Here Bossy’s grandfather Walt—in the back—shares a moment with a few neighbors and his father, who is standing far right. Walt’s father is emotionally absent, but he works for RCA and so provides young Walt with one important thing: a table-top Victrola featuring a large wooden horn, which Walt promptly uses to play the grooves…
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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…