Not only do I like your opinions, but I would have liked to have met your grandpa and to have seen his work. God bless!
Why thank you, my friend. That goes double for me.
I wish you'd write a book. I'd buy it and read it in a heart beat. I find your commentary on FR to be some of the best that's posted here, and that includes published authors. It sometimes astonishes me how many excellent writers hang out here, and you are in that cadre.
As for old Granddad's work, he worked for the War Dept. building every imaginable military facility up and down the west coast during WWII. Anything you see on a military base out west from that era would be indicative of the type of work he did. After the war he spent the next couple decades building homes and commercial properties in Los Angeles, but alas, I don't know where any of them are.
Fortunately, my dad has all of my Granddad's old tools. He and his brothers sold off most of the modern equipment after Granddad passed, but the old stuff was precious to them. I think they felt his soul in those implements, and I'm sure it is. I hope to one day inherit at least a couple of them myself for that very reason.
Please keep me on your ping list. I very much enjoy reading your posts.