For the balloons and superglue, we lived at the time in a building that was not in good repair. Just before we were going to have a party, one of the pipes in the bathroom developed a small leak and began spraying water across the room. So, we wrapped it in balloons and covered it with superglue. The pipe eventually needed to be replaced, but it held for the party.
My grandfather died in 1935 during "the Great Depression". Economic times were very hard. He was the doctor in a small farming town in the north. The people of the town had no money to pay for his services, so traded him farm goods instead. This worked out well until he needed an operation and had no cash to pay any other doctor to do it. He ended up in a hospital, but died anyhow. (The whole story is much longer.) Because of this, he died in great debt and the house needed to be sold to pay it. My grandmother moved back with her family. My father and his sister were at college at the time and stayed there instead of going home. The house has changed hands several times over the last 80 or so years since that happened. I don't know who owns it now. One of my dreams, if I ever make a huge amount of money, is to go and buy it back. But, it is very far from where I live now (about a 7 hour drive) and I really can't afford to keep a house so far away I wouldn't use. And, jobs there are not really that much better than 80 years ago...
Lou died of a heart problem when he was only about 35 years old. He had surgery to try and fix the problem, but it did not work. It was very sad as he had two young daughters when it happened.
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So, we wrapped it in balloons and covered it with superglue. The pipe eventually needed to be replaced, but it held for the party.
My grandfather died in 1935 during "the Great Depression". Economic times were very hard. He was the doctor in a small farming town in the north. The people of the town had no money to pay for his services, so traded him farm goods instead. This worked out well until he needed an operation and had no cash to pay any other doctor to do it.
He ended up in a hospital, but died anyhow. (The whole story is much longer.)
Because of this, he died in great debt and the house needed to be sold to pay it. My grandmother moved back with her family. My father and his sister were at college at the time and stayed there instead of going home.
The house has changed hands several times over the last 80 or so years since that happened. I don't know who owns it now.
One of my dreams, if I ever make a huge amount of money, is to go and buy it back. But, it is very far from where I live now (about a 7 hour drive) and I really can't afford to keep a house so far away I wouldn't use. And, jobs there are not really that much better than 80 years ago...
Lou died of a heart problem when he was only about 35 years old. He had surgery to try and fix the problem, but it did not work. It was very sad as he had two young daughters when it happened.