I think he would have liked most of my ironwork, and might also have been proud to know that I often use some of his old tools in working on these pieces.

Circa 1955, proud father and sons David (left) & John. Usually, pictures were taken during family gatherings, which happened a lot, often at dad's sisters', Aunt Marie, home, over on Academy Ave. in the Mount Pleasant section of Providence, RI.

This is a picture of Uncle Christy (Rendine), my dad and me down in Newport RI, inspecting one of the leftover navy vessels, circa 1965.

Giovanni and Margaret visiting Washington in time for the annual cherry blossom display. Dad's sister, Aunt Lucy, lived in a Maryland suburb where my parents would stop over on their annual Snowbird migration to south Florida.

These are two of Dad's tools from Brown & Sharpe. The "tri-square" above, is a precision machinist's tool with hardened steel scale. I think I've actually used it to scrape paint and it never blinked. Note the hole at the right end of the scale. This signifies that dad fished this out of a scrap bin, drilled a hole in it and then sent it to be hardened. I think.

Below is a section of a one-foot long satin finish stainless steel machinist's rule bearing his name engraved along with his building and floor number (5-2) followed by his employee number (343).