate and the stock market. Wonderful woman with a sense of independence. She bought the rural land we live now on, she turned it into a garden.
Maternal grandfather worked for the railroad, had served in the balloon corps in WW1. Day after Pearl Harbor he and his 2 sons enlisted (he was 40 years old). They sent him to Iran to run trains. One of his sons was killed in Italy (plane crash). Other son was Marine in the Solomons. He died when I was 7, I remember him as being a very funny guy. I know he drank a bit.
His wife (my Grandmother) was the jewel in my childhood. Wonderful down home hillbilly woman who was very polite but didn't take any crap. Worked at a local drug store as a clerk. Got me my first job there . Took me in when I was being stupid in life, helped me get straightened out.
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bunyip
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Paternal grandfather was a shale miner and I have no idea how that worked, maternal grandfather a farmer and had a business in England and Canada, also a wife and family in England and Canada as we all discovered when he died.
mapper
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Both my grandfathers and one grandmother passed away before I was born. The one grandmother was a very distant and fairly cold personality, not particularly grandmotherly if you get my drift. My mother's dad was a chiropractor with really itchy feet, they moved all over southern Idaho while my mom was growing up, poor as churchmice according to my mom.
My dad's father was a cabinetmaker in Emmett Idaho fairly prosperous but not rich. I do have a great many of my grandfathers wood working hand tools, some of which I use, some are more of a treasured curiosity whose function has been replaced by more modern tools ( ever tried to form a molded edge with a Stanley #55 multi plane :laughing
My dad's father was a cabinetmaker in Emmett Idaho fairly prosperous but not rich. I do have a great many of my grandfathers wood working hand tools, some of which I use, some are more of a treasured curiosity whose function has been replaced by more modern tools ( ever tried to form a molded edge with a Stanley #55 multi plane :laughing
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One was a carpenter for NYC. The other a union wood lather.
QRTRHRS
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My grandfather on my father's side had a gas/service station but he sold it when he had a heart attack at the age of 50. Took up selling insurance out of his house and tended his huge double dug garden into his 70's. Not my favorites, he was grumpy and my grandmother was what we termed a "hard headed PA German". Nasty!
My mother's parents were the greatest. I know that before the war, one of my grandfather's jobs was a constable. During WWII, they moved to Dover, NJ when he went to work as a machinist for the Picatinny Arsenal. He was also a self taught gun smith which he continued to do after retiring from the arsenal until well into his 60's or 70's until the area he lived in became too dangerous to have that many guns around. I can remember taking the train to visit and being enthralled at his "long gun" room where he had guns lined up in a vertical position all the way around the room.
Both grandmothers were homemakers.
My mother's parents were the greatest. I know that before the war, one of my grandfather's jobs was a constable. During WWII, they moved to Dover, NJ when he went to work as a machinist for the Picatinny Arsenal. He was also a self taught gun smith which he continued to do after retiring from the arsenal until well into his 60's or 70's until the area he lived in became too dangerous to have that many guns around. I can remember taking the train to visit and being enthralled at his "long gun" room where he had guns lined up in a vertical position all the way around the room.
Both grandmothers were homemakers.
joecoin
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How cool is that? How wold you even begin to do something like that?
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My mom's parents were farmers that helped raise me. We grew tobacco for a money crop. Everything else was consumed or bartered. We had cows, pigs, and chickens. We also grew vegetables, watermelon, peanuts, and corn. My grandfather taught me how to drive a tractor when I was 8 and a truck when I was 12. He was the father figure in my life and probably the best person I've ever known.
My father was a wife abusing drunk as was his father before him. I think photography ran in their family. Thank goodness my mom left him after he bashed her teeth in while she was pregnant with me. I am also thankful the low life never had any contact with me. I later connected with a cousin on his side and learned some of the family history. He died of cirrhosis at 48.
My father was a wife abusing drunk as was his father before him. I think photography ran in their family. Thank goodness my mom left him after he bashed her teeth in while she was pregnant with me. I am also thankful the low life never had any contact with me. I later connected with a cousin on his side and learned some of the family history. He died of cirrhosis at 48.
