Throwback Thursday-Bob's House

 

All Images from Google earth

We spent our first hour one day this past week, drinking coffee while Bob talked about memories from this home above. His family, parents, 2 son and 3 daughters lived in the half a house, your left.

The moved here in 1941, when Bob was 6 years old, he was the baby of the family. His brother was  14 and the girls were between.

His room was not the two windows with the wreath, but the attic room, you can't see. there were 3 bedrooms, one or the three girls, one for the 2 boys, but Bob chose to live in the attic, because he liked it there.

His dad died when Bob was 16 and Bob  lived there until he was 17.

Across the street was a sewing factory, and his mother worked there every day, and when she went home to cook dinner for 7 people, Bob's dad and the 5 children, went across the street to clean the floors and empty the trash. Bob's job as a 6 year old was sweeping with a push broom all the lint and threads from under the sewing machines. He worked there until he was 16, at age 13 he became a presser, using an iron to press the seams his mother sewed. The factory made men's suits, his mother sewed on the collars and he pressed the seams. 

Bob left the sewing factory at age 16 when his dad died, to take a full time job at a gas station, to help support his mom. His brother had gone in the Army.

In spite of all this, he loved his life. During the summer, the factory closed and Bob went to spend his days at the local swimming pool and played baseball and rode his bike.

In 1998, at age 62, I suggested he retire early, since he had been working from age 6.

Now he has been retired 22 years.

I found these photos on google earth to preserve with his story.

On the FUNNY Side, he married in 1957, his wife was one of 9 children, but had never learned to cook.

He came home from work to find Elaine in tears because she had ruined the spaghetti's sauce.

She did not brown the ground beef, but brought the sauce to a boil and put the raw meat in it.

UCK! 

Another day  he came home to find her in tears again. He had told her to make pigs in  a blanket, by splitting the hotdogs, stuff with cheese, wrap with bacon and use tooth pics to hold the bacon fast and bake in the over.

She fried the bacon crisp, FIRST! and tried to wrap it around the hot dog..

these buildings are almost 100 years old and look in great condition.