This is the American way now!!!!!!!

Sad ,aint it?

Your next visit there, please take a photo of the training track from the 2nd floor window and add it to your website. Seriously, very nice new home. Enjoy............John/Jack

I have 2 Craftsman electric tools "pre-1972". A Jig Saw and a Hand Drill both all metal casing. These belonged to my deceased father-inlaw and given to me by my wonderful mother-inlaw. I never got to meet Andy as he died in a accident in 1972. I only met my wife in 1982. Although the tools still work today, at 37 plus years, I can't lift them for more than 30 seconds at a time for obvious reasons.

"As in any trade, its not the tools that make the tradesman, its the experience that makes the tradesman".

I remember an old man in his 80s that lived next to our house in Hempstead on Booth Street in the early 1950s. He was my neighbor's grandfather and a 19th-century man. He had a '47 Plymouth convertible (yellow) and would invite me into the garage to see what he was doing. He fashioned wood with hand tools into wonderful pieces of furniture. He cut drawer joints by hand jigsaw and horse-glued them so nobody could see the bond or craftsmanship that went into the back end of a freaking drawer. Wood had to finished by hand with the sanding done by hand over time. Mr. Erwin said in his Irish brogue, "You can be dead but the work you do with your hands lives on, Lawrence. Most business papers from the 1800s and 1900s are tossed for nothing but a good thing made from an honest workman can live on."

That was 54 years ago and I was a little boy but I never forgot those words.