This is my very hansome Grandpa Jan J. Gasinski, father of my mother, Kay (nee Gasisnki) Eppinger. Jan married Teofilia Lenard in Chicago in 1915, and had 7 children: John married to Jean, Ted married to Grace, Kay married to my handsome daddy Ira Eppinger, Bee married to George Petersen, Stephanie married to Jim Schram, Jeannie married to Ken Schwartz, and Delores married to Tony Guzzi. Grandpa Jan owned and operated a tavern/ice cream parlour in Chicago in the 1920's.
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
Old photos of workers and businesses from past decades
While we don't know what the first business transaction was, it is easy to imagine that thousands of years ago a good hunter bartered his excess meat for something more useful to him. In the history ...