"Carl:
My grandfather worked in the glass industry. He was an interesting man with a great sense of humor. He had a collection of pipes and I remember the sweet smell of pipe tobacco smoke filling his house when we would visit. He and my father would play gin rummy all day. The adults would also play mahjong at night on a beautiful old ivory mahjong set while I quietly watched from the top of the steps when I was supposed to be in bed asleep. I hope one of my sisters has that set now.
He also had a huge RCA vacuum tube radio that was like a highly polished piece of art nouveau furniture that he would spend hours tuning and listening to programs. I don't know what happened to it but I sure wish I had it.
Funny thing is, I always remembered him being old and ancient until a few years ago when I had all our 8mm family movies transferred to videotape. And there was Papa, white hair and all, riding a bicycle up and down the driveway doing tricks...standing on the seat and such and having a ball.
I also kept some beautiful carving sets...stag handles and carbon steel. If anyone is interested in seeing those, let me know and I'll post some pics.
Thanks folks for your interest."
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Thanks for the look into your grandfathers life. It's easy to see from the blade wear the two favorites of his. He got a lot of milage out of that UC and Schrade. I've always found it interesting how our grandfathers got by so well in a very active life with a normal little pocket knife. No tactical one hand opening, no large lock open blade, weird blade shapes. And I'd bet that radio would be a heck of a nice thing to have today. Back then even a radio was put into a nice cabinet that showed a pride of both ownership and manufacture. A whole different era.
Do you have any of his pipes?
Carl.
