Found this cute pic on fb, and wanted to share it. Hope all you Dads have a day filled with peace, tolerance, and many blessings.

Hoping all the father's had a great day ...
Our son and his kids made the 290 mile or so round trip today from NY, which is not a pleasant drive through Connecticut on Interstate 95 - especially on a summer Sunday ...
We haven't seen them since the middle of March and we've never gone that long ...It was a great day ...

My daughter and Son-in-law drove from Jacksonville to West Palm beach, about 295 miles to spend a few days with Phyllis and I. When they left, we went to Zoom to visit with the rest of my family.

Progress??? In the old days families stayed in the same area, some in walking distance – I think we lost something precious.

John C.

In the old days they probably all worked at the same factory.

Jerryghr

Tony, Glad to hear your son and kids were able to make that trip!

John C. You said a mouthful about the old days people living and working in the same area. I can still remember as a kid the streets in and around Atwells Ave Providence ( also home to great Italian restaurants) people walking home from their jobs at one of the many factories, that included the old US Rubber and GE lightbulb base manufacturing plant.

Thanks for triggering those memories!

Happy Fathers Day!

Even after the 'factory or mill days" people in Staten Island NY stuck to their roots even after marriage, finding homes close to where their family lived ...
That started to change after the opening of the Verrazano Bridge from Brooklyn to SI in 1964, and the following Brooklyn/Queens 'invasion' ... People started selling 1 family ranch style homes for well over market value to developers who replaced them with 2 unit duplex homes with ' in law' apartments in the lower level ... SIers started migrating to NJ, upstate NY, etc.

Our granddaughter is going into her junior year in college, and was telling us yesterday that after graduation she would like to move to Austin TX, then Boston, then Ireland and Italy ... not sure where the money will come from, but that is the type of young thinking these days ...

I relocated my family from NY to RI because of a business move, feeling that at the 'old age' of 42 years, I didn't want to restart my career ... fortunately, the move worked out very well ...

I feel we've become too 'global', and lost some of that family feeling, which is the most precious thing to have ...

Best thing you could have done compared to what it is now and how it has changed..
Made that move in the late 70s also & never looked back.
Glad I saw it coming..

Wow! This was 50 years ago. My daughter sent this to me yesterday, a photo that was taken when she was just a few weeks out of the hospital.

Gary