The girl’s a grease monkey now!
Bethel Ev. Lutheran ChurchWest End and Keeler Boys were disappearing from neighborhoods in the 1940s as if aliens had come and snatched them away, and in this letter we get a first-hand view of the effect on the [...]
Let’s review the rules
Do you have a sibling who is, well, a bit of a know-it-all? Maybe an older sibling??? Who can’t seem to help chastising, advising, informing, correcting? Does it drive you crazy, even you though you love this person? Well, you’ll [...]
Morse Code!
Freezing temperatures, streets slick as glass, timed Morse code tests. The pressure is on this 18-year-old kid to concentrate harder than he's ever had to before. A lots at stake. This letter from Private Frank Gartz shows us the world [...]
Radio Days Devotion
A radio similar to the one on which my grandmother set Ebner's photo to greet Morning and Night A shrine set atop a radio the the one posted here. In the center, their son's high school graduation picture. [...]
The wartime work schedule
Lillian Gartz executive secretary to Mr. Gibney,president of The Bayer [aspirin] Company Working seven days a week up to twelve hours a day was common for my Dad during the war years. My Mom, Lillian, had long hours too, [...]