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Rhiannon12866

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3. I believe my father had that job in his youth.

Reply to murielm99 (Original post)

Sat Apr 14, 2012, 02:16 AM

Apr 2012

His father died suddenly when he was only 12, so he started working at a young age, mostly as a musician, but I know he also mentioned being a pin setter. This would have been in the '40s.

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Pin setters [View all] murielm99 Apr 2012 OP

I remember them from the early fifties in Portland, OR. Suich Apr 2012 #1

. Go Vols Apr 2012 #2

I believe my father had that job in his youth. Rhiannon12866 Apr 2012 #3

My brother-in-law did the job in his teens,,, benld74 Apr 2012 #4

Hubby was a pin setter Martysbestcatch Apr 2012 #5

I never saw one, but frogmarch Apr 2012 #6

I vaguely recall my dad telling me he did that. Not sure when but he was born in '29. Gidney N Cloyd Apr 2012 #7