"Gene" wrote in message
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On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:51:45 -0700, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"Gene" wrote in message
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On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:57:41 -0700, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

Most
came out of the Richmond shipyards.

I hope you mean Norfolk!
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Forté Agent 5.00 Build 1171

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover." - Unknown

Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

Homepage
http://pamandgene.tranquilrefuge.net...at/my_boat.htm



Richmond, California. My dad built Liberty and Victory ships.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ichmond-ca.htm

The Kaiser Hospital system came out of the shipyards. My mom, an RN,
worked
for the 2 docs who started the hospital system. She wanted to work in the
shipyard and not the hospital as the shipyard workers made more money than
nurses.


Interesting! My Dad worked in the Norfolk, VA yards (making Liberty
Ships) until he got the call to go to the Pacific Theatre. My Mom was
a nurse stateside, but she had a lot of (younger) nurse friends that
were in field hospitals in WWII....
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Forté Agent 5.00 Build 1171

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover." - Unknown

Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

Homepage
http://pamandgene.tranquilrefuge.net...at/my_boat.htm



My dad wanted to be a pilot and had a pilots license but since he dropped
out of high school after the 10th grade to help support the family, they
would not let him fly. They were already living in Calif when the war broke
out, and had my brother before moving to Calif.