Joe-Dirt
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- Jan 18, 2018
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Back in 1926 my grandmother, grandfather and father immigrated to the US from post WWI Germany and settled in northern New Jersey. My grandfather was a veteran of the Kaiser’s horse drawn artillery and took up stone masonry as a trade here in the states. My grandmother had another child after moving here (my aunt Helen) and they started
To carve out their American dream. In 1930, my grandfather was working in New York City on a sky scraper construction project when he fell to his death. This obviously shattered my grandmother leaving her to save as much money (in cash) as she possible could. She often thought of life in post war Germany and how the inflation completely destroyed the economy and how hard it made every day life. When she passed away in 1982 she left my dad some coins. Before my dad’s passing in 2016 he left them to my oldest brother and he just tossed them in a basket in his kitchen were I have seen them languishing with sun glasses, car keys and old books of matches. Anyway, on my birthday last month, he asked if I needed anything and I asked if I could buy one of the coins from him, he said “ you can have them”😉👍🏻 And he mailed them up to me along with a two cent piece and a large cent that have been missing from my collection since my folks move to Florida in the early 1990’s.
Thought maybe some of you would like to see them, I wish I could dig some just like them.
Be safe
To carve out their American dream. In 1930, my grandfather was working in New York City on a sky scraper construction project when he fell to his death. This obviously shattered my grandmother leaving her to save as much money (in cash) as she possible could. She often thought of life in post war Germany and how the inflation completely destroyed the economy and how hard it made every day life. When she passed away in 1982 she left my dad some coins. Before my dad’s passing in 2016 he left them to my oldest brother and he just tossed them in a basket in his kitchen were I have seen them languishing with sun glasses, car keys and old books of matches. Anyway, on my birthday last month, he asked if I needed anything and I asked if I could buy one of the coins from him, he said “ you can have them”😉👍🏻 And he mailed them up to me along with a two cent piece and a large cent that have been missing from my collection since my folks move to Florida in the early 1990’s.
Thought maybe some of you would like to see them, I wish I could dig some just like them.
Be safe
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