Narrative: Grandpa

By bkeating

  • Grandpa is born

    He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He was raised in a cottenmill village; Sargent, Georgia. His name is John Westly Teate.

  • Sliced bread invented

  • •Air Conditioning Invented

  • Assassination attempt on FDR

  • •The Dust Bowl

  • •Social Security Enacted in U.S.

  • •Hoover Dam Completed

  • •Golden Gate Bridge Opened

  • School Heat in The Winter

    The boys would have to get a fire started in the school so they would have warmth. They would have class around the pot.

  • Heating His Home in the Winter

    This is the year my grandpa would have to start getting up in the morning to get fire wood, so he could heat the wood stove so the house would be warm.

  • Stone Age Cave Paintings Found in France

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    He was having Sunday dinner at his grandmother's house, when the announcement came on. She lived right across from Fort MacPearson, so there was a lot of activity.

  • •Japanese-Americans Held in Camps

  • •Italy Joins the Allies

  • Summer Jobs During High School Years

    He worked at numerous places. He worked at a peach packing plant, junkyard, and picked cotten. He made an average of 60 cents an hour.

  • President Roosevelt Dies

    He died in Warm Springs, Georgia, that was only 60 miles from my grandpa's house.

  • Halloweens During High School Years

    His friends and him would be the tricksters. He would put people's patio furniture on their roofs'.

  • Graduation from High School

    He graduated from Newnan High School. He was only 16.

  • Jobs After High School

    He worked to jobs out've high school. Both of them payed 80 cents an hour. His day job hours were from 9am-1pm; night job hours were from 3pm-11pm. He brought home anywhere from $32-$50 a week.

  • •NATO Established

  • Notice

    He got his notice from the United States Military that he was drafted into the Korean War.

  • Army

    He was inducted into the army. He took his basic and radio training at Fort Jackson in South Carolina.

  • Appendix Attack

    He was rushed into surgrey because he had an appendix attack.

  • Marriage

    He got married to my grandma.

  • Overseas

    He was shipped overseas to Japan, where he spent 15 months. He was a supply sargent for the headquarters company.

  • Climb of a Mountain

    My grandpa climbed Mount Fujiama (Mount Fugi)

  • Coming Home

    My grandpa got back from Japan.

  • Segregation is Ruled Illegal in the US

  • 1st Daughter Born

    My mom, Darice, was born.

  • •T.V. Remote Control Invented

  • •Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat

  • 1st Son is Born

    My uncle, Johnny, is born.

  • Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba

  • Graduation...Again

    My grandpa graduated from college. He graduated from Georgia State College. He was the first of his family to graduate from college.

  • 2nd Daughter was Born

    My Aunt was born. My got to choose her name, and she chose Carol after her kitten that had died. Her initials spelled CAT; Carol Ann Teate.

  • •Cuban Missile Crisis

    My mom used to have to practice drills during school.

  • Kennedy Assassinated

  • •Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.

  • •New York City Great Blackout

  • •Mass Draft Protests in U.S.

  • •First Super Bowl

  • Martin Luther King Jr. is Killed

  • Neil Armstrong is First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State Shootings

  • •VCRs Introduced

  • Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich

  • •U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam

  • •U.S. President Nixon Resigns

  • •Microsoft Founded

  • •North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

  • •Elvis Found Dead

  • Job Transfer

    My grandpa's transferred him to Kansas City, Kansas.

  • •Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran

  • •Failed U.S. Rescue Attempt to Save Hostages in Tehran

  • •Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Reagan

  • •Vietnam War Memorial Opened in Washington, DC

  • 1st Grandchild Born

    My brother is born. First grandchild of my grandparents.

  • •Huge Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, India

  • •Wreck of the Titanic Found

  • •U.S. Bombs Libya

  • 2nd Grandchild Born

    My sister, Meredith, is born.

  • 3rd grandchild born

    My cousin, Angela, is born.

  • •U.S. Shoots Down Iranian Airliner

  • •Berlin Wall Falls

  • •Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space

  • •Operation Desert Storm

  • •Official End of the Cold War

  • •World Trade Center Bombed

  • 4th Grandchild Born

    My cousin, Nick, is born.

  • •Oklahoma City Bombing

  • 6th Grandchild Born

    I was born.

  • •Hong Kong Returned to China

  • •U.S. President Clinton Impeached

  • •JFK Jr. Dies in Plane Accident

  • Y2K

    Everyone thought the world was going to end.

  • 9/11

    Terrorists hijack planes and crash them into the World Trade Centers.

  • War in Iraq

    We declare war in Iraq.

  • Earthquake

    28.000 die after Earthquake.

  • 6th Grandchild Born

    My cousin, Michael, is born.

  • North Korea Claims Nucular Test

  • 1st Great Grandchild Born

    My nephew, Tyler, was born.

  • 1st African American President

    Barrack Obama is elected.

  • Michael Jackson Dies

  • Massive Oil Spill

    B.P. oil rig explodes, putting million of gallons of oil into the ocean.

  • U.S. Seal Team 6 Kills Bin Laden