That’s Bossy’s grandfather in the center. He’s 5-year-old Walt, and this was the year he went to live with his grandparents. He doesn’t know it yet, but growing up in this household is the best thing that could ever happen to him. As his elbow indicates, this is mostly due to his grandfather Adrian on…
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The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
The man on the left is Walter and he’s a machinist at a fledgling radio company—RCA—and that’s his wife Pauline. Maybe some midwife forgot to slap Walter’s hiney when he entered the world, because he’s kind of a dullard. Pauline is not—she was a nurse during World War 1 but now that she’s married to…
The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
Meanwhile across town—this man. He’s the Chief of Police and one hell of a bird fancier. Here he’s holding a Ringneck Pheasant but he was famous for his award-winning Carrier Pigeons. Raised in a small river town, he is an upstanding guy. As a young man he and his brother were crewmen on a four-masted…