William Trowbridge: Polio Days
July of 1949 was especially hot in Omaha, but the polio epidemic got most of the news coverage. Across the country, hospitals were filling up.
July 30, 2025 · 14 Comments
William Trowbridge: Breakdown
The foreman led me into a cavernous room that took up most of the ground floor, where three huge machines unspooled 16-ton rolls of tin plate into sheets to be turned into cans. The machines resembled aircraft carriers, with ladders to the control towers.
May 30, 2025 · 4 Comments
William Trowbridge: Gun Crazy, 1955
My father, despite the possibility of a court martial, plus a ban against shipping firearms from overseas, managed to get his service pistol and an assortment of souvenir German firearms shipped to our home in his Army foot locker
March 15, 2025 · 9 Comments
William Trowbridge: Packinghouseland, 1957
In the summer of my junior year in high school, I got a job in the hog-cut department at Cudahy Packing Company.
November 20, 2024 · 4 Comments
