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