From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 7295 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2021 22:48:20 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 15 Mar 2021 22:48:20 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 964D89B69E; Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:48:17 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381379B597; Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:47:47 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 87FD39B597; Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:47:44 +1000 (AEST) Received: from cuzuco.com (v.cuzuco.com [166.84.7.17]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0670D9B595 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:47:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuzuco.com (8.14.9/8.13.3) with SMTP id 12FMkgg1001552; Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:46:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:46:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <202103152246.12FMkgg1001552@cuzuco.com> From: Brian Walden To: Subject: [TUHS] Fred Grampp X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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/ElizabethNewJerseyThenAndNowSecondEdition2015/ElizabethNewJerseyThenNowThirdEditionApril102018607Pages.pdf 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