Stories Archives - Albuquerque Genealogical Society https://abqgen.org/category/stories/ A Non-Profit Organization Founded in 1972 Fri, 17 Feb 2023 16:37:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://abqgen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-favicon-32x32.jpg Stories Archives - Albuquerque Genealogical Society https://abqgen.org/category/stories/ 32 32 AGS Grandparents at Work | Radio https://abqgen.org/blog/old-photos/ags-grandparents-at-work-2/ Fri, 19 Aug 2022 17:18:40 +0000 https://abqgen.org/?p=6372 by AGS member Michael Wilson My grandfather, Leonard Wilson, was an early radio-station operator in Colorado. In 1928, he built radio station KGIW in Trinidad, Colorado, for his employer at the time, the Trinidad Creamery Company. The owner of the Creamery, Jack Jacobsen, thought that radio would be a good way for him to get […]

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]]> AGS Grandparents at Work | Saloon Keeper, Switch board operator, Switch-engine engineer | Duplicate Bridge Teacher https://abqgen.org/blog/old-photos/ags-grandparents-at-work/ Thu, 04 Aug 2022 23:14:13 +0000 https://abqgen.org/?p=6239 by AGS member Rosemary McNerney Winkler The Saloon Owner The Switch-Engine Engineer His wife, Pansy Woodward Tischhauser, taught Duplicate Bridge for many years. A Bridge team consists of four players. They are split into two pairs, and one pair sits North-South on one table while the other sits East-West on a second. A second team […]

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