The Old Folks Home

[bruceha2000]

My grandfather -- H.R. Angwin -- was the chief design engineer for that tunnel!

Very cool! No one in my history did anything of note though both of DW's grandfathers did. Nothing as impressive as H.R. Angwin though! He was quite productive.

@bruceha2000 so, how long until your wife can get tested?

I just got to have a long talk with a nurse about covid exposure.

Supposedly (but, yeah right, still very little data), if a person sick with Covid (so, symptoms and tests positive) gets close to person A, person A will NOT get anyone else sick within the first 24 hours after exposure.

So.... as long as, in that first 24 hours after exposure, person A falls into a dark hole and never looks at other humans, person A will infect zero.

So.... depending on how good you can quarantine in the same house.... you "should" be fine.

Waiting on the tests taken yesterday on the Manager and the worker at DW's location that the Manager helped. Workers at the other location also being tested I guess. If either of them test positive, DW can get tested. I suspect I could then as well.

DW has looked at us but she is pretty much in a dark hole. Stays in one part of the house when she isn't at work. We all have been eating dinner outside on the deck making sure she is > 6' away and down wind. That won't work well in the rain tomorrow though so we'll just spread out in the house. She is being super extra careful both at work and home.

He had four kids (3 boys; 1 girl)

I guess this article on the bridge missed a couple of boys, is Robert your father or uncle?
Bridge article

 

[microchick]

Morning all.

Peep,you have a VERY impressive family lineage.

My most noteworthy relative is the one that escaped from prison and nobody ever came to look for him! No lie! He was an uncle. Strange strange family to say the least.

93 degrees here today and outrageous humidity. It's already 82 and the humidity 79%. I'm going to set up a fan for the chooks and then stay inside as much as possible. Storms tonight and tomorrow and then cooler weather. Finally.

 

[sourland]

My paternal grandfather started life as an indentured ships boy. Ended up as a captain for Exxon/Esso. There's a 'Hugh Wallace' museum in Port Jefferson, LI, NY.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Okay here ya go 3 out now 1 almost then 3 zipped

 

[ShrekDawg]

Morning all.

Peep,you have a VERY impressive family lineage.

My most noteworthy relative is the one that escaped from prison and nobody ever came to look for him! No lie! He was an uncle. Strange strange family to say the least.

93 degrees here today and outrageous humidity. It's already 82 and the humidity 79%. I'm going to set up a fan for the chooks and then stay inside as much as possible. Storms tonight and tomorrow and then cooler weather. Finally.

Oh wow! What was he in for!?

 

[ShrekDawg]

One of our relatives on my dad’s side participated in the Boston Tea Party! he also knew Paul Revere and I’m pretty sure was in the Revolutionary War. I think he ended up a Captain. And he was also a ship builder and mason. Then my dad’s great uncle founded Ocean Spray. We didn’t get anything from it though hahah

 

[Peep_Show]

bruceha2000 --
Yes, that particular article got the progeny inconsistently. The eldest son was Bruce, then twins Robert and Joy (Joy died at childbirth), then my dad and 7 years later baby sister Joyce. All three boys served in WWII in varying capacities (the aforementioned uncle designing the Bomb), one a medic, and one a sniper MP. I've got Grams' scrapbook full of photos and newspaper clippings about the boys during the war and their anticipated arrival home, plus Dad's scrapbook.
H.R. Angwin also designed bridges in CA, Oregon and Alaska. His last work was the Glen Canyon Bridge and Dam in Arizona. Besides the Bay Bridge, his most iconic work is the Bixby Creek Bridge in Big Sur.

Here's a partial list of his Oregon bridges: https://bridgehunter.com/category/b...izkQZAlzdU01zqUCT9iYYLVK4eGqnto2In8Gtvkl1sBek

Gram's claim to fame was she was in the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco as a child. They had just come via train from El Paso and were staying at a hotel when it hit. Her mother was so shook up and traumatized and hysterical in the street and that she had to be hospitalized. (Probably didn't want to come to CA in the first place.) The family were Stevensons (large CA land tract owners) for whom the Stevenson Bridge (Yolo County, CA) is named for. [Bet Ron has been there!]

Mom's side of the family is equally interesting as her grandfather served in the Civil War -- lots of interesting artifacts -- and then was a CA oilfield wildcatter when he emigrated west, but generally blew all his wealth on bad investments (like the shipping boat that sank on its first or second voyage), bad stocks and card games. He had seven children (not all were upstanding citizens...Mom's uncle was ran out of town a couple of times.) We traced Mom's geneology back to the early 1700's or so... Shipbuilders and town founders in Connecticut and German immigrant farmers in Pennsylvania. I think I'm a throwback to the latter.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We do know now that Britton side of the family came here as indentured servants also fought on the civil war but ran a secret tunnel for Blacks to get out be free

 

[ronott1]

Yep!
He was given the option of working on Hoover Dam, but Grams didn't want to take her passel of kids to live in the then-nonairconditioned desert, so he opted for Bridges and Tunnels on the coastal states. He lived in Piedmont (border of Oakland, CA) and spent many years working for Kaiser/Bechtel. He designed/engineered the S.F./Oakland Bay Bridge, among others.
He was a real quiet man (well, couldn't get a word in edgewise around Grams), loved baseball and always had his pocket transistor tuned to a game, smoked like a chimney. Got severe emphysema but ultimately died of a stroke.
He had four kids (3 boys; 1 girl) and one of his sons went on to the Oppenheim Project in Los Alamos during WWII and then later was a designer for Westinghouse. Several grandkids picked up his engineering genes, working for Cadence, designing for Tesla, working for Livermore Labs and LANL. Those that didn't go into tinkering ended up predominantly as teachers.

Nice bit of Family History!

Were any of them teaching engineers?

 

[ronott1]

Good old fashioned road map might have come in handy.

Yes!

We need to get a new one or two