Digging
up Bones – Part 2
Still
sorting through my files – hard copy. More old photos spill and flutter to the floor.
One of
my dad is I haven’t seen in years. It’s dated 1929 – Aruba, an island in the
Lesser Antilles in the Southern Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela.
Standard
Oil was building a refinery there. Dad was a welder and had signed on for a
year. Good money to be made . . . a long way from home.
Aruba
1929 - Downtown
Not many places to spend money. Lots of room to build back
then.
Aruba
2012
Downtown
Dad came home loaded
and paid cash for a brand new fire-engine-red convertible.
Too bad he didn’t buy some land when he was there.
Bruce, what wonderful memories! I have never been to Aruba but my middle daughter dated a young man from there when she was in college. She made the trip and absolutely loved it! Very, very different from America per Niki:>)
ReplyDelete