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Here are a few pictures from my dad's downtown Manhattan office in the 1950s. Anyone have vintage photos to share?
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My father was an electrical engineer, mostly working with control systems for industrial machinery. I found a picture of him from an early job at a company named American Laundry, that made industrial-scale washing machines, like a hotel might use.
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This even earlier one depicts my grandfather (on the left) and is labeled "Otto in Chef School"
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I don't know where the second photo was taken. He did become a chef, and was working in a fancy hotel somewhere of the Gulf Coast of Florida when he met my grandmother, who was working there as a waitress.
The story I was told is that she lied about her age to make herself seem older, and he lied about his age to make himself seem younger, but even with their lied-about ages many people nowadays would find the age difference between them shocking.This photo shows my father (who was probably high school age) next to his two younger brothers, then his mother then his father.
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