Read online book Jennifer Watts - That's the Way It Was : The Life and Times of Standish Curtis Hulse 1906-1997 in DOC, FB2
9780996909709 English 0996909702 That's the Way It Was is a memoir that will transport you back to early 20th century San Jose, where you'll feel the excitement of Buffalo Bill's circus coming to town, browse through a neighborhood market, take a walk through old Chinatown and meet Joe Savio the vegetable man... take a drive in a 1915 Franklin and ride the Red Car out to Alum Rock Park... glimpse an early Kodak photo finishing business and the miracle of radio...Through the eyes of Standish Hulse - a descendent of Myles Standish and Daniel Boone - you'll experience family tragedy, escape to sea on freighters, work in the engine room with the "black gang" and survive shipwrecks and storms... enter into a son's devotion to his mother through twenty years of letters... experience World War II as a superintendent building destroyers for the Navy and commanding an M7 Howitzer tank through Germany in the last days of the war... Live through post-war America as Stan marries, starts a family, and becomes a building contractor in the booming San Francisco bay area of the 1950s... follow Stan as he becomes a resort owner, and then into his retirement where he reconnects with his love of the sea by taking freighter trips with his wife around the world, and a river boat trip down the Amazon... That's the Way It Was is a life story of a man who played his part in the events of the last century and who shares with us his keen observations of "the way it was."
9780996909709 English 0996909702 That's the Way It Was is a memoir that will transport you back to early 20th century San Jose, where you'll feel the excitement of Buffalo Bill's circus coming to town, browse through a neighborhood market, take a walk through old Chinatown and meet Joe Savio the vegetable man... take a drive in a 1915 Franklin and ride the Red Car out to Alum Rock Park... glimpse an early Kodak photo finishing business and the miracle of radio...Through the eyes of Standish Hulse - a descendent of Myles Standish and Daniel Boone - you'll experience family tragedy, escape to sea on freighters, work in the engine room with the "black gang" and survive shipwrecks and storms... enter into a son's devotion to his mother through twenty years of letters... experience World War II as a superintendent building destroyers for the Navy and commanding an M7 Howitzer tank through Germany in the last days of the war... Live through post-war America as Stan marries, starts a family, and becomes a building contractor in the booming San Francisco bay area of the 1950s... follow Stan as he becomes a resort owner, and then into his retirement where he reconnects with his love of the sea by taking freighter trips with his wife around the world, and a river boat trip down the Amazon... That's the Way It Was is a life story of a man who played his part in the events of the last century and who shares with us his keen observations of "the way it was."