[atc23]

My grandfather (b. 1884)was quite the carpenter in his day and went to SF looking for work immediately after the quake. He found quite a bit of work restoring Victorian homes of the days 1%’ers ;-)

After 6 months he got a little bored, went down to the port and signed on to a 3 masted schooner heading to Hong Kong to build bridges in Hong Kong harbor.

The captain of the ship made him the ships carpenter and “dentist” - “dentist” because he was apparently the only man onboard with a decent set of pliers.

[Buddygirl]

You didn’t finish your story. Are you living in America? Did your Grandfather come back to America? Tell us more!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

My dad was born in 1906 near Seattle. As a young man, he accompanied his father to Shanghai where they worked for Otis Elevator Company. He was hooked on Asia and returned as a pilot for China National Airlines Company, owned by American Airlines, and flew much of Asia and down into Indonesia.
Later, in his mid 30s, he joined the American war effort in the China-Burma-India Campaign, flying C-46s over the Hump as a civilian pilot.