New (well, they're actually pretty old) Pictures!

John Holmes Gordon, Helen Johnstone Preston Gordon and Jean Hastie Gordon (Kresge)

     Hello everyone! I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm in the process of scanning some of the photos we found last Christmas. They're still not organized 100%, but we're well on our way. I've switched all of the photos over to Picasa because I found out Flickr has a really small limit on photos and I already hit it!  So, the link to the Picasa albums is on the right side of this blog...please let me know if it's not working.  Right now they're all public, so you should be able to view them without any sort of password. 
     I'm not sure how to get rid of the "read more" link that's at the end of every post, so if there IS something to continue reading, I'll try to put an ellipsis (like this ... ) after the last word I write. So, if you don't see that, there's probably nothing else to read. :)

     I've been listening to more of the interview tape and will have more to share soon!

     I have an ancestory.com tree started, although it's gotten a little confusing and may not all be linked up properly.  Right now there is a link to it on the right side of this blog, but you can't see living members of the tree without an invite, so if you'd like an invite for that just leave your email address here as a comment or email it to me. 

     Don't forget to send me any information you can share about YOU (and your immediate family members)...birthdays, colleges/graduations, military, middle names, etc...I'd love to include that with all of my other info! Thanks!!!!

Jean Hastie Gordon (Kresge), John Holmes Gordon, Jr.,

Helen Johnstone Preston Gordon, John Holmes Gordon

~Nicole

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Transportation in Edinburgh

This is the next part of the interview:

Mr. Fox: When you were a boy what was the transportation like in Edinburgh?

Papa: Transportation, I remember, the cable car. And I say it’s a hilly city. And the cable car round until after WWI and then they changed over to all electric and between then and now of course the street car rails have been lifted or covered over and buses have taken their place. These are all the city buses and are all double-decker.

Mr. Fox: When you were a boy were there a lot of automobiles or not too many?

Papa: Well, they were just coming in. When I was a boy, horse drawn wagons were the “in” thing. Automobiles were for, well, the better-off people who could afford them and I didn’t see really many automobiles until I came to this country, and it was quite a strange sight to see so many automobiles. In fact, not only was it strange, but the first place I worked had to do with automobiles to a great extent. Dodge, the old Dodge Studebaker and the old Model T Ford, these were made by E. G. Budd, that is, the bodies, and having as part of my earlier apprenticeship as a, with an electrical engineering firm, I had some part of my time spent in tinsmithing. So then the first job I got here was straightening automobile bodies, new, that came off the presses and had been damaged.

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Papa - John Holmes Gordon

Although I was only three when Papa passed away in November of 1983, I still to this day have so many memories of him. We shared a very special bond and I have always felt that Papa is one of the most important people in my life. It is because of this bond and this love that I have always been fascinated with learning more about him and his family, my family...

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