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6. My grand parents lived in Nanty-Glo and my grandfather worked the Bethlehem mines ...

Sat Dec 14, 2019, 03:51 PM

Dec 2019

(with Charlie Bronson before Charlie enlisted in WWII). And he farmed, too.

He didn't get rid of the stripped model T for a tractor until my dad enlisted for Korea. The T didn't have brakes so my dad and uncles would have to get in front of it with a concrete block to stop it.

We had a world class sledding hill and all the woods you'd need for a childhood's adventure.

Life was good. But for my grandfather finally dying of black lung after he finally had to leave the farm, it was a charmed life. Thank G*d for Jock Yablonsky and the UMW.

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My fellow Pittsburghers will get this joke [View all] FakeNoose Dec 2019 OP

I thought the spelling packman Dec 2019 #1

That's how my gramma pronounced it too. Can I get in on this bet? marble falls Dec 2019 #2

I've seen it spelled both ways FakeNoose Dec 2019 #5

Yinz is recent, "younz" is what I heard growing up DeminPennswoods Dec 2019 #10

As a fellow Pittsburgher... Freedomofspeech Dec 2019 #3

I think Yinz is the singular of Yunz..... at least out Johnstown way it is..... ;).........nt mitch96 Dec 2019 #4

My grand parents lived in Nanty-Glo and my grandfather worked the Bethlehem mines ... marble falls Dec 2019 #6

My Uncle lived in Nanty Glo and Belsano mitch96 Dec 2019 #7

Yep. It might have gotten a bit loud (my granpa drank Rock and Rye or brandy) but it never got ... marble falls Dec 2019 #8

"Thank yuse for the nudge down memory lane" mitch96 Dec 2019 #9