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Old 02-26-2014, 10:17 AM   #6
SkimmerBob
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Default Re: Met a Ford worker

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When I was 19 I got a job in a "screw machine shop" packing the parts in boxes. I worked 1 on 1 with this "Old Man" (he must a been all of 55) , He had about 1 years worth of stories from growing up on the farm during the depression to begging his parents to let him go to war(WWII) Doing the math I think he was born in about 1927. He had several Model A stories but the one that got me was, His dad had him get his drivers license on his 12th birthday to chauffeur him and his mother around because dad didn't want to learn how to drive with that new transmission. I wish i would have written all his stories down so many were great windows into the past.
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