My grandfather Sal Gallo came to America from Italy in 1921 along with many other immigrants. In those days, an immigrant had to look hard to find a job. Each of the immigrants often quizzed about life in the old country. Many ultimately turned away by businesses. Sal was lucky; he worked for a time in the P&R Spaghetti Factory before moving to Detroit. For over thirty years, he worked in a foundry there that made pumps; he knocked together wooden patterns for the iron castings that housed the pumps. In that time the business of making pumps important to the overall economy, but the foundry itself was like a scene out of a horror movie. Today each of the pumps considered a collector’s item.

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