by Bill H.
My grandfather, Ted, moved his family from
Ohio to Glendale in about 1926. He got a job as an aircraft carpenter at the
Burbank plant building airplanes when they were made out of wood. When aircraft
started to be made from metal, he continued to work as a carpenter, building
out executive offices on mahogany row. He eventually retired from Lockheed
sometime in the 1950s. After I retired from the Navy in 1984, having flown the
Lockheed P-3, I worked for Lockheed Sunnyvale in support of satellite
operations until I retired in 1996.
