Armed guard on the NYC subway system’s “money train” (father’s father)
Remember the Wesley Snipes movie “Money Train”? That USED to be a real thing, though Grandpa just called it “the money CAR.” It used to go to all the subway stations at night to collect all the day’s receipts.
Note that nobody dared Rob the money train while MY grandpa worked on it!
Armed guard on the NYC subway system’s “money train” (father’s father)
Partner in a local drayage company (paternal grandfather)
Mining engineer (maternal grandfather)
One of his fingers was crooked from having been caught in the door of a mine elevator. For some years he worked in a gold mine and when the film “Coal Miner’s Daughter” came out, family members joked that my mom was “the gold miner’s daughter.”
astorian, I never realized that the money train/car was a real thing!
Armed guard on the NYC subway system’s “money train” (father’s father)
Partner in a local drayage company (paternal grandfather)
Mining engineer (maternal grandfather)
Peppermint farmer (maternal grandfather)
Restaurant owner/operator (maternal grandfather)
Elementary school teacher (maternal grandmother)
Rodeo photographer (mother’s father)
Railyard manager (paternal grandfather)
His occupation was deemed a critical skill so he was refused when he tried to enlist in the military for WWII. The townspeople did not understand why this healthy man of fighting age was not in the military so he caught no end of grief.
Armed guard on the NYC subway system’s “money train” (father’s father)
Partner in a local drayage company (paternal grandfather)
Mining engineer (maternal grandfather)
Peppermint farmer (maternal grandfather)
Restaurant owner/operator (maternal grandfather)
Elementary school teacher (maternal grandmother)
Rodeo photographer (mother’s father)
Railyard manager (paternal grandfather)
Marble miner (mother’s father)
Storekeeper / owner (paternal grandmother)
She was widowed in her mid-30s when my grandfather was drowned in a shipwreck, and she took over his store and business.
It looks like not too many of our grandmothers worked outside their homes?
