American History

... Goodyear had a company police detail that had as one of it's duties to hunt him down on Monday mornings. They would hit every Kenmore saloon until they found the one where he was sleeping: on the floor, on the pool table, on the bar and bring him in so he could layout the production for that week. He designed the tooling for the machines that made the first Sebring buke box that held more than 10 records. I have a table and lamp he made at home from a cherry tree that fell on his property. He was a natural born mechanic. His gardens and fruit trees were productive.

My grandmother went to work for Seiberling in WWII, "siping" tires, and working on a beading machine that made the wire circle that made rubber tires seal on modern rims. She did that until 64 or 65.