Now, let's hear it for the "Gandy Dancers."....do you know? Virginia ONeil wrote: > Yes you are correct. It was an object to carry cement for the brick layers. > It also was used to carry bricks. Sometimes it was a pouch and somtimes a > flat surface on a stick (handle) depending what the need was. Yes my Dad > was a journeyman mason contr. and my Grandfather was a hod carrier. They > bothe worked on the Equitable in NYC. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Fitzsimmons" <rvf5@voyager.net> > To: <IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 10:32 PM > Subject: Re: [IRISH-NYC] Re: OCCUPATIONS > > > Do not have access to a dictionary but to me the hod was a pouch that > > held cement for the brick layers. My Mom was in the > > architecture/constructon industry and they had lots of hod carriers on > > the NY skyscrapers on which she worked > > > > slainte > > sheila > > > > ______________________________ > > ==== IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY Mailing List ==== > List Administrators: > Tracy Cassidy GaelEire@aol.com > Jim McCarthy SPAGHETTICOWBOY@cs.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

At 11:49 AM 9/5/2002 -0400, Dorothy Nest <dotdot@iu.net> wrote: >Now, let's hear it for the "Gandy Dancers."....do you know? Dorothy, With several railroad people, in my tree, I'd better! In fact, as recently as the late 1950's, during college, my one cousin had a summer job as a 'gandy dancer'!! Hard work. Haven't quite figured out how the name came about. Walking the tracks, making reparirs, swinging a sledgehammer to knock in spikes --- what's that got to do with 'dancing'?? <g> Maureen

Virginia Interesting because my Mom was the interior designer on the Equitable job, if you mean on 31st street Small world is it not slainte sheila