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In reply to the discussion: Old people stories are the best! [View all]tavernier
(12,400 posts)47. 20 pies a day, every day, to survive.
I make two at Thanksgiving and bitch all day about having to peel and slice eight apples!
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Many of those bodies were brought here to West Palm Beach and buried. The cemetary had been long
monmouth3
Apr 2014
#62
In 1921 my grandfather, then 20 and a new father, lost his job....He didn't come home that night
Rowdyboy
Apr 2014
#6
Please feel free to pass his story on. He was a wonderful man and I loved him more than my own
Rowdyboy
Apr 2014
#10
My grandfather was president of a small town bank during the '29 stock market crash.
Divernan
Apr 2014
#21
My dad was a big kid, and faked his birth certificate somehow and got his driver's license
Jenoch
Apr 2014
#52
Maybe the reason was his upcoming social security. My first husband did the same thing...LOL..n/t
monmouth3
Apr 2014
#63
I love the oral tradition and the long stories people from back in the day tell.
applegrove
Apr 2014
#33
I can't tell a story. I can't. Plus I can't remember much. She stopped telling them
applegrove
Apr 2014
#36