My dad was a nuclear and chemical engineer. He worked for Pratt Whitney and he was in quality control. He made sure the fan blades were not defected. My mom had an accounting degree, but she stay at home until I was in high school. She played bridge every Wednesday.
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I miss mine, too...1999...age 66, GE Electrical Engineer and Also Nuclear Engineer...39 yrs with GE. Several patents.
Like I said earlier, my Dad was in construction work. And he was handy with a dollar.
Once he was working on the Hippodrome theater in downtown Baltimore. Back in those days, maybe even now I dunno, they had like “cushions” on the walls, I suppose to absorb the sound. My father was always bringing home things from work and so these cushions from the Hippodrome came home. A week later they were on the walls in our living room, rectangular and plump from the stuffing. It was the weirdest living room wall ever.
One time a whole bunch of bathroom tiles, those little things that are normally affixed to some sort of webbing, the tiles attached in a pattern with the webbing allowing them to be glued to the wall in one piece and then comes the tile grout.
Only my Dad’s employer at the time, Baltimore Contractors, wonderful friends of Nancy Pelosi’s father, then mayor of Baltimore, had a bunch of these tile things left out in the rain and the webbing fell off. The construction company threw it out but that night my father brought home three big boxes of little tiny tiles, some rectangular in shape, some diamond shape, some circular. Thousands of these tiny tiles and guess what?
I spent the next two weeks creating a design using little rectangle tiles surrounded by diamond tiles with circular tiles on the outside. This way my father could trowel on the grout, use my design to place the tiles in the grout then grout the insides of the tiles.
Every day, three and a half hours arranging tiles and soon our whole bathroom was covered in them.
Heh.
Memories.
But my father got them all for free. Just a little work is all.
My dad worked for Pratt, yours worked for GE. Did he work in the Aerospace division?
My old man was a career GE guy too. He passed away in 1991, only 62 years old. I miss him.
He had stints in Patterson, NJ, Holland, MI, Brookfield, WI, and Fort Wayne, IN.