Great Uncle Frank -- pix

Bill Martino

Bill Martino

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Here's a shot Yangdu took with one of those little throw away cameras while we were in Kansas for nephew Travis's wedding reception.

This is my Dad, Frank, taking a break during a photo session. He turned 90 last Feb. As you can see he's still smoking as he has been for the last 77 years. Planted a big garden this spring as he does every year -- 25 tomato plants, okra, green beans, corn and lettuce. Lives alone and does all cooking, cleaning, and home maintenance. Changes the oil on his Audi. As brother Fred who may be facing his own bypass surgery soon said, "Bill, he's going to bury us all." Hang in, Frank!!!!
 

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My Grandad worded the Steelmills in PA thru his sixties, made it to 92. Smoked heavily, drank even hader. He was an ass, but a tough ass!

Takes a lotta livin' to kill some folks. We'll all get ours...

Keith
 
Interestingly, Dad likes all sorts of knives, especially hand mades. His father, James, was a fair to middlin' knifemaker and made knives for various butchers and other users around SEKS during the 1920's and 30's. Dad will make a knife now and then when he feels like it but uses stock removal and likes to convert old files to blades. Last one he made for me was a folder about 6 inches.

For whatever it's worth Dad has outlived his last two doctors and recently had to find a new replacement for the last one. Problem is they didn't smoke.
 
When I was a kid, I worked for an old cowboy named Ross Wilson who had a ranch north of our place. He was a top hand, but wild. When he was in his mid-eighties, one of his horses bucked him off. He said, "I could have rode him if I'd have pulled leather, but I wasn't raised to pull leather."

Ross smoked one cigar after another and drank not less than a pint of bourbon most days. Drinking and smoking finally killed him...it took 92 years. ;)
 
For whatever it's worth Dad has outlived his last two doctors and recently had to find a new replacement for the last one. Problem is they didn't smoke.
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:D:D Thanks for the laughs:D

Good for him--hope he makes 100+ . There was a guy who was/is stuying "Centurions"(or something like that), folks who lived to 100 or better to see what kind of genes they've got. I'd say papa Martino has got some of those good genes!
 
Ever notice how the folks who work the hardest live the longest? My grandfather had his first heart attack after he was retired from farming and living in Florida. He was down in a wellpit pulling up a submersible pump to change it. He was in his 70s then and lived into his late 80s.

He did quit smoking though, when smokes got up to $3.00. A carton!

I sometimes think that the hard work and fresh food help a lot.
 
the" Old One's are The Toughest" my grand dad rideing the Line was thrown from his horse,that dang horse tried to stomp him ,him with a broken collar bone used his machete to decapate it, and that was when he was 70 yrs. young! then he want's to get married again! I had to register my new uncle in school! He was still smokeing his hand rolled cigar's and drinking rum and smooth talking women into his 90's:D WAY TO GO!!! YAHOO!
 
Your Dad is a guitar builder if I remember right Uncle Bill. I would love to learn some tips and techniques from him. Just getting started in lutherie myself.
 
Yep, Dad still makes a guitar now and then. I've been bugging him for some pix but he's no better with a camera than me.
 
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