Hi: The department store was Barnard, Sumner, & Putnam. ruth ---- dickbolt <dickbolt@his.com> wrote: > To: maworces@rootsweb.com > > Well, now I have good information from my aunt Doris Clark (81) on the > WWII > activity. > She was living with several other girls in an apartment in Worcester > City. She was in > a team of 5 girls making Walki Talkie miniature tubes.As she had an > apartment & > walked to work each day, it was likely in down town area. Her part in > the tube > construction was to weld the 5 sections of the tube insides together > before it went > into the glass envelope. She said the tubes were abt 1 & 1/2 inches > tall. The 5 girls > were all in a row. She said they once went into a locked side room where > they were > supposedly making a tube for the atomic bomb project! Not to far fetched > as a > company in Springfield, Standard Electric Time, was making timers for > atomic bomb > project. > She aid the girls lived on the top floor of a large house and they apt. > was in a round > turret shaped top floor.She remembers a large cooper tub with claw feet > that she > loved to stay long times in! She said it may have been a house owned by > Putnams > department store folks. Putnan & Thurstan? > She worked there abt one yr till end of war. > She now lives in Sr. home in South Dennis MA > > Dick in MD > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MAWORCES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message