[TUHS] Fwd: Re: Fred Grampp

From: Brian Walden <tuhscuzuco.com> Date: January 6, 2024 at 6:25:28 PM EST To: tuhs(a)tuhs.org Subject: [TUHS] Re: Fred Grampp This isn't directly UNIX related, and yes, the thread is 3 years old. But since it made national news last night, probably due to its proximity to Newark Airport. The enormous fire in Elizabeth, NJ, I recognized in the local news as the old Singer factory. That factory was the catalyst that linked me into finding out more on Fred Grampp, and his ancestry. Here's a non-paywalled link that also mentions it is indeed the old Singer factory: https://newjersey.news12.com/elizabeth-nj-fire-industrial-building > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 11:12 AM M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu> wrote: > > Serendipitous find! I hadn't realized that Fred had been the third > generation in the hardware store. > His father ("Pops") retired to Drayton Island in the St Johns River > about 60 miles south of Jacksonville. > Fred often visited him, driving the 19-hour trip in one stint. > > Doug > >> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 6:47 PM Brian Walden <tuhs at cuzuco.com> wrote: >> >> Amazing coincidences. A week prior I was researching Topper Toys >> looking for their old factory ("largest toy factory in the world") >> As there was litte on it's location and it lead me to find out >> in 1961 it took over the old Singer Factory in Elizabeth, NJ. >> So looking up the Singer factory led me to "Elizabeth, >> New Jersey, Then and Now" by Robert J. Baptista >> >> https://ia801304.us.archive.org/11/items/ElizabethNewJerseyThenAndNowSecond… >> >> Which had no information on Topper, but had had this paragraph in it's Singer >> section on page 28 -- >> >> Boys earned money "rushing the growler" at lunchtime at the Singer plant. >> German workers lowered their covered beer pails, called growlers, on ropes >> to the boys waiting below. They earned a nickel by filling them with beer >> at Grampp's saloon on Trumbull St. One of these boys was Thomas Dunn who >> later became a long term Mayor. In the early 1920s Frederick Grampp went >> into the hardware business at the corner of Elizabeth Ave. and Reid St. >> >> >> When I read it I thought funny, as I know the name Fred Grampp. But beleived >> just a coincidenental same name. After reading the biography post, I went back >> to the book as it turns out that Fred Grampp is your Fred Grampps's >> grandfather. You can find more his family and the hardware store and >> Grampp himself on pages 163-164, and 212. >> >> -Brian >> >