Throwback Thursday - The Notebooks

Dad's father, Achille, nicknamed Archie Todisco

To clear up some confusion, the Notebook passages posted on Throwback Thursday were written by my father and found by me after he passsed away. They were his attempt to tell the family history. He was in his late 80s or early 90s when he wrote them. Today's chapter:

From my birth [ed: 1919] to 1929 things went well for my father. He was a journeyman custom tailor and made good money. Like a lot of people of that day he did not have anything to do with banks. He set aside savings in his own pocket. Probably kept his savings under the mattress which was the custom and had at least one hundred cash on his person.

Until I was old enough to go on my own my father took me with him, to visit aunts, uncles and I remember he took me to the theater in the North End. Actually it was more of an opera house. We had seats up front. All I remember was singing with live actors and actresses and shooting. The name I did not know.

He did not take my brother Mario or Olga or Emma. By the time that they were able to go things began to go [ed: The Depression]. It was no big deal for me, most of the time it was all adults. No other children around.